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@crypticmedicine Год назад

Nodding along to the coal history talk and feeling VERY Appalachian right now... My great grandfather was a miner and holler preacher in souther KY who died of black lung, my grandmother was born during the Great Depression and spent decades writing about Appalachian issues... especially poverty, black lung, and the company scrip system. She and her sisters were lifelong environmentalists, even though they wouldn't use that word, because of what happened to their father, husbands, and brothers. And they never trusted companies who they felt lied and helped demean Appalachian people to make it easier for city folk to ignore them, which led them to be very pro-Civil Rights in a broader sense, because they saw the connection between their own lives and the lives of others even if the men of their families were only interested in local politics. Just goes to show that "a product of their time" can actually be a good thing, sometimes.

@HoneyBunchesMcLover Год назад

I’m also from southern KY & this rings SO true. Thank you for sharing.

@onthewattle Год назад

i'm an aussie who gets into a bitta folk music and history, from here, Ireland, England of course Appalachia (among many other joints). Yous have got some legitimate heroes up in the mountains there, from strikers to organisers. solidarity ay

@kellychamberlain6093 Год назад

@@onthewattle Unions screw up everything. Don't glorify communism.

@Flawtistic Год назад

My family saw the writing on the wall and left in the Armco exodus. We got to live near J.D. Vance's family... yay?

@nicksurfs1 Год назад

Thank you and your family for writing down our history. It’s important that we don’t lose it! What you wrote got me thinking. I love knowing the real meaning of the word redneck, it’s a beautiful story, but I hate how that word is now associated with being against civil rights. We got that name because we proudly showed our solidarity with black folk. We acknowledged that we are in this fight together. Why are people proudly identifying as a redneck if they won’t do the same? So frustrating

@texaswunderkind Год назад

My cousin was a small-town girl at heart who wanted that lifestyle for her family, so she moved out of the city to a small town. A small town with no city water utility, only well water. Unfortunately, the town was only about a mile downwind from a big coal power plant. She got pregnant, but had serious complications and miscarried. More miscarriages followed, with serious life-threatening problems. I started to wonder if the coal power plant could be a factor, and did some research. The coal ash and tailings contain a toxic slurry of some of the most dangerous compounds on earth. They sit in ponds, which leech into the water supply.

@Vaeldarg Год назад

Sometimes, there's a reason a town is small: most people either left or knew enough to stay away.

@HarryLovesRuth Год назад

Google the Kingston Steam Plant coal ash spill. Literally the largest industrial spill in US history. Oh, and when they got done scraping it out of the Clinch River, they dumped it in a predominantly Black community in Alabama.

@johanneswerner7649 Год назад

Your power plants have no filters installed?

@jessip8654 Год назад

I have a relative that just can't get pregnant, and the doctors are unable to find anything wrong with her. She lives downwind of a pulp mill. We have wondered if the pulp mill is messing with her body, but there's no way to test that besides asking her to uproot her entire life and move somewhere new.

@Slashx92 Год назад

@@johanneswerner7649 no filter is 100% effective

@pola5195 Год назад

turns out, in a blind chicken finding the corn situation, when trump said "clean coal... they take the coal and scrub it clean" it was the most reasonable clean-coal endorsement statement a politician has ever made

@williamevans6522 9 месяцев назад

You failed the Eye Dee ten tee test.

@joshyoung1440 5 месяцев назад

@@williamevans6522 no, I'm afraid that would be you somehow missing the joke. Unless you're a Trump supporter?

@joshyoung1440 5 месяцев назад

@@williamevans6522 also, you just absolutely murdered the "ID10T" joke. It's meant to be said out loud for a reason. And that reason is that seeing the phrase "eye dee ten tee" spelled out and having to parse it is a fucking antidote for comedy.

@williamevans6522 5 месяцев назад

@@joshyoung1440 Just trying to move it past the censor algorithm.

@williamevans6522 5 месяцев назад

@@joshyoung1440 Anyone with brains is for TRUMP

@towhee7472 Год назад

Coal is one of those things.. you can see why it had a reason to be, but you just don't understand why anyone would WANT it to stay around.

@GTAVictor9128 Год назад

Same with capitalism...

@GiggaGMikeE Год назад

We live in a society where money literally equals power. The reason for every shitty thing is the same. Someone is making money off of it and there is more money in the short term in keeping things as they are than there is in changing things.

@tomassunaert1300 Год назад

@@GTAVictor9128 capitalism isnt that bad if you know what problem it solves (what needs to be produced). how the system is set up it pretty important though. I definetly dont like the way america does is for example but like denmark/sweden have pretty decent capitalistic systems.

@ethanwhitehead2085 Год назад

Even if we get rid of coal power plants, we will still need coal for making metal and other materials.

@hydrolifetech7911 Год назад

@@ethanwhitehead2085 that's a niche use though. Coal for generating power is so last century

@JerryRigEverything Год назад

Love these videos.

@____-gy5mq Год назад

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@XXXXX8 Год назад

Love that username

@awesomeimp5906 Год назад

No way JREs a fan of climate town? Hell yeah

@Kiroley Год назад

@jerryrigeverything is a legend!

@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 Год назад

Yo no way its the guy who rips apart phones and tablets

@julkiewicz Год назад

Ah, Manchin being a coal baron explains so much. How come this isn't talked about more. This should be the first thing popping in mind when mentioning his name. Guy is just protecting his own bag, the most predictable reason ever

@UlexiteTVStoneLexite Год назад

But because people don't pay attention and the politicians want to keep us intentionally uninformed

@kevintalmadge1526 Год назад

He represents an 80% GOP state, and is the pivotal senate seat. Work to make him irrelevant.

@robertdegroot8302 Год назад

This is not talked about because most people believe something is not a story if the NYT, Fox News or MSNBC tell them it's not a story. These corporations are all steered by the same money that politicians are steered with.

@HungerGamesFan88 Год назад

feels like he's beenrm around forever too. doesn't even need that bag anymore in all likelihood, guys gotta be set for 3 lives by now

@MWhaleK Год назад

He is not only a Coal Baron? He set up his business based on using a type of coal called GOB or Garbage of Bitumen which release more pollution than normal coal.

@GTAVictor9128 Год назад

Speaking of the coal miners vs coal barons wars, if I remember correctly, the very first airstrike to be used on US soil was used against coal miners during one of these wars.

@hulkhatepunybanner Год назад

*So it happened before the air attack on the black population of Tulsa, OK?*

@Psinite Год назад

That was the battle for Blair mountain in West Virginia back in 1921 where they dropped bombs out of planes. This was to try and strikebreak workers trying to unionize. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain One of the Coal mine owners, Richard Mellon, famously said: "You could not run a coal company without machine guns” The Tulsa massacre was just a few months prior to this.

