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And what the US election means for climate change.
Watch more 2020 election explainers at vox.com/ElectionVideos
All of recorded human history has happened during a period in which the average global temperature didn’t change by more than 1 degree Celsius. But the burning of fossil fuels has triggered a temperature rise projected to exceed 3 degrees by the end of the century. It will be catastrophic. But it can be avoided if we massively scale back the burning of fossil fuels.
The US isn’t the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, but it's emitted more carbon dioxide in total than any other country. So the US has an important role to play in global decarbonization; the world basically can’t get there without the US’s full participation. But the current US president doesn’t have any plans to do that. His Democratic challenger in the 2020 election, Joe Biden, does.
Biden’s plan is ambitious: Its goal is to completely transition the US to clean energy by 2050. But his plan doesn’t get into the details of exactly how that will happen. For that, we talked to physicist and engineer Saul Griffith, who took us through his incredibly detailed road map for how the US could actually walk away from fossil fuels in the next 30 years.
This was the first in our series of 2020 election explainers, all based on viewer suggestions. Watch the others, which cover the stakes of the election on:
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You can check out Saul Griffith’s report on decarbonizing the US through electrification at Rewiring America:
www.rewiringamerica.org/handbook
And explore his Sankey diagram of the US energy economy in detail here: energyliteracy.com/
To read more about the fluctuations in Earth’s global average temperature and why the current spike is so dangerous, check these sources:
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climate.nasa.gov/news/2865/a-...
www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploa...
Read more about why carbon dioxide is so problematic for climate change here: www.ucsusa.org/resources/why-...
You can dig into historic carbon emissions by country or region at Our World in Data:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/an...
The impact of the Trump administration on climate change is covered in more depth on our website:
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@Vox 3 года назад

This was the first episode of our series on the 2020 election. Over 15,000 of you told us which issues mattered the most to you, and we made 9 episodes explaining what the election meant for those issues: 1) Climate change: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QfAXbGInwno.html 2) Voting rights: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-al3qY8ZMHEc.html 3) Reproductive health: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bzuk13Ftxgo.html 4) Public schools: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lFJ37ri-Saw.html 5) Police reform: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SHePglP28CM.html 6) America’s role in the world: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S5LrQv496Iw.html 7) Transportation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--ZDZtBRTyeI.html 8) LGBTQ rights: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xRnpUptf7E0.html 9) The eviction crisis: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F07yTI0J3Qk.html Thanks to everyone who responded to the callout and took the time to help make our reporting and our videos stronger.

@fidelpichardo4483 3 года назад

Police accountability

@yourlocalramen1660 3 года назад

Should you have to turn your cameras on in Zoom.

@MR0JUDGE0 3 года назад

Look at carbon sequestration, rewilding and stage 0 river restoration

@glinda9243 3 года назад

I think the candle should be discussing Decriminalization of cannabis for both recreational and medicinal uses.

@MobiusFour-Four 3 года назад

Hey Vox, if possible could you share the link of the sankey diagram?

@mob_abominator1868 3 года назад

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” - Greek Proverb.

@evilspatula6450 3 года назад

i disagree due to history. augustus saw the empire he created and his achievements. albert einstein saw his success, albeit later in life.

@cenobitecyborgkratch9669 3 года назад

My dad has planted a mini woods on his property. He's still planting and enjoying the extra shade from the ones he has always planted. He has 7 acres

@HaroldTheWizardCat 3 года назад

Evil Spatula I think you missed the point

@Bakumatsu1 3 года назад

@@evilspatula6450 lol whooosh

@tamar597 3 года назад

This is beautiful

@lukeh9300 3 года назад

This reminds me of when in like grade three the teacher would say if everyone does silent reading without talking for 10 minutes, everyone gets to go outside. Everyone wanted to go outside, everyone knew the best option was to just be quite for ten minutes, but we couldn't do it. there would always be someone who tried to be funny and get attention at the expense of everyone else's fun.

@xano2921 3 года назад

Ouch, this is so real a perfect metaphor

@lazicepie7800 3 года назад

@JSOTOcod 3 года назад

What an amazing metaphor

@kjl3080 3 года назад

Prisioners dilemma

@fos1451 3 года назад

@@kjl3080 this have nothing to do with prisoner dillema

@dino4812 3 года назад

It sounds like everybody cares but nobody makes the move.

@THEMAIN198 3 года назад

This comment aged well

@Hejoam 3 года назад

I like dat bobux pfp

@La-Illaha-Illa-Allah 3 года назад

You have Elon and Tesla but they can't do it alone

@dino4812 3 года назад

@@La-Illaha-Illa-Allah true

@TherconJair 3 года назад

Think about the economy! /s Also, one thing that is not in this carbon footprint: a lot of energy intensive products are made offshore in where labour is cheap and laws lax. They are made for us, bought by us, used by us, but all the CO2 is produced elsewhere. It's easily about the same size as the in-country emissions. And what most people don't want to hear - methane is also a greenhouse gas. Gas drilling, pipelines all leak methane, and not even in small quantities. And then there's the part noone wants to hear: industrial meat production, with beef being the biggest contributor.

@ganarygirl4557 3 года назад

Humans: don’t react to climate change on time Climate change: approaches Humans: oh no itwould be to difficult and radical to react now, lets not do it

@manatteegiggles7743 3 года назад

Then life just continues and future generations don’t even think about it because they realize how obviously ridiculous that notion is.

@1158supersiri 3 года назад

that's a lie media keeps pushing to people

@La-Illaha-Illa-Allah 3 года назад

Kinda like Covid, if you got what i mean! if you didn't, we were warned that such thing could happen but neglected that see bill gates on TED 7 years ago and bunch of other sources.

@rhynulhye4104 3 года назад

We are now taking actions on problems . I donot mean we are only great . Animal and Plants are also great . Why not I say Earth is great

@HeelerHouse 3 года назад

@@1158supersiri 😂 which is why glaciers are melting faster, and storms have gotten worse? Explain that.

@angamnyiam8150 3 года назад

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything" - Albert Einstein

@hanochkurian5933 3 года назад

Dann Nyiam 💯

@jasoncola6071 3 года назад

So what are you going to do?

@derk.ex.machina 3 года назад

Nah. The number of people responsible for the energy decisions that cause most of the world's warming can be counted on-hand.

@jasoncola6071 3 года назад

@@derk.ex.machina that's not the point. The point is your (well not you personally) biggest contribution against climate change was leaving an inspirational/woke quote on a video. And considering the quote's message, it's pretty hypocritical do literally be the person you are talking about. Yes billionaire stipulated the use of fossil fuel, but was it you that decided "you know, I'm actually going to make an impact." Yes billionaire in the end produce more carbon dioxide that most of us, and yes they own companies that do so, but it's us that sit silently as they do it. Yes the system is rigid against us, but what stops you from organizing an actual protest, or start lobbying, and instead you chose to do nothing, like a comment making fun of people you despise, without realizing that you also fall into that category. I know I am doing almost the same thing, and you can never change anyone's opinion, especially on the internet, but I have a good excuse. I can't vote. Period. I have school work I need to do, which at this point is a bigger priority for me and the world, as it will hopefully make me a net positive later. Sorta rant over.

