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Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that will lead to the collapse of ecosystems and our civilization.
While scientists, activists and much of the younger generation urge action, it appears most politicians are not committed to do anything meaningful while the fossil fuel industry still works actively against change. It seems humanity can’t overcome its greed and obsession with short term profit and personal gain to save itself.
And so for many the future looks grim and hopeless. Young people feel particularly anxious and depressed. Instead of looking ahead to a lifetime of opportunity they wonder if they will even have a future or if they should bring kids into this world. It’s an age of doom and hopelessness and giving up seems the only sensible thing to do.
But that’s not true. You are not doomed. Humanity is not doomed.
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"It's dire, but not hopeless" I think is a good mindset for most serious problems in life
Ok
Did I ask
Yeah I think we must hope first
WAIT WHAT
True
"Design consumer goods that are repairable and durable" Apple has been giving very mixed signals recently by having no plastic in their packaging meanwhile designing electronics you can't repair, even something as simple as power cord have been fixed in place so that consumers can't repair even the most simplest of things.
Giving up replaceable batteries for thinner smartphones might be one of the worse things we've done
@@Rialagma I honestly dislike when phones are too thin, makes them hard to handle.
Apple is actively sabotaging repairs by professional repair shops. It's not the complicated design that makes Apple gear irreparable, it was designed to be that way.
@@Rialagma Consumer electronics companies are the biggest frauds - coming up with false claims.
Yeah maybe we should stop buying their devices.
It's a collective effort. I invested hard-earned money into solar self-consumption, lowered heating to 18 degrees C in winter, reusing energy when applicable and so on. I repair my electronics or keep them as safe as I can when I can't repair them. Being careful with your possessions and accepting to give away a bit of your own comfort will be part of making the transition to 0 degree change in the future
I put the airco and my heater on at the same time
@@RicoTonettiomg look at this young man making such a contribution to climate change😮. Really touches me ❤️ 😊
@@RicoTonettiwow you’re so edgy
Screw 0, make it colder, I hate summer time. 😂
I'm a chemical engineer student who started studying with the motivation to help the climate crisis. At times I feel like maybe I'm too late, there is nothing I can do and I get anxious. Every time i watch this video it reminds me why I chose to study and help in every way I can and just not give up. Thank you very much.
Go make a difference out there. You can do it!
THanks for just Being There.
Good luck in everything you do!!
(and have fun in between)
It's better late than never. I believe in you. I wish you luck ❤
fossil fuels have saved more lives than you can imagine.
@@michaelward1108it'll kill more in the long run
Never thought about the fact that buying the "We're all f*cked" mentality benefits the people who are responsible. I'm for sure going to stay hopefull and do something.
And blowing sunshine up our assholes is definitely holding people to account...
Cautious optimism :)
Alert, not anxious
It's a good mentality to have
Together-We can do it! 👍
Im just giddily waiting for the flooding to start and light a fire under peoples asses when they realize how poorly the responsible people have been managing the situation XD
Everything happens eventually
Just slowly
This has to be one of the most important videos on this platform. You've perfectly explained the calculated risk while simultaneously giving a genuine roadmap and positive point of view that will only benefit everyone. Hopefully this can bridge the divide between climate change activists and deniers; we're ALL in this together.
sirkle
The only real solution involves depopulating the planet of billions of people.
Every one adores Kurzgesagt
The deniers and anti vax are just so mustache twilling evil right now that reality feels like a joke.
egg
As someone who lives in north Africa which suffers greatly from climate change, I thank you a lot for the hope you just gave me
no it doesn`t
@@hissingsidll750yes it does 😭
Australia is also being hit hard by climate change it is late autumn now and it still has not rained for over 18 months. its late autumn but it still feels like summer aka 40 degree plus heat.
@@AverageKaijuGamer
I totally understand this situation. Luckily, this year has been great for North Africans. I wish the same for Australia
@@AverageKaijuGamer And the lesson is....its hot in Australia.....what a bunch of clowns 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
This video is my rock through all of this terrible stuff - currently at school I’ve been feeling pretty down due to my science teacher being pessimistic about the situation. But seeing this sparks hope for not just me but so many people. Where there’s bad news, good news will usually counter it. That’s really the nature of humanity. And you’re so right, hope is what the world needs. Without it nothing will change. Thank you so much for giving hope to us.
My nature teacher is the same👍❤️ i loved the video, i have been trying vegan diet for 1 weekend andi feel better. Lets make this world alittle brigther
this video is lying to you
Before you let your guard down, I would implore you to research the reality of decoupling and green growth. Although it's an optimistic mindset, it's ultimately a spin-off of the capitalist delusion that the free market will right all wrongs through supply and demand and economies of scale. They've been consistently disproven and even basic calculations of the energy return on investment of potential energy source replacements shows that unless a breakthrough in nuclear fusion occurs, modern civilization's collapse is inevitable and rapidly approaching.
Ask your science teacher how it meets the definition of science at all in the absence of experimental reproducibility and a falsifiable hypothesis.
yeah my science teacher basically did a whole presentation about the salt lake draining and everyone dies but i guess this is cool (i live in utah btw)
THANK YOU for bringing up this point: "Emissions are no longer necessarily coupled with economic growth"
This is huge and not talked about enough.
👤
it is a bs statement... yes gdp was up, yes co2 emissions was down (i assume). thing is that gdp was up because the central bank and government printed way more money, on paper you have higher gdp but not measured in wealth growth. co2 is down because the same government shuts down companies that emit it and rely on countries like India to produce the same goods that require co2 emissions, but it is not done in their own country, so problem solved!
Economic growth was already not necessarily coupled with wellness, joy, equity or sustainability. Transitive property (sort of). Let's bury useless proxies and focus on how to get the relevant properties with fewer emissions :)
Until all the materials we use have an organic (plant, fungus, or bacteria grown) alternative, or can be recycled fully, the economy will never be truly decoupled from the environment. It's still cause for celebration that we can have growth without immediate growth in emissions, but some level of degrowth should still be the goal (and with degrowth I also mean more efficient systems that provide people with a good standard of living without less economic growth).
@@cognitivedenial5633 This was over 10 years, not last 2 years.
This actually hit me, it's so easy to fall into hopelessness with the constant barrage of bad news that you can't help but turn a blind eye to the progress we've made
Really, does it not encourage you to push forward? To make changes?
@@ggtroll1365 It's very easy to think "eh, the world is fucked anyway, why bother". That's kinda the point of this video
@@ggtroll1365 yes, Troll.
This comment section is full of the results of media fear mongering.
Reality is sadly much much worse than the video made it seem, but that doesn't mean you should fall into hopelessness, but fight harder. its sad that if you tell people the system is failed they give up.
I have a 9month old son and have had many anxieties with having brought him into the world/feeling like I’ll not be able to protect him if the worst does happen. But apathy and anxiety about what’s going to happen will ultimately not help him. So thank you for lifting me up today and I will be sending this video to my friends.
So what action are you takeing on the climate crisis?
Life finds a way. Even though all the political mess, climate news, and negativity online seem heavy just remember, the entire planet has been going through changes since it was created. Many of which almost destroyed life on Earth as we know it, but life kept going. The lifeforms on this beautiful planet are so strong they refuse to give up.
if everyone watching this video sent it to one person, they know there will be so many people that will realise it's not hopeless.
