I started helping an old man on an allotment, fell in love with Nature, fell into Farming, started a degree in Agriculture... This lecture I will never forget discovering. A true genius that I wish I could have met, who is the true original thought provoker that has inspired Community and EcoSystemic Regeneration Projects that I have been synthesising. I wish I could have met him. I hope his Soul can see the gratitude I've begun to sculpt 💙♥️💚💛
@@theseustoo So do I. I'd also like to say that regardless of atheism, a "spiritual" aspect of the human condition seems to be acknowledged by all scientists and philosophers and most humans regardless of "God", and I don't believe that being atheist effects that. And perhaps "spirituallity", for want of a better word, even allows that ? Just a thought, may be wrong.
With the little caveat that for the most important topic affecting the future of organized life on Earth, he was utterly, shamefully and unequivocally WRONG. Did a lot of damage to the profession, to the institutions that supported him, and to the hopes of tackling the problem while there was still time. Very nice guy though.
@@ai-asinai You seem to have rather missed the point that irrespective of which orthodox majority consensus takes your fancy, the future of organised life on Earth will inevitably demonstrate that it was never utterly, unequivocally correct or 'right', despite the vehemence of any shamefully hubristic belief to the contrary.
"Google is doing wonderful things for the world" 🤦Google thought about doing wonderful things for the world but settled on doing wonderful things for themselves, at our cost.
There's so much wisdom in his words! As usual, wisdom is simple. When the so called scientists use complicated words, they show their foolishness. How much we need people like Professor Dyson instead of state-paid so called biased scientists! My deepest respect and admiration for this great Briton!
why? he turns out to be wrong and off-base from what I can determine from current literature: the idea of abiogenic production of petroleum is completely discredited, and it turns out climate change was not exaggerated but severely underestimated.
"Science is organized unpredictability. What scientist do is to arrange things in an experiment to be as unpredictable as possible, then do the experiment to see what will happen. You might say that if something is predictable, it's not science." His clarity is sorely lacking among scientists today.
I disagree. Science is targetted unpredicatbality - where as much as possible is controlled and then one sees what the outcome is when as few input variables as possible are changed.
The most intelligent person I have ever listened to. I thought of my grandson and wished he was older so I could share this video with him. So well explained.
Well... I suppose it's a nice thought... but please stop wishing your grandson's life away... Sadly enough, I'm sure he'll probably end up making exactly the same mistake(s) for himself, and probably for even less reason! But I do so appreciate your motive! :/
We need to pollute a bunch of oxygen too, cause 25,000 years ago the plants grew like crazy because of the CO2 and the megafauna exploded because of the O2.
Dyson was also very pro nuclear energy, for those people concerned about his global warning views. If we do a manhattan (style) project for nuclear/thorium reactor technology, this would also greatly help the environment along with our national energy security.
> Of course what has actually happened is that we have done a 100X Manhattan style energy project, promoting solar and wind both losing technologies, as illustrated by the failures in energy supplies in Germany and Europe. And now that the failure has been amply illustrated, the same interest groups want to multiply that failure further. This illustrates the weakness of government promoted projects very often. They often choose badly.
Yes small modular reactors (SMRs) are the next wave in nuclear-they are much safer than their old large counterparts and can fill in the gaps when green power can’t provide for demand.
@@shadeburst a successful experimental thorium reactor was built in the 60's . The unspoken problem? It doesn't create the isotopes to make atom bombs, so the funding was diverted to uranium reactors.
@@nightoftheworld How do the nuclear accidents of the past not convince you that nuclear is NOT a solution?! Fukushima is a clear example ... to this day, it's ucontrollably pouring radiation into the environment around it. Humans aren't reliable enough, nor are engineers, to trust us with this kind of technology.
I and others did not outwardly laugh at his dry humor but I, and probably others, recognized it and smiled/laughed inside.!!! I hope Freeman Dyson understands and appreciates how I, and I believe others, appreciate the clarity with which he speaks, sincerity, and precision of what he is saying... I plan on listening to other talks Freeman Dyson has made and I do know of his contributions to science from listening to others like Jim Al-Khalili to name one of many.
Prof. Dyson's presentation is simply one I wished I was there. I wasn't. I just finished skimming through IPCC's 6th reports (7540 pages) and I wish that the 3 AR6- IPCC reports would be replaced by Prof. Dyson's 2010(!) presentation . What do policymakers need to know more?
some of these notions seem very obscure after only roughly 15 years, others blatantly false, but it was a fascinating listen... hope this opens the minds or melts the hearts of those who listen to it
I believe with respect to the climate issue many of his insights are still quite relevant. The connection between climate and the biosphere with respect to water and carbon cycling is hardly mentioned but could be leveraged to do a lot of good.
