Climate Change: Capitalism's Final Boss 

First of all I just want to thank everyone for the lovely comments. I’m so lucky to have been able to build a 100k strong community on this platform this year - you've all helped me be able to leave my day job and talk about politics and scams and make dick jokes full time which is absolute madness. Thank you. Clarifications, comments & corrections: There have been a few comments questioning my decision to criticise Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain, but then call on people to join them later on in the video. I understand where the concern comes from so I just wanted to address why I made the video in this way. XR and IB are basing their current actions on the belief that civil disobedience will work. No doubt this has worked in the past. When Emily Davison threw herself in front of that horse in 1913, we understand why she did that now. Back then, all anyone probably cared about was their precious horse race that got ruined. But in 2021 we’re playing an entirely different game. Capitalism is stronger than its ever been. We’re up against billions and billions of dollars of corporate lobbying. This is why I believe it’s only people in their millions who can beat this system. A few people blocking roads are too easy to ignore (and the UK government have already passed new laws recently which allow them to legally arrest you even if you LOOK a little “protesty” in response to IB's actions). The relatively small amount of people I might be able to convince to join XR/IB by pretending that I think they’ve been doing a good job up until now will barely make a dent. This is why I wanted to use this small platform I have to add something different to the conversation - that I believe movements like XR need to heavily rethink the way they market themselves. And this isn’t just the climate movement. This is all leftist movements. Appearing overly emotional on TV does not get you the millions you need. Appearing on TV as a character a reactionary can easily call a ‘crusty’ will not get you the millions you need. Yes, they’ve also done some other protests that did not appear this way, but the media doesn’t care about those ones because there’s not enough people who care *in general* yet. The first thing people think now when they think of XR is dancing hippies in the street and people crying or storming off on TV. XR groups will consistently ‘disown’ certain actions of their fellow members in other splinter groups. This should never have happened from the beginning. The right are consistently winning the culture war because their messaging is strong, simple and appears united. The left needs to really take this into consideration if they ever want to get anywhere. Re: Australia's Carbon Tax - a few people from Aus have pointed out that rather than the rise in bills it was the demonisation of the carbon tax in the Murdoch owned press that successfully killed it off in the end. I guess my original point that it didn't work in the end still stands, but my Aussie viewers pointed that out so I stand corrected there thank you. Re: voting green - I understand this will not be plausible in many places in the world, that's why I said 'if you can'. Where I live Labour have a very strong hold on the constituency so I can safely give the greens a vote. Not that I love Labour, but the Tories are not getting in. Many people see this as 'throwing your vote away' but it can actually go towards pressuring the 2 main parties to be more 'green' if they see they're losing votes to the green party. And even if you don't intend on voting green, you can say so in the polls if you want to pressure parties to become more green. There's also a lot of 'voting won't work' and very pessimistic energy, and I get it, honestly I feel the same way a lot of the time. But I'd rather die knowing that I at least did something, than watched the world burn down around me.

"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective." - Kurt Vonnegut

I can never get enough of that "SELL THE HOUSES TO WHO BEN?? FUCKING AQUAMAN?????" meme. Thank you for including!

You mentioned that the Carbon Tax was unpopular because it caused electricity bills to rise in australia, but it was actually because of an enormous scare campaign by the Australian media which is almost entirely owned by one billionaire who has an outsized influence on Australian elections. When the carbon tax was repealed, my electricity bills didn't drop at all, they actually continued to rise, but it wasn't an issue any more because every channel wasn't blaming it on the carbon tax any more.

He saw a sign for 'cement plant' and drastically misunderstood.

People really went from "Climate change isn't real" to: "Climate change is happening but it's not caused by humans" to: "climate change is happening and it's caused by humans but we're already fucked so might as well just keep polluting"

Ben Shapiro: If you're actually asking an African family to reduce their carbon emissions- Good thing none of us are asking them to do that, we're asking major corporations to stop being greedy

i grew up in england being told i should feel guilty about brushing my teeth cause of the water i'm wasting. by 10 years old i was feeling guilty for the wrongs of the massive oil companies. its absolutely horrific how they blamed literal chiLDren and are now surprised we're mad about it. i do feel guilty about my carbon footprint, but at the same time i need to exist in this society to survive and i can't do that well without technology or keeping myself clean with clothes that fit me and aren't broken. i do reduce where i can, like buy second hand or am highly selective over the products i buy. but realising no matter what i do it will not be enough was such a shit pill to swallow.