The pollyanna fake hope of this bullshit video gives people the idea that there are reasons to be optimistic and no one needs to be raising bloody hell in the street. Notice that this video is massively funded and has a thousand times more views than real climate science productions. This is ecomodernist fakery. Don't be stupid. It may be hopeless, but it will be utterly hopeless if you fall for corporate assurances.
10:25 "Design consumer goods that are repairable and durable"
Understated and underrated point. Unlike renewable energy, companies still have every incentive to plan obsolescence and maintain the economy of throwaway consumer goods.
Even that might be changing. Companies are realizing there's more money in selling you hardware at a loss and then skinning and fleecing you through microtransactions and subscriptions. Still awful, but technically better for the environment :P
+100 Creating anything is usually the most resource demanding process whether we talk about water, rare materials that need huge amount of resources to mine, electricity, underpaid human labor etc.
Huge thing that could be done is forcing companies to make it so products last long time.
Capitalism requires infinite profit for their shareholders.
Apple makes their products so that they can't be fixed, so you have to buy more
@@aussieboy4090 Which can promote efficiency in using resources, since any waste is lost profit.
This is such a nice balance between the extremes of believing we’re all doomed and not believing in climate change at all
thy mother
I can't wait for the continuation of what we can do to make things better. One topic that never gets addressed but should is crypto mining; it has a huge negative impact to our environment and it is unnecessary. They are already better alternatives.
@@Supremax67 Burning up actual resources for make belive money is the absolute most asinine act of mankind since we began testing nuclear weapons. The only counter arguments are from cultist crypto bros
@@Supremax67 are you talking about different proof of stake/one of those, or saying there are better alternatives to cryptocurrwnxy as a whole?
@@Agentlefox I think he is talking about crypto mining because of how wasteful it is with natural resources
Many small steps can lead to changes.. shop second hand wherever possible, donate to environment organizations either in terms of money or time, cook with seasonal ingredients, save power, take public transport if possible, run errands on weekends with a bicycle particularly in the US, try to buy produce without plastic packaging, use rechargeable batteries, compost your waste if there is space, setup a grey wastewater filtration system and recharge groundwater, grow veggies at home, try to fix broken things patiently to the best of your ability, try drying clothes without using a dryer.. scale this to say your entire group of friends and family and see the miracle that happens before your eyes.
What are you smoking?
Im gonna say I disagree entirely. Individual action is basically pointless. 80% of emissions and pollution come from a small handful of organisations ('companies') controlled by known individuals. Political action is what's needed, not this Protestant-hangover individual responsibility bullshit
@@driskoolio Who buys from those companies?
Couldn't agree more. We all have the ability to influence our society as both citizens and consumers. Even if it feels to big for oneself to handle as a movement of many small people we can cause real and lasting change.
We need more videos like this, ideally keeping up with current events where we can too. A friend ended up coming to me recently because he was really anxious about the summer and climate change headlines coming back full force the warmer it gets, but while I was able to calm him down, I can’t help getting mad at the way that some news reports frame this whole situation as if it’s either hopeless or this insanely difficult thing that every average Joe should be literally worried sick about. They almost never present the good news side of it despite the fact that knowing there’s any progress at all would probably help more of us to feel like we CAN do something.
The Net's algortithms are mostly designed to throw the nasty stuff outr way becauwse Hate and Fear are better at 'selling' us things than love and calm (I assume you know this - if not - seriously - google for how the Net algortithms maximise sales. It's not 'a conspiracy' - it's Advertising... and it's bad for our health).
All the same - the Net is actually FULL Of constructive info and positive angles we can take. Avoid Conspiracies. Just learn how Business works (it's pretty simple - it will do anything for a profit - and that usually means it doeas a LOT of evil stuff for Profit... Like, bit by bit, destroy an ecosystem.
These videos are a damn fine start,.
In the end, you need decent folk you can relax with and trust. I hope you can find that.
Remember, in between saving the world (there's so much CHOICE), you need doewntime and a laugh.
Be kind to yourself. Being one of the Good Guys/Gals means it's tiring. Always try to find time for a walk in the park and an ice-cream.
Cheers.
"We first need to believe that change is possible" is a sentence everyone should hear daily, for no matter the issue. thank you!
No, first you have to believe it is REAL!
One doesn't change. They can only make better decisions.
when they mentioned that you don't have to choose between prosperity and climate, I was like "You mean I can have my cake AND eat it too!?"
Okay, if you want me to believe change is possible, first make me believe that we can get those in power to get stuff done.
Change is possible. Maybe in 100 years or so
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
- JRR Tolkien
I think about this a lot lately
Ist schon ein verdammt gutes Zitat
Very well. Just like what I thought
I have a wooden poster of this in my room. It’s a really good thing to live by
@@ricaroanimar6695 ja es ist sehr gut
@@steakfilly5199 *Snickers in happy austrian
Crazy to think this is the same channel who freaked the shit out of me with black holes when I was 11 who has now restored my faith 😊
Same
I saw an electricity service near me replacing their powerlines with a self-sustaining solar power plant.
nice
well, good luck for them not being bankrupt
"don't give up until it's over" is one big concept everyone should keep in mind and think about sometimes
exactly
Even when its over you might as well keep on trying.
Failure is not the death of hope, it is what gives hopes worth.
That’s what the Germans were thinking in ‘45.
It's a great sentiment but the people who need to care, don't and those that do care don't have an impact. 70% of the world's emissions come from about 100 companies and they are more concerned with short term profits than caring about the world they won't have to live in. It took 10 years for politicians to do basically nothing...how long will it take for them to actually do something?
Frr
"The trap of hopelessness" feels like a special kind of reality whose existence you only recognize when someone pokes a hole through it
I think in psychology and anthropology it is known as hoplessness syndrome, but I could be wrong.
Regardless, it is a good way to.think positively
@@dillivered the commenter was just pointing something out, they never said that there evidence wasn't their, or that they doubt it.
*there
@@dillivered and the video didn't say anything about transitioning to gas instead of coal.
@@dillivered did you read the full comment?
isn't that depression?
Watching this in late July 23' really hoping there's a chance we can stop the oceans from warming more. Really concerned about our blue planet with these corporations and militarily industrial complex destroying everything.
we can't.
@@michaelward1108 If we stop all oil and coal production before the year 2030 we have a chance that a tipping point will never ocour but right now it seams hopless with all the wars and devastating catastrophies on our planet. But dont lose faith we are not dead yet
By the end of this vid I was in tears.. I've never heard an acknowledgment of the pain that climate change is inflicting on the younger generation. With every deadly flood and wildfire I have felt less and less like there is a life worth living in my future. I can't stop thinking about how any children I have will have been born with a front row seat to the collapse of humanity's status quo and subsequent descent into social, medical, and economic calamity. I wouldn't want that for my child, so in my mind I'm convinced that deciding to have a kid of my own would be selfish. And now, in my mid-twenties, it feels like "crunch time". I am so afraid that having children in the next decade would just doom them to a life of misery.
It's hard, man. Nothing is changing fast enough, and if things don't speed up, much of the city I call home will be submerged in the next 150 years or so. Feels like all we can do is brace ourselves. If nothing else, it's comforting to know that someone is thinking about our futures too. I pray the hopeful image of this video someday comes to fruition.
The climate has heated and cooled for billions of years. even in a net carbon society we will continue to see climate change. the conversation needs to include how do we adapt to climate change.
