What Are the Solutions to the Climate Crisis? | Planet A
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
- In this episode of ‘Planet A’, Professor of Environmental Science Garry Petersen explains how humans must adapt if we are to avoid the tipping points that are leading towards irreparable harm to the planet.
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Remember this, it takes 80 times the energy to change ice to water than it does to make that same amount of water to rise one degree Celsius. That means when the ice is gone, rapid temperature rise follows…
Assuming pure water at sea level, you are saying it takes 80 times more energy to go from 0 to 1 (ice changes to water) than from 1 to 2?
@@homewall744 334 joules for 1g of ice to turn into water. 4.2 joules to raise 1g of water 1°C.
@@homewall744 More like 0 to 0 degrees (ice to water). It's the specific heat capacity, and why melting ice is really good for cooling drinks (versus say those stone ice cubes people use to keep their drinks from getting diluted)
@@homewall744: No, just to go from 0 degrees Celsius of ice to 0 degrees Celsius of water. Try to put a pot of ice water on the stove and turn on the burner. The ice water will stay around 0 degrees Celsius until all the ice is gone and then rapidly rise.
@@jsnx9067: What’s your source?
Leverage big oil for solutions under close federal oversight. They've covered up the science since the 70s, they have the capital to invest in solutions and mitigation efforts if we demand it.
or get rid of big oil entirely. they don't deserve to profit from an issue they created.
@@Chips402 even better
@@Chips402 But the thing is, people have a lifestyle that requires always more oil. It's easy to blame oil corporations, while people in all countries purchase always bigger 4x4 SUVs, travel by airplane always more, people purchase always more cheap stuff they don't even need on Amazon, order always more industrial fast-food by Uber, and the list can go on. People must realize that we all need to make some efforts to change our lifestyle. Waiting for the government to magically end pollution is pure stupidity, or laziness.
They probably already have the answers too
If we make oil completely unprofitable they won’t pump it up, the government doesn’t have the money to pump it up either. So our best solution is some sort of carbon tax that we can fund investments for climate smart solutions to help us reach a net-zero carbon footprint
"These kind of systems look like they're going to last forever, until they don't."
That statement gives me hope in this dark time.
Out of all nations of the world I thought America would be at the forefront of renewable energy. How much more free can you get than by creating "fuel" and heat in your own home, without having to depend on the good will of multibillion dollar companies. If you are sick and tired of rising energy and gas prices while having to endure rolling blackouts, what more of a reason do you need to demand the decentralization of energy production?
like most idiots you don't understand how oil goes into products you consume.
we are...we consume the most natural solar power ever known to man: oil. are ya new?
@@tuckerbugeater like most idiots, you've not quite yet worked out that we don't need 90% of the products we produce
The U.S. isn’t actually about freedom or decentralization and it never was - it was always about capital acquisition for the rich whites at the top. Middle class and poor whites are still in denial about this and view their exploitation under capitalism as a good personal work ethic.
our politicians are bought out by the oil companies, that’s why. exxon mobile and it’s kind have literally bought the entire republican party and half of the democrats.
Agro-ecology is the solution. Regenerative agriculture mimicking whatever local ecosystem would normally be there: savannah, forest, meadow, wetland, etc. Permaculture Design can get us there
.. 🐮🔪⛓😭/😵🔴🦠🍖🐔. Hypoooocrite 🤥. Big Time !!!! Over a frigging 5 minute hamburger et cetera !!!!!! CuIt🔴foIIowing !!!!! You can have vegan burgers and vegan chicken and vegan pizza and vegan curry and vegan tacos and vegan burritos..... without murder !!! Simple !!! ✅🤷🏼♂️. Vegan burgers blindfold test, Number 1 ever, delicious !!!!
@@VeganV5912 The masses are blinded by their self important 'entitlements'. It's disgusting. The fact that our fellow animals are murdered and tortured and the planet has a climate emergency, doesn't phase the unwashed and ignorant masses. Vegans are in pain over the murders and the unwashed masses are rushing toward planetary destruction. Why? Because they LIKE THE TASTE of other animals! It's barbaric and indefensible.
NO way, Human nature is embodied in Capitalism.
Listening right now: The Beetles - Soybean Fields Forever
there are no solutions you naive children.
This video should have millions of views.
When they say expand, they mean convincing both corporates and governments which often fall on deaf ears.
So as long as the rich are still blinded by greed, the solutions won't matter seeing as it doesn't get implemented far and wide enough.
Vote for more progressive politicians that are pro-Earth!
Was this article in the Independent or the NY Times?
Sadly, the real job is getting people to vote in the first place.
Voting won't fix this. You can't ask oppressors nicely to stop oppressing you at the ballot box.
The elites won't give up their power to stop us from all dying.
Violent revolution looks more and more like the only real option as each day passes.
@@chorizo8939 Is humanity at its core greedy? Or is humanity greedy only when you put them in a system that rewards it?
@@sanjayr Ahem, that's why you have to vote not just in General Elections, but also state elections to change the representatives. The US (in some states) also elects their sheriffs so there are more things to consider.
Otherwise you're asking the public to have more weapons than the military which is often never the case (see Myanmar).
The fact that we get free documentaries on RUclips by VICE News is truly a gift. 👍
This isn't free. There's clearly a narrative.
@@tuckerbugeater do you even know what the word narrative means?
Are you a bot?
Modern nuclear power + desalinization plants + carbon capture. Even at the start of the politicization of the climate change idea the head scientists were saying industrial output could be zero that day and it wouldnt fix the issue.
great video, I wish people would stop being selfish and think beyond their lifetime and help solve this problem. We have the rich trying to go to space and with one swipe of their pen they could end world hunger.
How naive are we all, history has clearly taught us nothing and for this alone we deserve all that we have coming. 🙏😉
@@chorizo8939 you're both right. The boomers had the chance to change after the revolutionary 60's, but they got into investing in oil instead
So you can end world hunger spending a few billion dollars yet governments around the world spend trillions and get nowhere as fast as simply converting to free markets?
@@homewall744 It takes 20 billion in the U.S. to end hunger and homelessness.
@@jeremyjackson7429 If what you say is true, then there is nothing we can do to stop these events from taking place. Nothing we can do will stop something from happening in 5 years time.
Thanks 🙏🏻 We need more of this. It’s amazing how many people do not see climate change as the huge threat to all of us.
THATS BECAUSE THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS !
The data is VERY CLEAR !
Climate is TOTALLY within normal long term variability.
The discussion IS NOT and NEVER WAS about climate, it is and always was about the AGW hypothesis.
