Environmental Discussion - That Mitchell & Webb Sound

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  • Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025

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  • @morganstiefvater1693
    @morganstiefvater1693 8 лет назад +76

    This is bloody brilliant. It addresses a real world issue in such a way as to make both sides look rediculous while simultaneously making the audience think about it. It challenges one's perspective, and I love that.

    • @mankyscotchgit4986
      @mankyscotchgit4986 4 года назад +3

      @merrynightwanderer Did you not listen to the end?

    • @DrZaius3141
      @DrZaius3141 4 года назад +4

      @@mankyscotchgit4986 The end is someone giving up talking to an utter moron.

    • @FFKonoko
      @FFKonoko 4 года назад +3

      @@mankyscotchgit4986 did you?
      Cos simultaneously saying "let's not worry about our children's children" and "it's pointless to worry about saving the environment because in billions of years it's fucked anyway" is...far far stupider.
      And ignores that if we are alive for more of those billions of years, someone might actually get out of sun death range.

    • @plina178
      @plina178 3 года назад +12

      How is the environmental preservation side looking "ridiculous"? 😑

    • @pezn2077
      @pezn2077 3 года назад +4

      That’s numberwang!

  • @shaun056
    @shaun056 11 лет назад +19

    The moon seems ok... oh god that killed me.

    • @danielgalef994
      @danielgalef994 Год назад +3

      Not only that---it doesn't seem to have been fazed!

  • @DrChalkwithering
    @DrChalkwithering 13 лет назад +27

    But it's a valid question though. What's the biggest fridge that I can have in cubic meters and have there still be an environment? What's the optimum amount of stuff; where's the tipping point?

    • @raspar6
      @raspar6 4 года назад +2

      It's a valid question, and one that environmentalists are already asking. The current estimate is a 1-2% decrease in GDP to avert Climate Change. That's *such* a small sacrifice, and people are still unwilling to make even that. The point of this clip, in my eyes at least, is that most people like David's character aren't looking for serious answers. At least not where I'm from...

    • @LeofromFreo
      @LeofromFreo 3 года назад +1

      You could start by having less children. Last year, after you subtract deaths from births, there was a net gain of an additional 80,000,000 new people on planet Earth. It doesn’t matter how many plastic bottles we recycle. Too many people. 🌏

    • @fehzorz
      @fehzorz 3 года назад +1

      Power it with renewable energy and recycle the refrigerant and you're good to go

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 3 года назад +3

      @@LeofromFreo Lots of people already have 1-3 kids. How many less can you have? Hell younger generations are often fully without kids. You need _some_ kids to you know, continue the human race.

    • @globalincident694
      @globalincident694 2 года назад

      @@DeathnoteBB to be honest, does the human race need continuing? I mean obviously, I'm not advocating for genocide, but if people just stopped having kids of their own free will, would it matter?

  • @JudgeEomer
    @JudgeEomer 13 лет назад +4

    Genius!

  • @McRocket
    @McRocket 6 лет назад +10

    Great skit. But I especially love the part from 2:51 onwards.
    '...when the Sun goes mental'. Great line.

  • @trondsi
    @trondsi 7 лет назад +14

    No worries everyone! Calm down. There are no hummingbirds in Bangladesh.

    • @zelnidav
      @zelnidav 6 лет назад +10

      ...anymore

    • @Statsy10
      @Statsy10 2 года назад +2

      Goddamn, we’re too late!

  • @DrChalkwithering
    @DrChalkwithering 13 лет назад +2

    @jony1710 lol
    I must have been half asleep when I wrote that. Jeremy is Robert Webb's character in Peep Show.

  • @jiripodivin5409
    @jiripodivin5409 7 лет назад +28

    These are actual questions people are asking. Not directly, but it is what they want to know. How much do we have to give up so that we solve this shit? That's not unreasonable to ask.

    • @RabbiHerschel
      @RabbiHerschel 4 года назад +7

      Most pollution is caused by nonwhite and Third-World countries. That's the part that nobody wants to admit.