You think floods and wildfires are new?
"Design consumer goods that are repairable and durable"
This is how everything was made until companies realized they could make more money if their products broke more often. We have advanced backwards.
planned obsolescence
Plastic is just too cheap to use compared to.steal and iron alloys right now , the market always follow the cheapest way , hopefully metallurgical experts can find a way to solve that along with the better batteries and normal room temperature super conductors
Join the right to repair movement to see more of that.
Canada is already on the right steps towards this. Voting is already underway and heavily supported already to ban all practices of planned obsolescence within Canada, along with a basic right to repair anything and everything without fear of voided warranties
I was gonna leave the same comment, its crazy what these cell phone companies are doing and how they treat their workers.
"If we want the world to change, we first need to believe that change is possible." Such a good quote honestly more people should hear this
That quote needs to be on a poster or something.
This is exactly why the doomer mindset is so pathetic and cringe. If we don't do anything about our problems they'll never be solved.
agreed
Yea except roughly 100 corporations produce the vast majority of greenhouse gases and pollution. I hate being a doomer but it's a realistic viewpoint, our modern way of life is literally unsustainable. Also the whole 'reduce your carbon footprint' thing is straight up propaganda pushed by the oil companies. We're a drop in the bucket compared to them. So yeah, I can't help but feel helpless and hopeless. Collapse is inevitable.
Oh it will change. Look up 4th industrial revolution by Klaus schwab. The major changes will be that you will be enslaved by the elites under the guise of "saving the climate".
Thank you so much for this video. My teen has been battling this hopelessness while I’ve been trying to encourage fighting against climate change.
This video is morphine. You feel better, but it doesn't address the cause of the pain, even when it seems like it does.
go tell your dentist
Kurzgesagt: “design consumer goods that are repairable and durable”
Companies with Planned Obsolescence: “I’m gonna pretend I didn’t hear that”
A suggestion is to demand laws that prohibits planned obsolescence. Political policies that promotes leasing and more reparation. And there are always the individual impact that everyone can change.
That was my exact thought at that point as well
Also consumers :" i want the latest thing, and i can't even sew or change a bulb"
@@DarkDeepGreen people demanding with their voices for the right to repair in one side while companies like Apple demanding otherwise with a lot of money to make sure those politics do what they want on the other side
Obviously one side is winning
Apple be like.
This is exactly what was needed: the message needs to be “the problem isn’t solved but we’ve made good progress, KEEP GOING, KEEP FIGHTING” and kurzgesagt has just used their absolutely massive platform (possibly the biggest education platform on RUclips) to send exactly that message. Massive kudos.
Tatakae
There is no problem and therefore no need for any solution.
@@johnm838 ratio
@@johnm838 I bet you also believe vaccines do nothing
Dude in what world do you live in? We made no progress at all and it doesnt matter anyway cause we are absolutely fucked anyway no matter what we do. We couldve done something maybe 20 years ago..
It's 2023 . Temperature has seen it's highest in our country. I can't find hope.
The world is currently going through a natural warming phase called "El Niño", which will compound climate change. Once el niño is over, temperatures will drop slightly, but we still need to stop producing greenhouse gases, or temps will just go right back up
It's now 2024, There is hope, Don't let one bad thing ruin it all. There is always hope, Humanity is not gone.
Turn off your TV and social media
to be fair, my guy, it will be hot couple years. Our present will be like that but we can change the future.
Legit cried at the end, and then the ad came on LOL
Nice job though guys, this is a good look in you all 👍 looking forward to the follow up
Hey, thanks for not releasing this on April Fool's day. I'd have finished this video in a much different emotional state if you did.
I hate April Fool's day. It is so unnecessary to have such a ridiculous holiday.
man you just hate comedy
@@thwartjetterson1350 Lying really isn't peak comedy
@@clifford6680 Comedy is subjective. You are not deciding what's good comedy and what is not. Neither I am. Nobody is.
@@clifford6680 it very much is. its what is normally described as a joke.
being in college for an environmental science degree feels pretty hopeless sometimes, considering i can't go a day without hearing about climate change. it's hard to plan for the future and be optimistic when there's always a nagging fear of the world ending within your lifetime.
thanks for making this video. i needed it, and i'm not the only one
You're not alone, I'm also studying Environmental Science in college and I've realized that we're the ones who have the power to really educate people in a simple way they can understand. It can feel overwhelming sometimes, but I try to take that energy and turn it into motivation for a future worth living in. If not, I know I'll look back on these critical years in my life with guilt and regret at what I could have possibly done to help.
"No one can do everything, but everyone can do something."
Thank you for your pursuit, I hope you know how needed you are in this world
Fake review, one of SO many in this comment section
Env. Eng. who gave a presentation on Carbon Capture and Sequestration at Los Alamos Nat. Lab. in 2004. I was getting supper discouraged myself until about 2010-2012 when I saw these trends already happening and it changed my outlook. Those price drops in Solar and Wind are not going to stop at just being cheaper for new production. Before the end of the decade it will be cheaper to produce new solar and wind then to continue to operate existing fossil fuel plants and that when the acceleration of renewables really takes off from just our new sources to massively shutting down older FF plants.
Last year only 16% of new energy generation produced in the USA was fossil fuels (all natural gas) and it's been like that since about 2017 or 2018 (don't remember 1st year off the top of my head that it went above 50%).
Out of curiosity, why did you choose to pursue environmental science? And what's the edge of studying it over other science degrees that can help solving the issue? My background is physics in engineering school (which had environmental science programs too), and I've met some physics/engineering student who switched to environmental science program because they felt physics/engineering was pointless for that endeavour (in their first year of bachelor).
I've often argued that a lot of the *technical* solution to climate change (including but not limited to renewable energy) have come from expert scientist/engineers, often *not* with a background from environmental science but from say, electrical engineering, physics, material science, chemistry, etc, that mastered the fundamentals, "the tools" to solve a problem. They just applied their expertise to solve the climate change problem (or often a subset of it). Why do we need more environmental scientist than say, physics/chemists to solve the battery problem?
@@Dannyboi91 mostly because they want to berathe people who say wth are we supposed to do when companies and countries dont give a shit and only pretend to care. Even this shit channel blames the customers and not the companies polluting more just to deflect it away from them. This is all about profits
As an American millennial, I've felt guilty about being a parent pretty often because of the state of the not just the world by my country as well. I do what I can to be better on my own microscale, including voting for policies that impart positive change, it's just very hard most days to say the future looks positive. It's good to see there are indicators that we can improve our situation, I guess maybe the depression I feel is related to the anger I have against the previous generations who are our current politicians.
Thank you for this video. I really do hope things get better. I haven't given up on hope yet.
In my opinion this is one of the best videos on RUclips. Whenever a friend or someone I know that is keen to fight climate change, but they are too depressed about the situation and saying it's already too late, I send them this video. I also watched it several times and every time the end if the video just gives me so much motivation to keep fighting this global crisis to decrease the temperature decrease as best as I / we can.
"We need to design consumer goods that are repairable and more durable"
*Apple left the chat*
Apple, John Deere, Samsung, Tesla, etc. The list is massive
I work in an Apple certified repair store and dear God, this is what I really hate. Got a single crack on your iPad you want fixed? Nah, sorry, we can only issue you a new one.