@rabinovichize Год назад

@@hulkhatepunybanner Same year 1921, but the Tulsa race riot was in May/June and the battle of Blair Mountain was August/September.

@hulkhatepunybanner Год назад

@@Psinite *I wonder if they had to pass a law banning homeland air strikes on civilians.*

@hulkhatepunybanner Год назад

@@dylanwinn3 *That sounds like a class action lawsuit for the surviving families of miners.*

@piccalillipit9211 Год назад

*CAN WE TAKE A SECOND* to appreciate the astonishing production value of this video

@hallehuckleberry Год назад

yes! i’ll take a whole minute actually. i think i’m in love

@vagonedorato Год назад

I will take 29 minutes to rewatch it actually

@frequentlycynical642 Год назад

Always great.

@piccalillipit9211 Год назад

@@vagonedorato - When RU-vid was launched I said: "What a stupid idea - who wants to watch other people's home videos...???" Possibly the most wrong I have ever been on anything.

@Arachne-qw1vr Год назад

'petraaa novaaa'

@InfernoVor Год назад

It's amazing how much conflict of interest there is in the US government and that such things are even allowed. It's crazy

@andrewneely8980 Год назад

It was crazy when WV's top coal miners union came out in favor of Build Back Better and Manchin still tanked it. Coal miners want reliable employment in a burgeoning industry and the federal government needs to play a role in retraining them to work in renewables.

@KingBobXVI Год назад

Here's hoping they come out in force in 2024 and somehow elect someone who isn't an obviously corrupt coal shill. I don't expect a Democrat to win in WV after Manchin though, the state is far too red and has been hemorrhaging its youth with its lack of local opportunities (and no Republican would ever work with a Democrat at this point, nor will ever support something even mildly beneficial to workers).

@litchqueenasenath5995 Год назад

It's crazy what we could do if our elected leaders actually did the job we pay them to do and actually represent our interests, not the interests of money and the fucking markets.

@xant8344 Год назад

Rotating villain

@wyatttomlinson3475 Год назад

Manchin will hopefully go down in history as the guy who tried to stop climate action and broader social policy progress in the US. How likely do you think this is? I would like to think this will happen. Also, just out of curiosity, do other countries have Joe Manchin-like figures in politics who stalled policies to address climate change, and were they overcome? Case studies like this might help us.

@Perroden Год назад

@@wyatttomlinson3475 man made climate change is bs

@ErinReagan Год назад

My great grandfather was a coal miner in Central Pennsylvania. He nearly died in a tunnel collapse one otherwise regular morning when he headed into work. Those jobs are so dangerous, and the people putting their safety in jeopardy to keep our lights on are just absolutely disrespected by the coal companies. To hear that they're actively blocking renewable energy projects and retraining in those counties is infuriating!

@brandon0981 Год назад

my great grandfather was a coal miner. Lived until late 80s and raised an amazing family. Many jobs are dangerous, look up job death statistics - danger isn't a viable argument to get rid of entire job markets. Every major energy company is trying to get rid of / block other energy types. It's "big business" at it's worse and again, shouldn't be used as an argument to get rid of an entire job market. Please work on your logic.

@R3bel02 Год назад

@@brandon0981 1. those companies make the danger, because they could do way more to ensure workers safety 2. watch the video to know why blocking renewable energy is bad 3. logically fuck off

@zwenkwiel816 Год назад

@@brandon0981 all the arguments in the video are though

@rogerbrand6214 Год назад

@@brandon0981 coal mining possibly has the worst statistics ever. Not only did it work children to death in the 18th century, all the afflictions mentioned are true. If your grandfather survived until retirement (often retirement meant people just couldn't physically work anymore) he was lucky. Ask a coal miner if they would prefer to have a job that paid well and wasn't going to kill them.

@CCS-RRSR-SM Год назад

@@rogerbrand6214 You should ask whether they prefer to have a dangerous job or no job at all. It's not that easy to find a safe well-paying job in society. If there are then it would all go to the young, rich, and educated people in society. They take these dangerous jobs because they have to, not because they want to. We're not living in an idealistic society, most of us have to either work or starve, if you don't then you're lucky. The problem here isn't how bad the job is, the problem here is that there aren't enough jobs to replace it, solve it and you can get rid of it without the workers forming protests against you

@bofty Год назад

It’s amazing watching politicians gaslight the public, it’s ridiculous they can get away with it. Great video as always 💯

@mzimmerman1988 Год назад

fun fact. at 13:16 there is a literal gas light in the background :D

@diomio-ri2vo Год назад

shieeeeeeeet

@ZeroMilk Год назад

Just yesterday I was thinking “I haven’t heard from Rollie the climate nerd in a while” and now here we are! I feel like I manifested this video, lol

@cfdp Год назад

Thank you for doing so. I appreciate all the work you put into bringing me this video.

@maybelore Год назад

me too

@TheOtherOtherAccount Год назад

And we thank you for this.

@zed739 Год назад

I have a few channels I'd like you to ponder, if you don't mind

@charles_1523 Год назад

Same!

@HelloWorld-wf5xc Год назад

Fantastic video! We kinda did the exact same stupid thing here in Germany. Right now the the police are brutally clearing a village in order to tear it down and abstract the coal underneath. In 2023.

@TheAmericanCatholic Год назад

Judging by the European Union energy crisis I’m not surprised

@DannyStieben Год назад

We wouldn't have this issue if Germany didn't have so many people against nuclear. Shutting down coal and gas and continuing with nuclear as a stop-gap solution until we're able to rely solely on renewables would've been the best way to reduce emissions ASAP.

@RustOnWheels Год назад

Germany is even worse: lignite.

@Jytami Год назад

@@TheAmericanCatholic no. This is an old contract from around thirty years ago. And just as police are brutally raiding the village of Lützerath, Winds were so high and wind energy was even straining the electrical grid in germanys north so south germany had to save energy because the grid couldn’t habdle it

@annabeinglazy5580 Год назад

@@TheAmericanCatholic has nothing to do with that. I am from that Region and that Shit has been going on for decades. The coal miner, RWE, is one of the biggest employers in the state, they Run Most of my hometown. three of Europe's Most polluting coal power plants are around my town. It's been becoming more expensive since the 80s, and it's common knowledge that rwe will leave once the mines are closed. They claim to Invest in renewable Energy, but they only Put Up a few Wind turbines and called it a day. Meanwhile, my town Has Made No effort in 30 years to attract other Industries. Like, 10 years ago they blocked the development of a Business Park because it might Impact "businesses in town". There is No Business in town. Once the coal mines shut down and rwe inevitably leaves, my town will Go to Shit. You could prepare for that and invest in new Industries. Or you can blame the people trying to protect their Village and use Police brutality against peacful climate activists, calling them agitators. Guess what my hometown is doing :')

@TheBeccabus Год назад

I live in Newcastle Australia. A huge coal exporter. Thankful that we have politicians trying to transition while helping people into new jobs. But it's so frustrating that this is still a " future plan" not a history lesson. Thanks for the great content!

