I give thanks for the AR community and their support to help Dr. Emily continue to ring the bell, and call out from the watchtower. She is bringing hope. AR is bringing hope. I am so grateful. Keeping Dr. Emily, her family and the work of AR in prayer.
I love you Emily, not just the work you do, but you, yourself. "This is a life problem." Amen. "This is the time to go small." Amen. The people in our communities are overwhelmed with the demands of work, family, and social expectations. They don't have time to confront the big picture. We need thousands, hundreds of thousands, of boots on the ground, people who know the people in their community, and can help them make sense of what's happening. You're a big help. Thank you. And have a happy New Year.
@robinschaufler444 it's absolutely got to come from the ground, and I think more and more people are feeling it. We know direction is not going to come from the top, so it's got to come from the ground. Thank you- wishing you a happy New Year, too!
💙 that is the sweetest compliment, I really love how you expressed your appreciation for our gift. I discovered American resilience only a week or two ago!!!!!!!
Thank you Emily! So grateful to have found you and this community in 2024. I've been looking for you for a long time! Loved my one on one meeting with you on ideas for where I'm headed. Appreciate your support and all you've done and are doing with AR.
@erinmunoz3183 it was so cool to meet you- I like the way you think. I've got a note in my system to get in touch with you as we pull together water & soil quality visualizations. I hope we'll have that project ready by late spring!
@@AmericanResiliency Thank you! I will be in touch for sure as I am narrowing down where I'm looking. Always interested in your thoughts , your amazing data brain and your super intuitive human survival instincts! You are a national treasure. Sending good wishes and healing vibes to your husband, you and your family. Much gratitude.
@@erinmunoz3183 in seriousness, thank you for this kindness. In less seriousness, I really hope this means that when things get super weird, Nic Cage is going to show up.
Emily, this is one of the most inspiring videos I’ve seen in ages. Not just the science data but the message about what one person can do to build community and the power of small contributions having big impacts. Thank you!
@penpencilbrush you are so welcome- and thank you for sharing this, because I always feel shy about telling these kinds of stories, so it means a lot to me to hear it has a good impact.
@Happyherm2468 my family is definitely feeling you & Dave's love and support this holiday season. You guys keep me posted on your journey, let me know whenever you want any location info!
@devawnbledsoe462 thank you! My husband is making great progress, his whole team is very hopeful for him. Wishing you health & happiness in the year to come!
Hi Emily I am so happy for the success of AR going into the future! You are like a beacon of light for us interested in the earth's climate and future! I, too, am grateful that the rate of change is slowing down. The climate changes happening can be scary because they almost seem to be unpredictable? Thank you for your expertise and willingness to speak out, Maryam(PNW)
@smithsmith9510 Maryam, thank you, and you make an interesting point to explore- everything has been more unpredictable, but not random. We didn't expect to be around 1.5C now, but the 1.5C predictions have been quite accurate on the ground. With the hurricane season- meteorologists were able to predict where the hurricanes would go, but they found the level of rapid intensification unpredictable. I think it's worth learning what we can from modeling & from earth systems info, because even though things are going to happen that take us by surprise, our understanding is still helping to guide us in important ways.
Thanks for sharing your experience and frank assessment on risks to humans in space. Keep up the good work! FYI, I am a retired Landscape architect reworking plans for my family gardens to include drought tolerant trees and space for growing vegetables.
@WESTYWALKR love your username/icon- great dogs, love their personalities. And what a cool use of your skills. Important skillset as we look to the future. I hope your trees take well!
Emily, thank you for the work you are doing. I went to school for computer science which was disrupted by the pandemic, and I've been lost in my career (and life events) watching things get worse. The industry I had thought is actively making many of the problems related to resiliency worse, ecologically and societally. I find myself without a clear path in my career towards climate goals, but I really appreciate your message about working within our own lives and environment for life around us. Thank you for your continued presence to help remind me to keep working to build resiliency.
