"Not Too Late": Rebecca Solnit & Filipino Activist Red Constantino on Avoiding Climate Despair
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- We discuss climate solutions and the need for broad involvement in the fight to avert climate catastrophe with writer and activist Rebecca Solnit and longtime Filipino climate activist Renato "Red" Constantino. Solnit is the co-editor of Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, which features an essay by Constantino about his role in the Paris Climate Agreement titled "How the Ants Moved the Elephants in Paris." "This is the decade of decision, and we need as many people as possible engaged as fully as possible," says Solnit.
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The US and western Europe could reach zero net emissions and it still wouldn't do a thing to solve the overall problem. The fate of the climate is going to be decided by poor people in Asia and South America who couldn't care less about the climate.
Right In! And they will fight for Our Great Fossil futue, because there’s 500 years in the ground left to burn! And sane folks like me are helping them do so.
It IS too late.
I just came back from the Philippines. I saw no awareness of the carbon footprint anywhere.
Red needs to return to Manila and fix his home first.
Rebecca Solnit is the niece of my good friend June Solnit Sale, who recently passed away at the age of 99 here in Los Angeles.
How long have these climate devastation predictions been made and each one was wrong?
Leonard Nimoy predicted we would be covered in ice, these people soon forget how often they are wrong.
Rally our friends and orient action for civil movements with critical momentum that will be incredibly important, and the most difficult thing one will ever do. “This is the decade of decision” for the literal life of the next 10,000 years.
Guyana is poised to become the marine graveyard of fossil drilling. All of This Planet's climate changes are effected from FOSSIL FUEL extraction. We must arrest this corrupt business.
We have no decision capabilities; and even if we did it's far too late. We all, rich and poor, will watch until we no longer can. Enjoy the remaining years, and whatever you commit your time and energy towards, be sure that it satisfies your heart, mind, and soul.
I haven’t signed any petitions or shared any information regarding the climate crisis for some time now. This is very disturbing… 😮😅 I better start participating again.
yep sign those petitions and like those tweets. That's really going to move the needle now honey.
Nothing will fundamentally change.
This is helpful, thanks. With a major corporate campaign trying to make the point that climate change reforms will hurt the poor, how do you suggest we convince people otherwise?
Carbon fee and dividend policy plan includes dividend payments to citizens that would help lower income people
Yes Republicans in US argue any policy addressing climate crisis will raise gas prices, the republicans in Congress let alone Sinema and Mansion will never support any subsidies to offset the cost of gas prices temporarily and the majority of American people will vote based on gas prices at the pump because they have to look after their ability to afford life. Government bought by fossil fuel knows as long as they don't subsidize the public will never be on board with making the changes we need so what do we do? This is where I do get hopeless
@Jeff Johnson Um, nope. The poor are being hit the worst by the effects of climate change. If we do nothing, that’ll only escalate.
Look up what Robert Reich has to say about the solution to both destructive climate change and poverty.
In summary:
First, create green jobs.
Second, stop dirty energy.
Third, kick fossil fuel companies out of our politics.
Fourth, require the fossil fuel companies that have profited from environmental injustice compensate the communities they’ve harmed.
And yes, he explains how to do that as well.
@Jeff Johnson what will really hurt the poor is when we have massive global drought and famine, when there is no food to eat and no water to drink, when coastal areas are permanently overtaken by the oceans, when it's too hot to be able to go outside and survive, and you can't even power your home air conditioning because all the fossil coal and oil and natural gas had all been depleted
@@jffryh You do realize electricity is generated by burning natural gas and coal, correct? If fossil fuels become depleted there is literally nothing that can replace it except nuclear energy.
A Day lake and Dollar short on what's happening here in the World and the people of who are blessed will come out to New World and grow once again 👈🦅
In 1990 the UN Environment Program said the nineties would be the decade of decision on the environment. Well, we decided.
Wisdom from Rebecca Solnit!
...and Hochul just appointed the lead Chevron legal counsel to a prominent NYC post...I forgot which one
Yah. You all have no idea
Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!
