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Ideological fanaticism is big problem when it comes to climate work. 1) Here 20% of population is shut out of decision making because "their way" to fight climate change is wrong 2) Our Green party is jamming and hurting developement of Fossil fule replacements due "We arent allowed to cut more forests" Hard to get wood based fossil fuel replacements, if you arent allowed to make them.
the famous quote: Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.
There is one more factor: China made the most industry products and exported them to all over the world. The emission to make these products are counted in China. In other words, the emission in China actually includes the one which is actually consumed in other countries especial USA and Europe
Short answer: everyone. Long answer: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne
@@malepauling7431 What do you propose? People losing their jobs? Economies smashing into the ground? People's retirement funds being partially or completely wiped out? All because you want renewable energy now? What a selfish and idiotic worldview.
As a native of China, I don't know if the United States has done anything. But I know that China government is planting hundreds of millions of trees every year. And there are many solar power plants in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. These can even be searched on youtube. Even my hometown, a small village in Henan, has been installing wind power stations on the mountains since 2016. We want to be rich, but we also want a beautiful environment. We will do our part.
@@thimble347 Right, right, speaking for China is CCP propaganda. Speaking for the West is freedom and democracy. Which country are you from? It makes me sick.
@@godtolove6984 It's one thing to speak for China, it's another to reiterate nothing but Xinhua talking points as you do so. Facts are, China has done very little to improve it's own footprint and likely never will - especially now that they're facing a recession due to the failed zero covid policy.
@@thimble347 China's per capita carbon footprint is insignificant compared to western countries not to mention that she produces the most products for the world. The best way to bring down carbon emission would be to make western world poorer and waste less energy, and fortunately that is already happening.
@@tinkerknight8022 If that's the case, why did China refuse to release it's economic data this year? Furthermore, China is already on record as having the worst environmental impact out of both the US and Europe combined. Air quality indexes alone show how horrible their policies are for their own citizens let alone the wider world. Let's not forget the unregulated over-fishing of the worlds oceans by vast amounts of fishers who frequently poach other nations waters, especially in Africa where their government's have been debt-trapped to be powerless to stop them.
every one is to blame for climate change and no one is one cause for it its just that every one needs to stfu and go green all of the people in power are old farts that think it does not exsist like trump ect we need people who are younger and people who can see the damage we are doing to the environment we need to stop useing fossile fules also they will not least forever because there is a fineite amout of fosile fules that means it will run out eventualy and we would have to end up useing green power but it would be too late. Some ways of green energy are nucllear energy - no carbon emitions but very hard to get rid of wast wind energy - cheap and easy to use but very dependent on wind solar energy - very good in sunnyweather but expeenccive and less power when cloudy water power - dams and other methods but very expencive another way of reducing emitions is to encourage biking and have more no car zones because it has worked fantasticly is some areas in the world there are so many ways of perventing climate change but all of the idiots in power are not lissoning and doing nothing. during lockdown the world has had time to heal and repar its self and we can see this in countries like china who had smog before lockdown and no birds chirping to haveing no smog and haveing the birds cherp. because if we dont stop our ways now our planit will die and we will along with it and it will just be another barron planit in the endless void of space. also for all of what we know we are the only civilisation in the universe and if we dont treat our planit well we will fall and the universe will truly be empty idc if you hate this but things need to change and sorry for my spellin
@ China is doing more by tree planting and limiting the emitting while USA quit the agreement. Your comment that it pollutes more than all other nations is subjective. Your comment itself is subjective and I literally didn't see any stats you provide here that support your objectiveness which make you sounded neutral while assuming it. They are putting effort in throughout the years responding to the summit and it's own people. The argument of this video is that benefits comes with responsibility, and the inequality created by industrialization is arguably not the reason to one line cut the global emissions. China is doing a lot in my observation. Definitely not enough but indeed more than a lot other nations. China limits lifestyle emissions, enforce trash separation and recycling. Stopped importing electrical and other trash, planting impressive amount of trees, putting serious amount of restrictions to pollutive manufacture, and in major cities, no more open air BBQ, no more 2.0 and more engines for family uses. China also have environmental enforcement in every cities, and have actual law to prevent individual or enterprises to over emit and dump. In China, cutting trees without permission is a crime. Chinese people also stopped burning for warmth in major cities and this trend is tremendously expanded over the past decade as cities opt to natural gas warming supplied from powerplants instead of burning coal by community or individual families. Over the past fifty years, it built one after another nuclear powerplants and remodeled or replaced tons of thermal powerplants. China has largest inland power project in the world which it started while it is really poor because it realized burning coal is not the solution and is not sufficient for industrial needs. Near Beijing, China is building xiong an, a model city that eliminate cars and makes people sufficient in community and rely more on public transportation. If it successes the Chinese cities are going after this model, which increases human interaction and reduces commute in the same time. Quit your double standard and look for facts. If we eat less beef and stop luxurious fireplace and high emission cars, we can contribute. China needs to do more, but the established world also need to move in. Doing this and contribute together, so we can survive.
