Stop Being a Climate Change Doomer
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- Climate Change doesn't have to scare the Emojis out of you.
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I'm surprised you didn't mention how acid rain practically disappeared, just like the ozone hole
As a Canadian I remember on a field trip to Sudbury my grade 8 teacher told me about how acid rain destroyed a lot of the ecosystem in sudbury.
Nice pfp
It has either disappeared, or maybe it's just another Yemen.
Huh, it kind of did.
Ozone hole is greater than ever rn, it hasn’t disappointed at all
“Good news doesn’t generate news like bad news.” Such an important idea to avoiding getting sucked into a negative vortex, not just in climate change, but also military conflicts, political disagreements, economic hardship, religious disagreements, etc.
I get what Britmonkey is saying but
wouldnt doing more now, no matter how much more, save more Lifes
in the Futuree? and arguably-more-importantly-to-my-Point:
Wasnt lazing-around and being sabotaged for 40 Years
literally genocide-levels-of-bad when it comes to Climate-Awareness?
Isnt it kinda objective-fact that Millions would not have died if
Climate-Change-Denial had never ever happened?
NOT TO MENTION, were still IN the Propaganda-Age?
I mean, have you seen the newest GOP-Video of ‚Some More News’?
Said video is vital if you wanna know how the Future is manipulated right-now.
Yeah
Ikr, my dad told me never be anxious about what the news says because according to them WW3 started about 30 times, climate change has destroyed the planet every other year, and statistcally he should've been robbed and murdered every night. It's important to avoid the doomcriers and realize that the TV and your phone aren't reality.
@@redvodka1933 that is fantastic advice!
As a child of the 80’s in elementary, junior, and high school I was repeatedly warned that humans were destroying the planet through general pollution, smog from power plants, CFCs going into the ozone, litter, cutting down the rainforests, and acid rain, with frequent dire assertions and predictions; in hindsight, few, if any, bore resemblance to reality.
Example: I recall being indoctrinated and then committed to cutting all plastic six pack packaging up so that no fish could get stuck in between the small openings.
Also studied renewable energy and was puzzled then why there was such a big push in the 1970s that then largely dissipated in the 80s and 90s.
I’ve no problem with environmentalists, including activists. But please, for the love of humanity, show some respect and accountability when the plethora of doom and gloom predictions fail to materialize.
Ok
“Eat meat only 6 days a week”
Me who is poor and cannot afford meat: my work here is done
I agree with this video AND YET wanna make a big Disclaimer:
Stuff is seen as Grim because it objectively is. Balance is needed, so: good you watched this video, please keep it in mind while watching 'Second Thought' and 'Some More News' tackle Issues and try to change things for the better.
@Bingo You missing my Point and harping on 'phrasing and word-choice' also does not shine the smartest Light on you, to be honest...
...Not to mention your random Hostility towards me: An online stranger.
@Bingo define meat. Canned chicken and tuna is cheap but it certainly isn't a steak
@Bingo wtf where is this happening?
@Bingo not in some countries. not cheap for everyone. especially its not cheap here
One more good news: Where I live, there is a sea called "Bodensee" and apparently when my dad was a child, that sea was polluted as hell and stank because factory's keept polluting the water. But that soon changed after some laws were brought up and they tried to clean the water. Now the sea is a drink water source for thousands of people and the water is crystal clear :)
EDIT: Because of my big skill issue in the english language, I managed to confuse a "sea" with a "lake". In german a lake is called "See". So I apologize.
Sounds familiar. I lived near it for a couple months in 1990. College study program. Seemed nice then.
Proof that corporations can’t be trusted to regulate themselves
Good luck wasting disproportionate amount of money on desalinating sea water brothers
@@derrickstorm6976 Bro did not reread the edit part
@@derrickstorm6976 "....wasting disproportionate amount of money desalinating sea water..."
Not if you stick to nuclear power.
I know I might be a bit late to this, but the reason that the world so effectively managed to ban the spray cans in favor of the ozone layer was because it was a small sacrifice with plenty of lower emitting alternatives that wasn’t too difficult to quickly phase out to avoid destroying the ozone. When it comes to phasing out coal and oil use, the problem becomes much more difficult as alternatives are more scarce and because we’ve already built so much infrastructure related to those products, making it difficult to just phase it out like the spray cans all of those years ago
...have you watched the whole video yet?
Have you?
@@heiloloheimir th-cam.com/video/yiw6_JakZFc/w-d-xo.html
@@somewhat_toasty If you're referring to the usage of fossil fuels, then you're basically proving the OP's point. Like, yeah, Americans use fossil fuels like crazy, but wtf is the alternative? As of right now, EVs aren't cheaply available enough to make that big of an impact, and if you do want to supply them to the majority of Americans, then you run into the issue of depleting precious metal mines that go into the battery making process. A solution to that problem isn't on the same scale as the spray can ordeal.
@@heiloloheimir my bad, I didn't read the comment properly
"Gigawatts-per-hour" (GW/h) is not the unit you're looking for. What you meant to use was "Gigawatt-hours" (GWh). The first one is the rate of change of power and the second one is the total amount of energy in Joules.
Probably means just gigawatts
stop nitpicking m8
@@creatorzp this is actually very important for our future. People don't realize it, but for example energy, power and electricity are all completely different things. Failing to understand it means worse climate change.
@@illuminate4622 if it were an engineer working such a project, id probably be a bit concerned if he made that mistake, because hed need to know the tiny details of the technology and a lot of physics theory, obviously; however, hes not, hes just a youtube proposing vague solutions, and making that tiny mistake like that doesnt affect the quality of the proposed solution or cause any harm, as power, energy, the derivative are closely related, anyway (i.e. you need more power to generate more energy, greater value of the derivative of power to increase power and energy) and the general idea is hence still correct. most engineers who will be creating the tech in the future are the only ones who really need to in depth knowledge about this sorta stuff, and they most will because applied physics/mathematics classes require you to get crazy high exam scores to graduate... unless they cheat on their exams lol. but theres likely no need to worry.
@@creatorzp Or maybe it's meant as constructive feedback so future videos can be even better.
It probably took a lot out of you as a Brit to praise France. I'm glad you survived 😅
What?
Must have hurt
To every fool who acts like climate change is over or not going to get a whole lot worst the west of America is burning the bread basket of America is drying out ands starting to burn hmm interesting what other nations seen similar occurrence near their artificial lakes and salt flats their farm lands right in the middle of such amounts of land yes from Europe to china o but ugg climate change is reversing or getting better till india or russia get back into the game and nothing is stopping the ice from melting which will be a precursor for chaotic hurricanes and more frequency in crazy winds
Imagine this bois why is the earth rotating in a set direction what was the uses of that hot and cold weather in our modern day life
see the cold was what was keeping us on such a straight access now its gone and we can rotate in a more chaotic orbit hurricanes wil start coming from north and south and if we dont stop America and china could be the new north and south our magnetic fields are going to go crazy but thats fine
He's an agent of Pascal Sauvage
Heard the pain in the voice
3:14 Update on this part, US is now investing close to 320 billion, so yea a lot more
interesting that i never heard pf this until now
and i wonder why?
@user-ed4dz8uh1f bad news gets more clicks then good news. But also alot of the green energy investment are startups not huge companies. If i invest 1 billion into 10 small solar companies vs 1b into a big oil you'll probaly hear about the big company its already famous
We're still not limiting any emissions so it doesn't do fuckjng anything. Like saying "we haven't fixed the broken dam yet but we hired more people with buckets"
@@Mergen-v9j maybe because you don't pay any attention to news that aren't on mainstream news channels?
@@derrickstorm6976 BACON IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS.
Content aside, I love how this channel has bred commenters who genuinely “respectfully disagree” and provide true “constructive criticism.” This place, I like this place. The comments do make very good rebuttal points though, please read and respond to them.
i know right? the comments on this channel are very respectful, i mean sure there a few bad eggs somewhere but still, i really like being here.
Is that fucking Gus from RTAA
He does give hearts to some comments sometimes, so I'm sure he reads them.
bred for...
idk lol why did you scroll so far
JK bred for BBC
TH-cam comments lol. They will try to destroy the world.
Imagine if we were all like “COVID-19 is gonna kill us all anyways” and started hugging every random person on the street.
lol
That's literally 50% of americans
@@alexjandro2380 nah, we Americans would say "it's not like covid-19 actually exists" and then we start hugging everyone
@JoãoM let natural selection take place if you try to help them youll get selected instead
that's literally me
Good video. But I have to disagree about blaming consumers for buying plastics, meat, driving cars, etc. You cant expect millions to subvert the economically feasible options presented to them. For example to provide for a family a father must drive to work, burning fuel. People want to live their lives and dont have time to scrutinize every little detail when this decision has a miniscule impact anyway. But yes, voting for the right people is certainly the most valuable thing people can do- government intervention may be the only solution
Exactly i liked this video but the shaming of regular middle class people shaming made me iffy. It's the fucking billion dollar companies doing this not us
The problem is Most people living in the west who are complaining about the corporations aren’t even TRYING to take a little responsibility and change their spending habits. It’s like the doomers who complain about Bezos and how it’s so unfair how rich he is, yet they do a significant amount of their shopping on Amazon.
@@wrestlar3246 I don't even use Amazon nor am i a westerner but this is the dumbest argument I always hear people say. Amazon in the west is big and especially during the lockdown it was one of the only places you could get stuff from so it's basically just like saying something like: "Oh you don't like Walmart (or any other supermarket) but yet you buy food there, checkmate". The western middle class basically needs to be consumerist to survive so it's really fucking dumb to say this
@@martinthedrainedsedlak There are undeniably other alternatives to almost every product or service in the west. And even if you claim there isn’t a better alternative, the problem is less so that people use products like Amazon, and more so that they don’t even attempt to use a different product or service. Most people blindly follow whatever is most convenient and then turn around and criticize those who they just supported
the dad only has to drive to work in a car centric society brah
We need to approach climate change the way we approached WW2, and that includes with messaging to the folks at home. Big victories were celebrated during the war, and helped encourage people to keep supporting the war effort by rationing, building, working hard, and of course fighting. The same goes here, good news will bolster people's morale and tell them they can make this happen they just need to keep fighting to the finish.
I like that people are legitimately starting to consider nuclear as an alternative. That makes me happy.
France for the win
@@CodeNameCheese_ Fr*nce 🤢
SMR’s will be deploying by 2030.
@@xxxBradTxxx We need to panick.
I get what Britmonkey is saying but
wouldnt doing more now, no matter how much more, save more Lifes
in the Futuree? and arguably-more-importantly-to-my-Point:
Wasnt lazing-around and being sabotaged for 40 Years
literally genocide-levels-of-bad when it comes to Climate-Awareness?
Isnt it kinda objective-fact that Millions would not have died if
Climate-Change-Denial had never ever happened?
NOT TO MENTION, were still IN the Propaganda-Age?
I mean, have you seen the newest GOP-Video of ‚Some More News’?
Said video is vital if you wanna know how the Future is manipulated right-now.
@@nenmaster5218 go read Epictetus, no good decisions are made while in a hyper emotional state
5:35 This is a tricky point. People have to stop buying polluting products, I completely agree with you. The problem is that companies can easily pretend to be green. It's not always possible to buy the least polluting products even if you wanted to, because you need to know which products are actually green. Although I imagine solving this problem is very doable, we still have to actually do it.
One thing he didn't mention is that the reason why investors were receiving such a large return on investment is because of Blackrock, specifically the ESG rating system boosting stock prices. So, if you invest in a company with a high ESG rating, the stock goes higher and you make your money that way.
It's actually why Disney is 'woke', because it doesn't matter if the movie about the strong Asian character bombs at the box office if it raises the ESG rating.