@codedGiraffe I feel a particular angry empathy for young people in your position. Paying for college in the pandemic has to have felt- and continue to feel!- like the most outrageous screw-over. Just in case it helps, this job board has positions at all levels and jobs come up in all kinds of skill sets: adaptationprofessionals.org/jobs-opportunities/ I know people working in jobs like these from all kinds of educational backgrounds- from as far out of field as egyptology. Skills + climate interest is often more important than having a climate degree.
@@AmericanResiliency I have to admit, I do feel quite a bit of anger at academia and the tech industry for how things have devolved in the past 5+ years. Thanks for the job board I'll keep it bookmarked :). I also appreciate the advice. I've been having trouble finding an inroad for myself that doesn't require some serious reeducation (like specific software protocols used in the renewables generation space) after already spending quite a bit for the little I got. It's nice to know that there are others from further out of scope than me. Thanks again for all you produce here. There is a real hole in sober, scientifically grounded analysis for the climate pathways ahead for the public and clearly no institution with the money for it (and the resolve to not care about causing appropriate alarm or alienating donors) has stepped up like you have. You have my respect and admiration for putting your life into this in the face of a hostile economy and the backdrop of the rapidly deteriorating biosphere. I'll hop on the discord server and see where I can fit :)
I love your theme of doing big things with small resources. All movements start somewhere, and a compelling vision can be contagious. I however see your work as preserving what is possible with regard to biodiversity and skill sets, so that once whatever collapse happens, those who remain can not only make it through the bottleneck, but have a foundation for helping earth recover and helping the remaining people relate to earth as the sacred being she is. I don't see this work as solving the overshoot problem. Overshoot is a predicament, and we're deep in it. The difference between humans and reindeer can perhaps be the aforementioned ability to preserve needed biodiversity and skill sets. From that perspective, this diverse and capable community you are assembling could indeed make a huge difference planet-wide.
@jaycoldwell there are interesting ideas to unpack here. I do think it's important to identify and understand overshoot. Do I think our global society will make the changes it needs to make at this stage in the game? Unlikely. What I do think is that harm reduction in our own lives matters now- that it matters in our relationship with the earth. I see biodiversity preservation (and skillset preservation) as a family of positive actions to be taken- ways to help. But that one should also consider ways to avoid harm. All of us are living in this system that is an overshoot system. Finding ways to get closer to the edge than the center of that overshoot system strikes me as important to resilience. If we consider a collapse context, I think there is also objective importance there. Most lifestyles I can imagine that are lower overshoot would be less joltingly and overwhelmingly impacted by collapse. "Less", in that sentence, is of course being graded on a curve. Does that make sense? I feel like these concepts are deeply intertwined- like a yin and yang relationship. Maybe I should explicate these ideas more clearly. I think there are many of us who would like to pull at them and work to understand them.
@@AmericanResiliency I agree with you. A growing core group of people who model resilient, low energy consumption and regenerative living will be helpful, and ultimately may go "viral". A population that at present is very upset about the price of eggs is not resilient. Eventually, more and more people will see that adapting to low resource consumption leads to a much happier life than trying to continue a 20th century lifestyle. I once heard a Biden administration official say that moving to EVs and other electrification will allow us to continue our current lifestyle with no other changes, or something close to that. People are starting to realize that electrification comes with its own set of destructive infrastructure that is better, but not good enough. What has to change is the way we live. We won't do that willingly or in time to avoid disaster, but modeling future behavior will help survival through the bottleneck.
Happy to see this thread in the comments and if I may interject here, in case it’s helpful for any followers of this channel, because it was so life-changingly helpful for me: an intro to deeper exploration of these topics, three short videos by Rev Michael Dowd, “overshoot in a nutshell” “collapse in a nutshell” and “sustainability 101: indigenuity is not optional” The Rev was utterly drunk in love with 🌎 but also a nerd’s nerd.
