I am appalled, not really by the oil and gas industry, but that people would in general allow such commercial influence on the school curriculum. Where I live people were angry when Unilever (a food conglomerate) decided to sponsor breakfasts at schools. Not because there was really anything wrong with the breakfast, but because a food company should not be teaching kids what to eat for breakfast.
Yeah...here in the U.S.A. in practice we are very much an oligarchy/corpratocracy with most if not all elements of life owned by the private market. Schools, hospitals, infrastructure, food, everything. You should read our history on what they used to do to us workers until recently (that's rapidly going back to those times). You'll see it here too when it comes to challenging fossil fuels and non green energy.
@@brandonbordewyk Chicago Museum of Science and Industry is almost entirely oil based with very few exhibits on anything like solar, wind, or hydro. And while obviously it doubles as a history, it makes almost no mention of any present energy technology
I went to a STEM high school partly funded by Exxon Mobil and found out the hard way what happens to students who try to do science fair projects testing the effects of petroleum products on plants. Didn't understand the venom I was receiving then, but later on in life it dawned on me what was going on behind the scenes.
The blind spots my kids (7 and 8) are developing from school are already becoming apparent, and now I find out we're just *letting* these money-hungry psychopaths intentionally lie to our kids in the one place they not only trust, but are required to be by law. Truly, America is peerless 🇺🇲😎⛽
@@ThomasJames69420 Really depends on what theories those are. CRT (critical race theory) is really just what happens when one thinks Critically about race in this country. It's a collection of observations and perspectives about power structure formed from race. It really isn't about hating white people or whatever, but showing that race has been used to sustain power in this country for years. At first it was done for economic reasons, but as time went on it developed almost religion like qualities where people forgot where those practices came from. It gets into what "whiteness" is and how a group of people can gain or lose whiteness over time. (The Irish at one time weren't considered white and at one time the Native Americans were.) It gets into generational trauma, about how something that effects one generation can have cascading effects down the line. But none of them are toxic. I consider not teaching it to be more toxic as the point of CRT is to understand how the power system forms and how it has been exploited in the past and current. I don't know why we wouldn't want to understand that.
I was part of a National Science Foundation-funded program that taught K-12 science teachers scientific research skills with a focus on environmental sustainability. One of their classes was dedicated to climate change and the professor actually showed them your videos (which they loved but many couldn't show in class bc of language - though I'm sure they recommended them!). Many of the older teachers were extremely grateful for the class because they did not have any formal teaching in climate science and so were hesitant to teach, especially in rural America. Teachers WANT to know how to teach climate change! Actually, one of my good friends (and a great teacher!) writes lesson plans for SubjectToClimate, which provides free, standards-aligned climate change lesson plans for all subjects. Easter egg!
theres something unsettling about teachers using youtube videos as part of their education program. i dont disagree it is education, but whats the point of school then? if were all just gonna watch utube videos and regurgitate what we saw from them. like, isnt that the whole reason u cant use wikipedia as a source? now youtube videos is primary source? 21:15 those oil books are actually very educational. it literally says everything you do or use or think about has come from petroleum in a way. thats just the way of life, its literally how we operate. avoiding the topic would be misinformation about the human species.
Have any of these corporations tried to come at you for these videos of calling them out? Thanks for all the work you do in getting this information out to the public and all the easter eggs. 🐣
@@cookiecraze1310 That can be caused by a few different factors, and direct intervention from fossil companies are the least likely of those. Google can parse the title and captions of videos to determine content and serve ads that appear to fit the themes, and will pick up on viewers' search histories when they start researching things while watching the videos, also making it more likely they will be served fossil fuel ads. Whether the content of the media a user is consuming is positive or negative toward the industry being advertised isn't particularly relevant, since they are still being served to a demographic at least slightly more likely to engage with the advertisement.
Climate change is intentional. Big business has known about it for decades and did it on purpose. What are you going to do when literally the most powerful people on the planet are 100% in favor of doing more climate change?
This feels like the kind of stuff you discover was taught in school like 50 years ago and it's so insane and laughable that you're glad you don't live in that time. I hope in 50 years people see this stuff and can laugh it off, rather than feeling real depressed at what the world looks like for them now.
Most of our middle schoolers and high schoolers are smart, and already to aware to buy into this banally stupid cr*p the right wingers are pushing. It's the little ones we have to be concerned about. Luckily Gen Z is coming of age, tends to be ultra aware on the importand issues, and they vote.
Right! Around 30 yrs ago I grew up on cartoons and school teaching us about not littering and the importance of regulation preventing companies from dumping in rivers and destroying ecosystems... Taught here in Canada at least. Little kids absolutely understand sustainability. Easy concept to explain and understand. Drives me nuts that after all this time even in Canada where I'd love to think we have more env regulation than most countries, that in fact we are extremely lax and causing all kinds of huge env problems still. I see evidence of us making an effort to U-turn and I hope it continues and works but why oh why didn't we do most of these changes a couple decades ago when at least to me it seemed that kids were/are learning a more accurate story of the destruction... too much power and money in the way of having more impact than just some improvements over the past decades. Radical change hasn't penetrated... maybe it is starting to now I hope!
I was raised in those times. My parents didn't raise idiot children. We recognized the propaganda. We had the Hippie leftovers pointing to the lies and advocating for the earth.
Here’s an “Easter Egg” for you… Evansville, Indiana has seven power plants within a 30 mile radius and four are deemed super polluters! I’d love to see you do a video on this!
Yes actually this is a major part of it. Indiana has a lot of heavy industry and because they have large sources of coal nearby they’ve been burning it like there was no tomorrow to get power.
I'm a wyoming native that use to be a high school science teacher. I can confirm if you're elected to ANY office in this state oil and gas have absolutely, 110%, undeniably, bought you. We were one of the only states to reject the common core standards. A handful did so due to evolution being a core part of the biology curriculum. Wyoming was the only conservative state that was pretty much completely okay with evolution, we rejected it specifically because "of how the new federally backed curriculum is hostile towards our primary source of tax revenue" to put it into the words of our state superintendent. Yeah they didn't even pretend they made their choices based on anything but money.
fun fact: wyoming residents have the highest per capita emissions. It's not even close. Then wyoming residents turn around to say how beautiful their state is. It's really odd.
The states that rejected common core because of evolution being part of the biology curriculum must have their churches being a key part of their Republican political machines and a big source of their political slush funds.
Naw, being openly evil is exactly what you'd expect from unregulated businesses built entirely on greed. What's crazy is how we're just sitting back letting them continue to do so.
@@nobody.of.importance It's because the lobbyists/corporations helped build society's infrastructure a long time ago to make it so we're too reliant on them. Definitely recommend checking out some of the US history lessons on Nothing But Bikes (Climate Town collabed with him once too).
As a driver who makes a living off of using fossil fuels, thank you for your videos. In a society who is dependant (*edited from "thrives") on a single resource, the only way to change it is to start educating and get the facts out there for people, not brushed under the rug by profits.
Our society does not thrive on oil (or automobiles), we depend on it. The oil (and automobile) executives do the thriving. The automobile side of the issue is handled by the channel Not Just Bikes (which has already collaborated with this one).
Very mature post! Thanks for your service as a driver, I appreciate all you do. Thanks for sharing your perspective. I hope that one day you can do your job with a clean-energy product when that is available and reliable. At a certain tipping point, it will be cheaper, more effective and a win-win for drivers and the planet!
@annoworldbridgerbooooo they’re a normal person just trying to make a living. if they could drive an electric or hydrogen truck or a train I’m sure they’d rather do it
Last year I was doing an easter egg hunt with my cousin who's a toddler (she's adorable). She came back with a "What are Fossil Fuels? How Oil is Made!" book that she had found hidden in a giant easter egg by the side of the road. Truly disgusting the lengths these companies will go to to brainwash our children.
When my nephew was still using a childs car seat his mom recorded him telling how vaccines work in simple sentence. She's a Doctor of Pharmacology and it blew her mind. He would probably have loved that book and I will bet it's about dinosaurs. Children are smarter than they are given credit for, besides the whole book banning frenzy is not about the kids. Some people want to control all our lives and weaponizing our children that is a much greater concern. Like a border wall banning books is nonsense. Banned books become eternally famous and get more attention. I have little nieces & nephews who won't touch a book, they are living on their cell phones keeping an eye on mom & dad through the Ring app to make sure dad is walking the dog; true story.
as an Australian that learns about climate change in geography, history and science, this is so dystopian. ESPECIALLY the part where you said that some schools had to go down to a 4 day school week because they didn't have enough money for 5?! something is up in the US, and it's not good.
If we don't fix our housing issues I'm worried Australia will go the same way! We're losing teachers at a massive rate of knots and part of that is because they can't afford to live near where they work on a teacher's salary. Anyway, that's a problem for another video 😅
@@TheBeccabus It kind of ties into the conversation. Depending on the state (I believe its at state level and not federal) some schools are funded by the surrounding taxes, often like a property tax. Which means that wealthier neighborhoods and communities will have better funded schools than poorer ones, which turns into a feedback cycle.
Absolutely lost it at that moment in the video as well. How is that not massive news? Fucking Twitter and Tesla nonsense gets so much attention you hear about it from everywhere, and a state cutting education to 4 days a week goes completely unnoticed? That's really, really fucked up. That's 700k students. That's 2 Canberra's, or 1 Frankfurt's worth of people getting 20% less time at school. It's insane to me. Even in a pretty poor country like mine I can't imagine this ever happening.
It's actually the complete opposite, the propaganda is actually completely in the opposite direction. The video is so far off it's laughable, it's clear he has never stepped in a public school or knows the BS they push.
@@Khronogiwhich is extremely dumb because the federal government has the money to better support the education system. It's just not in their best interest
Being old, I get to see this pattern over and over again. Tobacco companies for decades denying that smoking is linked to cancer is the best example. When you are up against big money or closed minds, facts seem nearly irrelevant.
The more modern version is cattle/beef/agriculture trying to act like cows aren't bad for the environment. You'll find all kinds of misinformation about how cows are actually a carbon sink because they ...walk on grass? Or how cows are good for the environment because they take the place of the near-extinct bison. You can see how two faced this is because on one hand you have massive misinformation campaigns on social media to prop up beef as masculine, american, righteous because caveman ate it, but meanwhile universities are spending tons of resources studying how to lesson beef's environmental impact thru genetics, diet changes, grazing rotation schedules, etc. It has been well known for decades that cows are horrendous for the environment. I went to one of the leading agriculture universities in the 00s and this was openly discussed as a major problem that the industry needs to fix. It makes very little sense to grow grass, usually in the desert, to feed to cattle to produce calories. We can just use that land to grow food for humans. This cuts out transportation costs throughout the supply chain, a lot of water usage(because a lot of hay/straw/grass is grown in the desert), and cow burps/farts. I haven't even really touched on how horrendous public land cattle grazing is for the landscape and native animals, because cows are not native to the american continent and absolutely decimate the landscape while outcompeting native animals. There is an already large amount of data showing that beef is not only bad for the environment but it's also a dirty source of calories for the human body. Beef was great when food was scarce and most people didn't live past 50 to begin with. But now that we live longer lives and we don't have to work for hours a day to get food, beef is pretty clearly not a great source of calories. One last thing, I grew up on a farm with ranching. I've overseen herds of beef cattle that roam around the western US. I've raised and slaughtered my own meat for over half my life. I'm now a vegan and don't use animal products because from a resource use perspective it makes zero sense to eat meat in 2024. The data and science is extremely obvious about this. For me the ethical reasons aren't why I'm doing it, it's a nice bonus, but it's very clear that meat consumption is a major contributor to climate change.
I'm fairly young (17) but I've read up on all this happening, it's a little sad how they can just get away with this, I blame lobbying, which is one of the many reasons I hate America, it's a country run on greed and money completely controls everything there, if cigarettes were eventually regulated then hopefully our current issue will be regulated in the future
I've been to places where guys were denying that cigs gave you cancer. Northern KY/ Southern OH recovery services and guy was arguing with the instructor. The fact that these guys are still around and voting(you know who for) makes me question the idea that democracy is a good thing.
Why oil is still the best energy today: Because the petrol companies have spent billions of dollars preventing us from developing better sources of energy. That was easy.
Or Russia wanting to ensure we do not build new nuclear power plants. Ever wonder why there are anti-nuclear activists still arguing against carbon free nuclear power plants?
@@shaynefowley5689There are many factors to it bro.. It’s not just some evil plot to stop nuclear energy. Black and white thinking is part of the problem.
they are the lowest hanging fruit, the less intelligent people in any society, it has been scientifically proven, youre dumb you go right/conservative, so each and every propaganda ever will aim at the most stupid and turn them unto a angry irrational mob, it just works
@@sandoralik My school taught me basic anatomy in 5th grade (kindergarten starts at age 5, then its years 1-12 in the American system), a bit of the reproductive system but mostly focused on whatever sex you were and less about the other sex (and none about intersex or others). Then taught about stuff like std's in about 8th grade. Then in 9th grade we were taught about condoms and what not. That was apparently considered pretty good education. I know schools currently who don't receive any sex education until highschool (years 9-12, ages 14-18 normally). And some don't receive anything, or are taught abstinence only.
