Going green shouldn't be this hard
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2017
- Going green does not need to be a sacrifice, either for us as individuals or for businesses, governments and the economy.
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"i dont wanna tell everone how to live their lives, but i wanna show there are options" -lauren, a true activist
I came here to say the same thing! She isn't trying to push her agenda on anyone, but simply educate the public and that is beautiful.
@Salmon Man I sometimes feel like there is so many people offended by the sheer existence of vegans and it sometimes seems to me that more people proclaim that they eat meat rather than saying they are vegan. That might be my surroundings, but I still find it funny that the stereotype sticks. And that people try to bring up veganism at any given point, just to make a point that isn't even necessarily grounded in reality.
everone one mistake grammar
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7:56 - when she says it
"As long as it's free to pollute, nobody is going to stop doing it."
Soji SideQuest lmao
but right wing idiots need their freedom to be idiots
Soji SideQuest we have a law where I live that you are only aloud i bag a garbage a week. If you have more then that your get fined
Soji SideQuest no one*
Soji SideQuest history shows otherwise. some of the biggest enviro friendly folks were the most industrious. hate of waste fuels environmentalism.
The only issue with charging companies for the waste they generate is that they will shift their production somewhere else. USA puts taxes on CO2 emitted, shift production to Bangladesh. Such laws, somehow, need to be implemented around the globe.
This is a really great point! It should be more global and i mean the entire fight against climate change requires everyone!
@@andreakaterina6487 that wouldn't work in developing countries.
Jatin Rustagi what wouldn’t?
So... Get the UN involved.
@@brandielee7971 the UN isn't really a governing body. It merely... suggests. Have you noticed its list of sustainable goals? They are goals, not laws. In order for it to be taken seriously by all, every nation needs to sign a treaty saying they will take so-and-so steps. Even then, UN doesn't really have means to enforce these agreements. For example, if Trump goes through the entire process of withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, there is no way anyone can stop him from doing so.
I used to work in a lunch room where they would give people a €0,50 discount when people would bring their own cup for their take away coffee. I thought that was a really smart initiative
Most coffee shops I've seen who accept reusable cups do something similar. Fast-food style ones like Dunkin don't accept cups except for basic coffee/tea. Depending on the drink, the cup costs more than the beverage does for the seller. For example, a fountain soda cup often costs more than the soda inside it. If the seller just discounted the cost of the cup, that's still decent savings for both the seller and the buyer. Less waste and more money for both.
That is such a cool idea
Over here in the states, a place like Starbucks will give you a discount, but it's pathetically small at $0.10. It's really not that much of an incentive when the drinks cost $5+
i think other coffee businesses do that now too, you buy a reuseable cup from them and you get money off each cup. But what are those cups made out of? PLASTIC!
Wtf there's no bag fee in the US? In France they charge you 70c for a plastic bag, I almost never get one
Sorcha Leary in California there is a 10 cent surcharge for bags
In Britain its 5p for plastic bags and 10p for reusable plastic bags.
wouldn't charging for plastic bags be just "more capitalism"? It allows companies to see a slight increase in their profits while reducing emissions at the same time. As a free-market supporter this makes sense on so many levels, its a win-win.
dev02ify While true in certain cases free market as far as I understand is more toward large companies not having a buttload of power. Sorta promoting small businesses? But yeah the less regulation in there is certainly part of it. However in some circumstances less regulation is good, like say if the regulation has become outdated and no longer useful, or if its putting a stranglehold on the business. Less regulation is not no regulation after all, companies shouldn't be able to do as they please because at the end of the day they aren't human, they're a large system designed to turn a profit, no matter what. Loosening regulations a bit is something that's good or bad depending on the circumstances, and really that's what it all comes down to, circumstance dictates a lot more than you'd think it would in business. Anyway I've said my piece, feel free to correct any factual errors, please do show me your reasoning though, "your wrong" never really helps all that much. Have a good day, god knows you wasted a few minutes reading this mini essay in the RUclips comments. Well, hopefully not wasted, but you know what I mean.
I know, but the companies could actively do it as a way to increase profits without needing gov't intervention. What I was trying to say was it is rather strange that these companies dont do this already, it only holds benefits.
In Denmark you get money for returning bottles and is why 90% of bottles are recycled.
Cans: 15 cents
0.5L bottles: 22 cents
1L and up: 52 cents
Same in Sweden
same in Germany but we get 25ct for every bottle/can no matter what size they are
Same in the Netherlands
I know it's amazing!
Very simpel and effective and it doesn't even cost the population money.
Me, 3 years ago: Wow! The future looks bright! I can't wait for the future...
Me, now: *coughing*
Hey, at least there’s a vaccine
@@jeremyschapstick vaccine from covid, not vaccine from coughing/Co2
Unless Your in California with the fires then coifing is your own problem
PastelBuni A vaccine that most people (including me) don't trust
@@Quick-ug2wl I agree!
Ok one other problem I have with this video is that in this society, it is a LUXURY to live zero waste. A low income family with 4-5 kids can not afford to be low waste even if they wanted to. I myself have been living low waste at least in parts of my routine, but with my student bucks I can’t afford to live it all the way through. That is something that needs to change as well. The accessibility
Yeah that's why the video said the responsibility should be on the producers not the consumers.
Agreed. I have disabilities so I often need to buy prepackaged things, medical supplies, etc which produces a lot of waste. The video is six years old but I still haven't noticed much of a shift in seeing companies as the driving force behind waste, not consumers.