I'm from America and like honestly living here is wild, we're literally living in a corporate dystopia

1990: Climate change isn't happening 2000: Ok, climate change _is_ happening but it's not gonna be so bad 2010: Ok, it _will_ be bad, but we'll survive it 2020: Ok maybe we won't all survive it, but what do you want us to do about it?

the whole 'just sell your house' ' to who? Aquaman??' is my favorite thing

Watching this in 2023, and things are even worse now. Thanks for the great video. Sadly, those who need it the most won't watch it.

This video reminds me of my favorite quote from Neil Degrasse Tyson "its not enough to be right, you must also be effective." These are well meaning people, but the way they go about their business makes it easier for many to dismiss us out of hand

I'm an Engineer, I've worked with climate scientists, used climate model data and read the IPCC reports. It's utterly absurd to think that there is some conspiracy among these people, getting any two of them to agree on almost anything is remarkable and the fact that hundreds of them have worked together to create these reports every 5 years is a freaking miracle.

After passing the tipping point: "Nobody could have possibly seen this coming. It completely took us all by surprise."

Small correction on Australia's carbon price. It was repealed by a change to a conservative government and was lobbied against HEAVILY with expensive commercials by the fossil fuel industry and miners. Two subsequent reports on energy prices revealed the price hikes were the distribution industry and energy retailers were "gold-plating" the infrastructure (ie building substations and powerlines that weren't actually needed) in order to get government approval to increase prices. Those same industries are now highly SUPPORTIVE of a carbon price as it will encourage some certainty with investment on a global scale.

I find it rather striking how differently XR is being received in the UK vs The Netherlands. Here they have been way more successful in directing their actions to garner public support. The had a couple of not so inspiring spokespeople, the whole glueing yourself to art didn't really work either and now they have stopped blocking random crossings in Amsterdam, but they havent stopped road sit-ins altogether. As a matter of fact their most successful demonstration is one which has become reoccurring and growing in size everytime: blocking the A12 highway in The Hague that runs right past parliament to ask for the end to subsidies to the fossil industry. This started with about 10 protestors on the road and has now grown to thousands the last time out. Really shows how having a clear goal and message, good spokespeople and a nice backdrop can help garner support for this cause, which is needed of you want the general public to not completely despise you because your being an inconvenience to them.

"Water will eventually become more valuable than oil" Oh that right here is Nestle's wet dream

the queen green dress sequence HAHAH omg 11/10

It's gotten to the point where I can wake up and guess by smell if my state is on fire or if the smoke has blown in from California.

I worked a 12 hour night shift during lockdown, because obv online clothes shopping was v important. We were """essential workers""" HR even sent us an email to print out in case we were stopped by police for being on public transport day in day out....... No extra pay, no help or understanding about the public transport issues during lockdown ( lateness was still punished) , no extra pay ( we got free coffee from the vending machine... 10p coffees....) I used to have stress dreams about being at work opening parcels, picking products... it was awful. especially when told . more or less that.. " If you don't like it, just quit, you are replaceable". Most non English workers were bullied into working 6 or 7 days ( 12 hour shifts) a colleague told me she was " scared because she's not English, and doesn't want any trouble".... we were told ,, no.. lectured by management types to strictly abide by the 2 meter rule,,, a rule impossible to follow when picking products for online orders, esp if you want to hit target ( which was still enforced as if it was not unprecedented times) i could go on, but I'm getting angry writing all this

Jeff Bezos had such a life-changing experience up there he had to recall it from his written notes. Truly the man inspires us all.

Does the existence of Münecat imply the existence of her arch enemy Søndog? Is Søndog responsible for climate change?

