Your Voice, and How to Use It (Day 6) 

Same - I don't understand who would subscribe to this channel and not want/expect to hear about climate change and what you can do about it. Perhaps people who are only interested in measuring the earth's radius with a bike and automated cactus watering machines?

@@PKMartin I have seen at least one well written reply explaining why people are leaving. Initially people were attracted to the technical content. Suddenly it's less technical and more preachy and people bailed. Technical people want technical solutions, not hanging out in trees.

Don't know if this changes things for you, but I'm from Ontario originally. The second twist is that I think living here has made me a better person.. so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Should i tell em what the rest of canada thinks of Québec?

@@slothsnook175 As someone from Quebec I'm 100% aware of the fact that the rest of Canada looks up to us as the model province. We're the best but it's okay because everyone agrees.

@@nawaln4088 Haha I too am 100% sure this is the case lol /s

@@ScopeofScience I guess I just had unjustified prejudices against BC lol

RU-vid has a climate change denial problem. I knew this would happen, and I went ahead anyway. I'm not losing sleep over it (that's the fault of the trains next to me)

@@ScopeofScience the world has one to be fair. It's great to see you use your platform for change though!

@@ScopeofScience I don't think anyone is leaving because of conflicting views on climate change.

I would have expected you to gain subscribers for this, Kurtis.

Is the YT climate denial problem coming from the climate denying people on YT or from the algorithm? Anyone know?

With hundreds of thousands of recorded COVID-19 deaths and rapidly counting, this isn't taking social distancing too far.

@@connor863 I know, is a joke

@@martiddy Thanks for mentioning that. I thought it might be but really wasn't sure. The pandemic is just really stressing me out.

@@martiddy I think I've seen your YT profile picture before. What's the story behind it?

@@connor863 Is from a youtuber called MaximilianMus, his profile pic became a meme after he upload a certain video.

I love the outro idea lol. And im wondering the same..

Thanks Sarah! Hope it sends some views and subscribers your way! Really loved your video - helped me find out what my powers are and how to use them ✊

Question, what due you mean by ideological white noise?

​@@tvk380mtg9 Hmm.... There's a lot to unpack with that phrase, I'll try to be brief with an analogy. Imagine there's an engineer and their job is to set up a properly working central heating system. The engineer could address the problem by considering a great many ideological or philosophical points. Who are they making this system for? How will it be used? What doing this job says about them as a person, etc etc. Whist these are all interesting questions they don't necessarily get the engineer any closer to actually solving the problem. As I hope you can recognize, a good engineer or scientist focuses on building a grounded understanding of reality and on things they can have an effect on. As far as combating climate change or designing a properly working central heating system goes, we should never loose sight of the scientific reality behind these thermal systems and the solutions available to us, the further we stray from science and into the philosophical weeds of 'what is just? what is moral?' the more we shroud the science with ideological white noise.

uh that's what he's doing. Did you watch the video or not?

@@fish9468 yeah, I'm literally quoting him, I mean props to him for doing what he is but he said he feels guilt for being born with privilege when other are not

If you have a run in with the cops in the United States you are more than twice as likely to be shot and killed if you're black instead of white. No idea where you're getting your data from, but it all points to police brutality being linked with systemic racism. www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

Adam Walczak We’re all guilty, but that was Yesteryou. Todayyou forgives you. From mistakes come lessons. Your better than yesteryou. 😁☮️❤️🙏🏻

@@vectorequilibrium4493 that's so nice of you

A difference from a distance. Magic! 😁☮️

While I'm all for people hanging out in trees, I don't get the point of these videos. They seem to do such a poor job at explaining wtf is going on.

@@difflocktwo I'm sorry? He explained it all quite clearly in the last videos of this series. It's really not that hard to understand.

@@ibecomhaire8724 Oh ok. If you say so it must be true.

reduce before you offset, but I'd join a tree planting session nearby and send money to the carbon offset company of your choice

If that's right, I'm so impressed by you. If you're looking to offset, what I'd suggest doing instead is donating what you can to a group such as the Rainforest Trust, to help protect forests from being logged.

@@ScopeofScience Im a vegetarian, use green electricity, dont buy much and rarely go anywhere (and if, I use public transit or my bike)

@@bjarnes.4423 What do you do with your income? What are your retirement plans? We can all sit idle and wither away but that's not what drives most people. People want big shiney toys.

@@difflocktwo I'm a student, i don't have much income

I'm not doing a great job at that

Ha! Well, at least you can stand up. Good luck!