There are 2 issues with this:
1. It means that green companies aren't actually more profitable than companies that aren't green, they just have the support of rich people. If rich people pull out that support, like they're doing now (hello from the future), those companies suddenly aren't a good investment anymore.
2. It's really easy to fake that stuff. Remember the fake electric truck company that gained billions in funding? What's stopping companies from saying "Hi, we're Tesla, and we're going to create an electric semi-truck," to boost the ESG rating, then pocketing the billions in profit and half-assing the project? If that happens too many times, why would investors continue to place their faith in that system?
Where I live this isnt possible xD
@@AddinRoyale Mexico? I know it's a pretty big issue there.
Plenty companies are already greenwashing products
Add to that the fact that everything from Rube Goldbergian logistical networks and waste/corruption on international scales have been meticulously engineered into so much of our society that many of us can’t even procure basic necessities of life without participating in this abomination. Also, “Just vote the climate change away!?” Here in America, we live in a plutocracy masquerading as a republic. Our 2 party duopoly is a national embarrassment! You can pick strangle everyone Blue Team or shoot everyone in the head Red Team, and that’s it! The only good that can be said for it is we’re free to vote strangulation; at least that gives us opportunity to struggle for our lives.
This guy’s also ignoring a couple elephants in the room.
1: The hydrocarbon plutocrats were among the first to discover climate change. Did they respond appropriately to it with oh, I don’t know a sense of decency, duty to their peoples and urgency!? No! They and their allies throughout society fought first to suppress the truth from public consciousness. When that failed they gaslit everyone. Then came bloody austerity ecology and the individual “carbon footprint”, hypocritical climate shaming and to this day, the tyrants that be still fight meaningful climate action tooth and nail! Get it? The mask is off. These monsters would rather commit Human genocide than sacrifice their profits.
2: Even for the sake of argument ignoring capitalisms role in this crisis, the current situation is still untenable. When the nuclear powers built their arsenals, they for all intents and purposes readied and aimed a gun at all of us. All that isn’t happening in a vacuum either. There’s austerity, the police state, the prison industrial complex, massive war machines perpetrating war after war of neoimperialist/neocolonial conquest, systemic racism and all the fUn Of ClAsS WaRfArE we’ve been on about for centuries, etc. etc.
Honestly I wonder whether this guy watches a little too much neoliberal propaganda, at best.
Supplant then abolish. Capitalist realism isn’t cool. Long Live Humanity.
The soundtrack on this vid slaps.
Also good vid to get people of the black pill that's so tempting. Some of the solutions seem difficult to realize though, at least sometimes. Incentives to vote out lobbyists/advocates for polluting companies seems low or non-essential to voters. Even then, this vid paired with Kurzgesagt's latest video gives a clear picture of the seriousness but still some hope at fixing it.
PEPE
it is wednesday, my dudes
hello person with a dead career
@@darius73AHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
it is wednesday, my dudes
I wish climate activists and the news talked like this more often. Instead of only focusing on the bad and being aggressive and angry, the optimistic tone and statistics showing just how much progress we have made is far more convincing and much more likely to persuade people on the other side. You actually made me feel a bit better, so thank you.
A lot of the arguments made in the video, while making you feel good, are actually fallacies. E.g. 1. While coal related emissions are indeed falling, global energy related emissions went up year over year (for 2022, see IEA). 2. While it is consumers buying stuff companies make, big company lobbies (e.g. fossil fuels, car manufacturers, and the chemical industry) are well documented for actively hampering progress on regulation that limits emissions and pollution. 3. Convenient to leave out what replaced coal in the UKs energy mix. It us natural gas, another fossil fuel.
I agree with the general idea of the video that being pessimistic does not help us towards achieving a sustainable society, but neither does using cherry-picking data to make things appear better than they are.
@@mart9585The whole climate crisis narrative to begin with is cherry picked data to support said narrative. All of the carbon emissions humanity has collectively generated since the start of the first industrial revolution have only added a fraction of a percent to the total amount of carbon already in the atmosphere. More localized environmental pollution/destruction should be the bigger focus of environmentalist efforts. Yeah we can all be happy that factories aren't releasing as much pollutive gasses into the atmosphere but even their original rates of atmospheric pollution is nothing compared to the millions of gallons of toxic and pollutive chemicals that are dumped into waterways every year.
People will mention specific ways that the environment is improving and alarmists always come out of the woodwork to fight. It's their complex way of punting on personal responsibility. Deep down, they want to justify the lack of meaning they have in their lives. They want the ability to think "I haven't gotten what I wanted from life but it doesn't matter anyways because the climate is going to fail soon and it's all because the system is wicked and unfair".
Showing that improvement is possible puts the onus back on them. It forces them to consider that maybe they do in fact have some level of control and therefore their actions and mentality matter. They can't accept that. They'll hide behind histrionics and flat out deny any positive evidence. They can't reconcile their station in life and a system that is capable of making responsible choices.
Most people hate thinking in general and they hate thinking about these big problems specifically. They'll find any excuse to not care. Telling them that everything will work out is giving them that excuse so it's better to stay doom and gloom.
I think the main problem isn't that nothing is done (the video shows how a lot of stuff is done), but it's often too little, too late and way too often on the back of poor people instead of those who have the most emissions.
I feel like concern about these issues is like any kind of anxiety. A healthy amount is needed to encourage the right choices, but too much can just result in a depressive nihilism about the topic.
I think videos like this are important to remind people that, while climate change is a serious threat, we aren't 100% powerless to do anything about it.
Anxiety doesn't help. Get angry instead.
@@davidwuhrer6704 From Boomers to Doomers back to Boomers again?
@@lonestarr1490 What?
@@davidwuhrer6704 'Boomers' as in 'detonating stuff'. Out of anger.
@@lonestarr1490 Ah. Well, that works.
The most important thing that needs to change is stigma about nuclear energy. It's extremely safe, doesn't produce much waste in comparison to fossil fuel and we can control how much energy is produced at what time unlike solar and wind. And we even have uranium sitting around from old nuclear warheads from the cold War we retire every year.
Saying it's extremely safe is just utter BS, as Chernobylians and Fukushimians would surely tell you. Plus, there's the issue of where to store atomic waste. Yet, I agree that we should for now leave nuclear power on, as the Climate issues are more pressing.
@@D-angelin.Moarar Ah yes, Chernobyl and Fukushima. One of them a converted military Generation 1 design built with zero contingency measures, the other a Generation 2 design hit by a fricking _tsunami_ from an unexpected direction, which had multiple failures in its contingency measures (backup batteries and backup diesel generators in the basement destroyed by flooding, a shorter than regulation seawall). There are two nuclear plants in Fukushima - Daiichi and Daini. You've likely only heard about Fukushima Daiichi, because despite both plants getting hit by the same environmental disaster and having the same reactor designs, only one of them had a meltdown. Because Daini had _a regulation height seawall._
Both of these designs are practically ancient. New nuclear reactor designs have learned from failures like this. Several Gen IV reactor designs _cannot_ melt down.
More people were killed in the _evacuation_ of Fukushima than died as a result of the accident itself.
Despite these accidents, nuclear has the fewest number of deaths (even with the most pessimistic estimates) for the amount of energy it generates than any other form of power. Pointing at Chernobyl and Fukushima is like pointing at the Tenerife Disaster or the Uberlingen crash and claiming that planes are more dangerous than any other form of transport.
Nuclear waste can be reprocessed to be used again. The only reason it isn't is because it's cheaper to mine new fuel. If governments wanted to be more environmentally friendly, they could subsidise the process like they do with solar and wind in order to make it profitable, or they could pay for it to be done themselves.
There are also new reactor designs (such as Fast-Neutron Reactors) which can use the waste from other reactors as fuel, reducing waste with lifetimes in the thousands of years to only hundreds, which is far easier to manage. They are more expensive than more conventional reactors, but again, nothing is stopping governments from building them specifically to deal with the waste problem.
...nothing except for people like _you,_ who don't want them built because you're more scared by the big flashy disasters than you are people dying slowly but in far greater numbers.
If climate change is as serious as claimed, that it is a threat to the survival of humanity? Then even if nuclear is as dangerous as you think it is, why does the odd accident that kills a couple million people from cancer over the next few decades matter? Who cares what happens to the radioactive waste so long as we're alive? It's the lesser of two evils, and you're advocating for the bigger evil because you think the lesser evil isn't good enough.
@@D-angelin.Moarar Confirmation bias at its finest. Even though we are at the age of information easily accessible at your fingertips, you still cling on that same narrative of nuclear power bad. You would fit right in with the German "environmentalists" that forced a shutdown on all of their nuclear power plants.
@@shady_silhoutte What confirmation bias you clown? Saying its extremely safe when it literally devastated two regions in the world is just laughable, plus badly stored nuclear waste leaking into ground water in several sites.
Furthermore you seem to be unable to read (confirmation bias maybe?). I'm not against nuclear power until we've gotten rid of coal, gas plants and all the other shit that's fucking up our climate (still a long way to go there). But if we cann effort to get our energy entirely from renewables, then that's a path we should go.
@@ReddwarfIV Yeah weird you two guys aren't able to read my comment. I don't advocate for turning off nuclear power until we've fixed our climate issues. If all problems regarding it, namely the risk of meltdowns and the question of where to store the waste, are as you claim solved until then, we can keep these safe power plants if you ask me.
As for Fukushima, the Tsunami did not hit from an unexpected direction. It hit from the east, where the sea is. And I'm sorry I have to break it to you, but since Fukushima, our planet hasn't become geologically inactive, and for example in the geologically active Rhine valley, there are quite a lot of nuclear power plants, just to name one example. And sure, there weren't too many deaths directly related to the Fukushima accident, but still it made a whole fucking region uninhabitable and you act like that's just negligible. Again, I'm not wholly against this way of producing energy, especially if it means we manage to control the climate crisis, but let's also not act like nuclear power hasn't devastated whole regions and will continue to do so if old plants in dangerous regions are kept on and waste storages built unsafe so that ground water gets contaminated.
Stay pessimistic in your expectations but optimistic in your action.
Based
Sounds like a dysfunctional relationship
Or my version of it: "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst"
Aye.
Or just simply be optimistic, but also get good at often being disappointed without losing that optimism
I absolutely heard about the action taken to solve the ozone layer problem. It was a big win. But to be honest, we've had the "everyone gets together to solve the problem" meetings for decades and decades on climate change and this is a much harder problem to solve. The guy in charge of the "everyone gets together to solve the problem" meeting IS AN OIL EXECUTIVE this year and he has been abusing his position constantly!
Who are you referring to? And what meeting? The UN?
@@Inktron The Conference of Parties (COP) is the big meeting. It happens under UN auspices. This time it will be hosted by the UAE and Sultan al-Jaber is the president in charge of it.
The UAE has put in more effort than i thought they wouldve though
The biggest problem with ozone layer depletion is that freons couldn't cause it to the observed degree. Now we know, that we don't know the real cause for sure!
Everything could be accidetal, from hysteria to "solution".
@@peceed This is incorrect, do your research.
As an Irish person, I appreciate the lengths you went to remove UK mainland from the EU map but still keep the Island of Ireland as one whole EU region. Thank you
I don't lmao. Ulster is currently British, despite the efforts of the terrorists in charge of the Stormont at the moment. They will only take this land through fraud if they attempt to.
EU is the best
@@redcoat4348 of course your named that.
what this mean
@@redcoat4348 Tasty unionist tears
I always feel way more motivated to do my part by positive news than by negative news. negative news makes me not want to do anything except be miserable. I don't think the people who spread negative news to motivate people consider my type of thinking
The channel Our Changing Climate absolutely destroys me with negative videos that it give me depression and makes me question whether life is worth living.
But after the Inflation Reduction Act was passed, I knew he was full of shit since he never once made a video on that because it doesn’t fit his “Capitalism must be abolished” narrative he pushes.
