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Every civilization in history has collapsed. It happens. Some might say it's inevitable. And in this video, I discuss what keeps me up at night - the idea that we may be headed for one right now.
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2023: “Oh, 2019, your angst was SO PRECIOUS!” 😂😭
Yes! 🤣
2024: Hold my beer.
@@robocook01I was just thinking that. Watching this in September 2024 and I’m just amazed looking back.
January 2020: Will civilization end? Maybe not 📈
March 2020: your civilization has been turned off untill further notice :( 📉
"the economy might collapse in the next year"
oof
@Jimmy Edward mad max type shit
June 2020: We regret to inform you that shit has officially hit the fan
@@graysonbaker1744 inb4 july is yellowstone
Who's watching this during the height of the Coronavirus outbreak and stockmarkets plunging?
The height of the coronavirus? I beg to differ
We’re not there yet.
It's not even at the start yet, all of this was just a trailer
Weird tho. So weird. Does Joe know that he’s a time bandit?
Me!!!
Joe: "We are long overdue for a recession"
Covid: "Hold my beer..."
yeah i don't think anyone saw Covid happening, *cough the CCP did cough
@@NorthwestStringing Everyone with a clue about infections diseases saw it coming. George W Bush (not the brightest spark) even saw something like COVID coming back in 2005, and the US spent billions of $ preparing for it... We literally had plans for it, which Trump refused to follow.
@@NorthwestStringing Actually, the globe has experienced a pandemic every 100 years since 1520. Prior to covid, the Spanish flu spread in 1920. Do the math. My husband and I already knew that there would be a pandemic in 2020. We are do for a housing crash this year according to historical data. We are due for a civil war in 2028, and we are do for another depression within the next ten years.
@@NorthwestStringing stop coughing
@@NorthwestStringing I knew by January 2020. No one really believed me or cared. This was when it first hit Wuhan. Scared the shit out of me, mostly cause I thought supply chains would be destroyed (even for stuff like medicine)
I’ve been watching Joe Scott from the beginning and I’m a 64 year old lady in England......I have learned so much so thank you
I’m with you
62 year old UK duffer and gent here :) He's a good communicator, isn't he?
@@tim40gabby25 easy andy mate, put it back in your trousers
me too! And I am 58! lol
56 yo here :)
"End of the world at eight. News at eleven." - George Carlin
👍👍👍 Another great Carlin quotes!
...."earth is not going anywhere....we are!" .... and reason why we are here: " plastic, assholes" 😂🤣
@Sammy B Look, i agree with you. I am seriously concerned about Earth, and other things beside ecological issues. But i also think we all have right to make laughter about any topic. It makes life easier. Laughter is healthy! Someone can look at it as ignorance or cynicism but it's a matter of perception and stance.☮️❤️
@Sammy B You are probably right in detailed breakdown of that Carlins joke. But i simply adore his style of comedy.😇😜🤭🤫
@Sammy B the planet has been thru things much worse than humans. If we fsk up thr environment so that we have no time to adapt to changes as species we are going to go as other species did. We've had our 7 million years. No complaints. But nobody ever guaranteed any species they were going to be forever. Why care?
@@JaOzrenRadovanovic you got a pencil?? "get the fuck in there it's physics" lol what a comic he was.. There is no comic that even comes close to his humour..
Fret not Joe, while you may be older than 80% of your viewers you are younger than us other 20%. Oh and one other little thing, you are doing a great job man. I can't understand half of what millennial folks are talking about so you provide a bridge for us old timers :) keep it up
Norm Hogan I’m Norm’s first sub!
Age is a mentality :)
Even the "ok boomer" meme that's been going around isn't really making fun of boomers. It's making fun of people who wont change thier minds or learn new things. Basically, being too stuck in ones ways. 👍👍
They are trying to recreate the problems of earlier ages as usual. We should make history a mandatory lesson in schools.
@@justanotherguy6174 As gen-X I feel slightly puzzled when "Ok, Boomer" is thrown at me, by people being born just recently.. Boomers were middle aged when I was a Teen, and growing up in the 80', I detest everybody, both past, current and future generations.
@@Tore_Lund well, it's kind of a statement of "I think your line of thinking is old, outdated or just plain out of touch" more than it is a statement of "i think you were born between the years 19XX and 19XX".
Whether it was deserved is another matter of course!
Hope that helps!
Just found you in the last few days. There's a reason you are in the rare air of 1 million subs. You approach your subject matter with a touch of humor, but it makes the truth a bit more palatable in this day of neon and Sesame street where fantasy abounds. And indeed, fantasy is seen by all sides as a problem of the "other" side. My how we allow ourselves to be manipulated via politics and religion, among other things but those being the chief two. Enjoyed your way of looking at things and I largely concur.
Welcome to the promised land ✌️
Sesame Street taught me how to read...you are a great teacher, Joe!
I knew Joe was the channel for me when he showed himself in his "natural state" and it was him dancing in his tighty whiteys to DMX.... name me another channel that equals that
Among us
@@mamacito1795 yall gone make me looose ma mind lol. Rip DMX
A geologist said that future scientists will be able to squarely determine when we started using plastics because its going to create a brand new type of rock strata, never seen before.
Don't forget to include asphalt & cement in that strata layer, and if you benefit from either you are part of the problem. I am as guilty as you are but I will not give up my lifestyle and go live in the hills to satisfy them.