This was very inspiring. Thank you. This video came at a good time for me-I have recently been considering a career change and trying to get involved with building/retrofitting homes with hemplime/hempcrete, as hemp is such an amazing material, fire resistant, mold resistant, highly insulative, etc, as well as being such an awesome carbon sink. This video convinced me that the little voice in my head was right, and I CAN help save the world. You may already be aware, but in case you aren't. The 13th International Hemp Building Symposium is being held next October 3-5, 2025, in the US for the first time, at the Lower Sioux Indian Community/Mdewakanton Tribal Reservation, near Morton, Minnesota. My wife and I are considering making the trip up from southwest Missouri to attend. Hopefully, I will be able to make some local connections in the hemp building world before then, to learn how to work with that material. Anyways, I figured I'd mention that here, as I know you aren't more than a few hours or so away in Iowa, in case you are interested in attending as well. Thank you SO much for all the great work you have done, and continue to do. I hope your husband heals soon.
@samuelkoebbe5638 I was so moved to read your comment! I am wishing you luck in your venture! I only learned about those materials earlier this year and I think they show so much promise. Especially as we consider the need for more domestic production of materials, this is a great time to push forward on hemp-based building materials. I didn't know about that symposium. Nice location. I'd definitely be interested & I'm going to share the info with my architect friend who's recently been experimenting with hempcrete. Could be a great opportunity to get her to check out Minnesota.
@AmericanResiliency Thank you so much! I agree. People are slowly starting to take it more seriously. As a sign of that, it was just added to the IBC this year as well. Also, the Lower Sioux actually just opened up their very own hemp processing facility/manufacturing facility for hempcrete in September of this year. They also grow some hemp on their land, making them the first vertically integrated hemp producers/processors in the US, which I think is awesome. Patagonia did a short documentary about them (here on RUclips) called "Green Buffalo." I just watched it last night, and it was very moving and inspiring. Highly recommend. Great! I hope your friend is interested as well. Who knows, might see y'all there!
Thank you dear Emily for your strength, clarity and devotion to life. I know in my heart and bones you are a truthteller who inspires many of us to reconnect with what matters most: All life on Earth. Thank you! 🙇♀🌎💚
How can I help you? Also, I will be supporting my local chapter of Surfrider Foundation, cleaning up the beaches where I live, to help the "lungs of the earth". Thank you again for this informative yet inspirational video.
@TwistedLi401 I appreciate your offer of help. I feel like I almost know what to ask, but I feel a need to do some deep thinking first. My intention is to put out some action calls in a couple of weeks. Taking care of beaches helps so many living things. Thank you for your work on the ground!
Wow, I always thought Elon Musk's Mars ambitions were dumb, and conflicting with the goal of Tesla, even though I acknowledge, Tesla has actually helped move transportation forward in a big way. But Emily, you really should take a shot at pointing out the stupidity of the Mars colony idea. As a serious credentials expert you have the best shot. BTW thanks for that. Deep background as to why human space travel is currently a bad idea unless we have some kind of breakthrough, besides being unethical until we fix the climate problem.
@glike2 I really appreciate you pulling out this point. And it's true what you say that Tesla has moved transportation forward- the charging network in particular- though I do wish we were more focused on a rail & cable car system. Although they come away from it with a "push the envelope" type message, Kurzgesagt's Mars colony video does a nice review of many known serious problems. That channel has a lot of great science content. There are so many reasons that a Mars colony is biologically unlikely to work. I'll think about making more content related to this idea... like, the gigantic problem we're facing here on earth is hard and scary and it's tempting to look away from it. But when we actually confront the full reality of the Mars situation.... that does not appear to be an easier problem.
@@AmericanResiliency The more I opine Musk and space... My gut is telling me it's a noisy distraction conversation to what's happening on planet earth - the oligarchs power grabs and hoarding resources.
I’m wondering how your winter is going compared to what your used to? Here in upstate New York I feel like we actually have winter back again. There is a warmup coming th nest few days but we’ve been very very cold compared to other years. Probably the coldest start to winter since at least 2020
@KRD2001 Keith, nice to hear from you- I hope you had a good growing season! We are getting a good amount of cold days this winter- best and earliest cold in some years, for sure. The killing frost was a month late, but then transitioned quickly to a surprisingly steady true cold. If it continues this way, I think it will be very good for the trees. We are also warming up for a couple of days now, but very likely to get the water we need. Glad to hear it is a good cold start in upstate NY!
@rapauli I like your analogy. The other thing about geoengineering is that I have not heard those conversations address even known tipping points and how those might interact with these "solutions".
