spiffing Britt be like "the UN declaration of human rights is absolutely balanced without any exploits" and then goes to enslave kids while committing technically not genocide
Well they are no slaves. He is providing them a education. It's just a practical education in crafts. Like sewing or canning or painting. They are even fed and can sleep at the school. In no way is this a sweatshop.
@@10thletter40 you get the picture. And if they are really good they might be able to go to the advanced class. there they only have to study for 23,30 hours a day.
I didn't watch the video yet nor payed good attention to what I was reading in the comment section and I was expecting Simon to do a cool basketball crossover move in the video. He didn't and I was left unsatisfied until I realized that it was a crossover with another channel. Great vid.
@@yozul1 The poor bastard. Same with the inventor of the 'disposable' plastic bag. He assumed they would be used many times over and was apparently appalled at how they were abused, even in his lifetime.
He was disabled by polio age 51 so invented himself an harness to get in and out of bed. One day while using the contraption it swung out of control, and he ended up accidentally strangling himself to death in his struggle.
Later in life he contracted polio and was pretty much bedridden, but still managed to devise a system of ropes and pulleys for getting himself out of bed. However, one day the system misfunctioned and he got entangled in it and managed to strangle himself. Altogether a tragic story!
Reminds me of an episode about emissions trading in a Belgian TV show. Turns out Belgium emitted too much in 2010, so we bought emissions from Hungary from ... 1990. Apparently countries can sell CO2 that they didn't emit decades ago. It's a perfectly balanced and reasonable system.
@@XavierGoncalves89 that a fact or just your biased conjecture?
3 года назад+25
The 1990 date effectively meant that countries in Eastern Europe were 25% under their quotas because of the industrial collapse they experienced with the fall of communism. Technically Russia is among the best Kyoto performers
Spiff? and Simon!? Pointing out exploits in international political treaty's? I think this may be the video that deserves to break the Internet the most.
AMERICAN PROCESS: > Find legitimate, international problem > Strongarm everyone else to adopt your solution (which has a lot of problems) > Do not participate in the solution, despite doing arguably the worst job at curbing the problem > Do not elaborate > Leave
america has been number 1 in emission reduction in the world for a few years now. so no America has done it better than anybody and the problem is the country who need fossil fuels to move their people from post-colonization (thanks to europeans ;)) to modern societies. so not limiting your emissions is essentlly an act of not starving your population.
@@maverick5640 it was mainly in part under the Obama administration if that adds any credibility to you. “According to the 2017 BP statistical review of world energy, since 2005 annual us carbon emissions declined 758 million metric tons. The eu (every country in Western Europe) declined an equal 770 million” so yes when AOC says we should stop all air travel to stop our emission, it’s literally like blowing your brains out to fix your broken leg that’s already in a cast for 4 months. China grew by 3 billion metric tons so at the end of the day again China should have their industry destroyed and their people starve not Americans.
I used to work in emissions derivatives trading. And as it turns out, you don't even need exploits! Institutional investors make great ~gobs~ of money speculating on and hedging with carbon credits!
@@fred1854 He is just a friend? I thought he was a part of Yogscast considering how many times he appeared in their streams/videos, and even their main channel.
Fantastic video. Would love to see a discussion on the Paris protocol in a future video and how this compares to Kyoto and other ideas for agreements that haven't been implemented.
Excellent, excellent video. Especially happy with your and Spiff's performances - y'all are very effective communicators. I personally love it when you cover international treaties - they're great subjects for discussions about climate ethics (such as who bears responsibility for climate change, who deserves reparations for climate damage, and which climate solutions are both just, feasible, and effective).
responsibility: Especially the gov. when introducing new stuff, the industry because they produce most of it, and everyone else especially while moving around or shopping. Nobody deserves reperations. At this point in time: Nuclear Energy.
Great video! I'm trained as an Ecological Economist, and can definitely confirm that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme is similarly flawed (in that case, a price floor had to be introduced as demand for the credits dried up within a few years.)
@@gentleshark972 Well, that does tend to happen when you are allowed to trade credits based on estimates for the twenty years that preceded the treaty. Belgium was buing Hungary's credits from the 90's. A country that at the time was rural, poor, and in dire straits due to the communist collapse, with virtually no industry to create pollution. If I were to put a 20 year backlog of any product on the market all of a sudden, at the same time as all my neighboors, demands would be met, and dry up. It's even easier to do when all you need to do is will the specific item into existence on same baseless estimate at no cost.