Mike V everyone benefits from asphalt and cement in one way or another, you can’t help but benefit from it, if you have ever used a sidewalk or asphalt, or entered a building you are benefiting from cement and asphalt
AKA: The Anthropocene
"future scientists" lol good one
@@MarcillaSmith Yes, future scientists. Descendents of termites that become dexterous for cellulose.
"You got filtered, LOL" - Fermi, probably. :/
Watching this in 2021, Joe's point about predictions and history rings loud
Late 2021 reporting... Nothing has improved.
@@ndbonell later 2021 inflation is high and nothing is improving.
2022 and everything keeps on getting worst 👍🏼
late late 2023
mmmmmmmmmmmm.......
"It's only when you have lived through some history" *shows pyramids and cavemen"
Just how old are you?
The man from Earth.
He's given to slight exaggerations.
Older than 80% of his audience
@@benedictifye this add on is so incredible lmao
I Remember when we started to cook food and scientists at the time said it causes cancer lol nothing changes
He uploaded this video on the same day the first COVID cases were reported 🤯 what an insane coincidence
12:00 That's one of George Carlin's bits.
Humans: What is our purpose?
Earth:......PLASTIC!
Plastic!
Plastic people
Plastic relationships
Plastic role models
Plastic leaders
Plastic in my hand
Vinny Bologna plastic gangsters.... There’s a lot of plastic about... Well put 😊
Not sure if you mean your mobile or bomb XD
It’s also in your brain
Welcome to the Plastic Beach
*I know this plastic loooove~~*
Just saw this after being in Texas during the recent Ice Storm that almost destroyed the state. And they still say climate change isn’t real. It’s real. I didn’t have power or water for four days. Having to melt snow to flush a toilet when the previous week the temp was 85 is a humbling experience. Appreciate what you got guys! I do now.
It's real but it is massively exaggerated by alarmists, just like so many other things. While granted, we shouldn't all just be whistling through the graveyard, people need to chill out a bit and look for logical solutions to problems rather than continuously overreacting and beating everyone over the head with their particular pet problems. Should we find viable, alternative energy sources, control waste, and curb hyperconsumerism? Yes. Do we all need to start living like the Amish? No. That's the problem with the world now. Just on this one subject my take on it would be criticized by extremists oe side of being "denialism" and too "right wing", while the other side would say it is too "left wing" and I am too influenced by "fake news". The loudest voices out there are always the ones who are overly alarmist, or overly skeptical. You are criticized for taking a stance somewhere in between. You are told to either obsess over it and dump every ounce of effort into combating it, or flat out ignore it because it is fake. Being moderate about issues doesn't gain you a lot of friends, but it is the most logical approach. No the world is not ending, but yes, we can do a better job taking care of it.
Well if you are right then it is too late to do anything about the climate, regardless of what we do now.
@@olivergrumitt2601 Nope. However, as long as we have politicians who are climate change deniers, as we do now like in Texas, THEN it will be too late to do anything because THEY won't do anything to help shift the status quo to clean energy. So VOTE against the climate change deniers. It's that simple.
@@olivergrumitt2601we ain't gonna do it with that attitude
Your credit card analogy hits the nail on the head. The bigger, more immediate problem is the insane amounts of debt. Both national and consumer. Our financial systems will crash sooner than the climate... With all the money being printed to prop up the worlds economies. We are headed for Hyper Inflation and total failure of the currency. Human history is filled with examples of this. Wiemar Germany is just one example. To top it off, the political and social fragmentation in our societies globally are only getting worse. It seems to me war is inevitable. The destruction that war would bring will certainly push the climate over the edge no mater what we do. So, if you want to stop climate change. We need to first stop and somehow reverse the political and social fragmentation...
Debt is a tool of control
John A. Actually, a lot of the dust lifted up with a Nuclear war will be full of CO2.
But hey the creditcard economy we have right now is good...
The hyper-inflation in Weimar Germany was actually a fairly brief phenomenon, and was over and done with long before the Nazis came to power. See Indy Neidell's series "Between The Wars" for a lot more detail than I can go over here.
War could be good for climate change...
Joe, throughout my life, I've been amazed and appalled by how effective misinformation and propaganda have been in influencing societal mindsets ( i.e.- Nazism, commercial advertising, and politics). I've hoped over the years (I'm a couple decades older than you) that saturation would've made people more resistant to these, but the last 20 years have convinced me that people are increasingly more susceptible. Any chance you could research the psychology and history of these (clearly your talk of social media and "fake news" are focal points)?
through studies in Sociology I have found that the answer is quite simple. Just as animals are, humans, in general, will be as lazy as you allow them to be. If food is needed they will certainly do what is needed and that for any other need as well. They will work as little as is required though they may have self imposed rules for such work;, mentally, intellectually, physically or emotionally. Hence the boon of tools and technology. When dealing with the saturation of information it is easiest just to accept that which fits their current worldview and do little to sift the chaff for facts. It is sad, it is unpopular, but it is true. this is how groups form.
@@Raptorifik all to true. Very sad.
@mysteryman2024 I dont trust either party but, if you think POTUS, the Republicans, & Fox News are not culpable as well, you need to stop bathing in the orange Koolade
@mysteryman2024 I agree with you in general. When it comes to POTUS, I don't need the media...I simply watch his live or unedited footage and wonder if he is capable of talking for more than 30 seconds without lying, misrepresenting facts, or showing that he becomes a petulant man-baby when he is contradicted or doesn't get his way.