When your boat is leaking badly and requires team effort to quickly seal, but instead of sealing the hole you spend all the time arguing whose fault it is and everyone ends up drowning.
@Kent Horvath the world is saver today, but a climate crisis can and will change that very rapidly. We need to do everything in order to prevent a climate crisis.
@Kent Horvath Floods and hurricanes. Ever hear of those? Take a good look at the states near the coast. Look at the numbers. Do you see it rising? Great.
I love that this video is not biased . Most other channels blame developing countries like China and India .But these developed countries have contributed more than China and India in historical terms .But that is no excuse for these countries to follow the same path.
«I love that this video is not biased. Most other channels blame developing countries like China [...]» They still missed something big: **accounting for imports/exports** of greenhouse gas emissions per capita. A.K.A. carbon footprint. So for example the figures attribute the emissions for making EU & US electronics and goods mostly to Asian people.[1] Rich countries are outsourcing emissions to other countries and the video misses that.[2] It changes + or - a few tons of CO2 for many countries and part of the ranking changes. Source: Wikipedia "List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita" and compare section "Production-based emissions" for 2015 with "'Consumption-based emissions" for 2016. China goes from 7.7t/person to 6.27t, rich countries gain 1 or a few tons depending on if they have a manufacturing or fossil industry that exports. A dramatic example is Belgium going from 9.2t to 15.61t. Likely due to not having much industry. Check out the above source for more. Caveat: that's still not complete, it's not actually the carbon footprint, it's CO2 only and not all greenhouse gases (so it misses a lot of agriculture impact and all leaks from gas industry) so all the figures should be a bit higher and countries ranking should again change due to difference in food diets (% of animal products) and again upping the rich countries. Anyone knows where to find such data? To solve that last big bias. And is anything else big missing? [1] a laptop is like 0.5 ton! [2] almost a third of the carbon footprint of someone in France are goods. And more than half is imported. source: course 8 (Carbon accounting) at École des Mines 2019 by JM Jancovici
Developed countries are still polluting the environment today, they have moved polluting factories to developing countries，They stopped polluting their own country, but didn't stop polluting the world now, It is hypocritical for them to cheat on environmental protection
Except for the US, whose current administration outright denies that climate change is real and the climate isn't affected by people in any way. It's hard to say if they're just stupid, or they know the truth and are lying because they don't want to give up using their sacred oil for everything. Not to mention the oil billionaires and millionaires profiting off the destruction of the planet.
Mvvagner someone’s got to make them realize that that won’t last forever, and if the planet dies, there’s no more business for them. Especially given that sustainable sources are cheaper to implement and could thus make them more money than their current system. I’m very sad that this has happened to our planet, but we’re in the stages of. Climate change where we can still make a difference, and we should.
There has been some slight cooling over the past century, but I don't think that we can really do much to reverse the milanchovitch cycles. The title "who's to blame" perplexes me.
Also, we should not forget that nations like Germany reduced their carbon footprint by having their products produced in China because it was cheaper and environmental restrictions were less strict. So we put our debts in their hands and then blame then for the emissions. :-/
@@luceafarul579 Last I saw per capita China had 5 times the amount of plastic ocean pollution than the US and Indonesia has 4 times that of china. Even though the US has more ocean access ports than any other country. Now they do lead in CO2 emissions but the people guiding "green energy" in America are proposing plans that are counter intuitive by only looking at one part of the life cycle.