@@Rainbowhawk1993 Capitalism is unsustainable by definition. It is based around the idea of infinite growth, and we live on a finite planet with finite resources. Thats not my opinion, its reality. Not only is the profit motive destroying our environment, but people spend their lives working 8+ hours a day doing legitimately pointless work, not because it provides some real value to peoples lives, but because it allows someone to accumulate massive amounts of wealth, then give their workers the bare minimum of scraps, to keep profit as high as possible. So many people waste their lives doing genuinely valueless work for the sake of profit, when they could be doing something actually fulfilling, or contributing to their community in some way. A lot of the time people dont even have the energy to do the things they enjoy after working all week, and its not even for a good cause. Its just for profit.
We do so much unnecessary work for no good reason.
We build things with with low quality materials, poor manufacturing processes, and even sometimes design things to break sooner than they otherwise would have all in the pursuit of profit. We could have fixed the climate issue long ago if not for corporations desperately trying to convince the world that there isnt actually a problem to fix. The profit motive makes everything worse.
I think part of it comes from the fact that the carbon footprint narrative (and consequent individualization of the movement) actually worked as intended: for a long time, the movement lost a good chunk of momentum because people felt more satisfied with their own small contributions.
Gladly, however, the movement caught that damn propaganda and people are back on track towards systematic change, but the fact that satisfaction caused such a loss of momentum before TERRIFIES some members of the movement, so they really push doomerism. They just don't realize that anxiety and depression doesn't help either.
Sounds like a snowflake problem
@@odinata Maybe it is. I've always liked having lots of empathy but it can have downsides.
It's a fun video and all with a nice sentiment that will hopefully ease a bit of anxiety, but it feels a bit off the mark especially with the new IPCC report being more well, pessimistic than the last one. Ideas like telling people to just stop supporting polluting companies is more difficult to apply than ever as we live in the most corporately consolidated time in history where even buying food for a reasonable cost usually involves tacitly supporting all manner of ecology exploiting business. It's rough. It's also nice to see reports of air getting cleaner, but it's important to note we are comparing air from when leaded gas was available to time 25 years later (and during a car-halting pandemic). Air has many fewer pollutants in it in many cities due to new requirements like the catalytic converter, but sadly those converters don't do too much to lower the greenhouse gasses emitted from a car. That is obviously not to say that the clean air is "useless", just that it isn't really indicative of us solving a climate temperature problem which is what people are doomin' on about.
As a last aside, around the 3:30 mark you talk about wind capacity using the unit "Gigawatts per hour" which I believe may be a typo or misunderstanding. Gigawatts are a unit of power which is a unit of energy per time. GW/h isn't a unit I've seen (energy per time per time?), though GWhr (a unit of energy) is common. If you just meant how many GW (how much energy per time) we generate then in the year 2000 we were already generating just shy of 20GW of wind power. This has done well to move up to around 750GW today which is very impressive, but scientists aren't as bad at seeing exponential curves as you'd think so this isn't like some completely unforeseen impossibility in wind power development. If you meant GWhr, then even in 2000 we were able to generate far more energy than that from wind. Nowadays wind power is probably breaking through the Petawatt-hr barrier. This is awesome, but in terms of the total energy use of humanity on Earth is still under a percent. Solar is looking a bit rosier with its explosive growth, but we still have a long way to go and in the face of even comically bold "immediate net zero emission" climate predictions showing increasing damage to the environment for years to come just due to the sheer inertia of 2 centuries of industrialization it's not hard to empathize with the people who aren't feeling so hopeful.
Yes I was looking for this comment. It doesn't matter if wind and solar power grow 2x or 20x - what matters is reducing fossil fuel use and globally that still hasn't happened because we just use so much more energy all the time. Emissions have continued to go up every year and the graph showing a peak at 2025 and a decrease to nothing by 2050 is well, just fiction at the moment. Fiction politicians like to hold up as achievements without actually putting in any work to make it happen.
And we didn't get anything done by telling middle class consumers to spend all their time finding different "ethical" brands. We got things like the 5 day week and the minimum wage by agitating for it and getting new laws passed.
my thoughts exactly
Precisely this, very good comment
thank you for hanging high in the comments. but im afraid shills will already use this video to easily misrepresent our dillena, as good as it may be on the things it did get right.
I do like this comment
Finally some people realize this! Yes, we must take the issue very seriously but there's a difference between taking things seriously and being overly negative and agressive. And way too many people don't understand that.
WTF. Finally people realise? What sort of a comment is this? We need action and real root cause solutions. Read my long comment for real answers!
@@izzzzzz6 Yes we need actions and the situation is alarming. Doesn't mean we should be so negative happiness should be forgiven. We can still act and enjoy life a bit. And being overly agressive is NOT a good option or way to make people change (not talking about you specifically).
@@izzzzzz6You are a doomer because you believe that your political ideology is required to solve climate change, and because people do not agree with you, the world is doomed. That is not how the world works, the statistics speak for themselves, we can fix the problem. You are just arrogant.
5,500 people seem to not understand that lol.
It's honestly great to hear some good news on climate change. Hearing all the bad news on climate change can get depressing
Agreed, what he said at the beginning was very true
@@velhaw8737 It cant be stressed enough
how hilariously entertaining and yet not less informative Videos from dudes like Hbomberguy, UpisnotJump and Simon Clark
are, when it comes to Climate-Change.
Reality kinda is lol. Bonne vacances :)
I feel like us always complaining about something and being negative gives us the incentive to be positive and to fix it
@@uglyjihad YES. So please keep yourself updated with the amazing Problem-tackling TH-camrs Illumainugthii, knowing Better, and Some More News.
These 3.
I find the channel trying to write an essay about the life of Seretse Khama, to learning how we should ban cars, and now that we're doing a good deal to save the planet. What a fantastic channel, one of the most underrated on all of TH-cam.
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I have a question, am i the problem for wanting to restore a 1967 mustang to my liking and driving it. The main reason I don't want an ev is because I want to customize and swap stuff out I can't do that to an ev
Honestly no, cause in my eyes, your car would be considered a historic vehicle and should be preserved. I personally abide by the idea that we should limit emissions, but that doesn't mean we can never use gas cars.
The whole "this world sucks" approach falls in so many different fields. Whether it's political freedoms, civil freedoms, poverty, or hunger. People don't realize that the world has made significant strides. To undermine everything we have done even after WWII is just disappointing. If you look back at the 1950's, more than half of the world's population was in extreme poverty. Now, billions of people make over 1.90 USD a day. Granted, 1.90 isn't much. However, it's a good sign that people are living substantially better than before. That doesn't mean we shouldn't ignore the 700 million who are in extreme poverty, but realize that just because there are problems doesn't mean we can't tackle them and make strides. I see too many people say "fuck them kids in Africa" because if they were poor 40 years ago then they're all still poor now. Which is harmful logic to have.
@adenosine 2 electric boogaloo Doomer pill take, if you look at most metrics the world is improving rapidly, many are being lifted out of poverty, the fastest growing economies are all 3rd world counties, people severely overestimated the effects of climate change (all costal cities underwater by 2020 lul) and underestimated the strides we making against it (still a massive issue and will cause havoc but all things considered doing a good job). Violent crimes in American have decreased since the 1980 and a lot of the world. Not saying things right now right now are perfect and we don’t have our issues (we have lots) but the general trend is up.
A better measure of extreme poverty is $6/day and that hasn't improved anywhere near as much. The capitalist always talk about the success of raising people out of poverty, but they don't talk about the increase in GHG emissions. The West has reduced slightly, but the developing world (especially China) continues to increase emissions so that overall emissions have increased by 50% in the last 40 years. Most IPCC scenarios assume dramatic emission reductions in this decade, but that isn't happening, so we are not doing what we need to do. Fortunately, population growth looks to be taking care of itself, but climate change not so much.
@adenosine 2 electric boogaloo The world is sucking and will hopefully gradually suck less and less, just as it has been doing for the last centuries
@@tradeprosper5002 yeah west has reduced, now let's look at west's per capita consumption, and now let's look at west's share of post industrial revolution share. Oh i forgot, let's also look for other metrics such as how west in its efforts to save climate is just fucking poor countries by providing them their fossil fuels and how the West Saviour USA has not signed any deal that shows a leadership after all they are the leaders in polluting the world. Now fuck that and just blame china for trying to help its people and actually putting in efforts, and other eastern countries who are actually doing it. USA never signed or ratified any protocol. It just signs deals with china when it is asked to curb its emissions.
@@tradeprosper5002 there's no success in raising people out of poverty, there's been a transfer of wealth and churning out of resources by handicapping the local industries of every poor country by flooding their market with goods which are cheaper, ofc they would prefer that but what if you force them to do this.
“Eat meat only 6 days a week”
Me a catholic: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you
If we ate meat 'only' six days a week, we'd have to exercise like lunatics! 9 calories in fat, only 4 in carbohydrates and protein. Being plant-based is INFINITELY easier to maintain a healthy weight, especially when you hit your 40s (I'm 41. Take my nugget of wisdom. You'll thank me in time).
thanks for the anti-doomer pill
After swallowing said pill, I'm having a really hard time boycotting the top 100 companies... I can't just completely boycott J&J, Nestle, Disney, and all of their subsidies!
I'm with you on this one too, anti-doomer pills are important.
@@runed0s86 When it comes to Disney, it's actually quite easy, since their whole domain is media, and maybe children's toys.
@@runed0s86 for dis knee it’s easy it’s called *piracy*
@@AdyanHossain_ arararararararar
Thanks for not scaring people into ignoring the problem. Best way to motivate people is to offer concrete solutions and to encourage determination and hope :)
Opitimism/Hope are hard things ot balance right,
but i think the Video 'Backstep Paradox' by Holy Koolaid
and 'Revolutionary Optimism' by Second Thought really help.
But either way anyway, i recommend the amazing Climate-coverage
of Hbomberguy, UpisNotJump, Some More News, and Second-Thought!
Right...since hopium solves all problems! Where are the solutions? As long as the politicians remain in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry , there are no solutions. The time for solutions was 20 years ago. We missed that boat. Collapse and human extinction are coming very soon whether you believe it or not.
Well the thing is the best we can do as individuals is vote. Its a problem that is bigger than us individually, there are governments that care, but the whole world needs to care and we cant forcefully change how the chinese, americans or indians think. Its not our politics its that country’s.
The solution is destroying the industrial technological system of the elite
@@Alexandros.Mograine idk if our votes actually count in America though
When all your options are carbon copies of each other
I’m not gonna lie I was surprised when you took the approach of the general public needing to change rather than regulating corporations to stunt climate change but I’m glad you’re trying to lift the mood on this gloomy topic unfortunately the only real way of dealing with it is through systemic change and I’m not talking about communism but just putting people into power that won’t take handouts from large corporations to lobby against the people trying to make steps in the right direction. Just a thought but love the work man, keep it up :)
Hardest part is it's not just "handouts" causing issues, it's the fundamental way we fund electoral campaigns through these corporate donors that produces politicians who pander to them (because otherwise they won't receive massive corporate donations and won't be able to compete)
The general public having to change is such a stupid thing to say... Like, who's gonna have more power? The peasantry or the king who's in charge?
@@Portablesounds Yes you raise a good point, the problem is though that the issue you mention isn't a problem of capitalism, communism or anything, it is literally a fundamental rule of nature. People have an idea that those in power are those with power, but the opposite is true. Those in power are only in power because those one level below them on the pyramid choose to let them stay. Those on the level below are only in power because those on the level below them choose to let them stay. Politicians do what they have to do because if they don't, they won't be politicians anymore. Those that do that to politicians have to, because if they don't, they won't be in that position anymore. The cycle repeats all the way to the bottom. Ultimately the power is in no one's hands because by the time you get down to the bottom of the pyramid they can't do anything nor can they rally up the masses to try and do something. Go watch CGP Grey's video on the Rules for rulers, if you want his version.