Man your editing is always so fun! I always make sure to actually watch them in fullscreen with no distractions instead of just listening to them in another tab becuase I just have so much respect for the level of craftsmanship on display here. Gotta appreciate how much effort you put into these and you're a huge inspiration for me as a fellow video editor
As an educator, this was a neverending parade of horrors. Thank you to the editor for the goofs and gags; they were like following a trail of bright little easter eggs through a haunted forest of death ❤
@@artm1973 he actually has a degree in climate science and policy! So not only has he gone to public school, he's higher educated. Seems your just desperately emotionally distraught over someone presenting *reality* that goes against the fantasy you live in. Its really amazing how someone can be called a fraud when they just present plain, unedited, undistorted facts.
@@artm1973 So, the fact that his degree isn't DIRECTLY related, only partially, and still significantly, means he's a sham? And this addresses in no way the fact that he is, again, just reporting undistorted, unspun facts. He deliberately makes a point of showing how oil lobbyists distort information in their favor and how they are paying for real materials you can go look up and find. You are just searching for reasons to close your ears, because you can't handle it, for some reason.
@@gloverfox9135 United Kingdom still manages it. A country made up of multiple nations that have their own levels of autonomy, but still manages to agree on a curriculum. And don't even try to start with the BuT AmErIcA iS bIg!!!
It’s only really useful for things like history. It’s much more useful to teach an in depth history of just your state (ignoring the fact that many states literally ban teaching some parts of history) rather than quickly speeding through each state’s history
@@gloverfox9135The United States of Mexico have a national baseline curriculum, same thing in Argentina and most if not all other federally organized countries. Muh'rica is just obsessed with Capitalism and giving big corporations and oligarchs control over everything including children.
Thank you for not paywalling all your important information. I understand that funding is likely very difficult, but your videos are SOOOO important, and need the widest reach possible.
I was first introduced to climate change by a book in elementary school, and I have been pro-environment ever since. Fossil fuel propaganda will be severely devastating.
@@DivineWindSerpentI'm amused that you think this reductive argument has any actual value. Even if he didn't understand it, I'm putting my money on the 97% of scientists who have dedicated their professional lives to showing that humans are causing global warming. climate.nasa.gov/faq/17/do-scientists-agree-on-climate-change/#:~:text=Yes%2C%20the%20vast%20majority%20of,global%20warming%20and%20climate%20change.
I'll never forget hearing in maybe IDK 4th or 5th grade when Ohio started fracking my teachers telling me that we'd now be at risk for earthquakes in Ohio. I just thought how crazy that was cause as far as I knew then and I know now, we don't live on any fault lines here in Ohio, so it is almost entirely unnatural to think we'd ever experience one here. Then just a few weeks ago there was an earthquake in Ohio! how crazy. Thanks big oil, you've done what I never thought possible !!
What are you talking about? There's literally a fault line that runs from the NE to SE side of Lake Erie. That has nothing to do with fracking. If that were true every fracking site in the US would be experiencing earthquakes. Seriously? I advocate for climate change, but don't say the oil companies are spreading misinformation and then go and do the same thing! It makes the initiative look propagandized as well.
I grew up in Illinois during the 90's and 2000's, I never was taught anything about the climate. I only learned about the situation because of rumors about Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" that was circulating around class in middle school. I can only hope that this generation is taught the lessons that we were deprived of.
we are experiencing it pretty bad over here where i live, insane floods, hundreds dead probably including my siblings, i want to save others from this fate but i cannot do it alone@@baneofbanes
I grew up in a conservative community and the animosity toward climate science is real. Like I remember feeling betrayed when a kids show talked about the greenhouse effect.
i grew up in a conservative community, there wasn't animosity toward the Ozone issue. Which apparently everyone just forgot was actually a thing not that long ago. The division is not just a conservative vs liberal issue.
I find it funny how conservatives tend to be born into conservatism while liberals tend to arrive at liberalism on their own. Kinda like one side tends to regurgitate ideas and opinions while the other side is typically more open to critical thinking and arriving at your own conclusions.
When I was a kid in highschool they had plenty of speakers for technical occupations and things like auto trade schools and even the military (I forget the name of the exact program). One time they brought in a team of oil-field workers and a speaker to try to recruit highschool kids straight to the oil fields after highschool with a little success even iirc. A little Easter egg from my past that I brought for y'all.
Nothing like owning your own home at 25 from working those oil fields. Oh, wait. You want envy and disappointment. Boo! Oil will be replaced by nuclear if you can get Iran and Russia out of Congress. Oops! Did I reveal too much? 😅
Rollie, you produce the most engaging, entertaining, and informative climate content I've ever seen. I share your channel with everyone I can, and I'm glad I was able to catch this premiere. Keep it going and that mustache growing, king
I remember the cartoon! It was on the development of ‘economy’ and they learned to use clams as currency instead of barter/trade. The one guy needed fire for his business and ended up chopping down most of the trees. I remember being sad when the couple stood by and the woman was crying about them losing their favorite spot in the woods 😭. The guy apologized but said it was necessary for Progress. Tool. Also, in 8th(?) grade science we did a unit on oil drilling development. It was a computer program that allowed us as teams to have a budget for oil exploration. We could pay for a survey to narrow down if an area might have oil, or pay to build a drill. You could run out of money surveying or run out of money building drills over nothing. The point was to demonstrate how expensive and reliant on luck oil exploration and development is. To make us feel sorry for the oil companies and not question the high gas prices?
coming across any kind of suspicious data or studies online and seeing that it's funded by oil companies and oil-adjacent companies is like finding a horrible rotten easter egg. thank you so much climate town for all you do, i mean it from the bottom of my heart as a concerned earthling
I had an archaeological project in Ponca City, OK, and learned of a Conoco oil spill into a historic black neighborhood. It rendered the neighborhood unlivable, but Conoco still had to be forced to buy out the homes and put a park over it to try to revitalize the soil. We were warned to wear latex gloves even under our work gloves, and to stop digging when we hit the groundwater cause it was still so full of toxic material. I told my therapist about this; she had grown up in Ponca City and had never heard of it. It took place in 1988, well within her lifetime.
My homeschooled teen is the person who introduced me to your channel, so I guess you could say that you're a part of our school curriculum, Easter eggs and all, deep in the heart of Texas.
You might want to start watching James Lindsay and comprehending how this guy parallels the Japanese Communist Kohei Saito’s definition of capital. Then watch Tony Heller as he reads from headlines decades ago that climate alarmists enjoy regurgitate. Finally, explain to your daughter how cheap, reliable petroleum and natural gas can be increased in production as the wind turbines are frozen solid during Texas winters. Do you want energy blackouts like California in Texas? This video is propaganda for Big Green who make $400,000 to $600,000 per turbine paid for by the US government.
Rollie, as a fellow earth scientist (undergrad geology/grad geography), I absolutely love what you're doing with your videos. Thank you for doing this and for sharing your research and knowledge with us. 💙💚💙💚💙💚
@@heartycoffee4754 did you guys have anything from orwell? i asked if my online friends had read 1984 when i had gotten an assignment in school and there were 2 kids who went to a school in a gated community (the school was literally inside the walls of the community) they were the only americans who had him in their library at all until i found another rich kid (he is set to inherit a company you could name if i told you who his father is) on IRC. Democrat or republican, you could not find any of his books in the "poorer" school.
@@scaredyfish I would be remiss if I didn't recommend that people also read Parenti's book on the topic. Both "Inventing Reality" and "Manufacturing Consent" are absolutely rich with case-studies and lay out compelling explanations for how mass media is used as a tool by the ruling class to gain and maintain power. But, I would argue, Parenti's book is written in more accessible prose, with his characteristic style and sense of humor, and presented from a uniquely working-class perspective which neither Herman nor Chomsky had the background to provide. "Manufacturing Consent" has, ironically, benefited from the final filter in the propaganda model it lays out- that of ideology- because, in contrast to "Inventing Reality", it does not make an explicit case for communism. Nevertheless, both are invaluable, and reading either will leave one with a much clearer understanding of exactly how mass media manipulates and with the critical lens to be able to spot that manipulation.
I remember being disgusted in grade school back in the 80's in Montana when we had to take some of that fossil fuel propaganda course work. So, one bit of hope is that at least some of the kids will see through the BS like I did.
Honestly I think many of these kids will be absolutely freaking *furious* about it when they realize which gives me hope. Anger will hopefully lead to action 👊🔥
I don't know what you mean by BS about the fossil fuels? They are just one source of energy...the children's books should mention that there are other sources of energy too.
My question is: Why doesn't this tab about climate change from the UN here have any way to have the usual discussion that other articles have. There are things written in it that are not true scientifically!
When I was in 12th grade some in my high school (including myself) participated in an innovation contest organised by Audi. The goal was to create a consumerist business idea to supposedly fight against climate change (in fact, that was just Audi greenwashing and promotion of neoliberal ways of (not) fighting against climate change). You know, this "free enterprise will fix all" thing. I'm actually thankful my environmental science teacher proposed that, because it is my participation in that contest what opened my eyes to what greenwashing is, and that spark of curiosity marked the start of a significant ideological change.
I was born and raised in the Oklahoma School system. I moved my family to Western NY largely so I could give my kids a better education than I got. Thanks for that Easter egg of validation. Also, I love your channel and recommend you all the time. You’re doin’ the work and it shows.
I'm new to this guy, and the title of this video had me super worried. I actually came here expecting to tear into misinformation but it looks like he's not a lying shitbag. Quite happy about that.
Nothing will top the cognitive whiplash of going on OERB field trips to Haliburton to hear propaganda not even a year apart from when my dad got laid off from there
thank you for making this, from someone who graduated from an oklahoma high school just a couple of years ago. the oil propaganda is as rich as the people who make it. i never learned about climate change in school but had (not science) teachers talk about how they think it's just fear-mongering. between all of this, being able to see jackpumps from the windows of our residences, and now with prageru having gotten permission to be used as "education," i admit i have little hope. the conservatives claim that lgbt and gnc people existing in public is indoctrination but are happy to destroy the future as long as they get a few dollars right now. it is sad and it is sick.
You know what is still like a hidden Easter egg? Most of the Northeast and entire Midwest. I would love to see a video from this channel discussing how the Rust Belt is where people should be moving for climate considerations. I know there are some urbanist channels already showing us love but I think your channel could reach more with this important message.
Its crazy how this video made me realize this happened to me, back in elementary school. We all got called to the caf for what we assumed was a speach or something, and it was, a big 2 hour long speach by some local natural gas company, and they gave everyone these weird water facet purifers, and shower heads that had horrible pressure, and booklets and cartoons about the company. We even got shirts. I suddenly understand now why some will never change their mind, because they've been indoctrinated since young.
@@dj_koen1265 There doesn't have to be a connection between a nation's success and an honest education. You could make an argument that having an understanding of reality as we know it should be a right for every citizen and I would agree, but not having one doesn't necessarily harm the US economy or its influence.
@@BoYangTang I mean it absolutely does harm the American economy since all modern economies run on having a highly educated population that can keep making new products to stay ahead, there's a reason why the % of a population with a university degree is so highly correlated to living standards. At the same time it absolutely also hurts American influence abroad as the US keeps electing presidents that are disasterous for foreign relations like Bush and Trump, because of this there is now serious talk about having the EU replace NATO in Europe. I don't think Americans truly comprehend how much their global influence is balanced on a knife's edge, if Trump wins the next election that will likely be the end of NATO and serious American influence in Europe.
I went to a private school which had the same workbook about the wonders of petroleum in the curriculum two years running. This prompted me to insist on leaving that school. Even at 12 yo I was appalled.
Nah, the issue is how the money is distributed. It's one of the things I'm truly surprised I don't see more people talking about. The school district system is awful and is designed to make sure the lower classes never catch up. All taxes for education should be collected by the state and then distributed based on school population. No politician, D or R, would ever vote for this because it would adversely affect their children.....
I'm a certified Technology Education Teacher in New York. During the content specialty test, a required test to be certified, asked at least two questions about oil drilling. I've always used it as an example of you can be asked anything on the test, but now I think there may be some lobbying behind that.
I am not a science teacher, but as an English teacher, I do promote solarpunk concepts and climate change when it comes to anything regarding nature and literature. I've even themed my classroom after Solarpunk before. I've used Climate Town videos as, we could say, easter eggs for my students to become informed. Love your channel!
