A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels | Monica Araya

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  • Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
  • How do we build a society without fossil fuels? Using her native Costa Rica as an example of positive action on environmental protection and renewables, climate advocate Monica Araya outlines a bold vision for a world committed to clean energy in all sectors.
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  • @enkhbayardambadarjaa7356
    @enkhbayardambadarjaa7356 5 лет назад +6

    I am CR right now. This visit was not only recreational but also educational. I really appreciate CR as a country. Thank you!

  • @willw8463
    @willw8463 8 лет назад +16

    Been to Costa Rica recently, such an inspiring country with great people

    • @Life-vc7dp
      @Life-vc7dp 4 месяца назад

      For how long you have been there, you were there as Tourist or Work?

  • @jordansage9655
    @jordansage9655 6 лет назад +13

    Never knew how progressive Costa Rica is, incredible!

    • @zolikoff
      @zolikoff 6 лет назад +1

      It isn't progressive really, hydroelectricity is cheaper than fossil fuel energy and has been cheaper for the last century. Lots of states, especially small ones like Costa Rica have clean energy simply because of lucky geography.

    • @orenjisalmonpaw
      @orenjisalmonpaw 3 года назад +1

      @@zolikoff Costa Rica is progressive

  • @hectorl.campos994
    @hectorl.campos994 8 лет назад +6

    This has to be one of the most inspiring TED Talks I have seen in a while | thank you Monica Araya, you are a great storyteller and a source of strength and imagination on this long journey toward s greener planet. Proud to be a fellow Latin American as well; gracias | LCA

  • @remybuitenhuis2433
    @remybuitenhuis2433 8 лет назад +18

    i am going o costa rica as soon as i have my enginering degree. period

    • @rafarafa87
      @rafarafa87 5 лет назад +2

      Please do. We have Ad Astra Rocket here, the company who is working at the VASIMIR engine for space travels and to develop hydrogen production to remove normal vehicles. Just remember we're still a underdeveloped country, just so that you don't have too high expectations..

    • @jeremyzapata8623
      @jeremyzapata8623 4 года назад

      Remy Buitenhuis Yo did you do it?

    • @remybuitenhuis2433
      @remybuitenhuis2433 4 года назад

      @@jeremyzapata8623 hello. Right now I am in my last year of my bachelor. I did do an internship in Costa Rica tho. I was there for 6 months. I enjoyed my internship as well as the country.

    • @jeremyzapata8623
      @jeremyzapata8623 4 года назад

      @@remybuitenhuis2433 Glad to hear that :D congrats

  • @kinsmed
    @kinsmed 8 лет назад +22

    An inspiring and necessary talk...
    but I'm glad for RUclips's Speed control.

    • @zoteha
      @zoteha 4 года назад

      True story, only I, on the contrary, slow down the video, because I don't understand English well🇷🇺🗿

  • @Noukz37
    @Noukz37 8 лет назад +34

    My god so many cynical and hateful comments on a truly inspiring TED video! Educate yourselves, little elves!

  • @samimas4343
    @samimas4343 8 лет назад +38

    i wish all countries would do the same, destroy military powers and arms, care about our world, our mother that feeds us, and care about each others.

    • @brandong298
      @brandong298 5 лет назад +3

      The problem is as long as the US Russian and China exist we won’t have peace.

  • @drekrajojha5653
    @drekrajojha5653 4 года назад +5

    Such an interesting, important, and inspiring account in the context of sustainable development paradigm! Lots of applause to Costa Rica, especially its great hearts and hands that contributed in the materialization of the innovative approach!

  • @scumbagel8518
    @scumbagel8518 8 лет назад +122

    For a second I thought the title was "How to get rid of a small country with fossil fuels."
    Either my brain is messed up or I'm secretly Saddam Hussein.

  • @busilvia
    @busilvia 6 лет назад +4

    Me encantó este TED Talk, muy buen trabajo. Apenas para discutirlo con mis estudiantes de inglés para que ellos también se unan al cambio generando sus propias ideas para una Costa Rica Limpia

  • @Sam-oz8pn
    @Sam-oz8pn 8 лет назад +35

    The US needs to spend less on its army!

    • @sportbikeguy9875
      @sportbikeguy9875 4 года назад +2

      if the US army were a country, its carbon emissions would rank in the top 30 of all countries in the world...

    • @aweirdredguy3885
      @aweirdredguy3885 4 года назад

      @@sportbikeguy9875 the thing that that surprises me is that the CIA never installed a dicatorship in this country under threat of "communism" as they did to most of Latin America

  • @Mikolaj_u
    @Mikolaj_u 8 лет назад +19

    43 petrol producers watched this

  • @marianasanabria5687
    @marianasanabria5687 2 года назад +1

    Ojalá lleguemos ahí algún día!! Inspiring talk

  • @rakeshverma2209
    @rakeshverma2209 8 лет назад +3

    Really inspiring! countries and their people should come out once from comparing profit margins of environment friendly energy sources with the conventional ones and should establish clean energy power sources wherever possible.