@@stephennewcomb4575 lol so? I never said China never pollutes anywhere. You are talking about just ONE type of pollution china has more than US ooptido. China actually leads in green energy in the world. It’s the largest producer of wind and solar energy for example. China also literally turned desert into forest. So doesn’t matter how you want to measure it, China leads in environmentalism over the US. I’m sure the ocean will be next.
Can we all appreciate how professional and how beautiful those animations are, and on top of that how nice the narrator's voice is? I'm a graphic designer and believe me if i say that this is very difficult to make, it's clean, it's clearly, it's beautiful,...
They actually have a company and I believe that they don't just stick to RUclips. I think they focus on design and communication and such. I might be mistaken though, but that would explain the amount of work put into these videos.
That would be a good line if developed country really do helps out undeveloped country but not used it on tons of nuclear 😊. As long as they are still getting stronger. There will be something just like Hitler happens. Human greeds are unlimited. We doing our best to survive and protect ourself at the same time
@@MarkRai-ko1sk what mistake? Mistake only happen when u do something unintentionally. We are doing it with caution. We are doing it for our own survival and to protect ourself. Maybe if you would start helping instead of having good life style. We would develop faster and everyone in the world can start talking about it.
Way to devalue all the impacts the US has had with a blanket statement. Developed countries should be the ones leading the way, and they can but they choose not to. The clothing, shoes, laptop etc factories in China are made by US companies and their suppliers chosen by US companies. Yes, China can place a reform to stop it but they're not in a position to. Why? Their emissions are actually not that much per capita, and when considering the rapid development experiencing by China, if a developed country doesn't help out then there's simply no reason to. Take India for example, now tell them to implement green reforms while most of their population is in poverty, does it make sense to you? What developed countries can do is to help develop the infrastructure in these countries to lower the costs of adopting such technology for them or to incentivize social entrepreneurship while working out an agreement for the developing country. The fact is, Developed countries never want to feel like they're on the losing side when it comes to a trade agreement. Why? What happens when you piss off your citizens by agreeing to a policy that has actual costs towards your country and the only benefit being "Environmental benefit". You'll immediately get voted out. This isn't some easy problem you can just slap China with and tell them to stop
You're on a computer You probably drive Do you have heating? Nothing to do with countries It's down to people wanting comforts of modern society Now let me ask you Are you going to give up any modern comforts and go live in a cave and grow food? Obviously not so stop moaning
I literally had my longest and most challenging conversation about climate change, who's to blame, what we can do, if we can or should be optimistic and all that just yesterday. Perfect timing for this video!
@@neilfox3769 for me with this topic, it is. It's not "just" science or statistics or data. It's the ethic perspective that would make me struggle to answer the question. But they kind of made a mathematical equasion out of it and told us what each variable means.....so i found it very helpful :)
That's how education works: Chunk a problem up into understandable parts, and keep feeding chunks at different abstraction levels until people understand a complex topic.
Exactly, my geology teacher docked me points because I didn't call out a specific country when my whole arguement was pretty much "god damnit someone step up and be a leader for once, we all benefit from this and we all NEED to participate regardless"
It's probably partially to do with most western climate activists only focusing on Europe/america/Australia and completely ignore the contributions from Asia by in large. Then when criticized for being oppertunistic they call all critics anti science for trying to drill down the nuance
Since developing nations will suffer the most, fixing it wont be on the agenda of the developed world and so the situation will inevitably get worse until everyone is equally affected, but then it will be too late.
It is on the agenda for many European countries. Global meetings are hold annually by mostly countries from the developed world attending. Socialist and liberal movements turning the question into a left-wing package does however probably not aid them in the goal to counter climate change, it rather turns people away.
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 i dont understand. Isnt it in the benefit of conservatives/right wing politicians to deny climate change. They stand to gain the most from the status quo. Packaging it towards their interest wont solve the issue. Compromise doesnt feel like an effective solution to a global issue that will kill us with 0 effort
I like how "Who Should be Responsible" is question 4/3, because how we can actually make change is the thing no one wants to address but it's the one thing we actually need to
@RockM was robbed yeah and also don't drive a car, all equally valid solutions nobody wants to do. We need globally enforced rules, that way the individual doesn't have to feel like a sucker for doing the right thing. Carbon tax
@RockM was robbed Thats all busywork though, your carbon emissions will still be many times higher than a poor person living in developing country. You're not helping the issue, you're just bargaining yourself a false clear conscience. The only feasible solutions are either A) Drastically lower the quality of living in developed countries, or B) More funds for research on greener technology.