The real threat to us all is the gullibility of people like yourself who just accept that everything you are told in the media is true.
Its perfectly legal for the makers of these propaganda videos to deceive the viewer and just plain lie to them, as they have done on many statements made in the above video.
The Maldives ARE NOT threatened by rising oceans, and the polar land ice caps are GROWING, the ocean pack ice is within NORMAL averages being larger some summers and smaller in others.
How about YOU tell me what aspects of temperature or climate you think are in crisis eh.
@@peterjones4180 okay, bud. Maybe head over to NASA's climate site and the UN's and go shout at them in all caps eh ✌
@@local3433 I asked YOU a question sport how about answering it ?
I await your list.
NASA is a government organization and will do whatever the government tells it to do.
Not even a letter of complaint by 46 retired NASA scientists and engineers demanding James Hanson be fired for bringing NASAS reputation into disrepute, by tampering with data, to make it match his ideological propaganda , had any effect.
He was doing what he had been put there to do and was protected.
Unlike i suspect yourself, I speak to scientists some of which have worked for the IPCC, including some who have been part of the IPCC, independent review process.
They tell me that they do their review, point out all the problems they have found with the scientific report (usually including a LARGE amount of scientific studies that always seem to have been left out conveniently), they are thanked and then their review is completely ignored and the scientific report published as written (except of course on those occasions when the IPCC has requested the lead authors CHANGE their conclusions to match the Advice for Policymakers Report which is released first), so if they take no notice of their own expert review panel i see no use in going to them.
The selective use of capitals in written communication is an effective way of stressing a change in voice tone in order to emphasize certain phrases.
this is impossible to achieve any other way, so i suggest YOU just grow up and realize that the point of communication is NOT to stroke the receivers ego but to pass on the information in the most effective way.
@@peterjones4180 sounds like you’ve got it all figured out 👍 trigger
It's mother nature just they don't know anything
Saving this to my playlist. Great job!
Disappointed by the turn to social issues. Global warming is by definition a physical issue caused by the release of greenhouse gases from fossil fuel burning. Started to address it then made a hard turn to social issues. Would love an actual examination of the US power grid, lack of energy storage for renewables, the misinformation aboute nuclear energy, breeder reactors, the duck curve, lifecycles of electricity infrastructure projects, carbon taxes..
Agree 100%. It strikes the tune of climate etc and asks a HUGE question in the title, then fades to minor social issues that were largely solved centuries ago. Underground message from Vice is: These climate things are unsolvable.
@@dv8322 Nah, climate warming is the Solution to the population Problem.
Way to deny science James. You can't keep pretending like social science isn't a thing. Climate change is a man made issue. Mankind created capitalism, capitalism systematically pillaged the earth for profit. People live on the earth.... we can't do that anymore if we keep pillaging it. Just say that you don't want to believe in science and move on.
Read the last part of my original post again. There certainly are things that can be done to reduce and or slow climate change. None of the solutions are socially based but infrastructure based.
@@James-ze6ie Except the process of actually trying to get those infrastructure changes isn't actually a physical problem, it's a social one. These problems don't exist in a vacuum, they exist in a system that has been impacted by social issues since day one. Awareness of those systems is necessary if you want to get those infrastructure changes.
You could make the argument that the Texas power grid fiasco is an infrastructure problem, but it's clearly also a political and social one since the people who made the laws the deregulated and segregated the Texas power grid were done for political reasons and a social desire to break away from the Federal Government.
"We're like little children playing on top of a grizzly"
"Climate crisis" is an oxymoron. The climate? It will adjust and survive. The humans? Not so much. => " Human Environmental Crisis "
the planet and even some animals might survived rapidly climate change, but humans will suffer and many will died
It’s true. Climate makes it sound nature centric. It’s a social problem. Human systems imperil humanity. The solutions are political and economic.
there are environmental issues but they have nothing to do with climate
Technology alone is not going to solve the climate problem. We need good policy like a Carbon Tax. Implement the Carbon tax in a way that doesn't drastically hurt the poor.
We are doomed, there is no hope. One doesnt need to be a professor in psychology to see that humans are incapable of changing their habits and selfish behaviour.
good. can we stop talking about this bullshit religion of "climate change" now?
25 feet =
7.62 meters
The profit motive must be abolished. As long as the things the produce are just used to line someone's pockets we will not be able to stop the waste and over pollution required.
Every time I see something about global warming I think back to the nuclear testing we did on open water. No us scientist thought those 23 nukes would boil the ocean and help melt ice caps?
I think nuclear fusion will be a massive aid in slowing down climate change. There is huge money in it so countries all over the world are investing in it and working together to make it viable. It definitely has a long way to come, but it is something that could completely stop emissions.
Yeah but these commies dont believe in capitalism
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Fission could already have stopped the climate crisis in it's tracks. But everyone's so scared of accidents that happened at mismanaged, under regulated plants that have such a small impact compared to the damage caused to human life by fossil fuels. What makes you think fusion will be any different to these idiots?
@@a2pabmb2 fusion has 0 chance of an accident. It is impossible for one to happen. Also it doesn’t produce nuclear waste.
@@tomsasafsdg1727 maybe but when you say nuclear, people are scared because of nuclear bombs and the incidnets of Chernobyl and Fukushima(which were just plain human errors in all cases and bad design like puting a backup generator below water level...)
Fascinating series. Added to favorites.
Vice is recycling old videos. This one is basically a compilation of a few that they already published on YT.
Anyway, only a REsource-based Economy is an effective solution. All these "solutions" are just a patchwork
Pity its mostly bullshit.
Why did you not realize that.
I liked that " We are a force of nature but we differ in one really fundamental way from all other forces of nature. And that is that we can change direction!"
Simple have less humans = fix's every problem on earth , we are the problem
Yes, but that will take a generation. In the meantime, we need to dramatically reduce our impact.
It's not the problem. The Earth is large. The more people there are, the smarter we just need to be about our impact and how to contain it.
@@MikeCalhoun In 1920 there was 1 billion of us and that took 250000 years or so to get to that number today there are 7 billion of us by 2050 there are will be 10 billion. You can recycle ,reuse and go green all you want it will make no difference . We can be aware of the problem and do something about it or the problem will fix itself and that will not be nice to witness. Very very hard choices need to be made.
