Climate Crisis : New 2019 UK Report
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- Climate and Environmental Crisis. That's the message of a new report published this week by the Institute of Public Policy Research in the UK. The report doesn't pull many punches in its description of our environmental predicament. This week we take a look at the detail.
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The bigger picture is REALLY BIG!!
Thank you for all your effort in getting this out there.
Excellent quote to conclude with:
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
Add the quote “Fear is the mind killer.”
Now, I ask those in denial of the greenhouse effect to manage their fear and be a part of the solution.
@Kyle Erasmus You again? It's quite hilarious watching you do the reality denial bit, saying things that are so obviously untrue and accusing the people who actually care about the future of human civilization of being as stupidly ignorant as you so obviously are. Do you believe the earth is flat too?
How much time do you spend on this? Are you getting paid to show up and say such nonsense? Or are you just so brainwashed by the conservative propaganda machine that you're willing to shill for them for free? Do you ever actually listen to the videos you're commenting on or are you too afraid you might learn something that might challenge your preconceived notions?
@Kyle Erasmus Lol dumb troll is dumb.
Fake science? Why you step into a car then or go to a hospital. Sure there must be a lot of fake science there as well, no?
@Kyle Erasmus This has nothing to do with believing, sweet summer child. This is just pure thermodynamics. But maybe that is a bit too far out of your reach?? Have you ever grasped any scientific notions or do you believe we faked the moon landing?
That was unexpected. Creative and it definitely called my attention. Thank you for the video
Then that makes you a very simple dumbass doesn't it !
Your work and research is excellent. Your delivery is great and cerebral. My thanks....and keep trying to sound the alarm.
Good video. We must tackle the root causes of environmental degradation, waste & pollution accumulation, resource depletion & greenhouse gas emissions. High on the list for individuals must be to stop feeding the "must have" (but don't really need) rampant consumerism, reduce food waste & responsibly reduce fossil fuel consumption/usage to the minimum realistically possible. Govts are irresponsibly slow to grasp the nettle so individuals have to kick start the process themselves & develop the good habits which may ensure our survival.
Hi Mike. Thanks for your comment. I would agree 100%.
I'd argue that we will NEVER get an adequate proportion of Earth's 8 billion people to voluntarily give up on consumption. The task before us requires solutions implemented on a massive scale, and that will require state action. The most useful role individuals can play is grassroots political activity, including spreading the word like this channel does. Given the nature of the crisis, civil disobedience is entirely appropriate, among many other modalities. Be as personally green as you want, but don't expect most people to change until incentives are changed.
All well known from the 1960`s and much much earlier regarding species loss , Hudson was writing in 1890`s lamenting what had been lost by then !
excuse my ignorance, but who is the Hudson you refer to?
@@morganpotts W. H Hudson EL OMBU was my favourite book of his . He had an amazing eye for nature for his time.
@@MyKharli many thanks. I'll try to find him
I love the talking intro before the channel intro. Too many channels have long drawn out starts intros before they get to talking
Well done, I can't believe allot of people are still denying there is a problem. I was a fishing guide in a remote area of Australia a few years back and the lodge catered for well to do people. This one set of guests were off the scale wealthy, and the grandfather (was the holder of this wealth) came on my boat one day and one of the questions he asked me was, " Do you think this climate change thing is real and if you do, what do you think the solution would be?"
I told him that of course I thought it was real and that it is a global emergency and my solution would be to stop all economic activity and gather the greatest scientists and thinkers into a sort of Manhatten project to find solutions to the problems the earth now faces. Needless to say his body language and further conversations suggested to me that he thought I was a weirdo!
Advanced Civilisation47- Really! A fishing guide & an expert in climate change? Of course your belief about climate change is only your opinion based on being brainwashed by other believers that have been brainwashed or are charlatans . You offer no scientific evidence that there is something wrong with earths climate & what harm is it causing. There are more humans on earth that have ever existed at one time & plant & animal life is thriving all over the planet. Fact is that climate change has always happened , is happening & will continue to happen as long as the earth exists . Several ices ages occurred in the past according to climate records & there have been several mini-ice periods in various locations on earth throughout earth's history. It is not a scientific fact when you ask people what they think about climate & the cause as their answer is only an opinion . There really is little scientific evidence & facts that climate change is bad & needs to be controlled & that man has been responsible for the changes.. There is little evidence that a warmer climate is harmful to the climate & more CO2 is harmful or is the main cause of the warming. There is more evidence that shows colder temperatures cause more deaths than warmer temperatures throughout all areas of the earth. Why don't you do some research & learn the science, physics & chemistry of earth's environments before you spew BS opinions .