@RockM was robbed nah wont be vegan. Sorry but all i can do is reduce my meat consume. But going vegan? Oh fuck no im no capable. Same to literally BILLIONS of people. Sad but its reality. Not all people can change, and im included on that list. Sorry and sorry to earth. Not to mention the climate change deniers that purposely makes the situation worse because of agendas.
@Jocoreno 1. It's the left who are BLM, not liberals. Nice political literacy you got there. 2. The struggles of black people is a fact, and has been for centuries. You being ignorant or biased doesn't change that. 3. Why are you dragging your ass about BLM on a video about climate change?
Ok but my question is how can we make these decisions? The people with the most power to make the change are also the ones with the least incentives to do so.
Fortunately, many of us live in democracies, so if you can demand a more environmentally friendly policy, and China will probably follow the same course if it wants to continue in trade, adding that China is already taking into account the change to more energy. renewable and in reducing the pollution of their cities
@@RoScFan tbh USA more look like a dictatorship Signs of a dictatorship 1.have a crowd that follows u blindly 2. Accuse public media that doesnt support you fake news 3. Suppressing of protesters with violent force(look at the fckin police brutality on the ones THAT WERE PEACEFUL holy fuck) 4. Leader racist af Etc, etc
Ironically we actually do know how, we’re just too lazy because everyone that needs to do their job *isn’t* always going to do their job because they aren’t immortal and immune to every single disease in the planet, (but also many of them are just assholes), we expect or want someone to do something yet we don’t act when we *need* to do what we wanted from that someone who didn’t do what we expected. And if we do do it, we’re just angery and then we all just blame each other then the cycle repeats.
I think that they have problems getting ads from youtube. The algorithm makes problems and the conten is not ad- friendly. But they get funded by Germany. They have a german channel were some of the videos are published months before.
Internet Explorer] I’m sure you’re meaning to have a constructive conversation, but I can’t really understand you. In your first paragraph you stated that most of our products are made by people desperate for work, which is true. However, in your second paragraph, you say that *consumers* are slaves to products. So which topic is it?
@@omatofi No, you are right. The so called 'market solution' is not a solution at all because the current rules created that result in the first place. And the rules are not fair or correct in many cases. It's an externalisation of responsibility. What needs to change is law. That way, established companies will have to change their practices - which is much faster, easier and more reliable than building new companies from the ground up, only to compete in an unfair environment. But changes in law are slow at best because politics is too influenced by those who benefit short-sightedly from the current situation, and too predicated on personal belief.
Jinsi K are they sure that earth’s overpopulation is the problem? Because if human start to address that and them become underpopulated, business will suffer and then they will say it’s a problem of underpopulation.
The best change we can make as individuals to reduce emissions is to live a vegan/plant based lifestyle as this will allow less land/resources to produce our food, which is essential to fight problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, species extinction and ocean dead zones for example. People can argue or make excuses all they want but this is objective and it's best not to shoot the messenger. Check out cowspiracy for more information 👍
We leave the cleaning to the government and us we just have to make sure big companies promote cleaning pollution. If the government didn’t care about global warming our air would end up like China’ s
The United States is always blamed for being one of the worst in terms of pollution, despite being one of the biggest advocates of clean energy. The entire reason we pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord is because we aren't going to be the only ones to sacrifice our economy so everybody else can feel good about themselves. The EU and friends didn't give a damn about the agreement. Yes, before anyone had a clue about climate change, the US polluted more than anyone else. Such a shame they weren't psychic. Now stop bringing up the past. No, we can't begin today. The idea that we can just stop using fossil fuels is ridiculous. Considering everyone's heavy reliance on them in daily life, the cost to replace *every single thing* that uses fossil fuels, the jobs that would be lost, and the horrible effects on the economy would be more than enough to bring America to its knees. The Green New Deal is garbage, climate activists have unrealistic expectations, other countries are hypocrites, and we aren't stupid enough to destroy our way of life. It's not happening, so quit crying about it.