Your Airpods are too dirty that even our tools cannot fix? You'll get a new pair.
Like, the amount of waste this produces is insane.
Their shitty "we use older, less efficient peripherals on purpose so you can't share with other people" strategy is banned in the EU starting this year, so hopefully that helps at least a little. Apple really only has that intense hold on US consumers
Fortunately, governments are increasingly interested in right to repair now and are starting to place pressure on Apple (and other companies) to make their devices more repairable!
An increasing lack of global resources could also encourage companies to repair instead of selling more to get broken.
"Remember: things can be bad, and getting better."
- Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is bloody brilliant.
Things usually get worse before they get better.
@@videogames2339 Not true.
@Sins What? So, if you have a PS4, you'd need to downgrade to a PS3 before getting a PS5?
No, that doesn't make any sense applied in any context.
Beginning to transitioning from cars and trucks to trains will help more than you'd think
Goofiest thing I ever heard of.
@@jennifersmith4864 Yeah you're completely right. Given how trains have been widely used way longer than cars have. Going from cheap sustainable transport to 2 tons of metal per 1.5 people, evolving backwards. If cars were magically replaced thats no more traffic issues and more space in cities especially with the parking space per m² of building.
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OK, and we'll bring back the horse & buggy so people can get back & forth to & from the train station!!!!
Totally bad idea unless you put trains on what are now roads.
You guys like to come up with these pie in the sky "ideas" which will never work but make you feel good.
btw, trains are not "sustainable" & run on oil.
can't wait the next train to my field....
@@jennifersmith4864 he thinks we are all going to live in huge ecofriendly green hives
Notes for myself:
-"it seems humanity can't overcome its greed and obsession with short-term profit and personal gain to save itself" this seems to be a systemic problem. Can we fix this by shifting away from a capitalist economic system?
-we are on track to limit warming to 3 degrees C with just current policies, we will avoid "the apocalypse" from 4+ degree warming
-coal burning in developing countries has slowed down or leveled off (India and China) and has decreased significant in developed countries: coal is dying and not competitive anymore
- renewable energy has advanced rapidly: wind and solar are now competitive with nonrenewables and battery prices have decreased drastically
-"need a fundamental transition of our global industrial system"
-domestic CO2 output of developed countries is falling while GDPs are rising, even while accounting for imported goods
-developing countries can adopt green tech more cheaply while rich countries are paying for their development and skip high-emissions phase of development
-carbon capture: costs approx $600 to remove 1 ton of CO2 from the atmosphere
-these solutions are not enough: need to reduce resource-use; reuse resources; decrease energy reqs; improve agriculture, infrastructure, and cities; need to pass right policies
-hopelessness causes apathy
-phase 4: "climate change is no longer avoidable and we are doomed"
-if we can avoid doomerism, inactivity, and weaponized hopelessness, we can fix this
Brilliance. Let's adapt communism. With billions dead, we will use far less carbon.
The mindset of: “it sucks; this isn’t good, but we can and should fix this” is the reason why i love channels like this. You will go down in history, kurzgesagt.
We can should doesn’t mean that it’s going to happen politicians say there going to do something but they don’t the UN says they’ll do it yet they don’t.
This channel bought into a narrative that ignores contrarian evidence.
Frr
The benefits of switching to a purely plant based diet are amazing.
1-Your own health (vegans are less likely to get several deadly chronic diseases)
2-Helping to end animal agriculture would reduce the chance of another pandemic & other zoonotic diseases
3-Helping to end animal ag would reduce the chance of the development of an antibiotic resistant pathogen.
4-Animal ag wastes a huge amount of fresh water
5-Animal ag is a major cause of water pollution
6-Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation
7-Animal ag increases PTSD and spousal abuse in the people who work in slaughterhouses
8-Animal ag is a major cause of the loss of habitat and biodiversity
9-Animal welfare, obviously
10- It is the single most effective way for each of us to fight climate change and environmental degradation.
11- Longer lifespan.
12- Healthier weight (vegans were the only dietary group in the Adventist Studies that had an average BMI in the recommended range.)
13- A vegan world would save 8 million human lives a year, and $1.5 trillion in health care costs (Oxford Study)
Links for some of these are at my channel under "About."
Going vegan is the single most effective way for each of us to minimize our environmental footprint.
"According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.”
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford.
Links at my channel under "About."
i love that this is addressing the hopelessness many of us feel around climate change. For so long, scientists have been trying to scare people into understanding the extent of the problem -- and now that many people believe it, we want to know how to help fix it.
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We can't fix nature and climate as a whole. But, we can reduce our part on waste, usages and our way of living. That's like asking to fix a tornado or put a band aid on a volcano. Mother nature will always win and have it her way, in the end. We live in it and should always respect it. That's just how I see it.
Scientists aren't trying to "scare" people into believing anything. They're informing people about something that is naturally terrifying. Emphasizing the potential dangers might seem like they're scaring people into believing this, but scientists are smart enough to know that fear-mongering is not the way to go about spreading information.
@@Mattharing Hahahahahaha good one.
@@Mattharing Mr. Donald "Clean Coal" Trump
I just recently stumbled over kurzgesagt and apart from the loads of informations you get they do an insane job of stirring emotions in a positive way. Thank you for that
In my opinion, the climate crisis is undoubtedly a dire challenge, and it's easy to feel overwhelmed by its severity. However, I believe that there is room for hope and action. Despite the grim scenarios we often hear, there are positive trends that we should acknowledge.
Over the past decade, there have been significant advancements in renewable energy, emissions reduction, and sustainable technologies. The fact that coal consumption is decreasing, renewable energy is becoming more affordable, and emissions can decrease while economies grow is encouraging.
To make a difference, we need to maintain faith in the possibility of change. It's crucial to support clean energy initiatives, advocate for robust climate policies, and embrace eco-friendly practices in our lives. We must remember that climate doomerism only benefits those who oppose change. By staying hopeful and proactive, we can work together to create a better, more sustainable future for ourselves and generations to come.
Also, I want to shed light on the environmental challenges that Ukraine, especially places like Mykolaiv, currently faces. My friend used to live there before the war, but because of the conflict, she had to move to Kyiv. Life in Mykolaiv has become incredibly difficult, and one big issue is the lack of clean water. One pressing concern is the severe water crisis in Mykolaiv. Tragically, due to the ongoing war, access to clean water has become a major problem. Constant shelling and occupation have disrupted water supply systems, leaving the local population in a dire situation. Clean water, which should be a basic human right, has become a scarce and expensive resource for the people of Mykolaiv. We should not forget about people who are dealing with environmental and humanitarian crises.
Continuing on this topic, it's essential to recognize that the challenges we face, whether it's the global climate crisis or the local environmental issues in places like Mykolaiv, are interconnected and require both global and local efforts.
It's crucial for both individuals and the international community to take action. Supporting initiatives that provide clean water and humanitarian aid to regions like Mykolaiv is essential. Additionally, advocating for peaceful resolutions to conflicts and addressing the root causes of environmental crises is paramount.
We must remember that climate doomerism only benefits those who oppose change. By staying hopeful and active, we can work together to create a better, more sustainable future for ourselves and generations to come. You can begin with minor steps, such as replacing plastic bags with reusable cloth shopping bags. Initiate these changes in your own behavior.