I think the idea of a completely new socio-economic paradigm is a complete anathema to those kinds of people. The wealthier you are, the more you have to lose, so I guess it makes sense that they don't want to hear the message. And of course we are all encouraged to join in with the status quo - you only have to take a quick scan down at the very well organised trolls and deniers who leave comments on this channel to see what lengths the fossil fuel and other establishment industries will go to to ensure that every single commentator on climate change is 'attacked'. I'm lucky that I've spent 30 years working in industries that are full of mindless people like this, so their comments are water off a duck's back for me, but I do feel bad for younger people who read and hear those sorts of comments and who feel confused by them. Ultimately, while these people spread their astonishing disinformation, our climate continues to change rapidly. Time and tide wait for no man and eventually the evidence will be at everyone's doorstep and we will all simply have to deal with the consequences.
Just Have a Think- It is people like you that are brainwashing our grandchildren in schools across America & the world that humans are the cause of climate change & that we need to charged for causing it. You have no scientific proof that climate change is caused by mankind & is not natural. You are the ones spreading disinformation & lies & doing harm to the future of these children across the world. You spent 30 yrs. working in industries that are full of mindless people explains a lot of your ignoramus mentality. . The real science & evidence of climate change is already apparent & the false science as presented by the false scientists is exposed from the manipulation of real temperature data & numerous climate models that never are correct as well the past climate temperature charts have been constantly changed. The many animated videos of future climates as well as changes of the Greenland ice cap , polar Artic sea ice & Antarctica ice cap & sea ice are a real joke in realism. You want a real description of the future climate of the earth will be then read Gen. 8:22 & God will enlighten you. If you do not believe what God says then your a FOOL.I rest my case.
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Thank you for your integrity in your comment, and thank you for the work you do. Also, @Advanced civilization man; You know what homey, you might be a weirdo, but we're all weirdos, so your comment was right-on, that's what I think, weirdo, ha ha. :) You sound like a cool dude, don't let that other guy get you down. It's just a shame that his interpretation of the Good Lord won't allow him to see people with the equality and sincerity that the World needs and deserves.
P.S. I hope you start feeling better, the flu, it's no fun man. Gets well buddy.
Your friend,
Aaron Andrew.
I notice you have now 'rested your case' Earl. That, at least, is something that I will thank God for.
Having worked in different countries around the world I can definitely say people either do not care, do not believe or can not afford to change. I think the days of people being uninformed are over. I really believe the only way that change is ever going to happen fast enough is when it is economically driven. Once it's cheaper for renewables and more environmentally friendly options actually save money THEN change will happen with the masses. Government could really help by taxing and subsidising to push this agenda but will not until the money talks.
Great videos by the way. Loved the table. Give us more choices and less information. How do the good people of the world make the choices that will make a difference? Voting power? Buying power? Much stronger than marching down a street IMHO. Keep it up.
HI Pedro. Very good feedback. Many thanks. I do genuinely believe we're extremely close to some 'public perception' tipping points that may just coincide with the economic tipping points that you mentioned. I agree with you about market forces and also about subsidies. I mentioned this in the DACCS video a couple of weeks back - we need both of these things to kick in if we're to succeed.
"Once it's cheaper for renewables and more environmentally friendly options actually save money". Absolutely and that's why a key attack strategy of the fossil fuel industry (funded by) is to fight their competition by fair means or foul, just like Pepsi & Coke, Tide & Daz. That's why you'll find videos about air turbines massacring birds and brain damage caused by their "frequencies" and solar PV panels attracting lightning strikes, and investigations that unreliable wind & solar cannot replace U.S. coal because unreliable for national security, because they must do as much damage to the competition as possible, stop it being widespread and cheaper than their own product (due to economies of scale).
@Mr Brightside
Just not nearly by enough.
@Mr Brightside if the UK government was investing enough in these things...why do the UK export the vast majority of their waste?
@Mr Brightside I'm a wheelchair user stuck in a third floor flat. I work. I drag my ass down 3 flights of stairs every morning and and back up every evening.
I don't eat much but I do require a fair amount of energy. If I grow my own vegetables I have the option of converting the bedroom into a hydroponics room...or trying to live off whatever I can grow in a window ledge box. I don't know what fanciful world you live in, but in the real world... It is simply not practical to *"grow your own fruit and veg"* ...nor is it practical, as an individual consumer, for me to only consume products with recyclable waste...unless you know of a company that produces medical grade products with recyclable packaging...
It pisses me off how many things are needlessly packaged in materials which we as a country do not have the ability to recycle.
Now, if I lived in the countryside...or even in the suburbs...or even had a shared garden area... I would be growing at least half of what I consume in a year.
If the government funded things properly I wouldn't be stuck on the third floor without disabled access to my council flat!
