@@teecarter4900 Ofc it doesnt have a soul but would you like no currency at all? rather a communist globe? no one has to do anything to get the same resources everyone else gets? wake the fuck up
I agree. Plus the video does not show how many whales would be needed to actually solve the climate crisis, which is the title of the video ... my guess is : too many to make this title anything else than clickbait
It also never discussed how much carbon dioxide the whale exhales during its Lifecyle. To my knowledge there is not a single air breathing animal on the planet that has a negative carbon footprint.
We shouldn't forget that the current market price of carbon is still way too low. Using Kenneth Arrow's method for calculating carbon shadow prices, you should get a much higher figure. What's great about whales compared to trees is that we have to do much less work to get the same benefits. Of course there's a cap on the number of whales there can be, and they breed very slowly. But all we have to do to reap the benefits is to essentially just leave them alone. This is yet another example of why there needs to be an international carbon economy, not just the limited regional ones and the one larger we have in the EU. Countries such as Japan and Norway would not be as keen to keep on whaling if they had to pay the appropriate price for each whale, including shadow prices.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! You're absolutely right, that some countries would not be as keen to keep hunting whales, if they had to pay the appropriate price for each whale. Hopefully, we can raise awareness for this topic and address it to authorities and local leaders. 🐋
Not to mention other countries whose shipping tankers are estimated to kill thousands of whales a year. Those incidents need to be better tracked and levy higher fines.
Wait ur. Comparing what a tree can store in a year with the whole lifespan of a whale Maybe I misunderstood But if 1 tree absorbs 20 kg a year a tree normally lives 200+ years so 4000 kg How can u compare 1 year to a livespan I would love to see the equation
@@pebbles8735 According to worldbank.org the required pricing of co2 to drive transformative climate change is around 40$-80$ per ton by 2020. He calculated with the mean of the two values.
@@vladimir_egay A quick search on whale weight says a great whale weights averages 130t (species and gender considered). Considering that the human body has a Carbon compound of around 18% its not too far out there to believe that a 130t whale could have a carbon compound of 30t.
@@vladimir_egay pretty much, we are carbon based lifeforms. Our skeletons are primarily calcium phosphate but does contain calcium carbonate as well. The cells are made up of carbon. Proteins, amino acids, fats, etc are all made out of different forms of carbon. I will add regarding fat when someone is loosing fat through exercise and diet they are not excreting it in their urine or poop (maybe a small %) but in fact mostly breathing out carbon dioxide.
Several indigenous groups in the Arctic circle will hunt one or two whales a year to feed their whole village for the whole year, this is in harmony with the ecosystem. the massive overhunting of recent centuries is the fault of capitalism and european colonialiam
We need to find a way to stop ships from killing whales though, it’s a big problem that doesn’t get noticed since all dead whales sink thus we never get to see the impact we have
Climate Change wasnt a problem until the industrial revolution, there ware ways for us to live in harmony, food forests, agroecology, chanampas, pleistociene park, rewilding.
It is not humans against humans, it humans for humans because in the long term humans will destroy themselves if they continue to ignore the changes their make in the environment.
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Why would banks still give out mortgages for waterfront properties? I mean we're in a climate crisis and all the seas are rising, right? I guess banks are just too dumb to know they're making a bad investment, right? Or....maybe they know the truth.
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Great that this information helps us protect whales in the ocean but the real question is, what are you guys doing to stop countries exploiting these whales like Japan who makes eco-friendly cars but then destroys the environment with their cultural practices not to mention continued industrialization. The world superpowers like the US, Russia, EU and China also contributes the largest amount of pollution that smaller developed countries suffer from.
No, instead, in order to sequester carbon, they need to sink to the bottom of the sea. So we raise them till they reach max size, then we bring them out in the deep, and put a bullet in their head. Beautiful.
Burton L I wonder what that would do to the abyss... as the abyss is very very very poor in nutrition. One whale can feed tens of thousands of organisms down there. So an industry of whale slaughter would be very interesting.
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I have been off shore 100 miles several times over the past four years. I have noticed a lot more whales than when i was a kid fishing these same area with my Dad. I am 57.
Well the problem is only that microplastic is leading towards infertilization of giant marine animals (and subsequently their extinction) and we have a lot of that in our oceans (and are still adding more). Also whales don't mean we have to fundamentally change our ways of consumption anyways.