@wade2bosh Год назад

aus needs nuclear

@Backinblackbunny009 4 месяца назад

@@wade2bosh no one needs nuclear. It's incredibly expensive and pointless

@Luzgar Год назад

Coal no longer being profitable is the best news I have heard in a long time.

@meh-87 Год назад

You couldn't possibly drag a corpse around for an entire weekend without anybody noticing.

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Год назад

It only means it now will be propped up with loads of tax money....

@Vaeldarg Год назад

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Until someone comes along and lets Manchin's voters know that if he ACTUALLY cared about them, he'd let coal die so it can stop slowly killing all of them, anyway.

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Год назад

@@Vaeldarg and then he makes something up about mexicans stealing their jobs or who's saying that is a woke commie and he'll be still there until 2049... People voting for these people obviously don't care about facts or their own wellbeing, all they care about is that "the others" have it worse then them and they are happy. It is what conservative politics has been build around for as long as i can remember at least.

@Perroden Год назад

Lol it's not dead.

@christopherp.3307 Год назад

My grandfather was a coal miner. My dad was the only boy of 4 kids. My grandfather didn't want my dad working in the mines. One time my grandfather risked his life to dig out another miner and drag him out. Unfortunately, the other miner didn't make it.

@Perroden Год назад

It being dangerous has been know for well since ever

@commentorsilensor3734 Год назад

that's what I feel so strange about coal miners in USA. Many coal miners in other countries worked hard, so they can provide food n education to their kids. The hope was the kids would have enough knowledge not to work in Mines. It's very dangerous to work in Mines. What I understand is that's not what US miners. Kids would follow parents tradition. Despite what others say, safety in US Mines is toughest compared to other nations. That could be the reason that fathers want their kids to continue to work in Mines. Your grandfather is the exception.

@danielfranklin6853 Год назад

@@Perroden knowing a job is dangerous is all well and good when you're depednent on it to feed your family

@himonstercartoons Год назад

My grandfather operated heavy machinery mining coal, and he actually looked forward to the downfall of coal. Granted, he was old enough to retire once he was laid off. He only did the job because it was one of the only jobs he could work near home to feed the family. So like you mentioned in your video, many coal employees could care-a-less weather or not they have a job in coal, they only care about having a close to home job to keep them going!

@ericcarabetta1161 Год назад

Your videos are so good, I always want more!! It's incredible to watch the sociopaths in DC burn billions of dollars on these projects that are destined to fail, but will fight tooth and nail to prevent desperate people from getting _any_ of that money, that could be used for housing, infrastructure, etc.

@s33eragon Год назад

Because if that money actually went to those things, and proceeded to fix the issue, how would the politicians justify not spending more on similar projects?

@whitefox6631 Год назад

Which is ironic as they are currently talking about the debt ceiling

@GamesFromSpace Год назад

Only rich people deserve to have money. Or that's the GOP platform anyways. Can't give money to poor people, they didn't earn it. Rich people earned it by having rich parents who had parents who called dibs on a forest or emerald mine or something else they didn't make.

@AlyxiSistahTweaky25 Год назад

Sixteen Tons is an all time favorite of mine. Even used to sing it as a lullaby to my youngest. Had to explain the lyrics to them at 3-4yo. Even now, can bring a tear to their eyes by singing a verse (both memories of youth gone by, and the plight of the miners...as they got older, I explained more and more of the story). Could not be prouder. And props to Tony Dominic, very nice rendition.

@darubra Год назад

Industry analysts are saying that global coal consumption will be an all-time record high this year as countries like Pakistan and Indonesia shift from LNG back to more coal. Would love for climate town to do a piece on the impacts of this troubling trend and possible ways to fix the problem short-term as well as long-term.

@ThePyrolith Год назад

I absolutely respect the commitment to the Weekend at Bernie’s bit, AND the « not having actually watched it » bit

@7skanderbeg Год назад

Your videos are soo good it hurts. The pain of knowing how screwed we are as a society.

@jont2576 Год назад

Sorry to.burst ur bubbles,but coal is still a huge proponent of majority of the world's population of 8 billion lives,yes it might be dieing in whatever small pockets of ur little hippie green save the earth communal earthship portlandia let us talk about climate change while I sip my $8 Starbucks latte and eat my daily $12 avocado sandwich from trader Joe's which is draining the water tables in Spain dry and causing droughts and famines suburbia. At this very moment,there is a 12 year old girl in Indonesia digging out these beautiful nuggets of

@lorenzoblum868 Год назад

Talking about screwed up, the carbon /toxicity footprint of the military industrial complex?

@jont2576 Год назад

@@lorenzoblum868 cant be worse than the avocado growing footprint and the scientifically engineering soy and corn protein to resemble actual animal protein process. i mean goddam the process cant be simple.....the amount of energy that goes into synthesizing impossible meat molecule by molecule.....its probably as wasteful as cultivating caviar or making

@plato8427 Год назад

@@lorenzoblum868 Abby Martin from Empire Files is currently making a documentary about just that topic!

@lorenzoblum868 Год назад

@@plato8427 I wish her luck not getting shadowbanned, boycotted... There is an omerta about the elephant in the room. An agreement with IPCC...

@samueljessicagiovannucci2639 Год назад

Your video's are terrible for my blood pressure. The more I watch them the more angry and depressed I get. :) Great job!

@ericxplackis Год назад

Can’t believe these videos are free to access. Thank you for everything y’all do

@Xune2000 Год назад

Why would they not be free? He's trying to raise awareness of corporate and governmental incompetence, corruption, collusion and nepotism that is robbing the tax payer and destroying the planet. He's not going to get that message out of its hidden behind a pay-wall.

@marvin2678 Год назад

they are filled with fake information

@TheFalseShepphard Год назад

Damn, is that you in the pfp ?

@ericxplackis Год назад

@@TheFalseShepphard 🤨

@TheFalseShepphard Год назад

@@ericxplackis Would.

@zacharynolan9553 Год назад

I grew up in Fort Bend County by that Petra Nova plant… I have congenital asthma, eczema, and autoimmune issues… common winds in my area literally blow the pollutants from the WA Parish plant to my childhood home. I’m so livid just now learning one of the heaviest polluting plants nationally is a likely cause - at least in part - for my health suffering.

@NathanHarrison7 Год назад

This guy is so gifted. A brilliant researcher and presenter in one. His videos should be required viewing for all college students. I’d like to see his take on the unbelievable story of Steven Donziger and Chevron.