This is one of my favourite videos from you. Your poetic storytelling and closing bop are so rewatchable! Love it

My grandpas brother punched a Coke brother in the 60s or 70s and I will never not brag about that

This was fantastic. I really hope you make more climate change videos.

That "you can grow concrete" remark would have been a thousand times better if the other guy had simply asked "explain how?"

I'm currently binging your videos, and they're consistently amazing. Well-informed, educational, funny, brilliantly made, and then we also get music!

Everyone criticises XR for their civil disobedience action, and completely ignores the fact that it works. 600 brave protesters decided to march to arrest and this lead to their demand being met. The demand was for the government to officially declare a climate emergency. This was ignored for years before the lock on strategies were used. I went on Fridays for Future marches and they did absolutely fuck all because we walked a preplanned route that was easily ignored. Even walking with that march at the age of 15 I knew that it was a completely useless thing to do. Insulate Britain didn't work because it didn't target the mechanisms of the state. This is where JSO will differ. In the Netherlands, climate activists marched until arrest for 2 weeks. They were only just over 1000 strong, but got about 9000 arrests due to people being arrested multiple times. The Netherlands have now agreed to not fund any new fossil fuel projects going forward. The nonviolent disobedience worked. It actually worked. Just Stop Oil has the same goal, and marching in London to arrest this November to overwhelm the police will force a government reaction. It worked for XR, and it's already forced banks to divest from oil projects and already meant that all political parties (except the Tories) to agree to the demands. Waiting for the next general election to "tell the polls you're voting green" is going to do absolutely nothing.

Addressing climate change by having consumers minimize their carbon footprint is like putting a bandage whose adhesive has expired over a festering, foul smelling gangrenous fatal wound.

This made me realise that 'personal responsibility' was a very effective and quite wicked diversion from the real problem by billionaires/oil companies/governments. They are the problem, they should do something about it. Great video, bit depressing, but also very important!

I never liked summer, but I never thought I'd get to the point where thinking about a single season would give me anxiety mixed with anthropogenic dread.

Got an ad about why we need plastic midway through the video, actually amazing how tone-deaf RU-vid is

"There are less weather deaths" is the climate version of "90% of homes have refrigerators"

Edit: The audio is back!! Finally, after a whole week of being censored by LiBtArd mEdIa. This video will probably get dicked over in the algorithm now, so any engagement is highly appreciated. Happy holidays everyone! Extra edit: I seem to be getting a lot of passionate engagement from the elk enthusiast community for my mislabeling of a moose

As an Australian, the treatment of Asylum-seekers is one of the things the majority of us are most ashamed of, along with the horrific treatment of our Aboriginal People. Its a violation of human rights and basic respect for other human beings and I'm glad its being brought up more Internationally now and embarrassing our Government- as it should.

The fact that I live in a third world country makes this more depressing, in an eventual war for resources we'd have no chance to defend our sovereignty over our land and water, being in Latin America I just hope for the future of my people that the US balkanizes before they decide that we're part of the second evil axis along with public transport and accessibility to health care

"we stopped being citizens and were turned into consumers" - love that sentence. Generally, I'm amazed by your writing.

"does your rocket have girth?" *you've just unlocked a new toxic masculinity skin*

It's really sad but as an American, I like seeing that all this shit also happens in places like the UK, lol.

The silence after that guy claims that concrete can be grown is priceless.

Watching this really brought home the fact that our leaders and the media have failed miserably at properly explaining global warming to the public.

Hahaha I was one of the naked protesters in the HSBC bank action. I'll admit there are definitely better ways to force the government and others to act, but the idea of the protest was to get people talking about it so they'd ask "why are they doing that?" And I wanted to target the banks for their part in investing in the fossil fuel industry. In truth, the future is looking bleak and the predictions of it scare me. Every protestor in the video is the same. We're just doing our best in response to governments of world that only serve the interests of capital. But, we're also coming up against the richest companies in the world that have no interest in stopping, and would rather pay the media to 'green wash their activities or lobby the government to criminalise protests and infiltrate our groups. Anyway thanks for the video, it's informative and funny. You probably didn't need to use that big of an aubergine emoji on me hahaha

Ive been searching for this channel my entire life.