@@jamesmoriarty9433 This right here is true no one was following the rules of the paris climate accord but america. Why make a deal when no one else will follow it especialliy when those other countries like China talk about wanting to replace us all the fucking time. We need to slowely shift oil companies to begin investing in other forms of energy and to manufacture solar panels (which needs coal) to replace the oil jobs that will be lost. Nuclear fusion is the future and without it were never gonna stop any of this
Question 5/3: Does any of these countries really care about climate change or do they just keep bringing it up just to look responsible and important? Are they willing to give up an easy and cheap way of energy production to completely reform their power grid for the planet, or do they care more about profit?
"Countries" aren't monolithic entities. They're composed of millions of individuals and thousands of politicians and people in power. Some of them care about climate change, some don't. Those of us with the privilege of living in democratic societies have to do everything we can to campaign, vote, and put pressure on the people chosen to represent us however we can. It's an uphill battle and, believe me, I know things look bleak. But we have to try. It's either that or guaranteed oblivion.
The thing is, it's not like sustainable energy is not a good investment in theory. Unfortunately, those that are rich now don't have any stock in green energy so there is no change.
@@pulkitmohta8964 Free markets of USA has reduced 2x amount of emissions my country produces in total. (2016-2019) USA reduced annual emissions 100 million tons. My country creates 50 million tons annually everything combined.
As we have seen in the video, some countries can be blamed by one or two reasons, but only the USA can be blamed for every single possible reason for global emission, however USA simpally refused to do anythong for it.
Yeah and the fact that the average American emits nearly twice as much as the average European is ridiculous. They emit nearly THREE times as much as the average Italian. Americans must be insanely wasteful if they manage to emit 3 times as much as us and we already drive everywhere and don't put _that_ much thought into it. I remember reading in the comments of another video that it's common for people who have second homes in places like Florida to leave the AC/heat on even when they're not there, because otherwise their poorly built houses literally rot from the moisture building up. That is INSANE to me, and probably to every other person on this planet who isn't American.
@@demoniack81 Its absurd and negligent to a good portion of Americans as well... Its sorta the majority, but when you dive into specific policies, most end up split by party. And while the USA is more of a Democracy than China, its a pretty poor one, so it doesn't respond to it's citizens views very well. When you see the "Political Polarization" hyped news articles about the USA, Climate Change action is a dominant reason for that polarization. In other words, somewhere around half of the USA is fed up with the other half for not acting, and are breaking apart their relationships in response. Some are literally splitting up their families over issues like this. So at least some are taking action.
To be fair though, we are also a large coal and oil exporter. So if we can ignore the outliers, you can at least smudge numbers down a tad for Australia.
@@EvilParagon4 With global capitalism, there's always some way you can shirk responsibility. China/India's response can be a similar "we are just supplying the west with cheap consumer goods". Where we land on the pollution rankings is not as important as figuring out what we're going to do about it.
@@pannychanman I just mean that identifying outliers and giving them a pass is a precedent already set. If we don't want to have that issues, we shouldn't ignore those outliers.
At least Australians can change this in a couple of minutes by divesting from fossil fuels and investing in renewables through switching their super fund to Future Super and their bank to Bank Australia.
The odd part is that the countries making that arguments (China, India, etc) are also countries where energy-efficient industries are flourishing. China produces most of the world's solar cells and hydroturbines and has the world's largest tree-planting project, and India comes up with the most ingenious inventions for doing more with less energy.
@@day2148 Producing solar cells is in now way shape or form an energy efficient industry. If the same solar cells were built in a western nation they would adhere to much stricter environmental policies and cause less environmental damage per W produced. The reason we all shipped our industry to China is because it is cheaper, due to them having far less standards and more people with no say. Globalism makes us think its a good idea to triple handle every material, dig it up at home, send it to china to be refined then shipped back home as sub standard goods that last half as long as they should, meaning you have to buy it again sooner.
imagine 3 persons are suspect in the court during trial and one of them killed someone. if logic "it's not important who did this" is right, then all of the suspects are guilty.
@@abitw210 i get your logic, and i agree some countries are worse than others, but when the trash fills the oceans inbetween land masses we no longer have time for any blame games. The entire world needs to come together on this now to enact laws and policies that allow for a greater impact than what individuals can have on their own. its not always an "individualist" issue.
"Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked" -Richard Buckminster Fuller
@@soejrd24978 being more adept at certain qualities, like ants farming or slimemold adapting, doesn't make any of them smarter than humans. Unless one of the animal species or fungi you mentioned can do everything humans can do and more, then they're not more intelligent. (though they are possibly more intelligent than certain singular humans)
It is 100% everyone’s responsibility to tackle climate change, also I think we have left out an important factor: developed countries often base factories in developing countries. Apple for example, produces its raw material in China and does the “assembling” in the US. This means the “producing” part which generate the most CO2 would be done offshore. You can see the proof of that when general production is decreased in China due to the COVID19 outbreak, CO2 emission decreased, which is followed by our lack of access to consumer products in developed nations. The problem here is not which country is responsible, we’re all interconnected, people of the same race moving forward together as a species. Empty politics generate friction that leads to conflict, it starts issues rather than solving them. I love this video and I hope more people are being educated by this, otherwise humanity would be headed down a terribly dark path of self destruction.
This. All those 'Made in Germany' or 'Made in France' etiquetes are false. Almost all of those were made in eg. China or Vietnam and just assembled in developed countries for the etiquete.
Exactly, the problem with so many issues in the world today is the failure to look at things beyond the country level and refusing to admit that things are interconnected. Climate change is a great example, another could be poverty in developing countries. Countries need to come together to tackle these problems and its up to the public to encourage and support this as we know politicians main concern is getting elected
You can’t ignore why those companies make product in other countries. Money. It’s cheaper to build goods in those places because the government in the USA has destroyed manufacturing because of over regulation and a weakening dollar. Companies want to make money just like governments want more power.
People love to blame the leaders of their countries for not doing more, but I would imagine that any leader who actually did as much as they should to combat climate change, would be voted out in favor of somebody who did less. The issue is that people are selfish, and the change needed to combat climate change also lowers quality of life. So the average voter is not going to vote for a person who promises to deliver on climate goals, because it will mean higher costs of living and in general a lower quality of life. The fact that people also like to blame leaders is another thing which makes it easy to shift responsibility away from oneself. In any democracy, it is the voters who decide the leaders, so in the end, they bear the responsibility of who makes the decisions.
@@anoon- and so does USA during the 20th century how about you who has the resource start reducing on it too its not like you emit below 10 percent of emission
Nope cant u see America and China both do the most and are emitting for lifestyle and other countries are emitting for survival and development u cant put the blame on everyone and expect to call it fair. Point is wrong and unjust
@@footballnerd277 Big problem is that no goverment tried major scale emission reduction by using a carrot. Aka, "Corporations and businesses and invidual people get tax reductions or other benefits etc" if they work for less emissions. Instead it was delayed and delayed and now just in few years Green parties are smacking people with sticks and punishing polluters. This creates huge counter force that manifests as Trump and other climate change deniers. "IF-thinking"afterward is useless ofc, but imagine if 10 or 20 years ago people were grown to idea that "Causing less emissions means more money". This is way more encouraging than "Start reducing emissions or I come smack you with this stick"
"Others acting irresponsible yesterday is a horrible excuse for repeating the same mistakes today." Thank you. I've been trying to tell people this every time they say but they did this first so why can't we? and I always just get so frustrated because everything just keeps getting worse
Amit Parihar it is impossible not to admit carbon. You breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2. Mother nature literally found the solution for the energy problem for life and it’s to exhale CO2.
It's irresponsible to make so many children for sure man made. The explosion of human populations in Afrika and Asian is the real problem . Africa and Asia are not able or willing to provide basic needs for many.
Those developed countries have veto rights at the United Nations. So, we will never be able to force the governments of those countries to take responsibility anyway. It’s sad but true 😢
@Tommy Belciano 雷 Then if the solution is futile say goodbye to humanity and have fun watching your great grandchildren suffer and die on a dying planet... smh cant get over how dumb some people are to say something like that.