Most of the supermarket chains in Germany stopped having plastic bags this year. Before that you had to pay for them. Now they banned them altogether! American supermarkets should follow
Same here in Chile
@Ameer bei uns nicht
they tried that in dallas texas but people went crazy, it only lasted a month
that's already happening in california
It’s happening in some states already in the US.
We have this thing in Europe (I live in Lithuania) where stores charge extra 10 cents for every bottle (plastic, aluminum and glass) and then you can later return those bottles to a machine and get those 10 cents back
I like that idea. Kinda wish we had that in America. The best you get here is by collecting pounds of aluminum and getting 16 cents a pound.
oniukas lukas same in Finland except it varies depending on the size of the bottle from 10 cents to 40 cents. :)
Same in Germany and Croatia except it’s 0.25€
We have it in America too. Just that it not in all stares.
This exisits in America, when you buy most products that are in bottles, glass or plastic, you pay a deposit that is added to the actual price. So its Price+sales tax+ deposit.
Its like 5 cents per bottle/can.
Most “ recycled” items end up landfills these days
That's why reduce comes first
@@houghwhite411 exactly ‼️‼️
And recycle is last for a reason
Singapore was smart though, they use trash to make land
Yeah I was heartbroken when I learned all my recycling efforts were in vain. The answer rly is reducing. I'm so glad this lady showed it can be done
"to get better policies - you need to have public support, because politicians and businesses won't take action until people come together and demand it"
Individual effort matters!
People must also take the public transport wherever possible.
Hmm should we make an fb group then ? "GROUP OF GREEN MINDED PEOPLE UNITE!"
Supply of demand.
Group effort matters more. Don't form a mob, but show up as a decent group of decent people and calmly *demand* change. Stay within the law and *demand* change at the same time. Put your money into companies who get it right, and remove it from all other companies.
I'm going to keep this in mind
I really like this presenter, he genuinely seems enthusiastic about what he is talking about. More from him please!
whonelly1220 if I'm not wrong he hosts a tv show (this is just from me feeling like I've seen him before and heard his voice on National Geographic)
edit: I was right, he hosts "Earth: A New Wild" on NatGeo. Of that one episode I saw, it seemed quite interesting, you should try watching it. I think I saw the episode where they partially castrate a male reindeer to prevent it from fighting with other males during the mating season. Fascinating stuff.
He looks like Jordan Belfort
I agree, he has a good presenter voice
True. The others look like dope heads and speak as if they have lost hope in life
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Is it just me or does anybody else’s family put plastic bags in their drawers? 💀💀
But buy a couple reusable bags and you'd never have to do that, plus be more green for it
My family does that, but it's because we all have cats
Mine because we have a lot of tiny trash cans and normal bags are too big for them
not really but we reuse all of our plastic bags to the point where they can't be anymore, then bundle them up and recycle them
me too
statement that " i won't tell anyone how to live there lives but show them" is so big🙌🙏
Meanwhile I saw a woman fight a casheir and throw everything in her cart at an ikea because they only offered reusable bags you buy 🤦🏻♀️
Are you from singapore? 😂
Customers will throw fits more often than children do over simple things 🤦🏻♀️
We have 1 earth.
Use it *wisely* peoples
That's a cool statement. Our technology still not have developed to have interplanetary voyages nor extract minerals from there. We just have this planet as hope for the existence of life. Still, there is no planet nor asteroid nor moon discovered with footage or image of actual life. We're the just ones.
@@shubhankardasgupta4777 you made nuclear energy do it again
*people
I don't want to live on Mars
We have mars to live on
England does the plastic bag fee. Everyone brings their own bags now because no one wants to pay for several every time they shop.
Same with Scotland. We had it before England and I remember my Mum coming to visit from England and complaining about the 5p charge! It seems like such a silly small amount, but happily it really works! Imagine if the whole of the US did that too... awesome : )
I thought all countries did this nowadays. I'd be surprised if they didnt.
We had it since 2002 in Ireland.
I think the fee is more common in European countries
Cowbelly You stole it from wales👹
i was born in 2002 lmao
"Do you remember this commercial that's twenty-five years older than you?"
what are you five years old?
@@bloq6758 I did the math he would be in his mid 20s
they also said it gets shown almost every earth day. its not too far fetched that a lot of young people have seen it. i’m 18, i’ve seen it multiple times
Wow imagine knowing about something older than you. Oh you know an 80s rock song you must be from the 70s
I’m glad they mentioned big drink companies like Coke. Because regular everyday people will never destroy the environment as much as one (1) massive corporation. And I love Lauren’s philosophy of giving people options. She’s the reasons why there are more reusable packaging bulk buy stores.
Notice how coke was cheaper when they had glass bottles, it’s bc the glass was reusable and at the time plastic wasn’t nearly as big as it is now. We should just go back to reusable bottles 😕
Fantastic video. An additional point Id like to make, if you believe in global warming on not, we should all be able to agree that we can't keep throwing away trash forever, unless we want to live in a dump.
Surprised to see you here X!
xisumavoid welp i wasnt expecting u...
i like the dump... is there something wrong with that?
Alex Schmidt even if carbon dioxide doesn't cause massive global warming, it reacts with ocean water creating carbolic acid, increasing the acidity of the ocean, killing wildlife. Also, global warming is significant not only because of CO2, but also because of methane from cows, which DOES have a large impact on global temperature
WHAT WHY ARE YOU HERE
In Finland about 96% of plastic bottles get recycled because you can return your bottles to a machine, and get a bit of money from that. One child collected over 2000€ finding bottles and returning them. Please America, ADOPT THIS!
Sisu Rannikko we have machines that pay us for bottles in almost every store, yes, in America
Edit: I guess it’s only in 10 states, I live in Michigan so I always assumed it was everywhere.