Love how Spiff's portion is edited no different than his normal gameplay stuff - just with environmental destruction rather than rts, rpg, or fps destruction.
_"The lesson here is still need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, and doing so will require new solutions."_ Or you know..... you could just use nuclear power. just tossing that out there.
It certainly has a role to play in solving climate change, but to believe that nuclear power is the be all end all for energy generation is delusional at best. It is an expensive, slow to start up, and most importantly very inflexible technology. Nice for some baseload generation but that's about it.
@@TheBackslash1 Innovation is key. Any technology that is never expanded on is expensive and inflexible. As a (weak) comparison, look at the original computers compared to your cell phone. We went from computers the size of a room to one that fits in the palm of your hand. Just because something is expensive and not completely feasible today doesn't mean it still won't be in a few years if given the chance to grow. I mean heck, Solar power has gotten much better in the past few years right?
Fear mongering has crushed nuclear power, it's the safest and least impactful energy source on the planet yet people point to two accidents that killed a few dozen people and leaked a bit of radiation, but blatantly ignore the thousands and thousands of deaths caused by gas/oil drilling and processing, plus the billions of plants and animals killed by spills and ruptures, and all this carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Briliant video, I love the light you show on the climate change always good to see you tackling issues like this and giving us not only a wide scope of info and your interpretation, but also the sources and all clearly linked allowing people to reead the data themselves and make up their own minds, love it please keep making more videos
thank u sooo much for talking about this!! also u were my major inspiration for deciding to study environmental science and climate and now i’m in my third year at university and i love it!!
Well it’s the interesting exploit of expectations. Such as the president having any real power to do anything. Like how the US government convinced the masses that presidency was super important when the ones who are in the main control of the law is Congress. This also has led to the fun present that a state when electing its governor can give no other options, besides some wild card, than the current one with no one seeing it as a problem. But lord forbid you vote for anything other than red or blue. Who is red and blue? Well, red is blue and blue is red but blue hates red and red hates blue. Third option? Ah, who thinks outside the box? That’s for losers am I right? And this is why I think anyone over the age of 63 should not be in office, thanks for reading my Ted Talk.
I literally clicked on this thinking it was a Spiffing Brit video from the Thumbnail because that's the kind of things he's doing these days, just exploiting the world's failings, and when it starts I hear Simon's voice and realize what is going on. I had to stop the video 10 seconds in to prepare myself for the true madness that is about to unfold. The internet is amazing.
We need a Kyoto Protocol for India and China now, they've been hiding under the label of "underdeveloped/semi-developed" for decades now, if you go to China or India you will see that they have enough of a modern budget and infrastructure to change their Co2 emissions
China definitely has the budget and is trying but has so much industrial growth that it becomes so difficult. Not sure if India has the budget though, they struggle to collect taxes
@@christianwhittall5889 Struggle to collect taxes but can make highspeed rails, ghosts cities, skyscrapers, international investment (africa). Once a country is at the stage of growth where you look outside of your borders to invest, that's generally a sign of wealth which means china needs to follow the same standards now
Aw man there was a great Belgian show almost a decade ago called Basta where they did a bit about the Kyoto protocol. Essentially Belgium was buying carbon credits from a certain country (I forgot which one) but we were buying credits from past years to make up for our pollution this year. Also even if we wanted to buy credits from the current year we couldn't because they themselves had crossed the threshold of the amount of pollution they could produce in that year. They then did a comedy bit where they traveled to said country, where they found some "old air" trapped in old bubblewrap plastic and delivered it to the Belgian ministry for Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development.
Like other NGOs dealing with social issues: You are told and paid to solve social issues. You will also be jobless when the social issue is solved. You are going to create social issues to keep your job and get paid. YOU ARE GOING TO CREATE SOCIAL ISSUES TO KEEP YOUR JOB ABD GET PAID.
Nuclear is certainly better, but we still have zero methods for safe storage in the long term, which could, if we fully made the switch, present its own host of issues later down the line. I think it would be best if we made a switch to nuclear, and then gradually phased it out with improved renewable energy sources (like ones that aren’t 15 meters tall).
@@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise Dude those coal powerplants make more dangerous substances as a by-product. Nuclear is nothing compared to other.s Also we do have the safest method.