@@bokononbokomaru8156 with all due respect, you sound like someone who is hostile to the principle of Free Speech. Bad ideas can only be defeated by good ideas. When you decry that people hold certain views, it comes across as you being hostile to diversity of thought. Individuals have sacred rights that cannot be violated. That is my starting point. We've seen widespread domestic terrorism including murder being cheered on by an entire political party. You should be far more worried about politicians referring to acts of murder, arson, insurrection, and property destruction as "speaking truth to power" than some guy calling himself a "Nazi". The Nazis were defeated well over half a century ago. We have a large part of our government that is openly hostile to you and me personally. I genuinely don't see how you would worry about ideas more than actual nationwide political violence (terrorism) being called for and defended by so many politicians, not to mention the lying media, which for some unknown reason is "trusted". It's a bizarre state of affairs where people who are in their 60s have no problem with the exact behavior that lead to the rise of all totalitarian fascist dictatorships in history. When Clinton lost, she said "The time for peaceful conversation is over." This is an open call to violence and no one even contested that election. When 75,000,000 people think the election was rigged and the courts REFUSE to look into it, it becomes very hard not to think that this is being orchestrated to turn the people against each other instead of unifying against the tyrants in power who openly call for our oppression.
I actually went out and found 'Years and Years'.
Being in the UK and hearing it was an HBO show didn't fill me confidence that I would find it online [legally], but it is a BBC/HBO joint venture and I was pleasantly surprised to find it still on the BBC Iplayer and will be for another 7 months.
I then watched all 6 hours in one go.
It is a fantastic series and as a British person quite upsetting because the content is a bit too near reality for comfort (the British can do some monumentally stupid things some times)
It reminded me a lot of the amazing series 'Our Friends in the North' from the '90s.
I lived through the '80s when there were huge British and Global changes and dangers (not least the threat of the four-minute warning) and I feel the same way now about the world and our future as I did as a kid back then. It feels like we are constantly balanced on a knife-edge and could go either way (something I didn't feel in the '90s, '00s).
The rise of nationalism, extreme party politics and authoritarianism around the world does not fill me with hope, the last time this happened was almost 100 years ago in the 1920s and '30s and we all know how that decade ended.
I just hope we won't be dumb enough to repeat history or even come close to repeating it.
Also worth noting-if anyone's thinking of giving it a go-it's from Russell T. Davies (the man who revived Doctor Who), and stars the great Rory Kinnear.
I hope you see my response. Try reading the fourth turning. By your comment I think it would blow your mind. About how Anglo American history has been going through 80 year cycles. At least che k out some clips. On TH-cam. Best wishes.
Welcome to March 2022
“Homes would only be able to be purchased by very wealthy people”.
Lol we’re already there.
Location, location, location. If you live in San Fran or Seattle, sure. How about Charleston, WV? Columbus, OH? Brownsville, TX? Get back to me when you're done with your hyperbole.
Craig Gibson Jesus chill dude... if you wanna live in shitville or the middle of nowhere sure it’s cheap...
Jacob Jackson XII As someone that’s lived in and been a firefighter of Seattle, Washington, I’d describe Seattle as shitville.
Jacob Jackson XII everywhere outside of a few giant cities is cheap, even the suburbs around most cities are cheap.
Not true.. I own a house at 22 only making 19$ an hour. Just stop buying dumb shit you don’t need
I strongly agree with the points here. Another concern that I have is the increasing power of large corporations. The largest corporations are just becoming too big with too much influence, dominance and political clout. I am not sure exactly what this means for the future, but I am definitely concerned about it.
Ditto with the largest governments. China, Russia, and the US all have massive surveillance & seek ever greater control over their citizens and the world. Power tends to coagulate and grow like a monster until some kind of crisis.
Yeah, me too. My brain completely mirrors his own on this stuff point by point. Only since my scout troop stayed at Camp chiwanakee I knew about the water pump energy storage decades ago, oh well we all pick up different random facts. I have money and am 46 years old so all of this stuff probably won't have a huge impact on me but its still depressing.
I know exactly what it means for the future...
Corporations can only be checked by the nation-state. Not only because they are the only people powerful enough to do so, but also because a nation-state is the only legitimate method to achieve that.
@Martimus Prime Why?
We can vote out people who don't represent us. Republics are great like that.
You can't vote out the inter-nationalist corporate overlord who owns a monopoly on multiple products.
And unless you are the US or some major power, you don't have the clout as a nation to limit corporate influence and control over your policy.
While governments make mistakes and are prone to corruption, at least we have a right and method to holding them to account.
Cough. TH-cam and google. Couch. Most evil corporations ever. Well all corporations are but google and TH-cam break the mold.
one of the best explanations of what the repercussions of multiple climates changing around the world is probably gonna look like. so glad that other people are aware of it and talking about it.
When you're born into this world, whatever you want to call it, you got a ticket to the freak show. If you were born in America, you got a front row seat, ponchos and everything. Enjoy the ride.
A positive of being an elder, relative to you viewer's, is that grand confidence in knowing you have younger people have an interest in the intelligent topics, that you provide.
Sure, maybe it makes you feel old, but, you are captivating and encouraging the youth with noble intentions and subjects.
That makes you cool, ya geezer.
Good point, well made - from an old UK duffer :)
He's not lying about the plastic. I work somewhere where we produce A LOT of scrap plastic. It use to be no problem before. We would ship it to China where we were told they melt it and make it into toys? Turns out it wasn't true. They emailed us one day saying they are no longer receiving scrap. So now we just dump it in the compactor. Where it ends up in a landfill. In a country with a carbon tax....
