Brilliant. Inspired me to write a letter to my MP straight away! 1 hour later my MP actually walked passed my house. Ran after him and spent 10 minutes explaining the need to support the bill and measures therein.
Do you grow your own food? Do you use unnecessary products? Do you repurpose all your waste? I dont mean give it to someone else to store in a pile or allow into the ocean. Perhaps chase yourself and not your MP if you are not looking after yourself? Best wishes.
@@jimmycorkhill1390 I realise that you are being constructive in your comment. We all have our own journeys to embark on. My households contribution is a part of the puzzle, and as I address those challenges on a micro level it is worthwhile to persuade others with much more power, influence and capital. They can help push the economy’s and domestic household’s adoption of practices that significantly reduce our impact on the planet and our local area. I do live in an old house with a tiny shady garden. I would love to grow more of my own food and am somewhat restricted. I would love to compost my own plant waste but using my councils collection is quite efficient. I would love to make my house passive and am planning to use my available capital to start to push forward, and it’s hard to do but I’ll keep trying. I do drive electric and realise that is just a tiny step. Understanding the impact of what I buy is hard, and I try my best to be smart about it. Reusing instead of recycling is a good way forward, but the government and industry can do lots to help make the transition easier.
@@petesplaneta9340 Thank you for your polite response. It is a cop out, and you know that really I can (edit spelling) see. If everyone who claims to care stopped contributing to their own claimed demise, perhaps the demise wouldnt happen? Look back, what thirty or so years at the level of consumption and pollution? The so called climate catastrophe has been well publicized, with so many "we got ten years" type predictions been and gone. Did the public take heed, did you? My intention isnt disrespect, it is just logical analysis. Without facing reality, we live in a fake world. I live off grid and look after myself, I do it for freedom, not for anothers claim or belief. Best wishes.
Dave, you have a natural gift for conveying complex & vitally important information in a clear, calm, and concise manner. Thank you for your efforts - I hope everyone tuning in can help to promote your channel to friends, colleagues & family.
Sorry to hear the news keeps getting worse.. but thanks so much for posting.. I've found your channel interesting and persuasive for some years now.. much appreciated! 👍
@@planetvegan7843 yeah? gonna tell your vegan mates to stop making fake cheese out of cashew nuts that burn HUMAN hands in the production process, because it's not profitable to automate the process? Gonna tell your vegan mates to approach people they need to persuade with facts, logic, decency, and manners, or are you going to be smug, abusive, patronising, emotionally manipulative, and then wonder why people don't like vegans, don't care about climate change, as you are: LIVING. MEMES. for the gaslighting murdoch press due to your own gaslighting behaviours? You lot and murdoch are two halves of the same narcissist, gaslighting, toxic coin
When I was a kid, only a couple decades ago, in the summer if we had the windows open and the lights on at the same time after dark the room would end up filled with tiny flys, moths, and other assorted flying insects. Nothing has that significant has changed in the environment around my parents house, but these days my parents can have all the windows open all night and a solitary moth is about at much as they can expect to see.
@@sjb3460 They just aren't something British homes have. Bear in mind that in high summer in the UK it doesn't get really dark till like 11pm. So it was only a problem for those few warm days in late summer/early autumn after the days were shorter but when it was also still hot enough to need the windows open at night. So not something that warranted a big investment and then ongoing house maintenance. Back when I was a kid I don't know if you would have even been able to buy them if you really wanted. Nowadays there just aren't enough bugs to worry about even when it is hot.
Shared with one of the Pages I manage, Climate Emergency York. Tomorrow morning I'll share from there in various other places. Succinct and to the point. Thank you.
Factual and well researched as ever. Scary in the extreme and baffling why the speed of action doesn't match the criticality of the timeline. Surely threats to food supplies and the infrastructure of life beats short term profit....?
I think we have a big problem that no one is talking about. We have the peak of the baby bubble, so we have many older people who don't care about climate change as they won't be around, plus they don't pay much tax. Then we have the fewest and poorest young people who are expected to change and pay to solve the crisis, but they won't have the money to do so. Add to this the Me Me Me society we live in, and how divided we are as a society. These are all issues in the western world that will be a huge challenge to the change needed. PS: Another excellent video!
I live in a deeply rural setting with Amish for neighbors and I would say that I've observed at least an 80% loss of insects in the last 10 years. Very concerning.
That is strange because the Amish don't use technology from before 1790? Or are there 'normal' farms in the surrounding neighborhood? Pesticides can drift from afar when it is blown away on dust particles etc.
@@Roerdompjesuf Insects are highly nomadic.. they don't stick to some square few miles in Amish territory. Any more global effect upon their populations is going to show up Everywhere. I also have noticed their rapid decline. You can drive for hours on a motorway here in the UK today, and absolute zero bug splatts to the windscreen. Such was in no way the case even just 30 years ago. Believe it... It is true! The insects are disappearing fast. Decades long global studies (using insect traps) show a dramatic decrease.