R.I.P. Fossil fuel industry...
there’s no real solution, it’s already changing. all we can do is stop immense modern consumption changing industries and society to not make things worse.
after that we just have to try to survive the change that’s comming
.. 🐮🔪⛓😭/😵🔴🦠🍖🐔. Hypoooocrite 🤥. Big Time !!!! Over a frigging 5 minute hamburger et cetera !!!!!! CuIt🔴foIIowing !!!!! You can have vegan burgers and vegan chicken and vegan pizza and vegan curry and vegan tacos and vegan burritos..... without murder !!! Simple !!! ✅🤷🏼♂️. Vegan burgers blindfold test, Number 1 ever, delicious !!!!.
@@VeganV5912 Have you heard of devolution? I'm surprised any of your ancestors lived.
The biggest pollution factor you can make to the earth as a human is having more children as they are new consumers/polluters. The earth is going to regulate the population.
I wonder how many people clicked off the video when they heard “earth” and “3.5 Billion years ago”
It's good to see there are many bright, intelligent minds working on clever methods to measure and slow climate change. Keep up the good work.
you cant slow climate change, you can pump billions as the west does, but India and China dont give a single F opening hundreds coal plants in next years, the effort is pointless ;)
@@trader2137 Like the west hasn't got to where it is by doing exactly that for decades and some even centuries
@@trader2137 That's a terrible and incorrect view. You can slow climate change. China is also creating a lot of wind farms, they are leaders in the world as far as production. But what the west can do is to spend a lot more money than they are now into research and development. The US needs to get it's crap together before it can go complaining to other countries. Maybe the US discovers great climate solutions and gets them cheap enough for other countries to take advantage of.
Sitting here saying, well we aren't going to do anything until another nation will is beyond stupid.
@@MikeCalhoun sure you can slow it down, but its so insignificant difference that it doesn't matter, meanwhile it costs alot and make people poorer
@@trader2137 "sure you can slow it down, but its so insignificant difference that it doesn't matter, meanwhile it costs alot and make people poorer" We long ago passed the point we we will save far more money than it costs if we accelerate the transition to renewables. Not to mention that in most places on earth, renewables are the cheapest form of new electricity generation.
Get rid of the military industrial complex, and punish china's fishing industry
Do you even know what the military industrial complex is
there's more than one country that should be punished for their lack of caring.the U.S. tops that list.
Climate change isn't because of humans.Our solar system is heating up.. Just another scam for money
@@SpaceRanger187 Yup our solar system has its own inner working as does every Planet. They go through cycles, the thing is that Earth isn't due for a heating cycle again yet. Its a man made change.
@@SpaceRanger187 dude I've lived in the same state my entire life. Have literally always had regular snowfall that stayed on the ground for weeks or months by October. Didn't have any snow until after Christmas this year. The climate is definitely different now than it was twenty years ago, and no, it's not because our sun which is in first half of the most stable ~9 billion year stage of it's life cycle has warmed in the last two decades.
If they are spreading silica over ice, won't that cause the water to be toxic when the ice melts?
Silica is sand.
I absolutely love this Planet A series! I first heard of Soulfire Farm from the book 'All We Can Save.' People actively making changes or educating people on the climate crisis are heroes.
Capital ownership is not the problem. Consumer behavior is. We always want something bigger, better and to consume more and more. Our consumption drives production and supply. Everyone wants someone to blame, very rarely are we able to see ourselves as a part of the problem.
Capitalists want people to consume more. Otherwise, how will they make a profit? They falsify information, do false advertisements. Mass scale social awareness will resolve the issue.
@@trailblazer3889 I don't think it will. People believe in their right to consume. Demand drives supply not the other way around. It's easy to blame producers for falsifying this and that. It's up to us to make choices that dictate their output and production. Consumers are the real core of the problem.
@@krishm16 Capital ownership is what allows us to build sewage treatment plants rather than dumping sewage in the river. Wealth is what allows us to install low-NOX burners, electrostatic precipitators, and flue gas scrubbers on coal fired power stations. When we were poor and primitive, we couldn't afford to justify doing those things, but with wealth, now we can.
@@trailblazer3889 "mass scale social awareness will resolve the issue", dude, are you the stupidest person in four counties or five?
Accumulation of capital is not an issue. Increased standard of living, infrastructure development and consumerism is the cause, accumulation of capital and global destruction are both effects of that.
Climate change didn't exist before free market accumulation of capitol. I guess you can dispute that link, but surely you can sympathise with the people who see this link and the data associated with it and are convinced
Accumulation of capital is definitely an issue. See, the incentive to do stuff in today's society is to make money. Chasing money =/= finding solution to human needs. Often times, chasing money means that if you do find a solid fix to an issue, you go bankrupt. Chasing money means PERPETUALLY chasing money. It's wasteful, it's amoral (meaning, in and of itself, doesn't distinguish ethics, therefore people get rewarded whether their choices were ethical or not), and it's corrupting. Why do you think that no one in power is doing anything meaningful to combat climate change? Civilization itself is being threatened of collapse in the coming decades, and millions, if not billions of people might die as a result of it all, and nothing is done because moneyed interests completely took over - if they didn't have full control from the beginning.
@@PropheticShadeZ I can dispute that link very easily since that logic is too simpleminded to deserve any space in the discussion of climate change. Accumulation of wealth does not create greenhouse gases, it is a result of what creates greenhouse gases.
@@wandererstraining No that is very uninformed logics. Without the incentive of earning money, people in general are not motivated to work hard. Without people being motivated to work hard, nothing will come out of it. What motivates people is spending money on what they belive will increase their happiness, them being foolish is creating a demand of products that the market will fill, and getting rich from it, but also creating jobs. Just simply blaming capital or accumulation of it, it is only done by those who dont understand it.
@@bingoberra18 I think you have it in reverse. Consumerism is created by industries who need to sell. There are plenty of examples of planned obsolescence for example. Do you think that people want to keep buying the same thing over and over again? No! Look at the whole industry of advertising, too. If people were so keen on working their asses off and spend money on asinine things, why would there need to be a reason to propagandize to them all the time?
And that's not true that people wouldn't work at all if it weren't for money. They might work less, sure - but money is as much of a stick as it is a carrot, if not more. How many people are forced to work not because they want to buy stuff, but because they don't make enough to even get by and will be in trouble if they don't? Also, money didn't exist for the majority of our existence as a species, and look! Here we are. Do you think we'd just lay down and die if it weren't for money? Hell no! We'd still have to maintain a certain living standard, and human ingenuity and curiosity would still be looking for ways to make life easier.
Geo engineering seems tricky, replanting forests at high speed and updating and renewing our systems (transport, agriculture, heating, industry) seems by far the better choice.
The problem for that is you need ignorant megalomaniac politicians to do some of that..