Yes the whores are cheap and plentiful 😮
❤
Ooops! "which will bring us the most participants" and "emotional aspect" really sums up this ridicolous movement
I’m hitting mid forties and when I was attending grammar school they told us about global warming I called global warning but when as a whole did we ever care
Climate changes ,has never been perfect we are in a best spot that the Earth has ever seen.was the climate always perfect before industrialization?
Thank you Amy I’m sorry, but the kitty garden baby toddler class will not help you or anybody else. Thank you for your hard work. They are nothing but a distraction to the dire condition of our planet. Thank you again.
As long as the grid stays up industrial culture will deliver exactly this propaganda.
I love how Rebecca’s brain wasn’t buying the worthless BS word salad coming out of her mouth. She literally said nothing and used a lot of words to do it.
"A" for her impressive vocabulary and "F" for communication.
@@mtcheung2637 Perfect!! Exactly!!!
How environmentally friendly was blowing up nordstream pipeline? starting and prolonging war in ukraine good for the environment? Those tanks use lots of carb.
Shut down all coal but don't simplify the climate crisis by suggesting coal plant closures IS the goalpost
My meteorologists said it was going to storm all day the other day. guess what it was perfect weather.
Nuclear energy is the cleanest source of energy we will ever see.
I THINK WE ARE ALREADY TOO LATE.....WAY LATE.....WAY...WAY. TOO LATE.....!
The gnome has spoken. “Now GO AWAY,” says The Critical Drumpnket,
There is no climate crises
Save Our Planet
Japan just bought petroleum from russia 😂
Research Willie Soon and his meticulous work over the past 35 years on climate and geophysics. No need for climate scares. Calm down everyone. We can't predict intensity of the weather of the seasons or the climate. In fact the earths natural state is to have no ice caps. Our glacial period is more anomalous than the standard. Also our planets temp has stopped rising since 2018.
Misinformation 101
there is no such thing as human climate saving or changing this is cyclic common universe changes , i thought this was a meme
You are 100% correct. The planet is currently in an ice age, and it's been much warmer for most of the planet's history. 90% of Greenland is covered in ice sheets and for most of its existence it's been ice free. The planet heats up and cools down. It's natural and it's always been and always will be.
More environmental disaster with each bomb test fired
Thank you 🌎✊🗽🌹
Stop damming rivers!
What good is a body without a soul; answer no good… it becomes an exterminator filled with echo chambers of screams. Those who can prevent and do nothing will get their minds gravitated to the rims of the empty steel doors of hell. - TER-I
Rack ‘em up - garages and storage filled to the brim with pollution suffocating God’s children, then they go to the beach and bask like lizards in the sun. JAVA
Stop bombing the deserts!
What climate catastrophe?
All depends on grassroots sustainability
Don't forget about taking your money
Yeah, sorry, but I'm a doomster. Rebecca Solnit's premise is incorrect. It isn't "we can't do anything" it is "we aren't doing anything substantive, and we aren't going to". Big difference. Even she has to acknowledge we are talking about "radical transformation" like, yesterday. My understanding is that even if we stopped all carbon emissions today and endured the instant collapse, chaos and death that would result from such a drastic move the planet would still continue to warm for decades, perhaps even centuries. Civilization is going to collapse because we're going to shoot right past 2C. We needed to act back in the 70s, but of course, the Republicans-- enemies of all good things-- said "NO!" Indeed, so petty were they even back then, Reagan removed the solar panels Carter had installed on the White House. And how they made fun of his sweater and thermostat set to 68F! And today? We can't even get Republicans to wear a stupid mask during a pandemic. Though... having said that... life is always filled with unimagined surprises, so someone-- perhaps AGI-- will discover a technology.
It doesn't matter if we do or not. The fate of the climate is not going to be decided by us.
California doesn't cut back trees and lets forest fires run out of control. Democrats are the problem not the solution.
What you're saying is just not true and you cite no science to back it.
@@biometronome7010 It's ok to be afraid. You should be. Nothing is ever going to get better. It won't even stay the same. From now on each year will be worse than the one before, barring some major surprise.
