to be fair, many people spearheading environmental causes don't make themselves likeable or try and understand the barriers other people may face with mitigating climate change. The promoting of climate change action has been a huge failure and the propagators can only blame themselves
@@jamesricker3997 Maslow;s Hierarchy of Needs, people won't think about their long term goals until their short term security is met. You're not going to be worrying about spending more on environmentally friendly crops if you are barely making ends meet. You're not going to spend time lobbying your local politician if you're spending all your time and energy surviving. It's why people in poorer areas tend to make unhealthy decisions, even if they know they are bad in the long term, because they cater to their short term needs
As a Texan who has grown their own food most of my life. My entire garden scorched this year, and the corn crops around here did as well, luckily for the corn, it can be turned into chicken feed, but it sucks because it's not as profitable and it's going to cause a shortage. I like my grilled corn ok. Most of the farmers around here completely understand that climate change is real, the problem is even though we do voice our frustration, gerrymandering keeps our voices from being heard. Help Texans end gerrymandering!
I’m in my sixties and I remember before the current political polarization and narrative took hold when hunters were among the most vehement conservationists who’d turn on a hunter who hunted out of season and often helped regulate advance the number of recognized endangered species. Then everything changed as quickly as our political philosophy changed.
"hunters were among the most vehement conservationists" Yep, I remember those days too. Back when the NRA was only interested in promoting shooting sports.
I'm on lake Erie and the charter boat captains are fighting back now. All the agricultural runoff is amplifying algae blooms which hurts their business.
I really love seeing outspoken southerners speaking intelligently about topics like this. Especially when we don’t try to hide our accents or colloquialisms! Thanks for givin us yee haw types a good name, we’re not all the way we are portrayed in the media. But I do think we can all agree that tubing is great lol
I'm a yankee from Vermont and I've lived in evry part of the u.s. Being dumb as a box of rocks has no relationship to your geographical location. There are people so stupid they couldn't think their way out of a paper bag in every state. Never understood where the ignorant southern hick stereotype came from.
Kept waiting to hear a shoutout for the SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER. They have been fighting for environmental protection, land conservation, and climate change mitigation in the South for going on 40 years. And their biggest successes have been built on coalitions of people who have a healthy environment as a common priority.
Tree is doing the whole country a service. Letting other regions know the south's view on climate change isn't monolithic. Giving voice and face to those living in the south of a more informed person than those in positions of power.
Not sure why this video was recommended to an Aussie living out in the bush, but I fully relate to climate disasters not being taken seriously, you'd think that having the worst bushfires and floods in history every ten years would be enough but nope.
Since 2020 even the hard core climate change deniers are at least tacitly admitting that the climate is changing - it seriously took two major hurricanes hitting my area within 43 days (a little over 1 month a part) for most people to take notice. This summer as well, the heat has been lethal, people are literally saying things like "i know i ain't crazy, it ain't ever been this hot before"
@@PMickeyDee Using natural fuels, like coal and oil and gas, are not affecting the weather sweetie. Climate change is a hoax perpetuated by governments that want to seize power and take away our freedoms.
I had spent my life in New Jersey but went down into Tennessee back in the 1970s. It was absolutely beautiful what Mother Nature has provided us but I was totally disgusted by all the garbage on the ground by a beautiful stream! 50 years have passed, and nothing's changed!
How could liberal environmentalists go about better reaching out to conservative southerners who are in fact concerned? If we’re going to tackle this problem we need to do it together.
From Alabama, here. Roll Tide, first and foremost. Never have i ever seen a group of people, especially from the South, be so adamant to destroy the very thing they love. It's like almost the entirety of the South and majority of the Midwest wants to be MCU Thanos and the planet is MCU Gamora.
Tubing is the best. Planet poisoning from agrichemicals to fracking, not so much. Thanks, Trae, as always for the work you are doing. We all love you like chickens.
The whole climate "argument" is based to the climate being a complex system. You can't just explain and prove every mechanic involed in two minutes, so the impatient or outright dumb will give up well before you get done. Here is the other thing about complex systems, there are multiple redundencies. The climate can take a heck of a beating. But tough isn't invulnerable. Neglect and abuse these systems long enough and they WILL fail. They are failing and people who studied this for their entire lives have been ringing that alarm bell and screaming for years. The responce of the dumb is "well they keep crying and I keep living". Its like refusing to move out of a house condemed by a surveyer, doing no maintanence and being 100% sure that because it didn't fall down yet it won't fall down. Then tapping the walls with a hammer to prove how brave they are and how sturdy the house is...