I’ve always held hope despite so many others saying “kill humanity” “we suck” “we’re doomed” and such. This video has reinforced my beliefs and I thank you for that. Brightened my day just a bit
True, unfortunately capitalistic Greed is the true issue, not humanity itself, their are many good people in the world who want these climate change issues to be fixed,
@@hengedraws we need good people yes but what we truly need is a GREAT ENTREPRENEUR and DOERS not just good people cause ACTION>>>>>talk
there's doomsday, if you really want the truth, where God puts an end to entire humanity history,...just to let you know, how fucked up we are
people can't deal with one of the biggest war in the Europe in 21 century. people don't give a fuсk about climate change.
@@hengedraws Literally addressed in the video.
That's actually... the only good news I've ever heard about climate change in my whole life... I know it's still gonna be hard. It is still scary... but not hopeless... Thank you for giving me hope. I'll try my best to help our planet and I hope that everyone who felt like me - lost and demotivated, will do the same
what is wrong with you? they ve been going on about climate change since the 80s and that the world would be over by the 2000s..
explain to me how there are ancient underwater cities... did they have co2 emissions thousands of years ago that risen the level of the sea? cmon give me a break!
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@@skabbigkossa No. Radical solutions are stupid in this case. Climate Change I think is an overrated problem. Yes temperatures will increase but we can adapt, even in a 4 C°+ world
Im from assam..unfortunately our new government has been cutting trees like anything in the name of tourism and civilisation..100 -150 year old trees are being cut to expand roads unneccesarily
Well done for adapting to the positive elements of the criticism you recieved regarding your sourcing. It's nice to see someone, or a company learn and get better as a result.
I have 2.5 years left for my Environmental Science degree. I WILL help solve this climate crisis!!! This video made me feel even more motivated.
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we’re all cheering for you! let’s do this!
no you will not, you're just an eco hippie
Who knows? Maybe you will be engraved into history books
The apathy & hopelessness is real, but this felt like a wonderful, gentle wake-up call, to get up and get moving again. Thank you for this!
Nothing better for hopelessness than doing something proactive. Going vegan is the single most effective way for each of us to minimize our environmental footprint.
"According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.”
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford.
Links at my channel under "About."
the controlling of minds of leftists is the only thing that is real with climate change's myth
Instead of just capturing carbon, turn em into diamonds.
To all the scientists, activists, and unsung heroes, who are trying their hardest to invent solutions and bring new technology to fight climate change, we are extremely greatful to you all.
In the face of all the skeptics and deniers. Most people will never know what is owed to them but they will do it anyway.
@@bill4543 Those who unironically believe new technolgy is going to help are dellusional. Think of the scale. What we can see now is merely a new goal post of climatic Let's-keep-things-as-they-are folk. Don't fall for it. those who can claim they will save us with technology benefit from the status quo, and are those who will be touched by climate change the least. you are not one of those people, dont be docile.
Edit: Don't lose hope, but let no one believe that we can now go to sleep peacefuly, there is not much practical difference between "Nothing can be done..., lets do nothing" and "Its looking finer now, lets see how this goes!(and do nothing)". Protest, be visible, talk to as many people as you can, go vegan, use bike, organize and sabotage the industries, do not stay put, thinking that suddenly someone out there grew conscience, and will solve climate change.
*grateful, but I definitely agree
STOP SIN AND BAN ISLAM HINDU BUDISM AND ALOT WILL BE FIXED COVID IS BECAUSE OF ISLAM IN YOUR COUNTRIES...NOT THE SAME GOD..
Feeling greatful doubling all payments...
Always remember to put pressure on politicians and industries to change whenever you can. We have the solutions, they're just not being implemented.
write to your congressman: tell him to REJECT "green energy" it is causing starvation in the 3rd world and poverty in the so called 1st
You have nothing unfortunately
@@lemmy154 "nothing" what?
@@mattgron6913 "you will own nothing and you'll be happy". Didn't you hear?
@@educatednegro5897 So what? Now just because of a theory, you will lose hope for any change and wait until theory will REALLY happen? Sitting in front of computer and repeating some words like mob won't do anything.
consumerism is a large issue to me considering for example how leds are very much capable of lasting years upon years but some manufacturers will sabotage that possibility in favour of you buying more leds
Thank you I was on the verge of a breakdown before I found this video.
Lmao same here
It's over either way.
@@notenoughtime4thinking did bro not watch the video 💀
@@couchchipdo you see how badly this video might age
You guys did it. You changed my outlook and opened my eyes to my "we're all doomed so what's the point" mindset being part of the problem. Thank you for these amazing videos.
doesn't take much to convince people I see, half of the video is speculation based on best possible outcomes if everyone, literally EVERYONE gets on board with fixing climate change yesterday. fact is that every major government that promised to uphold the Paris Agreement dragged ass on it, never mind the fact that it was decades too late to start with such miniscule efforts. there is no further plans to expand on reduction of CO2 emissions, unless the current world crisis, along with increased prices on crude oil creates a massive shift in energy production, I can't see a lot of hope for mankind.
I think the key lesson is that even if you fighting for the right thing is futile, we should do it anyway. It's important to remember that many people will still suffer greatly, that countless species will still be lost, that the earth is increasingly deforested and hence its capacity to mitigate warming through biological and secondary geological processes will also continue to be reduced as long as we continue encroachment and pollution of ecosystems. The economic status quo is dying quickly but it still wields a great amount of power. The necessary social changes described are that of dismantling or transformation of capitalism to that of a stable circular economy without the usual anarchy of the market and overproduction or a socialist planned economy that enforces strict quotas on emissions and reigns in rampant excess and frivolous waste.
@@philipm3173 essentially what you're saying is the world will go on, probably better once humans are gone, cause let's face it, humans aren't going to change that much that quickly. these are things that were too late yesterday
the "weaponized hopelessness" got me. I fell for the phase 4 of propaganda real hard. This is amazing. There IS hope!!!
The city of Los Angeles sent over 100 cops to arrest 4 climate scientists protesting for climate action.
If only you knew how bad things really are.
As someone in GenZ, those points about feeling hopelessness and despair at the future really hits home hard. I honestly can’t remember the last time I wanted to start a family or felt hopeful for the future. Thanks for the inspirational video, Kurzgesagt.
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Its almost as if theres a group of people trying to make sure you feel this way, that think you should own nothing, and basically be a slave.
Look up the World Economic Forum. See how they are all still buying beachfront property while telling you the sea levels are rising.
They don't want you having kids, they want you easily controllable.
Yeah I also felt like it's not really worth it to have kids born into this word.
I promise I don’t want to dismiss your perspective. In fact, my intention is to add a comparative perspective and maybe even cross examine. By now, I’m sure any and every internet junkie has seen something related to this, but Millennials are very often hit with something I’d like to refer to as a secondary doom existential crisis.
Essentially, we began our lives extremely optimistic, albeit much still influenced by Boomers and even the Silent Generation (my parents are boomers and my grandparents were silent genners). We watched progress march on before us as technology, which was already in a state of exponential growth, explode toward new horizons. Then slowly, the veil became lifted for many of us. Though our technology has improved, our society had not. We are all still the same third chimpanzees who “conquered” the earth.
Our species overall seems to be guilty of another term I personally refer to as “teenage immortality,” which, although I find this mostly implicit, is the concept of the mentality in many youths that they are damn near invincible. This, however, made a gross marginal shift with Millennials, right about the time most of us started going to college. Existential and a sense of impending doom set in and much of the future began to seem entirely hopeless.
