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Correct!

Thank you for commenting this, such an important Cree proverb- now more than ever.

We're pretty much locked into that by 2040 for the oceans. Presumably sooner given that we always blow deadlines... Out of the water.

our social systems reward selfishness and shortsightedness.....lack of morality is the problem

God made it clear we suck yet most are mad at him for it smh…

@@adamtash2891 Exactly. I've been pointing out how normalized selfish behavior is, and lack of basic morals and such for years.

Na man we got this. We part of the planet too. Plus there’s still all those uncontacted tribe.

^^^^^ Nah, humans are f**king this place up too.....just like we did on mars.

@@huu7hbbjko you being serious an mars part?

Humans will survive, but not the masses. The future will no doubt be reserved for those in power.

@@GardenOfEdenYTno there isn’t lol not anymore

Look at what is unfolding RIGHT NOW in the Bering Sea with the Snow Crab fishery. I remember back in the mid 1970s with Alaskan King Crab, it’s declining rapidly.

@@jimpawa5793 Yeah, not so sure, snow crabs are considered an invasive species in Norway, they pay you to take them, and there are millions to grab.

@@jimpawa5793 It seems that the snow/king crab population is exploding.

I second this comment.

Humans are viruses?

dam dude give us some credit, civilization, art, music , love, family , exploration, yea there's still war and green in man but it hasn't been a failure

@johnnyt8286 No offense, John, but I don't think you're seeing the bigger picture.

@@johnnyt8286 No offense Johnny but most of what you listed are all fine things that we [mankind] have done, but I'd argue that the majority of which have been to the detriment of the natural world. Our civilization, our exploration and conquer of every natural biome is having major consequences on all of Earth's flora and fauna. We have been nothing more than a cancerous virus on every other species of the planet. Things are terribly out of balance now, and that balance will be restored one day - and we're not going to like it.

The fishermen who reduced their catch to save the fishery were run out of business by those who did not. Legislation could have stopped it, but companies making money can bribe politicians in ways the fish can not.

This is very true when it comes to those fighting protected offshore fish habitat. Fishermen fought those efforts to create protected no-fishing zones. But those areas act like nurseries to increase breeding, and ultimately increase fish populations where they’ve been created.

Does that include maintain 6 feet distance…lmao

@@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 the act of fishing itself is the problem. There's no right way to do the wrong thing. We do not need to exploit animals to death.

calm down goofy

Exactly.

Nearly all of the forests and wooded areas in my city have been plowed over and have had subdivisions erected in their place. It’s awful.

@@HabitualJoker then sell your home and let a young person have it. how dare you tell the young adults that they dont deserve what you got.

@@jorejahathe real question is why is that what we want?

@@lukegaming86 excuse me?

@@lukegaming86 Go watch Scott Galloway TED talk.

Half of me is still out there.

The better half.

🔴Greed, WILLFUL ignorance, apathy toward wildlife, hatred toward “The peaceniks…” ‘who only care about saving the lives of humans & wildlife, & want to control everybody.’, various types of payoffs to politicians to prevent conservation laws from being written or passed, & the proverbial, “Nothing to see here, folks! Keep moving… Keep moving!’, got us to this terrible point we are at today. It’s all very dysfunctional & sickening. Just a little bit of rethinking ways to do things, a little bit of cooperation, a little bit of respect & compassion, a little bit of discipline, & a little bit of work, & our future of a mutually enriching cohabitation with wildlife on planet earth would look a whole lot brighter at the moment. Instead, that kind of future is going away or essentially gone, & that is heartbreaking.

Selfish really

As you type this on a device that requires multitudes of humans suffering acquiring the materials to produce it. And nature being Sacagawea as well for the resources. Irony personified.

Sacagawea? Really autocorrect? Sacrificed is the right answer.

No customers, No big companies. We are all part of it.

+ politicians

True, but big companies supply what is demanded. If everyone in first world countries tried to live at least somewhat more modestly and like people in third world countries are forced to live, if the rampant consumerism mindset stopped, the Earth would do wildly better, maybe even heal.

And you the consumer.

Unsustainable, selfish consumption is normalized. A disposable society that refuses to be resourceful and sustainable will pay the consequences sooner or later.

@@yearginclarkeIts part a byproduct of the lessons learned after the great depression. And part greed.