@@gammakeraulophon This is mainly because of our usage of pesticides and monocultures. In USA it is really terrible because of all the soy and corn that is used as feedlot has huge quantities of pesticide usage and there are no flowers in the surrounding. Also here in the NL we have this problem with pesticides usage and low amounts of flowers. UK still has some pretty meadows in comparison with NL :) But we are also hugely depended on export: Coffee, soy, palm, tobacco, chocolate, avocados, cotton etc. that also require intensive farming and pesticides usage across the world! Also infrastructures play a role as roads and cities emit heat that will also effect the lifecycle of insects. Even because of nitrogen deposition for example caterpillars get too much "junk food" and are growing less. Don't forget that cars are made more aerodynamically so insects splatter less on windshields I believe. ( I heard this on a zoommeeting about butterfly conservation in Europe.) It is true that most insects are capable of spanning a lot of territory maybe some are more territorial bound I don't know. But butterflies surely aren't.
@@Roerdompjesuf We don't get bug splatts to the radiator air vent at the front of the car either. They used to collect there. So I don't think the explanation is aerodynamic windscreens.. and persons driving older design vehicles are saying the same thing. I was born 1968.. when I grew up 1970's insects were a palpable presence in the air whilst sitting in the garden or walking out in nature. There is no doubt in my mind that all of this has changed... But the factual evidence appears to bear it out also.
@@Roerdompjesuf I'm no expert Jarre, but there is at least one species of butterfly in America which undertakes a long migration from as far north as Canada to the southern US, I believe.
I live in Japan and I talked about the 6th mass extinction event and was told that I was pessimistic and this topic is something regular people talk about it’s a topic for UN because there is nothing we can do about it. I told them that we are like drops of water and together we can make an ocean but just received a snort😭
they learn from history, because a single tiny nuke can kill so many of them at once instantly, and their number won't do anything to stop it, and it's not a joke, we can actually do nuclear wars right now, and destroy most of human population, we just haven't find the right reason yet
Yes there are ignorant people everywhere but there are also pockets of non-ret*rds. Don't try and change morons instead try to grow the influence of the enlightened
I am from Russia and I met many people who ask "so what? How does that affect YOU and ME?" and "well, for our lifetime everything will be ok". Mind you, the people who had kids and grandkids said all that! Just confirms that most people approach having kids from a very selfish perspective. They care not about their kids, but about themselves. "I will have bio-kids, because I want so/I picture my ideal family life like that/it will make me happy; as to problems they will face in the future - who cares, I won't be alive anymore then!" That seems to be their thought process
This is why global agreements aren’t a real solution. People diffuse their responsibility into those multinational and international organizations. A part of it is true, when industrial and logistical processes represent a tsunami, and you a drop of water. However, those organizations which form those tsunamis are made up of individual drops of water.. People need to take it upon themselves, and this cannot be compelled by some authoritative agency. The most profitable and powerful will simply circumvent it while feigning compliance.
@@Ssyphoned Global agreements are better than nothing at all. After all this is a global issue and international cooperation is essential in combating climate change. Certainly as individuals we need to change our patterns of consumption but it's very difficult to affect industrial and agricultural processes that damage the environment across great swathes of the planet. This issue is further complicated by the sheer amount of conflicting and confusing information we have available. I'll use one example - wood chip burning at electricity generating power plants. According to some sources this is at least carbon neutral due to the wood being sourced from sustainably managed forests. According to other sources it's nothing of the sort and is nearly as dirty as coal! If I, as a consumer, want my electricity to be as 'green' as possible should I be buying it from a company that sources it from Drax power stations or not?
I think the unusual ability to rapidly shed brain heat is what causes the cool approach.
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The French president is basically ignoring the outcome of the "citizens convention on climate" he originally supported. "Make our planet great again" was just words and no action followed, really.
Macron is a puppet of the controllers that shouldnt be, just as is the MSM, you do not need to be one too. Free critical logical thinking will ensure your freedom. At what period was the planet great? What kind of life do you envisage in your utopia? Will you have a computer and mobile phone? Best wishes.
That's the point. He supported it only to take credit, take the fame to himself. He never cared, never will. Just look at how he "personnaly" took charge of the covid, creating a science group, while there already was a science group he blatantly ignored. The guy is all about himself.
One cannot overstate just how dire the predicament is as life on earth stands on the precipice of extinction. The tipping points, such as the total loss of arctic sea ice and the massive release of methane gas from that region, will now dictate just how quickly the globe will warm since that's now baked into what will inevitably happen because of our past industrial civilized behavior.
There is no real evidence for your claims. You are just repeating propaganda. Look at google earth images for arctic ice for each month over the last ten year and see if your claim is true. Methane is that small a content, hundreds of times small than water vapour in the atmosphere that it makes no difference whatsoever. Belief is the enemy of knowing. Dont believe me, that is not my intention, validate your beliefs by think for yourself and having an open mind and questioning. Best wishes.