@derk.ex.machina 3 года назад

@@jasoncola6071you don't know what I do in my free time The point I wanted to make is that corporations have succeeded in shifting responsibility onto YOU, and you're just as complacent in it as I am, whether or not you or I protest and are proactive, since again, we aren't the ones at greater fault here

@XtarShoter 3 года назад

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -Plato

@ivantan42 3 года назад

XtarShoter true but sad

@jamesmurphy2828 3 года назад

Plato is the best

@nateab1994 3 года назад

Then you all better become Christ followers. He is the light. Not bogus science

@EugeneBuvard 3 года назад

Those diagrams are so beautiful, the reality they depict so scary.

@hughquigley5337 3 года назад

Its so depressing that there are a bunch of people in the USA that either don't care about this or have been tricked into believing that it isn't real. :(

@alexrivera4598 2 года назад

Or what if you were tricked into believing it’s real? Hmmm

@somebodyig624 2 года назад

@@alexrivera4598 global warming is real theres all the evidence in the world.

@paulstandaert5709 2 года назад

Let's suppose it is real. What are we going to do about it? The USA is only 15% of worldwide CO2 emissions. I recommend bringing the climate protest to China, India, and Russia. We may as well throw Mexico and Venezuela in there as well.

@anthonycardenas1297 Год назад

Well the 60 years of telling up we are going in 20 years gets old

@fighter0056 Год назад

Wow People really don’t get that it’s real Everyone does their own work The USA has a responsibility to decrease Emissions And they can put pressure on the EU and China and India

@MoonatikYT 3 года назад

The best time to have done something about fossil fuels was 30 years ago, the 2nd best time is now.

@NicholasLittlejohn 3 года назад

🌲

@_ikako_ 3 года назад

And there will be no 3rd best time.

@Dulcimer.MP3 3 года назад

@vinks You could be technical and say that every year since 30 years ago was the second best time, and then third best time, and then fourth, etc. But the idea is to motivate people to make a change right now. We should have taken action before today, that would have been best, but the best option remaining so move right tf now

@liammargetts 3 года назад

No, the best time to do it is the present. Yeah overall the best time was to actually start doing it 50 years ago, but now is the best time. When I say now I mean the relative present, so in 5 years the best time would be in 5 years time. My point is there is no moment in the future where we can just quit, there's always a chance to fix things.

@kamon242 3 года назад

global warming and co2 raised the first suspicions between 1850 and 1950, in 1970 it was already a thing. The '30 years ago' mark just serves to show up how little do we really care

@lareinali8182 3 года назад

Countries be like WE NEED TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!!!! Also countries: After you

@archingelus 3 года назад

Coronavirus: hold my beer bro!

@hanochkurian5933 3 года назад

💯

@victorhinojos3050 3 года назад

Tragedy of the commons at the world level. Each individual country benefits by using as much fossil fuels to prop itself up since they are cheap and available but when everybody uses them the entire world will suffer, some more than others but there is only one earth.

@ellikasan 3 года назад

*a country does it* The USA: "But they're smaller than us!!!!" *another country* The USA: "BUT WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE!!!" *another one* The USA: "BUT-" you get the idea

@thekhans2823 3 года назад

@ oddysey , yes

@modolief 3 года назад

1:44 "You have to start now." Yeah, now is too late, really. Old Chinese proverb: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

@Evili555 3 года назад

This is why the Chinese are beating us

@nolkerss 2 года назад

@@Evili555 in what? Starting up coal power plants?

@Evili555 2 года назад

@@nolkerss making money which includes coal power plants

@chingis1154 2 года назад

Well, we have a best time for now, we can't go back to 2000 because it just doesn't exist for now, and situation will get worse if we don't act now, so relatively to the future, now is the best time for action

@Evili555 2 года назад

@@chingis1154 no it’s not, the us treasury is poor

@early7strikeland996 3 года назад

Politicians: We need to take care of our Environment for the good future of mankind Also Politicians: Ha Ha, Missile Go Boom!

@early7strikeland996 3 года назад

Also Politicians Again: Ha ha, A10 go brrrrtttttt

@joermnyc 3 года назад

Also politicians: and since this will help the future, make the future pay for it..

@tripanzo 3 года назад

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺

@therealgadielsepulveda 3 года назад

@@tripanzo Each one is better than the previous!

@tripanzo 3 года назад

@@therealgadielsepulveda yes trump was so great!

@safe-keeper1042 3 года назад

Chernobyl was a tragedy not only because of the event itself, but also about how much damage it's done to peoples' perception of nuclear power :( .

@garygruvman8111 3 года назад

And three mile island, and Fukushima. Nuclear power is the best power source we currently have for the demand we need. But people think it's nothing but a radioactive disaster.

@IndigoIndustrial 3 года назад

Gary Gruvman Need to reduce demand. Do we want the companies lobbying governments to keep their carbon intensive industries intact and profitable in charge of nuclear energy? No.

@markthomasson5077 3 года назад

In hindsight, look at the figures, all these nuclear disasters prove how safe it is

@brandonevans4868 3 года назад

It's a good job that Bill Gates decided to do some R&D to make nuclear power safer. I'm sure in good time the world will come to accept nuclear power as the new equilibrium energy source.

@garygruvman8111 3 года назад

@@IndigoIndustrial demand will never decrease. With more and more people coming into the world and wanting comforts that's a fools dream. We haven't even seen the real big hits yet. That's why China and India are ramping up power with more coal plants because people are demanding more. While they have a lack of infrastructure it would be perfect to utilize newer "cleaner" energy sources but they have found that it would cost them far too much which is why they are going with coal.

@american-professor 3 года назад

Not gonna lie, this makes me nervous like nothing else

@Mia-zx7nn 3 года назад

same

@mentorrrr 3 года назад

Same

@bobohunter1776 3 года назад

@@Cytoplasm4508 Exactly. Liberals are nothing by terrorists that use psychological warfare. A fairly large chunk of kids have nightmares about climate change. I personally have nightmares about my guns being took away but I know how that would end.

@lazym91 3 года назад

@@Cytoplasm4508 you trumpanzees are really ignorant 😒 you always wanna politicize everything & blame it on "liberals & the left"

@Wingo537 3 года назад

You and me both

@christina28272 3 года назад

this man singlehandedly did more work than the EPA 😭😭

@ThomasTubeHD 3 года назад

Politicians after finally listening to the people: so when would we start decarbonising? Literally every Climate change activist:NOW,NOW,NOW,NOW,NOW

@anhbui-bc4ew 3 года назад

@@nathanielholmes79 Trump: no, a century.

@aksigsidkguru1097 2 года назад

"Maybe once i'm out of the house, better yet, when i'm dead."

@Agent77X 2 года назад

Not going to happen in our lifetime! Maybe, 300 years from now when fusion reactors are mainstream!

@marionicka9053 9 месяцев назад

So you are against fossil fuels?

@FinancialShinanigan 3 года назад

This is what happens when you elect politicians who don't believe in science

@hanochkurian5933 3 года назад

Financial Shinanigan 💯

@MyBiggerProblems 3 года назад

Why hasn’t Joe done anything yet? He’s been in politics a long time.