"i'm not talking about communism"
also please punctuate
@@realtrippymixer I don’t care enough to edit this post haha but I’m glad you have an interest in this
1:03 "because good news dont create headlines" thats it. thats legit one of the biggest reason why the world seems so bleek nowadays. the global warming is bad, but its not hopeless as the media potrayed. we can still fix it as long as we act.
Have you actually tried reading something about the effects of global warming? The consensus is that even if we completely stopped all emissions immediately, things would continue to get worse for decades, and continue to be bad for centuries.
I like this video but hugely disagree on blaming the consumers
It's not their fault that the more economically comfortable options are those made with less eco friendly materials that then the company exploits to use less money and earn more by using the cheaper but harmful alternative
In many cases the eco friendly foods and products cost always more than the cheaper but harmful one, not buying the product of the specific harmful company is not only not effective if millions still buy from it but also if you can't afford a better alternative you will still be forced to buy from them or a similiar competitor in the end, here the government needs to step in to force the companies to use better alternatives otherwise they would still continue to do as they please to earn more
The government being tougher on pollution is definitely a good thing and when consumers have options, the majority will obviously buy tge cheaper, more polluting option. However, government intervention won't magically cut down the cost of ecological options. Electric cars are more expensive to build anyway. The government banning fossil fuel vehicles would just make the more expensive choice the only one.
Just dont buy imitation meats then, for god sake you can just buy some grain and veggies and learn how to actually cook and I guarantee you'll save more than you ever have on food.
But yeah to your other point I agree, it's not all consumer's fault. But what you buy IS STILL YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, if you wanna go buy all the plastic junk in the world and go full carnivore then by all means. But dont go around spouting that you're powerless against the corporate empire to live your life any other way.
@@pjorgen Exactly. I think it's unfair to blame consumers for their choices if they are unaware of the consequences of their purchase. However, I'd say that many people who buy Nestle or coca cola, or go to McDonald's are well aware of how these businesses operate and still choose to use their products. Unless the choice here is made out of necessity rather than out of comfort, I think it's perfectly reasonable to blame the consumers in that situation.
At least that's the lifestyle that I try to practice. That's also why I'm trying to grow as much food on my own as I can :D
So it's the companies fault for doing what's easy but not the consumer's?
@@jankthunder4012 yes
They do what's easy henche making harmful products or making them in harmful ways for the planet and the animals or the consumers wich then they sell for cheap so they can reach the largest amount of people possible because if a person that lives on rent paycheck by paycheck is gonna buy the cheapest options to avoid wasting money or having a fridge filled with bread salad and beans as their only foods option
The companies spend the least amount of money to earn the most and in the process create damage on the planet consumers and animals
And they would not give a shit about making the products in eco friendly ways and make them healthier if it's not illegal
They do the bare minimum to get away with it and the customer is forced to buy 4 hamburgers for 4$ instead of buying one vegan burger for 4$ because those 4 hamburgers are gonna feed him more for the rest of the week
If the government doesn't impose more environment friendly or healthy options to company they will continue doing as they please henche the cycle doesn't end
I feel like nuclear power doesn't get enough credit
It really can be so useful
it's because leftists are dumb and are constantly shuddering nuclear energy
The future should be nuclear. It's the most efficient energy
People keep bringing up Chernobyl and Fukushima as points to why "nuclear energy is bad" for some reason, even though those won't happen again, since we know more about how it works and how to prevent such disasters from ever happening.
Just had to point that out there.
The EU is especially doing very good things against climate change and every other country or region should follow their lead.
Go tell that to ccp China
The reason for this is primarily economic (just like in the US and China) because Europe does not have large fossil fuel reserves. USA has a ton more and produces more. China also has plentiful coal and doesn't care about local pollution, which is by far the worst part about coal plants, not the CO2 released. The political will is a real thing but of less importance than economic factors.
we're also exporting our pollution so
@@ssssaa2 china does care??
@@GameyCat this is actually true
I know that good news arent as impactful to the human brain as bad news, but oh my god, this video makes me feel happy and excited, I NEED MORE OF THIS!
The reason it makes you happy is because you know how bad things are. If you were unaware of climate change none of this good news would have an impact on you.
I appreciate this video because optimism is important for motivation, but you can’t blame your average Joe for climate change. Telling the public that their carbon footprint is the problem is the reason the oil companies always dodge accountability in the first place. It’s just a PR grift.
goes both ways tho. if you solely blame the corporations whilst still mass consuming their products, you are just as bad as they are.
@@TheMortalKombatent lol gotta love moral relativism
@@TheMortalKombatent guess ill live in the forest to be up to your moral standards lmao
@@Narasthenics you can live in a house without consuming oil products
@cool and relevant sure do hope your house doesn’t contain any plastic then. Shame that it definitely does. Microconsumerist bollocks.
I was always stressed as a teen growing up reading about how my kids' future will be all doom and gloom. I always complained how little my country did to ensure a future for next generations. While working on my thesis in college, I researched and gathered a lot of data from sources government and regulating bodies alike. When I laid them all out to write a short story of the journey, I realise it was not all doom and gloom as I always had it in my mind. I remember staying up late one night to recollect my thoughts and write that portion thesis a different way. I can confirm a similar trend of numbers for my country too. India, despite being a developing economy, takes things like investments in renewables, nuclear energy, emission standards etc very seriously. We pretty much copy the EUs emission standards in our country. (I guess thats also because its very convenient for the auto manufacturers as well). We have invested quite a bit in Wind farms and such as well. I have not only seen a reported reduction in use of coal plant but I have also seen it happen around me. The area where I lived was a place for coal power plants in the 90s and 00s but 2 of the 3 we had around us are shut down 100% and the third one is at 50% or something like that. With electricity coming from renewables and more and more of it being used in transportation such as electric long distance trains, metros, electric buses, ever electric cars and bikes that are a common thing in big cities now, I dont exactly see it all scary now. Of course theres still a lot to worry about, but now I have a sense of calmness knowing that whatever the problems might be, my generation will have solutions for them, just like the previous one did.
Yeah that's it guys, the saint elite will surely care about our future and wouldn't just take a rational decision just so that we don't all suffocate to death!!!!! Yipeee!!!!!!
However it’s possible that if we carry the attitude that we will always be able to fix our problems because we always did in the past then we will not do anything about it
@@evanbrown5254 that won't happen. There are some problems everyone can instinctively realise needs work and these problems will see action regardless. Just thinking back to COVID and the current energy crisis, barely any coal powerplants were kicked into action again despite issues with vital international energy supplies.
@@stanleystove stop being a negative Nancy
We are not going to science our way out of this
Now... I can kind of see the point in saying that changing economic systems isn't a reasonable option in our current situation, but what I find funny is that just after saying that you also say that "You" should stop buying from companies, as if me personally not giving an energy supplier X amount of money per month is going to make them go bankrupt or something
The reality is, it's more complicated, and telling people to "Stop supporting bad companies" isn't going to cut it.
What about the people that can't afford it, or places were specific energy suppliers have lots of influence? And also, would it really do anything? I'm pretty sure you'd need vast amounts of people to not pay for certain products in order for something like that to work, almost the same amount of people to overthrow an economic system, and just like that we're back to square one
I'd say in his defense, a large enough consumer demand can eventually incentivize the creation of new companies which offer these renewable options that, at first, will be more expensive, but over time with development will reduce in cost (see solar panels for example) to the point that it's a viable option for anyone, and it's practically free range at that point (given consumers are informed which is a stretch)
@@Portablesounds That's fair, but by that time it's going to be too late and millions of people are either going to be drowning or lose their homes, we can't wait until the market decides when "Doing something about climate change" is profitable, we need to start NOW
To put it in simple terms: Personal responsibility in problems of such a scale is kind of like the prisoners dilemma. You sucking it up is gonna give you a way harder time than just being selfish.
The answer is violence if we form some kind of giant arm militia and demanded change they'd have to do something they don't care about anything except money and power if we have power their money means nothing because we'll crush them this is the conflict of our times and there's no way out it will end in violence
@@gerdaleta See this is were I agree that there's nothing we can do except for violence because of what you said, but in my head I also find it very hard to accept it, even if I know there's nothing else we can do
6:13 is kinda ridiculous. Nearly every company you highlight is not from a democratic state. Good luck voting against Gazprom or Saudi Aramco
It's incredible how much power the media has over the public conscious
It's cuz it's one-way
Why do you think they hate Internet & censored & centralized it
@@AcidiFy574 4chan user be like: no censorship = good
And who control the media are the same who choose who gonna won presidential, we are not in a democracy
What do you mean by “the public conscious”? Do you mean the public consciousness?
@@robinharwood5044
The unenlightened masses
They cannot make the judgment call
Give up free will forever
Their voices won't be heard at all
Display obedience
While never stepping out of line
And blindly swear allegiance
Let your country control your mind
Live in ignorance
And purchase your happiness
When blood and sweat is the real cost
Thinking ceases, the truth is lost
Don't you worry
You'll be told exactly what to do
I give my people the lives they need
The righteous will succeed
The fires of greed will burn the weak
So we'll make freedom obsolete
Making whole the fabric of society
Collective consciousness controlled as you will see
MIND CONTROL
Let your country control your soul
Let your country control your soul
Let your country control your soul
Let your country control your soul
I mean... I get the wish to make such a video, because doomerism is exhausting, but the majority of the stuff is superficially presented to seem more optimistic (leaving out the details that actually tell you the limitations etc) and that's putting it kindly, I could also say it is quite cherry picked and leaves out half the part (which is problematic) quite often.
yeah.. the china part just points out that we're at the mercy of their leadership and their political games, and if you look at how seriously china takes not dropping rocket stages on their own people i'm still not very hopeful. plus, yes we buy from polluting companies but it's not like we get to cherry pick who makes each part of a product we buy because there isn't an eco-friendly locally made alternative for everything.
@@ibuprofen-noodles the China blaming is exaggerated - China is home to 1.4 billion people so obviously it will be the largest emitter if it had the same per person emissions rate as europe/the US. As it happens the US has a higher emissions rate per capita than China. So what people are essentially saying to China is that their population should have a lower quality of life than countries with smaller populations.. obviously that isn’t going to go down well and actually might make matters worse. Especially considering that western countries have emitted far more carbon over history than China has.
our carbon emissions also don't go down from having more renewable energy available. we're gonna leave a lot of people without arable land in places like africa. doomerism isnt helpful not because they think the world is going to shit, but that it's going to end. We're igniting the fact thag we may lose so much food and it will be messy.
@@crabinijig8403 Well, we don't really have a choise right now. If we started to care about carbon emissions a couple of decades prior, we could have used nuclear enerrgy, which is much more compact and safe. However, building nuclear plants is expensive and takes literal years, so by the time we put up enough nuclear power, it might be too late.
@@mikez1328 which is why you do what European nations do. They all chip in to build a plant in one of their nations for a share of the energy production. Then they do this in multiple of the included nations and suddenly you've got a good few new nuclear reactors in one region of the world helping steer multiple nations from alternatives. No government will spend such a large sum on their sole own nuclear plants, so you collaborate and split that large sum up and make it look more acceptable to tax payers. Saying you've built 4 reactors sits far better than saying you've built one for sole use.
This reminds me of the movie Tomorrowland.
How it basically implies that there is a point that people will just stop caring if you keep telling them bad things are happening
(In other words getting apathetic after being told the worst so much it feels like you can’t do anything)
People get fatalistic. If they keep hear Greta screaming, they might say "yeah but an asteroid could hit and wipe us out anyway". It's better imo to talk about how we can make a better, nicer world. Everyone prefers a clean park to a dirty side street. If we talk about how we can make the world nicer for future generations it is motivating.
true
@@oliverford5367 An asteroid hitting Earth would give us a better chance of survival than "business as usual".