A very interesting video, to say the least. One thing that i was missing though is the fact that the amount of whales in the worlds oceans, also must have an affect on the total amount of life in the worlds oceans, being that their excrements seem to be for a large part at the basis of the oceanic food-chains, basically making whales the largest fertilizers of the worlds oceans. More whales means more excrements, which means more algea blooms, which means more other species living off those algea increasing in numbers, creating some sort of a positive oceanic feedbackloop, increasing life in the worlds oceans, but also carbon sequestration, increasing oceanic iron content, (which has been steadily decreasing on a global level for some time now) but also food ! This would make whales a very important key oceanic species, that should be protected as much as possible.
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Can we not provide more "poop" to the oceans, to drive a larger plankton fields, helping feed whales? I know thinking about mankind doing anything comes with fears of our typical blundering in ecosystems but, could this be a possibility? Just asking, as I'm not well educated in this area to understand all the ramifications of such an idea.
Okay so hear me out, I have a plan. A baby horse costs about 150,000 dollars to clone, and has 1/15th the mass of a baby humpback whale. Assuming maybe 50k is R&D and the price per unit is actually $100,000, cloning a baby humpback would theoretically be 1.5 million dollars, so that's a profit of 500,000 dollars per whale, so lets stop investing into scrubbers and stuff, which do almost nothing in terms of footprint, and lets just clone a bunch of whales!
Man, as the great grandson of a falkland whaler, I'm so dissapointed in my fellow norwegians who can't put their whaling-culture in the past. We can forever remember those brave men who sailed the ocean just to feed their families in a positive light, but let's not allow that to stand in the way of the world of tomorrow. If we could stop pillaging english churches, then we can stop the unecissary whaling!
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@@Ahaaka1 Yes, 33Tons in a livespan and they divided it by the trees 22 kg per year which equals their 1500 and that is wrong, because a tree also has a livespan. So to make it equal you have divide the livespan binding by the whale by the livespan of the whale.
people should know this .it is truly heartbreaking knowing that they are helping us while we are killing and making them suffer , this shouldnt have 18k but 2 billion views
I'm a bit confused. 1. From where do the whales absorb carbon dioxide? 2. Where does the carbon dioxide go exactly after the whales die? If it's the sea, that will cause ocean acidification. 3. Isn't this unsustainable? Because fossil fuels will run out and we will have to change to renewables anyway. Also won't the ocean get saturated and then start releasing all that CO2 into the atmosphere? 4. How much of an effect do whales actually have on the growth of plankton? I think it's quite minimal. 5. To effectively prevent human-caused climate change, won't you need a vast amount of whales, which will disrupt the food chain and cause other problems? 6. Where does this iron, phosphorus and nitrogen come from? And releasing all of this into the ocean will pollute and kill other organisms, no? Also, doesn't too much plankton cause huge imbalances in the food chain and red tides? 7. Won't the plankton just capture the CO2 from the ocean and not the atmosphere? I don't get how this works. We can't just use the ocean as a sponge. It's unsustainable and just as polluting.
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a very good educational video. I'm a bit confused with your commas and dots on the figures. To me and lots of parts of the world 2 million (US) dollars would look like this : USD 2,000,000.00 ah well, I have to relearn I suppose.
You're completely right! In fact, using a decimal point or comma varies from country to country but here we mixed it up by using both methods. Sorry for the confusion, our bad!
The comparison between the whale and trees equivalent is flawed. One hand, they compare the trees CO2 capacity in a year which is 22 kg and on the other they take into account the CO2 capacity of whale for the whole lifetime i.e. 60 years. Hence, the number is coming out to be huge. If we compare the CO2 absorption capacity in a year, for whales it would be 550 kg and for a matured tree, it would be 22 kg. So, ideally the multiplier factor is 25 and not 1500.
I think the value of whales could be found to be even greater than just its carbon sequestration price. Being a keystone species has a major impact on the ocean environment, which affects the abundance of many seafoods and other ocean based goods. Even whale tourism is a large industry.
1:40 This whole section is bullcrap, how is one whale equal to 1500 trees, that is assuming trees only live 1 year, really they live hundreds of years, so one whale is actually equal to more like 15 trees. If you say a whale i s worth 15 trees and $2 000 000, then every tree is worth $135 000. This seems unreasonable I dont think this video is correct at all
my question is though, how much carbon do they contribute as well? just like any other living things, oxygen is used and CO2 is released. So the real question is are whales and plankton together carbon neutral?