If the government funded things properly, the recycling facilities at the end of my street wouldn't be overflowing all the time...
I'll bet you're a vegan with cotton clothes, woke AF, refuse to use clothes made in sweat shops by 7 fingered children...
If I'm wrong... I am actually a bit sorry, I don't like to make such generalised judgements of people I've never met...
But your reply suggests that you don't understand that you live quite a sheltered life.
The alarms seem to get more horrific as time goes by, it's certainly not CO2 that's killing off plant life.
@B. Rippy wow you're an incredible idiot aren't you do you have any idea how much more grain and plant matter it takes to feed a cow before it ever feeds a human rather than just going directly from plant to Human. There's a little thing called conservation of energy and entropy as you travel up the food chain you lose energy to the process the closer you are to the source the more you get out of it. Shut the hell up you moron
@B. Rippy I've heard the screams of the vegetables
Of courseco2 isnt killing plants..this guy is a lying asshole shill!!!
@@davidbeaulieu4815 what do u do for a living..??asshole...
@B. Rippy get your head out of your ass will ya
Apparently, the Trickle Down Effect is BS.
yes. they just wanted us to believe that, so that we keep fuelling their flow of wealth
I think turn the term on its head. Trickle up is what we need!💦
Awesome intro, really helps to bring the point home!
Great videos ! please keep makeing them
Love the intro! Thanks for going the extra mile!
PS.
You only have to look at the way that our so called "people's representatives" are handling Fxit to realise how difficult it is going to be to to achieve any meaningful change in the mentality of the ruling elite regarding anything that may impact on their wealth and lifestyle.
@Trigger Troll Grow, thrive, survive.
When the sht hits the fan the only person you can really depend on will be yourself.
Hi buddy. I find your videos really informative. Please keep up the good work.
"New 2019 UK Report" I can't find where "UK" is. I've got the old Miss Teen South Carolina Global Atlas out. If UK that bit just east of Nebraska ?
UK elele, as in Hawaii
Your channel is exceptional.
Hi Melissa. That's extremely kind. Many thanks for your support. All the best. Dave
thanks for all your work.
Great program Dave! I'm glad you highlighted the need to conserve soil and phosphorous, two area of interest often overlooked. I think permaculture permanent cover farming and phosphorous retention in wetlands can significantly improve our overall global health. Nitrogen from legume crops and other fixation processes can make a big difference in our fixed nitrogen needs, implementing changes in these areas are often huge social and political hurdles to overcome, but we must persevere. Thanks again for this great presentation!!
The temperature graph just after the 4 min mark really highlights how fortunate we have been to live within the stability of the Holocene Epoch.
Excellent video, but I strongly suspect that even if turning the ship around is technically possible, humans are not morally up to the task.
proudhorn100-That is why God takes charge of everything in the universe He created. Man always fails to do God's will & God has to do it on His own. The climate will always be livable for ALL life on plant earth. God decreed it from the beginning & will continue until the end of the earth. Gen. 8:22.
@@earldecker7760 So, why are flying insects in Germany down by 76% in the period 1989-2016? Why are ground insects down by 98% in a protected tropical rainforest in Puerto Rico over a similar time period? God decreed in Gen 8: 22 that seed time would continue, but not that crops would always flourish. That's why many people have died from famines over the millennia. In fact, certain passges in the Old Testament allude to this as a form of judgement. Take a look at Hosea Chapter 2, or Hosea 4: 3.
@@proudhon100 -Ask God why! I do not care . All I care for is that God good & I enjoy what He has given to ALL His creatures. The rain falls on the good & bad. He loves ALL things He created. ALL things are according to His will & He knew everything that would occur even before He created the Universe. It is God that determines the beginning & end of life on this earth. Many die in famines, floods , earthquakes, landslide, auto accidents, airplane accidents, drug overdoses, wars, murders, diseases, etc. It is appointed unto man yo die & after that the judgement. Heb. --9:27--. For ALL have sinned & come short of the glory of the LORD. FYI- Bad things happen to the good as well as to the bad as God uses these methods to accomplish His will in each ones life that He created.
@@earldecker7760 It is hard t find such callous indifferernce to one's own future and the future of others among non believers. Humanity will die a long and lingering death in a great famine if you have no insects.
Proudhon-It is hard to believe that some people like you are so ignorant of reality & believe the BS you are spewing, " Humanity will die a long and lingering death in a great famine if you have no insects". Nonsense as that has never happened , not happening now nor will never happen as long as the earth lasts. PROOF: Read Gen. 8;22. I believe God & not your BS IDIOT.
Another great presentation Dave. Introduction was magic. Gippsland on fire at the moment here in Oz.