Thank you so much for this video ! It was so well explained and clear as always ! And so much needed ! However the affirmation regarding nebula being the extension of the "smart" part of youtube was a little bit on the judgemental side. We all love to watch what suits us the best, let's not bash other people for their preferences just to feel better 😊
Great video, super interesting content, and cool to see Spiff expanding his tea empire. One thing made me chuckle though, it's the Curiosity stream ad at the end showcasing a guy driving a CAR across the solar system in a video about carbon emissions. The irony...
In regards to the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air act and the reduction of sulphur emissions, I believe that happened mostly in part because Canada pressured the US into lowering emmisions because of the acid rain in Canada caused by US emissions.
So what I'm hearing is, we need to find a way to make being environmentally friendly profitable for capitalism to actually work on reducing harmful emissions. This is on top of other efforts to do so, mind, not as a replacement.
Unfortunately the moment you add the word 'tax' to anything, the majority of American Politicians will start frothing at the mouth and start reaching for their muskets
@@Septimus_ii Because it's literally not a free market. It's governments tossing around money to benefit themselves without actually competing about anything. However, a tax is also stupid because the only people you hurt are those without the money to pay for the increased tax. Thus causing further reliance on the government, thus causing more debt, thus causing higher taxes, and so on and so forth.
Wasn't there a case in Canada where everyone was on board with a bill, but the moment a politician slipped up and said "tax" instead of a synonym of tax, support instantly fled away?
"Capitalism is when the government designs, imposes and manages top down solutions" Yeah... this is not capitalism at work, it's literally state interventionism under the guise of free market...
You took the best part of the video and took it to Nebula. And then complain about the "failures of capitalism". Can someone explain why the ETS worked better than Kyoto?
A good and strong nation state is the _only_ known way to protect the people, super-national organizations always become horrible bureaucratic nightmares.
@@mgntstr Gotta love that it's capitalisms fault for government leaving in clauses that specifically benefit specific companies which government officials then invest in or whose children get high-paying positions in those companies. And that the solution is to put taxes on consumer products bought primarily by middle and lower class families in 1st world nations, driving smaller companies under because big companies have better profit margins and can afford the economic hardship leading to even further monopolization. Meanwhile, China, the world's largest and dirtiest industrial polluter doesn't even have to abide by any of these regulations whatsoever because a billion peasants living in squalor means your trillion dollar megacorporations are still developing and get a free pass.
The description says "Why did the EU emissions market succeed when the Kyoto Protocol failed?" - Question is not actually answered in video, instead you are redirected to some other website where you probably have to pay. great job m8
Ok, I fully misremembered my Halo lore and got The Kyoto Protocol mixed up with The Cole Protocol, and I was very interested in how The Spiffing Brit lead The Covenant back to Earth
Mate I love the fact that you could upload stuff to Nebula, but cutting out half of your videos to throw into Nebula is starting to get a biiiit frustrating for those of us who don't have that kind of disposable income. I don't think The Algorithm would particularly mind 30 minute long videos anyway, so I don't see why you don't upload the entire stuff here. Sincerely, a person who can't afford a Nebula subscription.
i like how the graph includes russia and ukraine from 1990 ignoring that the only reason their emissions lowered was the complete economic collapse caused by capitalism
Hi, Simon! Love your work, but I want to comment about something that you didn't explore further on the video (and you aknowledge that it's something to talk later). But, carbon tax maybe could be a more effective way to reduce greenhouse gases emition, but wouldn't be, in anyway, an advence on climate justice. More expensive products, only means that the poorest wouldn't be able to afford it, but the richest would be able to continuing consuming as usual. I know that you aren't preaching a market solution, I just think it's important to point out: no market solution is fair or effective on the scale that we need.
Not trying to invalidate your argument, but if there was a carbon tax, wouldn't less carbon-producing products (in essence) replace the more carbon-producing products over time? Meaning more carbon-producing products would rise in price while less-producing ones would (relatively) stay the same? Though it is worth mentioning that less producing products are more expensive to begin with due to the process of being carbon-free, and I suppose they could then increase their prices to whatever they want if demand is high enough. I guess a solution would be to subsidize carbon-free products (or carbon-free technology) so those companies are encouraged to keep producing but can also make sure they keep their prices relatively low for affordability.
THE KYOTO PROTOCOL IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED TREATY WITH NO EXPLOITS
Why did I hear his voice saying this?...