As soon as I heard Ben giving that whole hypothetical "if the sea levels rise" speech I wondered if you'd reference the meme and I was not disappointed. Harris is a treasure.

As an Australian, a lot of why the electric bills rose was more or less a corporate rebellion to get the carbon tax removed so they artificially increased electricity bills. Not saying they wouldn't have gone up anyway but private companies have almost complete control over the cost of electricity bills

One thing I'd add, that's critical to the denialist comments on Chinese, Russian, Indian, etc. pollution, is that the United States has signed massive economic agreements with these groups, which work to essentially outsource our industry. So, we can claim we've actually been reducing emissions, while conveniently ignoring all the emissions generated on our behalf. Otherwise, great video.

I love how this was posted over a year ago, and the exact time I decided to watch this was a Tuesday afternoon.

Here i was hoping to get the Hbomb/munecat collab i wanted since i started watching your vids, and lo and behold. Loving your videos and sense of humor. Thanks for the fun and insightful info and keep blaming everything on late stage capitalism.

Bezos is like "I was told seeing the earth from space changes the lens through which you see the world. I was not prepared for the realization of how many more people I have left to subjugate!"

Last week I was reading an academic journal article from the 70s about responses too climate change for a seminar in one of my renewable energy modules. It was so depressing reading it, the author was very optimistic showing how easy it would be (with even 70s technology and with their Conservative predictions for energy efficiency improvements) too reduce our carbon footprint to managable levels, they thought it would just be cleared up like the ozone layer, DDT etc. It's so disheartening that we are 40 years later and have not even completed stage one of their recommendations, which was literally just fixing infrastructure and refurbishing power plants including adding recapture technology. I.e. a wind turbine or Stirling engine in an industrial chimney. They thought that would be naturally just done. Obviously we are not too late we have time but we do need to act quickly.

Your content is absolutely top tier. Incredible

this is the first video of your that I've seen awesome subbed and liked within 20 min. keep up the good work.

When Mr. Broccoli grabbed the banana after what Piers Morgan said about vegan diets he should've went like; "Hold on, I'm calling bullshit."

The chapter "why are we arguing about peer reviewed science" got shortened to "why are we arguing about pee" and I freaking love it

People who work for the news, how slow would your day have to be for you to put in a story about how a human farted?

Once I saw the statistic that 10k seniors die per year because of heating related issues, I had to post this comment expressing my incredulity.

Consistently inspired by your production and writing!

“You can’t grow concrete” “Yeah you can” *dead silence* Gotta admit, that’s a ballsy move to just let that hang there lol

1 minutes and i was already compelled to like. great content my dude.

People still denying what's happening is so massively frustrating when it's so extremely obvious if you just look. You don't need to go to Bangladesh either; I'm a farmer in Sweden, and we're suffering the consequences all the time. Draughts used to be something that happened a couple of times a century here, but recently, that has changed: we've had draughts in 2018, 2022 and it's shaping up to happen again now in 2023, with harvests being 1/3 of normal at best. Not only that, when it's not extremely dry it's the opposite, and extreme rains makes farming more difficult or in some places impossible. Southern Europe have had extreme draughts this spring, with farmers going out of business at express rate, and now suddenly there have been rains at the levels of tropical monsoons washing away both crops and soil. In the US there has been draughts, storms, extreme cold and so on that has also hit agricultural severely. And this is the effect of half of the projected temperature change, when we see the full effects food issues will not only be an issue in the developing world, we will have issues feeding the population of Europe and the US as well. We really need to focus all our efforts on mitigating further effects and to develop farming methods that will work in the future, radically different climate and we need to do so starting years ago, and still people deny this is happening. We as farmers are doing what we can to adapt, but farming wasn't something you got rich from before, so our financial ability to deal with these changes are limited and we all need to eat even in the future.

I think it was about 2 years ago that I realized that 'personal responsibility' is just big corporations dumping THEIR responsibilities onto us.

