Jack Harries: the story of a political awakening 

It either means you are unable to take a stand for some reason, or you stand on the current status quo.

@@adapienkowska2605 And you're probably undecided on the vast majority of topics cuz politics is only one of many. And if you have an opinion on everything that means you have very shallow, uninformed opinions cuz it takes a lot of time to be well educated on any given important issue. And "taking a stand" isn't just having a political opinion and letting everyone know about it. 99 percent of people who say this aren't even making a difference in their own cause, they're just virtue signaling.

without decolonisation*

“ecology without class struggle is just gardening” -chico mendes

@@b.6666 did he said that? lol, he and marina silva are from my state

@@vmvm949 yep :) sou brasileira também haha

Shut up girl keep crying

Super interesting!! Thank you for sharing your thoughts on that, I'm taking notes :p

Why are they called self-made experts? How is that different to just science journalism which has been around forever? I don't think you need to be a scientist to be a science journalist. He doesn't contribute to science as a scientist but rather he gathers the science through investigative journalist techniques and shares it to a wider audience.

I haven't. :p

it is true but also it is logical. we might did the same on their side.. we should keep that in mind, when attacking, judging and shaming apolitical people, that we might as well have done the same in the shoes. it helps to find the rihgt way to communicate with them and actually make them see what is going on in the world

Interesting, but also consider this: a lot of us under this system don't have the time to either care or pick a side. If i have to put food on the table somehow, at the end of the day I'm probably not going to care if the corporation i work for exploits underage children in third world countries. When I have to pay the electricity bill, when I'm hardpressed to pay for my sick child's hospital bills because my insurance won't cover it, I will not have the time to care about the exploitation of the system, because I have to play into it in order to survive. I feel like the reason why a lot of people in the world are kept just on the cusp of survival but allowed to toe the line once in a while is to keep maintaing that subservience to the system, that hey, look, i know you're working but if you kept working harder you could have this.

But the majority of minorities are apolitical as well, what do you say to them? And the "neutrality kills" phrase applies to everything in the world. You not contributing to the next scientific breakthrough in cancer research is one less person helping to find a cure for cancer. But to even have anything remotely enlightening to say on cancer research you need to spend a lot of time studying that topic. And who's to say any of the political issues in the world are any less complex? To make a difference in any given issue, you will have to give zero attention to many others and become "neutral" towards them. There are so many important things to care about in the world and politics is only one of them. The people who pressure others into not being apolitical don't seem to realize that and assume that politics is the one topic of all topics that everyone needs to have an opinion on. And worse than that, they seem to think that simply having political opinions and posting them on social media is somehow being more helpful than those who are apolitical. Simply having the same political sentiments that millions of others have doesn't help anyone.

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Being apolitical doesn't necessarily mean that agree with today's society. Always having to take sides is what brought society in to the state it is today. The world is not cutthroat black and white. And today's politics doesn't want to understand that. It's hard to make a decision when you have everybody trying to convince you why their side or their opinions are better than the opposition. And to say that you have to be priveleged to be apolitical is very tone-deaf. When you live in a country where there is constant war, starvation, first world countries milking the hell out of the resources and workers; do you really think that there first worry is going to be picking a political side or surviving??

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@The Rude Archive but people don't actually do that. and that is not the point of their comment above

@The Rude Archive Because false science that looks like good science can damage society immensely. Case example: A preliminary finding on a UK study found that there may be a correlation between MMR vaccines and autism. Key word here is "preliminary". This means the study was not complete and (ultimately) had not gone through a peer review process. But the media picked it up and it spread like wildfire, leading to massive public outrage and decades of anti-vaccine rhetoric. When the study was finished and peer reviewed, the findings were heavily criticized and the paper was not published. But still, the "scientist" who wrote the preliminary result article has made a career for himself being the "expert" voice of the anti-vaccine movement. TLDR: Bad science is dangerous, because media.

I agree 💯

Also, often the self-mad experts skip the basics. They go straight to quantum theory, while I do believe it is impossible to understand it without knowing classical theoretical physics first. But electrons seem more interesting than pendulum.

@@kaankanca4634 false science done by a supposed doctor nonetheless @Denglish5 honestly, you can debate who "gets" to be a scientist to the end of time, but that's what you'll get. some people get that title, and some don't, but when you break down what is it that makes an expert an expert, there's a lot more to "i spent X amount of years in school to become XYZ" good science can be done by non experts just as bad science can be done by experts. there is definite truth to experience begetting expertise (and presumably good science), but it is not the only factor, nor i think it should be the (only) prerequisite. re: peer review and bias, peer review doesn't presume that there is no bias in someone's work. it's easier to see that perhaps in physics, chemistry, but definitely not when it comes to science that involve people, and definitely not climate science. here is my credential if it helps bolster my argument: i have a Master in environmental chemistry

but we aren't going to get out of it by any other means, either. There's a real problem with "this one thing is the solution" thinking: it's not. the solution is *everything*.

@@k.lambda4948 We definitely need an “all hands on deck approach” but it’s interesting which ideas get media attention and which ones don’t. The idea mentioned in the video, I would put more into the category of novelty as opposed to substantive.

i would urge u to checkout our changing climate youtube channel for real criticization of the sources of cause of climate change.

If we are to survive we absolutely will. It’s our only chance.

Some oddball ideas can change the world for the better, I think it is possible, rather than unproductively getting annoyed with others perhaps be happy something is being done and see it as a seed that could help grow other potential ideas, thats how science can grow to help the climate.