These morons are trying to invent ways to keep operating like business as usual, instead of giving the planet MORE TREES. Maniacs.
Lol, trees take decades to grow to a size where they actually consume a sizeable amount of carbon. Sure, plant trees but it's a long term thing and we need change now. There are other ways to sequester carbon, like growing certain crops that grow faster than trees.
@@HollisPresnell it's a medium to long term solution, yes.
That's why we should start sooner rather than later.
@@hansolowe19 the time it takes to grow the trees to mature size is approx 20-50 years for impactful change on co2, if we wait till the global temp will rise further than we can reverse. Even if we stop all carbon emissions today the temp will warm 1.7 degrees approx. Time is critical, talking about tree planting is a future project after the emergency, it's like wondering how you will remove the charcoal from your still burning house
We need to stop deforestation globally the main thing we need to do
I'M UGLY AND I'M PROUDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!
A slow yet constant shift to renewable and alternate sources of energy. The building of more modern and safer Nuclear Power plants.
Yes!
A big issue seems to be auto emissions. Seeing all the news anchors and other various tv personalities perform a job they usually have to catch 2 buses and a train just to get to made me wonder, how many barrels of oil could we save if everyone who could do there job from home, would. I imagine a world where millions of people travel millions of miles going to work in a world with the technology that would allow each of them to perform all the various task of there specific job from the comfort of there own home.
heavy rail, and light rail
I believe the most significant factor in addressing climate crisis - that nobody seems to want to discuss - is population.
Yes! And we are forcing people to have babies (like in Texas) to force- grow the population but we can’t even take care of the kids already born! What a mess. I’m afraid
GOOD PLAN TO START KILLING PROGRESSIVE IN MASS LET START WITH CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK !
Yes, the U.S. accounts for only about 3% of the global population- yet it consumes around 25% of the planet’s natural resources every year.
@@thebrightest1230 you're wrong.
there is no solution for a non-existent problem
love it
@@chorizo8939 you're a religious zealot. nothing more.
Hi thank you. Very solid information.
Less people is the answer we all dance around like a rearing cobra, refusing to touch. Eventually we won't have to worry about too many the way we're going. The problem will be the opposite.
One quote about climate change has stuck with me and that is James Lovelace in “the vanishing face of Gaia” saying that the carrying capacity of humans on earth without us causing any change to the earths composition being around a hundred million people. People love to say corporations make 70% of global emissions but who are those corporations serving and how would people get their products otherwise ?
Just one, in my case the take away caption has to be Utter horsesheiss *🙏
Of course, that’s just a quote but the idea is we don’t build these systems sustainably. Sure, they serve the consumer, but they don’t optimize for total efficiency- they optimize for profits, and that usually means externalizing as many costs as possible.
Considering it's the richest and smallest populations countries in the world that are responsible for most of the world's emissions, I doubt that this is true.
Lets break this down, we havent done anything for our planet bc Gas makes money for a lot of people.
THANK YOU standing rock!
Humanity plays a vital part in the death of all ecosystem, and most have already long since been ruined by us. The animals killed, the water exhausted and poisoned. That's why we live inside, so we can ignore the fallout of our culture.
Thank you for this hopeful video!
The situation is very depressing and it's hard to act when depressed
The good news for you is that this video has as much scientific credibility as a Bruce Willis movie.
@@peterjones4180 lmfao so true
lol global warming is at night and cuz the sun not you and me friend. the earth has been covered in fire and look at her now. still rolling strong. fr pray the sun dont keel us.
@@michaelmyrick6973 What? The Earth will be fine with climate change. It will just wipe out humans and bounce back.
@@peterjones4180 Ok, point out what's incorrect.
One gallon of gas has 31,000 calories, or around 20 pounds of rice. One horsepower is roughly the energy a horse can sustainably produce, a Honda Civic has around 150 horsepower. We are addicted to cheap, abundant energy. Getting off of it is going to be one horrible hangover. Staying addicted will be worse. I don't see painless solutions to this problem.
We need to reform a lot of sectors, including building fairly dense cities where it's easy to go buy and where the greenery is integral part of the environment. We need local production of most basic necessities, which we need to be durable to not have to produce a superfluous about of them. We need transportation reform, where the fastest means of transportation are public and free - for people to adopt them. And we need personal transportation vehicles to be small, easy to produce and low emission... Like bicycles. The biggest thing to change, tho, is production and distribution of everything.
@@wandererstraining We need cheap nuclear energy and we don't need to compromise our standard of living.
@@gregorymalchuk272 I think that nuclear energy would help a lot, but it wouldn't alone address sectors like transportation. Now, use that to power good public transit systems, and it's an even bigger step forward. We also have to take into consideration that carbon emissions are only one part of our negative ecological impacts. We also have to tackle the loss of biodiversity/mass extinction we're living through.
"getting off of it ..."
LOLOLOLOLOL. you clearly don't live in reality. no one is "getting off cheap energy"
Humans will be extinct if we don't do anything yesterday! We all need to contribute on healing mother earth 🌎
Why is everything about Slavery and Social Justice. This video is supposed to be about climate change. And what we can do moving forward to help prevent a terrible future for our children.
because the colonialist mindset is at the root cause of this issue. It was how our destructive world economics was created and it is how it is maintained, albeit 'wage slavery' vrs actual slavery. poverty is a political choice, there have been to date plenty of resources for everyone and it disproportionately affects the descendants of slaves and colonial countries
@@chorizo8939 im white uk female 39. i think we need to make amends, i think we need global justice, i think the richer countries who have profited the most need to make reparations.
Currently, i dont see that the historical wrongs have stopped, the current systems n climate mitigation, cop26 etc feel like colonialism 2.0, incl our banking system of loans which keep developing countries in debt n corrupted.
If we were at a place where there was no systemic racism nor between countries, id fully agree with you.
Kids dont change/learn what not to do until they face consequences for their behaviours. i cannot see that we are going to resolve AGW without addressing inequalities. to me its not an either/or, its a both thing and its a moral obligation thing too
@@chorizo8939 i agree with that sentiment
With my ignorance, id rather be a slave on a stable planet than free on one that is self-destructing.
Did you not see what happened with the yellow vest movement?
im being realistic, social justice is the only way to get everyone onboard, for everyone to be able to AFFORD to change
Poorer countries will not get off coal n oil without it and it will take every country pulling together.
Im on disability in social housing, theres only so much i can do to reduce my footprint (diet and transport) i cannot save up for my own renewables, im tied to gas n nuclear, im rural n cannot afford an EV n bus service is abysmal. the solar in my window barely charges AAA batteries for my motion-sensor lights so i only use mains in kitchen while cooking, not for kettle, never in hallway, never for going loo, only for bath/shower, never for getting dressed, but only for reading in my bedroom.