@localboi2330 3 года назад

Renewable energy is not reliable, and expensive, so I am suggesting nuclear energy

@SomeOne-1.1 3 года назад

Samuel T Oh the whataboutism really shows now huh, joe this democrat that what has the GOP done about it, oh idk continually bashed science, defund education, and actively kept the government from working.

@andrewbrooks5479 3 года назад

My senator brought in a snowball to disprove climate change

@lalakuma9 3 года назад

Back in 2000, my parents laughed at me for being concerned about the climate. SMH.

@capitaldude7119 3 года назад

What is the point if you are not alive right?!

@Alexander_Kale 3 года назад

Considering how none of the catastrophes that were prophesized since then have even remotely manifested, I't say they were right to do so...

@papaspooks8531 3 года назад

@@Alexander_Kale the west coast is literally on fire

@Alexander_Kale 3 года назад

@@papaspooks8531 Whenever someone says "These are the worst fires since Y years", what that actually means is there have been worse fires Y+1 years ago. Meaning such fires are possible without man's interference in the climate. Meaning you cannot attribute these fires to man either, without some serious evidence, and that evidence does not exist. There is no global trend in droughts currently. There is no global trend in extreme weather events either. The west coast is on fire rght now. It has been on fire in the past. Even if we stop all CO2 emissions tomorrow, it will be on fire again some time in the future. Forest fires happen.

@OutSideTheBoxFormat 3 года назад

@@papaspooks8531 Isn't climate change global? If so why aren't there fires all over the place?

@watsonwrote 3 года назад

So it's 100% not going to happen As much as I wish it were, America is hopeless

@sanjikaneki6226 3 года назад

well atm china and india are the main polluters and that is not going to stop , even if the us is 0 emissions tomorrow those 2 will simply pollute enough to the point it does not really matter that much

@Xpistos510 3 года назад

Not with the Republican Party holding power.

@dynamicworlds1 3 года назад

@@sanjikaneki6226 China is leading development of green technology and planting huge forests to help. Meanwhile, a huge portion of their CO2 production is to produce cheap, disposable consumer goods for the US. I think China is awful. I want to be better than China, but we're not, so we need to spend less time finger pointing and more time getting our own house in order.

@chrischong6613 3 года назад

@@sanjikaneki6226 The US and other Western countries offset their own carbon footprint by making their products in China and India.

@king6530 3 года назад

America? What about China? They're the largest producers of greenhouse gasses.

@lapiswolf2780 3 года назад

Added to my subscription list. You guys really go into detail about this kind of stuff and actually make me want to stick around to see the end of the video. There are few other channels that keep me engaged with would would normally be boring topics if taught in school or in any other scenerio. Keep up the good work,Vox!👍

@Powaup 3 года назад

Sounds like this all could create lots of jobs. Why don’t politicians take that angle?

@mikeaskme3530 3 года назад

@Powaup, Money!!!!!!!!

@georgetaylor100 3 года назад

Biden is pushing this argument yes

@octaviusv 3 года назад

It costs a helluva lot to do, and it would also cost a lot of jobs and end a lot of businesses. FDR's mobilization for war was not without controversy - some companies actually sued over being repurposed this way - and you'd see an even greater pushback today. FDR presided over a communitarian decade and had an extremely friendly Congress as well as the very real, literal enemies of the Axis powers. We have none of these factors at work. Mobilizing a federal effort that will fundamentally change the fabric of American life without those factors will be next to impossible.

@thegermanhero204 3 года назад

I think people will be unemployed, because they don't have the knowledge to work in this Sector, so this is a problem, which have to get away from the way of clean future. And yes this isn't severe like the climate change, but Politians focuse more on short term problems, then long term problems, because they want to get more power through voters and they don't get the Idea, that if they solve a long term problem they get more reputation.

@eveastardust3747 3 года назад

Alexandria ocasio-cortez and the green New deal which Biden will not adopt in his platform

@yuioyup 3 года назад

I hope that getting everyone to agree with this is not like trying to get everyone to wear masks

@lucaswaitman4549 3 года назад

Way harder since oil and other natural gas companies have way too much power in the government.

@twilightgeneral777 3 года назад

It will be infinitely harder.

@1997jankuschef 3 года назад

It HAS been harder

@whatisoatmeal9174 3 года назад

Except this time the problem isn’t the people, it’s the companies.

@Spirit_Circle 3 года назад

@@MathGPT we at least should try

@reviewguy12 3 года назад

"It's really about how fast you build machines" Tesla has entered the chat.

@alyx6427 3 года назад

TL;DR: america could save the planet but they don’t want to because a group of old guys don’t like it

@Luke-nn4pm 3 года назад

TLDR America wants to fight climate change but a corrupt election system led to someone who lose the vote becoming president and denying science

@mateuszdziewierz2938 3 года назад

I’m 11 but I still want more fossil fuel

@manatteegiggles7743 3 года назад

Good one Kayla 😁

@joselira9342 3 года назад

@@mateuszdziewierz2938 it’s probably because your parents want it

@michaelsoland3293 3 года назад

@@joselira9342 It's probably his family's way of life, as they work in the industry, so it is only natural. The big question is what are we going to do with the people who need those jobs?

@ratmouse556 3 года назад

America just needs to install the green energy DLC

@JoshDoesTravel 3 года назад

If only things were that simple

@bobohunter1776 3 года назад

If only that wouldn't cause everything to light on fire like California.

@joshlanders 3 года назад

What's AOC? A pre-release trial? But seriously. The issue is congress. Vote, ain't nobody gonna convince a 50 year old stubborn right-wing boomer, we have to vote them out and vote in intelligent leadership.

@ratmouse556 3 года назад

@@joshlanders I'm not from America but yeah please vote.

@johanmunkholm9302 3 года назад

@@joshlanders yes but Republicans mostly see Democrats as enemies and not colleagues so they just use the filibuster and stop everything in it's tracks

@elconejitopandrosito4971 3 года назад

Everyone: stop using fossil fuel! Usa: No that’s socialism!

@rainmirron 3 года назад

Well, they aren't wrong. It will take us collectively pooling our resources to do a massive energy change. The problem is we shouldn't be stigmatizing Socialism & realize the evils of Capitalism are the very reasons we're in this situation in the first place.

@bobohunter1776 3 года назад

When you give the government power to decide what energy we're using and what cars we drive that's a big step towards socialism.

@g.a.b.e7085 3 года назад

@@bobohunter1776 I would argue there's not too much wrong of that. Unless they abuse such power towards it's people. Our constitution says the government can make laws in order to protect the country from real threats. If there needs to be a change, laws must be drafted.

@CPubi 3 года назад

G.A.B.E 708 that’s a pretty ignorant viewpoint considering the history of socialism and its inherent economic flaws

@serl3zykn1ght71 3 года назад

@@CPubi And it's pretty ignorant to ignore what capitalism has caused as well. You can't argue against one side without mentioning the other.

@macaron3141592653 3 года назад

Sooner or later we're gonna have to fall back on nuclear, this dude admitted it.