Sisu Rannikko it is true, most people are just too lazy or forget to save their bottles. My family takes our cans and bottles to the store regularly.
Tiger Lilian It's fun that here people go out to find trash and get money.
Sisu Rannikko oh cool
10 of the 50 states have bottle return policies:
www.ncsl.org/research/environment-and-natural-resources/state-beverage-container-laws.aspx
here in Finland we actually return our plastic bottles to convenience stores and get a few cents back from it that you can use as a discount or just take the money from the cashier
It's also single-used. Same in Germany
We have that in some states in the US, but only a couple.
Same in Sweden and Iceland. Find it so strange why other countries don’t do this..
@@EthanParmetItsDaBunny yeah i haven’t even really seen those recycle centers anymore in the last 5 years. I remember them being big around supermarkets 10-20 years ago
*Watches while drinking milk from a bottle*
Panik
*Checks the label: widely recyclable*
Kalm
You are a criminal
@@tataduzy4260 It was a single bottle of choccy milk (iirc)
@@miakiikazu You drank from the carton but it was choccy milk sooooo... i forgive you i guess...
@@tataduzy4260 it wasn't from a carton
it was a single bottle that you buy just as a drink
it was like 500ml
Recyclables still wind up in the ocean. See my comment from today on the OP for more details.
grocery stores in the US don't charge for plastic bags??? Canada's been doing it for so long now.
Summer Erneli Some do, but a very small percentage, unfortunately. Hopefully we'll learn from you guys
we just recently started in california.
the weird thing is, if you ask for paper, you will get a pretty worthless paper bag that isnt garuanteed to hold anything over 3 or 4 lbs
but plastic on the other hand......pretty much every store (at least chain stores) has developed new incredibly sturdy plastic bags
when you think about how all of these stores had been forced to have a recycle bin JUST for plastic bags since they can not be recycled via our cities recycleing system.........it makes you wonder wtf is really going on
for 10 cents I can get a plastic bag that is just as sturdy and reusable as any resusuable bag I can buy from the store for $5
many of my friends have begun buying these bags from the stores and using them as trash bags for small waste bins
Even in China the plastic bag is charged in supermarkets.
Far from Irrational when i was little i remember that all of my trash bags were plastic bags from the grocery store
Summer Erneli Europe too
In Sweden, plastic bags cost nearly a dollar. It's an absolutely amazing way to remind people to bring their own bag, and currently we're one of the most eco friendly countries in the world!
In Ireland they're 70 cent
In São Paulo it costs R$0,20, that about U$ 0,04 UDS, and it only started to be charged few years ago. They come with instructions on how to recycle the trash howerver, nobody actually follow them. But it is a beginning!
You guys are better at everything! xD
Just ban them, like we did in New Zealand.
@Savannah J only places that don’t sell hot food
Even if something only makes 1% difference, thats still a difference. If even half of the people in the world tried to reduce and recycle like this, itd add up to a huge difference.
I mean, 50% is a lot.
Remember your free will and others free will , so don`t tread on others free will to achieve your goals , common ground is paramount i these times
or else the ground you stand on will perish in that alternative future , Linier timeline .
Work together is the best way to achieve our bright future together , it dosn`t matter how much money you have or valuables you have collected,
what matters in these cases is what you do with your values !?
Remember that the farmer is the first to get food on the table !
so do not look down on others for they are all equal to you .
we will work for the common good for all too see , too experience feel and learn , them that keeps people in the dark by keeping them away from information that will enlighten them by going to school /jobs ,a community ,not a egomunity !
collect Lightning i accumulators to provide electricity for all , desalination plants in desert locations with water-pumps driven by solar power that ,
pumps clean water in deep in to the desert to provide subsistence for for local fauna/nature .
Rebuild the gardens of ancient sites , Like Puma pumkhu Ollyantanyambo , Giza Egypt Paraguay Peru mexico +++ to reep the fruits of ancient sites
this will provide food for all .
soldiers of truth and future is needed on a greater scale never in history seen before , and this is a good thing ,
we need to clean up our mess , for a common goal ,common wealth , not in money value but the value of living of and with the planet .
make more hydrogen plants to fuel your cars ,the only thing that comes out the exsos is Water , so imagine this in Egypt , every car motorcycle truck ,
will spray out clean water everywhere they drive , spreading out steam that will make things cooler in temperature in future time together with seeding new fauna that will hold more water , that evaporates in time when this is done ,will make the rain season to go back to normal slowing desert spreading.
Relax slow down , spend more time with your family , we need more kindness to each other ,remember that the earth is round so what you do to our
earth effect others , and also you , karma boomerang like the ripples in a pond ,when you cast a stone but the ripples does not stop at the edge of the pond.
Actually billionaires and corporations outdo any and all attempts of ordinary citizens at going green bc they dump more carbon in one second then all of us do in a year.
The rest of US really need to move on and LEARN the ways of California
charging for plastic bags is genuinely an effective policy, it's worked wonders here in the UK, by simply charging 5p for a bag it's reduced the amount of plastic bags in landfill sites drastically and now it's common to just bring your own bags
Richu M and recycle bins are easily accessible, including glass. I don't think I've ever been to a supermarket like Tesco that doesnt have public recycling bins outside.
Richu M I don't agree. The cost is so low that it only reduces the number of bags I will buy per month. It's a small step but too small to solve any problem..