I cannot even get permission for a few hanging baskets to provide pollinator oasis
Even if i by some miracle had my own property, i STILL couldnt afford anything other than the cheapest utilities n thanks to fossil fuel subsidies those are NOT green tariffs. I cannot afford insulation, i cannot even afford to run a car.
There are other people who currently cannot afford their gas n elec bills with the inflation n green tax levy, who cannot afford petrol £ increases, food price increases etc
If its not affordable for so many of us in somewhere like the uk, how do you think developing world is going to change?
Governments need to put policies n system changes into place to make this work and they need to address inequalities
Already too many people see the climate change as an agenda to control people, to depopulate, to increase poverty n steal wealth etc n their resistance n stubbornness would only increase with top-down draconian measures, they would rebel n deliberately do more harm, such as burning tyres
@@kimwarburton8490 What utter crap.
I cried for this I cried during this I’m so happy that we’re making noise and making sh!!t happen☮️💜🧿‼️✊🏾
Not going to stop the climate from changing like it’s done naturally for eons.
@@slavikamex why did you say eons, not decades? what's the catalyst to accelerate the process?
@@chorizo8939 your wokeness is cringe. Bet your drinking from a plastic bottle today. Wearing disposable items. Replying via your iPhone. Using electricity. Amiright?
@@chorizo8939 thanks for confirming your hypocrisy. 😂
@@slavikamex give me other options less harmful overall than the things that already exist. If you say drive a Tesla I swear to God...
Face it, we're screwed no matter what. This is not part of the natural cycle of climate change inherent with our planet. If you believe that, and believe humans aren't the catalyst for what we are seeing- and what we will be seeing from now until we all die- then you are either too weak to accept reality or too stupid to understand it. Almost always, it's both.
Issues with the wolf thing is red wolf used to inhabitants until the Buffalo massacre
Plastics should be made out of hemp.
Change takes time. We need to remember this as the world changes. Climate change happens over time, and not over night. This means we CAN make better changes as a society; changes need to happen on a societal level, not just at the local, state, federal, or even individual level.
yup change takes time.....and we ran out of time years ago,,prolly when we blew past 5 billion people.
I love the it's up to the individual to change and make a difference. Just to say at the end it's not up to the individual but the bigger actors. What's going to make a change is removing oil and plastics and other chemicals that are not just killing off other species but also us. I love the beautiful notions but I'm going to pop your propaganda bubble. As long as people want the status quo, oil will never go away or plastic. As long as accumulation of wealth keeps being celebrated by basically everyone that becomes successful. Then this virus in our planet will never stop. We are in an era were climate is unstable the economies are unsustainable. I love the efforts that individuals are putting but this gets nullified by all the carbon emotions yearly and the microplastics that keep accumulating in our bio diversity. The end is near for billions, only the richest people will have the resources to adapt to rapidly changing planet because they are the ones causing the damage and they know it!!! Say it Vice we have terraformed this planet just so less than 1% of the population can live comfortably without ever lifting a finger. The expiration will never stop because they are addicted to money and watching human suffering.
Regardless of solutions, there is no profit. This needs to change.
Symptoms treatment instead of fixing the cause is our problem.
This is actual information . And I really mean actual .
nice show, seems to have little to do with your title.
Vice showed these mobile fish farms years ago & just showed them again, but didn’t say anything about them ? Can anyone else ?
21:00 It's not very often that I am downright inspired to point out something wrong with a wishy-washy statement someone makes... Feel free to label me slightly pessimistic given her endeavors towards trying to make the world a better place for the future path that the human species tries making for itself as time continue flowing on. She's very likely doing quite a bit more than me to help solve a bunch environmental issues which currently plague our green, blue and white(ice caps/snow) marble that we continue to ride on through our short galactic journeys. But...
Saying something like, "Every person being able to contribute something to solutions, so there's a lot we can learn from just being a little bit more... :smiles: Like nature! Or like the ocean."
Is anyone else not going to point out the small bit of hypocrisy she is just soft-tossing out to the audience when saying something like we should all just be a bit more like nature..? Because "nature" as far as I've witnessed not only has the tendency to "heal itself," and find the equilibrium that the entities(people, plants, animals, etc.) who reside in it allow it to manifest through their actions.
BUT and a BIG BUT, nature also has nooooooooooo problem at all EATING ITSELF and THE OTHERS in it! Sure, nature is a sweetie pie when witnessing a beautiful beach sunset with some loved ones after a nice fulfilling day, but try telling to any animal(people included) that nature is something you would like to frame ANY consciously minded individuals state of mind after when you start to consider the gruesome and terrifying death that a majority of species are faced with when it comes to dying on this planet. As a comedian once brought to my attention, imagine if fish could scream; the moment you put your head underneath the water all you'd hear is non-stop "AHHHHHHHHHHHH, HEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLP, UGGHDFGHDGFAHSDAS!!!" Not exactly a pleasant thought, is it?
Anyways, just trying to be a little bit more aware of how, what and why people say things and the ACTUAL meaning behind the statements when you think about what is said and how people interpret it without giving it much additional thought. Just my two cents.
"todo tiene su final" - Héctor Lavoe
i will solve this, the way is vertical farming in the cities and turning farms into forests back
Can you explain more...
@@himanshree2599 i already did, we should stop using soils for growing graind and other farming stuff that requires a lot of area, at least with this way we can rescue those lands and turn them into forests
@@mushi475 but how it is possible to grow farming products with out the use of soil..it's interesting 🤔 great work,even I am planning to start a spirulina farm at my home ,,I heard it works well against climate change..
@@himanshree2599 you don't need soil to grow vegetables, soil is only for holding the vegetable and holding the minerals, micro greens don't even need minerals because they already have those needed nutritions in their seeds, like the egg, it has nutritions for the chicken to grow up inside the egg, you will just need water (will be much much less than using at farms, like only %10 percent of what they are using now), and minerals, soil is not even safe around the world, its not clean, there are many chemicals in the soil too, there are many bacteries, viruses and mushrooms, and all these stuff is not good for health
@@mushi475 alright, I got your point.. Thank you for making this clear to me,,I will also try.
if your tummy hurts have a few "saltiness" and some ginger ale. all jokes aside thank you for bringing folks content that is pertinent.
science and human ingenuity can save the world
Hearing solutions is much "better" than just doing the actual simple math. We are the neccesary "evil" for our demise or salvation always.... now particularly but always as well. And we already are affecting the worlds ecosystem in a global way
I hate math
there are no solutions. there are what. you and the other evangelicals believe are solutions through faith. but they aren't solutions.