What if I told you that certain interests also bet on their propaganda to influence and manipulate you. Did you stop to think critically when Rollie explains that solar cycles do not warm the planet but, you are to believe that solar panels will provide enough energy to heat your home during winter? Odd that cheap, reliable energy in the form of coal, natural gas, and petroleum are demonized. I can add more of these products when requested by people when cold but, I cannot do the same for solar and wind. Now imagine losing that ability because certain interest groups take money from foreign governments soliciting their propaganda. Imagine the Uighurs in Chinese concentration camps producing all those solar panels with coal fired plants burning kilotons of carbon dioxide because you ignored critical thinking.
It's crazy that you can read a sentence like "These books need to be banned for indoctrinating children" and have no clue what political belief the writer holds.
I don't know if this was pushed in front of me when I was growing up in the early 2000s, but gosh I'm thankful that I had books talking about how in the future there'd be awesome advancements in solar, wind, and nuclear. The idea of a car that could just drive forever on solar was so much cooler to me than whatever oil propaganda they're trying to push. I do remember from school going on a field trip to this prototype sustainable house built by a local university - and it made me want to have a house like that someday. I hope that by the time I have kids of my own in elementary school, the fossil fuel industry will be dying.
The US was on track to phase out coal and gas completely by the 2000s, until the nuclear build-out was halted by certain groups. In hindsight it makes you wonder whether those groups (FotE, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, etc.) aren't in fact fronts for the fossil fuel industry with how effectively they strangled the biggest threat to fossil fuels with sheer FUD... Here in Germany the last nuclear plants just got turned off with more old, nasty coal plants being fired up along with newly constructed gas plants. It really feels like we're going backwards on all accounts, sorry to say.
Because in the U.S., nearly all of our politicians are bought and paid for by big corporations. Those that aren’t, can’t last. Even those that actually act against a particular sector-say, against Big Oil, will in turn be financed by some other equally evil corporation. In the U.S., politics and the government is all about money. You can thank the Citizens United ruling and the Republican Party for this current state of affairs.
@@TherconJair America is one of the only countries with free speech constitutionally and public education is government funded most other places without accepting lobbying from big oil. A company is also not a person so cannot have rights to free speech. The things you talk of are inherently American concepts. I live in Australia and as a protestor and political person I have never needed to use "free speech" because fair criticism and most other communication or protest are allowed l, there are protected groups though where discrimination is illegal. Unlike America you cannot just be racist without it being breaking the law for example. Australian education has up to date climate change education as a mandatory subject so we avoid misinformation like this.
I used to deny climate science when I was in high school, and I believed that one Steven crowder video he made but that entirely crumbled when I found potholer54’s absolute devastation of that video, and I got wiser. Thanks Potholer
Keep it up Rollie! Another great video. It's unbelievable how the oil industry keeps dropping these Easter Eggs of propaganda all over our public schools. Thanks for bringing this up!
Luckily in my country we had proper education on climate change. One year we even had a whole week with the theme of climate change, I think it was during Easter. Eggcelent video as always, Rollie!
In my school we also had a couple classes on climate change and human rights violations by companies But it was a teacher run event The school itself didn’t really care
One of the stories was about a group of local people who opposed corporate interests And then the megacorp hired private military companies to get rid of those locals Straight out of a sci fi dystopia lol
Thank you for making this channel and all of you and your teams efforts. great content and I love the Easter Egg :) Edit: Let's pretend I did not just learn that I can actually use a super thank you to leave a message, because that's totally not what happened here.
This man talks about all the most delicious topics on the internet. A good video like this is like finding an Easter egg. To be honest, I’m surprised you remain so optimistic about change. Genuinely appreciate your channel and videos and I hope you’re doing well.
@@psy-fi64 That's why working in Wall Street is such a good idea. Those guys in finance make money off of change. Good change, bad change... doesn't really matter. As long as the market is moving and you're collecting fees investing other people's money however the markets may blow -- it's all gravy to you.
It's strange to me why oil companies are still so resistant to decarbonization. Geothermal energy and heating requires the same fracking expertise that fossil fuels do, so these companies could easily just change business models and still make billions without having to change their workforce. And the earlier they jump on it, the bigger the profits they'll make when it inevitably goes mainstream in the near future too. Fortunately, Chevron and Exxon are starting to see the writing on the wall and have started investing heavily into geothermal energy and heating.
Geothermal is better than fossil fuels for sure, but we gotta try our best to regulate the fuckers or the same level if not worse of local environmental destruction will persist. I'd wager at least 7 of the 8 billion people in the world vastly underestimate the importance of groundwater systems, and most of those which do are farmers with a know-how of their local area
The drilling is usually done by separate specialist contractors, not the petro corp directly, is part of it. Plus there just so much more money in petro than the drilling part.
It’s crazy how a culture war around public schools and books can lead to decreased funding support and then leads to an increase in support funding from fossil fuels. If only schools had enough Easter eggs they’d be able to reject those funds
Easter egg! My k-12 schools did not have any specific climate change education and I went to a lot of underfunded public schools but overall they did really try to teach us the importance of science and how to understand it. Every science DCMT (not sure what it stands for but it's the Connecticut standardized tests) from 5-12th grade always had a question about about media literacy, like which of these is would be considered the best source to get information about the effectiveness of a new cancer drug? A) An op-ed in the New York Times B) A paper written by a biologist published in a reputable science journal C) An academic paper written by an economist D) The website of the pharma company that makes it And an open ended question about what makes an experiment valid where you would have to write something about it being replicable, have an Independent, dependent and control variable, and have multiple trials. I can no longer tell you the difference between Mitosis and Meiosis or name the three different types of rocks but I am great at sniffing out bullshit. 🐣
It is incredible the useless bs they teach in schools, and the incredibly important stuff they intentionally leave out. Almost like a school system of indoctrination.
Finding this channel is like finding an Easter Egg! Always willing to share and talk about your videos to people. The editing, humor, and ability to educate and get people interested in educating themselves on these topics (like myself) is just amazing! This channel and its messages are so important!
Lmao the 60 minutes cut got me laughing. Rollie you embody all the cool stuff that happened in the 90s I can feel it in your videos. Never lose sight of keeping us engaged!
I found this channel last spring after the gas prices video was uploaded. Ever since, I’ve loved every second of these videos, even the promotions at the end are worth sitting through, because it feels like you can find some nice Easter eggs. Keep it up Rollie, you’re one of my favorite channels on this platform and you’ve also been my gateway to other long-ish-form educational content.
Hello. You're doing the lords work here. My father died just recently in the flooding in greece and i think i'm going to now devote my life to fight against climate change because it is the biggest challenge we have ever faced as a species. Thank you sir.
The problem is that climate change also happens naturally. We can never "fight" it, only thing we can do is reduce our pollution as much as we can and adapt.
@@UgandanAirForcethat is silly.. of course we can fight it. You are just repeating the same talking points that big oil has been pumping out into the zeitgeist. Reducing pollution is important yes.. but we need to take “war” like energy to the task of transitioning to renewable energy world wide. The only sane reaction to the dilemma is to throw all we have at it and make whatever changes are required. It isn’t reasonable to stay in a burning house and convince yourself all you can do is block the door to the burning room with a mattress. This is for the survival of humans and our planet. We can’t just choose to extinct ourselves because it’s easier to imagine letting our habitat be destroyed then it is to imagine going green and controlling capitalism
The ice cores from Antarctica are saturated at every depth with live bacteria. The cores mean nothing about historical gas levels because the microbes alter gas concentrations.
They're sheets of metal cut out to look like gas pumps with nozzles attached by a chain. It has a little awning over the top with a sign that says "self serve." Why? Because pumping gas is fun, gas is made out of dinosaurs and kids LOVE dinosaurs. [SMH] Too bad I can't post pics in the comments.
This is why I’m worried to have a child. Can’t wait until the revolution against this stuff happens, it’s insane how brainwashed the majority of true American population is, and that includes me. I had no idea the problem was this serious. Great vid man, hoping a lot of people see this!
Also the idea that anyone thinks these kids will grow up and never learn about micro plastics or oil spills or greed is crazy to me, they’re really only giving themselves ~20 years before that time bomb blows up in their face 😂 if we don’t do anything to them first
Yeah you will suffer from lack of gasoline and food before you realize why. Leftist indoctrination turns kids into idiots who sit in the middle of streets stopping traffic while right wing indoctrination turns kids into people who love their families and prosperity.
@@ryanthoms So what do you believe we can do about it?, bc not every state will give a damn about public pressure, and even then, not even the public may give a damn.
@@dinosroar7954 your consumption of animal products will never ever in a million years be as impactful on the climate compared to the amount that major corporations (not just oil companies) output in a single day. go blow up an oil rig
luckily kids now in days have youtube, as someone that has siblings going thru school in Texas right now, I can say without a certain shadow of a doubt that kids learn a LOT more from the internet and youtube than you'd think... for better or for worse
@@fionafiona1146PragerU luckily is horrible at teaching. Despite being accepted as a curriculum by two states thus far, it is horribly planned such that their propaganda likely won't stick. Zoe bee looked at their published lesson plan and found it to be poorly done by their own stated metric. And if you ever seen PragerU videos, they are horribly boring and designed to evoke anger. They often rely on the audience being aware of the subject albeit ill informed. Not effective against kids. It is preaching to the choir or maybe convinces people already on the fence. Most kids would find them extremely boring unless they are already conservative leaning which is unlikely. Most people don't get political until they enter highschool.
Just here to give the video a thumbs up while watching it ad-free on Nebula. 👍 Seriously, thank you for doing what you do, Rollie- in a just world, your videos wouldn't be needed because we would all be combating climate change together, but in a slightly-less-just world, your hilarious, educational videos would get billions of views. I always hope I'll randomly run into you on the streets of Brooklyn... but you look like every single dude who lives here.
in a just world our societal frameworks wouldn't hand monopolies to individuals who (ab)use them for personal benefit (this rabbit hole is deep my friend), which would mean that climate change would have been addressed before it would have started. But delving into this is a bit long and got some surprising insights into what is wrong and why that is.
The dairy industry does the same thing. Giving teachers and daycare facilities learning resources that just push dairy products despite our re-worked food guide (Canada) basically eliminating them.
afaik cattle is the single most greenhouse gas intensive livestock rn. also, even ignoring all of the animal cruelty, large parts of rain forests are being cut down to make space for soy plants to feed livestock and mostly cattle, which I think we can agree is not a good thing. dairy and meat are not as important as we're being told, and we could cut a lot of emissions by not consuming them as much. @@peabrain6872
@@peabrain6872 Too much calcium is unhealthy for the bones, and multiple sources of food already provide an adequate amount needed to be healthy so a lot of milk isn't that necessary.
Your videos have the perfect combination of information and comedy to get me through the sometimes depressing outlook we have with the environment at times (video vibe is alway🔥). Also appreciate the direct callouts for things anybody can do to make a difference! I'm gonna send everyone I know an easter egg with links to your videos inside 🐣 😉
Thanks for this video, my son's school just sent home a handout for 2023 Energy Day Colorado, A FREE Family friendly, STEM festival for students at East High in Denver that just happens to be put on by Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) and Consumer Energy Education Foundation (CEEF). I'm thinking of going just to see this in person since it's a short bike ride from my house.
I graduated from high school in 2016. Here was the extent of my education about climate change: In middle school, they told us that there was a hole in the ozone layer caused by CFCs. We banned CFCs and the hole was now shrinking. I learned nothing about climate change in high school because the only science classes I took were Biology, chemistry and physics so none of them talked about nature science.
if you were taught physics, math and biology, you have a great foundation to make useful estimates about the state of the ecosystem. You do not need special classes dedicated to ... natural? science? What the fuck is a "natural" science? Are there UNnatural sciences? Am I having a fever dream?
Probably to avoid politics, teach you science, and assume you’ll study climate change in college if it interests you. Are you suggesting people learn climate change instead of chemistry, biology, and physics, the core of understanding climate change? Thats like saying I wanted to learn my senior college classes in high school before I understood the basis for understanding the college classes.
Man, your video’s are a good find, kind off like an Easter egg in the world of TH-cam! How do you cope with knowing all of this and not losing faith in humanity though? Whatever it is keep doing what you do.
Yo! Thanks for watching through to the end. Much appreciated. And I think getting to spend all my time reading and writing about it actually helps. Working on it kinda dissipates the stress.
Love this! I personally get so much satisfaction from taking my kids on public transit and showing them that the car is not the only way to get from A to B, they enjoy it too!
One time I found an easter egg in a drainpipe that was a "special egg" and they gave me a whole basket. I dunno the context, I was like 4 years old, but I just remember thinking, "i guess this is how people get rich."
Dearest Rollie, I was quite sad to miss your second town hall, especially after having made the first (lil easter egg: I was the inaugural tshirt sale, we took a picture, right up there in top 10 moments of my life). Hope all is well and that you continue producing such top notch content that simultaneously depresses and lifts me up.
YO! Thanks so much for being the first T-Shirt purchase. Remember, I will buy it back from you for $20 at any time, but there will be questions asked. Thanks for jumping in!