@Democratsknowbidensucks 10 месяцев назад

dude is wrong half the time though. using strawman arguments as statements when no one is rebutting is easy to do. California hasn't fully switched to renewable energy and has to ask people not to charge their cars at certain dates already.

@thomasbenner9621 10 месяцев назад

Better yet, make them required viewing in China.

@pyotrpustota1053 Год назад

Jesus, your style is impeccable. You are really standing out even among most perfectly intense stuff on youtube, I'm not even talking about generally boring climate-related people. Thank you and please never change!

@allyson87 Год назад

Thank you for including the importance of supporting and providing for miners and communities! I grew up in southern Illinois when all the coal mines closed in the 90s; Chicago based environmentalists made policies without considering the communities that were impacted (~6 hour drive; Chicago and So IL are 2 different words). The economy never recovered. Families that had lived there for generations were scattered around the country. Capitalizing off feelings of anger and betrayal toward academics and democrats, far right Christian nationalists took over once union-strong communities by the early 00s… (coming of age in this environment and also liking historical fiction, I now have chronic Cassandra syndrome…)

@djt8518 Год назад

As a former. Coal miner from wv I know what u mean here it's coal mines or moonshine drugs or move on down the line

@Machinereplica Год назад

The graph energy is amazing. I tried to find the data for your employment graph for an hour before giving up and realizing that you compiled data from a ton of sources. Incredible dedication to the craft. Thank you.

@AndersMJustesen Год назад

"And if you're old enough to remember the beginning of this video..." had me burst out laughing! Thanks for another great video Rollie, really educational and inspiring!

@matheussanthiago9685 Год назад

Got through nod to all the Tiktok kids with the attention spam of a golden fish I respect that

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet Год назад

4:26 get ready for people to start claiming that “clean oil/gas” are actually the answer…nope, they’re just as useless as “clean coal.” The IPCC summary for policy makers does say that using money to make oil/gas/coal production have lower emissions can have a minor effect….but they also mention that devoting that money to wind and solar energy would actually reduce emissions WAY more! I actually did my own video on this, but obviously Rollie has way more reach than my tiny channel so I’m glad to hear him getting the good word out there!

@LJPugh187 Год назад

As delusional as it is to market coal as "clean", its even more delusional to assert that wind or solar could do the heavy lifting our grid requires in an energy source. The answer must have nuclear to a large degree, and we would need trillions of dollars of investment into materials science to replace the plastic industries and fertilizer industries at scale, because they are both generated by fossil fuels and taking those away would cause mass famine around the world. Even if we did some sort of herculean build out of solar and wind for the grid, we would have to strip mine a continent to get the raw materials to make the turbines and panels. The green energy transition is not possible without carbon based energies. A mix of Nuclear and Nat Gas are the best solution to decarbonizing the grid, and supporting our societies energy needs.

@SaveMoneySavethePlanet Год назад

@@LJPugh187 we’ll definitely need a strong backbone of nuclear power in order to enable renewable energy, but the amount needed is actually only on the ballpark of 15-20% according to many studies. The fertilizer issue actually exists mostly because we’ve over used fertilizers which caused us to not properly maintain the microbial populations in our soil. Many farmers are actively finding that no-till, and low fertilizer techniques build this microbial population back up to the point that their yields dont suffer even though they completely stop using fertilizers. It does take time though and we will need to still use at least some fertilizers during the transition period.

@vagonedorato Год назад

Gas is already perceived as "cleaner" from the general public due to extensive brainwashing campaines from gas companies.

@LJPugh187 Год назад

@@vagonedorato I think this has more to do with the fact that it is cleaner when compared to coal. Coal is much worse for emissions and the environment, and as a transitional energy towards something better, the US has as much as it needs. It can quietly displace coal and the emissions from that with gas. There are no great solutions to our problems if you want to be an emissions ideologue. If you are willing to problem solve, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 of our emissions can be dealt with through a use of nuclear and gas to decarbonize the grid. Transport and Agriculture are not feasible at scale(what makes us modern) without fossil fuels. We're going to have to make hard decisions, there are no scenarios where we get our "ideal".

@LJPugh187 Год назад

@@SaveMoneySavethePlanet The US Agriculture sector will be able to make due with less fertilizer inputs due to technological innovation. Tech similar to facial recognition will be implemented to scan crops and give them the exact amount of water, fertilizer, pest control, sunlight, etc where as the historic method was blanketing a field in fertilizer. The US will be able to do this because of its access to cheaper capital. Other bread basket regions in the world will not have as much access and will still be thoroughly dependent on fossil fuel generated fertilizers through which the disruption of those supply chains(Russia and Ukraine) will likely prove catastrophic. Solar and wind are nice where they geographically make sense(excessively sunny or windy regions). The rest of the world will either have to use Nuclear, use fossil fuels, or deindustrialize and roll back all modern amenities.

@stevenbridges Год назад

The upbeat comedy perfectly offsets the feeling of impending doom I get from watching these videos 😂

@tuz2tuz229 Год назад

Always a great day when climate town drops another video. And HALF AN HOUR long, I love it

@cadekachelmeier7251 Год назад

It's a quarter of the length of Weekend at Bernie's!

@AminShahsavar Год назад

Love your journalism - hate how I feel the world is so messed up after watching your videos. BUT it's better to know the reality of things!

@Perroden Год назад

This isn't reality

@AminShahsavar Год назад

@@Perroden How so?

@General_Ictus Год назад

Ok I want to make a quick distinction: he's not a journalist, he's a reporter. It's dangerous to call people journalists when they're not. That's not to diminish the importance of having good reporters like Climate Town, Sabine Hossenfelder, SciShow, etc.

@mdalsgaard2608 Год назад

The use of coal have never been higher in the world, that is the reality

@AminShahsavar Год назад

@@General_Ictus good point, I didn't consider they are not the same. So a journalist does investigations to find previously not known information, while a reporter "only" gathers and presents already available information? The latter role is also important of course - many of us need the summaries and takes, and here is where this channel shines because they show the absurdity in these cases.

@General.Kappadin Год назад

What a masterpiece. I recently watched a few older videos and it's insane to see the rise in "production value"/quality :) keep it up

@Sirdoolan Год назад

I’m torn between needing more content from Climate Town in a way I presume druggists do, in an inevitable self-death manner, and not wanting the quality to drop. Seriously, the feeling I get when I see a new video is almost orgasmic. I think I watch them 3 times just to take it all in.

@Perroden Год назад

And it's just a dude saying words.

@popejaimie Год назад

Isn't a druggist like a pharmacist?

@orionbukantis6470 Год назад

@@popejaimie Druggists really like this channel too, don't judge

@BenHC Год назад

@@Perroden but the words are so good, and their arrangement is even better 🙃😜

@MrToradragon Год назад

Hmm, I think that druggists don't, but drug addicts do, but when druggist is drug addict, then he does.