It's kinda funny how Boob Tube puts a link to a "fact checked source" under every climate naysayers video. Well with the ONE exception, Mr. Freeman Dyson.
A lot of wisdom packed efficiently into this lecture by professor Dyson. A lot to digest - but I believe that he did in fact, live to see some of what he has predicted come true!
@@vincentanguoni8938 The thing for which I believe he is most remembered is the Dyson Sphere. The enclosing of an entire solar system so that the entirely of that sun's energy can be captured by its civilization. A theory only, of course, the man was a physicist's physicist.
@@Svensk7119 The Dyson Sphere suffered fatally from the laws of thermodynamics! It would quickly glow like the sun that it ensnares, frying anything in its volume.
Hope you have since made contact with other advanced intelligences Freeman! Live long and prosper old friend! Thanks so much for a deeply purposeful life full of contributions and nudging our species along towards a better and more intelligent future. You are missed.
"My purpose is to challenge the prevailing dogmas of the day. The prevailing dogmas may be right, but they still need to be challenged. I'm PROUD to be a heretic! The stories I shall tell are heresies numbered from one to six..." Even before I've heard the body of his argument, I LOVE this guy! 'Onya Freeman! They must have named you well! :D
Being a heretic is meaningless. He should be proud to either take the necessary years to study the overwhelming evidence or else respect the thousands of scientists who have taken the years to learn the methods and study the evidence. It doesnt matter how intelligent he is or how accomplished in one field. In science, we respect the verifiable investigations and analysis of data, not the person themselves. It's a religious or other type of argument from authority to accept what someone has said without looking at the evidence from peer-reviewed investigations using empirical evidence.
@@granthurlburt4062 The principle, the scientific principle, behind his heresy is that the revered, wise, and unquestioned were not always such. Reverence, wisdom, and automatic trust are things that are earned. If no one questions scientific discourse and actions, they become dogmatic and eventually, false gods.
@@granthurlburt4062 There is no meaningful peer review of climate model papers. They don't publish the source code or the input data of the models so that the models can be tested on past data to see how they "predict" the past, which would constitute entry level documentation of methods. He mentioned a few of the failings of the models, but the most glaring is the tendential effect of producing conclusions that empower the politicians that fund research and careers. Scientist are men like other men. As Carl Sagan has one of his characters ask in a novel "What is there in science that would keep a scientist from doing evil?"
Such a lame attempt at a smear. The climate loons are doing so much damage to western industry and technological advancement it won’t be surprising to learn they’re mostly funded by enemy regimes. Wasn’t it proven russians were behind similar efforts? Gullible westerns
@@Ree1981 The entire academic community receives far more money empowering the politicians who fund their research and careers. Show me your documentation.
it is good to create topsoil i agree so all my kitchen waste that is green goes into compost i recycled all my weeds and you get good root growth and tuber growth there that goes back into the soil to some extent - i am guessing i have 1/2 inch more soil over the fertile areas
"Tonight I'll be speaking as a story-teller..." Whoah! Dude! Let me catch my breath! So much honesty before you have even begun to speak is breath-taking, to say the least! :D
Dyson was so brilliant, across so many fields, that no one could pin him down on one subject enough to give him a Nobel Prize on only ONE thing! Incredibly, he started -- AS A TEENAGER(!!!) -- in WW2, working in the War Department, using Maths to determine the best ways to divide an inadequate supply of fighter jets into units to combat incoming waves of bombers! And ... I LOVE that he is prepared to stick his head above the parapet and say that the "problem" of Climate Change is VASTLY exaggerated and is diverting a HUGE amount of attention, research and investment from much more important problems that could be solved with a fraction of the attention and investment! (His ONLY weakness/blind spot was to retain some belief in Christianity!)
Why is Christianity a blind spot? It all depends on how you read it. One reading invites magical thinking, another reading involves a revelation of disenchantment.
@@nightoftheworld he was a spiritual man in the style of his milieu. What more can we ask of ourselves when thrown into the world by the accident of birthplace.
Typical of the British culture, that produced a heretic, superior to others. Dyson's six topics discussed in this video, are important, worthy of drawing lessons, specially on biosphere and the carbon cycle. However, his opinion on the gap between city and rural life is planned anew by China, worthy of following by others.
I'm proud To be a heretic. The world needs new heretics. Challenging dogma and so-called absolute laws makes for anarchism and uncertainty. Also called change which is always with us and perhaps unknowable. The universe has changed since inception and continues to change.