@@Calligraphybooster Why just believe words, when you can look at evidence? what is the geological record of global cooling and warming? what do the pictures of ice show over the last recorded period? When was Greenland last inhabited? Did MM global warming enable this? What made it cool afterwards? You could just think for yourself? Perhaps you need to be told what to think? Best wishes.
Thank you. I was unaware of this opportunity to contribute to the cause. I have passed this on to family members. I hope you get the reach that you deserve with this video.
Capitalism money and self greed will destroy this beautiful planet. I like your videos it just really upsets me that people don’t take this seriously Everyone should emaiil them
The Earth has at least 500 million years before the sun starts growing maybe more. Soon she will wake up so like in the past started life on and in her over again. Maybe the next time she will succeed in making a sentient, intelligent species maybe even a few who can get off this life with their awareness intact!
You Sir are making a difference. Bravo! I hope your viewers use your content as a springboard to action. I often ask, " Who will speak for the mosquitoes?" This issue we are having with insects is profound and a tragic sign of habitat change and loss. I live where there are few people and a huge amount of insects. It has been the policy of forestry companies to spray clearcuts to better establish tree planting conifer dominance. The "Borealization" of a mixed deciduous natural forest. Much of the forestry here in Nova Scotia produces wood pellets for European markets. I know at least Germany imports our wood pellets fir energy generation. The home use could factor in as well. So glad your getting through to so many people. I hope your viewership grows exponentially...😀👍
I’m far more concerned about environmental pollution and degradation than climate change. Something needs to be done about waste run off, overfishing and deforestation
Massive appreciation for your videos, thanks for all the good work you do. It's really tough to see beautiful wild places in the world being destroyed in the name of profit, over and over again. It really does feel hopeless at times but helps to see other people who care.
Hi Dave, thanks so much for this. I’m on the CEE Bill Alliance team and this is appreciated by all of us. Please, anyone watching, sign up on the CEE Bill website that Dave gave a link to. We are helping Constituency Campaigns all over the country engage constructively with their MPs. The more of you who get involved the quicker we can get this legislation into place and create the change of direction Dave talks about. Many hands make light work. Thanks again Dave.
@@electronresonator8882 Elon Musk is a liar and a conman. Watch "Common Sense Skeptic" channel videos about him, they condensed all the information better than most others I have seen. From how Musk stole Tesla from actual founders and now claims he founded it to how he lied about producing ventilators for covid patients
There is a real problem with insects and it isnt the scam climate change clearly. The chemical and communication industries have had a key role this is obvious basic science? CO2 increases plant, animal and insect life, this is basic science? Best wishes.
@@jimmycorkhill1390 The problem with insects was never blamed on climate change. Mostly, pesticides and habitat loss. Listen to what is being said, instead of what you think will be said.
@@ecocentrichomestead6783 So why conflate the two? Why bring them together with climate change? Why bring in wild fires in with CO2, when a hundred years ago they were much worse according to scientific record? Because a narrative needs to be delivered, an agenda needs to be delivered? "You will own nothing and be happy". Im guessing it will be in a smart city, where you will be given credits and rewards for your behaviour/compliance. Perhaps you will gain enough credits to visit the natural world? Best wishes.
The Best Yet Dave, Thank you! We are getting to the cutting edge of things when we start looking beyond the present so called democracy we inhabit. Citizens assemblies are likely our best chance/opportunity. We 'd do well to take it, grasp it with open arms and get to it.
The "head-on at 80 versus 60" is actually 160 versus 120 when considering the oncoming traffic. That's almost certain death. And so it will be with 4+ degrees climate change. Thanks for the information.
The funny thing is the alternative is so much better than what we have now. Happy, fitter, altogether better, than what we have now. The peoples councils or citizens assemblies are the way to go. The era of political controllers is dead. Politicians need telling what to do.
