Heading for Extinction and What to do About it | Extinction Rebellion
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- This talk by Dr. Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion will cover two main things:
The ecological crisis - the latest science on what risks there are and our current trajectory which includes the possibility of abrupt (i.e. near term dramatic climate change) and human extinction.
Understanding our emotional response and about appropriate responses.
The basic premise of this talk is to tell the truth and ask us all to act accordingly and consistently with the information, including our understanding of what actually enables change to happen in the world.
Updates:
*Extinction Rebellion apologises for using the holocaust as a comparator to climate change. We understand this is deeply offensive and painful for some communities and we apologise for our error. This comparator is no longer used is more recent versions of this talk and has now been edited out of this one.
**The information about puffins is inaccurate.
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Back here in April 2022 to say that this is probably one of the most relevant talks in history in the shaping of our fate. It definitely changed my life. Sadness, grief, love and rage. To rebel for a higher law is both legitimate and necessary. Rebel for Democracy, Rebel for Life !
its nice to see that other people accept and seek out reality. I'm a housewife, mother, gardener, cleaner......typical. But as soon as the subject of climate comes up my views give me the title of conspiracy nut. But I did study science and I accepted that there was a real threat the day I learned about feedback loops.
Grief inducing and scary but ultimately inspiring and this is what I’ve been looking for to channel my feelings of being ‘just one person’ and being powerless to help. Thank you.
I'm so grateful for this talk. It changes everything. Rebel!
Thank you, Gail Bradbrook! This is the best, most inspiring, helpful and motivating video I have seen in years! It gives me hope and it inspires me.
You give me consolation, that I am not mad or insane in my grief. You give me hope that there CAN be done something about it. And I feel less alone now, than I felt before.
Let's do it. Or die trying (well, we'll die anyway... so, as was said: It is up to us to decide whether we just leave a stain on this world, or a mark).
Big love and thank you!
I'm on my way to translating it into Italian. Let's encourage people to spread what is being said here in all the main languages. English is spoken worldwide, this is true, but billions of people do not, and to reach them too is of paramount importance.
This is not just as simple as the old mercury tube climbing. So much more. The planet that we live is about to change in drastic ways. No one can tell you exactly but it will both be unexpected and catastrophic. Atmospheric circulation and water distribution will change almost overnight. The comfort years will shortly be over. I wish everyone luck and do prep as best you can.
13:57 -- There is a good reason why the Permian-Triassic extinction event closely mirrors what is happening today: the carbon we are putting into the atmosphere is the very same carbon that caused the Permian-Triassic extinction event 250 million years ago. It was scrubbed out of the atmosphere by the megaflora, and eaten by the megafauna. When they died, 64 million years ago, the carbon got stored as coal, crude oil, and methane (natural gas). It remained in the ground where it was not causing any harm, until some idiot human came along and said, "Look at what I found." Now, we are putting the carbon that caused 97% of all life to go extinct back into the atmosphere, where it can cause 90% of life to go extinct, once again. And on top of it all, the idiots who have driven us to the point of extinction were paid a ridiculous amount of money for doing so. But that makes sense, murdering 7.5 billion people is a lot of work.
This is actually a brilliant concept. So true.
@@sr-astrophysics Getting rid of modern-technology would be good though. Though I would agree that it's not feasible, too many people have a fondness of technology and the increased living standards if affords them, and a large number of people would simply not have the means to survive without it.
That's an interesting perception apart from the last part. Of those 7.6 how many would be alive without the mode of production we have had? perhaps not more than the pre-industrial peak of about a billion. If I die as a result of climate change I will not consider that murder (maybe negligent homicide given that we could have prevented this situation) but as the flipside of being at the end of a long series of large litters of children who all survived. The murder victims will be the unknown billions who will never be born. The dead outnumber we living about 15 to one. By how much might the yet-to-live have outnumbered us if we'd given them the chance.