Does the company that you work at use this same plastic in their processes? You could always suggest them to start a program to melt it down and reuse it. Honestly trash in many places in the US is to cheap. The city I live in pays for it. I feel that if they charged more for hauling away trash that it would force people to think more about their actions.
An incredibly large amount ends up in the ocean, floating, then broken down to microplastic.
It falls in rain.
It's found in fresh snow in the Arctic / Antarctic.
It's in the water table.
It's in the food chain.
You are drinking it.
You are eating it.
It's worse than you think!
How come whenever there's any mention of nationalism, everyone ends up using pictures of Polish Independence day celebrations. That's how you paint fake image of entire nation, discretely associating extreme opinions with simple images.
Honestly, I'd imagine if this is being seen more and more, it's a self supporting situation. Some people made the mistake of associating those photos with nationalism and later some people Googled and found those people that made that mistake then moved forward and that just adds to the Google hits making more people think they are correct when they are not. Ironically...it's kind of related to the information topic he covers in the video.
@@grumpychocobo basically human stupidity amplified by a computer's algorithm
@Robert R some time in the future the countries will all disappear and every nation will be united under the same language and culture.
Watching in September 2020 and man did he nail it!
The quote at 2:49 is from Mary Schmich, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, not Kurt Vonnegut. It was misreported at the time (1997) as being from a commencement speech he gave and now everybody believes it was his.
A similar thought is in Rudyard Kipling's If
"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same; "
I was here to say the same thing. "Wear Sunscreen."
It is normal for shot term bonds to yield less than long term bonds, an inversion is when long term bonds yield less than short term.
Look at Joe-stradamus over here, predicting the end of civilization 3 months in advance. Good job?
Joestradamus- brilliant!😆
Looks like Star Trek is the nearest we're gonna get to the stars.
Yeah, I gave up on the Star Trek future a while back. Hope we can at least have a Hunger Games future, at this point (since there are worse alternatives).
@@tely5 social media make me think of fahrenheit 451 and we probably will experience it under a kessler syndrome
Earth is pretty close to a star already. We've got literally a billion years to figure out what to do with ourselves when it starts expanding.
@@tely5 what is worse then a dystopic hunger games future?
@@joshuapowell114 Mad Max, for starters.
The one thing that worries me the most right now is that there is a growing societal norm in which people seem to be unaware of details or why they are important. Sure, it's fine to say "Don't over-think things", but I think we can all see the value of overthinking say, brain surgery. Airline safety. And the trend now is to shrug and "let it go" on the details. Unintended consequences. Keeps me up at night. What if we just stop doing all of the things regularly that has kept everything going for so long? Don't we want a solid world to live in? Don't we all have to breathe? Drink clean water? I mean these things are not unreasonable to expect, yet living safely and existing to the fullest life is now seen as some sort of pipe dream.
I think u just explained unregulated capitalism
Go to China and tell them to stop polluting. I'm sure they'll listen.
@@EksaStelmere kinda irrelevent when u.s. is at war with 5 countries at the same time.....
@@joshuapowell114 The US and Europe are both hammering in green power while China doesn't care. Also, don't assume people are from the US, it's a nasty habit.
@@EksaStelmere Trump is doing everything he can to roll back any pollution controls that currently exist. Didn't u see the speech he made on windmills the other day? I think I need some of what ur smoking
I've just watched five of your videos on the trot and wanted to thank you for the interesting, informative, humorous and thought provoking content you espouse. Great stuff.
A call to everyone: Don't worry about your age. When you look back on the years where you thought you were "old" you realise that you where actually in your prime! You may think you're old right now but when you look back on that too you will realise that you were still in your prime. Don't have missed opportunities just go forth and do it and live your life! You are always in your prime, that's what your wisdom brings.
I'm 102.....
@@michaelfarrell4824 When you reach 117 my friend, you will achieve a FORM of immortality!
@@michaelfarrell4824 hang in there for another 15 years!
Actually I was at my most physically fit point years ago. And was mentally stronger and more stable before the government shoved me full of, at the time experimental drugs. So no I'm pretty sure that is a bias statement based on your own opinions.
That's a GOOD message Tony.. it matters little what the future may bring, it matters a lot what you do with your time NOW.. Peace brother!
Behind me are sorrows. Ahead I find fears. In the now I can rest, for the rest of my years.
On your first topic, if you want a clean energy source, I would strongly suggest advocating for nuclear energy. It's by far the cleanest, most cost efficient energy source you can find, doubly so if it's a thorium reactor based plant. And to address your beliefs on the distrust of modern information, I agree with you up to a point, if you were to remove one side of the political extreme (in your example, Nazis), than you have to remove the other (in this instance, the communists). It's not just cut and dry with this sort of thing, your analogy of it all being a game of whack-a-mole is spot on, just thought I'd comment on it.
not to mention that censoring speech is very authoritarian
Google manipulates what we see and has more of an impression on what we believe than anyone realizes.
Google deleted a word from the dictionary just to make One of Trumps tweets wrong. They believe it’s their job to hide things and promote lies in order to bring about the collapse and communist change.
@@ryanisacuc8381 Talk about paranoid.
@@krashd but it's true
I so enjoy watching videos like this right before something huge happened and how blissfully unaware they are.
Dec 2019: "blah blah blah "
Jan 2020: "HELLO Everybody - you weren't expecting me were ya?"