Calm down TF2 player, calm down
THE GENEVA CONVENTION IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED TREATY WITH NO EXPLOITS
THE LAWS ARE PERFECTLY BALANCED RULES WITH NO LOOPHOLES AND EXPLOITS
@@coatguards8032 of physics*
spiffing Britt be like "the UN declaration of human rights is absolutely balanced without any exploits" and then goes to enslave kids while committing technically not genocide
chad
Well they are no slaves. He is providing them a education. It's just a practical education in crafts. Like sewing or canning or painting.
They are even fed and can sleep at the school. In no way is this a sweatshop.
And the more sewing they can do, the more educating 😉
@@10thletter40 you get the picture. And if they are really good they might be able to go to the advanced class. there they only have to study for 23,30 hours a day.
@@the_seeker.entity9206 Based chad
The true exploit is to increase emissions enough that there's an overflow error and they loop back round to 0
The climate Gandhi (from civ 5). Except it would go to zero instead of 255.
yes, but that's the "kill all humans" solution
So long as the temperature loops back too.
@@Azurath100 I'm sure they won't mind
inb4 this actually works
This cross-over is maybe the greatest ever. Cheers fellas.
Well they are both part of the Yogscast. It was bound to happen 🙂
I didn't watch the video yet nor payed good attention to what I was reading in the comment section and I was expecting Simon to do a cool basketball crossover move in the video. He didn't and I was left unsatisfied until I realized that it was a crossover with another channel. Great vid.
The BOLDEST might I add. Infinity War ain't got nothing on this
It bored the shit out of me after 3 minutes.
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This is by far one of the weirdest crossovers I ever withnessed.
Weird, then you realize both have probably played a few sessions together since theyre both related to the Yogscast
But damn isn’t it one of the best crossovers I ever witnessed
Game Theory is theoriest
Fun fact - the same guy that created CFCs created leaded gas as well.
What a great guy.
@@yozul1 The poor bastard. Same with the inventor of the 'disposable' plastic bag. He assumed they would be used many times over and was apparently appalled at how they were abused, even in his lifetime.
@@hendrikvanleeuwen9110 And overall narrative tells us: The plastic bag is bad, not the people.
@@BadDayLp Maybe plastic people are the real problem.
He was disabled by polio age 51 so invented himself an harness to get in and out of bed. One day while using the contraption it swung out of control, and he ended up accidentally strangling himself to death in his struggle.
Later in life he contracted polio and was pretty much bedridden, but still managed to devise a system of ropes and pulleys for getting himself out of bed. However, one day the system misfunctioned and he got entangled in it and managed to strangle himself. Altogether a tragic story!
Reminds me of an episode about emissions trading in a Belgian TV show. Turns out Belgium emitted too much in 2010, so we bought emissions from Hungary from ... 1990. Apparently countries can sell CO2 that they didn't emit decades ago. It's a perfectly balanced and reasonable system.
Now realize that China and India have probably bought all the quotas from african countries and continue polluting like there's no tomorrow
@@XavierGoncalves89 that a fact or just your biased conjecture?
The 1990 date effectively meant that countries in Eastern Europe were 25% under their quotas because of the industrial collapse they experienced with the fall of communism. Technically Russia is among the best Kyoto performers
@@oniichan4909 I remember reading about it a few years ago, but only for China, hence the "probably"
@@XavierGoncalves89 India hasn't done that much, because they've got a lot of sunlight, hence, solar panels are cheaper there
i loved that TheSpiffingBit was included, that part was so great
i wish more of him showing in his videos
Another time include lindybeige.
Spiff? and Simon!? Pointing out exploits in international political treaty's? I think this may be the video that deserves to break the Internet the most.
Ahhh America. "Do this our way or we won't play ball."
"Now that you've done exactly what we wanted, bye"
Reminds me of when they joined the league of nations
But if it is bad it's China that's the real question
@@BigFootTheRealOne?
@@xmlthegreat 👽
@@munzerabdulhamid photos printed
Next up:
"The Geneva Convention is a totally balanced human rights treaty with no exploits"
AMERICAN PROCESS:
> Find legitimate, international problem
> Strongarm everyone else to adopt your solution (which has a lot of problems)
> Do not participate in the solution, despite doing arguably the worst job at curbing the problem
> Do not elaborate
> Leave
america has been number 1 in emission reduction in the world for a few years now. so no America has done it better than anybody and the problem is the country who need fossil fuels to move their people from post-colonization (thanks to europeans ;)) to modern societies. so not limiting your emissions is essentlly an act of not starving your population.