WTH! we got too many as it is.Becoming more conscious of ourselves and relationship with environment would help.Quality over quantity@@hamishsutherland3926
@@hamishsutherland3926 Perhaps this civilisation like those before it is coming to a natural close.See The Yuga Cycles Boris Fritz
I like the fact that this talk takes emotions into consideration, it was only awhile ago I heard someone talk about the sort of struggle enviromental scientists go through for the first time, not something I had considered before. Good talk.
I have been dealing with losing what I love for a long time. Someone suggested I embrace my pain and anger for what it was: a deep love for all life, for which I had trouble including humans, whom I blamed. Doing better now.
Thank you so much for this incredibly powerful talk. This should be mandatory viewing for everyone on the planet.... The grief is so intense and as you say in layers and yet whatever time I have left I will do everything I can to be a part of the movement that brings about changes to at least try to reverse or slow the dreadful impact of human choices.
Thank you! This is one of the most important lectures I have seen since... since..., I don't know when! Very important and so pressing. I signed up as soon as I finished watching and would love to take part in peaceful civil disobedience in my country. There is no time left to loose... No time at all!
A fantastic talk. Extinction Rebellion, through its incredibly well-organised, well-researched and self-aware forms of global protest and public education, have given me and many like me a new sense of power as agents in our own futures and that of generations to come.
I love her heart and maybe for some, this is the best way. For me, it has been all about eliminating the commute from my daily life (i.e. living where I work, working where I live), eating vegetarian and organic and hardly ever getting into a fossil-fueled vehicle. For me, THIS is direct action. The result is that I am healthier than almost everyone I know, look about 10-15 younger than my age, and am fairly happy with my life. The only thing I miss is the community of shared experience, meaning because I am one of the rare people living like this, it can be lonely. But if you step off the bandwagon and join me, I will feel less lonely. Oh, and I make and drive electric-assist tricycles! Which for me, is the greatest source of joy in my daily living. I think the irony of this crisis we are in is that people hear all the fear around climate change and they actually think that life will be worse if they make the necessary changes, when in fact, it gets better. That's the real tragedy of this mess that we are in.
@Donald McCarthy It indeed helps to question the social status attributed to flying. I love flying and believe that it is one of the things that will ultimately spur world peace; this, our ability to experience so many radically different cultures in a lifetime. But too often, people fly for business-- when teleconferencing could work-- or to an exotic locale to lay on a beach, just to impress their peers. There needs to be an increased recognition of the ecological burden of excess and unnecessary travel (that includes long work commutes).
@Donald McCarthy And it is interesting that you say that my life choices don't matter, when it in fact is the only thing that DOES. After all, I can't control what you or anyone else does, nor the choices that you make. Never underestimate the power of conscious choice.
Good. Same lifestyle here. Same thoughts as well: people do not realize that happiness is intimately connected with a balanced lifestyle and that conversely, living like a slovenly glutton results in misery.
I want to go further: vegetarian to vegan, eliminate single-use plastics, buy only thrift durable goods.
But yes, I love my bike ride to work every morning! I am 61 years old and my girlfriend is 21. We run together, but I have to wait for her. I am the thinnest in my office (I work in mass-transit) where most of the men look pregnant. I am rarely sick. I am rarely depressed except that I feel sad for young people.
Lovely, serious, and intimate. Courageous and generous. Thank you. 🕊
That's one of the best presentations I've seen, I've come to the exact same conclusions, so I might be a bit prejudiced in my diagnosis of the content. Great job, and a great job articulating, diagnosing, and executing. We probably won't stop this process, no one knows for sure, but some of us can't be stopped from trying, either by society, or ourselves....We must give up the idea of winning, and embrace the call to action....Tick-Tock....
This talk was the key moment for me - tipped me from being scared and asking why something wasn't being done, to doing something myself and getting involved. #ActNow
Thank you Gail for telling it like it is. I will be in Parliament Square to make a difference.
Thank You for this!!