@@AmericanResiliency Maybe I missed you mentioning it in another video but are you concerned about aluminum aerosols because of ozone depletion? That is my understanding of stratospheric and upper atmosphere Al dispersion. I could see reigniting the catastrophic ozone scenarios from pre-montreal protocol CFC use if that were true.
@@codedGiraffe what you describe is just one of the many legit reasons to be concerned about aluminum aerosols. My primary concern relates to neurotoxicity. It's pretty well established in the literature that aluminum seems to be a dose-dependent neurotoxin, to be related to neurodegenerative disease. We're not the only organisms with nervous systems, and other organisms can be more sensitive than we are. These potential biological impacts seem to be not even considered by many of the people making arguments for this type of technology.
I came to lose my dream of humans colonizing space through learning about relativity as a physics major. But it sounds like biology gets to the same conclusion.
@emilylyons2683 I like that you brought this up. There are so many lines, across many scientific disciplines, that do point in the same direction on this one. Kind of a bummer, really. Changed my thinking, but I was sad to lose that dream.
I give thanks for the AR community and their support to help Dr. Emily continue to ring the bell, and call out from the watchtower. She is bringing hope. AR is bringing hope. I am so grateful. Keeping Dr. Emily, her family and the work of AR in prayer.
@purpledreams8017 thank you- hope you all are feeling better, and chag sameach!
I love you Emily, not just the work you do, but you, yourself. "This is a life problem." Amen. "This is the time to go small." Amen. The people in our communities are overwhelmed with the demands of work, family, and social expectations. They don't have time to confront the big picture. We need thousands, hundreds of thousands, of boots on the ground, people who know the people in their community, and can help them make sense of what's happening. You're a big help. Thank you. And have a happy New Year.
@robinschaufler444 it's absolutely got to come from the ground, and I think more and more people are feeling it. We know direction is not going to come from the top, so it's got to come from the ground.
Thank you- wishing you a happy New Year, too!
@12:20 Wait, you have RECEIVED a meaningful gift? I thought you ARE the gift. To me at least you are. Thank you so much
@lisizecha9759 you are so kind
💙 that is the sweetest compliment, I really love how you expressed your appreciation for our gift. I discovered American resilience only a week or two ago!!!!!!!
Thank you Emily! So grateful to have found you and this community in 2024. I've been looking for you for a long time! Loved my one on one meeting with you on ideas for where I'm headed. Appreciate your support and all you've done and are doing with AR.
@erinmunoz3183 it was so cool to meet you- I like the way you think. I've got a note in my system to get in touch with you as we pull together water & soil quality visualizations. I hope we'll have that project ready by late spring!
@@AmericanResiliency Thank you! I will be in touch for sure as I am narrowing down where I'm looking. Always interested in your thoughts , your amazing data brain and your super intuitive human survival instincts! You are a national treasure. Sending good wishes and healing vibes to your husband, you and your family. Much gratitude.
@@erinmunoz3183 in seriousness, thank you for this kindness. In less seriousness, I really hope this means that when things get super weird, Nic Cage is going to show up.
Emily, this is one of the most inspiring videos I’ve seen in ages. Not just the science data but the message about what one person can do to build community and the power of small contributions having big impacts. Thank you!
@penpencilbrush you are so welcome- and thank you for sharing this, because I always feel shy about telling these kinds of stories, so it means a lot to me to hear it has a good impact.
Dave and I are so happy you are feeling the love and support of the AR community. The community has your back!!
@Happyherm2468 my family is definitely feeling you & Dave's love and support this holiday season. You guys keep me posted on your journey, let me know whenever you want any location info!
@@AmericanResiliency❤❤❤
So thrilled to hear you have the support you need! Wishing your husband's return to good health comes soon. Merry, Happy Days to come. ❤
@devawnbledsoe462 thank you! My husband is making great progress, his whole team is very hopeful for him. Wishing you health & happiness in the year to come!
Hi Emily
I am so happy for the success of AR going into the future! You are like a beacon of light for us interested in the earth's climate and future! I, too, am grateful that the rate of change is slowing down. The climate changes happening can be scary because they almost seem to be unpredictable?