@RedHeadForester Год назад

The delivery of this information is just fantastic. The humour, including the professional amateur film making techniques repeatedly breaking character adds so much and makes the whole thing massively more engaging. Keep on doing what you do! This is a fine example of using video to actually affect change, providing the financial basis for why you're right and giving people information on how they can get involved in a truly effective sense.

@corywhite6371 Год назад

I am an environmental engineer that works in the energy sector. A lot of the environmental compliance projects that I work on involve capping and closing coal ash landfills and impoundments (dammed up lakes full of coal waste slurry). Aside from the emissions, coal plants create mountains and/or lakes of waste that will, in the best case scenario, remain in place for the foreseeable remainder of human history.

@elpollo2805 Год назад

Why is waste only talked about if it's nuclear?

@corywhite6371 Год назад

@@elpollo2805 Mid-level and High-level nuclear waste is definitely the most dangerous per unit. This is about 5% of the nuclear waste produced. I think it garners so much attention because radioactivity and storage concerns. To put it in perspective though, the United States generates 2,000 metric tons of spent nuclear waste per year. The US also generates 140 MILLION metric tons of coal ash per year. On top of that, at dry disposal landfills, hauling trucks have to transport this ash from the plant up to the landfill, at a minimum of ~2 miles round trip.

@aaronfield7899 6 дней назад

@@corywhite6371I don't even think it's even worth comparing since coal ash actually has greater radioactivity than nuclear waste. (Source: Scientific American)

@hechi16 Год назад

this video comes out at the perfect time! the coal industry destroying the town lützerath in germany right now. thanks for putting so much work and effort in your videos. really enjoying them :) greets from germany

@ThePixel1983 Год назад

Yeah, but Germany never had a flourishing solar industry that could have... Oh wait, I am just hearing we had one, and then it was killed by conservative governments. But surely wind will... What do you mean, ten times the height as minimum distance in Bavaria?

@johanneswerner7649 Год назад

If only Germany kept it's 20+ nuclear power plants around, maybe they wouldn't need to burn so much coal, after Putin stopped the natural gas export.

@ThePixel1983 Год назад

@@johanneswerner7649 Or if we had properly switched to renewables.

@unkeptmenace Год назад

@@ThePixel1983 But, but, but the windmills are dEsTRoYinG tHE LAnDsCApe, wait what the coal mine is visable from space? Ah, well at least it isn't in Bavaria.

@ThePixel1983 Год назад

@@unkeptmenace And no power lines! And no nuclear waste storage! Only energy for Bavaria, and please only the kind that can make a lot of money for power companies and politicians!

@blackm4niac Год назад

This is especially funny given all the drama we have here in germany about a town getting bulldozed to mine all that sweet coal underneath it. Sure, the plan had been approved years ago and nobody lives there anymore, but now is the time for RWE, the company who will mine there, to actually start digging up that coal. Depending on who you ask, we either really need that coal until we can phase it out, or we don't. BTW, we've been phasing out coal so long, you can legally have sex with the "Kohleausstieg" in every nation imaginable. It also has experience with that, because it got fucked alot in those years, getting pushed back again and again. Partly because we germans REALLY don't seem to like that pesky nuclear energy because... Fukushima and ironically, the green party. And we phased out nuclear power in record time. I wonder why coal is taking so lo... It's coal companies having more leverage than nuclear power companies, that's why.

@definitlynotbenlente7671 Год назад

It is stupid how people close down nuclear reactors becouse of fear instead turning large amounts of land into dead zones and bulldozing villages

@MayaPosch Год назад

It's also ironic that the Netherlands and Poland around about to lean heavily into nuclear power to phase out their fossil fuel needs even as Germany is reactivating coal plants. It's ironic in light of this video, in that it debunks a lot of the 'renewables will solve everything' points. Germany spent half a trillion Euro on wind & solar the past ~20 years, built out enormous capacity in VRE, and runs a net power export deficit financially, because it has to give away excess power for free on the EEX and buy at full price when the sun and wind aren't doing their thing. There's also the massive mess with the two major transmission lines that have to be built in Germany from north to south, the completion time of one of which got pushed back from 2022 to 2028-ish. And nobody dares to mention 'energy storage' in Germany, unless it's hydrogen, which is pure tosh. The only thing that works reliably in Germany now that the last nuclear plants will shutdown in a few months are the coal and gas plants, but then the German Green party has always been the coal party (look up some of their 1980s flyers, it's wild), so this is as they say nothing new.

@blackm4niac Год назад

@@MayaPosch renewables also suffer from the NIMBY (not in my back yard) problem. Whenever a suitable site for storage and cables and panels and wind power plants is found there are alot of locals going ballistic about the prospect of having to look at those things on a daily basis.

@jasonreed7522 Год назад

@@blackm4niac which is weird to me because my hometown in very rural NY is happily building solar farms. The area is predominantly hydro with exactly 1 small (10MW) gas plant, and now anybody (buisnesses) with a large grass field they have been mowing for ages like the airport, are happily taking state and federal money to build solar, and 0 NIMBYism seems to exist over them. Maybe we just like clean air and have been putting up with acid rain from the midwest's coal for so long nobody in the area likes the idea of building fossil fuel plants.

@lorenzoblum868 Год назад

The is no clean or dirty energy. There is ETHICS or CORRUPTION... Moderation or consumerism. Greed or altruism. Btw, the carbon /toxicity footprint of the elephant in the room aka the military industrial complex anybody?

@dzerkle Год назад

Left out: The reduction in mining jobs is largely due to the use of assorted technology and methods that reduce the need for (expensive) manpower. These include mountaintop removal and self-driving trucks, for example.

@mattbrennan9864 Год назад

The intense research, production value, and structure of these videos makes the concepts so easy for just about anyone to understand. Thank you for what you do. I love all of these

@Perroden Год назад

Intense research? Lolz.

@dhayes907 Год назад

@@Perroden presumably you have a better take?

@feffermickel Год назад

Babe new climate town video just dropped. Another masterpiece, humour was on point, script was sharp and easy to process. Thank you

@austinmccarrick3056 Год назад

Dreaming of the day that Climate Town and Not Just Bikes team up for a video about the harmful effects of road salt!!

@quickfrog57 Год назад

Weird that you're not on Nebula yet, I feel like this content would fit in well with the vibe there. Great video!

@cmoriarty55 Год назад

As someone named Cole, I eagerly look forward to a day when I don't have to hear any more goddamn COAL jokes

@TheAmericanCatholic Год назад

Makes sense

@user-te5po4bu8o Год назад

I would have gone for the Sherlock Holmes joke personally

@cmoriarty55 Год назад

@@user-te5po4bu8o I'm very proud of my fictional ancestor!