It is probably the most rediculous thing I can do to commemorate this man,’s life, , but I am getting “Freeman Dyson” tattooed on my tight fore arm, if for no other reason but to ring a bell, this man is my hero, his spirit is unbound...a free man.
What everyone overlooks is that life probably got started around deepwater volcanic vents, only much later coming up to enjoy the sunshine newly made available by the transformation of the thick dusty opaque atmosphere into a somewhat transparent thing. Already the skies over Bey Jing have shifted back to the original thick soup deadly to any thing that isn't anaerobic. For humanity to explore the stars, there has to be a concerted effort to shift biology back to its original configuration, dependent on chemicals and heat only, since producing Light Emitting Diodes to tight tolerances and separately maintaining a fusion reactor whose heat boils a fluid that turns a turbine that spins a magnet with a coil creating electric power.... is too much akin to a Rube Goldberg setup. We HAVE to figure out a better way to turn heat into biomass in a reliable manner with minimal oversight, so there WON'T BE an oopsy moment when someone wakes up from a few centuries of deep cryosleep and find out that ALL plants on the starship have died a hundred years ago, and spinning up a whole new batch will take far longer than the starvation horizon.
You are so lucky, you are witnessing true genius and wisdom. Imagine the progress if such men were persuaded to accept leadership roles of nations, we would have our philosopher king of Plato. Instead of the clowns and tyrants and Nepotists we are forced to “select” between.
I do not doubt Freeman Dyson's intelligence and his reach. What I am disheartened by is that he is choosing to take the stance that climate models are not the proverbial canary(canaries) in a coal mine and which act as a means for our species to take a greater note of. What I am not saying is that I disagree with Freeman's claim that poverty and infectious diseases are not important. I think that our effect upon earth's climate as well as infectious diseases and poverty are all important and that you and I do not have to choose one over the other. It is not about choosing, but about noticing if and when those in positions of power are making decisions which add to the suffering of our species and which harm our priceless pale blue dot. When people in positions of power are acting solely out of self-interest. Freeman may be intelligent, yet I worry about his moral compass. 🌱
can anyone direct me to any research into human emotive responses to digital devices? i suspect we may be slowly growing very strong emotional(as well as practical) attachments to our devices, could lead to very interesting societal changes, and this combined with biotech!
It's everywhere though. It's very well known that more CO2 helps create a more lush, green planet. The greenness of the planet has risen by 15% over the last ! That means the equivalent size of the of the USA has become greener. And this includes the drier places of the world. The Sahara has shrunk in this time too. The green psy-op is playing on guilt. We only need to look back at "climate-gate" emails where the scientists were told to adhere to the "warming" angle under Obama.
It is important to point out that this lecture occurred in 2005 or 2006. In the intervening 18 years, the clear signs that we are already experiencing the early stages of the impacts of the changing global climate, are unmistakable. Not only that, the changes in climate are happening the way they have been predicted for decades, BUT, the truly disturbing problem is, it seems to be happening much faster than even the fastest models indicate. We are watching tipping points unfold in real time, before our eyes. We are, in fact, way AHEAD of schedule. Not only is it abundantly clear that the climate IS DEFINITELY changing, but also, it is doing so faster than predicted, and even that seems to be accelerating. It seems that not only were Freeman Dyson's opinions about climate change in general simply wrong, but the pace of change indicates that Dr. Dysons views were catastrophically wrong. Freeman Dyson may have been a super genius, but on this subject he was dead wrong.
I came to the comments when he started talking about climate change. Boy was he wrong about that. I haven't heard anyone say climate change isn't real in at least two years now, and that's weird considering the area I'm in, the writing is on the wall.
38:10 - Heresy No.4 : "If we allow kids to play around with roses and snakes, we still have to stop them from playing around with viruses" ...didn't age well
Awesome vacuum cleaners too brah, say can I send you the filter from mine I accidentally vacuumed up a bucket of slop from that time my toilet plugged?
"Heresy!" He's a bit like Galileo, attacked for pointing out contrarian observations (Heretic, Blasphemer!) which is all that has ever been able to move us forward, again... Authority and Experts pull rank while heretics will always further move and uncover atoms, earth and heavens. "Yet it moves." - another Famous Heretic
The same talk with a more receptive audience would have been more fun. He dropped a lot more dirty jokes, filthy ones, than the audience caught. *Obviously British.
It's very well known that more CO2 helps create a more lush, green planet. The greenness of the planet has risen by 15% over the last ! That means the equivalent size of the of the USA has become greener. And this includes the drier places of the world. The Sahara has shrunk in this time too. The green psy-op is playing on guilt. We only need to look back at "climate-gate" emails where the scientists were told to adhere to the "warming" angle under Obama.