@@jimmycorkhill1390 I know, bamboozling anacronyms that appear to mean something but don't. They English have never strayed far from their feudal roots - monarchy, lords, no written constitution, little England and global Britain. Permanent Tory rule. Maybe some historical perspective can enlighten the Great Escape. The American and French revolutions marked the moment the ideas of the old feudal order popped. Starting with Adam Smith all 19th century Classical economists believed the new capitalism would see the destruction of the old feudal order. To make the transformation, capitalism had to be made efficient and so the rentier class had to be eradicated. The old aristocratic Lord who gathered rent in his sleep was to be no more. They defined 3 forms of inefficient and unnecessary rent that had to go - land rent, monopoly rent and interest, or the rent on money. This cancellation of excess unearned income is easy to see with land rent. Just because some ancient war lord grabbed a piece of land, or the King bestowed it on a person for favours rendered, never seemed like a good reason for their progeny to maintain that privilege for all eternity. The ownership needs to return to the people so we can charge a land value tax and other neat stuff. Not so obvious is monopoly rent but the fact is it always leads to excess profits that have no basis in costs. Thus monopolies are inefficient. The public ownership of the natural monopolies like utilities, roads, healthcare, is the most efficient way to cancel excess monopoly rent. This cancellation of excess unearned income is also why banks should be publicly owned. Banks sell debt. All banks should be nationalised, to be in service to the real economy, at minimum cost to the real economy. Plus, there is a peculiarity with compound interest, since it grows exponentially, but the real economy does not. This causes massive inefficiencies and constant booms and busts. As you can easily imagine, the remnants of the old aristocracy and the new Robber Barons of the Gilded Age didn’t like these ideas one little bit. Efficient capitalism needed radical modification!!! So, Neo-Classical economics began in the 1890’s to define earned and unearned income as the same. Then subsequently in the mid 20th century with the neo-liberal agenda, to turn Classical economics on its head - upside down and inside out. In 1980 the Reagan Thatcher axis made it the only game in town. Now, earned income is heavily taxed, unearned income gets a free ride. Wages go down, asset prices go up. QE is MMT for the rich. Tax havens abound. The World Bank and IMF made the Washington Consensus global, using debt as the weapon of choice. We are all sliding deeper and deeper into debt, thanks to the magic of compound interest. We’ve been hijacked by the money men, The City boys, the Wall St mafia. Forget communism and socialism, now the money men do all the “Central Planning” of society. Soon we will all be owned by the elite 1% who will own everything. This is where the 99% are going right now - back to the bad old days of debt peonage, when the rich had a divine right to be rich and the poor were destined to be poor forever. The financial sector is a parasite, a great vampire squid, engulfing the real economy and sucking all the life out society. Why else do you imagine the draconian security state is being put into place right now? Climate change and the shock doctrine ensures every crisis tightens the noose another notch, as society divides into the fabulously wealthy and the powerless masses of undeserving poor. You didn’t make it? Then it’s all your fault. Remember TINA? There Is No Alternative. Well there is an alternative, which is why they make dammed sure never to teach you any of this stuff. Neo-feudalism is just around the corner, in debt from the school yard to the grave. None of this is taught in any university economics courses now. They just churn out systems managers to maintain the neo-liberal rip-off system. To learn more on the history of economic thought search: Michael Hudson on YT
not wanting to be a pessimist, i see no other way than massive ecological, economic and socialogical collapse and the suffering of a huge amount of humans on the earth. the collective don't want to change especially here in the u.s.. humanity is insane.
If I've learnt anything over the years it's that the majority of people are sheep who will just go with the direction of the rest of their flock. You can only influence them by becoming a wolf in sheep's clothing...ie grow your own personal power and influence in whatever way you can
I believe change is possible. Individually we are all capable of change, but only collectively we can achieve the radical systemic change needed to avert, or at least mitigate, climate and ecological collapse. It weren't for 1000's of people taking to the streets with extinction rebellion, or Greta Thunberg, would 60 (or something around that number?) counties have now declared a climate emergency?
Great video and thank you for calling out the impact of outsourcing heavy industry on the "progress towards climate goals" made by developed countries over the last decades. It gets brushed over far too often.
What really gets me is that there are these big ticket lawsuits against Monsanto ( now Bayer) and I walked into the local Home Depot and the display is as large as life in the front of the store. What's wrong with this picture?
Been watching the real science about this for almost 45 years. The corporate greed is the biggest obstacle preventing us from doing the right thing for our own survival. We have the technology, but I fear unless drastic measures are taken, it will be too late for most of us. By the time enough people come out off their apathetic cloud
Good to know that you were not only informative about the science related to climate change and the environmental situation we find ourselves in but that you have some political activism in you. When you start talking about the citizens assembly it sounded like it was right out of an extinction rebellion handbook. Bravo. I hope your support XR in the good work they do in trying to change the direction of this suicidal system. Thanks for all your videos.
Yes. I'm not keen on the significant lying, exaggerating fact, by that Roger Hallam bloke though. He seems pleasant enough but this topic isn't one of those where it's fine to bung in a few lies, it's too important. Still better to keep making loud noise than stay quiet. I'd just prefer it always to be based on science.
Climate and ecology seem to always lose out to economy. Clearly this is unsustainable. Direct payment for all forms of climate mitigation is needed as practical way to get back into planetary balance.