  • @vidyadharjoshi5714
    @vidyadharjoshi5714 4 года назад +1

    The Design of cities creates the transportation needs. If the cities are designed so that people can easily travel either by public trasport or bikes or walking then that's the ideal. Else the existing cities have to be significantly modified which is enormous task.

  • @Lobo243
    @Lobo243 5 лет назад +1

    WOW se me salieron las lagrimas ..Gracias Monica por tu trabajo ❤️

  • @NaufalNandaliarasyad
    @NaufalNandaliarasyad 4 года назад +1

    very inspiring talk. I hope every country can do the same because this idea means peace is kept between countries, and the world will heal from its cancerous pollution

  • @fromdenisse
    @fromdenisse 8 лет назад +1

    as a 20 year old costarican tired of all the problems fossil fuels causes, Monica just show in a inspired way, that their is a solution and we the young people are responsable of this change. thanks.

  • @jenc2601
    @jenc2601 3 года назад

    GREETINGS FROM COSTA RICA.! 🇨🇷

  • @jackbottomly4420
    @jackbottomly4420 6 лет назад +1

    Excellent Speech ! !

  • @GotEmAll1337
    @GotEmAll1337 8 лет назад +2

    15:22 Pretty sure Costa Rica is where the Galactic Empire was formed.

  • @forgoodnessache5399
    @forgoodnessache5399 5 лет назад +1

    Burning biomass is not that "clean" or renewable, especially if artificial fertilizer (made from natural gas) was used in the growing process. Far better to compost it and return it to the land. Hopefully CR will move toward 100% organic and regenerative agriculture while they are moving to 100% electric transportation.

  • @Zoza15
    @Zoza15 8 лет назад +6

    Put Military spending into Social Spending?, if only the rest of the world did this, we could developed a very advanced civilization without the to fight anyone..
    She wants a better public transportation system?, then come here to The Netherlands and see how we do it..
    We have probably the most advanced public transportation and road system ever developed.

  • @ArnoAEvers
    @ArnoAEvers 7 лет назад

    Good rhetoric is admirable, however, it is not everything.
    Also independent background information is essential.
    Within 3 hours,
    I can explain Monica Araya, what to do next, to reach Costa Rica`s
    sustainable targets for a really clean mobility.
    And also for a much better electricity infrastructure.

  • @ya_casi
    @ya_casi 8 лет назад +22

    such a great talk!! so proud to be Costa Rican.

  • @blahbleh5671
    @blahbleh5671 8 лет назад +64

    Imagine if the USA's defence spending was all reallocated to health and education....

    • @eddiemurray57
      @eddiemurray57 8 лет назад +14

      They would probably get invaded...

    • @edokdicht
      @edokdicht 8 лет назад

      +abraham lincoln C:

    • @kokofan50
      @kokofan50 8 лет назад +3

      +Constantinus You have no idea what you're talking about. Iran is working to build reactors for generating electricity, and no country for high has ever had nuclear weapons has built them by using power plants as cover.

    • @Loathomar
      @Loathomar 8 лет назад +6

      LOL, the US military spending for 2015 was $637 Billion. The next highest china at $215B. The US military spending accounts for just over 1/3 of the world's military spending. The US and EU account for over half.

    • @kokofan50
      @kokofan50 8 лет назад +6

      ***** Yes cutting back on the wasteful spending in the military is going to damage the military's fighting ability. It's not like the military has wasted a trillion dollars on a plane that we don't need and doesn't work.

  • @MrAguasey
    @MrAguasey 8 лет назад +9

    The pathos in her voice as she speak about her country...

    • @CORZER0
      @CORZER0 8 лет назад

      It is wonderful to listen to sadness and grief? You're weird.

    • @MrAguasey
      @MrAguasey 8 лет назад

      +CORZER0 it's not sadness.. it's seeing someone passionate about make the world better

    • @CORZER0
      @CORZER0 8 лет назад

      MrAguasey
      Not an argument.

    • @AvailableUsernameTed
      @AvailableUsernameTed 8 лет назад +1

      She sounds proud.

  • @mick7346
    @mick7346 6 лет назад +1

    This gave me chills (the good kind)

  • @conqueyourworld
    @conqueyourworld 8 лет назад +1

    Monica, when all that you are advocating for is successful let us know.
    We have "developing" cities and towns all across the USA that struggle to implement what Monica's agena is even though they even have the richest cites in the world just down the road. I am sure those towns and cities would like to know the secret when you figure it out.