@@fearlessfosdick160 Climate doesn't have a "fate". It is a process, a dynamic system that can be described.
It's way too late
It's way too late. If you have friends or relatives in the Philippines, ask them to send you video of residual damage from the storm after storm after storm recent history of the country. In the USA the west coast of Florida also bears many scars of recent devastating storms that have not be rebuilt. Many in Florida have not heard the warning that if you don't buy flood insurance, your windstorm insurance will not cover any damage from water.
It's true - if there is water damage from the weather no one will be covered by insurance unless they carry FLOOD insurance. Then, HOPEFULLY insurance companies will have the funds to pay. Flood insurance is very costly!
Stop testing bombs
We breathe out breathing oxygen from trees and then we give carbon back there's no way we could be in such bad shape because of humans.
I love those people who when they see ten kids drowning don’s say ‘ well we cant save them all , lets just keep our heads down and walk past’ , instead jump in the water and save who they can. That’s Rebecca Solnit,
Lol
It’s sad - I watched a video many years back “Milton Friedman vs. a young a michael Moore” about car safety. In the end it’s clear that it boils down to “living has risks, and it’s not an inherently safe activity.”
I hope she's right. Respect to both guests. I'm a a despairing soul by nature; and I know from experience how much the majority of those who have the power ie; the money just.... don't care. Governments are temporary employees. But I'm still not willing to give up yet either; I do everything I can to, as a citizen of a rich country, despite my personal poverty, to motivate those I know and interact with to care. But it's the vested interests that are not giving a feck, and despite voting in every Federal, Provincial and Municipal election for the party in Canada I feel has the best chance of doing something (we have a Green Party; unfortunately they have never come close to even being in a coalition let alone the official opposition so.... it's unfortunate). I'm reading so many books, including Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez, right now but I'm a pessimist that knows "expecta pessima" doesn't always mean that the worst happens so I'll have to put this book in my library as soon as I can afford to buy it. I've never commented on Democracy Now! before; but I've been watching the show since I was what my friend called"basically a Luddite" 🙃 and I will take this opportunity to thank Amy and Juan and everyone else for being a part of the 4th estate that critical thinkers can still trust.✌️🆙✊
I’m an environmental scientist and I’m proup that my 20 year-old Jaguar helps CO2 rise, greening the planet as science shows it is!
Regenerative Agriculture
Amy (Goodwoman) paused on
Wind down...
Dramatic effect..
She also paused on Planet
Amy could be a Slam poet
Democracy Bees...
Yes! I consider her a counter culture diplomat, helping important activists share their messages.
All countries, especially the U.S. need to go Solar.Let us stop destroying OUR PLANET. I thank these two activists with all my heart.
Why especially the US? Our carbon emissions are only a tiny fraction of the problem. The same goes for western Europe. You should be talking to poor people in Asia and South America. Good luck with that.
@@fearlessfosdick160 So, approach or your way or not at all? There have to be many efforts. Whatever sticks should be used.
@@abbynormal3068 I'm just not interested in wrecking our economy over a problem that we are not going to solve even if we reach the goal of net zero. It is just not up to us in America, and I seldom subscribe to the "but we have to do something even if it would be pointless" model of problem solving.
Climate change is a Globalist Scam
There is no climate "crisis".
Letting 8 US military bases in Philippines really help climate change and ocean pollution in Philippines. In one hand the Filipinos want power and money on another hand complaints about the consequences.
I love these people who right books to make money without having any impact
People write books but it appears that many do not read the right books.
@@sdmairs2386 perhaps with your unique wisdom you could provide a list of the right books for us to read
..the world is blessed to have you
As General Smedley Butler’s titled book says; “War is a Racket”..
But so is EVERY scheme The media and government tries to brainwash you with and scare the heck out of you until you submit.
Al Gore is worth Billions! Is he helping you poor folk?
Millionaire Obama has a grand spread on the beach?? Why would he buy a beach front property when he’s telling people that beaches will be gone soon lol? Is this rich guy helping the poor?
They take advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of the uneducated masses who don’t have a clue what the insiders and the ruling classes are planning for their futures.