Idk, does a problem need to be told 1000 times to make you think it is extremely dangerous? because I don't the same is happening to gasoline prices and inflation, and people are scared for those two things. Oh? Is it because it doesn't affect us directly? Well why would I care then?
If climate change is really as huge as a problem is, then there would be a thousand more symptoms than just some melting Icebergs. But if it is really a problem slowly rising, and not the ever changing temperature of the planet, then I honestly wouldn't complain about people not caring.
As many issues and tasks as there can be in anyone's lifes, why care about something you cannot see directly in your life? Ecologists always have to bring a new mcguffin to stay relevant since people get tired of them. If the climate change was as huge as a problem there is, then the ecologists wouldn't need to make new artificial solutions and, in fact, they wouldn't be existing since everyone can see climate change with their eyes in their daily life.
@@Valfer37 You read the opposite of what was written.
You asked if bad news are ignored unless repeated often enough. OP said that people stop caring if bad news are repeated often enough.
Besides, you haven't understood what the oft repeated bad news actually are. Melting icebergs are not a problem at all. (And also nothing new ) Rising temperature is not, in itself, the problem either.
The problems are the things that are caused by the rising temperatures, which are things that affect people directly.
Rising sea levels are one thing, and it may seem abstract that farms and cities are slowly getting flooded, displacing a minimum of 14 million people. To those displaced people, losing their homes is not abstract. But that is not something that happens over night either.
Another thing is the increase of weather extremes. Storms have become more frequent and also stronger. An Amazon warehouse in Kentucky was flattened by a storm while people were still working inside. That never happened before, but it is pretty much certain to happen again, not just to warehouses, but to private residences. This directly affected the people who died. Another example is that last year was the first time ever that ther was a tornado in Europe, which damaged a lot of houses. Repairs are still ongoing. Storms also cause increasing damage to forests, which is bad for the timber industry. On some parts of the world, the trees won't grow back anymore because it has become too hot and dry.
Wildfires are also more frequent, and have also destroyed homes and displaced people. And so have floods, which are also an increasingly frequent occurrence.
Between floods and draughts, agriculture is becoming more difficult, which may cause widespread famines.
Those are things that affect people directly. They are freak occurrences at first, then they become normal everyday things. But those things are expensive to deal with, and they get people killed, and there is nothing they can do about it, even though they used to be avoidable.
The problem here is that actions taken two centuries ago are affecting us now, and inaction for decades has done nothing to mitigate the effects. Mitigation is all we can do at this point, but the effects won't be apparent immediately, if at all, because "things didn't turn out as catastrophic as they could have" is not a visceral feedback.
The video mentions the hole in the ozone layer that is already shrinking. Does anyone even notice that? In the few decades of its existence it has caused a noticeable increase of skin cancer, and it will take centuries for the ozone layer to be repaired. If Freon hadn't been outlawed, we would certainly notice the effects.
Another example is acid rain. That was also bad for the wood industry, but most people didn't even notice at first. Then the damages were blamed on radio towers and power lines. It was not until statues began melting that legislation was passed to filter industrial emissions, and the effects were noticeable immediately: Clean air in the cities, rain that didn't taste of sulfur, statues that remained as they were after they were restored, and forests that recovered. Unfortunately, unlike acid rain, the effects of greenhouse gasses will continue to affect our environment for centuries even if we stopped emitting them completely at once.
And some people argue that because acid rain went away, climate change won't be as bad as predicted either.
These are just some of the effects of the planet becoming warmer at an unprecedented pace, some that we know about, that we noticed already.
It is not really repeated a lot because it is simply unimaginable to most people, because it has never happened before, and news services are already suffering from the (not undeserved) reputation of exaggerating everything. Telling people things they won't believe doesn't sell soap.
So we have people who are depressed by the state of the world, and people who don't know about it or actively refuse to believe it.
Do you think that is because it is reported too often, or not often enough?
I think a major factor in anxiety about climate change is that there's so many different factors, even just air quality has hundreds of different factors going into it (not all included in the AQI either, and some can improve while others worsen), but the news will oversimplify this and negative news always gets more people paying attention. The reality is that things are complicated. There's some areas where we're making progress, and some areas we need to work on, but the good news is we've proven that we CAN take action to fix things and succeed already. We need to treat issues that are still going on as possibilities for improvement, because they are definitely important, but convincing ourselves that we're doomed no matter what we do doesn't do anything but hurt our mental health.
I know the climate problem is not super pressing but we still should move toward greener systems rapidly. Pessimism helps by scaring less understanding people into supporting the transitions. Pretty much like how religions work.
It's also funny that some comments seemed to misread the title and assumed that you are a denier.
Yes I think pessimism regarding climate change is a good thing
I think it actually encourages ignoring the problem and getting tired of paying attention to the problem.
@@kaavi1391 I don’t cause it shuts down genuine discussion and only furthers the political divide eating away at society at least here in the US.
it is wtf
If it was for a cause you didn't support, you'd be rightfully crying "fearmongering". It's morally reprehensible and it should not be done. People should get the most impartial and factually driven positions on things, and not be "scared into acting". Do that and you might just get them to support on mass poorly thought-out, rushed solutions that could backfire severely in the long term, not just in pure climate effecting but also in socioeconomical terms too. It'd be nice if we could prevent further severe climate change without kneecapping the climb out of poverty of developing countries, for example. I find it funny you used the religious example, when in the past, religion has exactly been the proof of how scaring people into believing things that aren't necessarily true can lead them to act or support pretty fucked up things.
"cutting meat out of your diet for one day a week cuts your total emissions by 14%". This is obviously false. It would mean that 7x14%=98% of your emissions come from meat production. 14% in total from meat production sounds more reasonable, although I can't find it in your sources.
it was round up, you cant expect to have a good number from 100 : 7
@@vivelarevolution2835 that’s not the point; if it was rounded up that would presumably mean that all of your emissions were meatwhich is obviously not true
Exactly.. The contribution of the meat industry is violently overrated and misguiding..
My guess is the statistic he read is for someone who eats meat once a week, cutting that meat would equal to 14%. Just a guess
@@EmilKadabell 14% just from the agriculture
I would consider myself a doomer and this video helped me realize the media will only show you the doomer perspective. Been way too long since I've heard anything good about this topic, thank you and instant sub
Same
good on you mate
media makes money off of you being miserable and mad they have never told the truth about anything you should not listen to them about anything if you wanna know something ask a local someone who was involved or look outside for weather
Why I don't watch TV or read newspapers
We need to go Mars and find Argent energy.
Ultimately it is correct that we have to move beyond capitalism in order to solve this. Capitalism, as in ownership of productive capital by a private class. Because the infinite growth imperative within capitalism, combined with the shareholder-led, quarterly profit driven, disconnected-from-the-real-economy financial model make it extraordinarily difficult to transition without causing economic turnoil for millions.
"Green growth" is increasingly seen as a total myth. We need a shift towards a more localised, decentralised and publically owned and locally rooted system, at least for the "big stuff" like energy, finance etc. Call it Green Market Socialism if you like but capitalism is at the heart of the climate crisis (not to mention the biodiversity loss, extinctions crisis etc).
A huge thank you for this video it put my mind to rest on a lot of fronts.
However the hole in the Ozone wasn't fixed by consumer action but through vast corporate regulation and outright banning of CFCs, consumers didn't have to do anything to improve the situation.
The reason I'm still a bit apethetic about my own actions is that I don't fly so my carbon footprint is already comically smaller than anyone who even takes one flight in a year let alone regular travelers!
Don't pay yourself on the back too hard: _new_ commercial airliners average 3.5 L/100km / 67mpg with a full passenger load. The US fleet is probably 7L/100km / 34mpg because it's older.
@@williamchamberlain2263
However, half of airline warming power is due to contrails, not due to CO2.
One of the problems actually is airline's now are flying higher to slightly reduce fuel consumption, but that also majorly increases contrail production.
There are ways of flying to minimise the amount of contrail warming power though: not flying at night helps.
@@IamGrimalkin I KNOW what Britmonkey is saying, but let's face it: He's carelessly optimistic. It's not just 'Some More News' newest video, the 1 about Water Running Out, that make clear: An healthy amount of Panic is needed. Now.
Yes, lighthearted coverage of Climate-Change by Hbomberguy and UpisnotJump
Is Something i would always recommend, to literally Everyone BUT we also need face harsh, hard, harsh facts like what Some-More-News and Seocnd-Thought speak of.
@@slevinchannel7589
I think you might have replied to the wrong post.
@@IamGrimalkin Its for you.
I feel like I'm falling ever deeper into a crisis of "How much of this do I really know?", "Should I criticise this?", "Should I criticise that?", "Should I do more to help fix climate change?", "Is this info outdated?", "Should I listen to this?", "Should I listen to that?", etc. There's just so much info everywhere, this video alone took my thoughts on climate change, flipped them upside down, flipped them back up, and flipped them sideways. This is only making my other crisis of "Am I actually smart or just an idiot who thinks he's smart?" even worse.
life is a crisis, at least sometimes a fun one
You're not alone, this is how I (and many, many others) feel on a daily basis about everything. You're not an idiot if you regularily question your intelligence and knowledge, rather quite the opposite.
@@justinkubusch1336 *_But the thing is do I question my intelligence because I'm an idiot and I know smart people do that or is it because I'm actually smart_*
@@Thor_the_Doge Being smart is like being good, its an arbitrary yardstick applied to a collection of behaviours or outcomes and has no meaningful impact on anything and becomes dangerous if thought of as inherent quality.
If I am good, then my actions are Good whatever they may be.
Questioning, learning and critical thinking are what is important, and much more challenging than simply being smart because very rarely is there ever a concise and simple answer to anything.
@@Thor_the_Doge everyone is stupid. even einstein made terrible, foolish decisions. questioning your intelligence and identity, while scary, is a good thing and part of the growing process.
The thing about the hole in the ozone layer is that the organisations that used those chemicals could easily switch to very similar chemicals that cost the same and didn't have deleterious effects on the ozone layer.
That's not true of greenhouse gases and its the economic impact that is the primary sticking point.
And also I had heard that the ozone hole was recovering. Not "fixed", mind you, but recovering, so it's more that a little snide to claim that no one had heard about this.
Its recovering. Not fixed but provided we don't fuck it up more it should heal on its own in the coming decades
If they could get chemicals that weren't harmful at the same cost, why didn't they?
@@ChappalMarungi because at that time they weren't at the same cost. The industry was only producing the ozone harming chemicals at a large scale, while the non harming ones were only produced at a small scale, making them expensive. Once there was a push away from the harmful substances the non harmful had a chance to catch up with the rest
Water is a GHG, in fact, it's the biggest. So what is your plan to divorce modern society from water vapor? There isn't a modern on demand power process that doesn't create water vapor.
@@bobhabib7662 I think you replied to the wrong comment
Good to talk about good news but you need to be factual. Take for exemple Scotland : 97% of its electric production is renewable, but electricity is a small part of all the energy used in the country. In 2018, 80% of Scotland's energy consumption was still fossil fuels. Same is true for France, the USA... these countries still depend a lot on fossil fuels.
You also need to take into account that the most polluting production have been delocalized in emergent countries, which accounts for the **slow** decline of rich countries CO2 emissions. When you look at the system as a whole, world's CO2 emissions are still increasing, and right now there isn't many reasons to think it will stop going that way.
Not to say we should despair, but it's important to keep in mind that we live in a complex interconnected system, and that most changes we see right now are just cosmetic. We won't be able to attain a real decrease in greenhouse gases emissions without drastically changing the way we live in rich countries.