I'm in a harness, and I'm always connected to that rope. Safety first!

I don't think that ads actually change how much the videos get promoted. I have 10million views on my channel, and nearly all of it has been unmonetized. RU-vid does not, however, promote climate content particularly well

@@ScopeofScience oh, okay that's interesting. I didn't know. Not many "big social media companies" are good at promoting climate change eh? Thank you for taking the time to reply! Truly love your work. I've been watching your videos silently for a while and your video on tracking everything you did was a game changer for me. Recently, I've decided to start engaging more with your content to give you the recognition you deserve and in hopes of boosting the algo. Hopefully, my tiny interactions can make a tiny difference.

I love you

Doing nothing IS perpetuating it.

Uuum, Not really sure what to type. While if you can't bypass the profit of the system, not sure what could be done? Especially if the system rely on that. But if not and you wanne do something about It, FOLLOW the money! And you will find the Solution to your goal.

I think what this video is trying to say is that it is important to recognize our privileges. (For example, settlers living in Canada have a lot of advantages over indigenous folks.) But, even Kurtis says in the video that guilt isn't the best way to handle this privilege . Instead of feeling guilt, we should each take action to use our privileges, powers, and advantages to make the world better for everyone.

Actually, all the land we a on is mostly stolen. Be it from Natives, be it from enclosure acts. We the only right we have to help it others and to let others help ourselves, all the rest is a story we tell ourselves to forget the past and the dust of corpses under our feet.

I don't think one should feel guilt over something they were born into. But you should be aware of your position compared to the rest of the world and the responsibility that comes with it.

Siro Stehrenberger The main issues with nuclear are cost and time. Nuclear power plants are very expensive to construct and often take around a decade before they become operational, so in a climate crisis where time is of the essence, it’s a lot easier (and cheaper) to rely on other options including solar and wind. Solar especially is becoming a lot cheaper and requires a lot less time to set up.

@@aerbonds2166 The cost and time thing is what got us in this mess in the first place, so it's quite short-sighted to dismiss nuclear based on these criteria. And there's simply no way to sustain daily power load with solar and wind alone.

Hebl von Heblowitz Don’t get me wrong, I like nuclear, and I think it will play an important role in decarbonizing electricity, but my comment on time is absolutely a valid concern. It can take decades for a nuclear power plant to get from proposal to operational, and during those decades we should be pursuing all other renewable options as well.

I think you'll have an easier time finding people who disagree since there's fewer of them.

In a way it kind of is though; in plenty of places around the world you can't speak your mind about things freely without being arrested and not living under such circumstance could most certainly be seen as a privilege.

Be able to think this way is a privilege. That mean you live in a region that the legislative and judiciary system is functioning properly.

@@nicoper Solid Point

@@nicoper Those places have lower carbon footprints. People live in absolute poverty, which seems to be the ultimate goal here.

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What's the alternative? Back to pre civilization?

@@difflocktwo advance to non fossil fuel industry maybe?

@@sebastianwiesendahl5348 Without industrialization?

@@difflocktwo this is not what I said and you know it. Obviously it won't work without industrialization. But it won't work with droughts, famin, floods, pandemics, riots and other nasty stuff accelerated by the climate crisis too. - We need to stall growth. - We need to solve the issue by its root cause (emissions). - Quick fixes won't lead us nowhere. - Geoengineering is a very bad idea. - Planting trees and growing algees alone cannot solve the issue. - Carbon capture and storage is far away. But deeply needed. - Biggest problems are cement, steel, quicklime, glas industries. - Cars don't belong into city centers, bikes and pedestrians do. - Flying and shipping, that we can't afford just for fun. - Going 100% non fossil fuels, like electric or green gas is a must. - Fossil fuels have to go (Coal, Gas, Petroleum and Peat). - Burning food for energy is a bad idea. - Don't pollute the environment we depent on (toxines, plastics). - Don't take more than is naturally renewing or can actually be engieered (water, wood, food). - Feeding the population with meet, like we do, is inefficent and morally questionable.

@@sebastianwiesendahl5348 I dunno about you but our local population has been declining for a while and soon our government is gonna be broke. We stalled a long time ago.

I'm sorry, but ads suck. They encourage people to buy stuff they don't need. It's destroying the planet.

@@ScopeofScience Do you think that the impact that advertisements would have on your channel, and their effect on your audience, would outweigh the good you could do with the money you would receive? Potentially an interesting analysis there. And forgive my original comment, I was being facetious... mostly.