Yesss

Yes, we hate teslas too

Yesss please 🙇‍♀️

Yes

Please!

so hes doing a good job communicating it

😂😂

Same

Same

Yea same lmao

Me too🤭

same

It's refreshing to see this perspective out here in "the wild". It's fascinating, and honestly quite terrifying, that everyone's so focused on climate with almost no attention directed towards the overarching ecological crisis that we're in. It's emotionally exhausting to grapple with this, because you're right - it's really fucking bad.

I too have been "following" him and Finn since their gap year (wild how that was so long ago), and I have really enjoyed following their journey and seeing how it developed into climate and political awareness communicated nicely over very aesthetically beautiful videos.

YES!

Thank you for putting my thoughts into words! This is precisely how I feel.

Exactly, is fair that Jack has a limit about how political he can or want to be. He knows that he has a presence on media and has to preserve it if he wants to keep speaking about whats important; with that, he also know it will take him a lot more effort than in comparison with an activists who is more aggressive with the message it should be shared. Many say bad news spread fast but I think good news spread faster, by Jack planting a seed of awareness and a little knowledge to his many millions of followers around all his social media is better than a convocation for some protests that eventually ends on riots which sometimes also becomes a huge mess and the real message is lost and turned by the media with a title of Conspiracy Theorists are arrested blah, blah, blah.

*opinion

@@shivleenkaur6307 so true. We can clearly see the communalism, casteism, classism, gender inequality, etc. but won't do anything till it happens to them. I'm from India too and it is so frustrating.

Me neither don't worry, they looked cute, that was enough

I don't think they are synonymous. But someone can be a self-made expert and a science communicator. There are scientific databases out there that are completely free for anyone to use. It depends on the topic you are interested in. Medicine would be easier since PubMed is free for all. But other databases that contain articles from biology, chemistry, psychology, etc. (think Elsevier, Scopus, PscyInfo) are quite expensive for someone who does it as a hobby. So there are no self-made experts who are also science communicators that I've seen so far that did not have an academic background. Usually they are grad students or higher-level undergrads. I agree about the pay. I'd probably make more working for McD than as a master's student.

Their new video was even greater. Saying a Korean celebrity reading Western books is doing so to appeal to the western audience. Lmaooo

yeah she’s an amazing racist!

oH sO yOu dOn'T uNdErStAnD nUaNcE pRaCtIcE mAkEs pErFeCt

What I do understand is this white woman thinks she can speak on pocs and that's perfectly okay. White people should stfu really.

@@myouniverse0613 not really actually. I think if you watched the video with an open mind you might get a different meaning. Then you'd be in a position to offer constructive criticism to her. It's your choice though.

Really? I didn't know about this one... It weirdly doesn't surprise me that much :/ I was a bit annoyed when he said he would partner with Google for a podcast series about a year ago

@@AliceCappelle I can't find anything about it on the spot but climate activist instagram went crazy at the time. It was a video for/with them along the lines of patting them on the back for carbon offsets or something but don't take my word for any details. Will share when I find it again, must surely be in someone's reel or stories still

Yeah, he’s a bit thick sometimes. He references carbon offsetting as a means to justify his unnecessary and covid guideline breaking travel, without realising carbon offsets are bs. He’s such a corporate and performative environmentalist.

*Harries*

So happy you like it 🥰

Which country is that, idk of any ex-socialist, only of some ex-communist Stasi-regime countries. Democratic socialism, including universal basic income is the solution. Which could be seen as regulated capitalism with zero corruption, so any influence by big industries is made illegal and regulated out. The lobbyism/corruption of industries in politics is undermining proper democracy. Definitions: Communism gives all power to a communist regime, like a dictatorship and anti-democracy who of course abuse their complete power. Look at China - the coal industry there and the many "disappearing" regime critical journalists, political prisoners high numbers of executions, etc.. 2nd Definition: Democratic socialism: All power to the little people. I never get why so many are so horribly shallow and don't look up basic definitions and just parrot to be pretend leftie shills for communism just to virtue signal and to appear woke and progressive while they advocate for anti-democratic, anti-human rights concepts out of ignorance. These are just names, words anyways, it's about justice as a priority. Democratic Socialism is what brings the most justice. So I totally agree, it makes no sense to cling to old sayings of Marx due to some daddy issues, instead of simply analytical, factial looking what exactly brings the most justice, in the fastest way and in the long-run, now and here worldwide. No problem with old, lengthy written books, but it's not necessary to use it as a bible, except for people who have no sense for justice due to lacking basic human traits like empathy and analytical thinking. But those people will never achieve anything but being destructive and time wasters anyways, no matter what they read.

It's very obvious that underground farms are bollocks and no solutions. People who don't get that right away don't have enough brain capacity to get basic facts, no matter how much they read to cherry pick for the limited concepts their low brain capacity can grasp. Sadly these are the most extroverted big mouths who talk, talk, talk but all they really achieve is ruin their brains with being potheads in their youth and rott it more with beer once grown up which never stops their Dunning-Kruger effect induced grandiosity.

@@user-xj4yv3qo3v not really the point of my comment but thanks for the input 😬😅 i do not have enough knowledge to say if they are even good as a side thing, like a type of community garden or is it just a let's say "PR" thing. However promoting it as the future of city agriculture, food source or frankly anything more than a interesting anecdote seems very misguided.

It's bc they are capitalist. This channel is left wing and they only believe that we can only fight climate change through anitcapitalist structures and through indiginous and grass roots collectivist action

It's the other way around, Dakota is trying to look like me :p

@@AliceCappelle Dakota is prettier. your white savior complex is 🤢