@tylerswint2695 3 года назад

No, with the invention of Nuclear *FUSION* (not fission which is what we currently use), scientists and earth as a whole is practically going to have unlimited energy that is 100% clean and cheap, the only problem is scientists don't know how to make it _yet_

@joermnyc 3 года назад

@@tylerswint2695 The ITER is still about 5 years from switching on, and there’s no guarantee it will produce more power than it uses to keep the plasma from fizzling. Plus it’s costing billions of Euros, so it not only has to work right, but be scalable to the point that it’s cheaper to build.

@Whiskey11Gaming 3 года назад

@@tylerswint2695 ahh yes, the myth of fusion not producing waste... what happens to the radioactive heavier than helium isotopes which are a neutron you intended for your lithium blanket to produce more tritium? Ohh hey, yeah, tritium is the thing anti nukes complain the most about current plants "leaking" into water sources, and you want a reactor which intentionally produces it? What about the metals which absorb neurons during operation which become radioactive? There is plenty of waste in fusion that will need storage, just like fission. Given fusion's perpetual "a decade away", fission represents an easy way to decarbonize the grid and fast. France did it in about 15 years by using a standardized plant design. The US could probably do it quicker given our construction prowess.

@squifftopher 3 года назад

@@tylerswint2695 We don't know if it'll work, but they are starting construction!

@mrseyo6572 3 года назад

What gonna happen to all the nuclear waste? it will not magically vanish

@Ace-Maverick 3 года назад

This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. Thank you.

@jaime9927 3 года назад

"How is the US supposed to do that?" It'd help if we stopped reopening coal mines

@victorhinojos3050 3 года назад

But the jobs and their way of living! They been doing coal mining for generations! They even have black lungs to show for it...

@Master-kh6ww 3 года назад

Victor Hinojos well it’s time to stop things change

@themidnightracer9937 3 года назад

@@Master-kh6ww Time for things to change, alright explain how are you going shift hundered's of thousands of coal miners, to go from coal mines, to other lines of work, especially with little funding, take example West Virginia, has very little money to help those coal miners, get into other jobs, and West Virginia, does not seem to be the best place for White Collar jobs. Now there is blue collar job's, but that would also take quite a chunk of money to retrain them to those job's. However yes I do agree with, a change needs to happen.

@eljorgetmf 3 года назад

@@themidnightracer9937 there are just about 50k coal miners in the entire country. They earn, on average, $60k/year. Are you saying our 21 trillion dollar economy can't solve a $3bn problem? California wildfires in 2018 cost $400bn. Both presidential candidates, combined, may approach $2bn spent on campaign related expenses. I don't think the coal miners' salaries are the problem...

@themidnightracer9937 3 года назад

@@eljorgetmf I'm not talking salaries, I'm talking retraining coal miners, into different lines of work, which can up add quite the bill, especially in poor states. Now if there was federal funding, then yes it can be done. Since if you shut down all coal mines, people are going into debt, loose houses, and go homeless which will not be good.

@keithmanfredi 3 года назад

You can't expect everyone to care about 'saving the world' or the environment. With some people I think you'll get further by pitching the other benefits of this technology like - portability, efficiency, economy, safety, quieter, less stinky, etc.

@yellowspike3344 3 года назад

People won't care until we see consequences. By then hopefully we moved out of earth lol.

@richardlinares6314 3 года назад

Yeah, I wonder what the cost is of all the health issues caused by burning fuels.

@thienle3597 3 года назад

Do you mean like the fluorescent light bulb compared to incandescent? Remember what that transition was like? People were hoarding the old light bulbs because they couldn't take the change.

@xpo1220 3 года назад

Another big one is your electric/utility bill will be cheaper.

@phyllo8958 3 года назад

Which is why carbon taxes and subsidies work: the government just makes clean technology cheaper, and the free market does the work.

@nicokelly6453 Год назад

I do think the "electric cars replacing gas-powered cars" parts were shortsighted. We can't just switch them out. We need to reduce car-use in general, both for climate reasons and for other forms of health, safety, etc. Cars take up a lot of space and money and infrastructure, and they don't carry enough people all at once. They're also very dangerous to pedestrians. Any switching to electric cars MUST be as a compliment to better walkability, bikeability, and public transit. Which means we also need to work on zoning, street, and urban planning to make our country friendly to a wider variation of transportation modes.

@brunhildevalkyrie Год назад

yes

@ericak5165 3 года назад

Absolutely loved this video and the simple and logical breakdown of key points throughout! Thanks

@ScopeofScience 3 года назад

We're currently on track for 4.3C

@tigerkill420 3 года назад

Nice I don't like snow anyways.

@RNAxRibose 3 года назад

Not considering positive feedback loops or increased emissions by eg perma frost.

@jeebus9118 3 года назад

tigerkill420 I guess you don’t like living either

@alexcontreras6103 3 года назад

sounds nice

@luismabou 3 года назад

$400 trillion dollar in damages if we get to that treshold.

@edam5112 3 года назад

“The best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago, the second best time is now” -Kurzgesagt

@georgesamuelson4003 3 года назад

What about 9 years ago? Also that's not originally from Kurzgesagt anyway

@GeneralKenobi69420 3 года назад

I'm pretty sure that's a proverb.

@Kazavop 3 года назад

Mr beast: *advertises website that will plant 20 Million trees*

@andresiniesta9955 3 года назад

@@georgesamuelson4003 It's credited to an old Chinese proverb.

@sudazima 3 года назад

planting trees doesnt work though, doubling all trees on earth will net you a mere 10 years of emissions and your never allowed to cut them down again. theres not enough space on the planet for this. only nuclear power works but people just dont care enough about the environment quite yet to implement working solutions..

@XDirter 3 года назад

Just discovered this channel. What a great one!

@adinp9384 3 года назад

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change - Mignon McLaughlin

@teamakesgames 3 года назад

It makes me sad how many people are careless about climate change

@Sacrer 3 года назад

Not everyone lives a good life to think about this.

@happypt2929 3 года назад

they just don't think its a problem, the Sahara desert was green 10k years ago so why is climate change all of the sudden caused by humans, that's the ideology.

@Bettie_Rage 3 года назад

Have you finished your beef burger yet? :-)

@tomac8551 3 года назад

Seeing how many people believe this nonsene is what makes me sad.

@tomac8551 3 года назад

@@happypt2929 The positives of fossil fuel use far outweight the negatives.The consequences of the projections on temperature and sea level rise are being highly exaggerated by the media and politicians, anyone willing to read the actual IPCC reports can see their current projections. These changes will be slow and we will adapt. Thats a much more prudent solution then completely transforming civilization. There is also the fact that people have never lived longer, safer and more prosperous lives. Average life expectancy is rising and so is average income per capita. All of this is a result of reliable energy sources most of which are fossil fuels.

@nakibsayyed4999 3 года назад

The world needs change in a positive direction and RIGHT NOW.