    • @ShandoO01
      @ShandoO01 4 года назад +8

      @@RabbiHerschel what? but even if that would be true it's not a question of who to blame but how to stop this. if the earth is fucked up what good does it do to say "yeah the non whites did this to us". if there is a hole in your boat your first question shouldn't be "who did this?" but "how do i not drown right now?". the video "who is responsible for climate change" from the channel "kurzgesagt" is really interesting regarding that topic

    • @miaconnor5767
      @miaconnor5767 4 года назад +11

      @@RabbiHerschel Gotta love some good old eco-fascism.

    • @RabbiHerschel
      @RabbiHerschel 4 года назад +6

      @@ShandoO01 If there's a guy actively drilling even more holes in your boat, you should push him overboard before you start patching up the existing holes.

    • @DrZaius3141
      @DrZaius3141 4 года назад +8

      @@RabbiHerschel That's just short-sighted and racist. First up, while "the third world" may produce a lot of pollution, they do so because of the "first world". It's your phone, your car, etc. Just because it's produced elsewhere doesn't mean you're innocent in it.
      Then there's the part about population. You know what controls population? Education and wealth. The wealthier and better educated you are, the fewer children you need and want. But as long as the global north keeps the global south poor and ill-educated so they can more easily exploit those countries, that won't change.

  • @jony1710
    @jony1710 13 лет назад +2

    @DrChalkwithering David Mitchel and Robert Webb are the actors. Who's Jeremy?

  • @Pagliacci_Rex
    @Pagliacci_Rex 6 месяцев назад

    Cars and indistry are the biggest polluters.

  • @salwaaj1356
    @salwaaj1356 Год назад +1

    Wow

  • @sesanner
    @sesanner 13 лет назад +14

    The sad, but real truth in 3:16. Thanks, Mitchell and Webb, men of our times. If only politicians were as brave, eh?

  • @handsomebrick
    @handsomebrick 13 лет назад +9

    A bit close to the bone, if this had no laugh track I might be listening intently and nodding my head.

  • @rerun374
    @rerun374 5 лет назад +12

    The earth is not at peril. Humans are. The earth has seen worse than the likes of us. Astroids for starters.

    • @itsgabony
      @itsgabony 4 года назад +2

      True but i am of the opinion that we are the most important thing on the Earth by quite a long way.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 3 года назад +2

      @@itsgabony HA. Like not to sound like a misanthrope but the earth doesn’t need humans. It spent millions of years without us, and hell it was probably better off before us

  • @annetteholman2999
    @annetteholman2999 3 года назад +1

    I've heard people who think like this.

  • @gradgurl2007
    @gradgurl2007 13 лет назад +3

    Ha ha ha.

  • @RadioactiveSand
    @RadioactiveSand 9 лет назад +26

    This actually shows the view of many ignorant people. Many.

  • @Amanda-cd6dm
    @Amanda-cd6dm 2 года назад +2

    I am pretty sure those Particle Accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider are a BIG cause of climate change and environmental problems considering the amount of electricity consumed yearly. (How do you like that Mrs. Underwood, 2nd grade, for a runon sentence)

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund Год назад +2

      No. You are actually wrong, no matter how sure you are.

  • @EnergyKnife
    @EnergyKnife 7 лет назад +4

    Huh, so that's where Gary Johnson got it.

  • @DrChalkwithering
    @DrChalkwithering 13 лет назад +13

    This is very clever, because both opposing views in this piece seem equally ridiculous. Maybe we all do have too much stuff and can do with a bit less stuff, but at the same time Jeremy's character's points are all vague nebulous non-specific platitudes with no real practical advice or hard numbers involved. A bit like real environmentalists.

  • @CJusticeHappen21
    @CJusticeHappen21 7 лет назад +8

    I'm 26, so I figure that the world just needs to stick around for another 50-55 years. After that, why bother?

    • @zarabada6125
      @zarabada6125 6 лет назад

      Congratulations on your 83rd birthday.

    • @mtsr555
      @mtsr555 5 лет назад

      You're a horrible person.

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 3 года назад +2

      I’m almost 26, so add another 4
      Hell when we get to kids we might have to keep adding years!

    • @ianbarnes961
      @ianbarnes961 11 месяцев назад

      I'm 64 and a half, so can I keep my stuff? Can i get more??