Hi John. Great to hear from you. I hope you're well. Sounds like you folks are still in the grips of the heat. What's the outlook for the next few weeks?
Thanks Dave. Outlook is above average temperatures, as you would expect, but a lot cooler than the last week. We have returned home after evacuation and are in a Watch and Act mode (be ready to put your fire plan into action) that will probably last a few days. Main Bunyip fire still out of control.Helicopters and planes passing overhead on water bombing missions. Unfortunately a number of homes have been lost with the number still rising. May be weeks before the fire is contained as it is in really rugged country.
First off, I'm in bed with the flu and the intro made me laugh so hard, I might have to take another day off work!
All of human history has elapsed on a geologic time scale as a person might experience a meteor
burning up over a few arc seconds of the night sky. The image might linger on the retina for 5 times longer than the event then the memory fades and is forgotten. We could be the lingering image, unaware of the mortal cataclysm we have already unleashed. The future is uncertain but it is not opaque. Baldwin's words have never been applied to a more urgent moment. The greatest generation on earth has arrived all that is required is the courage, energy and will to meet the challenge. Our time has come let us face it together.
no chance of that at the moment.
@@dickhamilton3517 I'd rather have the truth than what I learned in school. Thanks
sadly, regretfully, we will stir only when so many are dying, and so many are migrating, that it will be impossible to ignore it or attribute it to other causes. And by then, it will be too late (if it isn't already).
@@dickhamilton3517 - Your comment truly nailed it. Well said.
A great and very informative video.
Thanks very much.
Keep up your good work
Great information, as always. Thank you.
Thanks Marcia. Good to hear from you. I wish it was a happier message but it is what it is I guess. I hope you're well. All the best. Dave
The part that makes least sense to me despite its ideological appeal is that of social equity, in that what most people generally perceive to be social prosperity consists of rampant consumerism.
Most people do, I agree. My view of it is a fair and equitable distribution of the more basic resources like food, water, shelter, power and light that are really only at the lower end of the human Hierarchy of Needs that Mr Maslow talked about all those years ago. Maybe I'm being too idealistic.
@@JustHaveaThink A small point, and I'm no prepping survivalist yet (perhaps I will be) but to me the order (having once been lost up a mountain in Venezuela for a few days) is shelter, water, food, light (but not so much the light, maybe fire). :-)
@@JustHaveaThink I doubt that humans are that species you are thinking of and all evidence is that they are not. The only purpose of Life is for a unit to reproduce its own DNA with random mutations and outperform all the other DNA. Humans fit that pattern too well to change drastically from not being just another DNA vessel. Not as blatant as purple loosestrife & zebra mussels but still too blatant. I wish you all the best of British though.
I'm going to share this with everyone!!!
The discovery that coral reefs could be replenished had me optimistic. Now I am sad and scared once more. I will keep turning off lights, air conditioners and vehicles forever! Why should the penguins cook this summer just so we can drive around the world for a box of tortured livestock? Wheres the justice?
Thanks John. Much appreciated. I'll continue to keeping banging the drum for societal change, but there's no doubt we've all got a challenging few decades ahead of us to say the least. All the best. Dave
No, thank you.
Infinitely.
That opening is worth a thumbs up all by itself. 😊
Lmao that intro though xD you glued the Domino's down hahaha
Thanks. Yeah I was annoyed the dominos stayed in place - I only used a tiny dab of Pritt Stick on each one - damn those glue makers, making their glue sticky!! :-)
@@JustHaveaThink Yes! Damn them!!!!
I have a suggestion for a video. Here in SoCal LA, after about 12 years of terrible drought we got two terrific years of more-than enough precipitation to nearly wipe the "drought" classification out entirely. (this last winter was the third excellent rainy season to do just that, but I digress) But after the second Winter rainy season, when everyone was breathing a sigh of relief, Spring hit hard, hot and dry, and the fire season started early & went berzerk. Malibu and Thousand Oaks were almost wiped off the map, and the NorCal community of Paradise actually was. Basically, all that wonderful growth from the rains went up in flames and lots of CO2. I admit I'm in a bind about the whole thing. I would like to hear from you, a climatologist and a botanist or any other professional relevant scientist, on what our realistic expectations ought to be regarding ambitious geoengineering plans such as reverse desertification by planting trees in arid zones. It seems like wet winters alone aren't the panacea for SoCal that I had hoped them to be. So while I am very much for the tree-planting tactic, is it realistic to try it in arid, fire-prone areas, or is there a smarter way of doing it? Again, thank you for a wonderful program, and please keep up the excellent work. (too many commas, sorry.)