No body writes more books than those on the “Right” 😂. Literally every 6 months to a year, you can write a book and make some money!.. you just have to be “scary” enough and those gullible Plebes will spend their last dollar to read something they need to believe.
I could easily get a couple of Pen Names
and write some books with the scary narratives both sides need to hear.
If any media on major airwaves (Tv or radio), ever told the people the truth about what is going on, they would be “bum-rushed” live
on air and jailed or “deleted”.
There's nothing 'unique' about knowledge of proper English. But why bother spoon feeding you a list of books you'll never crack open? Clearly you already know everything you want to know. Keep placing the burden on the rest of us to "understand" your meaning rather than improving your written communication skills.
If you don't study Periodic Cataclysm, you won't have a grasp at bigger events beyond Earth that impacts Climate. Start learning about Catastrophism and Sun Cycles.
these people are just reciting what they hear from political propaganda
That's correct. The biggest contributer to climate change is the sun.
You can't claim to be a climate change activist if you're not vegan. Animal agriculture accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire transportation sector. That’s all cars and flights combined. In an average American diet, beef consumption creates 1,984 pounds of CO2e annually. Replacing beef with plants would reduce that figure 96 percent, bringing it down to just 73 pounds of CO2e.
Animal agriculture uses nearly 70% of agricultural land and is one of the biggest contributors to deforestation, biodiversity loss, and water pollution.
Animal agriculture makes up over 30% of the world's fresh water consumption. Growing crops for livestock feed requires significantly more water than growing fruits, vegetables and beans for direct human consumption. A single pound of beef takes about 1,800 gallons (8,183 litres) of water to produce while a serving of black beans requires 49 gallons. The average water footprint per calorie for beef is 20 times that of grain. As a result, a person’s diet makes up the largest part of their water footprint.
When water is not being used for meat, dairy and egg production, it is being infected with toxins and waste from the industry. The mass number of crops to feed livestock are treated with extreme amounts of fertilizers and pesticides (including herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and bactericides), the excess of which runs off into surrounding waterways, poisoning rivers and streams and creating ocean dead zones.
Being vegan is the single biggest impact an individual can make to combat climate change. Keeping animals off our plates makes a HUGE impact on helping to combat climate change.
You forget we ain’t gonna even be here at the end of this century. 😂 really!.
ABSOLUTELY 📢📢💯💯💯💯
Wow, I'm up early! People think that climate warning is just a joke, it's been going on for years, and they're barely now talking about it, and worried about it they should have done this years ago.
Funny how neither guest mentioned the hundreds of billions of dollars needed from the US to pay for all this.
subtract from military and billionaire/CEO subsidies = done
Stop franking the aquifer
What was that about Obama?
You people need to actually read and STUDY the IPCC report not just the executive summaries.
The summaries (generally written by politicians NOT scientists).
All the IPCC reports explicitly state there is no consensus on what climate changes are going to happen. The physical temperature data is VASTLY different than the PROJECTED (model) data.
Most of the "experts" don't know that CO2 is ONLY 0.04% of the atmosphere.
The billions in reparations and "help" would be appropriate IF you could prove what damage was caused by whom. We cant even accurately predict the weather out farther than 10 to 15 days.
Read the full IPCC. You will be surprised. Extreme weather trends are NOT increasing.
My poeple will call this hysterical hyperbole what it really is; a money grab to exhort from the poor to transfer to the rich.
Everyone should also go rent the movie "the music man".
Thanks for reading; hope i did not offend.
What percent of the atmosphere is CO2? It is .06%. If it goes below .03% then plants have trouble growing. A problem may be radiation traveling through ozone
Don't forget methane.
Stop Leung we kniw
Just refocus your time on the neocons.
May the Anthropocene epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earths history. Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment a reality.
Stop spending money on war.
What role does geoengineering play in this climate change game. Just wondering, cause they spray the shit out of my sky here at home
I love global warming!