Thank you for your expertise and willingness to speak out,
Maryam(PNW)
@smithsmith9510 Maryam, thank you, and you make an interesting point to explore- everything has been more unpredictable, but not random. We didn't expect to be around 1.5C now, but the 1.5C predictions have been quite accurate on the ground. With the hurricane season- meteorologists were able to predict where the hurricanes would go, but they found the level of rapid intensification unpredictable.
I think it's worth learning what we can from modeling & from earth systems info, because even though things are going to happen that take us by surprise, our understanding is still helping to guide us in important ways.
Thanks for sharing your experience and frank assessment on risks to humans in space. Keep up the good work!
FYI, I am a retired Landscape architect reworking plans for my family gardens to include drought tolerant trees and space for growing vegetables.
@WESTYWALKR love your username/icon- great dogs, love their personalities. And what a cool use of your skills. Important skillset as we look to the future. I hope your trees take well!
Emily, thank you for the work you are doing. I went to school for computer science which was disrupted by the pandemic, and I've been lost in my career (and life events) watching things get worse. The industry I had thought is actively making many of the problems related to resiliency worse, ecologically and societally. I find myself without a clear path in my career towards climate goals, but I really appreciate your message about working within our own lives and environment for life around us. Thank you for your continued presence to help remind me to keep working to build resiliency.
@codedGiraffe I feel a particular angry empathy for young people in your position. Paying for college in the pandemic has to have felt- and continue to feel!- like the most outrageous screw-over.
Just in case it helps, this job board has positions at all levels and jobs come up in all kinds of skill sets:
adaptationprofessionals.org/jobs-opportunities/
I know people working in jobs like these from all kinds of educational backgrounds- from as far out of field as egyptology. Skills + climate interest is often more important than having a climate degree.
@@AmericanResiliency I have to admit, I do feel quite a bit of anger at academia and the tech industry for how things have devolved in the past 5+ years. Thanks for the job board I'll keep it bookmarked :). I also appreciate the advice. I've been having trouble finding an inroad for myself that doesn't require some serious reeducation (like specific software protocols used in the renewables generation space) after already spending quite a bit for the little I got. It's nice to know that there are others from further out of scope than me.
Thanks again for all you produce here. There is a real hole in sober, scientifically grounded analysis for the climate pathways ahead for the public and clearly no institution with the money for it (and the resolve to not care about causing appropriate alarm or alienating donors) has stepped up like you have. You have my respect and admiration for putting your life into this in the face of a hostile economy and the backdrop of the rapidly deteriorating biosphere. I'll hop on the discord server and see where I can fit :)
I love your theme of doing big things with small resources. All movements start somewhere, and a compelling vision can be contagious.
I however see your work as preserving what is possible with regard to biodiversity and skill sets, so that once whatever collapse happens, those who remain can not only make it through the bottleneck, but have a foundation for helping earth recover and helping the remaining people relate to earth as the sacred being she is. I don't see this work as solving the overshoot problem. Overshoot is a predicament, and we're deep in it. The difference between humans and reindeer can perhaps be the aforementioned ability to preserve needed biodiversity and skill sets. From that perspective, this diverse and capable community you are assembling could indeed make a huge difference planet-wide.
@jaycoldwell there are interesting ideas to unpack here. I do think it's important to identify and understand overshoot. Do I think our global society will make the changes it needs to make at this stage in the game? Unlikely. What I do think is that harm reduction in our own lives matters now- that it matters in our relationship with the earth.
I see biodiversity preservation (and skillset preservation) as a family of positive actions to be taken- ways to help. But that one should also consider ways to avoid harm. All of us are living in this system that is an overshoot system. Finding ways to get closer to the edge than the center of that overshoot system strikes me as important to resilience. If we consider a collapse context, I think there is also objective importance there. Most lifestyles I can imagine that are lower overshoot would be less joltingly and overwhelmingly impacted by collapse. "Less", in that sentence, is of course being graded on a curve.