A very informative and action-inspiring presentation. Just one contextualisation , the figure on puffin populations. I was so shocked by this that I went online to find out more. The figure of 33,000 puffins dropping to 570 is in fact in 20 monitored islands across Shetland. Whilst this is a tragic trend, in other parts of the UK puffin populations are reasonably robust, although puffins are included on the RSPB 'Red' list of vulnerable bird species. For example on Skomer Island off the coast of Wales there are 31,000, up from 14,000 in 2013. So its bad, but not as bad as that figure suggests.
thanks for the clarification
Thank you, Tessa. You've just done something which I'm very much in favour of; i.e. gone off and checked some facts and sent a contextualised/corrected version 'out there'.
One of my bugbears is the practice of just repeating unverified/de-contextualised statistics/facts!
I think this is a great example of running in the opposite direction, and keeping us straight on the facts. Thanks.
Our puffins in Norway have problems reproducing, because they have to look longer out to sea for food. You can't just count the older birds, you have to look at habitat, habitat, habitat.
@@vichara0 And I'll bet it's only one of your bugbears when it involves an opinion you disagree with, am I right? If it's an opinion you agree with, you don't care if they just pulled the statistic right out of their ass.
This should be on the news every night, you are so right.
Plant Trees everywhere,
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Actually....save our Forests.
ACTUALLY DOUBLE WHAMMY! DO BOTH SAVE FORESTS AND PLANT TREES EVERYWHERE !!! o.O
I've read that if we planted enough trees, we could counteract as much as 2/3 of all carbon released by humans. Maybe there's still hope, and the solution has been right under our noses all this time?
@@Galdethriel I don't know exactly and precisely and I challenge 'all good scientists' to think carefully about what is necessary for our planets survival. I would imagine that all large mature broadleaf deciduous trees sequester and recycle carbon adequately under normal conditions (now we are under abnormal conditions) ~ but how many of those do we have now and how many should we have planted some 50 years ago when all this was starting to happen... and how do we terraform our globe now with trees - to address as such? Calculating the breathable necessity through growth - I would imagine is not easy and quite possibly inaccuracies exist... (?). Now its all become seat of your pants stuff and I for one have enough headaches trying to understand the logic of others in considering technologies as we use them inadequately or over adequately... Certainly I would rather have trees than carbon capture machines any day and would rather save on essential resources to keep things in the ground... but there are many out there who will say differently... the idea of 5G has become a reality and it sucks - so dealing with all other parameters for preservation of wildlife and biodiversity is a real nightmare - when Governments won't listen to common sense we have a real problem on our hands :-/
@@Galdethriel My very astute scientific minded friend has only recently been introduced to THE VERY SERIOUS situation . And after a week he came back to me pretty stressed after giving it a bit of thought . He said the two big things we need to do NOW ARE get all the unemployed [plus any one else who wants the job doing it ]should be employed planting trees and the we need to build plants that turn sea water into usable water that can be brought directly to areas of drought.
Thank you. I feel like finally something is happening and I know excatly what to do. Thank you so much! - Berlin, let'sget movin!
Just joined the rebellion, so happy to see so many other people care about this!
It is appalling that this has not become a discourse among main stream economists, politicians and media.
in a way it is fine because it means that people are aware that we have a beautiful blue planet. at least we are
I'm just curious; After Al Gores' movie, what action did you take? I could ask that of any American, this isn't personal.
The best talk on the subject I have seen I think! Thank you
Thank you for this eye opener!
We say I love you to those we love and spend as much time with them as possible. Good bye cruel world!
Can you for one moment ponder the possibility that you're the creator of that world, Selin Cacao? By removing yourself from it, you're dismissing your role as steward of life on planet Earth. That's what love is about too, you know?
We have found the asteroid...it is us.
Tom Hall I was thinking we’re the cancer that kills its host.
Larry, If it were a cancer, there is a small chance that a cure might be found. I am increasingly doubtful that a cure can be found for us.
don't worry the cure for ourselves is us, we're the dumbest species on earth which destroys it's own support system, the problem is that so many other species have gone extinct and many more will disappear with us, because of us..
@@iriyabran At some point in the near future our hubris is destined to collide with the humility imposed by the boundaries of an unforgiving reality and our greatest insight might be that we were always the the greatest threat to life on earth during our brief moment in the sun.