"Yes! Everything is about to end, civilisation is about to end and new dark age about to begin! Unless you vote for my politics and give people who think like me the reigns of society. I will destroy the other who are the root of all the problems. I'm on the right side of the history, you should be also." -everyone who wants power.
Joe Scott should read this science book about how humans are becoming dumber: www.amazon.com/At-Our-Wits-End-Intelligent/dp/184540985X/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?keywords=the+decline+of+intelligence+michael+woodley&qid=1577110393&sr=8-2-fkmr1
Here are some thoughts about science, biology and evolution that would piss most people off, if you said them in public:
linkyou.blog/feminism-technology-and-evolution/
linkyou.blog/avoiding-a-race-war-with-africa/
linkyou.blog/islam-europeans-and-evolution-and-patriarchy/
linkyou.blog/why-men-created-everything/
linkyou.blog/resenting-evolution/
linkyou.blog/honesty-and-the-future-of-africa/
Exactly...which is why I love this channel but have to dump it. More and more he's dumping far left b.s. in them
It's hilarious that you interpret that as 'far left' rhetoric. Really shows where you're at on this. Anyways, good riddance. Go somewhere where your reality isn't challenged and be part of the problem.
@@jamieivester8362 not your echo chamber huh?
@@TimBitts649 No, he really doesn't need to read some white nationalist, alt right garbage like that.
The more I watch your videos the more I appreciate you and what you stand for. Keep it up.
This reminds me of George Carlin's bit about saving the planet: "When we're gone, the Earth will incorporate plastic in a new paradigm: Earth + plastic."
Ahhhh, 2019, the good old days.
I’m 13 and watching this. I sure hope you’re older than me. Otherwise you have aged horribly
That’s funny Nate.I’m 55 and I look about the same age as Joe.
Stay tuned kid. Best education you can get is through the insights on men like him.rock on little brother.
@@danielgagne485 i’m 14 now lol
Ahahahaha...nice.
I am a time travaler from 4 months in the future. I can confim we're going down the shitter
It's getting worse.
@@user-nw5og and it will be worse
The sign on the t-shirt I believe is for Ohm, that’s resistance in an electrical circuit.
It's a combo of the last Greek letter Omega, which is often used as a metaphor for the end. I.e.. I am the Alpha and the Omega. the raised fist often is a symbol of resistance to oppression and a rally to fight against it. Just my take .
Resist the end.
I’m in the 20% but I’m still watching young’n
I'm in the 20s too. The 2020s.
58 years strong and watching this kid. He's got a future, he does 😂🤣
"Years And Years" is a gripping series.
Like a cross between "This Is Us" and "Black Mirror."
You know I was reading "The world of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig where he talks about his life around 1900 until around 1944.
The thing that surprised me the most is how good they had it around 1900. When we look back at the 1st world War for example we often think maybe people were prepared and were suffering anyway. But no. Specially the (upper) middle class had perfectly happy lifes, like us now. They didn't see the disaster coming. They had plenty, went to theaters, dances and enjoyed life to the fullest. They thought war and poverty were a thing of the past. The world was a good place for them. They had ambitions and everything was fine. Then sh%t hit the fan with 1st world War, great depression and the 2nd world War. Life never got the same for that generation. Life got back to normal around the 1950s....What I want to say is that we are not special. We think the people 100 years ago were different but they were the same. Just like for us their lifes seem calm and relaxed and good. They were just as shocked as we would be now, when their nice lifes as they knew it ended.
And it was worse back then in general terms but that's due to natural evolution, like the future will more likely be better than today overall
Merry Christmas, we are all going to die!
Well, yeah - there aren't any other options. Thankfully!
It is I
Truth
We are human , biological- therefore ... yes.... we are all going to die. It’s human nature... literally!! Lol 😂
If the earth 🌍 were truly flat- let’s face it- over half of humans would of jumped off the edge of the ledge already!!! Lol 😂
Weird All
Of course, no one escapes this life alive! Even if we all die and take the birds and the bees with us, the Earth will go on, and probably say: "Damn it sure took a long time to get rid of those f'ing "lice"; glad they are finally gone!!
Discovered your channel this year and I’m grateful for it! Thank you!!
Watching this March 2021...still struggling with single use plastics. Only so much we can do as consumers, change must come from the industry. It's annoying that it ends up in the ocean...the consumers is not responsible for that. But someone needs to be held accountable somehow
Well crap. I WAS having a good day until Joe showed up. Now I’ve got to hunt down the next video of his before I can go to bed.
I read an article about how, after the collapse of the Roman empire, people farmed the reclaimed land...land that was basically in the shadow of the man-made wonders of the recent (for them) past....the Colosseum, bathhouses, etc. slowly fell into ruin....in the article (although I don't remember exactly how they formed this conclusion) it was said that the people felt a disconnect from these structures....I literally got goosebumps, because I felt this unexplainable dread...it felt like a "past is prologue" moment...it really touched me in a truly creepy way....almost like I could feel a similar future for us, reaching back to me... _ extremely disconcerting_
don't be disconcerted. learn to grow food.
Malls are a modern example of how quickly a building can go from a vibrant hub of activity to a decaying ruin.
@@Eylrid insightful response, man
Isn't it ironic how the first cases of COVID-19 started showing up around the time Joe posted this pair of videos?!