Consumption and population. We are in the midst of ecological overshoot. The biosphere would probably be fine if 8 billion people lived in squalor, but if we want decent quality of life, we need fewer people.

And the Domino's shall fall

Not curbing fishing.... just moving to overfish another species

I notice that same thing all the time. And everywhere you go you see people who drive excessively fast as their standard way of driving, burning excessive fuel because they're "in a hurry". Instead of walking to places within reasonable walking distance, we drive there instead, frequently just to get a few items that can be easily carried home. The average person could use a little exercise. You could go on and on and on about this kind of stuff. I don't understand how more people aren't aware of how stupid we've become as a society.

YES!! People are always like, "Blame the big companies, not the individuals!" While yes, the big companies are to blame, they're only in business as long as they make money, and they only make money as long as people buy their product. Individuals in wealthy countries collectively WAY over-consume! People turn their AC units down to 70 when it's 95 degrees outside or up to 75 when it's 32 degrees outside, they buy out of season produce that needed to be shipped halfway across the world, buy fish that was wild caught and beef that produces methane, buy tons of new clothes (rather than thrift clothes) to "keep up with fashion", replace perfectly fine furniture with brand new furniture just because they want a change of looks, refuse to buy EVs or hybrids because "real mean drive trucks", and like you said, sit in their cars with the combustion engines running idle, etc., etc. Most people don't care. And that's the sad part. And that's why politicians don't care, and why the Earth will die.

Tbf animals food products are superior to plant based ones. Plants don’t contain over 15+ nutrients that animals can provide for humans.

why think ahead when we can scream GOT MINE! like apes

Its not that simple. Planting tree is good, I'm growing some now, but to exist we have to consume resources. Hunting and fishing is more sustainable than industrial agriculture or industrial animal agriculture but still it's not so simple because without industrial agriculture people would starve and if everyone hunted for themselves that couldn't be sustainable either. Even the technology we are using to watch this video and comment is the product of deforestation and honestly if one is not living an off grid lifestyle then we are complicit. It probably can be boiled down to just too many people I guess. Or civilization would have to fundamentally change to a communal gardening lifestyle but this won't happen on the scale of industrialism. I'm kind of a fatalist these days. Because you acknowledge the inertia of history and global movement will pursue its own course regardless. That being said population is expected to reach its peak very soon, as fertility rates are drastically dropping (which is a disturbing thing in of itself) and younger generations aren't as interested in having children as the older ones. Its like we can't treat the symptoms. The cause is the very industrial structure and aim of civilization in of itself. This has caused me to feel very profoundly confused and aimless, as I would like to live in a traditional agricultural community but the only places like that are communes. I just have to find the right one I guess

@@brightmooninthenight2111 Here's someone who understands what the real problem is.

There are plenty of trees. No one talks about population growth. This Texan has watched as fields, farms, meadows, and land given to development. Our wildlife has lost so much habitat.😢

​@karlwheatley1244 The real problem? 92 billion pounds of food is wasted every year in the US. 38% That means the population can grow by that much and still survive. Just do some simple math instead of talking so much.

Part of the Problem.

@@jockogle5250 A BIG part of the Problem. Overfishing wasn't mentioned once in this piece. Major contributor to the reduction of marine life.

Man with 5 boats: I cannot *believe* the fish ran out.

No they can't.

We could we just wont

Don't worry about it,man. Everything will work out fine As long as I get mine

there is something that all of the leftists could do to help out. If they truly believe.

Only the earth can..

With no realistic effort focused on improving things. And with all the consumption, we are very wasteful and unresourceful to say the least.

Yolo

*needed Bit late.

Voluntary extinction of the human species?

@@nedisahonkey Nothing that dramatic. Probably something along the lines of sterilization knowing or unknowing.

​@@nedisahonkeyyaaay!!! I'm in!!!!

@@thexfile.well we gotta start with a age limit

@thexfile I hope we can minimize future degradation of our planet, but the selfishness and will full ignorance that often typifies our species makes me pessimistic

That’s not the answer.

So many habitats are relient on humans at this point... you don’t lose humans without losing cats/dogs/birds/ruminants/etc etc etc etc etc etc etc

@@whysocurious7366 They are suffering even more with humans

@@pearlyung Nope. Not all humans are bad towards animals. Some are, but plenty of people devote their whole lives to animal welfare & conserving our few remaining wild places.