For nigh on 10 years I’ve been printing and reading the climate reports from the various scientific and government bodies. I don’t much anymore as they all say the same thing, things are bad (understatement of the century) and there are rarely any solutions given, apart from what amounts to impossible solutions. I have noticed over the years at how the figures get worse, the situation gets worse, and it certainly (and this is a feeling and not empirical) is not a linear change. For example, the report you kindly presented has data far worse than the previous reports I read or saw recently. Normally I would question such a large increase in disaster, but not now. I think it is typically depressing that the reports make no suggestions on how to fix something, apart from “Stop doing the bad thing”. This got me to thinking about why politicians, generally speaking, do nothing. E.g. Republicans (who ridicule climate change) and the poor turnout at Caroline Lucas’ recent debate, two years since the UK parliament debated climate change no less. I’ve narrowed it down to the following: 1) Politicians live a life of lies and deceit. What politician hasn’t done a 180-degree U-turn on an issue to further their own cause? Thus, because they live in a world of lies, they have a hard time understanding hard truths or perhaps even believing or appreciating that they actually exist, since for them a truth today is nothing tomorrow. 2) Limited scientific education. Looking at the qualifications of UK politicians seems to indicate a propensity towards philosophy, politics and economics. I’ve not found hard data but I would suggest the percentage of scientists and engineers is going to be slim pickings (same for USA). Fundamentally they do not understand the science, do not trust the science and probably believe the science can be changed, just as quick as they change their policy ideology. 3) What’s in it for them? Nothing. Climate change used to be a long term issue (and thus of no meaningful importance), although perhaps, now time is so short, it’s turning in to a short term issue. However, the politician is not going to jeopardise their own position (gravy train) to support something that cannot be fixed and they see, if they see anything, that they have nothing to gain and plenty to lose by supporting or trying to fix an unfixable problem. Look at the collapse of past societies, where was the leadership and governance there? Any UK person who believes the government is going to help them in the worsening future is delusional or insane. Have you been following the latest comedy show? UK Brexit. Could they organisise a pi** up in a brewery, doubtful. And so, I fear, we must let the (domino) chips fall where they may and live and die with the consequences of our actions or lack of it.
Thank you.
It´s gonna be... interesting, to say the least. Well... let´s try to move the society in the right direction.
Critical information, succinctly and accurately summarised. Everyone needs to take ten minutes to watch this video.
Thanks Matt. Much appreciated as always. All the best. Dave
Matt W-Right! And they will see the BS people are being brainwashed with. Climate change is mostly natural & always will be .I would believe God & not sinful greedy men that spew BS to get your money. Don't believe me believe God. Gen: 8.22.
No everyone needs to educate themselves on climate and space weather science
@@earldecker7760 I cant agree with you more , lets forget about CO2 for a moment and consider helping the
people of the third world countries who struggle to live on less than a dollar a day that is what i believe is most important , and help them to weather any " climate change " scenario .
@4:09min, I don't see Australia in the graph, why is that????
It's a very good question Mick. The caption on the chart mentions "...for which data is available" so it's possible that the data was not available for Australia. I must admit it's difficult to believe that it would not be on the list.
And if anyone finds this information alarming, the Institute aren't being alarmist or over emphasising. A lot of this was forecast in the 1990s, when HICC arguably first became a mainstream topic. However such words were considered nothing less than whacko, to put it bluntly.
An excellent video, as always. I got the idea of your 'domino effect' fairly early, and felt you were being a bit soft - then the climax was superbly done. 👍
Hi Andy. Thanks for your feedback and kind words. Glad the intro worked OK, and hopefully made the point (not that it needed pointing out to a well informed guy like yourself). Took me about half a day to rig up the trap doors and wires! :-) All the best. Dave
@@JustHaveaThink I graduated in Environmental Science back in 1999, but never went into the profession as I already had one in IT. These days I keep myself informed. You are doing an excellent job here. Clear and informative. We just need to get you much more exposure, because 4.7K subbers after a year is criminally undervaluing your content. I put you in front of as many people as I can.
Cheers Andy.
This was made a year ago?! Is there a more current report?
Thank you for your contribution to "truth" your balanced and well judged video presentation is among my top picks. I highly recommend this channel. If I may venture one small critical suggestion, it is extremely difficult to get straight talking prediction that can be justified by expert facts and we have long passed the options for gradual baby steps to tackle this crisis. How about it, will you stick your neck out on this one?
Your trick at the start was fun! I think it was a real waste of precious resources though!
Also your map was one continent short, why do maps allways leave out that continent?
My God this guy is doing a ridiculously great job! More power to you.
Well at least we can still listen to Pharrell Williams sing "Happy" while we go down the tubes.
A short history of progress... one of the most depressing books I’ve read. Worth the read....