@ddbt342 Год назад

Cole going out of the shower. "Oh hey, Clean Coal" - wife

@Incurtus Год назад

as someone from northeast pennsylvania i appreciate all of the anti coal company stuff in the beginning bc so much of my area has been affected by those terrible companies

@elman9164 Год назад

Climate Town singlehandedly saving the world with his youtube channel. Thank you so much for your influence in culture and high quality videos

@Perroden Год назад

No he's not. He's saying a bunch of nonsense with zero evidence

@bjkkkoo Год назад

@@Perroden his sources are public and reliable, where are yours? And even if all of what he said is nonsense, being indipendend from the middle east is a must, being indipendent even from the gov grid with a few solar panel and accumulator + emergency generator should be see as a good thing, indipendency is freedom, oil (and coal) are not

@mdalsgaard2608 Год назад

@@bjkkkoocoal is so import for most emerging markets, it drove Brittain, China, and the US to growth. And the ban that was in 2020 (if i remember correctly) on coal were not much more than a plan to move the pollution further away. Out of mind, out of sight. So now all the coal that Australia, Brittan and the us just goes the Asia instead. Most of this climate talk is just pr

@Megatonaxe Год назад

@@Perroden This is you Source: Trust me bro

@dazpatreg Год назад

@@Perroden he literally cited academic papers and independent organisations such as the coal miner's Union

@theideaofevil Год назад

I love that you included the history of coal miners in this video. They were once a cornerstone of the US labor movement and we all owe a lot to their sacrifices.

@LilPeener Год назад

As a resident of Texas I can say it's always windy and the sun is always shining 🌞

@lucabrandalesi1265 Год назад

Hey, I want to thank you seriously for something: the whole climate situation gives me a lot of anxiety, like clinical anxiety, and as i am immersed in it every day watching your videos really helps me discover studies and papers while having a good laugh and not wanting to become Unabomber 2.0. Keep up the good work!

@kylejohnson6775 Год назад

The greatest cure for anxiety is to do something about it. It's hard AF to get over the initial bump and get started, and it's hard to know what to pick, but once you get the ball rolling it gets easier and easier, and the anxiety fades to hope as some little corner of the world near you starts to look just a little bit better thanks to your efforts. Citizen's climate lobby is a good one Strong towns is a GREAT one (because better urban design can reduce vehicle emissions much faster by reducing vehicle miles traveled and overall demand for gas. Also it's just like, nicer to live in nice places that you can safely walk around) And those are just the 2 I know about that you can do immediately. There's definitely more near you for things like community gardening and advocacy to the local mayor to mandate the removal of gas lines, so you can kill methane emissions on the demand side.

@thorn6809 Год назад

The hole in the Ozon Layer over Antarctica is supposed to be shut around 2060. It is not the same as it is not influenced by CO2 emissions, but the example shows that it is possible to make a change by reducing emissions. It just takes a while and it needs the ambitions to do something about it.

@jont2576 Год назад

@lucabrandalesi1265 Год назад

@@kylejohnson6775 oh I actually am in Extinction Rebellion, have been for a few years, I try to do what I can as a struggling student, but everyday is worse news. Not only from a climate change point, but also a legal one with all the new laws and arrests surging

@lucabrandalesi1265 Год назад

@@thorn6809 I agree wholeheartedly, we just need to do something about it. Although I'll admit CFCs were used in a much smaller quantities for stuff it'd be replaceable with other substances. We need to get 7 billion people off coal, not change some refrigeration units

@dearyvettetn4489 Год назад

Amazing video! You just scratched the surface of the pollution control devices used to make coal plants “clean”. In the early 2000s I worked for a company that built huge selective catalytic reduction units that were supposed to remove NOx gases from plant emissions. They looked like giant Star Trek Borg cubes sitting near the plant. I left the company in 2004 and never learned how effective these units were but the company eventual closed its local office and was bought out by another firm and the coal plan with the fancy machine attached to it closed its final stage in 2015. So much for clean coal.

@jasonreed7522 Год назад

I feel like clean coal has always been a joke. There are different types of coal that but relatively cleaner than others, but even the best (anthracite coal) is still atrociously dirty. Natural gas has some promise, but mainly in that it takes negligible effort to convert a natural gas plant into a biogas plant. (Exact same molecules being burned, just now sourced from atmospheric carbon captured by plants. Just put clippings, foodwaste, and sewage into a vat with the right bacteria and 0 oxygen and you get methane.) Not that i think biogas is the future, but it atleast makes the CO2 output less of a factor because those sources would have just released carbon back into the air anyway, but the other polutants like particulate matter and NOx are inevitable when burning something. (NOx is made by heating air, kinda hard to have a combustion based power plant without superheating the air)

@johnnybayles7412 Год назад

Damn y'all are really killing it. These are not only super informational but really funny.

@OmniSzron Год назад

Love the script. I can't believe that someone can be this funny and informative at the same time.

@LorcaLoca Год назад

I'm so glad that you talked about Edison's animal abuse as not many people do. More climate change content creators should talk about animal ethics and the relationship between how we treat them and the climate.

@philballphotography Год назад

An ironic part is that he was trying to discredit AC power (which favored large scale production and high voltage distribution over Edisons plan of small scale production) - Edison wanted everyone to own their own generator which he would happily sell you, and would have been massively inefficient. He tried to scare people that higher voltage AC power was too dangerous by killing animals - and inventing the electric chair (so yeah it ended up being a primary method of execution for a while). And after all that - he lost. AC power won. All that shit, killing larger and larger animals, inventing gruesome methods of killing people - all failed

@alpacarama21 Год назад

@@philballphotography You know what's funny, to top it off, that ass Edison wasn't even right! (shocker...) AC is actually safer than high-voltage DC... Because there's a point in time where AC is at 0 volts, so like, your muscles aren't being artificially forced to grab the wire (at that moment). So it's "possible" to pull your hand away. DC doesn't do that!

@mafiacat88 Год назад

Yeah, I totally get killing a few animals; the knowledge we have today wasn't there, and well, you gotta test it SOMEHOW. But the dude could have stopped after like 2. He didn't have to keep going. Animal ethics in science is a tricky subject, but broadly I would say putting an elephant in the electric chair as a marketing act falls on the wrong side of the line.

@pixelblaze8284 Год назад

I'm just surprised he didn't mention the absolutely horrifically botched human execution he did too. Like it was crazy

@wdmm94 Год назад

Number one dumper of mercury into the food chain. Also the number one producer of putting radioactive isotopes into the environment.

@aaronfield7899 6 дней назад

The fact alone that coal Ash produces more radioactive isotopes than nuclear waste just begs the question why we can't use nuclear energy.

@wdmm94 6 дней назад

@@aaronfield7899 I agree - like 45 years ago. Just think of the not so insignificant less amount of carbon that would now not be floating around causing global warming. Why are Republicans so against nuclear power I would like to know!