They said stored not release, Wales breath oxygen and expel carbon dioxide like you so like you it can never be neutral as an living being but unlike you it stores carbon dioxide in its fat cells from the food it eats thus it's not released back into the atmosphere. So the plankton feeds on the carbon dioxide and releases oxygen and the Wales eat the plankton full of carbon dioxide and stores that in its fat and sinks to the bottom of the ocean. So basically Wales are a +positive and humans are a negative because we in our daily lives expel more carbon dioxide than we filter out
Just a friendly correction: narrator says they are worth two million dollars and the text reads two thousand. ($2,000.000 when it should be $2,000,000) surly it’s a typo. Thanks for the great content!
There is another big reason giving whales monetary value would help the planet: rich bastards who buy the "rights" to whales for the eccentricity of it would want their "property" taken care of so that would mean more support towards eco-friendly practices.
The 2 million price is a faux number. No one wants to buy carbon from other market players, it doesn't help at all. The question is what is the method that has the lowest carbon reduction to price ratio and how much would it cost to use that method to reduce carbon to the same amount a whale would reduce during it's remaining lifespan (or entire lifespan if you want to breed them). All that while keeping in mind that whales are living creatures and produce carbon dioxide of their own, which reduces the net anount of carbon they reduce. I can't in good faith estimate a whale's net climate worth to be 2M$. I estimate it is much lower than that.
With elephants and other pachyderms having the cure for cancer, and whales being the key to solve the climate crisis. These are great arguments for people wanting to save these endangered animals.
This is hugely MISLEADING and completely WRONG to the point where it can be called ridiculous. ONLY PLANTS can pull out carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert the carbon into biomass through photosynthesis. Whales DO NOT pull out carbon from the atmosphere. By your logic, all animal species have carbon inside their body, elephants, cows, chickens and even humans. In fact, humans have much larger biomass than most wild animals. Does it mean humans are one of the most helpful species in putting carbon in the ground? Or the millions of cows? Whales, along with all other animals, build up their mass through consuming other biomass, not consuming CO2. And all this biomass eventually comes from plankton and plants that can photosynthesize. Even if whales do not exist, the carbon that was originally inside their body will continue to exist in other forms of life, plankton, fishes and so on. On the contrary, all life forms including whales, release CO2 into the air through respiration. Without photosynthesis to offset their released CO2, animals contribute to higher levels of carbon concentration in the air. If you want a maximum effect in reducing airborne carbon, you should just kill every animal. But then plants will have no CO2 to photosynthesize and gradually die off. Hence, it's a tricky balance that requires great efforts to achieve equilibrium. Whale certainly is a part of the big ecosystem, but absolutely has no effect in removing carbon from the air but contributing to more carbon in the air for plants to use. As a dominant predator on the top of the food chain, the fact that whales can grow so big only proves the might of the plankton which are the ultimate energy source for all marine life. All you prove is that the plankton are more powerful in removing airborne carbon than forests, which is a widely-known common sense. Additionally, it's not the whales that promote the proliferation of plankton. Just because plankton are blooming on whales' routes , does not mean there is a causation. Correlation is not causation. It's more likely that it is the higher concentration level of CO2 that promotes the proliferation of plankton, and because whales can eat them as food. Whales look for them and show up in the same place. And for the iron, nitrogen and phosphorus whales excrete to the ocean? Guess what? They originally come from the ocean. You can't really say returning back the things you took is a benefit, right? Whales, indeed, benefit a lot of living organisms when they die and fall to the sea floor. But without whales, those lives that were originally living deep down under, will just spread across the ocean, living somewhere else, since there is an overall conservation of energy/nutrients in the ocean.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z15i018v8H4.html causative link Sperm whale phytoplankton giant squid. Iron is the llimiting Factor for phytoplankton, which do pull lots of carbon out of the environment. Most iron rich animal is giant squid. Sperm whale pop is up and so is g squid pop and size.
they did say that wales pull out carbon dioxide temporarily, not permanent, after the wales die they sink to the bottom of the ocean, with that carbon dioxide and that is taken out of the atmospheric cycle for hundreds of years.
@@LegendNinja41 How exactly whales pull out Carbon Dioxide??? Whales produce CO2 through respiration. They only INJECT MORE CO2 to the air, and reduce the capacity of carbon-fixing organisms by eating them. And like all animals, they fall into the ground when they die. ONLY PLANTS & MICROBIAL that can photosynthesize have the ability to pull out carbon from the air! The way this video is worded is definitely trying to push its own agenda instead of telling the truth.
Jimmy Muthami Thanks for pointing that out. I've corrected that. It's still mind-boggling to think that the biomass of humans or domesticated animals and livestock that depend on humans dwarfs the biomass of most wild animal species.
The sad truth even that we know this is that in about a year we will forget about all this...whales are still gonna get hunted until their all extinct and we will only realise how much we needed them and how much they could’ve helped us once their all gone....