Problem is that current political and economic systems (democracy/market economy) together with the staggering public ignorance will make things much, much worse before human society will be able to address the problems.
Love your pithy videos. Clearly the industrialisation of agriculture will continue and hopefully some fragmented ecosystems will survive as national parks.
oh you bastard! you startled the crap outta me! good work gluing those dominoes down, eh...
Great video again, I enjoy your reports and well reasoned views. For my tuppence worth on this one, I believe the human race is probably too vested in its various perspectives to solve this problem. As an example, the Green Party in my country has some excellent policy ideas in respect to wind / solar power and electric transport, yet is philosophically opposed to nuclear power. In Germany Mrs Merkel has invested heavily in Solar and Wind in order to close nuclear power plants. As a result Germany's CO2 emissions have increased for the last two years. It turns out you need to burn gas when the sun dont shine and the wind dont blow..... But climate change is only half the problem. The elephant in the room is human over-population. We can't solve the climate issue and loss of natural habitat on our planet without reducing the number of humans consuming its resources and using its land to spread ever further into our remaining wild spaces.
To use an analogy .... the earth is like a car speeding towards a brick wall... Climate change controls the brakes and Human population controls the accelerator. You can't apply the brakes without first taking you foot off the gas. Nobody (except David Attenborough and Prince Phillip) is taking honestly about this..........
At 5:00, you quote the report arguing that the Holocene is characterised by the stability of key natural systems, which enabled the rise of modern human societies. What if the causation is reversed here? What if the agricultural revolution, beginning around 10 thousand years ago, stabilised key natural systems, thus allowing for the rise of modern human societies? That's the Ruddiman thesis. (We would otherwise be in the middle of an ice age right now.) I think it's convincing. Viewed through this lens, I stop looking for "sustainability" and, rather, focus on imagining human societies integrating themselves into local habitats that, inevitably, will change. In other words, stability doesn't exist. It's an illusion created by human civilization. The perspective is truly revolutionary and probably leads, in many ways, to responses similar to the report's recommendations.
loved your opening . lmao
love that map you made. also Canada exists for real btw
Lets send this to our 610 MPs who failed to turn up for the recent Climate Change debate in House of Commons. It's a good fast way of giving them the essentials..... thanks v much for this succinct ten minutes!!
Thanks Linda. Much appreciated. Yeah that commons debate was an absolute disgrace. They should be ashamed of themselves.
I don't believe it's the worst in human history by its the worst and 40000 years. It is estimated the human population of the world declined to 5000 people at that time.
Haha nice intro :)
So,what is a solution to the "younger generations will need help in finding the energy and sense of control"?
Derrr! why wake up each day?@Donald McCarthy
Another excellent video, thank you. Its funny, i realized the human dilemna 44 yrs ago when i was 6 yrs old! by just observing our blatantly ignorant behaviors, to a six year old our way of living seemed unsane. Its nice to see more people joining reality, bit late sure but still its nice to have company. If only humanity had evolved to enlightenment, instead of devolving to competitive capitalist thinking. We would be living on a vibrantly healthy planet, with a healthy population, without almost all of the "problems" humanity faces, and technologically we would be light years ahead. Instead we are basically cave men with nukes.
I am so sorry you lost your hair, Guy.
It's not our challenge, it's our doom.
TRUTH.
Very good job! However, in the last minute he say: "if you enjoyed this video then......"
Well, that's probably our biggest mistake, to confuse this planet as an amusement park!
You are supposed to get scared, not to make jokes about it, Ninoo.
@@tuoratoo Yes, it is scary and we will not survive it! No joke!! All the best to you, wherever you are...!
awesome domino effect :-D :-D
Are you going to have somebody from Extinction Rebellion on? Or is that too political?
There is no point in saying how bad things are unless there is a solution... It appears we need to step up our environmental protection laws from where they started in 1970.. But there are still countries that have no environmental protection laws
@3:36 minutes... Cool Retro Stereo system! :)
Ha. Thanks Mick. My Dad took my big sister and me to Lasky's in Tottenham Court Road in London in 1983 to buy that stereo (at least the top three sections anyway.) He wanted to throw it away a couple of years ago and I couldn't bear to let it go, so now it has pride of place in my cabin :-)
I've created habitat for the white browed scrub Wren and the marsh 🐸 frog in my suburban garden.
New to your channel LOVE IT!!
not sure where you plan to go with this infovideo, but i agree new technologies are important. Let's do that, but in the meantime i think i'll Mad Max my way screaming down the road ( in my quite economical Jaguar V8...)
Listen to this weeks Radio 4 show "More or Less" Insect decline report not based on good science! No insects in 100 years research is floored. Keep up the good work though Dave.