I love your work Rollie!! I've been a fan for a while now and watched all your videos(some several times). I love your writing, editing, and presentation style! I'm always super excited to see your new videos & I've showed them to quite a few people to help change their minds about climate science. Your videos have inspired me to care more about the politics of climate science. Thanks for making content!! I can't wait for more!! Also I should really mention an Easter egg so you see this
I think this channel is my favorite Easter Egg. I love that you make climate science funny, snappy, and kind of cool lol. Making fun feels a lot better than the dry "fact check" style a lot of other people online use.
I had to come here all the way from Nebula to leave a comment about easter eggs. Don't you wish Nebula had comments too? I do. Amazing work as always...thank you for being part of the solution.
When I taught 7th grade, I had the OERB kits in my classroom. They send emails that present it as a great curriculum written by teachers and give you free STEM kits if you go to their free PD day. I might still have one of those horrific kits laying around somewhere. I could never bring myself to use the leftover kits in my room or go to the PD. It felt too much like propaganda.
As a non-American teacher who wrote my science bachelor thesis about climate change... man this sucks to see. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Luckily this is a big part of the curriculum in Norway already. Oh and... uh.. easter eggs
As an American I've never seen this outside of videos like this. Also as an American I have to say no matter how disgusting someones ideology is (in this case oil message) we have a first amendment right to free speech. This needs to be extremely broad freedom to prevent corrupt politicians. We need to focus on other parts such as the donations to schools forcing the propaganda with it.
@@xathridtech727 Yeah, I agree and to elabotate; I am not at all surprised oil and gas companies do stuff in order to try to front their own cause. That's expected. I take umbridge with the fact that they're footing so much of the bill for schools. Funding coming from oil companies IS a problem. Hell, funding from any kind of biased lobby with an agenda is a problem. Free speech is super duper important, but the education to call people out on bullshit shouldn't be provided by the peddlers of said bullshit. It's a conflict of interest.
@@xathridtech727corruption like a $600,000 subsidiary to wind turbine companies per wind turbine. Or the Uighurs housed in Chinese concentration camps forced to produce solar panels from coal fired plants so that you can imagine that you are doing something great for the environment. Now imagine the 14 million trees you need to cut in Scotland for their wind turbines. I cannot imagine freezing from reliance on wind turning or solar absence in winter. But Texans in 2021 did. How little you appreciate coal, natural gas, and petroleum until you realize how spoiled our modern world is today.
@@shaynefowley5689 I don't think you understand my comment. Corruption comes from silencing speech. You are free enough to tell people about that. Also there. Are positives and negatives to every system. Coal , oil, and natural gas have never really been clean as far as forced labor or green energy
@@xathridtech727 that is the conversation people need to discuss. Sulfur was removed from coal fired plants here in the US. But the dogmatic tendencies I observe in regards to climate change, you can spot my frustration. There is no climate crisis. Going from 350 ppm to 425 ppm CO₂ in 100 years is fine. Plants need about 1000 ppm to produce optimal growth. If humanity reaches 2000 ppm - yes, warning bells will go off. That is why I am for nuclear development.
All I want - is a documentary crew to interview the kids of these parents in 10 years. How many of these kids still have a relationship with their conservative parents, have limited interaction with them or have cut them out of their lives entirely… I think the data will be helpful, but also beneficial to finally show conservatives that they have no clue, what their kids want.
I don't even live in USA, but I binge on your videos. You guys are funny, passionate, educated, informative and you also produce high quality content on topics that are really important. I'm always so excited when I see a channel with real content and not some reaction/press-the-button/media-dramas. There truly is an oasis in YT algorithms and it is Climate Town. NotJustBikes is also great, and I'm glad that you guys work together sometime.
want even more highly entertaining and informative content? check out f.d signifier, he highlights parts of the black experience in america, and makes mini-documentaries, I could not recommend him enough, I also recommend kat blaque as well.
I love that you add thanks to all the scientists and journalists whose work you used for a video as an Easter Egg in the end. They deserve to be at least acknowledged!😊
I kinda drank the oil&gas industry Kool Aid in University doing an Earth Science degree. Big Oil was sponsoring the auditoriums, classrooms and field trips. It was a fun degree NGL. A lot of awesome people work for these oil companies, it isn’t all grim. Or perhaps these were the lucky ones who got the sweetest jobs mapping out the sea floor for oil… Anyways, the real world after graduation hit me like a train. I worked in the oil patch for 2 years. I just remember staying in crappy motels for months in the middle of nowhere (paid for) or worse, dry work camps with strict rules and bland food. I would do a lot of grunt work flagging down trees for the bulldozer to make a path for pipeline construction sites. To this day, I still don’t know how I could work 12h days, 24 days straight with 4 days of rest per month. It’s a shame because I always wanted a cool job at an oil company. But they don’t really care about us.
Keep provide the reliable natural gas and petroleum flowing our European brethren. The bird killing and whale tinnitus causing wind turbines will cause mass extinctions long before natural gas can do anything on temperatures. In fact, you can be paid by our governments $400,000 to $600,000 per turbine and lease on farmland without their permission for $2,500 per year. Even better when you pay $50,000 for a U.S. Rep or $100k for a US Senator to agree to wind turbine demands. Your profession is what eliminates energy insecurity in Africa. Oh, wait! The IMF rejects FF loans to poor countries because they must buy the solar and wind turbines that Big Green require the little guys to buy. Don’t be fooled by useful idiots.
That's beyond f'd up. I had no idea education was getting so messed up. Thank you for reporting this. I get so overwhelmed at the current state of the world but content like this is much needed, especially in this format. Easter egg 😏
It's a wild world out there. Who would have thought all this ruckus about indoctrinating kids was real, just not what most parents are freaking out about.
@@ClimateTownI mean it still is real with the things Republicans are mentioning, you just can’t be arsed to actually look up some of the examples. Some of the choices are silly but there are legitimately some of those books that are pornographic, you only ever hear about the weakest examples. Maybe try looking past your bias and doing a deep dive, hell, if you’re somehow right you get to own the chuds epic style!
@@keemstarkreamstar7069"just trust me implicitly, right wingers are actually right, I'm definitely not speaking in dog whistles" I bet you assume all trans people are pedophiles too lol
Sometimes I'm not sure whether the cutaways/references are easter eggs or flash grenades 😅 For real though, can't tell you how much I appreciate this channel, and what an exciting experience it was to watch the intro change from "climate science and policy student" to "climate science and policy master's degree holder"
We have a bad company where I live - BASF - chemical company that also produces pesticides. They regularly invite pupils from schools to go their facility. No wonder, they are seen as good by many here even though we have substantial issues with pesticide-contamination. Even our drinking water is now contaminated - a professor of chemistry analyzed it.
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I am appalled, not really by the oil and gas industry, but that people would in general allow such commercial influence on the school curriculum. Where I live people were angry when Unilever (a food conglomerate) decided to sponsor breakfasts at schools. Not because there was really anything wrong with the breakfast, but because a food company should not be teaching kids what to eat for breakfast.
That's an astounding general awareness of conflict of interest. Most people never even pause to consider it.
Seriously. My city's town hall has approved buying public ashtrays from a tobacco company to 'stop littering'
And they were right about that
A food company shouldnt influence what children eat
Yeah...here in the U.S.A. in practice we are very much an oligarchy/corpratocracy with most if not all elements of life owned by the private market. Schools, hospitals, infrastructure, food, everything. You should read our history on what they used to do to us workers until recently (that's rapidly going back to those times). You'll see it here too when it comes to challenging fossil fuels and non green energy.
@@brandonbordewyk Chicago Museum of Science and Industry is almost entirely oil based with very few exhibits on anything like solar, wind, or hydro. And while obviously it doubles as a history, it makes almost no mention of any present energy technology
I went to a STEM high school partly funded by Exxon Mobil and found out the hard way what happens to students who try to do science fair projects testing the effects of petroleum products on plants.
Didn't understand the venom I was receiving then, but later on in life it dawned on me what was going on behind the scenes.
If you had brought it up to a news station -- they would have had a field day with that one.
Yeah, like a single column in the local newspaper, The Nowhere Gazette about how shocking that is before its buried forever...@@gilian2587
@@gilian2587 depends on the news station.
@@genericamerican7574 True.
@@genericamerican7574 nah, not really. Any local station would have eaten it up for the sensationalism that they could have put on it.
The blind spots my kids (7 and 8) are developing from school are already becoming apparent, and now I find out we're just *letting* these money-hungry psychopaths intentionally lie to our kids in the one place they not only trust, but are required to be by law.
Truly, America is peerless 🇺🇲😎⛽
when they get into high school, you gotta pay attention to their history lessons or else they’re gonna need a full few years to deprogram
@@pallingtontheshrike6374yea it's crazy, especially with the toxic racial and gender theories going around nowadays.
Welcome to the real world. If you think this is bad, then you should see what we are letting FL teach kids about gay people.
Some of those kids are wise to this shit. Many teens have a nose for hypocrisy. With that said, yes, this will definitely still indoctrinate some.
@@ThomasJames69420 Really depends on what theories those are.
CRT (critical race theory) is really just what happens when one thinks Critically about race in this country. It's a collection of observations and perspectives about power structure formed from race.
It really isn't about hating white people or whatever, but showing that race has been used to sustain power in this country for years. At first it was done for economic reasons, but as time went on it developed almost religion like qualities where people forgot where those practices came from.
It gets into what "whiteness" is and how a group of people can gain or lose whiteness over time. (The Irish at one time weren't considered white and at one time the Native Americans were.)
It gets into generational trauma, about how something that effects one generation can have cascading effects down the line.
But none of them are toxic. I consider not teaching it to be more toxic as the point of CRT is to understand how the power system forms and how it has been exploited in the past and current. I don't know why we wouldn't want to understand that.
I was part of a National Science Foundation-funded program that taught K-12 science teachers scientific research skills with a focus on environmental sustainability. One of their classes was dedicated to climate change and the professor actually showed them your videos (which they loved but many couldn't show in class bc of language - though I'm sure they recommended them!). Many of the older teachers were extremely grateful for the class because they did not have any formal teaching in climate science and so were hesitant to teach, especially in rural America. Teachers WANT to know how to teach climate change! Actually, one of my good friends (and a great teacher!) writes lesson plans for SubjectToClimate, which provides free, standards-aligned climate change lesson plans for all subjects. Easter egg!
This channel has classroom-friendly versions (here: th-cam.com/video/eqrwKrRuRZ8/w-d-xo.html&pp=iAQB) but not all of the episodes are up yet
Education for teachers on the things they're teaching is something that often goes overlooked. You're doing the lord's work.
Social studies teacher here, thank you for the tip about SubjectToClimate!
You are a liar :)
theres something unsettling about teachers using youtube videos as part of their education program. i dont disagree it is education, but whats the point of school then? if were all just gonna watch utube videos and regurgitate what we saw from them. like, isnt that the whole reason u cant use wikipedia as a source? now youtube videos is primary source? 21:15
those oil books are actually very educational. it literally says everything you do or use or think about has come from petroleum in a way. thats just the way of life, its literally how we operate. avoiding the topic would be misinformation about the human species.
Have any of these corporations tried to come at you for these videos of calling them out? Thanks for all the work you do in getting this information out to the public and all the easter eggs. 🐣
For a while pretty much all of the ads on his channel were fossil fuel ads, but now they're mostly gone.
@@cookiecraze1310by the way, the ads you see are different for everyone.
@@hgd4878 he did mention it in one of his videos that afew of his audience was fossil fuel ads on his video.
@@cookiecraze1310 That can be caused by a few different factors, and direct intervention from fossil companies are the least likely of those. Google can parse the title and captions of videos to determine content and serve ads that appear to fit the themes, and will pick up on viewers' search histories when they start researching things while watching the videos, also making it more likely they will be served fossil fuel ads. Whether the content of the media a user is consuming is positive or negative toward the industry being advertised isn't particularly relevant, since they are still being served to a demographic at least slightly more likely to engage with the advertisement.
Climate change is intentional. Big business has known about it for decades and did it on purpose. What are you going to do when literally the most powerful people on the planet are 100% in favor of doing more climate change?
This feels like the kind of stuff you discover was taught in school like 50 years ago and it's so insane and laughable that you're glad you don't live in that time. I hope in 50 years people see this stuff and can laugh it off, rather than feeling real depressed at what the world looks like for them now.
Most of our middle schoolers and high schoolers are smart, and already to aware to buy into this banally stupid cr*p the right wingers are pushing. It's the little ones we have to be concerned about. Luckily Gen Z is coming of age, tends to be ultra aware on the importand issues, and they vote.
I hope so, too.
Right! Around 30 yrs ago I grew up on cartoons and school teaching us about not littering and the importance of regulation preventing companies from dumping in rivers and destroying ecosystems... Taught here in Canada at least. Little kids absolutely understand sustainability. Easy concept to explain and understand. Drives me nuts that after all this time even in Canada where I'd love to think we have more env regulation than most countries, that in fact we are extremely lax and causing all kinds of huge env problems still. I see evidence of us making an effort to U-turn and I hope it continues and works but why oh why didn't we do most of these changes a couple decades ago when at least to me it seemed that kids were/are learning a more accurate story of the destruction... too much power and money in the way of having more impact than just some improvements over the past decades. Radical change hasn't penetrated... maybe it is starting to now I hope!