Video said that it'd take about 30 years to get whales back to their pre exploiatated numbers but the amount of increase in human population within those 30 years would increase co2 emition exponentially. We should start preserving whales by more extreme measures if we want to see some drastic change in co2 emission.
Wouldn't it be even higher if you factored in the free pumping of nutrients? What would the cost of machinery and electricity to run equivalent systems artificially be worth? It's an insane amount of free service....it reminds me of how trees are often calculated based on oxygen production, but people totally fail to realize that they are intense sources of water vapor and pump millions (billions?) of tonnes of it from ground to air, and are major sources of rain. That rainforests physically produce most of their rain. And then these dead silent, massive, free mechanical pumps are just destroyed for transitory profit that is far, far lower than what they're worth alive. It's madness!
Great video, but the comparison is a bit misleading. 60 years of a whale is compared to 1 year of a tree. When you look at the carbon intake of a tree during the same 60 years (1320kg) one whale equals only 25 trees. This is still very impressive but nothing to the imposed 1500.
but didn't she say trees hold 22 kg of CO2 per year, but the whale can store 33'000kg of Co2, but not per year, per lifespan, which is 60 years. So actually one whale can contain as much as 25 trees per year, which in itself is not a lot, if you think about how many more trees there are than whales
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Most people don't know that oceans are like deserts. Seawater itself has no nutrition so life is very scarce. Most of the sea life lie along shores where currents rip up sediment from the sands, the shores etc. That's why the whales are so important to bring nutrients out in the vast open sea.
The thing about plankton is that it lives mostly near the surface, and due to increasing temperatures of the worlds oceans THC is slowing down and carbon isnt cycling into the depths as well as it should be and it ends up getting picked back up by the atmosphere. Also storing carbon in the ocean is only a bandaid solution to climate change as itll have damaging effects to those ecosystems if we stick to that
The math is not very strong with this one. They show the storage of a tree per year and the whales in a livespan. So 33,000 / 60 550. 550/22= 25. That would be 25 trees. Another way to see it: A Tree weighs 3 tons. So one whale stores 10 Trees. Trees however don't sink to the bottom of the ocean, removing it permantly.
Very interesting video! But the math behind the CO2 leaves me a bit puzzled: You're saying a whale stores up to 33000kgCO2/60years = 550kgCO2/year. 550kgCO2/(year and whale) / 22kgCO2/(year and tree) = 25. So a whale is worth as much as 25 trees? How did you get to 1500?? Or are you saying this thing eats 33 tons worth of carbon dioxide each year and not throughout its lifespan?
@@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547 somehow that seems a little too much, don't you think? 33tCO2 would not be the same weight in biomass, but probably not too much less? (sorry, not a biologist). I'm assuming like 2/3 so 22tBiomass per year? Whales are huge, but I can't imagine the mass gain of a whale is not ~22t/year for 60 years. Might be that they're also taking into consideration what he's pooping out and then is stored within other organisms, but that hardly counts as stored in the whale. Am I grossly misunderstanding something here?
They say it takes 1500 trees to store the same amount of CO2, but their calculation is wrong. They say 1 tree takes about 22 kg each year and a humpback whale about 33000 kg in a average life span of 60 years. It does not take 1500 trees, in 60 years it only takes 25 trees. But I do get their point.
A whale does store more CO2, but they compared 60years of Whale life to 1 year of Treelife. Only a tree can well outlive a whale. In 60y a whale might store 33000kg of CO2. A tree however stores 22kg*60y=1320kg of CO2. That makes one whale equivalent not to 1500trees but to 25. And the tree might live on another 60 years or more.. Please correct me if I am wrong there..!
That's because he used the current market price of CO2 in his calculations. The real price, including the costs of future climate change damages and mitigation, is likely orders of magnitude higher.
No whales or trees could ever save this world more than us - humans. All of what was mentioned - if humanity wont take it to heart - will be pointless. Guys, the simplest things like even bringing your own bag when shopping or buying clothes that you'll wear for at least a year will do so much for Mother Earth. Most of what we do is exploiting her, and if she dies then so are we!!
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“One whale is equivalent to 1,500 trees” Yeah, but there are WAY more than 1,500 trees on the planet for every whale. Probably something like a billion trees in the world for every whale out there.
I think a more important question is climate change / global warming. Bad for the planet, or just bad for humans ? The planet was warmer when dinosaurs were alive, and they survived for millions of years. Just because it might make life difficult for some humans. That are on this planet for an extremely short period of time. In the grand scale of everything.
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