They must be paying you really good to say all this crap
🎉😅
How do we power industry without fossil fuels? What will we do with the loss of jobs that de-industrialization will produce? I support the need to prevent climate change, but I don't see these questions being addressed here, they're just overlooked. This is especially poignant in the context of the developing world who will increase their demand for fossil-fuels in the coming years as they increasingly industrialize, do we tell them they're not allowed to produce manufacturing jobs to autobomiblize? I guess we just tell them to stick to mining the resources the global north needs to produce batteries and the like.
Solar and wind energy. It depends on where you live. There are options. Big Oil lines the pockets of the politicians. That's part of why We're in this mess.
@@beadingbusily how do you power machinery though, or fuel furnaces with solar energy? How do you create steel without burning fossil fuels? We're just not there yet where we can use electricity to produce steel without a carbon footprint at a large scale. There's a reason we're burning more coal globally today and it isn't entirely because of greed or a need for profit, but for the most part heavy industry still requires fossil fuel inputs.
@@cleomenes01 Industrialism was a temporary phenomenon. Fossil fuels are also finite, and we're past the point of the easy to extract stuff.
@@markrobinowitz8473 there are still countries that are developing their industrial capacity so what you're saying isn't exactly true.
"Gerontocracy"? Really? You do realize that most old people have little political power, right? Try using the word "plutocracy", or, more accurately, "corporatocracy".
Climate insanity lol.
Hahahaha
2 Peter 2:19
“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.”
Using the Paris accord as an example does not support the idea that it’s not too late. Since the Paris Accord, GHGs have increased. The Paris Accord was not enforceable in any way. It was aspirational, and aspirations are not going to change anything. There’s no new messaging here. I don’t see us stopping this in time. We may have already passed important tipping points. Live your life to the fullest while you still can. Hug your loved ones every chance you get.
The other key thing is that the Paris climate accords if the targets were reached they wouldn’t have any effect on the climate. That’s been shown time and time again but there’s people out there who refuse to hear this and continue as if it is not the scientists consensus opinion.
lovely to see Rebecca here, superb writer
You bumped your head on a big bag of rocks😂
Let's see if Wind Power and Solar Panels will save humanity from death from the soon to arrive Wet Bulb Temperatures. We ALL disapprove the use of Fossil Fuels, yet people are clueless about the effects of Wet Bulb Temperatures that shut down human and animal organs, unless body temperatures can cool off. Let's all run to the wind mills and embrace that sweet, cool air when the outside heat becomes unbearable for those working outdoor and those working and living inside. Will emergency services by lined up outside of neighborhood homes, or along commercial buildings to respond to humans that collapse from organ failure?
This environmentalist is delusional, with good intentions; she does not speak of Wet Bulb Temperature. I suggest that in her next book, she research Wet Bulb Temperature so that she can guide her readers as to how Green Energy will keep families safe and living under one roof, if needed.
Why not present all that in *your* next book?
Thanks biden.
It's not you and it's not CO2. It's the sun and earth's moving magnetic poles.
Climate cult.
Population control will help with lower emissions. There should only be 2 babies in a women's lifetime, so as the elderly die off, population is at least stabilized. The US Census reports that women from 3rd world countries, once immigrating to the US, have, on average, from 5-11 babies per woman. They then teach those kids to do the same, have babies very young, for our tax payer handouts. Population growth must be controlled to help the climate. Breeding too many is simply the practice of primates.
5 to 11 babies? Nonsense, give a foot note , dont just drop bullshit alleged stats.
❤❤❤ TRUMP FOR WORLD PEACE 🕊️💕🕊️❤
Elon is doing more to contribute towards saving ourselves from climate doomsday. Besides if we want to preserve our ability to survive in the future, developing technologies to adapt to extreme environment is the path to go. Save the planet, there are weathers in other planets in our solar system that are extreme, we can set every nuuke and the environment in Venus hasn't destroyed Venus.
Elon isn't saving everybody. he is going to save himself and his rich buddies.
Offputting nonsense.
Total guff.
Lenin would be proud.
So taxation changes the weather ..🤔 as for carbon we all know of what they want to remove...🤡🌎
We live in a clown world.