And all of you trying to say humans are are the virus neglect simple facts.
Humans today give us the perfect example of sustainability.
Why don't you try to learn from them?
They have a 4-5 million year record after all.
Thanks Gail, awesome work keep it going!
Thank you. Not just for this, but Thomas Paine as well. His spirit lives on in England!
Excellent talk, thank you! We in the US really need a movement like this. I only saw a chapter in Los Angeles listed online. Since NYC could be underwater in the not too distant future, I wish demonstrations were enacted here. Even though NYC's billionaire class disown Trump, they are doing nothing to protect the city. The segment in the talk about the hedge fund managers scheming for their own safety was chilling - and enraging.
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Excellent Gail and tribe. This is excellent. Forward, onward, we are joining, plus we'll hv stuff to offer.
Thanks so much Gail. Sharing with like minded friends.
Thank you for your honesty. You are very brave. In our final moments I will be grateful there were people like you on this planet. Makes it all worth it. Ciao~
Congratulations Gail Bradbook. Highly, highly interesting and fact filled Speech.
An excellent presentation , simple,clear, fair. So it is our turn to act no time left !
80'000 views and counting.Not bad for a climate change response post.Love the work you're doing ER.
I hate confrontation. I'm very much a pacifist and rather not stir up trouble unless I can't handle the problem anymore.. But this.. This is something I have to stand up for. I can give up driving, I can give up Skyrim and Internet and all these other pastimes, but if I don't stand up and contribute to this, that's checkmate. That's the end of humanity, possibly with only the morally-questionable wealthy people surviving. Of all things you need to fight for, no matter who you are, we need to fight for the protection and sanctity of this planet..
Great video and a brilliant summary of the climate change problem. The intervention of Noam Chomsky is a very important message in terms of allies. Also a very good summary of the dismantling of green initiatives and how the government is going in the wrong direction entirely.
This is also an attack on those who are fuel poor and artificially keeps us dependent on gas to 'justify' fracking. Wherever we get our fossil fuels from communities suffer whether it is the refineries, petrochemical plants, landfills, incinerators, fracking, tar sands, gas and oil pipe lines, airports and airport expansion, coal fields etc. The Niger Delta and 'Cancer Alley' in Louisiana have suffered for years.
As Brian Monk says 'People don't live in gas fields, they die in them'. This applies to all fossil fuels,
Not Here, Not Anywhere.
I would like to add the importance of local resilience to the tool kit though and especially active transport, community level action on energy efficiency and local food. These are important ways of avoiding burnout as well as tackling issues at the local level.
All the best and thanks for this video.
A recent conversation I had with my internet provider about running my Wifi Router, she told me they should be left on all the time even when not in use because the local exchange reduces the speed of routers that are turned on and off, it assumes they are unstable connections and puts them on a lower speed connection.
She incorrectly told me that the router consumes no significant amount of power, I found that the power consumption was a significant part of my consumption, even though I use mainly home-generated electricity from batteries.
I have refused to leave my router on and it is only on while using the internet, no noticeable reductions in speed have been noticed, however, society needs to challenge this kind of thing, never should devices be left on standby.
We were 'cutting' unnecessary electricity use, then got an EV and installed a 5.1 kw solar system. After a few years, we're back to being wasteful because overall we can generate more than we need. A BFB (Big F'ing Battery) was in the solar design to alleviate that condition but proved too complicated for the Palm Springs building department to approve and inspect so I had to take it out. The local government does everything it can to ensure that everyone follows all the rules exactly, even when they are antiquated or obsolete, as happens in the solar industry every few months.
Except them of course, the last administration will be off to jail as soon as the FBI finishes it's 3 year long investigation into the former mayor and his cronies. Meanwhile those guys are still doing $millions worth of business "developing" downtown under a new company name, while individual home owners like me are being ignored or 'deflected'.
Lets get together and fight this climate change threat. Someone should tell them that.