Murky Definitely! One could say It's just a matter of changing people's perspective of things, when that 5p for a bag rule was introduced everyone absolutely hated it, even me, but eventually over time it became a second nature to everyone and most people just got over it
That is true, i tend to carry my bag with me when shopping or use one of them life time bags( i forgot what you call them)but corner shops don't have to charge 5p for bags.
v1d300 It may be a small step....but it's better than nothing
When I was in Germany, I saw that the paper and plastic bags costs 1€ (a little bit over an American dollar) Everyone in the store had a reusable bag, and I was shocked.
They should do that here in America. Incentivize ppl to use reusable bags
In Spain and Italy they cost from 15-20 cents, and now in Italy the plastic bags for loose fruit/veg cost money and are required by law to be biodegradable
The area in America where I live, you are charged 5 cents for a bag
America is a free country. You can do however u want. But , if you build wind turbine on your own in your garden, you go to jail.
I mean it's over one dollar then for a plastic bag, pretty sure everyone wouldn't want to spend that much on a plastic bag
I can’t believe the US is still thinking about a bag fee, when most of Europe has literally already banned single use plastic from 2022
...from 2022?
this was 4 years ago dawg
No europe and australia have been doing this for like 5 years
Welcome to America
8:00 - 8:15, this... this right there, changed my mind for good. I was always concerned about what I could do on my scale but now I’m sure that there is possibility for everyone.. Education truly is the way to go about a greener future.. Nobody is forcing nobody else, we’re teaching and let you do what you want with the information
the coffee cup situation is easier for me
I don't drink coffee
Same.
Me too
Same. I just drink water and milk.
I dont even drink caffeine
Same
i have a simpler solution. but it requires me to take over the world first.
lol
@@duvieira2836 Sounds great in your mind but that's not how reality works.
what makes me really sad about this movement to save the earth is that how little people are doing it, oh yes small things do affect the world but, i cant really see where its going, if only i can take over the world and force everyone to behave, sadly it doesnt work that way, people are always going to be ignorant and find the easiest way possible even when its damaging
*JIBUN WO*
You have my sword
Possibly the best video I've ever seen regarding climate change and what we can do to change that. Everyone tells us to be good people and recycle, but nobody explained to us exactly how our goodness can leave an impact - and many people including me tend to get impatient.
Honestly, the first R seems to always get forgotten.
It's kinda sad. in Montana, we used to have glass recycling, but we stopped having that about 5-6 years ago. I remember going out to recycle then one day the glass one just disappeared. We need this back, Montana.
It's insane to me that in some states you can't recycle glass! Like how is that possible? Does it just go in the trash?
I agree
That's because no one will buy the recycled glass... Sad but true.
Bob Du pew pew you can not even see the difference sometimes
i'm from the usa and i had no idea how much trash we waste. i'm sending this video link to all of my friends and telling them to send it to all their friends. we need to change this.
have you done it
Good job brianna
Brianna Erica in Chile too
Brianna Erica ok ill share it to my drug dealers
So you sent it to 0 people?
I thought she was going to act all holier-than-thou but she's so humble and down to earth about it all
Here in Canada, plastic straws and plastic bags in many stores are literally banned.
Nice
@Mx1air sorry I bothered you, sir.
Thats sad
Fellow Canadian here, I have seen plastic straws around, but I’ve also seen compostable bags, which is really great!
I'm going green because Lauren's skin is flawless
Go vegan; that will work even better.
@@franklanguage cows' farts are a huge reason for climate change. Going vegan will make things worse as the population of wild cows will rise.
no, cow farts r ruining our world @@alicemidori8087
zea edwards so youre not going FOR the world all you care about is skin..?
Oh ok😒
Cow farts make climate change faster and it will heat up the world more.
she is like the most un-snowflakey person who devotes that much time and energy to going green. we need people like that to be spreading the word instead of the non believers misinterpereting the message
share it with everyone and practice
slashmaster We could replace all plastic containers with reusable glass, like we used to do with soda.
Most people are like this and fall somewhere in the middle of the two extremes. It's just that the extremes stand out more and are the ones that get remembered
mikey yt what does snowflakey mean?
no, she lied and gotten caught, the end.
3:53 in the phillippines we still do that, if a store sell something with glass we give it back to them and they give us discount.
That bottle system still happens in mexico, in the small mountain towns where my family is from. Sad America does not prioritize services like these
Who cares
@@canaldofred2366 why would you not care about the only planet you can live in?
@@car2208 if you really wanna go green then stop using ur phone stop using electricity stop using ur car and go live in the woods
@@Zaa-up4hg sounds great, wish I could do that tbh
Australia has completely banned plastic bags 👍 Good step forward
SOME large companies have banned free plastic bags
No it hasn’t lol
No we haven’t
They also need to bann bottles and single use stuff.
Good for you guys
Starbucks should make it that you only pay half-price if you bring your own cup.
or an extra $2 for a cup
I think 50 cents will convince most already
starbucks needs to stop their deforestation.
This is a good idea in theory but the problem is Starbucks has a policy where they have to rinse out all reusable cups with hot water before they can give you your drink
I've also always questioned why the Starbucks cups say "do not microwave" on them.
We have no shops around us that sell self-scoop/pick products. Farms are too far out, farmer's markets are ridiculously expensive and our small balcony can't hold much more than some tomato plants, lettuce and herbs. I can't wait for the day plastics around veg and fruits are eliminated, for they take up SO much of our weekly waste -- and we do truly try our best to keep our waste low. As long as single-use plastics remain the most profitable option for companies, we won't be out of the ditch..
This video is SO SO important. I’m absolutely delighted to see the fact *companies* are mainly the problem rather than the blame shifting they subject us to repeated by people with a bigger audience.
