How to reduce your carbon footprint by 80% | Matthew Tolley | TEDxTelford 

So if you can't aford a car, ac, and vocations your already helping the planet ... 🙄

Hi Matthew, Loved your talk! I am happy to see these small changes are actually making a greater impact than I thought, your talk has motivated me to keep on the same direction. Is there more material or sources you would recommend I can read to get further understanding of the individual impact in carbon emissions?

Using LEDs. Most energy efficient appliance. Switch to 100% renewable energy supply. Installed smart controls for heat/AC. Replaced old heat system with more efficient one. Insulated home. Flying less and using a train instead. Instead of cycling, used bike, train, bus, walking. Switched to electric car. Switched to minimalism. Purchased more things second hand and reused more. More recycling. Plant based diet. (Another suggestion from the comments) Purchase locally instead of imported goods.

No the solution is not replacing GOOD WORKING appliances which increases their efficiency every year like Fridge and washing machine. Just INSTALL SOLAR For the same amount of money you would have to buy a new appliance. Only buy new appliances when OLD one is not working.

Proud vegan here😊

Reducing CO2 is anti-green.. Not sure why these "smart" people do not understand this..

As most of the people won't agree for going completely vegan, we can atleast tell the large meat consuming countries to decrease their meat consumption by 1/2. The money that will be saved can be used initially to help meat farmers to find alternative professions as they will loose the work. Matthew toley , do you agree?

You definitely need animal protein. It does not mean that you need very carbon-intensive beef meat every day. It can be eggs and poultry which are 10 times less carbon-intensive than beef. There you are: by just substituting eggs and poultry for beef, you reduce your food-related carbon footprint by about 90%.

Just eat less meat not necessary 0. Eggs and bacon in the morning, mcdonalds for lunch and then a big steak for dinner... That's too much. Just one time a day would really help reduce consumption without having to become vegan.

I was expecting to leave halfway through the video, but all of this was indeed very practical and reasonable! I personally am going to look at what type of lights I have and replace them with LEDs.

Unfortunately, this sort of talk is likely to be oil and gas propaganda. While the suggestions are in themselves good, this lines up very neatly with a major highly funded push from oil and gas providers to switch the blame from them to the people. Notice how in the beginning, he never really discusses industry, just the government and how it's failing to do it's part. He then basically waives that off as if it's of no value and then proceeds to focus the entire talk on how people are failing to solve climate change. He lists simple, but extremely expensive solves to the problem. This is done intentionally because he knows most people won't be able to do it or if they have the money, are likely to earmark it for other things. Basically, on these types of consumer blaming information sessions it's more important to make it so it is unlikely most people will follow them. This way, in the future, when climate change is discussed, they will likely shy away from the subject, because of the guilt they feel towards not doing their supposed part to fix things. Also notice how targeted his talk is too. He's talking to home owners obviously, with suggestions like updating the heating system and the insulation. Renters can't follow any of his advice. Also, he gives advice that in many parts of America isn't really possible or safe to follow. America has allowed the auto industry to have a lot of sway over how cities have been planned and built over the last century. Their desire to grow the auto market has had many impacts, like the sabatoge of public transportation to the lack of proper bicycle infrastructure, to the attitudes given from decades of commercials and planted articles. So, doing things like using public transport, biking, and walking can be impossible for huge sections of the population. Tonnes of cyclists and pedestrians are killed or injured by drivers all the time in many cities. Suburbs are spread out so much that such activities are also not reasonable due to the lengths of time it would take to travel to necessary destinations. No, it sounds reasonable but it's intentions are the opposite. To prevent people from seeing the real fixes to climate change and to demoralize them from trying. The reality is that for most problems here, the government taking action is vital. Pushing for better city design is vital. Pushing for better public transit, dedicated safe bicycle lanes all across whole cities, walkable shared residential and commercial neighborhoods, incentives to leave single family homes to muliunit buildings which are far more energy efficient. Those are all things people on their own can't do, but they could put pressure on their governments to do them. What's more, individual's collective climate impact is small compared to industry. People really need to apply pressure to force change in green house polluting sectors of industry, and again, individuals are woefully ill prepared to take that task on. Be realistic, it's not yours or my fault that climate change is happening and don't let sweet talkers convince you otherwise. We are living the lifestyles we were taught to live, that industries sold to the public through trillions of dollars of advertising over the course of more than a century. It is their fault. We will have to make changes, but those changes are going to have to be pushed through by the government, with their people holding their feet to the fire.

"To seriously shift our carbon footprint we need to shift to a plant-based diet." That may be effective on an individual level which is the subject of the talk, but it's not the most important way overall. France gets over 70% of its electricity from nuclear power and has the lowest per capita carbon footprint of any large advanced country.

Deforestation isn't done purely for the purpose of clearing land for crops, what nonsense; talk about stealing arguments to justify your results, it wasn't a bad lecture before that. I guess animal consumptions' by product of producing leather belts and shoes do not matter to this guy, as long as we stop eating steaks. We can save the planet by eating salad that's covered in toxins and pesticides and full of oxalates, at least when we die earlier, then we reduce our carbon footprint. What drivel.

I usually dont comment under videos but this is simply great! Thank you for all the insights and great framing of the topic.