Remember everyone: cars are cringe.
Yeah no
e yes
Helicopter supremacy
Aww man I like cars :(
Remember everyone, there is no more effective vector for disease than public transportation.
For those who bring up that we are still missing the climate targets in the paris agreement, do not discard what was said in the video, imagine how much worse off we would be without 26.2 percent of energy coming from renewables (expected to rise to 45 percent by 2040, it's the first google result).
And if one thing WON'T help climate change, it's pessimism. There is no choice to make. If we all collectively give up, climate progress is 0%. If you told me that even if every single person turned into a climate extremist overnight we would still be fucked, whatever percentage chance that we pull through is higher than 0.
The point of the video is that we ARE making progress. And here is an idea: Gen Z spends 74% of their free time online. The future generations, the next billionaires and politicians, will be Gen Z, a generation that grew up with the fear of GOD put into them from the media about the climate crisis. We ARE going to pull through. THAT is the hope, and the reason we need to stay optimistic. HUMANITY IS ONLY THE PEOPLE CURRENTLY ALIVE. GOVERNMENTS ARE RUN BY PEOPLE, CORPORATIONS ARE RUN BY PEOPLE. WE ARE HUMANITY.
Ok, maybe too dramatic, but if anything I'm showing my age and it may serve to convince you.
My man 45% by 2045 is still WAY below what is needed, at that point carbon emissions have to be near net zero
@@Dr-Jesus My man those numbers you are saying change every year. We only have predictions, not factual values.
@@Dr-Jesus It will be better than that. Cleantech is exploding now. We will solve these problems.
wow you are absolutely right about how governments and corporations are run by people. These entities depend on the people.
As an American, please include more jokes at our expense. You do a really good job at it, and I like them.
NO DOOM, but good, nice Coverage: Hbomberguy, UpisnotJump, Some More News, Our Changing Climate, Climate-Town, Simon C.
You might like it, but some of the people who NEED to hear this will be turned off by that and leave. It's generally a bad idea to make fun of people, even if you personally like it for some reason.
I hate Europeans so much man
@@incognitotorpedo42 its just some light humor bro lol
@@incognitotorpedo42 who cares about americans
hope this doesn't age like milk
It won't I trust humanity, yes we do shitty things , but we will improve every day
@@barrettm.w7031watch out, the doomers are going to bring up some shit about how “its human instinct to believe that humanity is going to be ok” like bro, use reasoning. The middle class needs to rise up and create their own party, we need to stop being sitting ducks. We need to do something
I don't want to fall into the trap of toxic positivity but man after the last climate video I saw I really needed to see this one
Don't be pessimistic nor optimistic, be honest. Least that's how I try to feel about climate change.
Honestly, scaring the public so we got radical and keep attacking big company while also annoyingly share awareness and fear to other is probably the only way to fix this. Because if the public is stupid and don't have any fears, corporation and politician will 100% choose the most profitable way, climate change be damned.
@@spookzer16 I think rational optimism is the best way of thinking.
@@spookzer16 yes, but we can't deny reality.
I feel what we need to really motivate change is bad news, and a problem. But we need to show that it is possible to beat, and possible to fix.
I’m struggling to convince myself that this video isn’t just sugarcoating things because good god climate change keeps me up at night but in the fleeting moments where my doubts go away that’s a pretty big weight off my shoulders, thanks for that
Chill out, ain’t that deep
@@dandun3244 it’s nothing to do with how “deep” it is. Climate change is a big worry for me and seeing a video that shows some of the positive things we’re doing are working eases my mind. You might have found it boring as fuck but that’s how it affected YOU.
The planet is on fire. Major coastal cities will flood. If it doesn't "end the world" climate change will cripple the world's economy like never before, with constant once-in-a-lifetime weather events. It is that deep.
Honestly, the video IS sugarcoating reality by cherrypicking data and just outright ommiting the actual questions of climate change: are we reducing emissions fast enough to keep a somewhat stable climate and avoid human suffering on an unprecedented scale. And right now, the answer is: not really. Doesnt mean we should take the doomer pill or anything like that, but I feel like ignorance is a bad way to handle this, especially because we still have time and are limited purely by political reasons.
@@florian3183 Point out where the video is cherry picking data. Honestly, it would be good to challenge this narrative the video is portraying.
Thank you for putting out this video. I've been so deeply overwhelmed. I needed this support to continue on the fight.
Dont be Hopeless, but also be aware that the Main-Reason to say 'Dont be pessimistic, it aint so bad' is a money-insensitive to literally Lie. And just Lie.
Real-Life-Lore just uploaded a well-researched video about Ukraine-War causing a Big Famine,
and TH-camr Some More News did cover Climate-Refugees. Arguably the best Climate-Change-Coverage (and Motivational too, at the End, if you need that os badly) is the 1 by Hbomberguy. But even he proves that theres People paid to Lie about Big Issues, including Climate. People are caught Lying.
there is no fight like there is no a.g.w
Cutting 1 day out of the week from any meat intake will not reduce your carbon footprint by %14... This statement is misleading
Every since the signing of the 2015 Paris agreement, whose goal is to reduce emissions to 2 tonnes of CO2 emissions per capita, the US has reduced its total by 0.8 tonnes. Currently, it is at 16 tonnes. This is not exponential growth.
@Pee jay You’re right. The US is somehow better than the world, as globally emissions per capita have fallen by even less.
@Pee jay I’m not sure I understand your point. When you refer to average decline, do you mean actual average of countries or global per capita? The world has a slower decline in general but the average may be faster, although giving equal weight to the smallest countries in such a calculation is definitely a mistake. In raw numbers, annual CO2 emissions in the US have remained stagnant, and whether or not they are millions more or millions less is really a rounding error, since total emissions are over 5 billion tonnes. China only emits a quarter of CO2 emissions, not a majority. Per capita it is at similar levels as the EU although its emissions are increasing, unlike the EU. However, China’s emissions per capita have increased by less than half a ton per capita (out of 7 total) which is definitely not as impactful to the global average as you make it out to be.
In any case, I’m not sure what you point is. This is my point: almost every single country in the world is not doing enough to combat climate change, and no developed country is expected to reach a satisfactory amount by 2030, meaning there will be devastating effects for the entire world. The video is wrong to claim that emissions are falling exponentially. Even if it is claiming renewable energy production (which is totally different) is growing exponentially that’s just not true. I don’t take sides over which country is “better” because they are all criminal in their behaviour, and this video seems to be justifying that behaviour by saying that climate change will just fix itself soon enough.
@@the8thgemmer467 to be fair, the US was was lead by a climate change denier lunatic for the past years so its not exactly surprising that they fucked up in reducing their emmisions.
@@leastbloodthirstyneocon2776 You are right, and the decline was substantially faster under Obama, but it was still just 0.4 tonnes a year which is completely insufficient. Measures regarding the en masse production and distribution of clean energy, a cease of subsidies to fossil fuel production (and their diversion to clean alternatives) as well as other means are acts the government could do to greatly limit emissions. The idea that the solution to climate change is just undiscovered is false, known methods would have definitely been much more successful, but the government itself is not and has never been willing to carry them out.
@Pee jay
Oh god, the ol "China is doing the bad thing".
1. Historically speaking, they did nothing compared to the West.
2. Have you ever wondered why all the large industries are there? Because Western investors crave the cheap costs and are allowed by Western governments to use the Cginese market for their gain.
It almost seems like a strictly American thing, I guess because doom and violence sell in American media.
But when I watch NHK (Japanese public broadcast) or BBC I see so many fascinating programs detailing new green energy and de-carbonation technology. Like every day.
Americans don't know how to live with out the media telling them the worst possible scenarios. See every Netflix biography where some general well thought of person has a dark side or something terrible happen to them. Watching a bit of Euronews program makes me feel less on edge cause they break stuff down reasonably (compared to U.S.) and also talk about the new technologies making life better.
Oil consumption is not decreasing but increasing.
You say oil factories are being closed in the US. Okay, but what about the GLOBAL worldwide oil consumption? It increases each year. Every year we use MORE oil: Instead of reducing the global consumption, it is increasing.
You may ask "If so much green energy is being built, how oil consumption is increasing?". Simply because energy consumption as a whole is increasing too. Transport and connectivity is increasing, energy demand is increasing, etc. Energy demand grows faster than green energy growth, so oil consumption (and gas and coal) are increasing too.
Blind optimists like the video creator here are just as dangerous as the doomers. He has some points but missed what you said about fossil fuels not being replaced we just added renewables into the total energy creation.
It takes a while before exponential growth kicks in. Each year the portion of the total that renewables add on to what they already have is larger than the last (most years anyway). Emissions don't need to be reduced to zero either because the carbon cycle has been thrown out of wack and the earth now reabsorbs in addition to it's previous equilibrium more than 50% of all human emitted carbon dioxide each year, so if we cut emissions in half global CO2 levels would start falling.
Developing countries will start consuming more as they get richer but once they get to the level that developed western countries are at now their consumption will plateau and they will be able to implement the same green policies as richer countries without crippling their economy. You can't shift the blame to the poorer parts of the world when UK, US and other western countries already put out their share of CO2 in the 19th and 20th century when they were developing their industrial economies.
@@kody1654 😂
@@nikolatasic9452 I agree, but there is still a lot of increasing in the energy demand to be expected before every single country reaches that plateau you are talking about.
Until then, energy demand will continue to increase and thus the use of oil (unless oil becomes finally not economically viable)
I don't disagree with you but CO2 emissions are still increasing year on year. So all that positive action needs to be grown and accelerated.
Ultimately, what we really need to actually stop climate change and pollution quickly is to reduce consumption. Consumerism is one of the main causes of climate change.
Yep
You really learned nothing from the video
@@basaraydn7030 There's nothing to learn. The creator completely cherrypicks the information.
In 2009, South Korea made a green recovery plan, investing into renewable energy and tree-planting.
But, from 2009-2015, her emissions increased. This is because companies started to massively advertise and consumerism became a problem.
The manufacturing emissions of those useless products were what crushed Korea's renewables investments.
Why did those corporations advertise so massively? It's simple: capitalism.
If there was a system in place that set the value of the good to the opposite of its utility, clothes would be more expensive and renewables would become cheaper, tackling the main causes of climate change instead of neoliberalist thinking "the market will solve it".
This post-capitalist system already has a name and manifesto; Eco-socialism.
There's also Eco-anarchism, but I don't think it would work. Search it up if you wish.
Tell that to the voters
@@rbxless Hey, just out of pure curiosity, you watched OCC?
I really love your work. Please never stop spreading positive messages like this.
We need to panick.
I get what Britmonkey is saying but
wouldnt doing more now, no matter how much more, save more Lifes
in the Futuree? and arguably-more-importantly-to-my-Point: Wasnt lazing-around and being sabotaged for 40 Years literally genocide-levels-of-bad when it comes to Climate-Awareness?
Awareness was sabotaged, remember??
I appreciate the sentiment of this video and I always like people doing climate videos, but I think I should add some things to the discussion. The latest IPCC AR6 WG1 report has given a best estimate of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity at 3C of increased average global surface temperature since 1850, meaning even if we reach net zero carbon emissions we will still likely face 3C of average global surface temperature increase (2C-5C very likely range of equilibrium climate sensitivity). This doesn't mean we should do nothing and race towards extinction obviously, but it does mean that things are already worse than the 1.1C average global surface temperature increase that we are experiencing today.