I am so glad you have been able to broadcast messages like this that are informative. You are from where we are from so understanding coming from you makes it easier and more likely we understand
This is a very good video and I’m glad you did it. But there is hope. That trend does seem to be slowly changing. In Texas rural homeowners are standing up to the gas companies that want to run pipelines through their town by teaming up with environmental groups. And one more thing. I recently took a trip to Idaho and Wyoming. Two very oil dependent states. What did I see? Solar panels on houses and electric vehicles on the road. There is hope.
The point he's making in the video is that, contrary to popular belief based on the most vocal of Southerners, the majority of them in fact are quite concerned about climate change.
Living in TN, I see things occasionally talking about protecting wetlands and forests. Unfortunately it's usually in the form of "If we destroy the environment, there won't be any animals left to shoot". So yeah, take that for what you want I guess. I suppose that's progress...
There is one clear path to people globally being more environmentally minded: make them less poor quickly and facilitate their capacity to stay out of poverty. This was recommended to the U.N. committee back in 2008, and has been all but ignored. Poor people do not care about ecological interests, they can't.
Hey brother, I really love ur content. Information n comedy. Rya reaching the people who really need to hear it though?? Keep it up, too many schmucks can get in the way.
For any climate deniers, I switch the vocabulary I use. Instead of climate change I just say pollution or effects of pollution. It isn’t the same thing I know but people are more willing to come to the changes to help stop CC if it is dressed up as stopping pollution.
Southern people like to point out all the "good ones" yet they won't hold all their conservative neighbors accountable. Call them out, quit hanging out and put some social consequences on the conservatives
Let me add to the water crisis for you. Most communities have combined sewage/stormwater systems that are often over inundated with water from rain events causing these systems to pump out untreated or partially treated effluent into our waterways. Sometimes the bacteria counts are massively past what would close a beach. Additionally, there's an increase in phosphorus in many waterways from agriculture that cause increasingly devastating algal blooms.
The UK has a serious problem with wastewater being dumped into their reverse, lakes, and the sea. And the companies are allowed to do it because the Tories (who are in charge) let them. It's so damn awful.
Love the political topic turn at the end. Our political partiscipation is imperitive! Now to find candidates that will declare a National Climate Emergency, so we can adress this problem and nip it in the bud.
This is anecdotally obviously, but I have relatives that we need Texas so they know the space on where you go. But most Texans that I meet are either in different about certain social issues or actually you're really liberal about them. Every time I ask them well, if there's so many people in Texas who feel this way, then why isn't the state like mixed or blue and the answer is simple. It's the reason why every Texan no matter their political background hates the bushes which is that the state is literally and oligarchy totalitarian government. Like I've been repeatedly explained that despite Texas having extremely liberal weapon laws, the entire state's population armed late all the candle to the national guard, which by both socially and legally in their system supports only the rich people in power in that state. Meaning if shit went down, the national guard would guard Ted Cruz and would immediately start shooting bombing its own statesman. This is why they can't win because these rich assholes essentially have a chokehold on the state and one of my favorite quotes from a Texas friend of mine says that if you are an American but you can't visit the UK, go visit Texas. We have the same royalty system.
There are many conservative christians who believe that the severe weather events we are experiencing today are signs of the end times. They not only don't believe that anything can done to mitigate these events (it being attributed to god's will) they actually welcome them.
Really it's the outdoor-living, rural, small-town, outdoor-working, farmers, and those in the South that have the most to lose with climate change, and will be most directly aware of its impacts. City folk are (literally) insulated from it, spending most of their time indoors, getting their food from supermarkets, and so on. Verses the trades-workers who work outdoors, in conditions getting hotter, making their jobs more unpleasant or even unsafe. Those in places that were already hot that will become unbearable, perhaps literally unlivable. Farmers who will have less consistent harvests, more frequent crop failures due to floods, drought, heat, and other changed weather patterns. Those who hunt and fish. So it doesn't surprise me that they're well aware of and worried about it.
I live in Coastal Georgia so there is lots of environmental concerns we have 6 super sites( industrial pollution) but we are a very Red area electing pro business anti environmental laws. It makes no sense when they post pictures of their catch or a pretty sunset over the marsh. They vote against what they claim to love.
I remember when we started catching fish with spots on their belly! The DNR just said in basic terms that it was no big deal you just shouldn't eat alot of them! SMH!
Straight talkin' suthern boy. Thats what we all need hear'in the South. Scheming, Lying, Bought suthern Politicians got to go...all Politicians that're like this GOT TO GO.... . Blessed Be...
Forced Patriotism and Conservatism are becoming just like Communism, if you don't belong to their party and wear the party logo you can't be loyal enough, and skin color always matters for certain true Patriots. Patriotism Americans are definitely the most patriotic people.They are always willing to defend their freedoms. America has its flaws, and all Americans know that. Patriotism is not a country song, rap tune, jazz melody, in America it's made up of all these things along with the backgrounds and people's that make them up. Nationalism and patriotism are not the same thing. Both have their basis in love and loyalty to country, but that is where their similarities end. Nationalism and Conservatisum have becom beliefs that they are superior. Their culture, their ethnicity, and their interests are so much more important than the interest of others, they fear people who do not share their ideas and they often devalue people who are different than them. White supremacists and Nazis are examples. Elohim God, determines the path of both men and nations. America has great achievements and great failures as a Republic.