@NicholasLittlejohn 3 года назад

Let's be the change we seek

@aturchomicz821 3 года назад

2 Trillion $ Climate plan go brrrr

@aturchomicz821 3 года назад

@Tessellation yup

@rizaleliasmosquera5114 3 года назад

@white That is true in an economic system that does not consider the planet we live in and the future generations that would suffer and curse their ancestors for doing nothing.

@aturchomicz821 3 года назад

@white you are by defenition evil....

@jeffreym68 3 года назад

Really impressive. Glad to have that data available to future discussions. Thanks!

@tripanzo 3 года назад

This shouldn't be political. This is about the whole human race. We need to vote for Biden whether you Republican or Democrat. Or else we don't have a future. I am mostly conservative. But we need to change before it's too late!

@PrayashLand 3 года назад

Thank you for your vote 💕

@THEMAIN198 3 года назад

Don't forget to continue voting for politicians who support climate change even after Biden!

@singletrack_king7700 3 года назад

Nope

@PasscodeAdvance 3 года назад

We need people in India who care about enviroment as our politics. Ebikes galore

@williamhuang8309 3 года назад

democracy is SO outdated it needs a refresh.

@Ideallane 3 года назад

How about don’t spend 600 billion on the military but rather on renewable energy sources. Also give a bit more to space exploration.

@Ideallane 3 года назад

Aienbalos Aienbalos spend 100-200 billion less. That’s still an enormous amount compared to a country like Russia. Their military spending is about 70 billion.

@jashonwestbrook3362 3 года назад

We should spend more on nuclear

@SanjitT 3 года назад

The US Spends that money to make sure the world is safer. If Russia or China controlled what we control, the world would be WAY worse. Ever think why Covid 19 come from China? Bcuz they have no safety standards.

@altrag 3 года назад

They could start with simply not spending $20bn to subsidize fossil fuel companies. Imagine where we'd be if that amount of subsidy had gone to green energy instead over the past 10 years.

@LiveType 3 года назад

Heh, you're delusional if you think the US would spend less money on the military. The US's military is way more globally important than you likely realize. It's not as simple as just slashing spending by 30-50%.

@Lucas_Rinaldi 3 года назад

I'm out here on team nuclear. Ironically the safest energy source

@tomac8551 3 года назад

By far the best safety record of any form of energy production. Nuclear would be the logical choice given the supposed problem, yet it has been shunned and litterally regulated to death. It seems the climate changers arent very concerned about less C02 emissions.

@Sacto1654 3 года назад

And we have the technology to build ultra-safe Generation IV nuclear power plants fueled by commonly-available thorium-232.

@sethfish8889 3 года назад

its sad that people view it as dangerous. Think about how much more efficient and safe nuclear reactors have become.

@mattbrody3565 3 года назад

Have you heard the good news about NuScale? They're part of the Gen 4 nuclear program, and they just got authorized to enter production this year. They'll have a reactor power station running in Ohio by '23. Terrapower's not far behind, and they're using a molten salt heat reservoir attached to their reactor as a grid battery, they can boost their 300 MW reactor to 500 peak for demand spikes. Once they blaze the path, MSRs should start moving along fast. We're on the edge of glory, folks!

@alphonsobutlakiv789 3 года назад

Nucular is a fossel fule

@Maarten028 3 года назад

Great vid, greetings from the Netherlands!

@Xpistos510 3 года назад

Our inaction really is criminal negligence.

@pascalsmit8739 3 года назад

Maybe instead of just replacing the source, people could also start needing less energy. The US could invest in a proper public transit system for example. You need fewer planes if you can hop on a decently priced high-speed train to at least every major city in the US. For example, in the Netherlands, the entire railway system is powered by wind energy and has been for years. A decent railway network could also reduce the reliance on trucks. Next to that, just think of the amount of emissions and toxic chemicals required to make the batteries.

@pepps779 3 года назад

It has been priced out previously and deemed impractically expensive due to a number of factors like scale, geography, legal barriers, etc. Quite simply, it could be done, but the savings, at least in regards to the carbon emissions, would likely be better achieved through another project.

@pascalsmit8739 3 года назад

@@pepps779 I wonder who priced it out? Since you provide no evidence I can only guess as to the interests involved...

@Alexander_Kale 3 года назад

The one reason why we are no longer living in caves is because we can harvest and utilize larger amounts of energy than our ancestors. There is a very small amount of energy you can save by optimizing the system, but making sure the door of your fridge is always closed will not even remotely impact the incredible amount of power needed to produce steel or ceramics, to create ammonia or pharmaceutics or to pasteurize a gazillion liters of milk every day. Those are expenditures that will always be there, and need to be there to uphold civilization. You do not save the world by consuming less energy. You save it by finding a way to produce more. Nuclear might be that way. Solar and wind are almost certainly not.

@pepps779 3 года назад

@@pascalsmit8739 I recall it being the department of transportation, and that they requested such analysis twice during different decades. Feel free to disregard me if you wish, as I was only attempting to be of assistance with some relevant information.

@Fenrir7 3 года назад

@@Alexander_Kale I completely agree with you that lowering our energy usage is the wrong approach. If anything, we will want to continue to increase our energy usage as we advance technologically, and that is a good thing. As technology advances, we discover more options of dealing with the problems of today. The only part I disagree with you on is that solar isn't the way to produce more energy (I do agree with you about wind energy. It's too volatile and doesn't scale well). I think there is a lot of room for growth for solar power, including efficiency, scale, and location.

@david_junior 3 года назад

Everyone: Physicist's kid: AaAaAhhh (while dad's saving the world)

@myraann2003 3 года назад

Guillermo Hernandez why are you yelling?

@julietasilva5135 3 года назад

i was looking for this comment lol

@david_junior 3 года назад

@@guillermohernandez4000 This comment had nothing to do with politics. That was just a funny moment. I'm not even american

@JasonXYT 3 года назад

@@guillermohernandez4000 so we should vote for Republicans and make climate change worse?

@david_junior 3 года назад

@JoJo Reference He's certainly not trying to destroy it

@rayanshgupta3202 3 года назад

Can I download the chart anywhere? Thanks a lot. Great vid

@carlmannhard8051 3 года назад

This is so big. Big ups to that guy who compiled this data. He should be hired at the energy department as a consultant

@menawogu220 3 года назад

The energy department can not afford him Nor his level of expertise.

@WhiteDireWolf_217 3 года назад

As a European, the idea that my future and the future of the humanity on Earth is in the hands of the Americans and Trump.. this is rather saddening :(

@hugodeandres1497 3 года назад

Keith Walker We are are also a huge factor. Don’t look away and blame others when we are nearly just as responsible

@iwiffitthitotonacc4673 3 года назад

EU has been spitroasted between China and the U.S. for years. If we stopped bickering among each other and started working together, we could actually do something about this.

@JoHn-gi1lb 3 года назад

America emitted most in total. But right now it's China that's emitting the most per year.

@JTS-Games 3 года назад

We can ALL do something, every, single, person.

@thijsammeraal7252 3 года назад

@@hugodeandres1497 c02 emissions in europe per person are less than half of that of the US and we invest way more to further lower it

@willm6846 3 года назад

Just commenting to help the algorithm share this to more.

@DustinLineweber 3 года назад

I'll chip in!