I was raised in those times. My parents didn't raise idiot children. We recognized the propaganda. We had the Hippie leftovers pointing to the lies and advocating for the earth.
Don't feel depressed about it, feel angry about it. Fight against it.
Here’s an “Easter Egg” for you… Evansville, Indiana has seven power plants within a 30 mile radius and four are deemed super polluters! I’d love to see you do a video on this!
I live in Evansville, Indiana and yes, there are an awful lot of coal power plants around here 😒
Thanks for the hot tip!
Where TF does all the power draw come from? Steel mills?
Yes actually this is a major part of it. Indiana has a lot of heavy industry and because they have large sources of coal nearby they’ve been burning it like there was no tomorrow to get power.
Fun fact somewhat related to this: You can turn coal power plants into nuclear ones! The concept of getting energy is the same: Boiling water.
I'm a wyoming native that use to be a high school science teacher. I can confirm if you're elected to ANY office in this state oil and gas have absolutely, 110%, undeniably, bought you. We were one of the only states to reject the common core standards. A handful did so due to evolution being a core part of the biology curriculum. Wyoming was the only conservative state that was pretty much completely okay with evolution, we rejected it specifically because "of how the new federally backed curriculum is hostile towards our primary source of tax revenue" to put it into the words of our state superintendent. Yeah they didn't even pretend they made their choices based on anything but money.
fun fact: wyoming residents have the highest per capita emissions. It's not even close. Then wyoming residents turn around to say how beautiful their state is. It's really odd.
The states that rejected common core because of evolution being part of the biology curriculum must have their churches being a key part of their Republican political machines and a big source of their political slush funds.
It's kinda crazy how openly evil these companies are.
Naw, being openly evil is exactly what you'd expect from unregulated businesses built entirely on greed. What's crazy is how we're just sitting back letting them continue to do so.
That's just like every listed corperation ever..
They are all like this.
And still tons of people believe and support them.
It's crazier that Americans just take everything rich people say at face value but always wonder what agenda scientists and academics have.
@@nobody.of.importance
It's because the lobbyists/corporations helped build society's infrastructure a long time ago to make it so we're too reliant on them. Definitely recommend checking out some of the US history lessons on Nothing But Bikes (Climate Town collabed with him once too).
As a driver who makes a living off of using fossil fuels, thank you for your videos. In a society who is dependant (*edited from "thrives") on a single resource, the only way to change it is to start educating and get the facts out there for people, not brushed under the rug by profits.
Our society does not thrive on oil (or automobiles), we depend on it. The oil (and automobile) executives do the thriving.
The automobile side of the issue is handled by the channel Not Just Bikes (which has already collaborated with this one).
@@zerarch77They do the thriving while we do the driving...and dying...and trying at rhyming. 😅
@@zerarch77that's a great way of verbalising things.
Very mature post! Thanks for your service as a driver, I appreciate all you do. Thanks for sharing your perspective. I hope that one day you can do your job with a clean-energy product when that is available and reliable. At a certain tipping point, it will be cheaper, more effective and a win-win for drivers and the planet!
@annoworldbridgerbooooo
they’re a normal person just trying to make a living. if they could drive an electric or hydrogen truck or a train I’m sure they’d rather do it
As a web developer I find it very sweet that you are impressed by the two-level menus.
same here but as a game developer
Twenty level menus don't impress me... rather, they make my eyes bleed.
The pain is real.
Really love the appreciation the menu got.
What are you talking about?
“B is for Buy&Large, your very best friend!”
- Wall-E in fucking 2008
Last year I was doing an easter egg hunt with my cousin who's a toddler (she's adorable). She came back with a "What are Fossil Fuels? How Oil is Made!" book that she had found hidden in a giant easter egg by the side of the road. Truly disgusting the lengths these companies will go to to brainwash our children.
Imagining Oil Execs sending out Easter bunny impersonators to spread oil propaganda is however a hilarious comic book plot premise
xD
@@StyretaThey seem to find a lot of inspiration in comic book villainy overall :D
When my nephew was still using a childs car seat his mom recorded him telling how vaccines work in simple sentence. She's a Doctor of Pharmacology and it blew her mind.
He would probably have loved that book and I will bet it's about dinosaurs. Children are smarter than they are given credit for, besides the whole book banning frenzy is not about the kids. Some people want to control all our lives and weaponizing our children that is a much greater concern. Like a border wall banning books is nonsense. Banned books become eternally famous and get more attention.
I have little nieces & nephews who won't touch a book, they are living on their cell phones keeping an eye on mom & dad through the Ring app to make sure dad is walking the dog; true story.
The book was likely simply educational and not propaganda in any way.
Last year I found "What are Fossil Fuels" hidden in my child's Halloween candy. Worse than the fentanyl M&M's I was giving out.
as an Australian that learns about climate change in geography, history and science, this is so dystopian.
ESPECIALLY the part where you said that some schools had to go down to a 4 day school week because they didn't have enough money for 5?! something is up in the US, and it's not good.
If we don't fix our housing issues I'm worried Australia will go the same way! We're losing teachers at a massive rate of knots and part of that is because they can't afford to live near where they work on a teacher's salary.
Anyway, that's a problem for another video 😅
@@TheBeccabus It kind of ties into the conversation. Depending on the state (I believe its at state level and not federal) some schools are funded by the surrounding taxes, often like a property tax. Which means that wealthier neighborhoods and communities will have better funded schools than poorer ones, which turns into a feedback cycle.
Absolutely lost it at that moment in the video as well. How is that not massive news? Fucking Twitter and Tesla nonsense gets so much attention you hear about it from everywhere, and a state cutting education to 4 days a week goes completely unnoticed? That's really, really fucked up. That's 700k students. That's 2 Canberra's, or 1 Frankfurt's worth of people getting 20% less time at school. It's insane to me. Even in a pretty poor country like mine I can't imagine this ever happening.
It's actually the complete opposite, the propaganda is actually completely in the opposite direction. The video is so far off it's laughable, it's clear he has never stepped in a public school or knows the BS they push.
@@Khronogiwhich is extremely dumb because the federal government has the money to better support the education system. It's just not in their best interest
Being old, I get to see this pattern over and over again. Tobacco companies for decades denying that smoking is linked to cancer is the best example. When you are up against big money or closed minds, facts seem nearly irrelevant.
The more modern version is cattle/beef/agriculture trying to act like cows aren't bad for the environment. You'll find all kinds of misinformation about how cows are actually a carbon sink because they ...walk on grass? Or how cows are good for the environment because they take the place of the near-extinct bison.
You can see how two faced this is because on one hand you have massive misinformation campaigns on social media to prop up beef as masculine, american, righteous because caveman ate it, but meanwhile universities are spending tons of resources studying how to lesson beef's environmental impact thru genetics, diet changes, grazing rotation schedules, etc. It has been well known for decades that cows are horrendous for the environment. I went to one of the leading agriculture universities in the 00s and this was openly discussed as a major problem that the industry needs to fix. It makes very little sense to grow grass, usually in the desert, to feed to cattle to produce calories. We can just use that land to grow food for humans. This cuts out transportation costs throughout the supply chain, a lot of water usage(because a lot of hay/straw/grass is grown in the desert), and cow burps/farts. I haven't even really touched on how horrendous public land cattle grazing is for the landscape and native animals, because cows are not native to the american continent and absolutely decimate the landscape while outcompeting native animals.
There is an already large amount of data showing that beef is not only bad for the environment but it's also a dirty source of calories for the human body. Beef was great when food was scarce and most people didn't live past 50 to begin with. But now that we live longer lives and we don't have to work for hours a day to get food, beef is pretty clearly not a great source of calories.
One last thing, I grew up on a farm with ranching. I've overseen herds of beef cattle that roam around the western US. I've raised and slaughtered my own meat for over half my life. I'm now a vegan and don't use animal products because from a resource use perspective it makes zero sense to eat meat in 2024. The data and science is extremely obvious about this. For me the ethical reasons aren't why I'm doing it, it's a nice bonus, but it's very clear that meat consumption is a major contributor to climate change.
I'm fairly young (17) but I've read up on all this happening, it's a little sad how they can just get away with this, I blame lobbying, which is one of the many reasons I hate America, it's a country run on greed and money completely controls everything there, if cigarettes were eventually regulated then hopefully our current issue will be regulated in the future
I've been to places where guys were denying that cigs gave you cancer. Northern KY/ Southern OH recovery services and guy was arguing with the instructor. The fact that these guys are still around and voting(you know who for) makes me question the idea that democracy is a good thing.
How does smoking looks in America because in Europe cig packs have big letters "SMOKING CAUSES CANCER" and have pictures of real life cancer on them
Why oil is still the best energy today: Because the petrol companies have spent billions of dollars preventing us from developing better sources of energy. That was easy.
Or Russia wanting to ensure we do not build new nuclear power plants. Ever wonder why there are anti-nuclear activists still arguing against carbon free nuclear power plants?
@@shaynefowley5689There are many factors to it bro.. It’s not just some evil plot to stop nuclear energy.
Black and white thinking is part of the problem.
@@shaynefowley5689
You're really blaming Russia? Dude. ☠️
Makes sense, where I live hydroelectric, solar and wind are cheaper as we do not produce oil.
@@shaynefowley5689 with brains as smooth as a bearing ball.
It’s remarkable how little conservatives care about things they’re not told to care about
It requires effort to care. Much less effort to shut out reality.
The problems is we're swinging to extremes Liberals say the world is ending so we get to control you. Conservatives say climate change doesn't exist
It happens on both sides. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug: people only pay attention to whatever affirms their views
they are the lowest hanging fruit, the less intelligent people in any society, it has been scientifically proven, youre dumb you go right/conservative, so each and every propaganda ever will aim at the most stupid and turn them unto a angry irrational mob, it just works
...it also does not *equally* happen to both sides
As a non-American teacher, its wild how similiar these resources look like the scripture resources. Designed to work the same way.
Wait until you see how American sex education functions state to state....
@@mikeE997as a non-american.... how does it?
Exactly. Oil was being pushed like Evangelical Roman Catholicism.
@@sandoralik it doesn't.
@@sandoralik My school taught me basic anatomy in 5th grade (kindergarten starts at age 5, then its years 1-12 in the American system), a bit of the reproductive system but mostly focused on whatever sex you were and less about the other sex (and none about intersex or others). Then taught about stuff like std's in about 8th grade. Then in 9th grade we were taught about condoms and what not.
That was apparently considered pretty good education. I know schools currently who don't receive any sex education until highschool (years 9-12, ages 14-18 normally).
And some don't receive anything, or are taught abstinence only.
Children's cartoons depictions of environment destroying villains really was 100% accurate.
Growing up to find out Captain Planet's villains are basically real people
Where's captain planet when we need him most?
@@fleecejohnson9813yeah, always thought it seemed ridiculous at the time. Yet here we are.
Wild Kratts was on the right path
Funny that someone mention such books under video about "brainwashing"...
Man your editing is always so fun! I always make sure to actually watch them in fullscreen with no distractions instead of just listening to them in another tab becuase I just have so much respect for the level of craftsmanship on display here. Gotta appreciate how much effort you put into these and you're a huge inspiration for me as a fellow video editor
Agreed! This ep in particular is delightfully put together.
This dude has the ability to tell the most doomer stories with the brightest smile on his face. We need more people like that for what's coming.
Oh, we will have more people like that.... It won't make anyone involved any happier though, especially the smilers.
whats coming?
@@Crystalcreates33Are you being sarcastic? If not, then ecological and environmental collapse is coming.
@@Crystalcreates33 Total civilizational collapse by 2050.
This is doomer for you? This is just... an artful retelling of facts.
As an educator, this was a neverending parade of horrors. Thank you to the editor for the goofs and gags; they were like following a trail of bright little easter eggs through a haunted forest of death ❤
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If you're an educator, you know the video is so far off it's laughable, it's clear he has never stepped in a public school.
@@artm1973 he actually has a degree in climate science and policy! So not only has he gone to public school, he's higher educated. Seems your just desperately emotionally distraught over someone presenting *reality* that goes against the fantasy you live in. Its really amazing how someone can be called a fraud when they just present plain, unedited, undistorted facts.
@@Dallas78256 Wonderful but all that has nothing to do with what he claims public schools are teaching, which is the gist of the video.
@@artm1973 So, the fact that his degree isn't DIRECTLY related, only partially, and still significantly, means he's a sham? And this addresses in no way the fact that he is, again, just reporting undistorted, unspun facts. He deliberately makes a point of showing how oil lobbyists distort information in their favor and how they are paying for real materials you can go look up and find. You are just searching for reasons to close your ears, because you can't handle it, for some reason.
the mustache we deserved and needed all along
Dude’s single hand-idly bringing mustaches and fighting climate change back into fashion!