@@JallyJam No. Also I didn’t realise that the UK was spelt “America”
@@JallyJam literally completely irrelevant
@@JallyJam Could you cite your source there? I am just extremely sceptical of that.
@@maverick5640 it was mainly in part under the Obama administration if that adds any credibility to you. “According to the 2017 BP statistical review of world energy, since 2005 annual us carbon emissions declined 758 million metric tons. The eu (every country in Western Europe) declined an equal 770 million” so yes when AOC says we should stop all air travel to stop our emission, it’s literally like blowing your brains out to fix your broken leg that’s already in a cast for 4 months. China grew by 3 billion metric tons so at the end of the day again China should have their industry destroyed and their people starve not Americans.
I used to work in emissions derivatives trading. And as it turns out, you don't even need exploits! Institutional investors make great ~gobs~ of money speculating on and hedging with carbon credits!
Nah, it's more fun with exploits. Just blow everything up like the world is Nevada
ft. SpiffingBrit? You're moving up in the world! So happy for you!
seeing as Simon is a friend of the Yogscast and spiff is a part of it. it's not surprising
@@fred1854 you must be an excellent party guest
@@fred1854 He is just a friend? I thought he was a part of Yogscast considering how many times he appeared in their streams/videos, and even their main channel.
@@Bluejet_007 I think he is just a friend but I have seen place that call him a member and over places that don't
Fantastic video. Would love to see a discussion on the Paris protocol in a future video and how this compares to Kyoto and other ideas for agreements that haven't been implemented.
Yes!
+!
Trump
@@timothy_h-IDN China Joe
@@BigFootTheRealOne thou art wrong
Japan be proposing an environmental emergency. Unfortunately no one has those two sweet diplomatic victory points yet.
The sweeping under the rug bit was hilarious.
starvation is funny lol
Excellent, excellent video. Especially happy with your and Spiff's performances - y'all are very effective communicators. I personally love it when you cover international treaties - they're great subjects for discussions about climate ethics (such as who bears responsibility for climate change, who deserves reparations for climate damage, and which climate solutions are both just, feasible, and effective).
responsibility: Especially the gov. when introducing new stuff, the industry because they produce most of it, and everyone else especially while moving around or shopping.
Nobody deserves reperations.
At this point in time: Nuclear Energy.
Great video! I'm trained as an Ecological Economist, and can definitely confirm that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme is similarly flawed (in that case, a price floor had to be introduced as demand for the credits dried up within a few years.)
Cool job
Wait, demand dried up, so they decreased their need for credits?
For real man , did they decrease they’re emissions ?
@@gentleshark972 Well, that does tend to happen when you are allowed to trade credits based on estimates for the twenty years that preceded the treaty. Belgium was buing Hungary's credits from the 90's. A country that at the time was rural, poor, and in dire straits due to the communist collapse, with virtually no industry to create pollution. If I were to put a 20 year backlog of any product on the market all of a sudden, at the same time as all my neighboors, demands would be met, and dry up. It's even easier to do when all you need to do is will the specific item into existence on same baseless estimate at no cost.
Love how Spiff's portion is edited no different than his normal gameplay stuff - just with environmental destruction rather than rts, rpg, or fps destruction.
i never thought i would ever see this cross-over holy shit
_"The lesson here is still need to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, and doing so will require new solutions."_ Or you know..... you could just use nuclear power. just tossing that out there.
But nuclear power scarrrrrrry!!!1!!1!1!1!1111
a wee bit expensive but our best temporary solution
It certainly has a role to play in solving climate change, but to believe that nuclear power is the be all end all for energy generation is delusional at best. It is an expensive, slow to start up, and most importantly very inflexible technology. Nice for some baseload generation but that's about it.
@@TheBackslash1 Innovation is key. Any technology that is never expanded on is expensive and inflexible. As a (weak) comparison, look at the original computers compared to your cell phone. We went from computers the size of a room to one that fits in the palm of your hand. Just because something is expensive and not completely feasible today doesn't mean it still won't be in a few years if given the chance to grow. I mean heck, Solar power has gotten much better in the past few years right?
Fear mongering has crushed nuclear power, it's the safest and least impactful energy source on the planet yet people point to two accidents that killed a few dozen people and leaked a bit of radiation, but blatantly ignore the thousands and thousands of deaths caused by gas/oil drilling and processing, plus the billions of plants and animals killed by spills and ruptures, and all this carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Thats Switch to spif was so clean!! I heard his voice and my heart went like
This is a mashup I never expected. And it made my morning
This might be my all-time favorite RUclips collab.