Im so grateful that you made this video to help me make clear of the framework, I was so nervous and don't know where to start at when I first perpared for the MUN. Love you
This shows the prisoner's dilemma Why? Well you, as a country, can either cooperate by lowering emissions or defect by not. If everyone cooperates, everyone saves the world If you cooperate but others don't, you lose money If you defect but others don't, you get benefited without working If everyone defects, we all die So, everyone will defect
doesn't that test in reality trend toward cooperation? have to start realizing the prison this luxury has put us in and realize our common cause despite our short attention spans
This is why everyone should follow a moral code and stop watching what others do… This video is a great summary about why we are in great trouble! Only the dumbest ppl closing nuclear power plants to produce electricity with coal power plants.. (does this ring a bell for Germans and Japanese?)
@@bartoszbajorek8982 Should be countries with high emissions per person. Costs other's survival wadge to continue our lifestyle is not really fair to say and not convulsive.
Even after that they'll keep on blaming each other... Look at the world now. When we should come together and fight covid. Countries are still blaming each other
Please do a video on what types of “cleaner” energy have the most promise, such as nuclear, wind, solar, etc, and how they compare. Maybe even some on the horizon possibilities.
Thank you! Nuclear will be a large part of the mix when we decide to do something. Germany's CO2 numbers went up went they closed their nuclear plants. France is a much better player with its nuclear power which it sells a LOT of to Germany.
People are scared shirtless of nuclear when they should be scared shirtless of pumping out billions of tons of toxins into the atmosphere that will cause them to starve to death/drown/die of heat related diseases. Fear is why we can't have progress. Fear of nuclear, fear of cost, fear of being blamed, and fear of not getting enough money from the fossil fuel industry to get re-elected
Fusion is probably the best energy in terms of cleanliness/energy generated. Like, sure, wind, water and solar are all great, but they are very inefficient compared to the amount of space they take. Nuclear is nice, but you've got to do something with the radioactive waste. Fusion produces a 1000th of a modern nuclear reactor's waste, while having much more energy output. The only problem is, we didn't nail the technology quite yet, and that it requires enormous amounts of energy to start
Fusion would be a great source of energy but currently, the only example of fusion releasing more energy than it uses up is in stars. Stars use the high pressure generated from their own gravitational force to fuse elements, so if the same conditions could be replicated on Earth, fusion would probably be better for the environment than renewables such as solar or wind.
很好的视频，节能减排是每个人和国家都应该认真对待的事情，大家都做的不好，但都要去努力做好 Very good video, energy saving and emission reduction is something that everyone and the country should take seriously, everyone is not doing well, but we all have to work hard to do well
The response by many to COVID-19 has convinced me that there is absolutely no chance we will do the right thing about climate change. If solving the climate change problem was as simple as every single person in the world agreeing to press a single button just once in their life, some people would still refuse to do it.
Not only this but the resultant infighting, insanity, volatile hysteria, rioting, buying out all the toilet paper for no fucking reason and then throwing it on the ground during riots only months later... etc
@@jowysw For many people the button "no CO2 emissions" means starvation and death. Pre industrial societies lived under a constant threat of famine. Just think about this, if freedom doesn't mean anything to you.
Loved the ways you guys make us "travel" through the data like that. Seriously a complex topic explained very quickly and efficiently. All my support to you :D
The video forgot a key point : China's emissions are also linked to the fact that they're the factory of the world, not only because they have a lot of people emitting a lot. When an European by a Chinese TV, the emission "cost" is attributed to China because they made it. It also apply when they buy a Chinese-made Solar Panel. If everyone consumed only things made in their own countries (which seems to be what the video implies), the % between countries would be way different, but that's not the case at all. (And that would reduce transporting emissions.) [People are arguing in the comments, but my point is not "we should do this way or that way, this is a solution.". I was pointing out that the video arguing "all individuals from a certain country emit a certain way, multiply by number of people you get total, then this country X and Y" lack a bit of context and nuance, and /why/ some countries are doing this. I'm only saying that the video could have been more clear and go more in depth about why these numbers are there and how our world runs, and not just say "America is 50, China is 60" and using numbers that are not that comparable.] (Edit : spelling and clarity)
If we eradicate the sweatshop children and most of their population, we immediately improve the worlds health. A dozen nukes should do it and once we take out that superpower, there would be no country who would dare retaliate against the U.S.