Everybody needs to see this video. You would not believe how many people tell me "I'm just one person. It doesn't make a difference"
Wariss Abedi - that's such a terrible mindset. I always say, "I know I'm only one person, but I don't want to contribute to the problem."
"4 years of trash"
Sounds like my life since 2014.
Nirmit Mishra 😂
this was a real kick in the nuts
Jasmine masters enters: " Well... just as I thought...TRASH!"
Lmao same
😂
I haven't lived in a house for 8 years I've been living in vans, rvs and personally owned busses. I only have solar and 0 rent or bills I like to think im doing less environmental impact plus I get to travel the country and see the beautiful sights.
Cool
That sounds amazing and I’d definitely love to try living in a van at some point! The idea of everyday being able to wake somewhere new and being able to explore the country without worries of my bills is wonderful. Though of course I’d want to settle down eventually. It does seem like something cool to do for a few months (even though I’d be a little scared sleeping in a van in the middle of know where. I feel like someone could easily break in).
@@kaleycooper9111 it helps that I have big dogs not to be scared but its best to do while your still young otherwise it may never happen.
@@Partnerthedog How young? And why is that so?
I can't believe I haven't watched this video before: short, on point and informative. Very well done!
What I do not understand about the US is you have so many renewable energy sources like the hot and burning sun in Arizona, Carlifornia or Taxes, wind in on the costs and so much geothermal energy. Honestly, a lot of countries would do a lot to have so much opportunities to produce energy but you still rely on inefficent and expensive fossil fuels which will never guarantee the energy-independence of the US. If the government and the companies worked together, the US could go entirely on green renewable energy, could create high-paid sustainable jobs and could even help extremely to stop global warming.
The is a polarization about renewable energy. If it isn’t an exact perfect solution it’s thought of as frivolous and wasteful. You talk about solar energy and someone against it will tell you how sand gets on the panes and would cost money to keep clean. Or that jobs would suffer in the other industry. Windmills kill birds and bats. Etc etc. I even tried showing the person against windmills an article about a tower that shifts with wind to collect the energy instead of having the blades. Plus a lot of people have a nimby complex. They don’t want to see it. Basically what I’m trying to say is some people really don’t want to change as frustrating as it is. You’ll always get a “but what about ...” response. For example I use cloth diapers for my baby and I hear “but what about the energy it takes to wash them. It’s not really any better than disposable is it?” 🙄
The only issue is that as of right now fossil fuels ARE more efficient than renewables, that's why they're being used so much. But as technology improves, renewables should be able to catch up.
Intentionally wrote -Taxes- ?
Planes, cellphone towers, building windows, pesticides, fence wiring and cars kill way more birds each year than anything. Humans have been destroying bird habitats way before wind energy was a thing. I never see people talking about that but as soon as you bring up turbines that is all they can complain about. Most don’t care about the birds lives, they are just finding excuses because they are afraid of change.
Its also worth pointing out that keeping "the grid" powered is a bit more of a complicated process than is initially thought.
For example, California has a problem. The duck curve. This is a curve which shows energy demand vs energy production, in california these days, it swings in a "duck shape" throughout the day. In the morning when people wake up, its kinda in the middle, the sun is at an angle and produces a little energy, but few also use much energy in the morning. The problem is in the noon, energy production peaks because max sun, but few use the electricity. So California must dump it somewhere or risk too much energy being on the grid and causing problems, and they often pay places like Arizona to take it from them. At night, people come home, the lights turn on, but panels arent producing anything, so demand spikes.
The current way this is taken care of is by throttling power generation stations, but not all stations can be throttled easily. Natural gas stations are the easiest to crank up and down, but things like nuclear for example... its actually impossible to shut down a nuclear plant at one moment, shutdown takes weeks. And now we have this added layer of things like solar and wind depending wildly on conditions around the place generating power so its harder now.
The ideal solution is energy storage, but despite what Ol' Musky says, batteries are still very inefficient and IMO a poor solution to the problem. Other methods aren't much better.
Renewable brings its own challenges.
Bag fees have been a thing in Finland since 1942. I'm not making this up, this is real.
There's also a small bounty on ALL empty cans/bottles and glass bottles that can be claimed by simply putting the cans/bottles/glass bottles into a large-scale machine that is commonly found in Finnish grocery stores. These things might apply to all other Nordic countries as well.
Lassigamer i don't know about the other nordic countries, but all this aplies to Sweden as well (:
And Germany too! But the plastic bag fee was just put into action recently
Also Save-a-Lot has them.
Lassigamer Thank you for acknowledging our attempt at eco friendliness!
Alot of coffee shops and convenient stores actually offer you a discount when using your own to go cup. It's not a huge discount, but it is a nice little incentive. You may only save like a few cents, but a few cents is a few cents saved
Positive comment here....4 years later and in Nova Scotia we have one small bag of garbage each week. We recycle paper, plastic and glass, and our town picks it all up. We even have a compost bin that is picked up once a week too. Papers straws...no plastic bags here for over a year...they don't even sell them anymore. Society changes when good people put their mind to it
95% of the burden of being eco-friendly should be on the producer, not the consumer.
It should be fair and mutual cooperation.
People should actually use their heads
If the consumer doesn't buy, then the producer won't make it. Reducing consumption is an integral part of reducing waste.
@@nolin132 Producers flood the market with wasteful products making the most ecological purchases difficult for the average consumer.
For example, disposable razors are available everywhere, yet to purchase an old-fashioned safety razor, I needed web access, a computer, and a credit card. In addition, I needed to drive to the warehouse to pick it up. How many people have the time and money available to prioritize that?