  • @beautanner8409
    @beautanner8409 8 лет назад +3

    This is good for Costa Rica, but it isn't necessarily reproducible. It was able to abolish its armed forces, but that wouldn't work even for a relatively safe middle power (like Canada), and definitely not a larger states (like U.S. or Germany). There are other factors (Costa Rica's high renewable energy potential vs low consumption) gives it an advantage.
    That being said, a lot of what she's saying is relevant to a lot of countries, and her sentiments are solid.

    •  6 лет назад +1

      Yes, low consumption was an advantage, but as the country develops, the consumption increases, every year, the clean energy goes from 100% to 99% and 98%, thats why we keep building new energy plants, the next one "el diquis" will give us 122% clean energy, and that extra 22% will last us for about 10 years.
      Costa rica was just exampling hydroelectricty, of course, other countries need to look for other ways, just like iceland uses geothermal instead of hydro.

    • @cpfishfan14
      @cpfishfan14 6 лет назад +2

      Canada could abolish it's army, it's not like they stand a chance against the US anyways. In fact, abolishing the army would make it less likely the US ever invades Canada.

  • @ishakaimen1576
    @ishakaimen1576 8 лет назад +1

    Yes but I think oil is really efficient compared to other energy sources, so it's not easy.

    • @disgny
      @disgny 8 лет назад

      If you are seriously interested in this, look up "Thorium: Energy Cheaper than Coal" , by a Prof. Hargraves, a book used as a college course in comparative energy costs. Fossil Fuels lose. So , yes ,it is not "Easy",but that is mainly because of Politics, not actual costs.

    • @guringai
      @guringai 4 года назад

      EVs ie Tesla model 3 is 8 x the energy efficiency is the average car.

  • @louisjacq706
    @louisjacq706 8 лет назад +1

    How can I help? I genuinely want to know

  • @superfred
    @superfred 8 лет назад +65

    imagine if american spent half as much on their military and invested it back into renewable energy

    • @TheSqueeker101
      @TheSqueeker101 8 лет назад +5

      It would not be possible. The NATO allies would fall apart and most of the money would just be wasted.

    • @rojamani4791
      @rojamani4791 7 лет назад

      I appreciate your country for the substantial efforts

    • @geraldbennett7035
      @geraldbennett7035 6 лет назад

      your country would be extinct

    • @dragoneye8610
      @dragoneye8610 6 лет назад

      they would loose money, if you insist on buying energy these are better solution: nuclear energy, hydro energy or buying oil are the only truly good and profitable solutions.

    • @GuitarsMatrix
      @GuitarsMatrix 6 лет назад +2

      Is there only people outside on USA who understand how much the americans are going to war in order to control supply of energy and other crucial supply everywhere in the world ?
      Is there people in USA who actually understand that bringing the democracy to the world, means in reality going out there to control other countries ?
      I hope the people in the USA will wake up soon and understand how much they are part of destroying our planet, unfortunately it will probably be too late.

  • @procrasti86
    @procrasti86 8 лет назад +4

    This gives some hope...
    ...until you turn on the TV

  • @Varaga_82
    @Varaga_82 8 лет назад +2

    the problem with not having a army...is the other countries. in the of my country Chile, it would get fucked without an army by peru and bolivia (argentina maybe) so untill we resolve all diplomatic problems and actually coexist as neighbours, chile could get rid of army (IT WOULD BE SO AWESOMEE)

    • @disgny
      @disgny 8 лет назад

      According to your logic , Costa Rica should have vanished years ago. And there is another very successful country "without an Army", sort of. Switzerland does have a small Officer Corps, but their "Army" is Militiamen, who live at home , and don't get paid. Works fine. Even the Germans didn't bother them.

    • @Varaga_82
      @Varaga_82 8 лет назад

      +disgny no...the diference with costa rica is that they dont have enemies, chile does.

    • @javierandres9627
      @javierandres9627 7 лет назад

      We kinda have Nicaragua as political enemies. (emphasis on political). But I do understand where you come from. Panama also has no military and it controls the Panama canal, which is very important to The Americas economy, making Panama a target for other countries.

    • @Varaga_82
      @Varaga_82 7 лет назад

      Javier Bermúdez yes...BUT, in the 21 century a war is highly risky and rather than entering a war with the other is waaay more efficient make an economic treaty with him. so, why would you want to invade panama...when you could just be friends with them.

    • @humanyoda
      @humanyoda 6 лет назад

      What can Militiamen do against tanks, airplanes, artillery, missiles?