After watching this video, I thought I should cut back on eating meat because these things are said to contribute greatly to the carbon footprint

That's enough to change my mind.. Thank you

This is the most important video in entire youtube.

What about tropical fruits, coffee, chocolate and super foods imported into the Western countries from tropical regions to feed the western people ? You missed the point that along with meat this is also a big contributer to their carbon footprint. Solution would be for population to stick to what grows in their area.

I would cycle more if roads were made safer.

I'm ambivalent and even here I think there are a few ironies :that of the crops themselves being a carbon dioxide sink; that the Amazon being cleared correlates to huge animal-based diet demands. The bigger issue is education and a halt on shipping buyers (by air, of course) across to world to acquire produce for local markets - educate people about the carbon cycle (and the water cycle) and not this drivel that one can simply pay to 'offset' usage and educate people about food production and seasonality - strawberries are *not* available 12 months of the year. I'd love to see data on these elements

i dont not have private vehicle, ac ---- i have bicycle use public transport and eat veg food most of the times, use led lights

The reason cheese is addictive is that cows milk contains casomorphin an opiate like substance that is there to urge the calf to suckle frequently. Instead it is made into dairy foods

Warning to mankind to change and survive but consumerism-based capitalism gets in the way...

This is a good list of what needs to be done, but the framing that individual actions could be sufficient is incorrect. The speaker himself sites that Mr Smart needs certain changes from the government/collective in order to achieve his emissions reduction. Low carbon electricity production, public transportation, town composting are all changes that require infrastructure from the collective. A switch to plant based is the #1 thing anyone can do on their own to reduce emissions.

1year later... 50°C summer in Canada 🙈

I've read electric vehicles to make and produce them causes way more damage

Great, thank you for this!🙏

All lies.

In all honesty, I started as a climate change denier until I started hearing just absolute nonsensical things from other denialists like Tony Heller. I stopped paying attention to social media, pundits, bureaucrats, and politicians. I started reading the actual research papers (not blogs, videos, or independent publishers). Climate change is not difficult to understand. Like weather, there are limited factors which affect climate. Understanding what they are and how they interact isn’t difficult.

Won't the use of aviation increase global warming?

2 things i am bad for, my cars and food. I still think we need to reduce the population though. Good video mind 100% true.

This individual carbon footprint will be different for several countries. Same with the coming social credit system points. Do you have more informations about, will products I buy or food I buy have a carbon and social credit point score on their package when I buy it? This is necessary, without knowing that, you buying products and two days later you wonder why your carbon footprint is raised up or yoursocial credit point sar going down? This will bring humans in dangerous situations so that they get restrictions for using elecztricity, their internet, online access, on their bank account or buying foods, or you are blocked to travel with bus, train or something else.

Hey thank you for the amazing speech ❤️ I delivered it in inter Collegiate competition and won 1st prize 🏆❤️

Very practical and well researched talk!

Hi Matthew, is it possible to consider the air we breathe a a commodity? The states that would produce more oxigen by owning Forests And marine coasts would have more resources And in doing so would avoid destroying Solis for overbuilding or exploitation of farms Think a few Less amburgher And same climate disasters! Thank you.

Most of us don't practice and fear I could relate to the fact that some of us have it Some people do not believe in climate change I want to show them this video. We need to stop the climate crisis for the next generation

Thanks dude, Great talk. Educational and really nicely sayed. Mutch love and respect

There are some part missing that actually prevents us from reducing our emissions by 80%. 1. The government builds roads, hospitals, schools, buildings etc. The government has a militiary. The government spends billions of dollars in the industry that produces carbon. We can't reduce that on our own. 2. It might sound easy to go by train or bus all the time. However if public transport is bad, you sometimes need 4 times as much time. That's something no one likes to do and most people won't do. So we need the government to improve public transport so that everybody can use it without these huge restrictions. 3. Electric vehicles are still expensive. Some people can't afford those. ( Some people can afford those but they prefer a SUV over a normal car. Most people will still buy the SUV because they don't want to change their live style for the climate. 4. You said that vegan products are the cheapest. Basically that's correct. However it's only correct if you really pay attention to your nutrition. For example it's really difficult to get proteins over vegan food. As soon as you buy "vegan" products that were produced to exchange the meat, these product get more and more expensive while often not providing the same nutrition levels as meat. So if you really want to eat vegan cheap, you need to put a loooooot of time into it. And as we know. Time is money. And most people are not willing to pay that time for the climate. You have these problems in some other fields as well. All these points clarify that politics and industry really need to shift their policies. Otherwise won't people are not willing or are not able to adapt the changes we need to reduce our carbon footprint. Saying that everyone can easily do it on his or her own is a myth and somehow frees companies from their responsibility to change things!

I seen this game before, did it in the 70s, yer mental

Look at the start again. Sea levels have barely risen half an inch in a century but they could rise metres in his lifetime? Impossible!

Thank you ❤

Excellent

I reduce my carbon footprint by holding in my farts.

I'm sure this will cause a riot but you can also hunt to get meat instead of switching to plant based. Just another option for some folks. Great video.

Is the target audience for this talk children under the age of eight?

Very informative and well presented

And nobody did what he said lol

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I prefer my big juicy steak.

Hahaha what a big joke that climate change 😂😁😂

Reduce it? I'm lookin' to increase it!! climate change is just one of many delusions to come