Then, queue GenZ, the last generation with a spark of hope. This doesn’t whatsoever mean that any of this generation had any hope, but that the older of the generation may still have had it, if they don’t still somewhat have it, but faced with current events, hope feels like a fever dream at best. I don’t blame anyone in this generation for their exceptional fatalism nor being annoyed by any and all previous generations.
We are at a crossroads as a species and, furthermore, a society. If we don’t veer left, the results WILL be cataclysmic. I still hope for the best but definitely expect the worst. So I 100% agree. Seeing something positive for a change is very pleasant.
As someone who hates your generation, please stop being such an annoying bunch of pissants
Thanks, I cried. It's good to see things this way. It gives the envy to just get to work, and tackle down that issue, as complex as it is. Next decades are going to be painful, but life is anyway.
the climate has heated and cooled for billions of years and will continue that pattern with or without humans. maybe we can slow it down but we need to talk about how to survive cataclysmic events
@@jayknight139Stop using bots so annoying
It’s nice to see an optimistic video on this topic! It’s nice to know that it is possible fix it.
I'm 30 and I have spent about 10 years in apathy, out of hopelessness.
I finally started trying to make things better recently.
Thank you for this video, it keeps me moving forward.
I’m glad you are
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It’s pretty minor compared to the threat of getting nuked. Try watching some Cold War stuff like Threads or When the Wind Blows
@@cptrelentless80085 Chance of people using nukes again soon is low. Everybody knows where that is going to lead and we don't want to go there. Also, to someone who has spent a decade feeling down, are you going to respond with 'look here, this is way worse!'
Same
I love the fact that in this there's a clear contrast from the last climate change video where things seemed a little bleak. But this shows everyone that we as humans are able to come together and fight for our planet!
Last video: You cannot solve climate change
This video: We can solve climate change
Evidently, they want to say that solving climate change is not an individual effort
The climate is constantly changing. Warm weather is good for everyone. Climate change is political, power grab, Grade A bullshit.
But we won’t, human greed will stay no matter what happens
@@cascadia6260 aaand cue the APATHY! Well now I am honor bound to judge you harshly in public, for the betterment of all mankind. Now get back to work
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Finally Kurzgesagt content is becoming assertive instead of “on the fence” about literally everything
Look at the "willow" project 😢 when I looked for about an HOUR at that campaign, how could Biden even accept this, I'm very sorry, I filed a petition to stop "willow".
This video really has great meaning and substance, especially today, when our country is also suffering from a lot of natural problems. We have big problems with deforestation, many people cut down trees every time to build new houses, shopping centres and entertainment complexes in their place, without thinking about animals, plants and their lives. By destroying forests, we destroy our health, because the oxygen content in the air decreases. We also breathe dirt through car exhaust gases, polluting our lungs. Recently, we have seen that there may be a high risk of global warming, as temperatures have been around 40 degrees every day in summer. As a result of the war, we have polluted rivers, soil and fields, many flooded towns and villages, numerous fires, transport and combat emissions.😔
Kurzgesagt actually making a video on climate change with a positive outlook for once is extremely uplifting.
Climate change is only ever positive since it’s a natural process of the earth. What you’re worried about is an appropriation of climate change to have it mean the same thing as global warming. Global warming is man made, climate change is natural.
Because they just got a huge amount of funding from the Gates foundation and are now peddling lies? The world's screwed buddy and new technology isn't going to fix that. The only way we get out of this crisis is by reducing our consumption. Oops, don't let Bill know I told you that.
@@dotmatrix9818 Ah yes, and where did you get this info? Also it's not funding, they're not funded by Gates they're funded by their channel and sometimes clearly listed sponsors.
do they really hold this much influence on your mood? That's depressing tbh, a (mainly okay) youtube channel funded by Bill Gates influences millions to such a degree.
Yeah, cause you're not very smart.
I've always been of the position that even if the world is doomed, everything you can do to minimize harm to other people is a win nonetheless. But it's good to know maybe the world isn't entirely fucked.
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Until we figure out the problem of money there will always be people who choose it over human life.
What a stupid thing
I never thought the world would be doomed because of increases in technology and other things. Solar power is bad for the environment because heat, but we have other advances (like fusion).
@@fork9001 that makes… no sense (the solar power is bad part), what led you to that conclusion?
Thank you for such an interesting and informative video! I really believe that we, humanity, are not doomed to live in a decayed environment and together in unity and cohesion we can change everything. It is clear that we will not do it in one day and it will take a long time to make changes that are really noticeable, but to speed up this process and avoid pollution, we must act together. We need to avoid polluting nature, namely our green forests, yellow fields and blue rivers, but rather learn how to recycle properly and spread the process of recycling, we need to use electricity wisely and save it, we need to clean up contaminated land, replace plastic and, if possible, use electric cars. It would be good to reduce the use of chemicals that contaminate the soil and kill underground inhabitants. So, everything is in our hands and we need to love and protect nature, because it is our future.
It's good to see a video on climate change that doesn't say we're all going to die.
There is more money in the "we are all going to die" camp.
It's so frustrating to see how the people who have the power to do something don't want to. To feel like the younger generations will pay the ultimate price for something they're not really responsible for. It's hard not to feel hopeless, powerless and frustrated.
Anyway, young people, especially the most oppressed ones, seems to be ready to sacrifice everything to change things. The situation in Iran haven't occurred in this country for decades.
And those young people who defy violent governments seems to have more determination than the ecologists who covered paintings in tomato soup.
Covering a painting in tomato soup won't scare anyone. Protesting despite death threats scare everyone. It's time to start real resistance.
of course we can’t do it. Not alone that is. We need to band together and let our voices be heard. We WILL put an end to climate change. organized protests, start petitions, give speeches, educate others. Do literally anything and everything you can to start getting governments to care.
@@summerblue3874 They covered a painting in soup because it gets a lot of attention, they also demonstrate at other places but that gets barely/no media coverage
@@itsmwambintime4254 They already have the attention of the entire world. It didn't change anything. People who cares want effective actions, not spectacular actions.
People who don't will justify their indifference towards the Earth and the other humans by any means, even by saying that ecologists pollute more than others. Those ecologists who only use tomato soup are just exposing themselves to humiliation by doing that.
Attention isn't enough. We have to fight against people who refuse change. Don't think they will change their minds. They won't. For some of them, they decided that we will die here while they'll escape to somewhere else. For others, they says that humanity have endured many disasters while admitting that many people will die.
Those people will kill humans and animals to keep their possessions. We have to fight them. Letting them doing whatever they want will cost lives, maybe all lives. Fighting them will cost them their possessions.
@@wren_. we have been doing that for decades
Honestly, needed to hear that, the trap of hopelessness is really hard to not fall into in times of a global pandemic, political inaction, wars and the climate crisis. But being able to look at the broader picture and having data to reemphasize the hope lying in this dire situation is something beautiful and reassuring that there is still a path ahead. Thanks Kurzgesagt for your work.
I don't know a single person who feels/felt hopeless because of climate change... none. Are there actually that many people who get depressed & live in fear because of this?
I was.
I'm still sceptical, I honestly still think we're to far gone at this point.