I have been a citizen activist in Canada for about coming up 20 years. I can tell you from personal experience that visiting my MP and the Minister responsible is very powerful. This action you suggest, visiting your MP, is more powerful than you realize. These folks are often elected on single issues and have no idea of the vast realm of activity that they face the day they are elected. They often have NO idea about some issues and this is why lobbying exists. So, citizen activists such as myself and hopefully you folks, are actually in a powerful place to get some things done. There are some things to do and to keep in mind. First of all, your goal is to emerge from the room with your MP liking you and wanting to please you so be professional but more importantly, be nice, friendly, pleasing to talk to. Folks that go in with an attitude problem can be banned from the office. When I leave, the folks look forward to having me back. That open door means you can go back in later and do some more good. I visited one MP five times and got some good work done - in part, because of the respect we had for each other. And he was in the party that I will NEVER vote for. But I know that this is a democracy - 1 person, 1 vote. My MP is the person and I want the vote. They have a limited amount of time but your appointment is your time so, plan it and use it well. Practice, practice, practice. Prepare your presentation but be prepared to abandon it when the MP gets really engaged and starts asking good questions. Practice it with a range of folks and chose someone who is against your proposals to really hone your skills. No point being nervous. You will be anyway but there is no point. Your MP was just like you before being elected. Do NOT give your MP any written material until you leave. The material will distract your MP. If you do leave anything, keep it simple and on point. Do stick to some specific asks - especially support for the proposal in the video. Do ask "Are you going to support this legislation when it comes up?". Don't be afraid to put the question just that bluntly. You know that the paid lobby expect results - votes in the house. So do it. Put him or her on the spot. Leave it for near the end. Do have a few specific asks and try to link your asks to specific legislation. The citizen's forum described in the video and the legislative push are great things to focus on. Do be willing to make it personal. Do you have family that has been effected or even killed by one or more aspects of pollution and climate change - point it out and, don't be afraid to turn on the waterworks. Folks are effected by tears but do keep your presentation professional otherwise. Do some research on your MP first. My recent MP was resistant to my presentation until he started talking about TB spreading to wildlife - turns out he likes hunting and TB ridden wildlife is effecting him negatively. I did not know that going in and it did give him something to latch on to. Had I known going in, I would have gone there first. Do point out that this is not some distant thing that is far away but is happening NOW! Look at the fires in Australia (600 killed in one town alone) California burning, fires the size of Germany or France, every year in the Canadian Arctic and in Siberia. My wife will have to spend this summer indoors because of the smoke here in BC, Canada. That last one is definitely something I would mention to my MP because she is a voter in his riding and votes are oxygen to elected representatives. I think this video is simple incredible. I am so grateful that you made it. Now I am really looking for leadership from the UK. Thanks for making it and good luck to all you citizen activists. The life you are saving is your own.
I miss the good ol days of the masses showing up at their politician's door step with pitchfork and torches demanding change. I wonder if that would be effective in the modern era.
I don't know how effective it would be but it shurely couldn't hurt anything, and it might be fun. tar and feather the bastards and run them out of town on a rail
Yet our politicians represent us. Some are idiots, some are evil, but most just realise that they have to do what the majority want. If we're resorting to running folks out of town, it should be the 50% or so of people who don't really want to pay to address the climate emergency. Convince some of those 50% instead of the need for more spending, and you can be sure that most politicians will drop into line. Otherwise they'd be unemployed.
Non effective, it's been studied, now they have all the means to quiet down the masses. See the yellow vest : daily focus on the violent minority, hurt policemen, shattered glass. Then they paid the silence with 1.5 billion € to compensate decades of frozen salaries, and it was enough. Covid was the perfect opportunity to change subject, and now it's like social problems have been solved. The masses are just quiet, which is IMO much more suspicious. A long silent complain is more dangerous than a burst of rage, its a ticking bomb.
@@Elviloh that last part is my biggest concern. I actually am a Political Science major who personally studies Radical and Exteme Political movements and their means and methodologies, so one could say I'm fairly well studied on this general subject. That last part you mentioned is my biggest fear since bursts of rage rarely create viable government policy.
I find the truth oddly comforting, even though the prospect is so grim. I'm not a young person and have no children. I grieve for every child that is born today. I'm from Costa Rica. We hold 5% of the world's biodiversity. I live in a city but have a big backyard, and I allow the wild plants to grow as they please because they attract bees and other insects. Even here there are a lot less insects now than in my childhood. It's very sad.
...just a side note, from the French side, they did have a huge debate with the 150 "members of public" considering their "ecological transition" , however after all the hot air and over 100 ideas they came up with , the Macron Govt. managed to sidestep everything and as far as I can tell its business as usual. Furthermore , as an educated observer of the process, I feel it was designed to fail, simply put, because for issues as complex as climate change and biodiversity , asking "the public" for the answers to these questions is not likely to produce the best results. Surely it should be 150 of the best minds in the field...?
The point in the Citizens Assembly is about getting buy in from the citizens... They own the ideas, so more likely to do it. They should have more of them to educate more people. Every electorate could come up with local and national ideas. The experts are there to guide and provide evidence.