This problem isn’t insurmountable though it seems too late, we wasted so much time with denial and coverups that we only have a decade or more to transform our entire civilization. It doesn’t seem feasible.
Doesn't matter if it seems feasible or not. We have to give it our all. This is our legacy. Let's not go easy into that gentle night.
Ways to combat global warming:
1. Better insulate your home. A lot of energy is produced to heat and cool homes year round because they are so poorly insulated.
2. Grow some plants.
3. Consume less. An average person does not need to eat 5,000 calories a day. That also pertains to spend less time behind a screen. (ironic here I know) A lot of energy is wasted to power your screen especially when people have multiple screens active at one time. You don't need a TV on while you aimlessly scroll through social media. A lot of power is also needed to run the 24/7 servers for your entertainment. Consuming less would also mean less garbage which would mean less methane gas build ups from landfills.
4. In the same line as 3, but equally as important: have less children. You do not need to have five children.
5. Make air travel allowed only during the daytime. Seen estimates that say if all air traffic happened only during the daytime, then we could lower the global temp by 1-2 Celsius.
6. Abandon corn based ethanol and use sugar cane ethanol. It uses less land, less water, and less overall energy needed to create e-fuels from sugar cane than corn.
7. Force planes to use e-fuels. While that will make air travel significantly more expensive, Nasa has estimated that e-fuels in planes would reduce emitted VOC's by 70%.
8. Use less plastic or embrace bio-plastics like a hemp based plastic. Less plastic production means less oil needed, by a percent, and less industrial waste throughout the world.
9. Put more pressure on actual industrial companies and politicians.
You know, those are just some ideas, but sure. Lets make it a race issue instead.
my carbon footprint is going up over time, son
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This is such a great video
The Netherlands have been GAINING land, there is a great video on RUclips with a title like “how the Netherlands have been gaining new territory/land” and the methods they use to make sure oceans aren’t rising around them.
Well they do have centuries of war with the ocean. That is a very large amount of experience.
There are also videos explaining how many billions of Euros the Netherlands waste every year to maintain all the massive infrastructures required. As sea level rise, their dams and overall infrastructures will need to be always taller and have always bigger pumps which will consume always more energy. Their way of gaining land is definitively not sustainable and it won't save anyone in the future.
@@readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444 Both your comments are a misunderstanding or reality. 1) The speed at which sea level rises is increasing at an always faster rate (almost exponential) as the average temperatures get warmer.
2) You don't seem to know that sea level is not the same everywhere and tides are not the same everywhere, and some regions are more affected by storms than oters. This is a combination of geography, topography and (to some extent) gravity. For example, tides in some parts of New-Brunswick in Canada are of 16 meters high (53 feet), while they are of only a few centimeters on the coast of the city I live in. Sea level rise will thus not affect all regions in the world the same way. Also, regions that have a lot of storms/hurricanes will see a bigger impact as waves during storms will become bigger
@@readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444 Simply Google "is the sea level the same all across the ocean", and you will find out that the ocean is NOT the same level everywhere because of as I said, geography, topography and (to some extent) gravity. The sea level is for example higher on most of the west coast of the USA, and thus sea level rise will have a greater effect on the west coast. The "ocean level" is an average level as it varies from place to place. As you didn't read my example about New-Brunswick, I guess you won't bother searching for yourself, but believe wathever you want if that makes yourself happy 🤦♂️
@@PG-3462 Can't change the ignorant
A better future is very much possible. It's well known what we have to do. Although, some tech is missing, changing us is more important right now.
Every year grow more food 🌱 in your back yard
Why does no one talk about the most effective way to solve climate change?
Adopting a local and seasonal whole foods plant based diet is the panacea for most of our modern problems.
But yeah, people don't want to change their habits cause "bacon though*...
@Orbite Flow what’s so sad is we won’t have actual freedom to do the things we used to be able to do when we lose our planet, temperatures are out of control, etc.
It’s really sad. Even just learning about how pigs are are intelligent if not more than dogs, and 9-10 year old kids. They did a study where pigs played video games and celebrated when they won a level and were frustrated and wanted to play again when they lost. They used their mouth and a joystick. They said if they had opposite thumbs they would be close to monkeys. People love to say how horrible it is when China has the Yulin dog festival but this is just do to our views as dogs as pets, pigs are just as loving and intelligent. If you wouldn’t kill your dog the same applies to pigs but because many people don’t have them as pets they don’t see it. The way most pigs/cows/chickens are treated is enough to be upset and is bad for us when pumped full of crap. It really is sad people place a temporary “taste” over long term solutions. There is a good video on being a “good ancestor” on RUclips by doing things now that will help generations after us and how it is a moral duty to do that. People forget they are creating the world their kids and grandkids are going to have to LIVE in.
Yeah it's people eating meat. Not 300 years of industrial revolution based around oil and fossil fuels. Do you ever travel by car?
Birth control also works.
@yourmanwatson this is the best response to this bull. Glad someone is thinking clearly.
The solution is the immediate removal of 1.6 trillion tons of greenhouse gas from the atmosphere(co2, methane and nitrous oxide), combined with the immediate cessation and or sequestration of all human emmissions. In other words, we broke it and we cant fix it.
Not WE, THEY....$$$$$......
Right on.
I think it’s already too late.We’ve done nothing about fossil fuel use for too long.Just look around at all the flash floods,Droughts and heatwaves.
Thanks for making this I can breathe a little easier
You’ll never fix anything until you resolve corporate greed.
And you won't resolve corporate greed until you abolish capitalism/power accumulation. Greed doesn't just appear on its own, it is incentivized by the system.
@@wandererstraining greed appears when a person makes a decision to do wrong. The incentive, or temptation, is money. And when money becomes more important than people, you’ve got yourself some greed. Corporations are built around greed. The entire package is built to increase the dividends to shareholders at the expense of its own employees, the environment, and very often ethics. There is nothing wrong with capitalism. Capitalism can exist without greed. It is the decision of an individual or group of individuals to put money, power, and things ahead of humanity. Life is about choices.
@@daspicsman The so-called wrong decision is often the correct decision based on capitalist standards. If everything rewards making the wrong choice and punishes making the right choice, people will make the wrong choice in most cases. If anything, you sometimes see people making the right decision in spite of capitalism, at their own loss. People don't make decisions in a vacuum. And people can display a wide range of behaviours. When they behave greedily, it's because that behaviour seems appropriate for the environment they find themselves in, not because they just want to be assholes - mostly, some people just want to be aasholes, but then again, there are probably reasons for it.