@@boboloko that's because the vast majority of people buy disposable razors. If more people wanted to buy safety razors, more stores would sell them too.
im a child and i know my family won't do this so i have to wait 7 years to start but i will try to use less plastic and try to help as much as i can.
same parents don't care bout the planet its so sad
I mean your parents won't care since they're not like gen z or millennials
ay dude im a child too but im gonna do everything in me power to save the world! who's with me?
@@itscoper8133 No meteor is on track to strike us within the next hundred million years, but keep being a pessimist, sure
this is such a sweet comment
In the Netherlands and other parts of Europe we have a thing called "statiegeld", it roughly translates to "deposit", for every bottle you buy (plastic) you pay a small deposit for using the bottle, when you go grocery shopping the next day you can return the bottles and you'll get your deposit back. Almost all supermarkets also have a glass containers with a separate compartment for every colour of glass (green, clear and brown). The deposit encourages people to return these reusable bottles and it also helps companies to recycle them due to them being collected at a central-ish point, supermarkets. By the way, If you want to buy beer in the Netherlands you buy it in "een kratje", a crate, it also has deposit on it, this way the 24 bottles AND the crate get recycled, two big Dutch beer companies (Grolsch and Heineken) recently switched the production of their crates to be made out of recycled and recyclable materials, which is another step in a better direction. Although this sounds pretty good, we need to do a lot more to stop climate change all together.
policies need to get enforced though - in Germany it's theoretically illegal to offer plastic bags for free since 1.1.2020. But I think most smaller shops don't even know that, thus they still offer them for free.
They just don't care because nobody punishes them. 'Wo kein Kläger, da kein Richter.'
The quality of the videos on this channel is just insane. Great work and thank you for talking about global warming.
Albin Ljungqvist global warming is a hoax
the idea about the shift of burden between the manufacturer and the consumer is really interesting, I've never heard of it before
Olivia P all youre saying is the tax burden grew significantly.
Olivia P On the bright side :D we won't have to worry about tax burdens if we die from the after effects of climate change!!! (you could ignore this comment since all I wanted to say was a somewhat witty comment when I am not interested to enter a political of climate related debate :3 so ye)
Rob Mckennie Come to Europe because in many countries here companies want and HAVE to recycle their products.
This video has inspired me to start going green, I know it’s kinda hard to use some reusable stuff right now (like cups, bags) for like Starbucks and the store (because of COVID-19), but after I will definitely do what I can to help the world.
just want to add to the bag thing, here in oregon we banned all single use plastic bags in stores. we were selling heavy duty reusable ones for 5 cents, or paper ones for the same price. now places like walmart here are completely getting rid of all non reusable bags (including paper). it has significantly cut down on the plastic bags outside.
WOW 10 cents for a plastig bag in like 10 states, we have only had to pay for our plastig bags in Sweden for about, 40 years
congratz
Blixten Mcsnabb that's because you're Sweden your country maintains neutrality with the world around you. By doing that you're government can only focus on internal issues. So don't brag that you're better just encourage others to follow suit.
Blixten Mcsnabb do you smell your own farts in a wine glass to?
Ok Sweden is perfect I would love to live there
Blixten Mcsnabb wait no I legitimately think Sweden is really great and I hope to go there someday. I'd have a pretty good life they do things I agree with.
This was made in April of 2017, it’s almost December of 2018. Come on people we need to to reduce more waste!
Olga Margovskiy May 2019 now and not a lot has changed.
@@ameliabaurer7229 it is july 2019 😂
It's almost September 2019 sis...
4:30 "You see this commercial every earth day"
*me on earth day:* I didn't see it lol.
wait.
are you
BRITISH
As an Australian who recently travelled to USA, I was *astounded* at the sheer wastefulness there.. as an example - the fact that even in sit-down restaurants you would still often get disposable plates and plastic cutlery. Even in Disney World and their "Living with the Land" wankfest, they still use disposable *everything* in all their food courts. Madness.
Watching this video 2 years later, this video should go viral and be shared everywhere. Global warming is getting worse and worse :(
Well... it did
@@nicoh332 really?
@@christinaxie3202 yes, in Indonesia many beaches experience tides and sea levels
been another year still getting worse
@@azucena-hm2wo 7 months later and I haven’t heard a thing.
Single use packaging are evil and that dude who refuse to use my reusable cup at the coffee shop is evil too 😤
that's really uncool, I would have made a scandal.
Why did he refuse??
Momera i mean based on the size of cups they won’t know how to price you
@@bbumply Oh I see, that's awful
It's BS because the extra will just go to waste, but often it's company policy not to give people more than what they paid for...
Videos like this one should be mandatory viewing material in the school curriculum.
It’s funny how we can often think our small individual actions don’t matter. Yes they may be small individually, but collectively the impact can be huge. In terms of climate impact, it’s the collective impact that matters most.
I love Japan and living there, but the packaging is unreal. I get almost a whole trash bag filled when buying groceries for 1 week, if I didn't have to separate things into a gazillion different bags. They put a lot of "effort" in recycling and dividing trash, but there is no way to limit your trash. I would love to see a tax on packaging put to manufacturers, it might be the best thing for the country.
Also everyone wants to give you gifts that are unnecessary.
SkaiSharku oh my god, I know. You buy a package of snacks but when you open it there's four smaller packages with individually wrapped candies inside. Maybe an exaggeration but danger it feels that way sometimes.
SkaiSharku I know right, I have to divide the trash into 20+ categories for recycling etc, but if they had just reduced the trash from packaging the consumers would save a lot of time and the planet would be happier
I visited Japan and I found the same thing! Where I live, we have a bag tax and our city does recycling, green waste, and compost, so we are fairly conscious of our waste.