@@refusoagaino6824 It is so wrong how you people in the USA are persecuted for just trying to save the planet. Apparently, when Obama was in, many homesteaders were evicted from their own land.
I am not sure if you are still having the same problems over there.
“The premise of this talk is to tell the truth and ask us all to act accordingly”-that’s what it is, the TRUTH. Every human being (but especially those in power) should hear this.
Very powerful, thank you very much.
Clean technology should have started in the 1950's.
better late than never my friend
It did. They buried it.
Good comment, my point exactly we are now suffering the lack of foresight and laziness of forbears along with the greed of a minority.
I'd like to know how many and who (if they're still living) Americans mocked Al Gore and his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth"?
That was the last chance we had to get serious and perhaps have made a difference. Rather than react accordingly and take the right path, the US Government did everything it could to do the opposite of that. And most of America (anyone who drives, flies) went happily along with it, content to wallow in the ignorance and propaganda that was (and is still) pumped at them. The Senate and Congress were paid and directed by the perpetrators of course, but there is enough guilt here for all of them.
@@refusoagaino6824 Yes. Al Gore should have been the President of the U. S. A.
Thank you
Well presented! Hat tip to Gail Bradbrook.
Excellent - articulates both the anger and the pull of reason I feel.
Dope Video! Sending blessing your way, Keep inspiring!🎒🙌🏻
This seems to answer the Fermi paradox
the great filter is SELF-INTEREST (greed)
my daughter made the point to me today, that doing things like blocking streets, for example, which inconvenience the people in their everyday lives, might not be the way to win them. blocking a governor's office or something along that line, or a carefully targeted disruption that doesn't disrupt regular people's lives too much might be a consideration.
Good job. Congratulations. Well researched.
Thank you. Sharing through my socials. And coming to the London induction on Wednesday
an undiluted truth, thank you
carbon capture technology??? aka TREES!?
Trees literally cannot capture the amount of CO2 we put into the atmosphere... even when we are cutting them down... Did you also know that not only CO2 causes climate change?? Methane and Water vapour are just a few of the thousands of chemicals causing it... I don't see trees sucking them up...
Yes, but see the movie Burned:Are Trees the New Coal
From what I know: carbon capture technology (artificial) is more efficient (per square meter of ground space) than trees. However there is little or no financial gain to this activity, except for the saving made to societies if it's not done i.e. aversion of catastrophe. So unless lots of tax is collected to fund carbon capture then it won't happen on a large scale.
You laid out climate change perfect. Thank you
Thank you Gail for all your hard work. To help the message get out Something to consider:
Please use better Audio equipment if you're going to do ongoing videos, be prepared,
it's a consistent issue whether you're in a house or a gym, the audio tends tone terrible.
The real news brought me information about the London protest. You all did an incredible job. I go numb and I want to act, you all acted. I appreciate it. I want to see more action. Please work with Deep Green Resistance. Thank you
This should be the primary preoccupation of everyone. It has been for me the past 15 years during which I have year-by-year reduced my carbon/ecological footprint with the goal of net-zero. Please pay attention!
everyone needs to watch this.
thank you.
As a supporter of ER l am painfully aware that should what needs to be done get done, things will still only get much worse. Making a system more efficient increases its use (Jevons paradox).
There is a complete disconnect between what is at stake and what we seem to be prepared to do about it. In times of war we've offered our lives, today - with the future of the planet at stake - we won't sacrifice 1% of GDP. We need to start doing whatever it takes.
Rlly love the talk
PhD in molecular biophysics. Very impressive.
not enough and in the wrong package, aren't we all; let's support gail and all the rest of us. please.
Fantastic talk and very humbling info. I knew things were bad but never thought we were so close to the edge.
I recommend you upload a copy of this to DTube (decentralised channel) in case the powers the be try to remove this!
(I’ve also just signed up to your cause)
Do you see how you're left hanging, feeling bad, rinnin? That's never meant to be that way. No one of us is served by left hanging, feeling bad. It's the drive to remain in a constructive stance and to choose actions according to it, that will bring a future about where we'll be able to live in prosperity. We're not heading to extinction as the loss of life on planet Earth. Human sentiments are ruling over the use of common sense and as always, there's no greater joy than to feel connected in an opinion that we're treated wrongly and being deceived.