@aaronfield7899 6 дней назад

@@wdmm94 I don't know reps that are against going nuclear

@wdmm94 6 дней назад

@@aaronfield7899 What I mean is that they aren't doing thing one for it. Ever hear the party fight for it in the last 50 years? I would have to assume the lobbying from the fossil fuel industry is why. France went nuclear 40 - 50 years ago. So much for making America great again.

@Amir-jn5mo Год назад

4:20 thats the most american thing I've ever seen. From a coal Power plant in the city to a surface parking lot. One thing I never understand is why these coal barrons not just take their excess profit and built renewable energy plants. Literally go and own the next new generation of technology and make profit. Why are they trying take down new energy technology while also slowly dying themselves?

@davidty2006 Год назад

or invest more into what makes their mines get the profit. T R A I N S !

@KrisTC Год назад

Great video as always! A common anti battery and solar argument I hear all the time is people complaining about all the evil mining for minerals needed. Would be interesting to see a video on how minors are treated for other materials. Plus and recycling and the fact that you can get the minerals back out of batteries, unlike burnt coal or oil.

@nicksurfs1 Год назад

I’d be very interested in this too. I don’t think there’s any question that there are human rights abuses in battery mines. But I keep hearing that we can have a 100% closed loop for battery materials. Would be interesting to see if anyone has successfully done that. Even if it’s just like 50 batteries they’ve recycled a couple times. That would at least be proof of concept and somewhere to hang some hope.

@cadekachelmeier7251 Год назад

It's interesting to see the reaction. I think climate activists actually take the mining criticisms to heart and are actually advocating for low-cobalt batteries and end of life recycling. It's a fair criticism, but it's used as a gotcha rather than a real concern that could be solved.

@AlSelk Год назад

@@cadekachelmeier7251 There is a huge amount of resources being put in battery tech, and unlike clean coal it is actually paying off. Check out sodium batteries.

@ramblerandy2397 Год назад

@@nicksurfs1 Redwood Materials is a headline battery recycling company that recovers virtually 100% of battery materials, aside from containers, foams and plastics, which get sent elsewhere to be reprocessed. The actual battery materials though can be endlessly recycled. There appears to be no limit, as no power is being drawn from them or change occurs in them. In their specific chemistries, they are merely a sophisticated storage medium, so once separated they can be used again and again. One benefit of recycling is that they become purer with each recycle, and so potentially become better batteries the next time around. Which means eventually that if every battery is recycled, only top-up mining would be required.

@cadekachelmeier7251 Год назад

@@AlSelk Yeah, I'm pretty hopeful for it overall. One of the good things about EVs is that the designs mostly don't care what battery chemistry they use. So as battery chemistry improves and changes, we don't really need to make any fundamental infrastructure changes.

@Fwuzeem Год назад

I laughed so hard I sneezed orange juice through my sinuses and into my eyes. I have never experienced that stinging sensation before

@mekangtogo420 Год назад

This topic is really relevant to me right now, since a village in Germany is being demolished just because the largest german energy producer *said* they needed the coal hiding beneath🙃

@Vaeldarg Год назад

What happened to the environmental assessments that needed to be done before Tesla could build a gigafactory there?

@Vaeldarg Год назад

@@johh55 To be fair, "decided to stop buying russian gas" only after lots of arm-twisting. Wouldn't be surprised if it gets found that the coal/oil industry astro-turfed the movement against nuclear energy, which would be putting them out of business by now. (Japan shows that it's mainly regulation and lack of experience that stands in the way of building reactors)

@jintsuubest9331 Год назад

@@Vaeldarg Sad thing is uranium based reactor is not sustainable in the long term as we don't have much uranium accessible. It can only buy us some time (max a century, likely less) before we get other things to work. Be it fusion or other fission. But there is also energy producer lose out on generational wealth. We can't have that. The poor poor rich people cannot afford their 1.8k used lays chip bag now, wouldn't they. Yea, most of us are screwed and we will be happy.

@Vaeldarg Год назад

@@asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170 They probably should've actually looked at the charts that show, even with every disaster counted together, the death toll of nuclear disasters are next to nothing in comparison to burning coal. If they didn't have anything to actually replace coal OR nuclear plants with, they may as well have been advocating for Germany to not be a modern nation at all.

@뻔뻔하게노라 Год назад

@@johh55 no, several assessments show that the coal under that village is not needed for energy security

@isaacarthur2883 Год назад

My grandfather chose to join the navy and dodge actual bombs at age 17 in the Pacific rather than keep mining coal. The idea that coal mining is something people want to do out of anything other than manipulation and desperation is a twisted piece of propaganda (looking at you, Mike Rowe).

@GTAVictor9128 Год назад

Exactly. It's as much of a fallacy as thinking that people in third world countries take up labour intensive, exploitative jobs out of choice rather than desperation.

@KarolaTea Год назад

Holy wow, I had very little clue about the mining history in the US. Great great video, thank you.

@MetallicAddict15 Год назад

20 seconds in and I'm already smirking from ear to ear. This channel is awesome.

@alexmikhylov Год назад

Clean Cole sounds like a rap name for a hip christian pastor preaching straight edge to kids

@TopJewShalom Год назад

As one of the boomers of this channel I have a PSA: Watch Weekend at Bernie's (1989) That is all

@aaron-bieber Год назад

What I love most about Climate Town videos is definitely the hard-hitting well-researched climate facts. But the thing I love second-most is the effort dumped into throwaway gags like Rollie doing a selfie with the Icon parking lot attendant where that power plant used to be.

@terramater Год назад

Great video! We're very intrigued about the short future of coal. Our team recently researched nuclear energy, since many people talk about it as the best and cleanest solution that we have right now. There are a lot of hurdles that our producer found and clarified in our research, and we're curious to see how is going to be the development of nuclear energy in this run against fossil fuels.

@dhayes907 Год назад

Keep up the good work.

@tortellinifettuccine Год назад

Nuclear energy is something that along with renewable energy can easily power the world, with quite literally zero emissions, and this is assuming we don't learn how to properly dispose/recycle nuclear waste in the future. Currently, we would need about 15% to 20% of the world to be power by nuclear energy so that the rest could be covered by renewable energy. We just have to be careful with nuclear energy, as it can turn into the beast coal did if kept unchecked and relied on too bad, because at the end of the day it still produces waste that we don't entirely understand how to deal with. I'm in romania, and I'm quite happy that our country has enough nuclear plants that we are now able to start a HUGE shift to renewables.

@thewhitefalcon8539 Год назад

Nuclear energy is just the new fossil fuel. It's sponsored by all the same fossil fuel people and it's still based on digging stuff out of the ground and "burning" it. Plus it's the new conservative culture war. Take it with many spoonfuls of salt.