Briliant video, I love the light you show on the climate change always good to see you tackling issues like this and giving us not only a wide scope of info and your interpretation, but also the sources and all clearly linked allowing people to reead the data themselves and make up their own minds, love it please keep making more videos
I love that when Spiff comes in it just becomes one of his videos, stock photos and all lmao
thank u sooo much for talking about this!! also u were my major inspiration for deciding to study environmental science and climate and now i’m in my third year at university and i love it!!
The collaboration of dreams! 🙌
thank you for telling me about the extended video on nebula at the beginning of the video
*Walks in*
"You guys need to make trading Carbon Credits a part of the Protocol."
*Refuses to eleborate*
*Leaves*
What a chad move.
Well it’s the interesting exploit of expectations. Such as the president having any real power to do anything. Like how the US government convinced the masses that presidency was super important when the ones who are in the main control of the law is Congress.
This also has led to the fun present that a state when electing its governor can give no other options, besides some wild card, than the current one with no one seeing it as a problem.
But lord forbid you vote for anything other than red or blue. Who is red and blue? Well, red is blue and blue is red but blue hates red and red hates blue. Third option? Ah, who thinks outside the box? That’s for losers am I right?
And this is why I think anyone over the age of 63 should not be in office, thanks for reading my Ted Talk.
I clicked on this video by mistake because of Spiff's avatar and enjoyed it a lot. Cheers!
Simon's videos are really underrated so maybe you check some of them out?
@@josephbrennan370 Happily enough, I'm now a subscriber.
great vid, hope it gets plenty of reach, i worry by the time we see any tangible change it'll already be too late
I literally clicked on this thinking it was a Spiffing Brit video from the Thumbnail because that's the kind of things he's doing these days, just exploiting the world's failings, and when it starts I hear Simon's voice and realize what is going on.
I had to stop the video 10 seconds in to prepare myself for the true madness that is about to unfold. The internet is amazing.
RUclips Algorithm is Completely Fair; No Exploits.
The crossover we didn't know we needed until we got it.
Title: How @The Spiffing Brit broke the Kyoto Protocol
How I read it: How @The Spiffing Brit is breaking international law
Spiffing Brit once said:
“I only abide to the Geneva convention and saying I follow that is even a stretch”
We need a Kyoto Protocol for India and China now, they've been hiding under the label of "underdeveloped/semi-developed" for decades now, if you go to China or India you will see that they have enough of a modern budget and infrastructure to change their Co2 emissions
no you should go at the countrysides
China definitely has the budget and is trying but has so much industrial growth that it becomes so difficult. Not sure if India has the budget though, they struggle to collect taxes
@@christianwhittall5889 Struggle to collect taxes but can make highspeed rails, ghosts cities, skyscrapers, international investment (africa). Once a country is at the stage of growth where you look outside of your borders to invest, that's generally a sign of wealth which means china needs to follow the same standards now
@@Cecilia-ky3uw bruh that’s like saying the US isn’t industrialized because you took a single look at Wyoming
@@annonomeece6443 no but seriously you only need to look at the desolate villages to see china isnt doing that fine
I’ve a feeling my favourite RUclips channels are merging into one. Totally balanced
Nicely done, Simon! Love all your videos. 🥳
Love seeing "Nobody Speak"'s footage being used in a good way :D
The best part is that it wouldn't even be out of character for RtJ!!
Aw man there was a great Belgian show almost a decade ago called Basta where they did a bit about the Kyoto protocol. Essentially Belgium was buying carbon credits from a certain country (I forgot which one) but we were buying credits from past years to make up for our pollution this year. Also even if we wanted to buy credits from the current year we couldn't because they themselves had crossed the threshold of the amount of pollution they could produce in that year. They then did a comedy bit where they traveled to said country, where they found some "old air" trapped in old bubblewrap plastic and delivered it to the Belgian ministry for Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development.
Hungary?
@@timmyturner327 yup, it was Hungary
@@maarchalk2840 Ah, ok.
Glad to have been of help. I saw someone say it was Hungary elsewhere in the comments.
Best collaboration ever! :D
I read the book you recommended Don’t Even Think About It and have a whole new perspective now. Thanks Simon.
As a Swede, just taxing the shit out of something is honestly the better option. Worked for our alcohol.