There's a spiritual component missing, within ER and that's an unawareness of realizing that each of us creates his or her reality. Nothing is done to us and when we step into the freedom of choice, we're able to act each moment, while making a new choice when we discover there's a need for it. That's what it means to keep moving. The high of those who demonstrate is a relatively cheap reward, for there's safety in numbers, always. It's actions for change that count, for me.
We need to begin to believe in our personal power and act on what we know.
Did anyone see the photo of the Orangutan, putting his hand on a big bulldozer blade, as if he could stop it ? 😧😢💔
Yep, so bad ...
This is GREAT!!
Hi friends, we find your comparative to the Holocaust to be accurate. Both events are horrific, albeit to different species. We stand with you in your initial assessment. We do not intend this to diminish or disrespect the horrors of the Holocaust. In contrast, we intend to highlight the horrors of the current era of humanity's onslaught to other life.
We've had municipal dry wells in PNW well we are well known for tons of water; the Columbia river, etc, but in 2021 we had four counties east of the cascades reporting wells gone dry or at high risk of going so.
Ive just joined I didn't know there is a real rebellion
I love our home every thing in it we are here for one reason we are caretakers of this beautiful planet,
Right now we are failing we need us to change history to our story......
A 1% chance of reaching 1.5 0C is deeply concerning
We are going to sail past that Mr Burgess
For the record the world has already warmed up above the 1750 average temperatures by 1.73°C.
All this talk about limiting the Earth's temperature at 1.5°C is pure Bullshit.
When can I bet on it ?
You are already in the casino. Ck back in 10-20 yrs and see results of dumb moves.
Who will collect their bet?
as we get older (individually & collectively) the cost of living rises & in a world of over consumption (where those who use less are called useless & those with the most are often the most wanting) sometimes it pays to avert eyes
Professor Guy McPherson and I will be interviewing Roger Hallam from the Extinction Rebellion movement in the December episode of Nature Bats Last on The Progressive Radio Network.
The show and the other 121 episodes can be found at the NBL archive at PRN.FM
Gotta link?
I am with you!
Thank you! The newly elected Progressives that will be sworn into the House of Representatives in Congress in January bring with them some hope of positive change, and the fact that people voted for them is encouraging. They will be facing a House and Senate put into their positions of power by Wall Street and billionaires, but they know that and they are fighters. I will do all I can to support them, and live as responsibly as I can.
How did that work out? (Not meant in a sarcastic way!)
One of the few things guaranteed to make one even more unpopular than telling people the truth about their imminent demise, is the necessity of organising a peaceful means of exit for oneself, and even more terrifyingly, for others. Unless l am mad, stupid, or both, these two issues are inevitably linked, the alternatives being violence and cannibalism.
They'll humour you as long as you're not seen as a threat. But heaven help all you nice caring people once the 'system' really does feel threatened and the gloves come off :-(
Yes, you're right. But don't worry, we will never be a "threat". Give people a choice between this video of sincere and honest people, versus a PR video promising endless consumption and constant instant gratification. Over 90% of people will choose the happy lie. History is replete with people choosing the comfortable lie.
As someone of Jewish descent (my grandparents converted to protestantism in 1919), I think there is nothing wrong with the comparison between the Climate Crisis and the Holocaust.
I'm signing up. Just to say, at the end the speaker says that Utilitarian ethics is all about doing something to achieve a result, but fundamentally, utilitarianism is acting for the greatest good for the whole. Even if it means acting in your own apparent worst (short-term) interests. The greatest good for the greatest number of people. So- yes- do something right just because it's right. but this i right because it's for the benefit of the whole human race and every other species on the planet. you can't get much more utilitarian than that.
but what Gail Bradbrook says at the end of this talk is the most inspiring thing I've ever heard: !Virtue ethics: What makes me a good human being? What does it mean to live a good life in these times? Practical wisdom - our heart leads and precedes the actions and decisions. It’s always worth doing something if it’s morally good and the right thing, no matter how successful we’ll be.