  • @jacquelinebtoccigailhelena5184
    @jacquelinebtoccigailhelena5184 6 лет назад +1

    We need to reduce our usage with the new technology! For health and sustainability!

  • @uaalien
    @uaalien 6 лет назад

    That would be a perfect solution for Cuba. They burn so much oil to produce electricity. Such a beautiful island with such a huge potential. It was sad to see power plants with huge clouds of black smoke going to the sky.

  • @TheRedNaxela
    @TheRedNaxela 8 лет назад +32

    I had no idea costa rica is the world i want to live in

  • @c_muhamadasrurifaishal6689
    @c_muhamadasrurifaishal6689 4 года назад

    ohhhh we are very good idea, because we can make use of material environmentally friendly, so good

  • @zarkoff45
    @zarkoff45 8 лет назад

    If Costa Rica can do what it plans to do, then I agree, the rest of the world would have to take notice of it and eventually feel pressure to do the same. We are always told it can't be done, and because no one has done it yet, I am inclined to suspect they are right. But I really don't know. I just figured the time would arrive one day when it could be done. Maybe that's today?

    • @Lemor105
      @Lemor105 5 лет назад

      We are... cars in our country are taxed nearly 50% of what it is worth... and a ticket for driving without a license is nearly 300$... And gasoline is worth twice than city prices of a northamerican / european city... And you cant drive a car that will be about 25 years old... and since we SUCK at driving, you will most likely die from a 2 or 4 wheel motor vehicle than cancer (even if you were just walking).
      Let that sink in.

  • @thomaschen7685
    @thomaschen7685 4 года назад

    This is a good model for public speaking. She has a very clear structure and message, with sufficient use of slides and vocal variety. I think the only thing she can improve is her hand gesture. The way she puts her hand strikes me as a bit rigid. But overall, it is a good talk!

  • @Yggdrasill21
    @Yggdrasill21 8 лет назад

    I loved how she threw in a little spanglish there XD, also i loved the topic could hear her talk for hours

  • @mxkrohn
    @mxkrohn 8 лет назад +5

    Pura vida, mae ;)

  • @NeonsStyleHD
    @NeonsStyleHD 8 лет назад

    Biomass is not environmentally friendly. It's the same thing as fossil fuels, but just removes the fossilisation part. You are still burning plant oils, it's the same thing. Chemically very different, but the result is the same; greenhouse gases.

    • @povelvieregg165
      @povelvieregg165 5 лет назад

      NeonsStyle, it is not the same at all. Seriously, I learned this in elementary school. CO2 from biomass is part of the natural CO2 cycle on earth. Fossil fuels OTOH is CO2 that was taken out of the cycle millions of years ago. When we burn fossil fuels we are putting back CO2 into the cycle which has not been there for millions of years. That means we are pushing ourselves back to climate conditions we had millions of years ago. That is the problem. It is not the climate that is the problem. It is climate CHANGE that is the problem. Ecosystems are not well adapted to rapid change.

  • @vorlonagent
    @vorlonagent 8 лет назад

    Costa Rica only has to worry about its neighbors: Panama and Nicaragua. If they had, say, Venezuela next door, they might have had to rethink that whole "no army" thing.
    As it stands Nicaragua has begun a small annexation along the Costa Rican border. While Costa Rica has an International Court ruling in their favor, they had one of those in 2012 and it didn't keep the Nicaraguans from coming back again. Who is going to remove them if they don't go on their own?
    Costa Rica tried to hastily pull together a defensive force and repel the invaders but found out the hard way that there's a lot of lessons that go into building an actual army that a hastily-assembled defense force doesn't know and learns the hard way out in the field.

    •  6 лет назад +1

      well, as of today, nicaraguans had left the border, and all was done in a civilized way, venezuela and nicaragua aren't that different, the biggest difference is that nicaragua is the 3rd poorest country of americas.
      If we had an army, we could've begun a war and kill half the population of both countries which would make the whole point of "protecting" pointless.
      The reason USA can make wars without worrying about retaliation, is because USA is far away from most countries, so their population doesn't even know they are in war. If mexico was a superpower as an example, USA wouldn't be that reckless to make war with them.

  • @balupilu
    @balupilu 8 лет назад

    amazing

  • @TheGerogero
    @TheGerogero 8 лет назад

    Making that kind of a decision on a national versus an international level is very different...

  • @chantellec4216
    @chantellec4216 8 лет назад

    If a country was surrounded by ocean for example Australia, they should use wave energy

  • @rgaleny
    @rgaleny 6 лет назад

    run 350 MW Dynamos in a cascade

  • @vidyadharjoshi5714
    @vidyadharjoshi5714 4 года назад

    The existing transport can be modified to use Compressed gas, biofuels, hydrogen.