Spiffing Brit, the best thing out of England along with Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer and Professor Elemental. The 3 best things the Brits ever invented.
Like other NGOs dealing with social issues:
You are told and paid to solve social issues.
You will also be jobless when the social issue is solved.
You are going to create social issues to keep your job and get paid.
YOU ARE GOING TO CREATE SOCIAL ISSUES TO KEEP YOUR JOB ABD GET PAID.
Well my good man Simon, you have now been subbed. Keep up the good work and drink plenty of tea!
and make sure to thank Spiffco ;-)
Or you know, we could use the cleanest, safest, and most efficient source of energy we have: nuclear.
Yeah but people tend to fear it
and drink coffee
Nuclear is certainly better, but we still have zero methods for safe storage in the long term, which could, if we fully made the switch, present its own host of issues later down the line. I think it would be best if we made a switch to nuclear, and then gradually phased it out with improved renewable energy sources (like ones that aren’t 15 meters tall).
@@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise Dude those coal powerplants make more dangerous substances as a by-product. Nuclear is nothing compared to other.s
Also we do have the safest method.
This is probably the colab I would have least expected. Love it!
Thank you so much for this video ! It was so well explained and clear as always ! And so much needed !
However the affirmation regarding nebula being the extension of the "smart" part of youtube was a little bit on the judgemental side. We all love to watch what suits us the best, let's not bash other people for their preferences just to feel better 😊
MOAR! Moar of this kind of collab on the YT platform! It's so good :D
As an American, I would just like to say "You're welcome."
Haha, good joke
Great video, super interesting content, and cool to see Spiff expanding his tea empire.
One thing made me chuckle though, it's the Curiosity stream ad at the end showcasing a guy driving a CAR across the solar system in a video about carbon emissions. The irony...
This is a weird turn of event that im glad i see
In regards to the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air act and the reduction of sulphur emissions, I believe that happened mostly in part because Canada pressured the US into lowering emmisions because of the acid rain in Canada caused by US emissions.
So what I'm hearing is, we need to find a way to make being environmentally friendly profitable for capitalism to actually work on reducing harmful emissions.
This is on top of other efforts to do so, mind, not as a replacement.
Bingo. I wished more people got that. Although, the implementation was horrible here
The Kyoto Protocol is a Perfectly Balanced Treaty with No Gaping Holes
Unfortunately the moment you add the word 'tax' to anything, the majority of American Politicians will start frothing at the mouth and start reaching for their muskets
They didn't even sign up for the free market capitalist solution, though
@@Septimus_ii Because it's literally not a free market. It's governments tossing around money to benefit themselves without actually competing about anything.
However, a tax is also stupid because the only people you hurt are those without the money to pay for the increased tax.
Thus causing further reliance on the government, thus causing more debt, thus causing higher taxes, and so on and so forth.
Wasn't there a case in Canada where everyone was on board with a bill, but the moment a politician slipped up and said "tax" instead of a synonym of tax, support instantly fled away?
As a Swede, just taxing the shit out of something is honestly the better option. Worked for our alcohol.
Well no shit because people will be pissed and then it'll affect them back. Ofc you're dumb so you won't understand why.
This dude. Spiffing brit. Zero percent surprised, but loving it.
I closed the video the moment you said that the second video was behind a pay wall.
I am 100% convinced spiff is a lawyer and specialises in legal loopholes
Spiffs other fav international treaty to break is the Geneva Convention 😂
The crossover no one enticipated, but everyone loved
"Capitalism is when the government designs, imposes and manages top down solutions"
Yeah... this is not capitalism at work, it's literally state interventionism under the guise of free market...
It’s almost like the free market doesn’t work and never has.
It's almost like capitalism is doomed to fail
saw this and read a few of the comments and thought it was actually a callout video about spiff committing a war crime
But wait there's more ...
Great video. Really interesting explain action of what happened the Kyoto agreement.
You took the best part of the video and took it to Nebula. And then complain about the "failures of capitalism". Can someone explain why the ETS worked better than Kyoto?
the sequel: spiffing brit exploits the geneva convention
If I got 3 wishes they would be make USA China and Russia cease to exist and just become sea
Are you sure that wouldn’t become a monkeys paw deal?
Love this cross over. Love both of these tubers
"The nation state is the measles of humanity." - Albert Einstein
"We must become global citizens." - Stephen Hawking
A good and strong nation state is the _only_ known way to protect the people, super-national organizations always become horrible bureaucratic nightmares.