@@CoryWWilbanks yep. Cuz TV says so. Claims were made by "professionals" making climate change out to be racist. Which makes as much sense as regular people taking the blame for pollution. When in fact its from corporations dumping garbage into the water, firing plumes of smoke in the air from factories throughout the years, dispersing chemicals in the air via planes n bombs. N probably more
@@CoryWWilbanks See the 2 replies under you.
the Uk is cancelling their goals rn and it was just said at some conference that 1,5 is now definetely gone, but giving is no option because it only makes things worse, that's why belief is so important
As a biologist who is studying in order to work in conservation, I'm completely positive that humanity will overcome climate change. What I fear is just how many things we are going to lose on our way there. Even if the rate of extinction decreases over time, a loss is a loss: that particular species has disappeared forever. If a new invasive species reaches a new ecosystem, it is then incredibly difficult to revert invasion and that particular ecosystem is probably changed forever. Even if we recover a declining population, the genetic diversity losses of that species will remain.
Of course, I want to be hopeful and that's exactly why I'm studying: to fight against these things and many others. But I think it's extremely important to remind people that the world after climate change will never be the same as the world before it. We may be able to avoid the worst scenario, but some changes will stay with us forever. And that's exactly why the time to act and make our voices heard is now. Humanty has a future, let's not rob other species of their right to share it with us.
And that's just the animals. I understand that extinction is a concern for species of animals other than us in this upcoming mess, but we *are* still going to suffer losses of human life that we could have prevented had we acted sooner. I do appreciate how hopeful this is, really I needed that information that we *are* making some progress on this one. It's kind of a shame that the thing that finally makes this change is how profitable it is. That just shows how bad we are.
As a conservation undergrad*
@@adamdrury1187 in a way this is also a good thing, generations in the future can learn from humanity right now
@@elfpi55-bigB0O85 No, I already graduated. I'm studying a master's degree at the moment.
That's my fear too. Land use for farming, urbanization, energy etc. is the main driver for bio-diversity loss and largely irreverisable. We should think about energy-density (that's the main downside to solar imo) and increase productivity for farming (land sparing vs sharing) and decrease our consumption of animal proteins. The trend in farming is extensivation (sharing) and that's not the way to go imo. It's a complicated and counter-intuitive thing, as we are really used to seeing the old cultivated farming landscapes as 'true' nature and bio-diverse. How much I like them and landscapes ARE important, but sparing high quality nature like rainforest, swamps and coral reefs are key to keeping the planet going.
But nonetheless I really love this video. There are unmistakenly some positive trends. This story should be told more often, especially by the green / social political parties. I think that would help a lot. We need a positive silver lining to unite people and make stuff happen.
Honestly, I've been dealing with "doom-ism" for the last few years. Everything I've seen in the news, online, and even on social media has been very doom and gloom centered. I'm currently watching this video at 11:30 pm, and it has given me hope for the future again. I don't have any ideas that are particularly viable (at least in my opinion) but I wish to help in any way I can. Thank you Kurzgesagt for giving me hope for the future once again.
don't be anti nuclear power, that's my best advice, it has 0 carbon emissions, and the waste it produces we can just eject into space if it gets bad enough, which btw the waste it produces is SOOOO SMALL compared to windmills, those damn things use ALOT of fossil fuels to make, and when they break down, even more fossil fuels to fix them, or break them down and scrap em.
You don't have to do big things; I got me a scooter for my daily commute, reducing my fuel use fairly significantly. It's also a lot of fun, and gets me around town for probably more than a week on a single gallon of fuel.
I decided not to have kids because i don't want to put them on a half destroyed world. Honestly this video has not changed anything for me. Its a very positive video but working for government in project development i see how were still too conservative when its about renewable energy and circulair economy.
That’s because fear sells.
Dont feel so doomed, there is an enormouse amount of selection bais in the news towards negative things. They do not show you the incredible amounts of good things happening in the world.
Thank you for creating and sharing this. There is a lot to do, but it's not nearly as apocalyptic or as hopeless as people seem to think. There's a lot we can do to make things better, and it does seem like the pace of improvement is accelerating.
i feel the first part, I get so happy when new life is brought to the earth but so sad that me and the younger generation will suffer and they'll suffer more sadly, im just 17 im not 68 or 57 i have sm globally impacted years ahead of me and im so scared.
Don't be
This video made me tear up. I went to school for product/industrial design with the hopes of combining my passion for sustainability into everyday life, only to find out after graduation most major companies had no intention of changing. To them sustainable = more expensive and it was like trying to reason with a brick wall. Thank you for giving hope to those of us beaten down by the fight and creating important, accessible content in a time where truth and progress seem to be mutually exclusive. 🙏
Same here
then you can just quit your job, and make your own company, when you're the one who takes control, your enemy is just bankruptcy
The answer is clear. Make sustainable cheaper.
Governments need to make it easy for businesses to make sustainable choices. It's pointless trying to fight against market forces.
Keep it up mate. There's optimism we can find a way to make it cheaper.
I'm an energy engineer in France and yes, great effort and investments are made, the energy part in companies is really taken seriously even in non energy oriented companies
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France didn't have much to do anyway
Nuclear power is No. 1 in France. The whole world should be the same.
@@JetfireQuasar we do have to do a lot
@@bismuth6558 no you don't that's media speak France itself doesn't have to do alot
2 years later and its only gotten worse. Open your eyes people and help fix this 💔😢!
Thank you for revealing such a decisive and acute topic! A great number of people in my surrounding (mostly older ones) have a rather vague understanding of the topic and an indifferent and gloomy outlook on it. Sometimes this is passed on to me, but this video has given me a glimmer of hope. Also recently I saw a video about a whale that perished and washed up on the shore because it consumed plastic bags drifting in the ocean believing they were jellyfish and fish. It made me think why we treat nature so beastly? You know, change starts with ourselves. I'm not talking about buying electric cars or solar panels, because unfortunately, it's not affordable for everyone. But if each person at least sorts garbage, returns batteries for recycling instead of just throwing them into the water or the ground, stops burning leaves, plants trees/bushes/flowers, treats forests and meadows, recycles things, tries to reduce plastic use, we can at least ward developing of harmful changes off .
The real catch is going to be when we start to really solve these issues and the industries start to say "See we told you it wasn't real". If the past 6 years show anything, its that people will believe anyone who knows how to spin.
This kinda reminds me of Y2K. People warn of a danger. Danger gets fixed. So danger never existed
the y2k effect.
@@safeforwork8546 oh my god
It may be annoying, but I'd gladly live in a society where climate change is so over and done with people act like it was never a big deal to begin with.
@@reardenbentley9622 that goes for the name manufactured panic
I was one of the people who had fallen into apathy, feeling entirely hopeless about this issue. Thanks for doing this.
Ye
i mean you will be dead when it happens so...
Yes! Let's steer away from bitter truth. Is there anyone telling good gospel? Oh, there you are Kurtzgesagt! Comfort me as I lay on my couch waiting for things to happen...
while you are there being hopeless we are here beating our head for an effective solution, stop being nihilistic for once and help us
@@JayPixx you sound rather apathetic
"We will SOLVE climate change", Kurzgesagt emphasizes a liberal approach, arguing that capital will fund the necessary changes and that existing technologies will be sufficient to maintain economic growth and development in countries. It's important to remember that all green technology can become polluting on a large scale. However, there's a notable absence of critical analysis on the degenerative and unsustainable economic model underlying many of these issues.