As much as i hate government regulation, I agree that this is one of the things that need to be regulated
Alex Chen I think we all can agree regulation is good, it's all about finding the mix between too much and not enough
Free market mechanics simply don't provide pressure on manufacturers to actually be responsible.
Alex Chen 666 likes this comment is. Evil
One of the stupidest comments I have seen people actually like. Always want fault to fall on someone else.
Metric to Imperial Conversions that are relatable to USA citizens:
5:40 - 23g = .05 lbs = 1.533 Tablespoons
5:44 - 11.5 kg = 27.56 lbs = 3.3 Gallons
5:46 - 1,250 kg = 2,755.78 lbs = 330.22 Gallons
"We have not seen an exodus of industries from California" well that didn't age well...
@@lordorris GDP is not the same as how many companies are in the state
Here in Norway our electricity is generated ~95% by hydropower, in addition to that we are the country in the world with the most electric cars per capita. People tend to use electric cars because of all the benefits the government gives them such as free parking, free charging, low yearly fees and much more. We are not perfect when it comes to being eco friendly but other countries cloud learn a lot from us.
Parkerz you are 5 million people and generate a lot of your electricity from water (for example waterfalls).
In Germany however we are 80 million people it gets a lot harder to just generate ecofriendly electricity for everybody, though we are trying :)
What I also really like about Scandinavian countries is, that you have way more No-Waste-Shops, where you can fill up everything you need
Yes there are a lot of electric cars because they are heavily subsidized by your government. Where does the money for said subsidies come from one might ask ? From all of the oil and gasoline that your country sells!!! If I’m wrong please let me know. All u are doing is taking your carbon footprint and letting people burn it in other parts of the world. To be honest I am totally fine with this and think it is a great for I guys but come on let’s be real and not try to act all high and mighty.
Germany is getting really good at using wind, solar and biomass. Granted I'm not a big fan of biomass, all that it is is just that it's renewable, but it is better than coal. The rate is increasing every year.
Not all countries is lucky enough to have the natural resources that you have
That would be so cute If you weren't one of the biggest oil producers in the world lol
Maybe pollution is ok as long as it happens outside of your borders
Imagine if every country pulled a California... Also I love this woman.
OspreyBravo18 There would be almost no effect if we're talking about the carbon emissions. recent studies show that if all of the world's countries were to simultaneously drop their production of carbon emissions right now by what I believe they said was 50% or something along those lines, that we would only see a drop of atmospheric carbon dioxide of around .08%. On top of this, Carbon dioxide is actually fairly good for the environment. Carbon dioxide DOES increase the temperature of the environment by a very slight margin, allowing plants enzymes to speed up, which, ironically, allows them to carry out photosynthesis more quickly, and in the process use up carbon dioxide. The abundance of co2 in the atmosphere helps the plants as well because it also allows them to carry out photosynthesis more frequently. this creates a cycle in which the plants use the carbon dioxide being created. And even if plants can't keep up with the co2, it won't matter because water vapor is the real culprit for global warming and cooling. Even big climate change supporters will tell you that water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas. The reason that carbon dioxide doesn't have so much of an effect is that co2 reflects just as much heat out of the atmosphere as it traps in. In fact, during the ice age there is evidence that there was a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/4061092/Greenhouse-gases-could-have-caused-an-ice-age-claim-scientists.html Most scientists who are on the climate change train would claim that the environment would be hot and the surface would be cold, but this doesn't make clear sense, since the same scientists claim that smaller portions of co2 in our atmosphere would singificantly heat up our surface and our atmosphere. The much more likely scenario is that both the surface and the atmosphere were cold. the co2 would block out heat from getting in, and their would be less water vapor in the atmosphere because more of it than today would be on the surface as ice and snow. And even if their is some terrible global warming catastrophe, then we could fairly easily curb the problem with genetically modified plants. Scientists have already started working on trees that can do this, and I can't remember the exact name but I believe they've already got one that works fairly well.
OspreyBravo18 Europe has been doing this for years.
Nicholas Christensen thank you for sharing, this was quite informative:)
OspreyBravo18 the Terminator is the best
OspreyBravo18 she has so much hope in her eyes about the better world. she is so lovely
In my country, there is literally no awareness. People know about it but don't care. My elders, teachers, friends, relatives yup everyone are not very cooperative, I would say. I try my best to prevent them from littering plastic and garbage. Its very hard cause there are no repercussions for it, they think. If asked, they say that everybody does it and nobody is looking. It's high time, government should start of making atleast some basic policies for the sustainable environment of the future.
If the top politicians, leaders, decision makers, wealthy businessmen don't change, the world will never change. All these futile effort by these excellent people wont matter much
you should put a link to her blog/yt channel in the description as credit, just saying
Julia Szulc ya even I am looking for it. Instead UC was mentioned.
Watch the video, several times her channel name appears on-screen.
In case you somehow miss it, it's "Trash is for Tossers"
Or, if you've listened to the video -where her blog was mentioned several times- it is called Trash is for Tossers
Part-Time Party Time i know, i found it myself, that's not the point. If you use someone's material or do an interview with thrm you should give them credit. At least in the description.
agree a billion %
I really try to reduce domestic wastes that are produced in my home but my dad always nags and says "what difference it'll make if we're the only ones who do it?"
I apologize, Mother Earth.
Peeta Griffin this is what I always think :/
If everyone thought that way that would be bad. So that's why people should stop thinking that way and persuade others to do the same.