Great vid, Trae, (American) auto manufacturers have stopped building economical cars, but offer 10 different quad cab 4x4 trucks, and have convinced men that "being a man" is driving a truck that gets 12 mpg everywhere, even though you *don't NEED one for anything* a Prius will get you from point A, to point B, and get 50 mpg, but it ain't COOL !!!
The "powers that are", fill our heads with nonsense and we buy it because we think they know everything. Their first trick is to always redefine a term so that it puts down someone. We fall for it almost every time.
When it comes to the climate we are not just shitting in our own back yard. We are shitting on the family dining table with bad diarrhea whilst we are eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Idk if it's a southern thing or just something that's everywhere, but I do remember as a kid tubing on actual inner tube (like in a tire) instead of a specifically made recreational tube.
I've always said it makes sense for conservatives to want to, you know, conserve the environment. Doesn't it say somewhere in the Bible "I leave you this Earth, take good care of it" or something of the sort?
Sadly we Yanks just say climate change is too expensive to fight and isn’t our problem anyway. The older folks that can only see the world through dollar signs want to take care of us by taking care of the economy. They don’t realize how much climate change will screw over the economy.
One would think that if an all powerful being gave us the gift of the Earth, we should AT LEAST be trying to take care of it! The right, those most likely to worship such a deity, seem to care the least about the way we treat our planet.
The 2nd amendment is NOT about hunting, it never even mentions hunting, it says "....the security of a free state...." it's about fighting a tyrannical government, it was written by revolutionary colonists fighting a civil war and they specifically stated that Americans have a duty to resist a tyrannical government and they ment armed resistance.
i currently live in the south not sure if i count but watching him hasnt changed my mind on anything he doesnt really provide evidence for his claims or make convincing arguments
Ive had some good conversations with conservatives by starting off accepting they dont believe in climate change but then discussing superfund sites and the rivers where you shouldnt eat the fish. That gets through. Liberals also need to follow the science and not just follow the trends. If your electric car can drive cross country on a charge and outrun a supercar, dont pretend youre out ther saving the planet.
2:20 The explanation here is simple: religion’s main purpose is to reduce or eliminate humans’ fear of death. Once you’ve disarmed a creature’s survival instinct, you can convince them to espouse any ideology you want, whether it threatens their very existence or not.
The earth is warming! Think about this! one flat square acre with on inch of rainfall equals twenty seven thousand one hundred fifty gallons of water if you had a thousand acres feeding one little dry branch and it rained say thirty inches of rain in a year how much water would that be if you put detention ponds and reservoirs in that dry branch you could catch all that water an let it soak in .except We're the water was full of nitrates herbicides and insecticides, everything the field need for production of food but instead we got farmers pumping fresh drinking water out of under ground aquafiers on to that field to irrigate with , but where the water is clean let it be caught in the detention pond so that it will fill the aquafiers back up
One of the things that really, really bothers me about modern day "Evangelical" fundamentalist "Christians" is how wedded they are to that phrase, "God helps those who help themselves." That phrase does not appear anywhere, *anywhere* in the Bible. It's not there, it's a false teaching. Christ helped everyone, including and especially those who could least help themselves.
This is confusing because they keep voting for the people that don't believe in climate change. So doesn't that mean on some level they are endorsing the politicians who don't believe?
The climate science denial is less of an obstacle than the energy solution denial. Dilute intermittents like wind and solar are unsuitable to do the heavy lifting of meeting our energy needs, they are far too resource intensive and chaotic. To reduce dependence on dense, reliable hydrocarbons we need to use other dense, reliable sources. Hydro and geothermal are workable as far as they go. The only other method available at scale is nuclear. Luckily nuclear is remarkably safe, and we know how to do it.
I'd love to hear a qualified scientific analysis on nuclear power that used thorium as a fuel source. It's more abundant than Uranium, and the waste products have a much shorter half life, but I don't know if there are other issues with it
Commenting on religion, a lot of person actually use religion as a means to express their power and to garner more resources for themselves. Religion is not a means to service but a means to power and money.
IMO the nonquantitative discussion of pollution is simplistic bordering on counterproductive. Pollution is a chemical problem. Discussing it requires the language of chemistry.
How does it hurt if the air gets cleaner and we use less oil. Ask them to humor us. It might cost slightly more, well still have cleaner air. The whole Earth is a goner if we are correct. We need tell regular folks. F the politician.