It is so exhausting to keep watching the rich running our planet into the ground to make a quick buck. But this beautifully put together video makes learning more about the details a little more bearable. I'm glad to find your channel through it, and hope another comment helps your engagement! Vote & contact your reps y'all!!

stumbling on this video in 2024. And it hits even harder after the wild shit that went down in 2023. Excellent video. we need this kinda content out there

I saw munecat on More Perfect Union and wanted to find more of her content. I'm glad I found this channel.

While I agree with all of this, I should also note that capitalism in the US seems to be aware that democratic action might cause a problem for them, so they're taking the logical course of working hard to eliminate the possibility of democratic action.

we are facing a group so obsessed with earning money that they have no interest in doing the right thing, they are the bad guys of the cartoons we grew up watching

I love how the Hbomber clip has become so iconic

I come back to this video every once in a while. Always enjoy it.

My tombstone is going to be all caps, it'll read :"I'VE BEEN CAPITALIZED TO DEATH".

We have the technology, we have the ability, we have the manpower, yet we stand still, paralysed by and addicted to our rampant consumerism.

Whenever I come back to this video, the ending story always gets me with it's salient point: Why couldn't we have save the Earth when we were there?

You summarized the way I feel about this topic really well

It frustrates me so much to see so many well meaning people in my life who are literal climate change activists completely shy away from anti-capitalism/pro union because they think that it’s controversial and it will make the movement less popular but they ignore that corporations will always have the power to make the decisions regarding climate change so unionizing is vital so we can take the wheel from our wreckless drunk landlords

Wow. Really impressed with you as a person, aside from your videos, which in this one, when you got to "capitalism's solution" really shook me. I've never seen such talent in a person go untapped. Glad you're releasing something on RU-vid now. Saw you on the algorithm recently and was happy. Wish you the best. Btw, you're an incredibly natural speaker/actor/promotor/"content creator", you jokes are all top notch and your music is a nice seperation. You've literally built a one woman variety show, which, to me, is good life fuel.

this is the first time ive found your content and i absolutely fell in love with your editing and your humour, this is such a fun video but in such an ominous, watching the world on fire while the prime minister flies off to hawaii sort of way!

wow this is one of the few long videos that doesnt feel like an hour at all. feels more like 20 minutes. good job

One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of predictions from climate scientists have actually been very accurate. The narrative about them being wrong is very misleading because climate scientists will model numerous different potential scenarios so while yes the worst scenarios might not have come true those that match up with what we've done absolutely do.

After last few years one would think that the idea of "rich countries will be unaffected by Climate Change" would be thought as laughable already

My dad once said he doesn’t believe in climate change. No joke, when he said that, I was in the middle of writing a 10 page paper about the impacts of climate change on Native Alaskans. Villages in Alaska are LITERALLY falling into the ocean because of climate change. I can’t believe that we are still arguing about this.

Only two years later and we are already getting record heat waves.

I have the doomer feeling that the main reason why the US has been constantly accelerating military developments beyond the obvious fascist overtones is the fact that people know that there will be food wars, resource war. Instead of improving the situation for the crash we've accepted it and instead strap in for the impact. Which is sad.

My environmental activism started young and it’s honestly so exhausting to keep trying when the people in power disappoint at every opportunity. Now I live in Florida and it feels super hopeless. But this video gives me a little hope.

Thank you for your fantastic stamina. I can't understand why RU-vid haven't recommended this before 🤔

And now, nine months on from COP-27, it may have escaped the public’s attention that the critical +1.5 C threshold is almost certainly unattainable, except by clever accounting tricks which have no basis in reality.

Jeff bezoar talking about saving the world after literally making a business to launch luxury rockets into space for fun is the most iconic thing in cop

49:04 makes my blood boil. The full clip shows pelosi dodging the question like an andy samberg character performing a matrix bullet time sequence in a coked out stupor. That said, massive kudos to the journalist who tried to get a shred of accountability from these ghouls. Seems like they'll never have to answer for doing their part in dooming the planet

lol that ending is 1984 in space 🤣 Edit: Also, those musical bits are gold!

It makes sense for UK to decrease their emissions by whatever amount and increasing costs for everybody while China India and countries in Africa increase their emissions by orders of magnitude in the same time span.