Also, the world spending $500 billion to work towards fighting global warming in 2020 sounds like a lot of money... until you remember that the US pumped $1.5 trillion into the stock market last year on the whim that it might help the extremely wealthy who own most the stock market (surprise surprise it did nothing), trillion dollar wars, and generally look at that $500 billion dollars by the whole world compared to individual government spending. Sure, if governments can grow the balls to intervene against the fossil fuel industry, automobiles in general (I'm an American), and agriculture (meat like you said) we could still have capitalism and avoid the long term consequences of pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere... Either way as an American, I don't see the radical infrastructure changes that would be required for a net zero carbon emissions, or even a remotely efficient society happening without some kind of major engagement of the general population in politics. I'm not sure how we are going to play our part in helping with climate change when our entire way of life revolves around the individual's car. I think this would be more feasible in other parts of the world that are not built for only cars and that did not fool around with the suburban experiment though.
I think this is a good video but like you mention in the end, we shouldn't feel any sense of complacency just because there are steps being taken by the world. Unless a miraculous invention comes out that can remove CO2 from the atmosphere and logistically make sense, the world has to reach net zero carbon emissions (or as close as possible) sooner rather than later.
agreed
But nooooo you're supposed to blame each other and shill the corporations like the video said!!! (joke)
👏👏👏
The information you are citing here leads me to believe you are either very disingenuous, or insanely naive. Just in the period from 1970 - 2023, global CO2 emissions have gone from 15 gigatons, to more than 37 gigatons. The rate isn't slowing. It's accelerating. None of the changes you are pointing to have done anything to even slightly slow those emissions. And here's the really fun part... Even if we were slowing emissions by a considerable amount, that still wouldn't be anywhere near enough to avoid the kind of catastrophe you're sick of hearing about. Reality simply IS. It doesn't care about disposition, or optimism versus pessimism. Spreading this kind of 'everything will be fine' wish-thinking, is highly irresponsible, and quite cruel to the people you are deceiving.
Did you also like the part regarding LA’s air being not nearly as bad as the 80s?
Well, no shit, we stopped using leaded gas, which is different from the carbon effects on the climate.
Also, since this video, the weather has gotten a lot worse. Record heat, which he downplays, in addition to large swings in temperatures.
@@Kevin_TN Yeah, I know nothing about this channel. Just popped up in my recommendations. For all I know this is some standard Big Oil propaganda, just using 'Yeah it's real' as a cover. If not then it's amazingly gross to be trying to put a smile and a blindfold on younger people who are going to get hit in the face with a freight-train.
@@dmwalker24yeah let's call everything that's even remotely optimistic "propaganda" and let's go all upsetty spaghetti because we're chronically online.
@@zgamez129 It's not 'optimistic'. It's flat-out incorrect. Counter-factual. Citing as evidence of progress towards a solution, things which have not made any progress towards a solution. If you can't identify intentional, or accidental bullshit, then why even watch the video or comment? You might as well just pretend everything is fine, and save yourself the trouble.
@@dmwalker24 this video isn't made to say "oh everything is fine climate change is over", it's meant to show you the good news about this problem. Being a doomer about climate change isn't gonna change anything.
Besides, why do you think the information presented in this video is false? Do you have any evidence to back that claim up?
We need a news site that isn't corrupt as fuck, doesn't make you depressed every second and is up to date
They're all free media, need to ban all of them
@@GTAandApplechannel I saw you in a other comment section, I’m not sure which one tho
@@remaks3929 and i don't remember much of anything but whatever
News is inherently depressing, though.
Sometimes you have to swallow the harsh truth, climate change won't wait for you friend.
"You buy, you consume, you drive, etc..."
Well it's nearly impossible to escape capitalistic structures. You can't blame the individual on his need to live in this world. Sure, you can buy bio/fair trade products, but they are way more expensive and a lot of us are poor.
True, but I think what he has in mind is not ordering you, but rather saying "if you consider doing something about it, please do and here are a few ways you can if you're able". Also, cutting meat from diet, or at least reducing it's consumption is actually the cheaper option in a lot of countries, if not most. This is not a black and white topic, please don't try to make it seem like it is
cApItAListIC sTrUcTuRes
@@jhonklan3794 Point?
Buying food and driving to places = capitalism
Yeah I agreed with everything up to the consumer part. Like I can’t afford a Tesla or an electronic car yet so I have to buy gas :/ but if it matters I couldn’t afford a car until I was 25 (29 now) so my footprint isn’t as big compared to others who got that sweet 16 car
Thank you, this settled my anxiety quite a bit. I was feeling super doomed because it is an unusually warm winter here and I was searching for reasons why. I kept going down a spiral of Clickbait and depressing stuff. I wish more anxiety prone people could see this video
me too! this whole week i kept crying and overthinking abt climate change but this actually helped me sm 😭
I know this sounds a little silly but i was unironically scared for my life.
the fact that you felt a warm winter and still belives this guy is amazing
like wow your the equivalent of "Imma kill God and still belives in God"
@@congratulationsmerry6386 crying and shaking about it won’t help it. This guy actually tries to motivate people to help the world instead of demeaning others on the comment section.
@@egekazkayas8968 yes thats why I try to reduce my carbon footprint and persuade my freinds to vote for the right person in my countries upcoming election
seriously i dont really belive climate doomers being real I think their just 14 year old white girls learning about ice melting and saying omg this is the end
The point of no return is already in the past. If we went carbon neutral today it would do nothing to slow the rate of things like:
- the permafrost releasing methane
- the great barrier reef dissolving
- all the forests of the world dying
We have to do go carbon neutral AND do carbon capture on a massive scale and no one even has a PLAN on how to do that before even the most generous of re-calculated "point of no return".
But we should definitely eat less meat, because we're going to run out of food in a couple decades. And it's just not necessary to pile massive amounts of bacon on everything every day. Grow up and eat your vegetables without fucking whining about it.
Thank you. I thought there was no sane person in the comments, everybody just seems to be in soft denial of how fucked we are.
To add, we have a huge shortfall of metals for energy transition, and aerosols that we are going to stop emitting hide a lot of warming, as we can see with ocean temperatures this year following the implementation of IMO2020.
It is very depressing and people refuse to admit it.
"I'd rather have something else to blame for my troubles other than myself, because otherwise it would be my fault, and f*ck that."
-the average Twitter user
This kind of stuff happens a lot on TH-cam as well, or really any social media site. Big example of Pot calling the Kettle black.
Oh yeah, because blaming myself for all the problems in the world is totally correct and will surely make a difference!!!!
@@thepizzaisaggressive1823 Try taking responsibility for your own fuckups instead of focusing on things you don't control
@@LordVader1094 You know what? I think we should do both, of course it is important to care for yourself and take responsibility for your own mistakes but not to the point of being completely selfish and stupid for believing everything is somehow your fault, and to be fair, I honestly think the collective good is ultimately the most important, twisting stuff like Climate Change into the personal responsibility bullshit is just a recipe for nothing ever changing and companies know that, that's why they often push for this kind of exchange of responsibility using advertisement and propaganda instead of actually fixing the problems and slowing profits for a while.
@@thepizzaisaggressive1823 Or just simply go outside instead of being chronically online lmao
One correction worth making is that nuclear energy isn't "renewable". It's clean, safe, and efficient (especially compared to fossil fuels) but not renewable as there's only so much uranium, thorium, plutonium etc. in the world. Still the best source of energy we have today tho.
Technically, although the ocean has enough that once we hit $400 a pound we're unlikely to ever hit another major production peak.
Solar and wind aren’t really completely renewable because of the metals and things needed for making solar panels and wind turbines and the batteries to store their power. Also repairing and replacing them once they’ve been worn out.
@@nickwilson3499 well by that logic there is no truely renewable energy source at all, the sun will eventually run out of hydrogen to fuse and the observable universe will go dim eventually in a few hundred billion years.
The point isn't that we'll run out of a materials to build this stuff (we could always mine some astroids once that becomes feasible) it's that we don't have to mine stuff to actually provide fuel for energy.
It still produces waste which it very radioactive. We also need to focus on promoting ethical ways to dispose of those waste.
Nuclear power is underrated. A single kilogram of uranium, when fully irradiated, will generate power for about a thousand years
and thorium would do even better
The "cutting meat out of your diet for 1 day cuts 14% of your TOTAL carbon footprint" is the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
How can one say that and not realize that 14% is the same as 1/7. This means that cutting meat out of your diet for 1 day cuts yout total MEAT consumption by 14%. How can cutting your meat consumption cut your total carbon footprint by the same amount? Only if the meat consumption is exactly 100% of your total footprint, which is obviously not true and sounds ridiculous af. Not sure what the real number would be, but it's only mathematically possible for it to be LESS than 14%, which means the dude lied to make veganism sound more ecologically influencial than it really is. I agree with the author on like almost every other thing in the vid, but this is plain math proving him terribly wrong with not a single other fact needed.
He probably made a mistake in the script, don't get too worked up about it :D
I'm from the Philippines and one thing that always surprised me is that every president in recent years has unanimously agreed on two things: welcoming refugees and the fight against climate change. Every leader no matter how corrupt, stupid, or generally incompetent has taken at least some steps to address this problem.
They are not leaders they are sponsored puppets. They pull the wool over your eyes and do not address the underlying issues. Read my longer comment if you can find it. Acting on 2% of a situation that needs 100% devotion is not acting!
Except each refugee will use FIVE times as much CO2 as they did in their native country
Just look at the stats, Central America, S. America, millions of people multiplying their CO2 output by 5 times, counter acting ALL the reduction the IRA produced!
BIDENOMICS
well, that's just the only thing I could give credit for any president after 1957
"The more we do to fix the thing that we can control, the more time we'll have to find answers to problems we don't have solutions to,"
MAN SPITTIN FAX
1:55 "15 years later..." [britain disappears]
It's the little things that make this video amazing.
Until I watched this video, I was kinda sure that things were gonna go south due to this and that I couldn’t have grandchildren, thank you so much BritMonkey.
Thank you, I was having a mental crisis 12 minutes ago and now I feel better
Bruh. Why? You srsly think the elites of this world dont understand? If we're doing nothing about it at a FASTER rate than we are already, that means its not necessary.
@@evryatis9231 you sound like you get paid by someone to say that
@@hasnicktir5310 nope, these people own the medias why would they for that
Here's another mental crisis to worry about.. The governments around the world want to close farms, to stop climate change, already happened in Denmark (dutch government closed 3000 farms just 5 days ago) and other countries like NewZeland, Peru, etc. Are going to do the same. 🤔 Is this an attempt for Global food shortage crisis? No food = millions will starve and die. For what purpose? Could it be depopulation? This is why I dont take any of that climate change nonsense seriously, the people in power clearly have an agenda.
I have been on a cruise ship type ferry a few times, and I can say confidently, nobody enjoys cruise ships so much that it's worth the climate impact cruise ships have.
It's not how capitalism works...
yes and out of the type of people that normally go on cruises do you think they would be spending that money planting trees know they would find another dumb way to waste it Get used to how humans are the more you force them to change the more there going to fight back and if your the government get ready to die your time is up
@@thewildcardperson There are ways of achieving similar experiences to a cruise ship without creating nearly as much greenhouse gasses, however, I am not advocating for individual people to have to change, but rather I want government to restrict how much corporations are allowed to pollute. If cruise ships were banned from entering regional waters unless they reduce emissions by a certain ammount, then that would force the cruise ship industry to pollute less. A carbon tax would also have the same effect. There are ways of forcing companies to pollute less without trying to change the way individuals act.
@@HenrikMyrhaug good shit dude!
This channel is the best Think Tank in the UK
The meat part is bullshit though yes i would care to elaborate but it is midnight
@@ΘΑΝΟΣΠΑΠΑΣΩΤΗΡΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ No it's not. Stop trying to justify your bad actions
It reminds me of "Ordinary Things", though his British accent is definitely stronger
@@ΘΑΝΟΣΠΑΠΑΣΩΤΗΡΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ channel created this year, denying GHG emissions from meat consumption.
This guy is a troll, don't bother.