Can't believe I have only just found "Just Have a Think" .... absolutely brilliant, I'm actually starting to understand things sooooo much better... Many thanks :-)
People are crazy. Dad just bought frozen green beans from Belgium! We live in Washington State. Washington is the apple capital of the country but our local Safeway sells apples come from New Zealand. Does anyone think about carbon footprints?
@@jimmycorkhill1390 growing your own food is a TINY bit of the jigsaw and failure to do in no way precludes protesting about carbon-heavy food production.
@@jimmycorkhill1390 I do so for all that one can grow on a reasonable pice of land and yes it’s hilarious to sell apples from New Zealand 🇳🇿 meanwhile are you sure if they are from there or if the specific species of apple comes from there bray-burn apples can be for example from Washington State the species comes from New Zealand though.
then have you ever tried to give everything that you have to other people in need, just because you can? the fact is the opposite isn't it, take everything from other people for yourself, just because you can
Outstanding... Many thanks for this.. am off to my MP.. I think individuals feel powerless to make a difference, and loose the collective view that if we all made our tiny change, then the collective whole is huge and meaningful.. a great channel.
The question is, how do you convince the ppl with power that lives in a climate controled home,car,office to have any idea what it's like? the answer is they fist have to live it!
By starting with yourself? Do you grow your own food? Not recycle by dumping stuff in a special bin to be sent elsewhere to pollute, but reusing it? Do you not use stuff you dont really need or have a real purpose for. If you do this, you have a moral right to criticize others, if not, you are the problem? Best wishes.
@@jimmycorkhill1390 I quit my job, bought land and grow all my own food. I own no car and I spend my time hiking, surfing, cycling, spearfishing etc... It can be done and it is a better lifestyle then sitting in an office all day
Thanks for the presentation Dave! And Thank You, minister Lucas. It seems the British MP's must be _far_ less influenced by cash and greed than our representatives here in the U.S. "Write your elected officials" is a laughable notion for us.
Nothing is going to work, in the net, until you inflict a terminal cost to those engaging in the usage and wastage that is killing us off. People need to pay, in money, time, or other scarce resource, for their personal and support for institutional, wastage and overuse. People in the "first world" now use some 50 tons a year of carbon, and that to be sustainable needs to be just one, or at most a couple of tons. If everyone's usage got limited, monthly, annually, with hard limits, then when your Hawaii vacation suddenly means you are unable to either eat, or even live in a house, for the rest of a year, then you will begin to pay attention.
Very good video, a note tho: "Grand kids"...making the decision to breed under these circumstances points to a really beefy, quite detached optimism. Everything is dying, the world is becoming a literal hothouse, the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer, injustice, war and pestilence...but hey, lets make kids, surely they can't wait to experience all the incoming delights. Making 1 kid has a bigger carbon footprint than recycling, going minimalist and vegan put together. And the other elephant in the room: growth-capitalism, the push towards more and more consumption. I am pretty positive that only some sort of radical change of economic paradigm + technology which is not expected to immediately yield PROFITS is the only chance. My expectation: nobody is interested in slowing down, nobody is interested in making something ohne profit (only states and non-profits can)...yet everybody gets giddy about how this capitalist venture or that one makes some marketable 0 net emission brick or something...that ship has sailed, if we rely on the goodness of Mr. Scrooge, we're done. Elon Musk and co. will be chilling on Mars and politicians will be crusing in armored Teslas for awhile, but reality will bite them in the ass too in due time.
The first half of that was hysterical nonsense. My world is great and I am very happy. I have had kids and hope they have many too. There are more than enough resources for everyone, people just waste them. Do you grow your own food? process your own waste? Not buy stuff you dont properly utilize? Not be hypocritical, calling others whilst doing the deed? Best wishes.
We have lived carbon negative for 25 years. We don't live excessively, that is important, but we have a modern house, aircon, dishwasher, flush toilets, cars and every luxury we desire. We can do this because we own enough natural land, which has no agricultural activity on it, that takes care of the carbon we do produce, and much more. Of course we have solar panels, water collection etc. I know that only a small percentage of people can do this, but far more people could then are presently doing it. I think those people that choose to do this should be encouraged. Instead we have experienced the opposite, our whole system is designed to discourage any type of lifestyle which is not profit oriented. Why? There is a price to pay for living this way, but mostly it is just a different frame of mind and different priorities.
@Paolo Bernasconi Exactly, most of the world’s people live lightly on the earth, it’s the minority of us in so called developed countries who are responsible for all the big environmental and social problems we currently face!
@Paolo Bernasconi Yes I agree Humans from all parts of the world have had conflicts etc which is a social problem, but I was ref to the big social problems such as those caused by Rainforest destruction, manipulation of Gov by super power countries. And installing puppet dictators, the mega wealthy stealing land from farmers, pushing GMO crops on Indian etc farmers that has caused serious social problems, the list goes on and on. I suppose I’m talking about international exploitation of ‘undeveloped’ countries, globalism/Neo Liberalism etc
MEER won't save us. Look at Venus - it's upper atmosphere reflects away 90% of incoming solar radiation. However, far from cooling, it has surface temperatures which would melt lead - all because it has a CO2-rich lower atmosphere which prevents infra red thermal radiation from escaping outwards; we call it the greenhouse/hothouss effect & it's coming to a planet near you, with or without mirrors.