Does that make sense? I feel like these concepts are deeply intertwined- like a yin and yang relationship. Maybe I should explicate these ideas more clearly. I think there are many of us who would like to pull at them and work to understand them.
@@AmericanResiliency I agree with you. A growing core group of people who model resilient, low energy consumption and regenerative living will be helpful, and ultimately may go "viral". A population that at present is very upset about the price of eggs is not resilient. Eventually, more and more people will see that adapting to low resource consumption leads to a much happier life than trying to continue a 20th century lifestyle.
I once heard a Biden administration official say that moving to EVs and other electrification will allow us to continue our current lifestyle with no other changes, or something close to that. People are starting to realize that electrification comes with its own set of destructive infrastructure that is better, but not good enough. What has to change is the way we live. We won't do that willingly or in time to avoid disaster, but modeling future behavior will help survival through the bottleneck.
Happy to see this thread in the comments and if I may interject here, in case it’s helpful for any followers of this channel, because it was so life-changingly helpful for me: an intro to deeper exploration of these topics, three short videos by Rev Michael Dowd, “overshoot in a nutshell” “collapse in a nutshell” and “sustainability 101: indigenuity is not optional”
The Rev was utterly drunk in love with 🌎 but also a nerd’s nerd.
@@jaycoldwell "What has to change is the way we live" That's a center to our challenge, right there indeed
This was very inspiring. Thank you. This video came at a good time for me-I have recently been considering a career change and trying to get involved with building/retrofitting homes with hemplime/hempcrete, as hemp is such an amazing material, fire resistant, mold resistant, highly insulative, etc, as well as being such an awesome carbon sink. This video convinced me that the little voice in my head was right, and I CAN help save the world.
You may already be aware, but in case you aren't. The 13th International Hemp Building Symposium is being held next October 3-5, 2025, in the US for the first time, at the Lower Sioux Indian Community/Mdewakanton Tribal Reservation, near Morton, Minnesota. My wife and I are considering making the trip up from southwest Missouri to attend. Hopefully, I will be able to make some local connections in the hemp building world before then, to learn how to work with that material. Anyways, I figured I'd mention that here, as I know you aren't more than a few hours or so away in Iowa, in case you are interested in attending as well. Thank you SO much for all the great work you have done, and continue to do. I hope your husband heals soon.
@samuelkoebbe5638 I was so moved to read your comment! I am wishing you luck in your venture!
I only learned about those materials earlier this year and I think they show so much promise. Especially as we consider the need for more domestic production of materials, this is a great time to push forward on hemp-based building materials. I didn't know about that symposium. Nice location. I'd definitely be interested & I'm going to share the info with my architect friend who's recently been experimenting with hempcrete. Could be a great opportunity to get her to check out Minnesota.
@AmericanResiliency Thank you so much!
I agree. People are slowly starting to take it more seriously. As a sign of that, it was just added to the IBC this year as well. Also, the Lower Sioux actually just opened up their very own hemp processing facility/manufacturing facility for hempcrete in September of this year. They also grow some hemp on their land, making them the first vertically integrated hemp producers/processors in the US, which I think is awesome. Patagonia did a short documentary about them (here on RUclips) called "Green Buffalo." I just watched it last night, and it was very moving and inspiring. Highly recommend.
Great! I hope your friend is interested as well. Who knows, might see y'all there!
@@samuelkoebbe5638 I'll check that out- and thank you for the info. Fingers crossed, see you at the symposium!
Just so really meaningful & fantastic video! I'm so with you! Happy new year.🎉
@EnvironmentalCoffehouse Sandy, thank you so much! Wishing you every good thing in the new year
Wow what heartfelt message. With you 100%!
Thank you ! Very informative .
I get chills of goodness when I listen to your heart speak. Bless you and all of your supporters ❤
@kimberlyhutchenson422 thank you! Wishing you good things in the year to come!
Thank you dear Emily for your strength, clarity and devotion to life. I know in my heart and bones you are a truthteller who inspires many of us to reconnect with what matters most: All life on Earth. Thank you! 🙇♀🌎💚
@kathleenmartsch22 thank you! I'm very grateful to be able to do this work. I believe it matters what we can save.
How can I help you?