@zonarider673 Год назад

My kind of infotainment😄 Thanks! BTW, my grandfather was a Pennsylvania coal miner starting at the age of 12. This was obviously back in the late 1800s when child labor was the norm. He died of lung cancer before I was born.

@stevesaturn2592 Год назад

Thank you so much for uploading! I know we're a small community but I care way more about these uploads than any other channel, they're just that well made.

@Whayles Год назад

I love climate town videos! Despite being about the scary anxiety inducing topic of Climate change/global warming, they always make me feel positive that things will change and get better.

@dj_koen1265 Год назад

The part about coal miners being exploited should be taught to everyone This is a really important video and i hope many people see it

@nattygirldred Год назад

Clean Coal is the Theranos of energy 😂😂😢😢😭🫥

@sterling_x9 Год назад

Favourite youtuber by far. Every single video hits the perfect balance between entertainment and informative! You’re a big reason why I’m back in school to get my environmental science degree!! Thanks for everything you do

@lorenzoblum868 Год назад

Do they teach you about the elephant in the room aka the military industrial complex?

@singletona082 Год назад

i've actually watched Weekend at bernie's, and considering bernie was being puppeted about t otry getting access to money he supposedly had but actually didn't? It is a genuinely perfect metaphore.

@domblaze Год назад

It’s been a minute and it’s about darn time.

@BogdanO45 Год назад

I don't know what to say but brilliant! Always funny, deadly accurate and informative! We need you to keep posting!

@colinsutherland201 Год назад

Miners were often paid in a special currency that could only be used at the company store. Congress actually had to pass a law against it!

@XoXitsSaruhh Год назад

Where I live in Illinois the wind is always at least 5mph and is usually more like 10-15. We have windmills everywhere and last year I got the option to switch to a line powered by 100% wind. Not a single outage yet.

@tone_bone Год назад

As a child of someone who's parents forced me to watch weekend at Bernie's 1 and 2, your not missing much. 1 was trying to be serious, 2 was just a parody of 1.

@manofausagain Год назад

I work in the coal industry and at the current prices, and the need for developing countries to burn coal worldwide its not going anywhere. The crappy duty cycle of solar and wind makes it hard for base load without storage.

@KiRiTO72987 5 месяцев назад

And that's why we need to be investing in nuclear alongside wind and solar

@OwenRULESSS Год назад

My dude is traveling all over nyc for these videos, park slope, prospect park, financial district, dumbo, vinegar hill and some roof that looks like queens?? So much effort in these videos and it shows! Amazing content!

@axel6269 Год назад

I wouldn't evacuate the renewable storage problem as swiftly as you did there... Especially not with batteries which scale very badly at industrial levels compared to more efficient (but still limited) technology such as pumped hydro. I think you should address the nuclear elephant in the room and acknowledge that we'll need low-carbon, baseload sources of power if we want to power entire countries grid without having to sink untold amounts of metal into batteries (and the enormous mining footprint that implies...)

@johnwise7244 Год назад

Love the fact you took a picture with the guy working the parking 4:23

@ashleysummers2143 Год назад

My grandpa,who was born in the 30s, favorite song until he died in 2022 was 16tons ♡

@whatsthisidonteven Год назад

Thank you for allocating time to promote coal miners' rights, it's actually a key step to a proper clean energy transition imo. Also, still waiting for the channel to implode into flames when you finally talk about nuclear energy.

@caml1720 Год назад

man i'm 2 minutes in. there's no way 29 minutes of "let coal die" doesn't bring up nuclear power. what the hell

@wachox Год назад

We.need nuclear energy for sure, and fusion will.get here too late, the best hope right now is solar and there is room for more solar cell efficiency, solar would be the ultimate hail Mary solution for stoping global warming

@whatsthisidonteven Год назад

@@caml1720 tbh, I'm kinda glad he hasn't explicitly promoted nuclear energy so far in any of his videos and that he's sticking to renewables, city planning and policy. It's giving me a gut feeling he knows what he's talking about so far. All the other videos I've seen that are against coal/oil/gas, but pro-nuclear, are repeating the exact same talking points, some of which may contain factually correct data, but still feel really disingenuous to me.

@caml1720 Год назад

@@whatsthisidonteven I think you should probably look in more depth into any issue where information given consistently makes you suspicious despite potentially being factual. If you're being lied to you can probably find that out-what value is there in acting out of suspicion?

@tortellinifettuccine Год назад

@Cam L nuclear energy still produces waste. Using it like we did coal would ultimately cause similar issues both economicly and physically. Renewable energy is far more affordable to use vs. nuclear energy.

@abelincoln78 Год назад

I thought clean coal was already dead by the time I graduated in 2008. Certainly combined cycle gasification plants were already dead due to their higher CO2/kW-hr. At the time I was disappointed about it because I really wanted to be an engineer at a power plant but today I can look back and say I’m glad coal is dieing. Here’s to not burning stuff for energy! 🍻

@jacobanteau6020 Год назад

I noticed you used a clip from Grand Forks. I grew up in ND and we had a whole section in my ND studies/Civics class in school about how coal is "different" and "clean" now with lots of cool and hip propaganda that the school was probably paid to show us

@Dysiode Год назад

4:42 we need to talk about the guy with a cigarette in a literal coal mine. Great Whale it's good to see reminders of how far we've come EDIT: Didn't have to wait long for that :)

@dougpatterson7494 Год назад

I’m glad you are encouraging America to move beyond coal. I would appreciate if you included more encouragement for China and India to STOP building new coal power plants.

@DaniOutEast Год назад

I want to commend Rollie and the crew for placing human well-being at the center of discussions around climate change. I often find that the history and experiences of lower class communities are erased or overlooked in favour of discussions focusing on environmental engineering problems/solutions. Awesome work!

@pinotpinotpinot Год назад

Amazing video as always. Greetings from Germany, where the police is beating us protesters down to expand a lignite mine. Fun times

@davidty2006 Год назад

Doesn't help the stuff in germany is really shit quallity.... Thank god us brits have wales...

@TaquitoDeAsada Год назад

I'm in love with the climate change guy 😢

@levieve7779 Год назад

I watched weekend at Bernie’s as a kid… twice! And honestly I still don’t know if I could explain the why behind the character motivations. I honestly the memory feels like some fever dream of my childhood.

@eklectiktoni Год назад

yep 😆

@JoshuaTootell 10 месяцев назад

Matches my memory

@Bananasforcommunism Год назад

This is such a well done video!!

@JohnWarnockJAW Год назад

My family immigrated as coal miners. The conditions were horrible, the local graveyard is full of mass produced tombstones from mining disasters, but even the union leader doesn’t want to chat training to transition to new careers. It’s become a cultural self-flagellation where identity supersedes reality, even if all it does is pad the pockets of billionaires.