@wade2112 3 года назад

You guys should watch Michael Moore's documentary. The process of making wind turbines and solar panels generates close to the same amount of emissions that they will save by collecting clean energy (digging for solar panel metals, transporting/constructing wind turbines). The only real green energy is actually nuclear power

@Chelm9 3 года назад

I disagree with your comment because conflict also boosts exposure.

@willm6846 3 года назад

@@Chelm9 I beg to differ

@g.l.8319 3 года назад

@seanmikejaffer423 3 года назад

I've watched Vox for 2hours in a row and I've learnt so much.

@ahigithchowdhary9873 3 года назад

The saddest part is good economics and ecology is bad politics

@TheJerbol 3 года назад

I don't think that's the case. I think the issue is more that most societies have groups of vehemently self-interested people.

@ahigithchowdhary9873 3 года назад

@@TheJerbol True, but that's what capitalism is all about. People in power have to attempt to change that attitude but what they focus on changing is their Votebank count

@FunDerick 3 года назад

We have the tech and the resources, just not the common sense.

@ajinkyatarodekar9099 3 года назад

And also rich people concerned only with money and oil.

@whatisoatmeal9174 3 года назад

@Derick Fang, humans will be the ultimate downfall of human kind.

@the_rubbish_bin 3 года назад

Greed is a big barrier too

@emperorsblade2786 3 года назад

Well can we make the creation of renewable energy producers less expensive and more efficient??

@brian2440 3 года назад

This is literally the most complex and largest scale problem ever encountered in human history, so “common sense” - eh not exactly....

@laurabilling3561 3 года назад

I think that one of the smartest things I ever read regarding "going green" (credit to Reddit) was "we don't need a few people doing it perfectly, we need everyone doing it imperfectly' they were talking in particular about going plastic free, but I think it's a smart philosophy for anything along this line. Imagine if all countries focused to have 100% green electricity and heating. Airplanes, a few cars etc could be future goals. Break it into realistic, achievable parts and do those achievable parts asap instead of delaying and focusing on the parts we can't yet achieve.

@willlehrfeld457 3 года назад

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

@drdewott9154 3 года назад

YES! That is what we in Scandinavia have been doing for decades, slowly transitioning to green energy, from energy production, to environmental protection, to policies regarding electric vehicles, to green home heating and cooling and now the electrification of the railways! Everything broken up into smaller bits, into different departments, all working towards a common goal.

@jancenimperial6786 3 года назад

Please do a video about the clothing industry and what are the current available resources that we can use to lessen plastic use in the clothing industry.

@GR-ji9fw 3 года назад

Thank you Vox! We appreciate the knowledge that you present so well.

@mten37128 3 года назад

Constantly left out of the conversation: public transit. Electric cars will help, but they're not the answer. Less cars, less resources. Which has to work in tandem with tweaking our cities to be livable for people instead of cars.

@LMB222 3 года назад

Public transit is a list cause for much of the US. You can't easily repair the errors of 1950's urbanists.

@awaterplease7885 3 года назад

Completely agree. The RU-vid channel "not just bikes" has a lot of interesting videos on this topic. He explains how the infrastructure in Dutch cities is redesigned to make public transit just as fast and comfortable as taking a car.

@RipCityBassWorks 3 года назад

This 100%. We badly need to start transition our cities to be more public transportation oriented.

@christodang 3 года назад

It's another aspect but one far more removed in North America since the entire continent was developed around the car. It's doable, but renewable and more efficient energy sources are likely more easy to achieve (less red tape to work around, less inter-government bodies needed to collaborate etc.). Outside the major cities, North America lacks the density needed to make anything beyond inner city public transit a viable option and most of those cities have options. They could be better mind you, but they're there. Inter-city travel is another ballgame altogether. The United States alone has almost twice the landmass of the entire European Union, but "only" 330M people inside it (compared to 500M+ in EU). How do you convince everyone that there is a viable high speed train solution that can connect so few people (relatively speaking) across such large distances?

@awaterplease7885 3 года назад

@@christodang I completely understand why you think this, but just watch one video on the 'not just bikes' yt channel and you might change your mind a little. He's an American that also lived in Canada and some other countries before he moved to The Netherlands and he is a great observer on this topic.

@gabrielnegron5846 3 года назад

Now for a minute imagine being part of the rest of the world. Being from Costa Rica or Iceland where electricity comes 100% from renewable sources, or any other country. For us, it doesn’t matter how much our countries do to combat climate change, as long as the US continues their own path, we are all doomed. Just thinking about it makes me so angry and so impotent. So, from someone who cannot vote in the US, please don’t let Trump be president for four more years!

@beefstew3927 3 года назад

Haha Louis Dejoy go brrrrr

@flutee6162 3 года назад

And make sure Biden does his worth

@AndreVictorGoncalves 3 года назад

You basically wrote what any Vegan feels like.

@gabrielnegron5846 3 года назад

flutee 616 this is as much as important. Definitely Biden is not the ideal candidate, not for a pretty long shot. However, the rest of the world can’t under any circumstances stand four more years of Trump, and getting him out its the first step.

@douglasdale8592 3 года назад

What about China?

@MrMexc 3 года назад

this is such a well made video, nice job vox

@yourlocalramen1660 3 года назад

Al Gore was an environmentalist. Literally 500 votes in Florida separated us from a Clean Energy World and an Industrialized Coal/Gas Powered World.

@tym3444 3 года назад

New generation nuclear really has the most promise even over solar/wind

@donnyyario1726 3 года назад

This is big facts

@MrPhungster 3 года назад

IMO I highly doubt we can jump onto renewables quick enough. We should transition to nuclear to buy ourselves at least millennium and in the meantime transition to renewables.

@ziaulislam87 3 года назад

without nuclear decarbinzation is impossible period, unless ofocurse a new revolutionary battery technology which is several fold better is discovered

@ikani1 3 года назад

It's not a zero sum game. We don't have to choose between nuclear and solar/wind. We can do both. We should do both.

@jsrodman 3 года назад

1 - To meet our energy needs without carbon sources, we will need solar, wind, hydro, biomass AND nuclear. There's no reason to view it as a fight between these. 2 - Nuclear power is also a fossil fuel. If you transition a majority of electricity production to nuclear power, you will hit peak extraction of uranium in about 15-20 years. It's important now, but long term it will need to be replaced.

@emndz9995 3 года назад

I live in Costa Rica here we’ve almost accomplished leaving fossil fuels behind, the only problem are cars, normal ones are way easier to get than electric cars, the u.s does have tons of electric cars and if they focus on de carbonizing they could do a great job

@axetroll 3 года назад

Research about how much energy you use to build green generators then you'll understand why fossil is still used

@emndz9995 3 года назад

Andrew Biller nope in 2016 we used 100% renewable electricity, but we only used 40 % of renewable energy this was because of cars, cars are literally the only thing stooping us from being carbon neutral. Plus theres no oil here

@axetroll 3 года назад

@@emndz9995 You didn't understand: to create a wind generator it will use more energy than it will ever deliver by using it. Multiply this to change to alternate energies, then it's clear that you're not solving any problem, but increasing it. That aplies to others renewable sources of energy.