“Courage is the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy ending.”
We’re talking about traditional values, orientated towards service to community, duty, responsibility, honour and the desire to be a worthy ancestor. In fully understanding that we’ll die one day, it could be soon, wishing to fully live a meaningful life and in facing the risk of life on Earth dying, to step forwards and be willing to offer our service to something bigger than ourselves, to life itself. To some it’s a basic orientation of our spiritual expression, the part of ourselves that understands what’s sacred. Take a minute to ask yourself, what does it mean for me to be a good human? What does it mean to die without regrets? Will you be able to look your grandchildren in the eye and say you did what you could?
Never taken part in protests before but I'll be down in London on 17th this is too important not to!!!
I need to go to Manchester short notice and I can't afford the train/coach... This should not be allowed to happen at this late stage in the day. There are many policies to reduce emissions and technologies that the government are not supporting or implementing- WHY??? It's so selfish. We're all shitting on our own collective doorsteps.
are the slides available for this presentation???
there's a delay of the English subtitles from a certain point.
really good talk! (except for the too frequent references to the Holocaust which you apparently stopped)
Hi all, I am all for social disobedience if there is something to leverage. I think having clear demands for the ruling few is very important. Unfortunately, I don’t believe the leaders have an idea about how to solve the crisis that faces us all. (Cf, the 4 Horsemen).
An uprising happens from below, by which we consider ourselves below the power initially. I am not sure that is true. We are already the “powerful”.
I propose that our power and the solutions can be manifested by people who are part of the Rebellion and people who want to see ecological and economical changes by disengaging from the economy on mass for a few days. Consuming as little as possible and not taking part in monetary exchanges or working. With this free time, we could show decent and nurture solutions in one go by coming together as communities, or small groups of people where we live locally. We could, in those few days, behave as if we already live in a non monetary sharing, caring and innovating economy. This could create great leverage on the leading elite, and give a lot of people a chance to rethink how we can live together on the planet. Also, it would give us a chance to change our perspective on our unsustainable economical systems.
the difference to previous causes is that this one is global. big businesses seem to be the most important players at that scale. how do you move them in the right direction?
where is a recording of a more recent version of this talk with the proper ammendments in place?
Did anybody answer you?
Suggestion. There needs to be a clear explanation of annual mean/average temperature. To most people "1.5 or 2 " degrees don't sound like much. Like saying "today it is 21 C. and tomorrow it will be 22 C." Most people are too innumerate to understand mean or average as applied to climate.
SERVE SERVE SERVE. I LOVE YOU GAIL. Really it is time for all of us to look inside and remember GOD. This will happen to us all eventually anyway, Remembering GOD. But usually it happens to us humans when we are on our knee's. Well, on mass we are very close. We are very afraid of dropping the body.
The GOOD news is WE ARE NOT THIS BODY, WE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD. But for now, while we are in a body, SERVE SERVE SERVE
excellent
One tiny, tiny glimmer of hope in an otherwise apocalyptic future. That’s the relatively small amount of motivated people historically needed to overthrow failing governments.
Muchas gracias, necesitamos ayuda en latinoamerica, trato de hacer lo mejor, pero necesitamos pensonas que no orienten 👏👏
"So, lets just breathe, everybody...
WHILE WE CAN"
A very motivating and inspiring talk......however it is upsetting to note that the figures regarding puffins are wrong. Whilst it must be true that their population is decreasing globally ( some breeding grounds report their absence) - the actual figures MUST be different to what you have suggested. At Skomer 2018 the Wales wild life trust reported a 'bumper' year with 30,000 birds up 22% from the previous count in 2017. What worries me is that whilst we want to make a stand it is important that we receive and then disseminate accurate information.
Would be happy about links to citations in the video's description.
Some are findable via the given citation in the presentation.
Cant find the source for e.g.