@@wandererstraining still a choice. Everyone knows wrong from right or they couldn’t function in society.
@@daspicsman Everyone knows right from wrong, but if you're a CEO and you're faced with being fired or keeping your job and all you have to do is to be beholden to your investors, either you will do what it takes to keep your job, or someone else will take it. As company, either you can compete with other companies, or you can't. If one of them does something unethical that gives them the edge, and you're unwilling to do the same, you will lose and become irrelevant, or your company might even fail. You can only be so ethical as it doesn't stand in the way of your survival, and capitalist selection thinks nothing of ethics.
There's a reason why I'll never be a CEO or a politician. I'm not willing to compromise. Under the current system, you can be sure that pretty much all of those in power will be those willing to compromise, often times at first making good excuses for it and often believing it.
Take the example of a politician. They had to make themselves palatable to corporate interests, or else they wouldn't get the support they need to get elected. But they do it because they think "Once in power, I can work on changing things for good". But then, everyone around them is corrupt and will get in the way unless they compromise some more. And here it goes, they slowly but surely become corrupt, without really realizing it at first. They think "I have to do that one thing I really hate in order to do that other thing that will help countless more". But then it never stops. They lose touch with the outside world. People hate them, so they start hating them back.
Again, if you want to fix corporate greed, you need to change the incentives enough so that greed is no longer advantageous at the very least. And to me, it goes beyond just making it more costly for companies to do the wrong thing. Because there's always cracks and loopholes and weaknesses to exploit. You have multiple people with money and power competing against each other? They will necessarily find ways to take advantage so they can win. You can regulate capitalism as stringently as you want, some people will have an interest in bypassing your rules, and there goes the corruption again and again and again.
Honestly, nothing. Money talks. End of story
(For clarification, I think these facts are appalling. But greed is too powerful)
I too dream of having so much money that's worth thousands of times more worth than my whole lifespan. While also shortening other people's life spans just to see the numbers go up for the millionth time.
Restoration of the soil on a local scale, extended throughout the world on a global scale alongside the end of agribusiness and their poisons that are killing the ecosystem and us as well would be a start, alongside educating us all to our full potential....
Great video!
I couldn't agree more with the end of this video. I've thought a lot about this and I think the root cause of climate change is capitalism
please read about the history of humanity, destruction of the planet is literally millions of years older than capitalism. Also read about climate and communist countries, your view doesn't match history... Do you know how the USSR and Mao treated the planet? Did you know CO2 emissions of developed and most capitalist countries peaked decades ago? It's only economic development that will allow cleaner energy, the 97% of ethiopians cook with wood as our ancestors did... If they don't use cleaner energy like solar it's not because of capitalism but because the lack of economic development, same for North Korea, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam etc...
@@pietrodeveloper
Exactly. Wealth is the only thing that enables us to install pollution control equipment on our industries. And to a person in the developing world, cooking over an electric cooktop powered by a coal fired power station would be relatively cleaner, because the historical alternative would be cooking over unvented open wood or animal dung fires inside the dwelling.
The best solution is to embrace antinatalism. The environment and future is not really my problem.
Reforesting coasts & along river riparian zones would capture & sequester carbon from running off into the ocean where it currently is having a devastating acidifying effect.
Wows!. Thanks 😊
I guess if you think wolves are the natural solution, imagine the human wolves who will be unleashed to fix it via government solutions.
I think that will help that will help the economy greatly! Genius!
@@Ugg_Son_Of_Thogg , .. 🐮🔪⛓😭/😵🔴🦠🍖🐔. Hypoooocrite 🤥. Big Time !!!! Over a frigging 5 minute hamburger et cetera !!!!!! CuIt🔴foIIowing !!!!! You can have vegan burgers and vegan chicken and vegan pizza and vegan curry and vegan tacos and vegan burritos..... without murder !!! Simple !!! ✅🤷🏼♂️. Vegan burgers blindfold test, Number 1 ever, delicious !!!!...
Sad story,quit the rat race, enjoy Almighty God's creation!
True. Consume less and only as much as needed. Live and enjoy a simple, stress-free and slow life.
This video is all over the place. Rewilding and water protection isn't going to solve the climate crisis. The only solution suggested was geoengineering.
I don’t care about pollution, I’m an air conditioned gypsy
Solutions for climate change:
1. Local domestic production of goods: Most greenhouse gas emission is attributable to transport of goods. If goods are able to be produced locally with minimal transport, fossil fuel use can be greatly reduced. Problem: resources to manufacture goods are rarely all available locally which necessitates shipment of raw materials, this solution only limits greenhouse gas production, it does not eliminate environmental damage.
2. Mass societal shift away from globalist capitalism into agrarian living: If there is no demand for resource intensive consumer goods, they will no longer be produced and shipped, heavily reducing greenhouse gases. Problem: modern society has become accustomed to a certain quality of life, it is not viable to expect society to regress on such a large scale to living without such luxuries.
3. Tech solution: Technology can be invented to reduce or reverse climate change effects. Problem: this solution is the most amenable to our current way of life but also the most uncertain. If technology is able to reduce/reverse climate change, it will also accelerate us towards a dystopian future of power abuse by megacorporations and governments.
Good points. You should also have added that a worldwide shift to a plant-based diet would be the easiest and most immediate thing that humanity could do to dramatically mitigate climate change. Worldwide meat/diary-production agriculture generates as much greenhouse gases as all of the world's transportation systems combined and is the major driver of deforestation worldwide. Some 80% of Amazon deforestation is for the purposes of grazing livestock and raising food for livestock. We can do what you suggested, but 8 billion people consuming meat will still destroy the earth, and is destroying it.
An agrarian society where people live in their own village and can only go as far as a horse or bike will take them is the only way to lower emissions but good luck getting ANYONE from the people to government to implement anything of the type lol
@@DWood3319 Most of the people live in cities, and that trend is only growing. I fail to see how urbanization can ever make for a sustainable planet, because a city consumes and gives nothing but garbage and CO2 back. If someone can convince me otherwise, I'm listening.
@@markj7612 construction of 50 story apartment buildings brings about emissions in so many different ways vs a village where you build your house out of wood or whatever raw materials you can find for one. Not even getting into how the local environment is affected from runoff to the wet wipes people flush down the toilet now. At the end of the day using technology aka ,anything that uses energy, is detrimental to the earth. Imagine going to Vegas and the strip is dark at night because all of those lights use a lot of energy. It just simply won’t happen without wide spread government legislation. Especially when you factor in our nations inability to go full nuclear because who makes money off that? Oil is the number one thing that allows people to have money and for one those people don’t want that to go away and good luck telling a truck guy he can’t drive his diesel 3500 ram without world war 3 starting.
so you list a few "solutions" yet, no one is implementing them?