You mean mining and smelting silicone for solar panels isn't green!?
degrowth
Finally, a critical comment. Thankyou.
We need a follow up of this video
I feel like Kurzgesagt has a bit of a blind spot around land use and sprawl, and its impact on our climate. They briefly mentioned that we need better infrastructure and better cities, but I'd love a full video talking about what sustainable city planning actually looks like. Maybe a collab with @Not Just Bikes or @Climate Town?
"Is sprawl bad?" Seems like an easy video for them. The could even put their own historical spin on it by discussing the transition from walking and water transport to animals to modern times.
Trains fix everything
@@Pinefoxo car company stonks
@@909crime but muh freedumb! Let me roll coal brothr’
@@Pinefoxo Trains are so cool! But it requires a lot of money at places like America because of the massive land area.
“If you want change to happen, you must first believe change is possible.” Very inspirational Kurzgesagt, keep it up!
Nothing we do will change a thing. But your free to believe the hype.
@@phillmckrakin2518 I found the Jeffrey, Hamza.
@@phillmckrakin2518 Always great to see high tier philosophy from someone who can't manage to use the right "you're". Thanks, youtube philosopher!
Including climate change which will happen regardless
all you will do will be futile against climate change thats the truth for you
Your video helped not just with how to tackle climate change but general life advice for how to handle problems. Acknowledge the problem as bad but do not lose hope the situation can improve.
This channel is wonderful. I keep sharing this to all of my friends in Japan.
Man, this channel is undoubtedly going to go down in history as a positive force for humanity in the information age. I'm honored to have been a tiny part of that history.
I will make a archive of this channel and include this comment in it so future historians will know that you were a part of this, no matter how small this is
@@Megaman-wg3bf You honor me more than is necessary, thank you. But I'm certain it's the passion of people like you that will be worth remembering. If I inspire you to do something positive for the world then that's more than good enough for me.
Wholesome
shout out to the kids in future history class!!
“Future historians” Hahahaha
I simply needed this. The feeling that there is no future ahead is devastating for many young people who trust science.
Getting some positive data keeps us active and hopeful!
There is no hope for anyone, we all doomed because we eventually die for old age or a car accident
@@ketsi3079 ok
@@ketsi3079 umm, yea we will all die, but thats part of life were stopping complete extinction here, would you rather die a horrible death to climate change or have the chance to have a full life and grow old, thats what life is so you gotta live it to the fullest.
@@jeremyjackson7429 carbon capture is by far not the only thing he listed, like did you even listen to the rest of the video where he talked about all this eco friendly stuff becoming better then coal and crap
how can u believe all this bullshit
Thank you! I will focus on this. I was once a climate change denier. One day I saw my trashcan full of trash and was concerned because I know billions of people do that and it can’t be good. So I now recycle like a crazy person and I am moving into reduce and reuse. We are looking into solar panels for our house. And I have started voting towards policies that will help. However, I do live in Trump country so the battle is hard. Thank you for this hope.
Thank you so much for caring enough to change your behavior! ❤ If you want to consider which behaviors are actually effective, I would recommend looking into both the environmental impacts of recycling and eating less meat. Recycling anything other than aluminum is actually kind of pointless and we genuinely need people to reduce their meat intake in order to adequately address climate change (or entirely switch to lab grown when that becomes viable). Eating more plant based is by far the best thing you can do on an individual level, probably followed by voting so thank you for doing that :)
So glad you waste time believing in a manufactured problem.
And be happy you live in a Trump country, cause that means it prospers.
Oil and natural fuels are never going anywhere. People like me will make absolutely sure of that. Cause I vote for people who will keep the oil and natural gas industry alive.
0:32 the bird in the left omggg 😭😭
The part about goods/items that last longer and are repairable is quite important. Forced obsolescence needs to go.
Popularize the Right to Repair
See that’s something that’s gonna take a lot of work to change, I saw an infographics vid on this explaining how economies will never change this.
So many people probably read this comment on an iPhone. I just think that that's interesting. I acknowledge that pretty much all phone companies are guilty of forced obsolescence to some extent, but I do believe that apple are worse than a lot of other companies in that respect. We need phone companies which encourage repair and long lasting products, instead of having batteries which rapidly become less effective and actively discouraging cheap repair by preventing their devices from being repaired by 3rd parties. Please excuse my minor rant.
Yet its got worse
@@alizehsiddiqui9993 Infographics have a lot of false information, they don't check their facts. Don't believe everything they say
I don’t know why but this made me cry, as for once I was given a boost of hope that the future won’t be all that bad. Thank you for this.
"I dont know why this made me cry"
*proceeds to explain why it made them cry*
@@ratsniffer2036
This doesn't sound right.
**Proceeds to explain why it doesn't sound right**
Edit: can we ratio the guy I replied to? Probably not.
READ MY NAME!!!!!!!
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Me too. We're gonna be ok. And we're not alone.
Same
Flowers are blooming in antartica.
Trash is in the Marina Trench.
60,000 Trees are cut down every hour.
Thank you so much for making this! This makes me feel so much better already.
I remember being practically beat over the head with the whole "carbon footprint" stuff and how it was the fault of every single individual equally. Imagine being a 6 year old kid being told that you're killing the planet by keeping the lights on a little too long.
And the "carbon footprint" narative was actually funded by the fossil fuel industry to shift the blame away from themselves
I legit started taking showers in the dark after those lessons lol
Exactly. I'm fed up with people griping about product packaging in plastic baggies or plastic netting...gripe at the people packaging things that way! Not our (the general public's) doing.
It's not a structural failure. It's because you, a child barely old enough to bike to school, are taking 15 minutes showers instead of the the minimal 7.
Fucking bullshit but shoved down out throats for decades.
@@carried9130 yes!!! we should stop this shaming of each others and ourselfes and get those who are at the root of the problem(the industrie) to change their style of production!
I think the feeling of hopelessness is understandable when we talk about the political aspects of climate change. It's not that we think humanity as a species is not capable of solving climate change, it's just structurally difficult to pass any climate legislation when the fossil fuel industry has so much influence in government. As for me, I'm pessimistic in the short term but optimistic in the long term. More and more young people who care about this issue will become eligible to vote, and we'll gradually win.
that's what happens when you buy gas and fund oil lobbyists
Not to mention the infighting on both the centrists, left, and right on how to make said change. Which seems basically impossible especially when lobbyists profit off of this.
READ MY NAME!!!!!!!
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@@Lildizzle420 ooweee
@@Lildizzle420 and the alternative to that? am i just supposed to not buy gas?
Thank you to the team that made this cause I really needed to hear it. I’ve always been very2 conscious of how bad the world state is and as a result was not really excited or looking forward to bring my children one day into this world. This made me have hope and might help slowly change my view to a more positive note.
In 2040 we will re-watch this video and there will be thousands of comments saying "this aged well"
probably because people like you choose to believe humanity is doomed, and choose sit on your ass instead of trying??
@@reichr, Absolutely true.
Will we even be able to watch the video
Almost got teary eyed. So moving to see the efforts knowing there is a solution and that we have been able to make an impact through our choices. We just have to continue and continue harder.
ok
There's not a cut and dry solution. Only ways to lessen the effects
So did I
And what choices did you make to help make an impact?
You poor gullible person. I really feel sorry for you.