The Melting of Ice in Greenland and Antarctica (10:10)
Other ecological pressures (12:00, Numbers are not in the Science 2013 Editorial Text)
All the horrors that are starting and are yet to come can be explained with 2 words: greed and ignorance
An excellent compliment to this talk is the documentary COLLAPSE, by Michael Rupert. Look it up.
A horror yes but also our great destiny this rare opportunity with new scientific marvels unfolding before us daily, biggest event in all history during this our time. My advice is relax survive marvel love help everyone.
"rare opportunity with new scientific marvels unfolding before us daily"
Technology is what has created ecosystem collapse. Technology is the new god you pray to to save you from extinction.
Does anyone have a version of this video with spanish subtitles?? need to spread this beyond.
A SUMMARY OF THE MAIN CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
These can be summed up as -
1. Increasing temperature due to melting of Poles
2. Over population - which necessarily destroys the habitats of other species and uses up natural resources.
3. Pollution - pouring poisons into the sea, and into the air
These 3 main causes have led to a loss of habitat for many species, and/or the poisoning of their habitat. We have taken away their habitats and in some cases have replaced it with a factory farm, where they spend their entire short lives in horrible conditions.
THE EFFECT OF MELTING OF THE POLES
1. THE ICE WILL MELT
The ice at the poles will all be gone by about 2023 - resulting in a warming of the planet due to the albido effect. This is absolutely true. The Ice is actually receding at quite a fast rate - ships can now travel from Alaska to Asia via the North Passage with no problem.
2. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WILL RISE
The most probable temperature rise is 3.2 degree C - though it could be as much as 5 degrees C. Investing in air conditioning may be a good idea.
3. FOREST FIRES WILL INCREASE
Higher temperatures will automatically lead to a greater frequency of forest fires. So we will have to manage our forests carefully with frequent fire breaks.
4. NORTHERN LATITUDES WILL BECOME MORE SUITABLE FOR PLANTS AND CROPS
Warm temperatures favour some plants. After all a greenhouse can be conducive to growth.
Places like Alaska and Greenland may become warmer enabling plants to grow in more northern latitudes.
5. SEA LEVEL RISE AND FLOODING
There will be sea level rises causing flooding of low lying areas. Parts of London may be submerged - so property in HighGate, Enfield or higher areas will be unaffected, whilst Chelsea, Westminster will be affected. The resultant migration to higher areas will cause property prises in those areas to explode.
Though perhaps 5% of the earths current land surface will become submerged, new land will appear in the South Pole. Many people will migrate to the South Pole - pioneering families volunteering to be the first settlers. So it is a good time to buy up land there.
A high degree of melting happened at the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 B.C., At that time the sea level rose about 100m causing huge floods. However, there will be much less flooding this time - since there is much less ice to melt. It will be more of an inconvenience since your local area may be flooded if it is at sea level.
6. ATMOSPHERIC ENGINEERING
The widespread climate change will convince governments to engage in atmospheric engineering. Seeing as the climate change will be produced by loss of the albido effect, people will try figure out how to create a reflective layer in the atmosphere - a reflective cloud cover - made of reflective particles - a synthetic albido, that reflects a percentage of the heat back into space.
THE OTHER MAIN CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DECLINE ARE OVER POPULATION and POLLUTION
Over population literally pulls away the land from under an animals feet. They no longer have any where to live - it is turned into housing, farm land or roads. There is not an inch of the UK where a wild animal can live. Bees are becoming extinct because of this very reason. More land needs to be designated for conservation, regardless of human needs.
And population should practice birth control. The government should set targets for reducing the population in each country - not just have a carbon emissions target.
IN SUMMARY
1. Set Carbon emission targets
2. Set targets to reduce human population
3 Designate large areas as nature reserves in every country
4. Set targets for all forms of pollution of air and sea
5. Protect species from extinction.
We need to care about the needs of other species as much as we care about ourselves.
Very good and clear summery, thanks
Prof Guy Mc Pherson brought me here....
Geez. That bit about the elite's wanting to guard their bunkers and food is incredibly disturbing. And in our near future.