Also, I will be supporting my local chapter of Surfrider Foundation, cleaning up the beaches where I live, to help the "lungs of the earth".
Thank you again for this informative yet inspirational video.
@TwistedLi401 I appreciate your offer of help. I feel like I almost know what to ask, but I feel a need to do some deep thinking first. My intention is to put out some action calls in a couple of weeks.
Taking care of beaches helps so many living things. Thank you for your work on the ground!
Thanks so much Emily! Very grateful to have found AR and your work this year! Happy Holidays
@klccmd thank you, and happy holidays to you!
Thank you Dr. Emily 🫶🏼
That was great, Emily
I hope your husband makes a swift and complete recovery.
@mike-me7om thank you.
Thanks!
@panthermoon6984 thank you so much!
thank you Dr Emily!
@panthermoon6984 you're welcome!
✊ right on Emily
@garrygballard8914 been thinking about you, Garry! I deeply hope this will be the year of the land for you!!
Wow, I always thought Elon Musk's Mars ambitions were dumb, and conflicting with the goal of Tesla, even though I acknowledge, Tesla has actually helped move transportation forward in a big way. But Emily, you really should take a shot at pointing out the stupidity of the Mars colony idea. As a serious credentials expert you have the best shot.
BTW thanks for that. Deep background as to why human space travel is currently a bad idea unless we have some kind of breakthrough, besides being unethical until we fix the climate problem.
@glike2 I really appreciate you pulling out this point. And it's true what you say that Tesla has moved transportation forward- the charging network in particular- though I do wish we were more focused on a rail & cable car system.
Although they come away from it with a "push the envelope" type message, Kurzgesagt's Mars colony video does a nice review of many known serious problems. That channel has a lot of great science content.
There are so many reasons that a Mars colony is biologically unlikely to work. I'll think about making more content related to this idea... like, the gigantic problem we're facing here on earth is hard and scary and it's tempting to look away from it. But when we actually confront the full reality of the Mars situation.... that does not appear to be an easier problem.
@@AmericanResiliency The more I opine Musk and space... My gut is telling me it's a noisy distraction conversation to what's happening on planet earth - the oligarchs power grabs and hoarding resources.
I’m wondering how your winter is going compared to what your used to? Here in upstate New York I feel like we actually have winter back again. There is a warmup coming th nest few days but we’ve been very very cold compared to other years. Probably the coldest start to winter since at least 2020
@KRD2001 Keith, nice to hear from you- I hope you had a good growing season!
We are getting a good amount of cold days this winter- best and earliest cold in some years, for sure. The killing frost was a month late, but then transitioned quickly to a surprisingly steady true cold. If it continues this way, I think it will be very good for the trees. We are also warming up for a couple of days now, but very likely to get the water we need. Glad to hear it is a good cold start in upstate NY!
😊❤🎉
Geoentgineering is like allowing smoking in an elevator. Some may like it for a little while, but eventually it.., cough, cough.... gasp
@rapauli I like your analogy. The other thing about geoengineering is that I have not heard those conversations address even known tipping points and how those might interact with these "solutions".
@@AmericanResiliency Maybe I missed you mentioning it in another video but are you concerned about aluminum aerosols because of ozone depletion? That is my understanding of stratospheric and upper atmosphere Al dispersion. I could see reigniting the catastrophic ozone scenarios from pre-montreal protocol CFC use if that were true.
@@codedGiraffe what you describe is just one of the many legit reasons to be concerned about aluminum aerosols. My primary concern relates to neurotoxicity. It's pretty well established in the literature that aluminum seems to be a dose-dependent neurotoxin, to be related to neurodegenerative disease. We're not the only organisms with nervous systems, and other organisms can be more sensitive than we are. These potential biological impacts seem to be not even considered by many of the people making arguments for this type of technology.
I came to lose my dream of humans colonizing space through learning about relativity as a physics major. But it sounds like biology gets to the same conclusion.
@emilylyons2683 I like that you brought this up. There are so many lines, across many scientific disciplines, that do point in the same direction on this one. Kind of a bummer, really. Changed my thinking, but I was sad to lose that dream.