You missed "climate-gate" then ? It's very well known that more CO2 helps create a more lush, green planet. The greenness of the planet has risen by 15% over the last ! That means the equivalent size of the of the USA has become greener. And this includes the drier places of the world. The Sahara has shrunk in this time too. The green psy-op is playing on guilt. We only need to look back at "climate-gate" emails where the scientists were told to adhere to the "warming" angle under Obama.
Boston University in November 2005…. I am left to wonder how placeholder speeches such as these will be viewed in the future. What kind of scientist couldn’t or wouldn’t walk around a city that looked empty above the first floor, and ask simple questions? At least for Prof. Dyson, he spoke from inside a room where there was no disconfirming evidence for his assumptions about the status quo in Boston. The view from the bench in front of the academic quad at MIT, looking across the Charles River, was not so forgiving.
his first heresy is hardly heretical... i thought everybody knew it (but maybe it's only everybody with their eyes open that do). [edit]: oh dear; his second example is indeed partly heretical, but it's also partly commonsense - it only depends which part you look at, because whilst it's clearly obvious that (Part1): if all the vegetation burned were regrown, the carbon released by burning would be consumed by the carbon absorbed during growing, but (Part 2): we aren't doing that! land is being cleared of vegetation, not being revegetated, so there IS a problem. [edit 2] re rural poverty - it was green technology (the agricultural revolution) that fostered the growth of cities! and just maybe, it could be grey technology (eg1 telecommunication instead of commuting; eg2 new sources of energy to make villages self-sufficient) that could make living in small communities (villages) more practicable than overcrowded polluted cities.
Once upon a time I sported the pseudonym, "Proud to be a Heretic too!" Make of that what you will... Regardless: I'm not only pleased, but perhaps, even, actually tickled pink, to be described as a 'heretic', most particularly in an age in which it is at least courageous enough to refain from burning all those who disagree with them at the stake!
I agree that genetic modification has great potential for good -- BUT so far it has been used primarily to satisfy the greed of corporations such as Monsanto, whose glyphosate resistant crops are causing a complex set of conditions adding up to great harm to soil ecology and lifestock and human health. The psychopathology that capitalism leads to at top levels needs to be corrected.
Greed is irrelevant. Either GMO has increased the availability of food for humanity or it has not. If it has, then the profits Monsanto takes are fairly earned.
So you want government control over our lives then? It’s that very thing which has created monsters like Monsanto. America is half capitalized and half socialism.
"The psychopathology that capitalism leads to at top levels needs to be corrected." You could replace the word "capitalism" with a good many ideological or structural positions.
He only passed on around 2 years ago, so I'm sure he knew. If not since at least the 1970s when we brought in the GM thing. And he mention Monsanto, founded in 1901, here. Maybe you missed it ? Btw, : Between 1927 and 2007, more than 2,540 genetically mutated plant varieties had been produced using x-rays." He knew.
The only issue I have with the humanist ethic is that the people that are in control, those that are making the decisions about what is best, make their decision not on what is best for humanity but what is best for profit of their companies.. which is why I think the naturalist ethic is the way to go... its just more equal
When there are video games being made based on a futuristic invention that has your name then you know you won at life. I mean apart from simply having lived a long life.
How many more Professors are going to speak against the current group think on climate models, before the climate alarmists start to listen? Science is about debate, something we are seeing absolutely nothing of with climate. Given current policies are going to destroy the western economies , you would have thought discussion would be important. 12 years ago Freeman Dyson said (16:19) that "there is a possibility that China could become rich by burning coal while the US could become environmentally virtuous" Sad. What is up with our politicians who are driving this crazy programme without scientific debate?
A great book to read regarding future predictions as Dyson does is Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail and Why We Believe Them Anyway, by Dan Gardner. 2005, when this video was made, seems so long ago. So much of what Dyson predicts is wrong. Just yesterday, you Americans just made a big breakthrough in fusion to soon create unlimited power. Crazy.
The more we are going to put human made things in environment,more we are near to foolish decay We are running in time where human must be put on economics than on profit Human enjoy by achieving themselves and everybody
this is refreshing. someone who knows what they are speaking about and gives us hope. i myself don't like deniers, they usually aren't very rational. but this guy is speaking some truth. we can figure this out on our own, literally compost, build soil and experiment and what not, but fortunately there's a wealth of information about these subjects already. it not infeasible to do this on a micro level. all the big scale solutions involve carbon credit schemes and high tech solutions that will only serve to enrich the already wealthy.
@@jean-marclamothe8859 Ad hominems like denier anti-science and irrational are the only arrows in the CAGW quiver so they have to use them to the utmost at every opportunity.