@@Nukestarmaster we’ve tried twice in all of human history, your gonna write it off so soon?
Thank you for putting the nebula notice at the start not the end!
Hearing The Spiffing Brit reminds that we are lucky he only is a RUclipsr and not running a large company or governments…
Or is he?
Great to see Spiff getting involved
Now I want to see Spiff just start exploiting the real world.
Love ya DrSimonClark!
As Austin Powers once said: "Yay Capitalism"
hehe... yep, making up excuses for taking other people's money at gunpoint, Ha Haa! Doesn't sound at all like the opposite of capitalism.
@@mgntstr Magnus Chungusson
@@mgntstr the opposite of capitalism? Have you been huffing gas?
@@RhizometricReality opposite yes I'm positive, does this sound like cyapityaleezm Komrade? Not your property, our property.
@@mgntstr Gotta love that it's capitalisms fault for government leaving in clauses that specifically benefit specific companies which government officials then invest in or whose children get high-paying positions in those companies.
And that the solution is to put taxes on consumer products bought primarily by middle and lower class families in 1st world nations, driving smaller companies under because big companies have better profit margins and can afford the economic hardship leading to even further monopolization. Meanwhile, China, the world's largest and dirtiest industrial polluter doesn't even have to abide by any of these regulations whatsoever because a billion peasants living in squalor means your trillion dollar megacorporations are still developing and get a free pass.
Hearing his voice already makes me smile :)
I was surprised at the lesson here, I thought it was "never trust the USA to do anything right".
That's not a lesson, that's just an underlying thematic assumption.
This unexpected, bizarre, yet fits like a glove. Excellent crossover.
".... and dumping it in France!"
There is something outstandingly British about sipping tea as you completely exploit something.
The description says "Why did the EU emissions market succeed when the Kyoto Protocol failed?" - Question is not actually answered in video, instead you are redirected to some other website where you probably have to pay. great job m8
Ok, I fully misremembered my Halo lore and got The Kyoto Protocol mixed up with The Cole Protocol, and I was very interested in how The Spiffing Brit lead The Covenant back to Earth
"Balanced between countries"
china moment
When one day you exploit Skyrim and the other one you find legal loopholes in the international treaty
Mate I love the fact that you could upload stuff to Nebula, but cutting out half of your videos to throw into Nebula is starting to get a biiiit frustrating for those of us who don't have that kind of disposable income. I don't think The Algorithm would particularly mind 30 minute long videos anyway, so I don't see why you don't upload the entire stuff here.
Sincerely, a person who can't afford a Nebula subscription.
the transition was amazing
Can't see the US agreeing to increased tax on their beloved oversized beef steaks.
This has to be the most ambitious crossover event of the decade.
i like how the graph includes russia and ukraine from 1990 ignoring that the only reason their emissions lowered was the complete economic collapse caused by capitalism
It still counts as data. And that's why they were separated from the others.
This makes me sad. But at least I had a warm cup of tea :) Thanks, Spiff co.
Hi, Simon! Love your work, but I want to comment about something that you didn't explore further on the video (and you aknowledge that it's something to talk later). But, carbon tax maybe could be a more effective way to reduce greenhouse gases emition, but wouldn't be, in anyway, an advence on climate justice. More expensive products, only means that the poorest wouldn't be able to afford it, but the richest would be able to continuing consuming as usual. I know that you aren't preaching a market solution, I just think it's important to point out: no market solution is fair or effective on the scale that we need.
Not trying to invalidate your argument, but if there was a carbon tax, wouldn't less carbon-producing products (in essence) replace the more carbon-producing products over time? Meaning more carbon-producing products would rise in price while less-producing ones would (relatively) stay the same? Though it is worth mentioning that less producing products are more expensive to begin with due to the process of being carbon-free, and I suppose they could then increase their prices to whatever they want if demand is high enough. I guess a solution would be to subsidize carbon-free products (or carbon-free technology) so those companies are encouraged to keep producing but can also make sure they keep their prices relatively low for affordability.
i got recommended this video and i thought this was somehow a silly drama video and was delightfully surprised by a great educational video!
Thank you. I didn't know about this. Science is not my best subject.
Spiffing Brit should do more videos on real life exploits!!!
It's almost like there's no such thing as an ethical market.
Ohhh... this would definitely would help me on my presentation about this