The comments shifting blame to China and India completely rely on those countries having absolutely massive populations. They conveniently focus on total emissions instead of emissions per capita. If China split into five independent republics, then each of those new countries would have total emissions similar to the rest of the world's countries, despite nothing having actually changed. It's silly to compare Britain's and China's emissions and conclude "look China is much worse" when that's simply a function of being a larger country. If country A's population is four times larger than that of country B, then each citizen of A should only be allowed to produce one fourth the emissions of a citizen of country B (according to this line of reasoning). It's absolutely stupid. And of course, it also ignores the fact that much of western industrial capital has been outsourced to those countries, and that their production is to a large extent driven by consumerism in developed nations. It makes no sense, it's just racist mental gymnastics in order to shift the blame onto the "Asiatic hordes".

It's genuinely terrifying and saddening to see how much money gets thrown at any fruity young woman who's willing to regurgitate right-wing bilge. Sophie Cocharan and Isabel Oakeshott are another couple of examples 😒

I'm watching this on a Tuesday afternoon. I'm frightened.

Thank you for your work, Munecat! I support your message wholeheartedly.

Fantastic video. As someone who's studied environmental biology, and now works in a field concerning protecting endangered species and natural resources, it feels like what I do is so insignificant; ive dedicated my career to trying to save the planet but individual action is never enough when what we need is collective action. I get so frustrated when I see other youtubers run ads for companies like wren that claim you can pay away your carbon foot print! Look at all the trees you've helped plant! Their hearts are in the right place but I wish more people would realize that carbon footprints/offsets are a huge huge scam that dont (usually) actually add more net trees to the planet

The issue with plastic is that the very property of being an almost unperishable material is it's major function, that's why it's so hard to recycle, we want a material that can last an eternity in stock and keeps whatever is inside untouched, in food to prevent spoilage in other products just so they can remain in stock for ages. So when we talk about making a plastic substitute that is recyclables, or bio degradable, it contradicts the very purpose of plastic, but I do believe we should forego commodity in favor of these more degradable plastic substitutes, wherever possible, specially in the case of single use plastics.

Insulate Britain was so obviously an astroturfing operation just ahead of legislation to curb protest rights. Whilst other campaign groups are led by people with the title "Dr.", Insulate Britain was headed up by an incoherent thicko. The costs would have been relatively low but the results were significant. Insulate Britain did more to discredit environmental protest than any other group or action. Give an award to the people (big PR/lobbying firm funded by a Tufton St. think tank?) who pulled that one off. I'd say that Mr. Broccoli is also funded by big meat and dairy in order to discredit veganism. When broccoli or avocado are mentioned in relation to plant based diets we can be absolutely sure, immediately, that the message will be anti. Cheap "guerilla marketing" and astroturfing operations of this type can be way more effective than massive advertising campaigns. If I were representing fossil fuel or meat and dairy clients as a PR agent, it's exactly what I'd be suggesting.

We are so fucked. The other day I was clocking out with my coworker (we work in a retail store that prioritizes selling as much food as fast as possible. I said "Gee, I wonder how long the earth will be able to take all this constant....PRUDCTION of...STUFF." And she easily handwaved it by saying "Ooooh the earth will still be here long after were dead. and then I said "What about our KIDS?!" and she said the same thing only with "after they're dead". Its just so frustrating, you feel like a crazy person, surrounded by people who are comfortable with the status quo, deny climate change, pretend everything is okay and normal. This is like...te sign of calamity, everyone aacting like its all fine when deep down we know its not, but people don't want to be uncomfortable and think about the hard stuff, they just want to continue the routine. We are gonna get PRONE BONE POUNDED soon.

The issue of climate change has captured my attention since I was a small child. It's to the point that it's now informing my educational and career decisions. It's not like there will be any shortage of related jobs any time soon... Videos like this help remind me of what is actually needed to solve the problem. Thanks.

After watching Don't Look Up, climate change deniers make me want to cry even more than they originally did

As someone who lives in australia, im not even surprised about these immigration policies, it seems pretty par for the course