Thanks Phil. Always good to be challenged. All the best. Dave
That James Baldwin quote is apt and perfectly explains the importance and necessity of Guy McPherson.
What a world to inherit
Just need to phase out cars and globalisation... it’d be like living in the ‘50s. Perfectly do-able but people love their cushy, wasteful lifestyles too much to change.
bigd2k- Of course hypocrites like you pose as planet saviors. Enjoy your fame as a MORON.
bigjd2k, that's another non-solution.
@Mr Brightside he meant the 1850's.
@Mr Brightside relax, it's a joke. I just ignore the granola-heads who think we need to return to the stone age. It's just not true.
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Excellent report, excellent reporting, Thank you
I put it like this. We jumped into the car called the indusrial revolution tuerned on the ignition and put the pedal to the medal and now 250 yrs later we smashed into a conctrete wall and so far our bumper is crumpled, won't be long now. In case u don't know what a positive feedback loop, it's unstoppable and so far some 70 PFL's have been identify. So we are reading a thriller and we know the ending " We Are Doomed " but we don't exactly how or when or how long it will take.
thank you for this one! got to say you got me good with the opening.
Thanks JTH. Glad the intro made the right impression. I hope the folks less well informed than you also get to see it so they can start to appreciate the gravity of our predicament. All the best. Dave
People need to stop ignoring a clear and big problem.
What a great opening to this presentation. An LMAO moment for sure. As for the rest; people don't care, don't want to believe it or simply cannot believe the dire situation we're in.
nammack-Hey ALARMIST-Don't include me and billions of others as rest of the people that believe the situation is dire. You have really been brainwashed if you believe the BS presented in this video. It is scientific ignoramuses like you that believe the earth's climate needs to be changed when it is a fact the your brains need o be changed. .Earths climate always change according to the conditions imposed upon it. The seasons change throughout earth's yearly revolution around the sun . Weather is influenced by these seasonal changes as well. Long term climate change is caused by many natural variable factors & are cyclical within narrow parameters. The level of CO2 in the environment (Water, soil & atmosphere) has little to do with warming of the earth. Fact the warmer it is throughout the earth the more CO2 is released . The oceans cover over 70% of the earth & contribute the larger portion of CO2 in the atmosphere while plant life sucks a lot of the CO2 out of the atmosphere.. More CO2 makes for a greener earth & more abundant life for all on earth. Warmer climates & more CO2 equates to more luxurious larger plants=more food for all living carbon forms on earth. More warmth means more evaporation =more water for all life on earth. Warming is conducive for ALL life on earth whereas colder climes foster less life for ALL life on earth. Seems like you & ALL these fearmongers got your facts wrong. Better do more real scientific research & find out the real truth of climate change instead of the BS being spewed by so called pseudo-scientists & charlatans of the world.
Not sure the 40000 year figures right but I think it is
Good to see your sub numbers have gone up to 5k. Keep going :)
Hi Ben. Thanks for your support. Much appreciated. All the best. Dave :-)
As famine hits, the thin veneer of civilization will disappear.
it is too late, we only talk we don't act, we don't change our habits, even worse - we pass our bad habits to our kids
They told us about overpopulation in the 60s....????? It seems beyond logic to explain it away as we do nowadays
The summary of climate change is easy.
It is the change of humidity in atmosphere, which produce between the (land)and the(seas & oceans) on the other hand...
Occurring of rains, snow, storms, and floods at time and in unexpected places, confirm my theory(the change in the directions of winds)which must be balanced...
How to reduce the heat of the earth and atmosphere?
We must supply the earth with a natural cooling places...
Results:
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1- To balance the water vapor which produces between the( ground)and the(seas and oceans )...
2- To balance the pressures of the air in the atmosphere...
3- To balance the directions of winds which caused the climate change...
4- To control upon the storms and harricans...
5- To revive the the first theory of climate change (dynamic horizontal movement).
6- To balance the percentage of gases forming the atmosphere.
NOTE :The lack of water vapor is of land not of seas and oceans...
These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000...
Yousif A Tobiya
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The dust bowl years in the 1930 s were the hottest.
The USA is the second greatest emitter and just to let you know, the American way of life is non-negotiable. George W. Bush Jr.
For a different view go see on Vimeo, Verchinski and Thoreau.
@B. RippyUnless you are a native American you, my friend, are an illegal alien farting around everywhere.
How about educating the POLITICIANS instead of the public...? 25% of the top 100 CO2 emitters in the world are OIL Companies... Yet, countries continue to subsidize them generously.
EXXON MOBIL is in rank #5.... A single company in the top 5... Facepalm
Two impossible hurdles. Must reduce human population through birth control, and capitalism must be put down.