After watching this ,I would recomend ☺ *How hard times create a better world *💪~answers with Joe
I have worked in the recycling industry for 10 years, and this is what il tell you. ITS A BUSINESS, not a charity.
A very lucrative one I guess
Yep. They force you to pay for their service and then turn around and sell the materials for a 2nd profit dip.
It's a great idea but the business end of the deal fails us completely.
@@DarkSkay Lol. Guessed wrong there.
@cupoftestosterone
Of all plastic recycled in Canada, only 9% is actually reused
I never felt so depressed thanks Joe.
Just watched this in November 2021….
Holy crap!!! It sooo much worse today. The inability for some to accept facts appears to be the greatest indicator of our country’s potential collapse.
Joe, I'm gonna take a sip from your five steps of positive thinking... It's such a relief to me to be sharing this time and planet with level headed, rational and honest people like yourself. Thanks for what you do.
I love your shirt. Especially the hand of resistance against the ohm background. ✊ I think I'll buy that shirt!
my first thought was a stick figure bending over, shackled feet and hands.... sort of like some bdsm thing going on there...
Dude, why there is a rise of nationalism in poland? get your source straight! its not a rise. Polish are nationalists as big as US citizens. But it's not a bad nationalism like fascism or communism. Yes , most of us like, Autonomy, National identity, Self-determination, Solidarity - same as you. Yes, we are sovereign and make sure it stays this way - same as you. But we do it on our lands. We do not expanding/conquering/colonizing same as other part of western world used to do. European migrant crisis got us a bad rep - its not that we don't want people from outside, we do. Problem was that we were pressured really hard to obey foreign decision, which may be destructive to our way of life and national safety. Most of those migrants wasn't screened at all and as further times showed, it wasn't any good for western Europe. Maybe if this whole process looked different we might have been More open for this option. I think you understand that open borders for every one is not something positive in the long run. . Until end of 2019 for me to go for example to US i had to provide a variety of documents, make an appointment with a consul, pay a pretty large fee, and still didn't get a visa. Or i might get it if i made YOUR criteria. We have similar standard - if you want to get here for good, show us that you want to integrate with our society. We don't mind your different culture/looks/religion as long as it isn't opposite and destructive to ours - same as US policies. Despite our bad rep I hope you could someday visit to see that is not as bad as you think. On the other hand i like this bad rep - this way almost no one wants to come here on their own and have to be forced to do so. This way we can live a life free of modern world wide cultural and social drama. And we will never accept a situation where masses of people are forced to be relocate to our lands against their will! we had it already.
You can love your country and still want to improve it. I love USA, and it's my home, but I think it's fucked up and has lots of cultural issues as well that needs to change.
If Poland loves their country and does the best they can to keep it good, that's different than just supporting it in whatever happens and always supporting it blindly.
I love Poland, and I feel that the reason for the pushback against the EU in the UK is kind of similar to what happened with Poland
@@pilotavery you're right. i think that in both our countries we could find those blind individuals. But that's not a general case but minority.
Poland isn't perfect either and we have an issues of our own. But we've been through worst shit ;] so i stay positive, so should you. I've leaved through soviet, post-soviet and now in post post-soviet times and learned that some changes can take a while. Like generations while.
I'm pretty sure a lot of Swedes wish they had taken the Polish approach now.
There's two sides to nationalism and pride in your identity is just one of them, hatred of foreign identities is the other.
Looking at the times we are going through and also what is still to come I think it's safe to say Joe was ahead with this one
The scariest thing you said was when you said "this year I read a book......"! Statistics say the average college graduate in America NEVER reads another book in his or her lifetime. THAT's SCARY. They just believe what their phone shows them.
Any knowledge in books is available online. The internet is vastly superior to libraries as a means to gaining information. You think because something is written on paper it's more reliable?
Yes because books are online now. Sure its nostalgic to read paper books but why not expect young people to use the technology that had been produced to make reading and learning easier?
I don't believe the statistic you just quoted. You'll have to write it down in a book that I'm not going to read.
@@crazy10bears "Any knowledge in books is available online" -- not true. I have often wanted to find an online link to support information that I shared from books I had read, but could find nothing.
@@michaels4255
archive.org is a good place to start.
Where could I get the cheapest deals on ropes? Nothing beats a good rope that does various functions!
I was gonna say: "hold my razor blade" 😂
Go for a really long rope... a space elevator. Maybe leaving Earth is best, to come back with new eyes ;-)
Regarding plastics: I've been an advocate for going back to Glass and Recycling same-use bottles (like how milk men used to come and pick up your empty bottles, they would be brought back, washed, and reused; not necessarily broken and remade into new bottles, which of course can also continue to be used. Same with breweries and bringing back your empties).
But yes, we should return to glass based instead of plastic based. We just need to utilize composite lightweight glass materials...
Glass and aluminum
@John Barber no, w what descartes suggested, good parenting.
yo! planning to make this an annual series? would be pretty cool considering you made this before covid etc. love the channel!!
A weekly fix of Joe
Watching this in December 2021, If only we knew what was actually ahead of us! Bloody love your videos Joe!
I really like the fact that you just say your piece / tell the fact (but with some humor) without some 'wacky' sidekick (like a poodle or a goldfish) interrupting constantly. Keep it up!
*Facts (sorry)
Joe is correct. We are a strange species.
So. Strange. Like, wtf?
Me: "So you want to drastically cut co2 emissions in a short span of time? Well how about investing in a lot of modern, safe nuclear power plants and thus becoming less reliable on fossil fuels. Lets do what France and Sweden are doing."