Maybe it’s just because you haven’t met those who do. Luckily, the internet and specific forums can be great resources to find people in your area that can guide you through it. This can also lead to more people joining the change. Cliche as it is, one person that starts the change leaves the possibility of others to do the same.
Oh, it makes a huge difference! A single first world household produces so much waste! (The statistics are online.) Remember what the Lorax said: Unless someone cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to change, it's not.
And he is right.
great stuff, made me feel a little hopeful that we may have options. lets convince the politicians and businesses now!
Very powerful statement: the responsibility was shifted from the Seller to the Buyer
Plastic bags? Tskk look under my sink..
Hahaha
Im mexican and my family does this too
Lmao we just use them to throw other rubbish
I'm white and my family has always kept them under the sink. Lol
Our family re-uses them for trash cans as well. That way it's not just a single use, but a double use and prevents you from buying a whole box of bags just to use for trash!
Plastic bags are banned in our town. We are a composting, recycling, sustainability and reusable type of state.
That's really good, wich state
Ella Torosian Vermont
@@rebekahc1259 why am I not surprised you're from Vermont 😂😂
Well actually I know why (Bernie Sanders). I love your state for so many things. I would move there if it wasn't for the healthcare. I'm not exactly American lol
In the Netherlands you have to pay 3-25 cents for a plastic bag and sometimes that give you a paper bag instead. Or a €1 bag that you can return at any moment and get your money back.
The same system has been used for many years for big plastic bottles and since this year also for small plastic bottles. Big plastic bottles cost 25 cents and small plastic bottles cost 15 cents. You can put them in a machine in grocery stores to get that money back after you used them.
Also, plastic bags used to recycle plastic packaging are free in order to incentivize people to recycle plastic by filling up their regular trash bags less, saving them money. Theoretically people could use those bags to put groceries in as a loophole, but other people would notice that, so they don't do that to avoid the shame.
How would one go about buying toothpaste in bulk? Or any other of those things Lauren has managed to acquire without their plastic packaging?
You actually can substitute toothpaste with baking soda
She's likely making her own soap too
There might be a refill store near you where you can go and fill up bottles and jars with shampoo and soaps and stuff like that
I love her response at 7:59
E drop what a blatant lie.
not really lol
How is she lying there ?
I'd never tell anyone how to live their life. bam
i do to
Japan just went to charging for bags! I'm so happy, everyone carrys a backpack or some sort of bag but the cashiers were like ninjas and had everything bagged while you were getting out your money.
Customer: *blinks*
Cashier: you fool. You have left your products exposed! Watch as I force you to pay...oh wait... You can't!
Same with california
Oh btw, if the place charge for bags they usually will offer you first and not putting your stuffs in the bag right away. They only do that without asking first at places where the bags are free
bruh. I swear-- in the beginning, it was really hard to refuse plastic bags in the supermarket because, when I did so, it was almost as if I had bothered THEM. Maybe because it usually stops them mid-action or mid-intention since they just go for it so quickly...
We do that in Australia too
Wow, I'm totally inspired by Lauren. I'm in Indonesia, if I wanted to recycle my trash, I will have to pay a subscription fee for recyclable trash pickup. Policies need to change, recycling shouldn't be this hard.
In America, the recycled materials just wind up in the ocean, because the recycling centers can't keep up with the volume of recycled materials that are brought to them, and the landfills are full.
Be sure to check and make sure that isn't happening in your country too.
See my comment from today on the OP for more details.
This is so much awesome...the definition of reality I was always searching for let every see this .... Truth🔥
We must declare a "No Plastic Day" for all in a year. If all makes effort to not use plastic for a day, earth can catch a lil break !
A week would be almost 2% of a year...
I love that idea ❤️
Well guess I'll just wait 24h to put my water bottle in recycling
Tripti Shukla goodluck with that, and it won’t do much
Instead of a no plastic day a plastic clean up day would do much more if everybody cleaned up plastic for a day instead of working or staying home
I like this guy moderating, his presenting and the videos content were pretty good.
In Germany, we have that system of returning your bottle to the supermarket.
You pay 25 Cents more, if you buy a bottle, but you get that money back, if you go, and return it. It's named „Pfand".
It isn't only good to recycle, but there are also people, that are making their money out of returning bottles (usually in big cities), that are standing around, and that without the system would be ending up as trash in our environment
That’s one thing I missed about living in Germany
I remember going to Germany and loving the idea of bottle banks, which we used to have decades ago in the UK.
We throw away out plastic bags
Because we use them as our trash bags
Same here.
so many critics and skeptics. that's why usa will never go green.
You know what is interesting about the video?
how the guy asks the question whether recycling does anything at all to stop the progress of global warming, and then just skips it. That's the kind of stuff that makes you wonder.
read: lobbyists
if companies didn't make sure there were skeptics and critics, there wouldn't be any. but they fund propaganda and advertisements to make you think you're polluting less, but you're not actually doing much, and the companies still make all the money. also, lobbyists keep government powerless. an example: they tell us to buy more "slightly less polluting" products, but added up, the company makes more money and we destroy earth faster
Right??? All of my friends complain "its too hard!" Zero Waste can be hard at times but it's worth it and very important.
It will probably take 15 years. But by then the earth will be really damaged
Australia charges for bags and we also have the option of paper bags to buy at the checkout. The thing I find difficult is when I’ve tried bringing my own small pouch for baked goods at a bakery or asking the butcher to put my meat into my own glass container, they decline because if there’s contamination in my bag or container and I get sick, they’re afraid I’ll sue them. This is the world we live in. Well done. :-(
It’s so sad that even 4 years later no real movement has been taken 😔