Have you stopped to consider why? b/c no one cares
Meat production is the #1 contributor.
no, it's fossil fuels
Neither.Our solar system is heating up The earth changes who would have thought.
Narrative of Self is the result of a feedback loop between “Separate Self” & Cosmos 🎈
Oh man,exactly.🤨✌️
@@Maya_Pinion To elaborate in the same way there is a feedback loop when we engage in self talk and not a genuine back and forth between two sources, the same thing occurs with the Narrative of Self. It’s the story we tell to ourselves about ourselves, ie subjective rationalization. There appears to be a cosmos and you separate within it, this illusion is what leads to the feedback loop. Non-Duality. I have a short vid on my channel that elaborates. ✌️&♥️
There’s a pretty large UFO or UAP going across the sky at 19:06… pretty cool
There are solutions but big money and older way of keep doing things will never let us bring those solutions to fruition. And for the solutions that are viable I don’t think they’ll let enough of those solutions happen to change it, unfortunately. So we are inevitably doomed. Whether it’s man made or natural there is climate change among us whether some folks want to admit or not. I’ll probably never see the collapse but hopefully the younger generation can get it right better than the predecessors. 🤷🏾♂️✊🏾✌🏾
There are solutions, but PEOPLE don't want to change their lifestyle. They think, just like you, that the government and corporations are to blame for everything and that they can magically end pollution without the average citizen having to make any effort. The sales of 4x4 SUVs are increasing, people travel always more by airplane, people can't cook anymore; they thus purchase overprocessed food which is very bad for the environment, people purchase always more cheap stuff they don't even need on Amazon, people still throw their plastic trash in nature, and this list of examples could go on for hundreds of additional examples
@@PG-3462 they aren’t to blame for everything but they sure are to blame for a lot. And if you don’t think big money runs this place. I have a bridge for sale for you.
@@rocsteadii Don't you realize that big corporations exist... because millions of people overconsume the cheap products they sell? For example, I lived many years in France and the lifestyle of the average citizen is way different than in most other developped nations (which explains why France has lower CO2 emissions per capita than any developped country, and even lower than China). French people don't encourage big corporations. Walmart for example tried to open stores in France a few years ago and it failed miserably. French people encourage their small local businesses which as a result have a smaller impact on the environment. I now went back living in Canada and I do my best to do the same. I do not encourage big corporations, except maybe Google while being on RUclips... When you take some time to make research, you can find local companies which manufacture good quality clothes, home furnitures, etc. Even my bank (Desjardins) is a cooperative which distributes all its profits within communities in the province of Québec. Also, since local products are more expensive, I also consume less, which is what we all need to achieve if we want to reduce pollution. If everyone did like French people and like me, big corporations like Amazon, Apple, Aliexpress, Exxon Mobil, etc. would cease to exist. As I said, it's easy to blame big corporations, while encouraging those same corporations with your lifestyle 🤦♂️ As we speak, the world is currently not going in the right direction as the sales of the said big corporations increase exponentially while small businesses are being killed...
Maybe humans after the age of 40-45 need to be put down. It would cut down on medical cost, handle population growth, food and housing scarcity,
Wtf is wrong with you 😂
How about kill the babies or stop fucking.
Remind me to never elect you into any office lmao
that intro is dope
covering the arctic with reflective sand seems like a pie in the sky idea lmaoo.. cheaper to just move cities to higher ground
Bunch of disingenuous charlatans trying to make money on non issues.
Charlatans indeed, and deleting comments calling out their lies.
Tax and put more restrictions on the majority while allowing the billionaires/millionaires to carry on with their luxurious lifestyles?
Billionaires are only that rich because everyone overconsume the cheap products they sell. If no one ever started encouraging Amazon and its business model, Bezos would have never become that rich. It's easy to blame the government and corporations, while sitting on your ass in your huge 4x4 pickup/SUV, while eating some overprocessed fast-food and while also thinking about what new useless cheap product you can purchase on Amazon. I don't know if you have this particular lifestyle, but the vast majority of people have giant overconsumption problems. It's pathetic to believe the government can solve pollution without anyone having to make any effort to change their own lifestyle.
@@PG-3462 I get that but your allowed to buy those things and most people who have disposable income chose to have "luxurious" items like tvs, phones etc. It won't stop until governments step in and restrict unessential products. But who will decide whats essential and unessential? Then there's the legal implications of doing such things. I can't see there being a solution until its too late.
Money makes the world go round until the day that changes there won't ever be any meaningful change.
@@chorizo8939 😂 "Industrial companies conduct their business independant of the average consumer" Companies produce what consumers want to consume. End of the discussion. For example, Apple exists because millions of people purchase the phones it sells. If no one wanted to purchase overpriced cheap phones manufactured in China, Apple would either need to change its business model or go bankrupt. If Exxon Mobil increases its oil production, it's not just for fun. It's because oil CONSUMPTION increases. Why is oil consumption increasing? Because the average person adopts a lifestyle which requires always more oil. What is for example the most popular type of vehicle in the USA? Pickup trucks. In China? Big 4x4 SUVs. How many people travelled by airplane in 1980? 800 million. In 2019? 4.6 billion. How can't you realize that pollution comes directly from our consumption choices??? The more imported cheap stuff people purchase, the more pollution there's gonna be.
Hah....👋
@@lincslegend6936 In every scenario, we will need to change our lifestyle. Waiting for the government to tell you what to purchase and what not to purchase won't solve any problem... Also, TVs and phones aren't luxurious items anymore. According the the quick Google search I made, 7.26 billion people (91% of the Earth's population) now one a smartphone... If people at least purchased phones of higher quality and took care about them to keep them for a very long time, it would be better. However, the majority of people purchase some cheap iPhones or Huawei which need to go to trash after 2-3 years. My 6 year old Motorola Moto G (manufactured entirely in the USA) is still functionning perfectly. Unfortunately, people didn't encourage Motorola and its local production, so Motorola displaced its phone production to Asia... now I guess the quality of the phone decreased. If everyone wanted high quality phones peoduced locally, then production would come back to the US (or any other country if the population wants so)
We humans have been fucking up our planets ecosystem and for what so we could destroy ourselves,this is sad and i mean sad as a man i cry for this.