Climate change alarmist/activist: "Nah, more taxes."
Sure, lets invest in renewables like Germany where the Energiewende has UTTERLY failed and resulted in skyrocketing electricity prices.
A lot of liberals and environmentalists have a knee-jerk opposition to nuclear energy for some reason. It's a shame because that would be the fastest way to cut CO2 out of the process.
This. This 1000 times.
Yup nuclear is the soln not only for climate but also for wars & stubborn extremists.
And February 2021 has shown this video holds up quite well.
It's not the end of the decade. This decade will end on december 31st, 2020. Unless you assume that every era of 10 years is a decade. In that case the end of every year will be the end of a decade. It's even worse; in that case every moment in time will be the end of a decade, because every moment in time is the end of a 10 year era. It's even more worse. Because every point in time also represents the end of an era of 100 years, etcetera.
You are referring to ordinal decades (starting from 1), which can be referred to as the "Nth decade", whereas the much more common "1980s, 2010s" refers to a span of 10 years that share tens place digit when written.
"in that case every moment in time will be the end of a decade" Technically ya. So to your own point, all that matters is the common conventions for picking starting places. And the most common starting place happens to be 0, not 1. Because "the 80s" sounds better than saying "1981-1990".
You don't say I miss the 80's and think 1990 genius
Are you from the future and if so can I buy a Tesla for under $25,000 in 2020? I'm serious!
Ah. I see we have found the pedantic smartass
ok calm down
Plastic reminds me of nuclear energy, "Oh, in 10-30 years we will figure out what to do with the waste," 70+ years ago!
There are plentyy of solutions to nuclear waste with varying degrees of effectiveness, cost, safety and popularity.
The US chose on site storage after backlash against long-term geological storage, which is shaping up to be the preferred way of disposing of highly radioactive waste, though not very popular with the public.
Conventional waste isn't much better. Produce, consume, throw away, we'll figure the waste disposal later, just put it on the pile or burn it, it no longer has any value (for now).
We built a storage facility for nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, NV but it was killed by a NIMBY movement.
@Nathan Zhang Why would one go to all the trouble and expense of sending radioactive material into space, or worse make it forever inaccessible in the sun, when you can just bury it or reuse it in new reactors.
@@Soken50 Lots of hurdles to practical fusion reactors, so they tell us; and they keep "moving the goal post" farther, last I saw was about 30 years, in 2050. But who knows! Anyways someday today's waste will be tomorrow's fuel and future generations will wonder why we buried all that valuable stuff in the ground!!
@@ronschlorff7089 I made no mention of fusion, while I won't bet on any date the industry has had some major breakthroughs in the last couple years.
The waste being buried varies from one country to the other, in Onkalo, Finland the entire fuel assembly is buried while in Bure, France only the minor actinides with no commercial use will be buried (the rest is recycled and reprocessed into MOx or stockpiled for an eventual gen4 of breeder reactors using U238 which are the 2 main ways current reactor waste can be reused but it definitely won't be used for fusion which will use hydrogen isotopes.
“This video was brought to you by Zoloft.”
This comment is way underrated lol
Never heard of Zoloft. Google tells me it's an antidepressant.
- do you want to lose all hope ? just read the comments
Thanks, that's the last one for me.🙂
The Graduate, 1967:
"I just want to say one word to you, PLASTICS"😂
That movie was not what I expected it was going to be about...there were plot twists left and right.
Hey Joe, don’t know how I missed this video, but may be this will make you feel better. I’m 67. And I enjoy your work very much.
Dude, you are so spot on. It’s not just me who feels so pessimistic about our future. I need to plan for how my kids will survive in the future. And their kids.
Hey, I am a 37 year old man living in a 73 year old body, so I am one who is older than you.
I saw that shirt and knew right away: that’s the one I will buy to support you Joe. I love your stuff. Be well, be safe, be healthy.
Follow up: then I bought the shirt.
I can't quite figure out exactly what it means. Any hints?
Hmm, I remember a history class in college that mentioned the basic signs of a declining civilization is; drifting population, breakdown in morale (might be morals/ethics), and the devaluation of human life. The USA blew past those decades ago. So, maybe we fell apart and haven't realized it yet? Just beating a dead horse.. :)
There's currently research in to producing cheap plastic from biological sources that's fully biodegradable and most of it can be produced from urban and industrial waste water so that's a double win you will see grow over the next 20 years.
until then earth will be plasticized and the game is over...
You mean hemp probably other plants as well but people have been saying hemp my whole life.
Bioplastics have been around forever - but they cost allot more than crude oil plastics.
hopium
@@goldrushpro The difference is now we have genetically modified bacteria which produce plenty of polymers at a much lower cost than sourcing them from plants, that's what's different from the 70s to today
11:48 It's actually worse than that. The "diesel" burned by cargo ships is actually the dirtiest, cheapest, nastiest fuel available because there's no regulatory function to govern what they burn in international waters. They typically switch to smaller tanks with cleaner fuels when they enter sovereign waters.
Poor 2019 Joe, he had no idea.
Watching this 3 months after you made it during the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic and the collapse of world financial markets....
This is the start not middle m8
The markets will recover, but it will probably be several years before they recover.
nøsťaļgīa I hope so, but the world is really weird now. Stay tuned after these messages from one of our sponsors. “Hi, I’m 2020. But you may know me as Dumpster Fire. I used to sell reverse mortgages to seniors, but I needed a change”.