@@SaveMoneySavethePlanet"doodly"
Did you know that behind his mustache is another mustache? Or a fist. I forget how it goes.
most underrated aspect of this video
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I find the fact that there is no baseline national curriculum in the US completely wild!
Because the U.S. stands for United States. Key word STATES. Meaning that the states dictate their own curriculum.
@@gloverfox9135 United Kingdom still manages it. A country made up of multiple nations that have their own levels of autonomy, but still manages to agree on a curriculum. And don't even try to start with the BuT AmErIcA iS bIg!!!
It’s only really useful for things like history. It’s much more useful to teach an in depth history of just your state (ignoring the fact that many states literally ban teaching some parts of history) rather than quickly speeding through each state’s history
Me when I forget federal regulations exist
@@gloverfox9135The United States of Mexico have a national baseline curriculum, same thing in Argentina and most if not all other federally organized countries. Muh'rica is just obsessed with Capitalism and giving big corporations and oligarchs control over everything including children.
Thank you for not paywalling all your important information. I understand that funding is likely very difficult, but your videos are SOOOO important, and need the widest reach possible.
I was first introduced to climate change by a book in elementary school, and I have been pro-environment ever since. Fossil fuel propaganda will be severely devastating.
@@DivineWindSerpentI'm amused that you think this reductive argument has any actual value. Even if he didn't understand it, I'm putting my money on the 97% of scientists who have dedicated their professional lives to showing that humans are causing global warming. climate.nasa.gov/faq/17/do-scientists-agree-on-climate-change/#:~:text=Yes%2C%20the%20vast%20majority%20of,global%20warming%20and%20climate%20change.
Fossil Fuel propaganda IS already happening, it's not a future event.
@@antontaraskin8727 of course.
@@DivineWindSerpent Why do you think science is "propaganda"? Apparently some propaganda has convinced you of that.
@@incognitotorpedo42 Don't feed the troll
I'll never forget hearing in maybe IDK 4th or 5th grade when Ohio started fracking my teachers telling me that we'd now be at risk for earthquakes in Ohio. I just thought how crazy that was cause as far as I knew then and I know now, we don't live on any fault lines here in Ohio, so it is almost entirely unnatural to think we'd ever experience one here. Then just a few weeks ago there was an earthquake in Ohio! how crazy. Thanks big oil, you've done what I never thought possible !!
What are you talking about? There's literally a fault line that runs from the NE to SE side of Lake Erie. That has nothing to do with fracking. If that were true every fracking site in the US would be experiencing earthquakes. Seriously? I advocate for climate change, but don't say the oil companies are spreading misinformation and then go and do the same thing! It makes the initiative look propagandized as well.
Natural gas. Not petroleum.
You have to have faults to have earthquakes from fracking.
I grew up in Illinois during the 90's and 2000's, I never was taught anything about the climate. I only learned about the situation because of rumors about Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" that was circulating around class in middle school. I can only hope that this generation is taught the lessons that we were deprived of.
Oh they’ll get one better, they’ll get t experience a rapidly decaying climate and ecosystems!
we are experiencing it pretty bad over here where i live, insane floods, hundreds dead probably including my siblings, i want to save others from this fate but i cannot do it alone@@baneofbanes
Were already giving older generations our piece of mind
I grew up in a conservative community and the animosity toward climate science is real. Like I remember feeling betrayed when a kids show talked about the greenhouse effect.
i grew up in a conservative community, there wasn't animosity toward the Ozone issue. Which apparently everyone just forgot was actually a thing not that long ago. The division is not just a conservative vs liberal issue.
I find it funny how conservatives tend to be born into conservatism while liberals tend to arrive at liberalism on their own. Kinda like one side tends to regurgitate ideas and opinions while the other side is typically more open to critical thinking and arriving at your own conclusions.
@@SmokeyChipOatley there are liberals who do the same thing and there are conservatives who do think critically. Stop putting everyone in a box!
@@christerry1773 there aren't any conservatives who think critically about climate change
@@sandrafrancisco yes there are. You just don’t want there to be.
When I was a kid in highschool they had plenty of speakers for technical occupations and things like auto trade schools and even the military (I forget the name of the exact program). One time they brought in a team of oil-field workers and a speaker to try to recruit highschool kids straight to the oil fields after highschool with a little success even iirc. A little Easter egg from my past that I brought for y'all.
Wow, I wasn't sure if you were gonna sneak it in there. Thanks for the memories.
@@ClimateTown Thanks for the share-able content and knowledge!
Do they still do job fairs and career days in HS?
@@michellelester243 I l know they do job fairs. I couldn't tell you about career days, but maybe that's what the program was at my school.
Nothing like owning your own home at 25 from working those oil fields. Oh, wait. You want envy and disappointment. Boo! Oil will be replaced by nuclear if you can get Iran and Russia out of Congress. Oops! Did I reveal too much? 😅
Rollie, you produce the most engaging, entertaining, and informative climate content I've ever seen. I share your channel with everyone I can, and I'm glad I was able to catch this premiere. Keep it going and that mustache growing, king
See Rollie! All that improv training has paid off!! 😊
I remember the cartoon! It was on the development of ‘economy’ and they learned to use clams as currency instead of barter/trade. The one guy needed fire for his business and ended up chopping down most of the trees. I remember being sad when the couple stood by and the woman was crying about them losing their favorite spot in the woods 😭. The guy apologized but said it was necessary for Progress. Tool.
Also, in 8th(?) grade science we did a unit on oil drilling development. It was a computer program that allowed us as teams to have a budget for oil exploration. We could pay for a survey to narrow down if an area might have oil, or pay to build a drill. You could run out of money surveying or run out of money building drills over nothing. The point was to demonstrate how expensive and reliant on luck oil exploration and development is. To make us feel sorry for the oil companies and not question the high gas prices?
coming across any kind of suspicious data or studies online and seeing that it's funded by oil companies and oil-adjacent companies is like finding a horrible rotten easter egg. thank you so much climate town for all you do, i mean it from the bottom of my heart as a concerned earthling
The "renewables" side does the same thing. And they do it with the power of the government
@@LitheInLitotes never said they didnt
Such as? Please cite a single one @@LitheInLitotes
I had an archaeological project in Ponca City, OK, and learned of a Conoco oil spill into a historic black neighborhood. It rendered the neighborhood unlivable, but Conoco still had to be forced to buy out the homes and put a park over it to try to revitalize the soil. We were warned to wear latex gloves even under our work gloves, and to stop digging when we hit the groundwater cause it was still so full of toxic material.
I told my therapist about this; she had grown up in Ponca City and had never heard of it. It took place in 1988, well within her lifetime.
My homeschooled teen is the person who introduced me to your channel, so I guess you could say that you're a part of our school curriculum, Easter eggs and all, deep in the heart of Texas.
*clap clap clap clap*
YO! If you wouldn't mind, can you give your teen an hour break in the next few days and say, "Climate Town sends their regards"?
i'm sure there's no indoctrinating goin on here.
none at all! @@jerryw6699
You might want to start watching James Lindsay and comprehending how this guy parallels the Japanese Communist Kohei Saito’s definition of capital. Then watch Tony Heller as he reads from headlines decades ago that climate alarmists enjoy regurgitate. Finally, explain to your daughter how cheap, reliable petroleum and natural gas can be increased in production as the wind turbines are frozen solid during Texas winters. Do you want energy blackouts like California in Texas? This video is propaganda for Big Green who make $400,000 to $600,000 per turbine paid for by the US government.
Rollie, as a fellow earth scientist (undergrad geology/grad geography), I absolutely love what you're doing with your videos. Thank you for doing this and for sharing your research and knowledge with us. 💙💚💙💚💙💚
Finding actually GOOD books in school libraries is like an easter egg hunt.
Yep
[25%]Democrat propaganda here
[25%]Rebulican propaganda there
[50%]And in the middle we have the oil company books
maybe it’s because i went to a decent school, but we had tons of different books in my library.
@@heartycoffee4754 did you guys have anything from orwell?
i asked if my online friends had read 1984 when i had gotten an assignment in school and there were 2 kids who went to a school in a gated community (the school was literally inside the walls of the community)
they were the only americans who had him in their library at all until i found another rich kid (he is set to inherit a company you could name if i told you who his father is) on IRC. Democrat or republican, you could not find any of his books in the "poorer" school.
Maybe the real easter egg hunt is finding a response from Rollie
I just finished the first Mistborn book and it was pretty rad.
WHY ISN'T THIS IN THE NEWS!!? I'm genuinely shocked this isn't more reported
Because they are in on it.
Noam Chomsky has some ideas about that…
The news is being used for propaganda, or at least pretending to be ignorant of it?!? OMG THE SHOCK, THE AWE
@@scaredyfish I would be remiss if I didn't recommend that people also read Parenti's book on the topic. Both "Inventing Reality" and "Manufacturing Consent" are absolutely rich with case-studies and lay out compelling explanations for how mass media is used as a tool by the ruling class to gain and maintain power. But, I would argue, Parenti's book is written in more accessible prose, with his characteristic style and sense of humor, and presented from a uniquely working-class perspective which neither Herman nor Chomsky had the background to provide.
"Manufacturing Consent" has, ironically, benefited from the final filter in the propaganda model it lays out- that of ideology- because, in contrast to "Inventing Reality", it does not make an explicit case for communism. Nevertheless, both are invaluable, and reading either will leave one with a much clearer understanding of exactly how mass media manipulates and with the critical lens to be able to spot that manipulation.
@@Dysfunctionality15 Thanks, I’ll check it out!
I remember being disgusted in grade school back in the 80's in Montana when we had to take some of that fossil fuel propaganda course work. So, one bit of hope is that at least some of the kids will see through the BS like I did.
Honestly I think many of these kids will be absolutely freaking *furious* about it when they realize which gives me hope. Anger will hopefully lead to action 👊🔥
I don't know what you mean by BS about the fossil fuels? They are just one source of energy...the children's books should mention that there are other sources of energy too.
My question is: Why doesn't this tab about climate change from the UN here have any way to have the usual discussion that other articles have. There are things written in it that are not true scientifically!
I appreciate my Montana education unlike your ungrateful complaints. Did the acid rain scare effect your brain too?
@@shaynefowley5689 So how much does Exxon Mobil pay you to say that?
When I was in 12th grade some in my high school (including myself) participated in an innovation contest organised by Audi. The goal was to create a consumerist business idea to supposedly fight against climate change (in fact, that was just Audi greenwashing and promotion of neoliberal ways of (not) fighting against climate change). You know, this "free enterprise will fix all" thing. I'm actually thankful my environmental science teacher proposed that, because it is my participation in that contest what opened my eyes to what greenwashing is, and that spark of curiosity marked the start of a significant ideological change.
I was born and raised in the Oklahoma School system. I moved my family to Western NY largely so I could give my kids a better education than I got. Thanks for that Easter egg of validation.
Also, I love your channel and recommend you all the time. You’re doin’ the work and it shows.
I'm new to this guy, and the title of this video had me super worried. I actually came here expecting to tear into misinformation but it looks like he's not a lying shitbag. Quite happy about that.
I was also born and raised in Oklahoma and don’t remember any petroleum propaganda. Other than a few shit teachers the education seemed fine.
Nothing will top the cognitive whiplash of going on OERB field trips to Haliburton to hear propaganda not even a year apart from when my dad got laid off from there
I'm sorry for your dad but also f*ck Haliburton.
Always gotta look on the bright side. 😎👍
thank you for making this, from someone who graduated from an oklahoma high school just a couple of years ago. the oil propaganda is as rich as the people who make it. i never learned about climate change in school but had (not science) teachers talk about how they think it's just fear-mongering. between all of this, being able to see jackpumps from the windows of our residences, and now with prageru having gotten permission to be used as "education," i admit i have little hope. the conservatives claim that lgbt and gnc people existing in public is indoctrination but are happy to destroy the future as long as they get a few dollars right now. it is sad and it is sick.
have hope make a change be active
Solidarity, young one. You know what to do.
The people responsible for the world being the way it is do exist, they have names and addresses, and it is an American right to protest injustice.
@@LexYeenits past the piint of protest
You know what is still like a hidden Easter egg? Most of the Northeast and entire Midwest. I would love to see a video from this channel discussing how the Rust Belt is where people should be moving for climate considerations. I know there are some urbanist channels already showing us love but I think your channel could reach more with this important message.
and keep up the amazing work please :]
Keep your promise, Rollie!
Its crazy how this video made me realize this happened to me, back in elementary school. We all got called to the caf for what we assumed was a speach or something, and it was, a big 2 hour long speach by some local natural gas company, and they gave everyone these weird water facet purifers, and shower heads that had horrible pressure, and booklets and cartoons about the company. We even got shirts. I suddenly understand now why some will never change their mind, because they've been indoctrinated since young.