  • @oliviamathilde1981
    @oliviamathilde1981 8 лет назад

    The leading cause of deforestation in Costa Rica is to clear land for animal agriculture

  • @zedzoheb7947
    @zedzoheb7947 8 лет назад

    Great..

  • @nistarok123
    @nistarok123 8 лет назад

    Since when does Pharah do TED talks?

  • @albarleta2511
    @albarleta2511 8 лет назад +1

    Tesla Model 3

  •  8 лет назад

    Bravo.

  • @DeepakKumar-hb8wc
    @DeepakKumar-hb8wc 7 лет назад

    I like your idea ❤

  • @Loathomar
    @Loathomar 8 лет назад +10

    Costa Rica renewable energy is simply a question of good geography for renewable energy. Outside of hydroelectric and Geothermal, both hugely geographically dependent, there is only 5% other renewable sources. Iceland has had ~100% renewable energy since 2004 because it had a lot of good geography for hydroelectric and geothermal power. Also, moving to all renewable energy would require a over tripling of Costa Rica renewable energy production according to the speaker.
    Change over from gas cars to electric cars is always going to be hugely costly both on the monetary side and on the environmental side. The CO2 production in building a new car is about the same as driving that gas car for 100,000 miles. So, really, if you do not have a real gas guzzler, the most environmentally friendly thing to do is to keep driving they car. On the monetary side, the cost of replace all ~1 million gas cars with the cheapest electric car on the US market ($22K), of ~$22 billion. Which would mean it the government spend money only on cheapest electric car, it would take ~5 years to buy those cars. No education spending, no police, no firefighters or anything.

  • @greenghost2008
    @greenghost2008 8 лет назад +1

    We should listen to Spock. Vulcans are more logical than us humans.

  • @vondahe
    @vondahe 4 года назад +1

    Nuclear power plants with *modern* thorium salt reactors.
    You’re welcome.

  • @prehistoricorchid3455
    @prehistoricorchid3455 8 лет назад

    If only people would listen. Also what about tires, tar and all that stuff to make roads a such? that's made of oil is it not?

  • @eunicelee6452
    @eunicelee6452 Год назад

    9:53

  • @navom1
    @navom1 8 лет назад +1

    OK, this is total dribble with no real solutions. As an engineer, I can tell you that our current society is enabled by a plethora of miracles of modern science. Our future society will need orders of magnitude more. None of which were offered or even understood by this presenter.

    • @disgny
      @disgny 8 лет назад

      As a retired engineer, let me suggest to you that a LOT has changed over the last couple of generations. When Henry Ford was around, civilization WAS enabled by "miracles of modern science". Now , if you study it carefully, a lot of what passes as "wealth Creation" is actually fraudulent, and rather useless "Financial Inventions" of NO practical use, such as "Derivatives", CDOs, etc, The Financial world has experienced a sort of "Evolution" in reverse, favoring Swindles of all kinds , as well as a kind of Casino Gambling with Other Peoples Money, etc. It is not that science has failed, merely ignored. Have you heard of the Solution to the Energy Problem: The Thorium Liquid Fueled Reactor (LFTR) ? Look it up on RUclips. Very educational.

  • @김규민-t6o
    @김규민-t6o 8 лет назад

    Bravo

  • @laopang91362
    @laopang91362 6 лет назад

    keep this idea going.... a step at a time.

  • @adamthornton7880
    @adamthornton7880 8 лет назад

    This is a very good video, though, I'm not sure what the basis for saying, around 11:00, that you can't more away from fossil fuels incrementally is.

    • @markm0000
      @markm0000 8 лет назад +1

      If you go slow there will be very strong influence from the oil companies to refuse the change. This is why USA has become one of the worst countries in terms of air quality.

    • @disgny
      @disgny 8 лет назад

      There is a good reason why you can't move away from fossil fuels incrementally: Solar and Wind COST too much. They are not "Energy Dense", and will always be useful only in marginal circumstances, NOT where most people live. Good Example: Germany is putting up a good show of getting power from "Renewables", but it is a costly Sham. Actually they buy nuclear powered electricity from France, and make up the difference with Coal plants. Marvelously ironic that they haven't done anything with Thorium LFTR power, since their Chancellor has a PhD in Physics.(!) Go figure. I guess it is the Power of Politics.