@Jabjabs 3 года назад

@@axetroll Not entirely true but not entirely wrong. Wind turbines do recover their energy fairly well, they just have massive intermittency problems. Solar can as well provided the last the desire life time and you do BOT attach batteries. The big problem is there are not enough rare earth materials to build them out to the scale desired.

@rockfan2406 3 года назад

@@axetroll that's because supply chains still rely on fossil fuels. Once more renewable sources become active and industrial supply chains shift to mainly renewables, the manufacturing of renewable sources themselves will vanish in carbon footprint

@jaridkeen123 2 года назад

The Government needs to do a huge transformation on how we all live.

@huntergatherer8972 3 года назад

What I would like to see is a breakdown of the cost to the environment of the shift to electric (e.g. mining for elements for batteries)

@MDP1702 3 года назад

Not to bad compared to the mining already going on in general. And once enough batteries are in circulation recycling them will bring the necessary materials for new batteries (except for the increasing demand ofcourse).

@PianoBoyLiam 3 года назад

“Temperatures have risen 1 Degree Celsius since pre-industrial times” Americans: Is that good?

@warweasel2832 3 года назад

"What's that in freedoms per bullet?"

@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 3 года назад

Have I seen you somewhere before? Haha I feel like I have

@PianoBoyLiam 3 года назад

thatguy 00 there isn’t a spit valve on an alto saxophone my guy

@PianoBoyLiam 3 года назад

thatguy 00 that was a horrible joke..

@thechameleon2636 3 года назад

@@warweasel2832 Great, just great. I’m probably gonna use that

@saralkumarshrestha 3 года назад

So sorry for our children. We have to secure their future.

@jeffreysmith4196 3 года назад

It's called school choice but democrats love keeping the poor kids poor wake up.

@1moneyking 3 года назад

@@jeffreysmith4196 no

@jultdi5273 3 года назад

@@jeffreysmith4196 no

@zach6867 3 года назад

Jeffrey Smith why are you talking about schools? there wont be a school to choose if theyre underwater or in an equatorial zone. This is obviously a bigger issue

@tiezukae 3 года назад

@@jeffreysmith4196 Explain?

@marcofkosi 3 года назад

If Al Gore won in 2000 we wouldn’t be talking about this now

@MrAykut23 3 года назад

Imagine a world one day where all those beautiful cars you know are illegal, but replaced with other beautiful cars

@Venixsky_tests 3 года назад

a beautiful futur it would be

@TECC777 3 года назад

A V8 electric (Dodge Ram will find a way to get this )

@quigpig455 2 года назад

Unlikely to happen

@anandgautamm 3 года назад

Another important issue is the amount of people who still deny this issue

@kyleayres5397 3 года назад

We dont deny the issue. We deny your ability to fix it. You people live in fairy tail land.

@silverhusky7993 3 года назад

@@kyleayres5397 if a doctor didn't have the facilities to save your life, would you invest in it or would you shut them down as a lost cause?

@theoenomelphilosopher8687 3 года назад

Basically every trump supporter ever

@Oscar_Armstrong 3 года назад

@@kyleayres5397 "You people live in fairy tail land" - said every anti-progress, pessimistic cynic ever.

@tomac8551 3 года назад

A more important issue is that around 3 billion people have limited or no access to energy. The world bank and other entities are denying loans for coal and gas fired power plants to third world countries because of this climate hysteria being propagated by priviliged first worlders like you.

@danyramos8139 3 года назад

Honestly, Arizona has so much sun throughout the year that a good enough solar plant there could make a lot of electricity.

@yoshi9358 3 года назад

And eventually give people free constant energy!! Which will make some particular billionaires lose a few millions so they aren't letting it happen

@user-weRlight 3 года назад

Great information as always 🙏🏽

@amulrawal4574 3 года назад

Thankyou for this video

@GabrielAlves-mu4mf 3 года назад

“We’re in the endgame now.”

@qu765 3 года назад

and were gonna lose

@flashstar1234 3 года назад

US government: Nah

@Master-kh6ww 3 года назад

You mean trump

@braincell4536 3 года назад

@@Master-kh6ww oil companies: nah

@ILoveYani 3 года назад

China :nah

@nogg735 3 года назад

There people who have jobs in these industries no one talks about that

@Master-kh6ww 3 года назад

SACC you know Biden doesn’t support oil companies

@willlehrfeld457 3 года назад

Great stuff! Thank You! Subscribed

@michaelsoland3293 3 года назад

Also an important thing to consider, doing this would isolate a lot of countries that get their money from gas/natural oil so we'll need to reshape our foreign policy a lot as well.

@de_stroyed 3 года назад

Sounds like we need to call up Mr. Beast and have him plant more trees.

@MrAykut23 3 года назад

4:06 Beautiful, & with diff inputs it should look even more beautiful

@aishaemmett3188 3 года назад

This series is awesome!

@geddonarma566 3 года назад

This scares me:(

@GabrielAlves-mu4mf 3 года назад

Same bro, same.

@Daniel-yk9dm 3 года назад

It’s meant to do that. It’s the depressing truth and we have to accept it

@Dommy521 3 года назад

it should, you have to do your part in helping the fight against climate change

@geddonarma566 3 года назад

@@Dommy521 i know, i try my best, but still, im just a teen, and its dipressing:(

@--julian_ 3 года назад

The worst part is that this affect the whole world. And we all depend on a couple people in some swing states to make the right choice

@TheRockerX 3 года назад

@@nickarjoma5350 While it still has a long way to go, China is doing a lot more than the US to curb it's carbon emissions

@brian2440 3 года назад

Nick Arjomand You seem to be ignorant of the fact that China has an energy policy to decarbonize by 2050 included in their major party plan called One Belt One Road

@brian2440 3 года назад

Nick Arjomand Well if you ever bothered to actually read the plan it is extremely clear why this is the case and what their plan is moving forward. Now there is legitimate discussion on whether or not this is an effective strategy but you clearly have never even heard of their plan....

@TheNtg3399 3 года назад

@@nickarjoma5350 exactly. if America did all of this, it wouldnt even matter until the biggest threats stop their carbon emissions too

@--julian_ 3 года назад

@@TheNtg3399 per capita the US is the worst. All countries need to take action and assume responsibility!! The air does not stay at a fixed point above ground.

@davidg1564 3 года назад

Nuclear power plants are actually safe, the past incidents have been cause by human error not because nuclear energy is unsafe

@manon8600 3 года назад

I love this video. It makes it very clear what it would take and how it could be done. so cool!

@taintedtaylor2586 3 года назад

One the best ways to decrease the use of oil in transportation is promoting Public Transport, as this would be completely regulated by the government and would pave the way for electric use Public Transport or even better, city planning to encourage short distance transportation and thusly promote walking and the use of bicycles. City planning and social programs are really one of the biggest ways to reduce it, we didn’t choose to use fossils fuels and oil, the market did, but now we have a government and the technology to stop this.

@ZephLodwick 3 года назад

The problem with American cites (and one of the reasons US is such a big carbon emitter) is that all of the cites are new and were thus built for cars, as opposed to the old world where the cites were meant to be walked on.