Wait this happened to me to!! It was Exxon 😭 I didn’t even realize
Be glad you didn't go home thinking you could change into a girl at age 7.
Took me a minute to understand why they were handing out water purifiers.
Right and left nuts are indoctrinated and indoctrinate others. Accept it.
Damn, it makes me sad to think about all the people who grew up being taught oil industry propaganda instead of actual science
Im honestly baffled by America at this point
Goes to show that you can be successful while also being extremely dysfunctional
@@dj_koen1265 There doesn't have to be a connection between a nation's success and an honest education. You could make an argument that having an understanding of reality as we know it should be a right for every citizen and I would agree, but not having one doesn't necessarily harm the US economy or its influence.
@@BoYangTang I mean it absolutely does harm the American economy since all modern economies run on having a highly educated population that can keep making new products to stay ahead, there's a reason why the % of a population with a university degree is so highly correlated to living standards. At the same time it absolutely also hurts American influence abroad as the US keeps electing presidents that are disasterous for foreign relations like Bush and Trump, because of this there is now serious talk about having the EU replace NATO in Europe. I don't think Americans truly comprehend how much their global influence is balanced on a knife's edge, if Trump wins the next election that will likely be the end of NATO and serious American influence in Europe.
I went to a private school which had the same workbook about the wonders of petroleum in the curriculum two years running. This prompted me to insist on leaving that school. Even at 12 yo I was appalled.
How did that go?
Sounds like one of the issues is also a lack of public funding for schools.
Great and important video, as always!
I bet these industries would also lobby against the public funding of the schools to keep them reliant on their money...
Nah, the issue is how the money is distributed. It's one of the things I'm truly surprised I don't see more people talking about. The school district system is awful and is designed to make sure the lower classes never catch up. All taxes for education should be collected by the state and then distributed based on school population. No politician, D or R, would ever vote for this because it would adversely affect their children.....
finding out there's a new Climate Town video is like finding the easter egg with a dollar bill in it. pure, unadulterated happiness!
I remember getting one with like 8 quarters in it when I was 5 and thinking, "i guess I'm gonna retire?"
@@ClimateTown Should have bought a house with it, that was your best chance.
I'm a certified Technology Education Teacher in New York. During the content specialty test, a required test to be certified, asked at least two questions about oil drilling. I've always used it as an example of you can be asked anything on the test, but now I think there may be some lobbying behind that.
I am not a science teacher, but as an English teacher, I do promote solarpunk concepts and climate change when it comes to anything regarding nature and literature. I've even themed my classroom after Solarpunk before. I've used Climate Town videos as, we could say, easter eggs for my students to become informed. Love your channel!
Ayyy! Tell your students thanks for watching. And tell yourself thanks from me. You know what, I'll just do it. Thanks.
What if I told you that certain interests also bet on their propaganda to influence and manipulate you. Did you stop to think critically when Rollie explains that solar cycles do not warm the planet but, you are to believe that solar panels will provide enough energy to heat your home during winter? Odd that cheap, reliable energy in the form of coal, natural gas, and petroleum are demonized. I can add more of these products when requested by people when cold but, I cannot do the same for solar and wind. Now imagine losing that ability because certain interest groups take money from foreign governments soliciting their propaganda. Imagine the Uighurs in Chinese concentration camps producing all those solar panels with coal fired plants burning kilotons of carbon dioxide because you ignored critical thinking.
It's crazy that you can read a sentence like "These books need to be banned for indoctrinating children" and have no clue what political belief the writer holds.
I don't know if this was pushed in front of me when I was growing up in the early 2000s, but gosh I'm thankful that I had books talking about how in the future there'd be awesome advancements in solar, wind, and nuclear. The idea of a car that could just drive forever on solar was so much cooler to me than whatever oil propaganda they're trying to push.
I do remember from school going on a field trip to this prototype sustainable house built by a local university - and it made me want to have a house like that someday.
I hope that by the time I have kids of my own in elementary school, the fossil fuel industry will be dying.
For those "design an automobile" activities I always defaulted to putting both solar panels AND rocket propulsion on everything
I'm guessing you didn't go to school in Oklahoma.
The US was on track to phase out coal and gas completely by the 2000s, until the nuclear build-out was halted by certain groups. In hindsight it makes you wonder whether those groups (FotE, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, etc.) aren't in fact fronts for the fossil fuel industry with how effectively they strangled the biggest threat to fossil fuels with sheer FUD...
Here in Germany the last nuclear plants just got turned off with more old, nasty coal plants being fired up along with newly constructed gas plants. It really feels like we're going backwards on all accounts, sorry to say.
How the hell is it legal for the petroleum industry to lobby public education hell even any company. America is a wacky scary place.
Because in the U.S., nearly all of our politicians are bought and paid for by big corporations. Those that aren’t, can’t last.
Even those that actually act against a particular sector-say, against Big Oil, will in turn be financed by some other equally evil corporation.
In the U.S., politics and the government is all about money. You can thank the Citizens United ruling and the Republican Party for this current state of affairs.
Why would you impede on their constitutional right to free speech? Do you hate freedom? /s
@@TherconJair America is one of the only countries with free speech constitutionally and public education is government funded most other places without accepting lobbying from big oil. A company is also not a person so cannot have rights to free speech. The things you talk of are inherently American concepts. I live in Australia and as a protestor and political person I have never needed to use "free speech" because fair criticism and most other communication or protest are allowed l, there are protected groups though where discrimination is illegal. Unlike America you cannot just be racist without it being breaking the law for example. Australian education has up to date climate change education as a mandatory subject so we avoid misinformation like this.
@@barchelCompanies need some amount of free speech or an independent media would be impossible. The issue is what counts as speech.
@@jerry3790 that's called advertising, companies don't have "speech"
I used to deny climate science when I was in high school, and I believed that one Steven crowder video he made but that entirely crumbled when I found potholer54’s absolute devastation of that video, and I got wiser. Thanks Potholer
Yeah once you break out of the cycle you start noticing how all those.channels avsolutely lie
Keep it up Rollie! Another great video. It's unbelievable how the oil industry keeps dropping these Easter Eggs of propaganda all over our public schools. Thanks for bringing this up!
I just gotta point out that Mr. Peanut teaching kids about digestion is really the most sane thing covered in this video.
Luckily in my country we had proper education on climate change. One year we even had a whole week with the theme of climate change, I think it was during Easter. Eggcelent video as always, Rollie!
you can't just say that and not tell what your country is 😂
@@prplt Denmark. The Easter part is not true though 😅
In my school we also had a couple classes on climate change and human rights violations by companies
But it was a teacher run event
The school itself didn’t really care
One of the stories was about a group of local people who opposed corporate interests
And then the megacorp hired private military companies to get rid of those locals
Straight out of a sci fi dystopia lol
WOW HOW DID HE DO IT - you're a real one out here. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for making this channel and all of you and your teams efforts. great content and I love the Easter Egg :)
Edit: Let's pretend I did not just learn that I can actually use a super thank you to leave a message, because that's totally not what happened here.
hahahahahahahaha Super thank you for the super thank you. Much appreciated.
This man talks about all the most delicious topics on the internet. A good video like this is like finding an Easter egg. To be honest, I’m surprised you remain so optimistic about change. Genuinely appreciate your channel and videos and I hope you’re doing well.
If change gets you optimistic, you'll be living a pretty happy life because change is inevitable.
@@gilian2587Just because change is inevitable doesn't mean good change is
@@psy-fi64 That's why working in Wall Street is such a good idea. Those guys in finance make money off of change. Good change, bad change... doesn't really matter. As long as the market is moving and you're collecting fees investing other people's money however the markets may blow -- it's all gravy to you.
@@SigFigNewton Better than being left to the cruel whims of stochastics and fate.
It's strange to me why oil companies are still so resistant to decarbonization. Geothermal energy and heating requires the same fracking expertise that fossil fuels do, so these companies could easily just change business models and still make billions without having to change their workforce. And the earlier they jump on it, the bigger the profits they'll make when it inevitably goes mainstream in the near future too. Fortunately, Chevron and Exxon are starting to see the writing on the wall and have started investing heavily into geothermal energy and heating.
Shhh
@@blimibarker4089NO
They just do both.
Geothermal is better than fossil fuels for sure, but we gotta try our best to regulate the fuckers or the same level if not worse of local environmental destruction will persist. I'd wager at least 7 of the 8 billion people in the world vastly underestimate the importance of groundwater systems, and most of those which do are farmers with a know-how of their local area
The drilling is usually done by separate specialist contractors, not the petro corp directly, is part of it. Plus there just so much more money in petro than the drilling part.
It’s crazy how a culture war around public schools and books can lead to decreased funding support and then leads to an increase in support funding from fossil fuels. If only schools had enough Easter eggs they’d be able to reject those funds
Easter egg! My k-12 schools did not have any specific climate change education and I went to a lot of underfunded public schools but overall they did really try to teach us the importance of science and how to understand it.
Every science DCMT (not sure what it stands for but it's the Connecticut standardized tests) from 5-12th grade always had a question about about media literacy, like which of these is would be considered the best source to get information about the effectiveness of a new cancer drug?
A) An op-ed in the New York Times
B) A paper written by a biologist published in a reputable science journal
C) An academic paper written by an economist
D) The website of the pharma company that makes it
And an open ended question about what makes an experiment valid where you would have to write something about it being replicable, have an Independent, dependent and control variable, and have multiple trials.
I can no longer tell you the difference between Mitosis and Meiosis or name the three different types of rocks but I am great at sniffing out bullshit. 🐣
It is incredible the useless bs they teach in schools, and the incredibly important stuff they intentionally leave out. Almost like a school system of indoctrination.
Oil execs: "We want to stop talking about climate change"
All of us: "Because you fixed it right?"
Oil execs:
All of us: "Right?"
Finding this channel is like finding an Easter Egg! Always willing to share and talk about your videos to people. The editing, humor, and ability to educate and get people interested in educating themselves on these topics (like myself) is just amazing!
This channel and its messages are so important!
Lmao the 60 minutes cut got me laughing.
Rollie you embody all the cool stuff that happened in the 90s I can feel it in your videos. Never lose sight of keeping us engaged!
I found this channel last spring after the gas prices video was uploaded. Ever since, I’ve loved every second of these videos, even the promotions at the end are worth sitting through, because it feels like you can find some nice Easter eggs. Keep it up Rollie, you’re one of my favorite channels on this platform and you’ve also been my gateway to other long-ish-form educational content.
Well thank you very much for staying through to the bitter end. That's where the really good ones are.
Hello. You're doing the lords work here. My father died just recently in the flooding in greece and i think i'm going to now devote my life to fight against climate change because it is the biggest challenge we have ever faced as a species. Thank you sir.
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The problem is that climate change also happens naturally. We can never "fight" it, only thing we can do is reduce our pollution as much as we can and adapt.
@@UgandanAirForcethat is silly.. of course we can fight it. You are just repeating the same talking points that big oil has been pumping out into the zeitgeist. Reducing pollution is important yes.. but we need to take “war” like energy to the task of transitioning to renewable energy world wide. The only sane reaction to the dilemma is to throw all we have at it and make whatever changes are required. It isn’t reasonable to stay in a burning house and convince yourself all you can do is block the door to the burning room with a mattress. This is for the survival of humans and our planet. We can’t just choose to extinct ourselves because it’s easier to imagine letting our habitat be destroyed then it is to imagine going green and controlling capitalism
The ice cores from Antarctica are saturated at every depth with live bacteria. The cores mean nothing about historical gas levels because the microbes alter gas concentrations.
For some reason a local park near me has two self serve gas pumps as part of it's playground... the grooming is real obvious.
Sorry say what now?
They're sheets of metal cut out to look like gas pumps with nozzles attached by a chain. It has a little awning over the top with a sign that says "self serve." Why? Because pumping gas is fun, gas is made out of dinosaurs and kids LOVE dinosaurs. [SMH] Too bad I can't post pics in the comments.
Instead of something fun like a plane or a boat or a train you get a fucking gas pump, because that's what kids love.
This is why I’m worried to have a child. Can’t wait until the revolution against this stuff happens, it’s insane how brainwashed the majority of true American population is, and that includes me. I had no idea the problem was this serious. Great vid man, hoping a lot of people see this!
Also the idea that anyone thinks these kids will grow up and never learn about micro plastics or oil spills or greed is crazy to me, they’re really only giving themselves ~20 years before that time bomb blows up in their face 😂 if we don’t do anything to them first
Yeah you will suffer from lack of gasoline and food before you realize why. Leftist indoctrination turns kids into idiots who sit in the middle of streets stopping traffic while right wing indoctrination turns kids into people who love their families and prosperity.
@@ryanthoms So what do you believe we can do about it?, bc not every state will give a damn about public pressure, and even then, not even the public may give a damn.