    • @captaincrunch3892
      @captaincrunch3892 6 лет назад +1

      She already explained that point for those that listened. Changing from gas or diesel fueled cars to electric cars doesn't solve the core issue that traffic is already out of control in her country. You would wait the same 2 hours in electric car traffic as fossil fueled traffic.
      So, it isn't enough to just use the next decade or two to chance from fossil fueled cars to electric cars, you need to build cities around a better transportation system.
      That means, a city purposely build were you can walk or bike to work, to the store, etc. Don't build suburbs with downtown offices, build cities where people live AND work, and where you can get there using public transportation, biking, walking, etc.
      For that to happen, a core change in the philosophy on how cities are built is required. If you do it incrementally, you just end up chasing the train that left the station forever, from station to station, until you give up or pass out.
      So, it means, instead of adding cleaner cars, rip out streets, add buses and bike lanes, and remove cars from the equation altogether. That is a change that works. Incremental change is just a dog chasing its tail until it gives up.

  • @Funkestech
    @Funkestech 7 лет назад +2

    This is why we can't have nice things, if someone came up with a cure for cancer today, people would still complain, it's our national sport.

  • @tarstarkusz
    @tarstarkusz 8 лет назад

    Electric cars are unworkable at this point. Better PT, walkable and bicycle friendly cities are helpful, but you simply are not going to replace a large portion of transportation from diesel/petrol to electric. Electric cars are inefficient as well.

    • @povelvieregg165
      @povelvieregg165 5 лет назад

      tarstarkusz, guess you got to eat your words today. 30% of all cars sold in my native Norway are electric. Another 30% are hybrids. The minority of cars are pure gasoline. Every year electric cars are taking a bigger market share. Norway is among the largest countries in Europe, with cold climate, difficult terrain etc. If electric cars work here, they can work anywhere.
      > Electric cars are inefficient as well.
      You got it in reverse. Electric cars are about 90% energy efficient. Gasoline is around 20%. EVs are thus around 5x more efficient. Range is of course an issue, but that is not an issue with an ever bigger super charger network. I have friends who have driven all across Norway with their electric cars. No problem.

  • @cookingonthego9422
    @cookingonthego9422 8 лет назад

    That's quite possible trolleybus is simple and requires little infrastructure and electric trains can handle serious number of people. Problem is shity qality, car is as confortable as you can pay. you cant ask for nice clean trole or train without milion people. Maybe someone will figure out how to fix this.

  • @roidroid
    @roidroid 8 лет назад

    "Ms Amazed" is in the audience again!

  • @vidyadharjoshi5714
    @vidyadharjoshi5714 4 года назад

    Why should people have to spend 2 hrs each way for yrs? That has to change immediately. Corona showed that to the world. Do people have to learn this way ?

  • @Arnseb
    @Arnseb 8 лет назад +24

    Fossil fuels does nothing to the enviroment compared to the meat industry. If we can figure out how to stop cows from farting etc we should be golden.

    • @Arnseb
      @Arnseb 8 лет назад +1

      +StarK True, I love meat myself, but everyone becoming vegitarians isn't the only solution. Lab-grown meat could theoretically work. As long as the solution involves me eating something indistiguishable from bacon I'm happy

    • @Loathomar
      @Loathomar 8 лет назад +5

      That would be incorrect. All of agriculture accounts for 13.5% of worldwide green house gas production, and 6.5% is from meat production. In the US it is just 6.2% for agriculture and 2.3% for meat production. Though not all meat is the same. Lamb is the most extreme with 40kg of Co2 for a Kg of meat, then beef with ~30kgCO2/kg, but Chicken is less the 7kg per kg.
      www.skepticalscience.com/how-much-meat-contribute-to-gw.html

    • @stigcc
      @stigcc 8 лет назад +3

      +Loathomar The source says "cattle produce methane, which is a greenhouse gas about 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The livestock sector is responsible for about 37% of human-caused methane emissions, and about 65% of human nitrous oxide emissions (mainly from manure)"

    • @Loathomar
      @Loathomar 8 лет назад +2

      This is correct, but methane only accounts for 8% of US GHG protection. There is a real concern that if places like China and India start eat like the US and Europe, the methane production will sky rocket, which could make methane a much larger part of total GHG protection. But methane level in the atmosphere from the developed nations peaked in, which is way there was no increase in methane ppm between 1998 and 2008, but started increase after 2008 because of changes of diet in the developing world. Methane's half life is 12 years, so if methane product was the same 12 years ago, there is no change on the atmosphere. C02's half life is ~27 years, meaning to get the CO2 levels to be stable we need to be where we were 27 years ago.

    • @Arnseb
      @Arnseb 8 лет назад +2

      Loathomar I stand myself corrected! I didn't check my facts correctly.

  • @glueee2621
    @glueee2621 7 лет назад

    I personally think that thorium nuclear power along with fossil fuels in specialized locations is the solution to our energy problems.

  • @romyenglish
    @romyenglish 6 лет назад

    You should run for president!