@@ster2600 it is, it's greatly exaggerated. Most global meat emissions dont even happen in western economies, instead occurring in developing countries where alternatives aren't even available. A common point against meat is methane- this is easily countered by *landfill* being a greater source- some studies even suggest *wastewater* produces more methane than agriculture.
People who yell BUT CHINA every time don’t realize China has much less per person emissions than the US. They just have a lot of people and they’re making goods in their factories for the rest of the world. When I visited, the sheer amount of bicycles was insane. It was like a storm of cyclists and pedestrians. Even those that drive, they have tiny electric cars for single drivers. Compared to fat Americans in SUV’s.
In terms of meat, there are about a bazillion meat alternatives in China. Most people don’t eat meat on a regular basis because it’s still considered a small luxury. They especially don’t eat beef, which is most expensive (and emission heavy). But if you visit as a tourist with big dollar bills and go to restaurants, it seems like meat is everywhere. That’s not how everyday eating is at all. Meat is so expensive there that their sausages are mostly starch filler and msg. My friend gave me some “vegetarian goose” which was very well made spiced tofu. Almost all their snacks are pretend meats, not for vegetarians, but for average consumers. True Chinese dishes tend to be vegetarian (although not vegan) but those are not popular with Americans.
China can still do a lot more in terms of climate, like cutting down further on coal, but they’re doing a fair bit considering they’re a growing economy only just getting out of poverty. Many people just got power, you can’t simply demolish the coal plant. In any case, we aren’t one to point fingers. The average Chinese consumer uses so much less than an American.
thank you for this man, seriously, when the ipcc report dropped I had a complete mental break. It was bad, but your MORE than right in this video. Focus on what we can change, don't just give up, we got this, look how fucking far humans have made it, this is just another apocalypse to fucking conquer. Thank you so much dude
Hell yeah brother. Look at all of human history and you will find that it was terrible. We are only getting better, but we are far from perfect. Do the right amount of focus on the bad things and fix those in a reasonable priority, but for those things that are more difficult, keep fighting, but don’t give up if things are going badly. (Or even terribly). Just keep on trying. It’s a slow and painful process to perfection, just don’t take side with evil, I should say.
I think with the report, in some way it's trying to encourage the world more to invest in green enegry instead of buying and selling companies like shell, ExxonMobil etc, plus it's cheaper and efficient
That may sound too naive of me but I,my trying to be optimistic and honest
Part Three was recently released, and it contains calculations about the cost and savings of different forms of energy.
Renewables are the only thing that makes sense from an investment point of view.
Thank you so much for this video 💗 I often spiral completely (despite doing my best personally as a poor person) because it all feels so hopeless and like we are going to fail anyway - this has given me so much hope!
I get what Britmonkey is saying but
wouldnt doing more now, no matter how much more, save more Lifes
in the Futuree? and arguably-more-importantly-to-my-Point:
Wasnt lazing-around and being sabotaged for 40 Years
literally genocide-levels-of-bad when it comes to Climate-Awareness?
Isnt it kinda objective-fact that Millions would not have died if
Climate-Change-Denial had never ever happened?
NOT TO MENTION, were still IN the Propaganda-Age?
@@pgakt ??
FUN FACT:
everyone is at fault.
and while everyone can maybe do something, it's not the entire fault of the consumer. the companies are at fault too.
they should adapt.
how rich do you think we are? with all the inflation many ppl can't even afford both food and rent!
but those companies, wether government owned or not, should have the resources to adapt and be more environmentally friendly.
looking at you, NESTLE
corporations will end the world
That’s kind of a misleading thumbnail…
Fixing climate change isn’t guaranteed, and especially not if we stick to a free-market type system
As a man from Kyrgyzstan this video actually made me hopeful again, because of which I say thank you. Sometimes it is really hard to see a beacon of hope when your city becomes the most polluted one in the world EVERY SINGLE FUCKIN WINTER!
Same here in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Clearly you haven't been to Ulaanbaatar haha. Ulaanbaatar is the most polluted capital in the world btw. Still, good luck with next Winter.
Btw, in case you're wondering why Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia are so polluted, it's not just because of the CO2 levels. The dryness of the air is actually one of the main reasons, as countries with similar CO2 emissions don't suffer as much. That being said, both countries highly rely on fossil fuels during Winter. Uaanbaatar in particular is located in a valley, trapping the pollution, which makes it even worse.
@@Ricky911_ Thanks, you too. I'm sure we're gonna hit the new record this winter.
As a man from the alps, where I was born, 20 years ago used to snow from September to May
Now snow isn't a thing except in winter
So I'm a little bit dubious about this video but still I hope that you Kirgis will found a way to improve your living in your city
I fucking LOVE the fact that he includes Nuclear throughout the video, You sir have done some REAL research
all of the uranium used in france comes from the african nations. slave labor poverty and suffering subsidize nuclear.
He makes these videos for a living, I'm sure he researched this topic enough to find out nuclear isn't really bad. It's not some hidden knowledge, there's a Kurzgesagt video about it.
@@nbksrbija1039 type in congo and uranium. The congo was sacked by the dutch. Now days its uranium is controlled by the French. Those in power always fuck over the poor. That includes the Congolese or you and me.
@@music4thedeaf the democratic republic of the congo was belgian, not dutch
@@music4thedeaf well we can
Let people die
Or
Let people die
Choose
I disagree with the part where is stated that individuals have power as consumers against big corporations to "just not buy from them". That just sounds naive given how much control of brands and sub-brands the big multi-nationals have where there is no real competition left. Also, I'm not an expert, but concrete production seems to play a big role in carbon emission, specially in emerging countries, I'd like have seen that addressed in the video. These issues aside, great content, this certainly made me a little less depressed about the future of the planet. Thank you for that :)
Not to mention it's intense to put the entire weight of the world on an individual.. like yeah sure, do your bit and all that. But part of doing one's bit is advocating for cleaner energy if possible and any alternatives to prevent this extreme climate change. And huge corperations that have more power then they avarage person, especially a person in a developing country.
Don’t take the blame off corporations, people buy fuel for their cars because there is no alternative transportation, this was all orchestrated by oil and car manufacturers, knowing full well what they were doing.
The same goes for almost any other example of consumer producer relation, people buy what they have to.
I’m from Russia, mate
Studying in Moscow aviation university as ecologist. We have the great tutors on our main subject. They’re explaining everything about Russia’s main polluters. And I think soon the Russians will get rid of all that 90’s mafia, with Putin in the head, that doesn’t care about anything but money and profits
@Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington idiot
@@xplosionslite6439 my man just called the first duke of Wellington an idiot
А я уж думал, что я тут один.
"Muh politician in Charge is only thinking about monee" Well if you cant even accept that people in Charge might be motivated by at least a tiny bit about their country, Well then youre Part of the Problem by idolizing just a different politician
@@TheGahta He's complaining about a corrupt , blood-sucking oligarchy ruining his country , I don't see the problem.
Evidence-based and shill/taco-pilled. You love to see it. Keep it up!
First : you are doing a huge mistake by talking only about electricity when speaking about energy. Electricity accounts for less than a quarter of the final energy consumed on earth. We don't need only to replace fossil fuels that produce electricity, we need to replace the other 75% of them. And then we would need to replace all the machines that work with fossil fuel to make them electric (construction machines, trucks, boats ...)
Second : no, the installation of new renewable energy generating devices will not grow exponentially because of one easy reason : we will lack basic metals to produce them (I'm talking about copper, not even rare earth elements). To answer the demand of the next 20 years mankind needs to extract more copper in that period of time than we did since the bronze age, all of that with a concentration of metal in the mines that decreases everytime we extract some.
This leads to the third point : we will never fight climate change in an economical and social system that requires infinite economic growth. It won't happen in a system where the production is dictated by the finance and by shareholders.
And last point : fighting climate change will not happen through technological changes, but through social and conceptual changes. We need to think of ways to organise society without requiring infinite economic growth, and how to fulfill everybody's basic needs with way less energy and ressources than we do today.
exactly, and it's almost impossible to decouple economic growth from recourse extraction (unless we find some incredible scifi technology that makes it possible to grow all tech from fungi and bacteria) because even a service economy needs resources, and virtual products uses electricity and storage space on HDD/SSD.
I don't believe we can fully transition out of capitalism (or even neoliberalism) in time to solve global warming (we have a two decades or so), but punishing polluting industries, implementing some social policies etc. would already go a long way and might buy us some time.
trucks/boats cant be electric
@@einar8019 true, I remember seeing that electrical trucks have terrible load capacity because of the weigh of current batteries.
My point was just to say that it will be extremely complicated to electrify every machine that now relies on fuel, and electrifying everything isn't a magical solution.
In many cases instead of asking ourselves "how do I electrify this vehicle?", the question we will need to ask is "how can I find a solution to bypass that transport?". And the answer is almost always produce locally, adapt the design of cities, agriculture and industry to require less transportations ...
@@enricodragoni or make them bigger so you can have less of them(trains)
@@enricodragoni actually the weight disadvantage isn't that bad and you're making the fallacious presumption that technology standstill, the present projection is that batteries will continue to improve at a rate similar to or better than what they've been doing over the past 20 years up until about 20 30 which is when it's projected that solid state batteries will take over and continue that Improvement line
There's a reason why electric passenger planes are currently on the drawing board and designers are talkin unironically about battery-powered ocean transport though I suspect that wind and solar is going to play a much bigger Factor in that Arena. As for the localized production, I honestly doubt this is going to happen simply because there is a reason why we spend so much on fuel to begin with and because the transportation cost per mile is about to drop dramatically. The difference between a battery electric truck and a diesel powered truck driving from New York to Los Angeles is about $356 in favor of the electric truck before the maintenance advantages are factored period with autonomous driving technology the cost is going to get even cheaper and there's some very interesting projects in the pipeline using unmanned hydrogen dirigibles which in theory could drop the cost of Overland transportation to a level similar to that of sea transportation. There are multiple Technologies converging at the moment which are going to cause a massive disruption and change to the way humans live not seen since the Agricultural Revolution which should CS well into the next phase of development
Britmonkey, I object your statement highly! No, we cant guard companies for not being the reason! Don't defend their position. They are every inch aware of what they are doing but makes all the effort to stay put, because change can be cumbersome. Think about how many who lives and must live unconscious about changing any part of how they live, because of socioeconomic dilemmas. How the fu** are you to change the amount of growing poverty and its socioeconomic setback. They cant be bothered with "caring for the environment". The invidiual is not the solution. Never will be in a collective society. The companies bad doing wont be compromised unless they are regulated ( which you said I know), but also restricted, put down from their econmical aswell as political power, since it rules how bad they will infringe on nature, and the environment. Power must be exchanged and be brought back to the people( Im alluding to mostly monetary share)! Partly I agree with you, but dont tell me or anyone solely that the individual is the only one responsible.
1. Eat less meat - good one
But also
2. *Take the train* instead of the plane - if you can
3. *Switch to renewable* energy at home (they're not that pricy anymore)
4. *Vote* for parties that plan to put good climate policies in place
Who takes the plane anyway? Tickets are pricey and the risk of Covid-19 infection is greatly increased.
Nah
You are a child
This was so sorely needed. Nuclear is the future!
that's what they said in the 50's
@@Merluch And they were right
@@deutschamerikaner not inmediatly
@@Merluch in the 50's the nuclear energy generated 100 times less energy than today, have 50 times more nuclear power plants, a lot of countrys uses nuclear energy, how this is not "future"?
@@thechemical5062 wut
Greetings from Russia. At 8:46 my country is represented... offensive, but frankly acuurate
Its not offensive if its true
One tidbit that's also a cause for optimism is that the US state that produces the most renewable energy is none other than the petro-capital of the Western hemisphere, Texas. And do so by a wide margin, producing almost twice as many kilowatt hours of renewable energy as California. Change is coming, y'all!