@bublitrubli 3 года назад

You will lose of America at "this would be completely regulated by the government"

@taintedtaylor2586 3 года назад

bublitrubli Yeah, cause leaving it to the market has worked so well.

@taintedtaylor2586 3 года назад

bublitrubli I won’t lose all of America, but I’ll lose most of the people who don’t even care compromising the environment for profit.

@nganstoppable 3 года назад

"Again last night I had that strange dream Where everything was exactly how it seemed No concerns about the world getting warmer People thought that they were just being rewarded For treating others as they'd like to be treated For obeying stop signs and curing diseases For mailing letters with the address of the sender. Now we can swim any day in November. Don't wake me I plan on sleeping (now we can swim any day in November) Don't wake me I plan on sleeping in" -Excerpt from 'Sleeping In' by Postal Service

@mothbyte98 3 года назад

I love this.

@TrevorBrass 3 года назад

Electrification requires lots of baseload electricity. A great source of that with a great capacity factor is nuclear fission. Renewables should be implemented where it makes sense, but they do require massive amounts of land if we are to scale them up to the extent suggested by this video.

@hepthegreat4005 2 года назад

Nuclear is just the future. The technology has progressed so much, and we can make it even better with fusion in the future.

@brownperson7474 3 года назад

RU-vid needs to put these type of videos on the top of trending

@missammonoid 3 года назад

every day is like staring into the black void. we rlly are just never going to do this.

@teamakesgames 3 года назад

I feel this.. It's hard to stay optimistic but try to :) Or try finding a healthy way to cope with it

@YayForUnicornMeat 3 года назад

Hi! I really sympathize with you. It can be hard to stay optimistic when dealing with something this massive. But I want you to know we can do this. This history isn't written yet and lots is possible. Most climate activists really believe we can do this, it'll just take everyone's talents and hard work. If this is something giving you bad anxiety I heartily suggest getting into activism. It can give you some control and you're actually being part of the solution. It sounds hard but it's a lot simpler than it sounds and there's definitely something in it you'll enjoy. I hope this helped you!

@leviticuscornwall8375 3 года назад

Trump has to protect his billionaire buddies in the Oil Industry lol

@tenpenny2919 3 года назад

@Some Person Hahahha. Gooood one

@MAchannel2024 3 года назад

just like Reagan before him. All republicans are about Money.

@nogg735 3 года назад

Also the us citizens who work in the oil industry no one talk about that

@Joe-ij6of 3 года назад

@@nogg735 No one talked about us citizens that worked in the typewriter industry, and yet here we are

@nogg735 3 года назад

Joe people worked on type writing just changed over that’s definitely 2 totally different things type writing industry improved the oil,coal,gasoline car industry won’t improve it will vanish

@anksas 3 года назад

This is just such a brilliant use of the Sankey diagram and a brilliant video! Is it possible to do this/has it been done for other large CO2 emitting countries?! I am from India and as a researcher I know we maintain some, if not most, of these stats (albeit a lot dated). Some of it will need to be extrapolated and some may need educated guesstimates..but it'd be a really effective tool to understand where and what can be replaced by clean energy.

@adron7748 3 года назад

3:23 I was drinking water and this made me laugh... I haven’t choked this intense in a while lol

@Biophile23 3 года назад

Such clarity. I hope we make the changes in time.

@alericjohansen6775 3 года назад

To be honest, I doubt we can. We have to drag the uneducated masses (conservatives) through this, and they refuse to be educated on the matter.

@speedybill47 3 года назад

@@alericjohansen6775 The other issue is that his 2050 plan relies on the hope that everyone after Biden is Left of him till 2050, and that someone to the right of him doesn't derail the process entirely and it MIGHT surivive

@Biophile23 3 года назад

@@alericjohansen6775 thing is it will create a ridiculous number of jobs. If it can get going and conservatives start getting those jobs I think the opposition will wither pretty quickly.

@alericjohansen6775 3 года назад

@@Biophile23 I wish I could have your enthusiasm, but conservatives are so lost that they still think Trump is doing a good job with the virus, when he CLEARLY did the absolute minimum and even damaged, and continues to damage, the US response to it. Not to mention all the other policies that he has enacted which harm people.

@elowatchesvideos 3 года назад

It bothers me so much all the technology already exists...we just have to act.

@needn5796 3 года назад

A lot of the technology doesn't exist yet, is not affordable enough yet or is less clean then people think. Still more could be done, but i'd recommend looking at where you buy your stuff rather than the politicans you vote bcs it's no doubt both are heavily influenced by sponsors and influential people behind the screens.

@ElliotWeishaar 3 года назад

I'm definitely onboard that we need to switch to 100% renewable, but to say we have ALL the technology is not 100% accurate. We do not have the technology to properly store power in batteries or some other form when generating it. The crux of the energy industry is that you MUST use electricity when it's generated. You cannot generate electricity at a cheaper time (say the middle of the night in the US), then use it later when everyone needs it. We are working on making this possible, but we are not even close to having a grid level solution to this problem yet. California is a great example. California switched to a lot of renewable energy (solar and wind). When the wind isn't blowing on extremely hot days, and at night, California resorts to buying power from states that use fossil fuels, due to renewable energy not being consistent in generation. We need to get there, but we don't have the technology to support it yet. Source: Working in SCADA/EMS industry and am a NERC/CIP auditor

@elowatchesvideos 3 года назад

@@ElliotWeishaar Wow thank you for your very informative reply. Could you explain more how we cannot store generated electricity in batteries? Also aren't there other alternatives for when renewables aren't consistent yet such as nuclear or natural gas extracted from landfills?

@ElliotWeishaar 3 года назад

@@elowatchesvideos Nuclear is a good example of a renewable energy source that has consistent output. Nuclear plants and coal/gas plants operate the exact same way. How the heat is produced is the only difference. It's not that we can't store power in batteries, it's that we don't have the technology yet. Tesla is investing tons of money into this area currently, and we're making good headway, but we just aren't there yet. Just the scale of electricity that you would need to store, and then release on demand, on a grid sized level is massive. Having a battery that won't wear out under these conditions is going to require a lot of clever engineering and some new technologies or applications of materials that haven't been discovered yet. Take your cell phone for example. How long does your cell phone battery last you before it quits holding a charge? It wears out due to constant charging/discharging of the battery (as well as other factors like temperature, etc.). That battery holds such a miniscule amount of energy compared to what we would need for the power grid, but no matter the battery size, all batteries have this problem currently. I am hopeful that battery / electrical storage technology makes some big improvements in the near future. If we can solve this problem, I guarantee you every company in the world will be jumping ship to renewable energy

@jakepeters5225 3 года назад

@@ElliotWeishaar And once the chemicals in that battery wear out it cannot be efficiently recycled and will end up in a landfill.

@MrAykut23 3 года назад

5:04 We need to change the way we live not only change energy sources

@benjaminhumphreys7920 3 года назад

Such great content! One thing i want to know is what can we do to reduce co2 already in the atmosphere. How much does planting new trees impact this? What is the most co2 absorbing plant / tree we could use?