@@ButWhyMe...There are factors within your control, such as your personal consumption of animal products :)
@@dinosroar7954 your consumption of animal products will never ever in a million years be as impactful on the climate compared to the amount that major corporations (not just oil companies) output in a single day. go blow up an oil rig
luckily kids now in days have youtube, as someone that has siblings going thru school in Texas right now, I can say without a certain shadow of a doubt that kids learn a LOT more from the internet and youtube than you'd think... for better or for worse
Any Ideas on getting more of the better than worse? PragerU is disturbing to see
@@fionafiona1146PragerU luckily is horrible at teaching. Despite being accepted as a curriculum by two states thus far, it is horribly planned such that their propaganda likely won't stick. Zoe bee looked at their published lesson plan and found it to be poorly done by their own stated metric.
And if you ever seen PragerU videos, they are horribly boring and designed to evoke anger. They often rely on the audience being aware of the subject albeit ill informed. Not effective against kids. It is preaching to the choir or maybe convinces people already on the fence. Most kids would find them extremely boring unless they are already conservative leaning which is unlikely. Most people don't get political until they enter highschool.
So glad you mentioned the OERB. And they’re continuing it by making PragerU part of the curriculum as well, alongside thought leaders like Florida.
Just here to give the video a thumbs up while watching it ad-free on Nebula. 👍
Seriously, thank you for doing what you do, Rollie- in a just world, your videos wouldn't be needed because we would all be combating climate change together, but in a slightly-less-just world, your hilarious, educational videos would get billions of views. I always hope I'll randomly run into you on the streets of Brooklyn... but you look like every single dude who lives here.
in a just world our societal frameworks wouldn't hand monopolies to individuals who (ab)use them for personal benefit (this rabbit hole is deep my friend), which would mean that climate change would have been addressed before it would have started. But delving into this is a bit long and got some surprising insights into what is wrong and why that is.
The dairy industry does the same thing. Giving teachers and daycare facilities learning resources that just push dairy products despite our re-worked food guide (Canada) basically eliminating them.
(US) We had got milk and food pyramid ads up as posters in our lunchroom when I was in school.
I dont get what the issue with dairy is, its yummy i love me cheese
afaik cattle is the single most greenhouse gas intensive livestock rn. also, even ignoring all of the animal cruelty, large parts of rain forests are being cut down to make space for soy plants to feed livestock and mostly cattle, which I think we can agree is not a good thing. dairy and meat are not as important as we're being told, and we could cut a lot of emissions by not consuming them as much. @@peabrain6872
@@peabrain6872 Too much calcium is unhealthy for the bones, and multiple sources of food already provide an adequate amount needed to be healthy so a lot of milk isn't that necessary.
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Your videos have the perfect combination of information and comedy to get me through the sometimes depressing outlook we have with the environment at times (video vibe is alway🔥). Also appreciate the direct callouts for things anybody can do to make a difference! I'm gonna send everyone I know an easter egg with links to your videos inside 🐣 😉
Thanks for this video, my son's school just sent home a handout for 2023 Energy Day Colorado, A FREE Family friendly, STEM festival for students at East High in Denver that just happens to be put on by Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) and Consumer Energy Education Foundation (CEEF). I'm thinking of going just to see this in person since it's a short bike ride from my house.
I graduated from high school in 2016. Here was the extent of my education about climate change:
In middle school, they told us that there was a hole in the ozone layer caused by CFCs. We banned CFCs and the hole was now shrinking.
I learned nothing about climate change in high school because the only science classes I took were Biology, chemistry and physics so none of them talked about nature science.
if you were taught physics, math and biology, you have a great foundation to make useful estimates about the state of the ecosystem. You do not need special classes dedicated to ... natural? science? What the fuck is a "natural" science? Are there UNnatural sciences?
Am I having a fever dream?
but....biology, chemistry and physics ARE nature sciences......
@@zalf1641 _there is no other kind of science_
Wait you took the three types of science most directly involved in climate science and didn't learn anything about climate change???
Probably to avoid politics, teach you science, and assume you’ll study climate change in college if it interests you. Are you suggesting people learn climate change instead of chemistry, biology, and physics, the core of understanding climate change? Thats like saying I wanted to learn my senior college classes in high school before I understood the basis for understanding the college classes.
Man, your video’s are a good find, kind off like an Easter egg in the world of TH-cam!
How do you cope with knowing all of this and not losing faith in humanity though? Whatever it is keep doing what you do.
Yo! Thanks for watching through to the end. Much appreciated. And I think getting to spend all my time reading and writing about it actually helps. Working on it kinda dissipates the stress.
I remember being a kid and my favourite books were about industrial processes. One of my most read books back then was oddly enough about oil spills
You were on the debate team.
That's not a question.
I coached & judged Lincoln-Douglas for 15 years.
You were on a school debate team. Subscribed.❤
Love this! I personally get so much satisfaction from taking my kids on public transit and showing them that the car is not the only way to get from A to B, they enjoy it too!
The Climate Deniers Playbook is better than any Easter egg I found as a child.
One time I found an easter egg in a drainpipe that was a "special egg" and they gave me a whole basket. I dunno the context, I was like 4 years old, but I just remember thinking, "i guess this is how people get rich."
The editing and cinematography goes crazy on this one.
I can’t believe my cousins get to live in a real life dystopia. Like wow, America is ticking all the boxes!
Dearest Rollie, I was quite sad to miss your second town hall, especially after having made the first (lil easter egg: I was the inaugural tshirt sale, we took a picture, right up there in top 10 moments of my life). Hope all is well and that you continue producing such top notch content that simultaneously depresses and lifts me up.
YO! Thanks so much for being the first T-Shirt purchase. Remember, I will buy it back from you for $20 at any time, but there will be questions asked. Thanks for jumping in!
I love your work Rollie!! I've been a fan for a while now and watched all your videos(some several times). I love your writing, editing, and presentation style! I'm always super excited to see your new videos & I've showed them to quite a few people to help change their minds about climate science. Your videos have inspired me to care more about the politics of climate science. Thanks for making content!! I can't wait for more!! Also I should really mention an Easter egg so you see this
Yo! Thanks for watching and double thanks for getting more involved and triple thanks for the comment.
I think this channel is my favorite Easter Egg. I love that you make climate science funny, snappy, and kind of cool lol. Making fun feels a lot better than the dry "fact check" style a lot of other people online use.
I had to come here all the way from Nebula to leave a comment about easter eggs. Don't you wish Nebula had comments too? I do. Amazing work as always...thank you for being part of the solution.
YO! thanks for watching
This could have been 24 videos. I love your professional educationally packed content.
When I taught 7th grade, I had the OERB kits in my classroom. They send emails that present it as a great curriculum written by teachers and give you free STEM kits if you go to their free PD day. I might still have one of those horrific kits laying around somewhere. I could never bring myself to use the leftover kits in my room or go to the PD. It felt too much like propaganda.
Thank you.
As a non-American teacher who wrote my science bachelor thesis about climate change... man this sucks to see. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Luckily this is a big part of the curriculum in Norway already. Oh and... uh.. easter eggs
As an American I've never seen this outside of videos like this. Also as an American I have to say no matter how disgusting someones ideology is (in this case oil message) we have a first amendment right to free speech. This needs to be extremely broad freedom to prevent corrupt politicians. We need to focus on other parts such as the donations to schools forcing the propaganda with it.
@@xathridtech727 Yeah, I agree and to elabotate; I am not at all surprised oil and gas companies do stuff in order to try to front their own cause. That's expected. I take umbridge with the fact that they're footing so much of the bill for schools. Funding coming from oil companies IS a problem.
Hell, funding from any kind of biased lobby with an agenda is a problem.
Free speech is super duper important, but the education to call people out on bullshit shouldn't be provided by the peddlers of said bullshit. It's a conflict of interest.
@@xathridtech727corruption like a $600,000 subsidiary to wind turbine companies per wind turbine. Or the Uighurs housed in Chinese concentration camps forced to produce solar panels from coal fired plants so that you can imagine that you are doing something great for the environment. Now imagine the 14 million trees you need to cut in Scotland for their wind turbines. I cannot imagine freezing from reliance on wind turning or solar absence in winter. But Texans in 2021 did. How little you appreciate coal, natural gas, and petroleum until you realize how spoiled our modern world is today.
@@shaynefowley5689 I don't think you understand my comment. Corruption comes from silencing speech. You are free enough to tell people about that. Also there. Are positives and negatives to every system. Coal , oil, and natural gas have never really been clean as far as forced labor or green energy
@@xathridtech727 that is the conversation people need to discuss. Sulfur was removed from coal fired plants here in the US. But the dogmatic tendencies I observe in regards to climate change, you can spot my frustration. There is no climate crisis. Going from 350 ppm to 425 ppm CO₂ in 100 years is fine. Plants need about 1000 ppm to produce optimal growth. If humanity reaches 2000 ppm - yes, warning bells will go off. That is why I am for nuclear development.
All I want - is a documentary crew to interview the kids of these parents in 10 years.
How many of these kids still have a relationship with their conservative parents, have limited interaction with them or have cut them out of their lives entirely…
I think the data will be helpful, but also beneficial to finally show conservatives that they have no clue, what their kids want.
I don't even live in USA, but I binge on your videos. You guys are funny, passionate, educated, informative and you also produce high quality content on topics that are really important. I'm always so excited when I see a channel with real content and not some reaction/press-the-button/media-dramas. There truly is an oasis in YT algorithms and it is Climate Town.
NotJustBikes is also great, and I'm glad that you guys work together sometime.
want even more highly entertaining and informative content? check out f.d signifier, he highlights parts of the black experience in america, and makes mini-documentaries, I could not recommend him enough, I also recommend kat blaque as well.
I love that you add thanks to all the scientists and journalists whose work you used for a video as an Easter Egg in the end. They deserve to be at least acknowledged!😊
I kinda drank the oil&gas industry Kool Aid in University doing an Earth Science degree. Big Oil was sponsoring the auditoriums, classrooms and field trips. It was a fun degree NGL. A lot of awesome people work for these oil companies, it isn’t all grim. Or perhaps these were the lucky ones who got the sweetest jobs mapping out the sea floor for oil… Anyways, the real world after graduation hit me like a train. I worked in the oil patch for 2 years. I just remember staying in crappy motels for months in the middle of nowhere (paid for) or worse, dry work camps with strict rules and bland food. I would do a lot of grunt work flagging down trees for the bulldozer to make a path for pipeline construction sites. To this day, I still don’t know how I could work 12h days, 24 days straight with 4 days of rest per month. It’s a shame because I always wanted a cool job at an oil company. But they don’t really care about us.
Wtf you ok?
@@aturchomicz821 I’m fine now that I moved to France. The working hours over there are normal.
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Keep provide the reliable natural gas and petroleum flowing our European brethren. The bird killing and whale tinnitus causing wind turbines will cause mass extinctions long before natural gas can do anything on temperatures. In fact, you can be paid by our governments $400,000 to $600,000 per turbine and lease on farmland without their permission for $2,500 per year. Even better when you pay $50,000 for a U.S. Rep or $100k for a US Senator to agree to wind turbine demands. Your profession is what eliminates energy insecurity in Africa. Oh, wait! The IMF rejects FF loans to poor countries because they must buy the solar and wind turbines that Big Green require the little guys to buy. Don’t be fooled by useful idiots.
The most selfish statement I've ever heard. Oil companies are bad because they didnt look after me. Perhaps you got exactly what you deserve.
11:40 the vertical monitor with your premiere bins is the reason i subscribed
That's beyond f'd up. I had no idea education was getting so messed up. Thank you for reporting this. I get so overwhelmed at the current state of the world but content like this is much needed, especially in this format. Easter egg 😏
It's a wild world out there. Who would have thought all this ruckus about indoctrinating kids was real, just not what most parents are freaking out about.
@@ClimateTownI mean it still is real with the things Republicans are mentioning, you just can’t be arsed to actually look up some of the examples. Some of the choices are silly but there are legitimately some of those books that are pornographic, you only ever hear about the weakest examples.
Maybe try looking past your bias and doing a deep dive, hell, if you’re somehow right you get to own the chuds epic style!
@@keemstarkreamstar7069"just trust me implicitly, right wingers are actually right, I'm definitely not speaking in dog whistles"
I bet you assume all trans people are pedophiles too lol
Sometimes I'm not sure whether the cutaways/references are easter eggs or flash grenades 😅
For real though, can't tell you how much I appreciate this channel, and what an exciting experience it was to watch the intro change from "climate science and policy student" to "climate science and policy master's degree holder"
Kids are rebellious and react poorly to being lied to. They see through BS. These tactics will backfire.
As a resident of the shit state of Oklahoma, I regret to inform you their tactics work very well.
We have a bad company where I live - BASF - chemical company that also produces pesticides. They regularly invite pupils from schools to go their facility. No wonder, they are seen as good by many here even though we have substantial issues with pesticide-contamination. Even our drinking water is now contaminated - a professor of chemistry analyzed it.