@whysocurious7366 Majority humans are bad. Just look at animal sacrifices, suffering in farms, breeding for money, dogs used for hunting, dogs used fights, ... you maybe good, majority is bad. That is why we need rescues etc. If humans are generally good, rescues are not needed. Sorry, that's reality.

This would be great.

Because of cafe standards. The bigger the truck the less fuel efficient it has to be to pass the cafe limits.

You made some excellent points. Problem is what they said: it would take 5(!) earths to handle what we are doing. No way this plant can handle our current numbers, nor if we were even at 4 billion. Add in todays me first attitude, and its looking real bleak.

Ww3 is planned and engineered

The only certain thing in life is change. Time changes everything, sooner or later.

I know that big corporations and politicians hold the keys to genuine change, but if/until we manage to get them to change their ways, I'm going to just keep on tending to my native pollinator garden and watch my personal carbon output. I know that not everyone has the resources to do this and I understand that and won't judge others for not doing what I'm doing, it's just something I do to give myself hope. And I'm sharing it with you in case it would be something that would make you feel better and more empowered if you also did it. I can make my own ecosystem to make life slightly less bad for local wildlife.

I'm all for folks earning money, keeping money, enjoying good ole' USA capitalism, etc. But your point is spot on. And when I question people I know with this same point about millionaires/billionaires, it's 'whats it your business? Their money, paying taxes'... Well, what can all these billionaires need? Are they really making a difference? Turns out, they get bored with all that money, and on occasion, don't know what to use it on. So, they buy islands and ship kids over to sexually abuse them. Among many others things...

Everything.

Me too, unfortunately as much as I would love to have a family.

Gay

I'm from Missouri. Now in Florida. Here, the "Preserves" are being sold off a section at a time for condominiums. I can't hunt there, because that land is "preserved" for future condominiums! In the end, it works just like a screen door on a submarine!

The vast majority of states are agricultural to some extent, including Washington. The difference is there is still wilderness in Washington while there is next to none in Missouri. Preservation and Hunting aren't mutually exclusive. Any environmentalist who isn't an idiot recognizes that things like deer hunts are neccasary for healthy environment considering we have killed off all the large predators. You shouldn't try and look at every issue in the US as "us vs them", we're all Americans and the only people who benefit from division among the common people are the ruling elites.

Missouri, the “Don’t Show Me because I have my own opinions” state. You’re not listening. We are at the edge of worldwide catastrophe. It’s like saying “there’s no climate change, it snows in the winter and right now it’s raining outside”. New science? I suppose the old science is what is preferred?

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It doesn't matter how much agricultural land we convert to plant-based if the human population continues to grow and we continue to consume non-food products at the rate we do now. No solution matters in that case.

Let's hope so, the idea of any afterlife (except reincarnation) seems unlikely to me. And I think sometimes religion can lead to more destruction of our planet because people think "God will handle it" or "what's the point when Jesus will rise again". That said I know of plenty of religious people who care about leaving the planet better than they found it. Kind of rambling but my point is I wish more people thought beyond themselves.

Its already happening

@@nedisahonkeyReligion kills

Not with out being reborn through faith in Jesus

​@@dthomas9230you're right. But faith saves.The Bible will always hold up. You, your mom, dad, kids, cars, house, money will NOT hold up. For all will pass away- one at a time and you will witness some of it. That's why there is NO promise of tomorrow today and today just might be the day your son, or brother or YOU perish which is WHY oh WHY you should seek the Lord, and be repentant and faithful in the finished work of and in and at the CROSS ✝️ and be BAPTIZED in His Holy spirit- that is the REBIRTH a life changing soul awakening event no money can buy and no government or religion can fly because only FAITH in God provides to FEW EVER- God is my Dad and Father and no man get to Father but by Jesus as He is the way that's the TRUTH and He is my LIFE. God bless you friend.

Yet you say nothing about the Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc. Just white people

Baby limit?

@@Andre_XX if you’re forty+ bye

@@DylannDayZero OK then. See you soon!

@@DylannDayZero Say goodbye to all the wisdom and knowledge that older people possess, and that younger people largely lack.

@@yearginclarke can’t teach old dogs new tricks.