@@mikeharrington5593 Climate system in Venus is not comparable to Earth at all. The atmospheric pressure is about 92 times the Earths and it contains ~97% CO2. So, of course the reflecting upper atmosphere doesn't do anything there.
@@user255 The jury is still out on how Venus got its dense atmosphere, but the lack of a carbon (sequestration) cycle suggests that over millennia the runaway extreme heating has stripped all the carbon from surface elements and incorporated it into the atmosphere as CO2 along with all the other surface elements "boiled off". Venus might have had much more water than Earth but when its surface temperature became extreme then water vapor would have split into its components allowing the lighter element hydrogen to escape the atmosphere. Perhaps the resultant separated "free oxygen O2" then reacted with existing carbon elements to turbo-boost the creation of even more CO2? So runaway hothouse Venus has maybe compounded so much of what we see as solid elements on Earth into dense, heavier, gases which are unable to escape Venus's mass/gravity (at around 90% of Earth's), thus increasing fhe overall atmospheric pressure to nearly 100 times that on Earth.
@SHEISTER CAM Yes, Larry asked good question and I don't quite know the answer. My point was that the atmosphere of Venus is too different to Earth's to be used in such analogy. This is because changes in albedo have very different effects on different climate systems. IE what makes no difference in Venus, could make huge difference in Earth and vice versa. It's like saying parachutes and bulletproof vests doesn't work, because parachute didn't save a man from gunshots and bulletproof vest didn't save a man who fell from air craft. Earth's climate system is at least somewhat sensitive to albedo. Venus has huge runaway absorbtion regardless of the high albedo. Think of a bucket, which has little hole at its bottom. And think of a faucet, which drips to the bucket. Whether the bucket will be empty, half full or full depends on the balance of the input and output. Climate systems work similarly. One more kick to the already dead horse; if such comparisons would be sensible, then "oh look, 95% of CO2 didn't make Mars warm, so it wont do anything to Earth either". That is clearly wrong, right?
Join or start a small sustainable community. If you do a good job of it people will want to copy you. Teach them how. Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, it is clearly the right path to take.
@@bobbresnahan8397 Compulsory? Like mask wearing? like curfew? like not allowed to travel? like removal of free speech? like force vaccination/medical intervention? like special passes? like forced labels? Perhaps a yellow star? Where have we seen these before? Not the mask, just threw that it for effect! Best wishes.
remember DO NOT PANIC, ... and , ... i think that there are indeed some of us who feel quite the opposite my friend, ...this mess We are ALL in was a Deliberate Act, people Knew the consequences and moved forward with it anyways. and i KNOW You do not think like them , BUT, ... always be aware that you are surrounded, at all times, by MURDEROUS PSYCHOPATHS, at all times walking among us. CRIMINALS whose motive, was MONEY.
We need a Big Push where for 6 months we all try todo absolutely everything we can to change and live more sustainably. The pandemic lockdown and associated gov programs cut 10years off vaccine development. We need to do something similar with climate change including 6 months of government investment and programs to solve the problem. I nominate the second half of 2023.
We’re going to see rapid decarbonization of energy which should help thanks to solar wind and batteries. Not because of any type of Apollo or Manhattan level effort that I wish we had, but because of economics.
@Rebecca McFARLANE There is reported to have been so much higher levels of CO2 during the lush Jurassic Period, why will humans not be able to live in such an environment? I enjoy my lush polytunnel too. Best wishes.
@Rebecca McFARLANE Yes physics, CO2 accounts for 0.04% of the atmosphere? MM CO2 is 4% of all CO2 production? Water vapour is 5% of the atmosphere which has a similar specific heat capacity ratio of CO2? Therefore so many times more likely to be responsible in the greenhouse gas flawed theory? 50 times as much CO2 is contained in the oceans than in the atmosphere? So when the sun heats the sea more than before during its perpetual cycle more CO2 is released? This is why geological records show higher temps and more CO2 throughout history and why dino fred and barny lived in so lush a climate? Warming increases CO2? Cooling decreases CO2? Are these physical facts wrong? Can you explain this please, I am wanting to learn? Best wishes.
@Rebecca McFARLANE I have just watched this short scientific explanation of the basic physics regarding CO2, Methane, water vapour and greenhouse effect. Are you willing to ignore science for the sake of secondhand beliefs? Best wishes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BsYF1zI8gO8.html
Generally for all the people minimally effected, the attitude is and will remain; "Sucks to be you!" Towards all those suffering. So roll that up in your pipe and smoke it. Such is human nature.