Indeed. Quite impossible. Capitalism is the only way forward possible. Socialism has failed spectacularly every time it has been tried. And birth control is not how humans are made less fecund. Abortion is. Abortion and wealth. Poor people are very fecund since they have no other form of entertainment.
" NEVERMORE"
Mishandling of land and water resources? Yes, absolutely, and occurring primarily in lesser developed countries. Is increasing CO2 a danger? No, it's actually a benefit to the biosphere. Doubling the CO2 in the atmosphere would go a long way toward reversing deforestation and improving the efficiency of photosynthesis. Ask any greenhouse owner what artificially increasing CO2 does for plant growth and hardiness. That's an experiment that's repeated thousand of times every year, and always with the same results: very substantial improvements in the quantity and quality of produce.
A recurring theme: 'How to get around constraints of our governing systems' 'How to provide a high quality of life for all' These things are mutually exclusive. Progressives to which I seem to identify, don't understand this. A frustrating level of argument that we have endured at this point for at least 20 years. We need to reduce human population by 90%, only then can we start to bring the two concepts above together. Don't know how to achieve this in any sort of timeframe though.
Do not attack the earth, this is how nature and land get angry ... Everything has a weight ...
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The IPPR report frames climate change within a political ideology calling for social justice. This is not helpful as it will immediately alienate those who do not hold the same political views. Climate change should instead be framed as a non-political, all-encompassing problem for society to solve and we should be focused on practical, not ideological, solutions.
There are several ways of viewing the responsibility for carbon emissions. There is a direct correlation between population growth and carbon emissions. Yes, historically the richest have emitted more but today in Africa there are 46 new coal power plants under construction, each with a lifespan of 40 years whereas in the EU CO2 emissions are decreasing. Where is the responsibility in the choices being made today that will affect the future? Is it morally correct that women in Niger or Burkina Faso have 7 children on average in a world that clearly cannot sustain such human population growth?
It’s complex - as soon as we get into political or ideological discussions Climate Change is lost in the noise.
You do a great job Dave, don’t get me wrong, but I think billionaires have as much an interest as us to live on a sustainable planet. There is no planet B.
Have you seen BirthStrike - th-cam.com/video/DNJ60Egv8gs/w-d-xo.html
Excellent point, to which I totally concur.
What are the biggest culprits of soil erosion and decrease in bio diversity? Mono and animal agriculture. We do not need our government to listen we just need to stop paying for it.
Great Report, thanx for the upload!
Global warming is bad enough but environmental degradation is far FAR worse. Water (or lack of it) is a serious problem. Technologies like wind and solar power sound great but they make terrible use of resources (20% used. 80% idle). and the roads cabling etc needed will damage previously virgin land.
We need cheap, zero CO2, high temperature energy. And Fast.
We actually have the technology in the form of molten salt nuclear reactors. The only snag is UK’s horrendously slow and restrictive regulatory system. Nobody wants unsafe nukes. But clogging it up with bureaucracy costs time we don’t have, wastes money and most importantly does not actually deliver better safety.
Cheap nukes can undercut coal on costs. They can desalinate sea water, run high temperature industry eg ammonia or cement production, not to mention power generation.
If all this looks like hokum - look at what Ian Scott of Moltex is doing. He will explain the issues far better than I can.
lol, ... i just about ruined my drawers. Sadly i think you are right.
I say buy an extra air conditioner if you think the weather is going to get hotter or at least buy A/C stock. The weather(short term climate) can be predicted 80% at 7 days but at 10 days 50%(coin flip) but 12 years?
Predicting the climate is easier then predicting the weather
I think people do care greatly. The thing is we are ruled by system's, laws, and greedy uber rich wealthy sick people. It seems that those who have and have had the privilege of a good education got get lost in ego, prestige, and greed. In the US all we have is paved streets with endless boring malls. You would think the highly educated would have addressed this along time ago. Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House Ronald Reagan took them off and here we are. You would think the highly educated could think about creating a more sustainable way of living, but no we have military, miles of mall's, corporate pollution, and they get away with everything without penalties. It leaves us all impotent. I guess we could protest or call our representatives. Education without wisdom has been disastrous
All this without even a mention of the imminent demise of the Arctic and resulting impact on the permafrost and methane clathrates.
They do actually go into that but it's not in the video. The video I suspect was intended as a short summary, intending that you lot go to read the report for yourselves, except unfortunately it's not actually included in the description. Here's where you can read the report, go nuts: www.ippr.org/research/publications/age-of-environmental-breakdown or www.ippr.org/files/2019-02/this-is-a-crisis-feb19.pdf
Did he just say 5000 subscribers I’m watching in 2020
Reminds me of Brexit, a series of catastrophic events in the making.