Another one of your "older" viewers chiming in! First, Merry Christmas to you and your family🎄🎁 Being 60 years old I view you as somewhat of the canary in the coal mine regarding technology and social media trends. I agree that things will get much worse before we can level back to a sustainable future. I am a proponent of Nuclear power and still feel it is a vital part of the grid. Politically, It's going to take more than technology to "fix" our divided society.
"Canary in the coal mine"
. . . to fix the fossile energy problem with nuclear power you need to increase the nuclear power plants by a factor of 50 at least now we have around 400 , then it would be 20,000 ! And you can estimate that every year there would be at least some Tschernobyls and Fukushimas somewhere on the planet . . .
@@cashuma5010 Not even close. Nuclear energy is 10% of global electricity generation, fossil fuels are 60%. So a factor of seven, assuming nothing else changes. VERY easy to do, and no there wouldn't be any incidents unless someone has a brainfart and commissions a bunch of light-water reactors for no reason.
Edit: mind, this is just to replace current plants. Meeting future needs (including the expected meteoric rise of the electric car) in the time it takes to build that infrastructure would probably involve 10x as much nuclear as we have now.
@@LuciusC . . . so if only you wouldn't ignore the fact, that for electric energy there is less than 20% of the total fossile energy utilized by mankind - then you were right . . . but unfortunately there is more than 5 times as much additional fossile energy used for industrial processes, construction, agricultural usage, transportation, heating, and other designated uses other than for just electricity generation . . . so in fact the number of 20.000 necessary nuclear power plants might still be considered too low when calculating future energy needs . . .
not me sonny I'm 61, and get off my lawn.
Jayne Davis 70 here, you hipster.
@Uncle Sam's Yeah, it's called "growing up".
@Uncle Sam's You should really consider switching to decaf ;-)
It feels wrong watching this over 4 years on. So much has changed. We were so naive
Reimagine
Rethink,
Refuse,
Repair,
Reuse,
Reduce,
Recycle,
Recreate,
Replace with reusable solutions.
Rejoice!
Represent!
Repeat!
Repent? Repaint
8:48 did this man just predict the future?? I thought he said it wasn't a prediction
Could you put the link to the upbeat video? We could use that right about now.
Thanks for ruining my Christmas holiday joe now I can’t stop thinking about this .
So, watch next week's video and have a happy new year.
I dated a guy this past year who *actually* said to me that he supports single use plastics because "we haven't run out of landfill space yet"
It's quoted because the absurdity of that phrase was burned into my brain and I was rendered speechless.
He was annoyed that his office was switching to reusable silverware and getting rid of plastics. He claims the convenience supersedes the effort in having to wash an effing fork
I support the genetic engineering of organisms that feed on plastic. Hard to think of a better use for my tax dollars.
Actually the part about landfill is factual. and, many municipalities that are unable to deal with the backlog of recyclables, are burning them in incinerators, which is cheaper and easier when arrangements haven't been made for transportation. We should be more realistic about our options here, when recycling is unrealistically over-hyped, and safe and efficient use of landfills is belittled. Of course "single use" plastics is a slightly different matter, still...
@@michaels4255 there a sci-fi book about such an organism being developed and getting loose. (demonstrating the correct use of the word "loose," rather than "lose" here) Anyways, the organism ends up eating all the plastic in the world and civilization collapses!
Proud to be part of that 20%.... young’n.
I wanna find a way to say OK Boomer as a tongue in cheek compliment but the internet is a cesspit so I can't :(
Who's watching when the queen's dead, she died yesterday. What a time capsule of a vid
"Chaos of ideas". Did you coin that expression? Good one.
So Z is last letter of the alphabet, so Generation Z is... 🤔
The following generation is the 1st generation of a new era. You just gotta hope it's a positive one, not a dystopian nightmare.
They say the generation after that is AA, which will precede AB & AC.
So ZZ would be the last generation
Sneedy Ketler-Baumbach AA? Lol the generation that finally ends alcoholism.
But after ZZ will be AAA the most assisting generation towards stranded road side drivers.
@@SneedyKetler AAA lol
Yes it is, and ahead of schedule.
Yes these are problems that we must overcome but we are good at solving problems. We clawed our way to the top of the 4 billion year old corpse pill of evolution, we split the atom, we are capable of ending the world in a day. We are incredibly resilient creatures.
I too am very resident.
Yeah, the economy is a self-ruling entity. Search "invisible hand" and "spontaneous order"
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Resident indeed. Listen, Humanity has never faced this kind of stuff before...or they did, and that offshot got wiped out some 8000 years ago (or so they say, but that's the explanation for the low genetic pool we have).
Combine that with reasonless people who only care for power, and it's a Molotov cocktail sitting in a fire pit.
@@aserta even so, I honestly dont think we will go extinct from that. At worst I see a classic armageddon scenario that leaves tribes of people across the world to rebuild. But even at that worst case humanity will still survive. Civilization will eventually revitalize itself. I don't see us going extint at this point bar a fucking gamma ray burst or stranglet. Or the ceasless expansion of our sun.
@@aserta We have been through harder times but this time we are stronger, smarter, and more numerous than ever before. We have bigger problems to deal with but we have the technology to handle these problems. If you look back at history we have eradicated many diseases that once killed hundreds of millions, we have come so far and yes, we could fail or die but I like to be optimistic about our future.
"I'm older than 80% if my viewers." That's because young people think you're cool. You should be proud.