Can you please review the report by Climate Healers that says Animal Agriculture contributes to 87% of greenhouse gas emissions? Surely if that's true, than just moving to a carbon free energy system won't be enough.
Reducing your meat consumption has an insignificant effect on climate, and when you consider that in the US the health care industry is responsible for 10% of the emissions you realize that eating a nutrient deficient diet will lead to disease and contribute more to that 10%. For more information: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sGG-A80Tl5g.html
@@Gengh13 I understand nutrition is important to you. It's important to me too. How many vegans and vegetarians are there around the world? 400+ million? Do you think they're all on a nutrient deficient diets? What about world class athletes that are on the top of their game? What do you think of the athletes in The Game Changers film?
@@brianrcVids you could be vegetarian and not be deficient, a significant part of the nutrients come from eggs or other animal products, not the case with vegans. Almost all of the top athletes are omnivores, only a few are vegans and most not for long because their performance suffers.
@@Gengh13 Where do you think eggs get their nutrients from, or the chicken for that matter? Do you think the performance of Venus Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Kyrie Irving, Scott Jurek, Jermain Defoe, Kendrick Farris and hundreds more world class vegan athletes are suffering for not consuming any animals or their excretions? What does the largest organization of nutrition professionals, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, say about vegan diets?
@@brianrcVids chicken and specially ruminant animals take all the nutrients that are dispersed through the land and concentrate them and make them bio-available for us to consume. We can't digest grass. If the academy of nutrition and dietetics had evidence that a vegan diet was superior to an omnivore one I would be vegan, but that's not the case, that's why if you feed a growing child a vegan diet you will stunt his growth and permanently damage his health.
I live in Australia where the government is doing less than nothing on global warming, it is something that everybody needs to be aware of and do everything even if its a little to help. I wondered whether painting the roofs of buildings with thermally reflective paint would help.This is not a problem we should be sitting back and waiting for someone else to solve. I will definitely be looking to vote for a better government not one that plays with figures to pretend they're doing the right thing.
I used to think it was the best way to address the issue of biodiversity loss, but I’m now on the fence. Could it be that the economic model is the issue, not the number of people? Energy use per person is around 80,00 kWh in the US vs around 3,000 in Bangladesh. Fertility rate in the USA is 1.78 vs 2.01 in bangladesh. We shouldn’t get upset about people having children; it’s perfectly natural.
@@ravesandcurry3893 the problem with population control is that reproduction isn't a matter of human free will. The problem with all other proposed solutions: humans don't have free will.
@@sentientflower7891 yeah but that’s a discussion in itself. Whilst we could go on exhaustively about assigning a baseline above which arbitrary free will is designated, there are things that can feasibly be done to dramatically reduce our impact on Earth. Like putting the handbrake on.
Our actions is not dependent on the outcome of turning abrupt climate change around. Our action is for the love of our natural world, however long we can still hold onto it.
@@puta1082 Formula of kaya which states that the global anthropogenic impact on the environment is the average individual impact per human being (worldwide) multiplied by the number of humans in the world . You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that the less the number of humans is; the less the overall impact. Simple math!
@@niqjaw5009 The Kaya identity is 4 factors not 2 like you incorrectly implied. Given the equation you have chosen, you can cut the effect in half by: either: My way, cutting carbon emissions in half. Your way, killing half the world population.
@@puta1082 Rubbish. Where have I mentioned any "killing"? I am simply saying that people should refrain from procreating to reduce the inevitable suffering.
@@niqjaw5009 Ok so we can keep a bad learned habit all we need to do is stop the base human drive, and even if we were to do something that crazy it would be to little to late. Why fight it when the answer is so easy all we need to do is stop pulling carbon out of the ground and throwing up into the atmosphere.
Sir, you should make a video on Orbital o2 tidal power which is set to produce 4 times energy than the conventional wind turbine. It’s very interesting. But need your views will it survive the market or it’s just an R&D thing
Had an after thought. That's perhaps like one wife saying to another, you are so lucky your husband only cheats and mentally abuses you, mine hits me? Best wishes.
Great info as always, but was expecting a bit more on personal action suggestions, to be honest! There's a lot we can do, e.g. switching to a green energy supplier, reducing or eliminating consumption of animal-derived food, reducing energy consumption, etc. Project Drawdown has done a tremendous job at quantifying GHG impact of virtually all human activities to tackle the problem smartly and not necessarily relying on gov. entities who sadly deceive us time and time again. I'd love to see a video focused on personal action possibilities. Delegating responsibility to government is a cop-out too :-/
Reducing your meat consumption has an insignificant effect on climate, and when you consider that in the US the health care industry is responsible for 10% of the emissions you realize that eating a nutrient deficient diet will lead to disease and contribute more to that 10%. For more information: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sGG-A80Tl5g.html