    • @allanbaal2743
      @allanbaal2743 5 лет назад

      We have a president that's trying the exact same thing

  • @satriobiangkerok
    @satriobiangkerok 8 лет назад

    hope this is happen in Indonesia..
    btw, when i see Monica Araya i see Lisa Simpons :p

  • @earumamaadu
    @earumamaadu 8 лет назад

    Hydropower is bad for fish

  • @tarstarkusz
    @tarstarkusz 8 лет назад

    Geothermal only works in small parts where the underground geology has a good heat source. Biomass is a dead end and simply is not scalable, nor is modern agriculture good for soil (it basically strip-mines the soil). Environmentalists are wildly opposed to large hydro and nuclear. Wind and solar will not cut it. Where possible, we should use geothermal and if we can get the environmentalists to support hydro and nuclear, great. Biomass is not going to work and neither is solar or wind.

  • @lithiumion56
    @lithiumion56 8 лет назад

    Ok,5 million Costa Rica...how about 1 500 million China + 1 300 million India!?
    What about countries that based far from solar climate zones?
    What about countries without powerful wind streams and seasides?
    How to accumulate big mass of energy at night and days without wind?
    How to transport electricity deep in to the Continent without heavy losses ?
    What is the EROEI of "green" energy sources?

    • @disgny
      @disgny 8 лет назад +2

      Cheer up! The Chinese, at this moment, are the ONLY country that is working on a REAL solution for the energy problem, the Thorium LFTR (Their average lifespan is some years less than normal, because of air pollution, so they are trying EVERYTHING all at once) But they do have a flourishing Thorium LFTR program, which was supposed to provide a working model last year. It has been put off, but still going strong with support from the government. Thorium can produce electricity cheaper than coal. It has NO fuel rods, meltdowns, explosions, water, steam, or high pressures, and may be scaled down, unlike Uranium plants.

    • @lithiumion56
      @lithiumion56 8 лет назад

      disgny Russians have also alternative - fast neutrons reactor on Uranium 238.
      They already built working reactor on 800 megawatts BN-800 and in planning to build another on 1200 megawatts.
      In all of this i wonder: Why research all around the world are so slowly...
      Each of this projects being created in theory at 50s-60s but still without any real serious practical progress

  • @OlleHellman
    @OlleHellman 8 лет назад

    So self driving cars? Checks all the boxes.

  • @thomasward1539
    @thomasward1539 5 лет назад

    unfortunately you do need an army to accomplish all those goals...

  • @jasonbelozer4854
    @jasonbelozer4854 7 лет назад

    How are your buses built? How did the steel get forged? Your hydro dams, how did the steel get forged? Coal? I love my world this is true. But how can people build steel buildings without coking coal yet? Your tractors for farming use diesel. Tractors made from steel melted to make by coal. Trucks haul this material with diesel. Buildings for the manufacturing are made from steel melted by coal. Hauled by trucks that use diesel. Made from steel melted buy coal. Mined steel by machines that are steel that was mined by machines that use diesel. Diesel made from oil that was drilled by rigs made from steel, forged by coal. Ect please get this we can't go totally green till we get past all these obstacles as well.

    •  6 лет назад +1

      You can melt iron using an oven, which can run on electricity, just like your everyday toaster kinda does, but we ain't using that today because theres a cheaper and faster way to do that, using oil. But options; they do exist.

  • @shinybaldy
    @shinybaldy 8 лет назад +25

    Bullocks. Costa Rica is simply blessed with an abundance of damable fresh water - in part made possible by climate change. It's like giving yourself a backslap for having few industries, low population, and being rained upon.

    • @toemas8
      @toemas8 8 лет назад

      It's the same here in NZ...

    • @mrb152
      @mrb152 8 лет назад

      exactly, i read that if you dammed ever water source in the world it still would onto cover less than half the words every needs while destroying the environment anyways.

    • @20karun
      @20karun 8 лет назад +28

      How on earth do you find a way to take away the central message of this speech? It just confounds me!
      Every single country has a niche in which it's power can be tapped efficiently without the use of fossil fuels. American coasts have more power in the shores just in the form of wind power that it is enough to power the entire east coast. Now, I know what you're going to say, it is intermittent. Have you looked at smart grids and high voltage power research that is already looking into high voltage transmission lines for the transport of power over thousands of kilometers! Europe is looking into intercontinental power grids to transport huge swaths of solar and wind energy over several countries!
      There is a way to achieve it. Kindly take away from this talk that it is possible to transform economies into sustainable ecosystems. Just need to find the will power and massive mobilization of attitudes.

    • @shinybaldy
      @shinybaldy 8 лет назад

      +Karun Arjun Potty High voltage transmission isn't new, neither are solar, wind or various forms of harnessing kinetic energy in the environment. touchy feely won't get us there. Economics will. Germany likes to talk renewable, but produces more carbon emissions by burning biomass. France uses nuclear power - zero emissions. Touchy feely pretends hydrogenation and damming is environmentally sound.
      It's like celebrating corn ethenol because it is "renewable" who cares if it hurts the poor, produces carbon emissions and isn't cost effective?

    • @20karun
      @20karun 8 лет назад +7

      I don't think iscounting touchy feely is the right way to go at it. It was sentiment that launched the space race. It was decades of work by space engineers because they blindly believed in their capabilities to get it done!
      I'm a power electronics engineer working in a research lab where some of the best minds are on it because of the sentiment of wanting to change the scenario of renewables.
      You're right when you say economics will guide things in terms of how we move ahead. It's about scalability of technologies using innovative engineering techniques to drive down costs using innovative manufacturing and design techniques.
      Germany may have issues with it now, but they have laid out infrastructure and standards and techniques for further integration of storage and other forms of energy.
      A sentiment goes a long way in mobilizing social change. It helped me get into this field and hundreds of people around me

  • @copeycopes2923
    @copeycopes2923 8 лет назад

    Any one who has loads of followers on social media, share this video.

  • @pussypuffs
    @pussypuffs 8 лет назад

    i dont know if this is disrespectful but.. i have built many successful countries in tropico the same way. civilization though? dominated constantly by the big guys

  • @nawwar20
    @nawwar20 8 лет назад +1

    I love when someone from central or south america (Spanish speakers) speaks English, and when it comes to pronouns their own country, suddenly you feel the tongue is tipped over :D.

  • @faza553
    @faza553 8 лет назад

    Brava! Break Free.
    ...Harms people in the first place....
    Cities for people.

  • @paolaserranosantos
    @paolaserranosantos 8 лет назад

    Use lots of battery-powered vehicles and machines. After all, making batteries doesn't use toxic materials nor pollute, they cam be easily recycled, and they can be grown on trees.

  • @lescobrandon3047
    @lescobrandon3047 5 лет назад

    What fuels do the global change enthusiasts intend to use for airplane fuels? It sounds like they want the US to not fly anymore while our enemies can fly bombers?

  • @laillierrenaud1591
    @laillierrenaud1591 4 года назад

    Por favor utilizar el español

  • @kasparsrozitis1091
    @kasparsrozitis1091 8 лет назад

    So... do Costaricans have no army?

  • @SatishKumar-or5qi
    @SatishKumar-or5qi 8 лет назад

    lets position Costa Rica in middle east bordering isis , and can they still go without army ? Fact is they r near to America which provides a natural protection for them .. Appreciate that they go for renewable energy but that cannot be the game for other developing countries .. may be this is right time to impose this on developed countries ..

    •  6 лет назад +1

      well, absolutely everything would look bad if you take the place of an middle east country, even if you placed the states in the middle east with his absurdly big army, people would still die and emigrate to other countries.

  • @karisingh6078
    @karisingh6078 7 лет назад

    .

  • @laidborg
    @laidborg 8 лет назад

    Well that's pretty but eletric cars are still very undeveloped

  • @helmhurst
    @helmhurst 6 лет назад +1

    No wonder the orange potus doesn't like you.
    All makes sense now

  • @nonmusicman
    @nonmusicman 8 лет назад

  • @harhccha
    @harhccha 8 лет назад

    She's hot.

  • @miriamdelblanco7379
    @miriamdelblanco7379 8 лет назад

    como se nota que su lengua madre es el español 😂😂

    • @freddyalvarez7992
      @freddyalvarez7992 3 года назад +1

      Esté es el comentario más estupido que yo he visto en toda mi vida ella viene de un país de abla española y no quieres que tenga asento peró que pedazo de estúpida 🙄 sos

    • @miriamdelblanco7379
      @miriamdelblanco7379 3 года назад

      @@freddyalvarez7992 lol que agresivo. Que me haya dado cuenta de que tiene el mismo acento que yo al hablar inglés es un fact, no algo ni negativo ni positivo 😂😂😂😂 la peña en fin

  • @darkcameronmac
    @darkcameronmac 8 лет назад

    under 30 second club

  • @aryan040103
    @aryan040103 8 лет назад

    3rd like

  • @cavv0667
    @cavv0667 8 лет назад +2

    So, she actually said that they, Costa Rica, are one of the least losers??? Yeah, I agree that we need cleaner renewable fuel and power sources, but exactly which countries came up with these various technologies??... Costa Rica?... no. Ethiopia?... no. Argentina?... no. Wait, we'll find the developing country that founded the research on alternative power sources... yep... we will.... just... keep... looking.

    • @rahishah8033
      @rahishah8033 8 лет назад

      "one of the least losers" .......