I can just imagine a zoom meeting between world leaders like this: 'So that's why we need to end pollution' 'yes' 'yes' 'so whose gonna do it?' *Half of the world disconnects*
Ian Mubangizi, not true it hurt pretty much all countries in different ways. Rising sea levels, temperature, low resources, political problems etc. Also it says here ( *7:26* ) that the “developing countries will be hit the hardest” and then gives a short list of more examples.
@@ianmubangizi6721 i guess you don't watch the video, huh. Western countries pollute way more than developing countries per person as they are already rich now (wealth=pollution). The past century was marked by those western countries polluting the world first which make the total contribution of their pollutions higher than china. China emits the most pollution as they are starting to become richer and have way more people than all western countries combined. So, you are a hypocrite for attacking china as even today most of the pollution in china is caused by the outsourced pollutions of your western countries corporations to make their products cheap which is mostly sold to western consumers.
As a civilization we are ultimately all responsible for "Climate Change" as for who should be fixing it the short answer is all of us. So here is the legacy problem that we face, while we have the U.N. who simply are no longer fit for purpose, the issue will just be a case of "kicking the can further down the road" Which is perhaps sadly what we have been doing for decades. So what happens now. Well those in authority and positions of power will simply continue to duck their responsibility and what we end up with is a final showdown between Mother Nature and her inexhaustible power to teach us, yes us the whole of mankind a lesson well deserved. In the past decade we have seen one natural disaster after another and every affected Country has had to pick up the bill for the cost of those disasters. As we refuse not to learn from these past lessons, what becomes blatantly clear is that the rising costs will continue, and eventually we run out of money to fix this. The result is very simple, 1. Loss of life, across the globe. 2. Further mass migration. 3. Atrocities which sadly go hand in hand when we find ourselves in this predicament. 4. Economies crash and burning or worse on slow burn till, they financial meltdown becomes global. 5. N.W.O. finally comes to the rescue, but is it the rescue that any of us think it is. 6. We are neck deep in fire-fighting all natural disasters and resources finally reach breaking point. 7. Poly-Pandemics take centre stage, as we once again find ourselves fighting on a front we never planned for. 8. Our new enemy becomes the Sun, and it's not quite what we envisaged. i) Skin cancer is soon to take the number one spot. ii) Famine returns to our radar as food production is impacted by global warming. iii) C.M.E.'s, Solar Storms, create for us a whole new set of health problems. Which sadly again no one saw coming which is the Electro Magnetic Field, begins to affect the minds of humans because we are extremely sensitive to this new exposure, which we will see, happen first in the Southern Hemisphere before the Northern Hemisphere is affected. There is a scientific argument that if there was a Polar Shift then you guessed it the tables would be turned and we would then be exposed to this being a combination of Radiation from the Sun, and the subtle E.M.F waves that will penetrate through the expose ozone layer and bring a whole new threat. 9. Oceans and Seas temperature rise increased due to tectonic plates, moving and underwater volcanoes adding heat from beneath the seas and oceans. 10. Permafrost co4 fuels global warming, and releases us to new threats that we didn't allow for. The list is endless, I am giving you just a few, to ponder over.
the climate is going to warm up regardless of what humans do, it's the endless cycle of the earth between ice ages and warm periods. the last ice age ended fairly recently, so the earth is supposed to be warming up to a degree
Let's say we're on a ship that's slowly letting in water. Saying "I won't fix the leak because I didn't make the hole" will just ultimately lead to everyone drowning.
Wrong. You wait to fix the leak, let everyone else drown and then plug the hole last minute to save yourself. Now you don't have to share resources, you have it all to yourself.
They always pull this like every video almost lol. It's never clear cut and it's meant for you to decide the answer in the end by digging into more research yourself. But most people watching RUclips would rather be fed clear cut answer to not think too critically.
God I hate politics. No change happens it’s just “You’re bad” “No you’re bad” “No you’re bad” “No you’re bad” Etc Edit: guys this is a joke don’t take it too seriously
That's why we need to give more power to the UN and make it country-independent. Only global organizations that have power over nation-states can spur changes in issues like global warming.
As a chinese,and also be the citzen of the major character in this video--china--i must say the video is great,it telling us truth without prejudice,and pointout the critcal element of climant promble that we faceing now. Since china become the bigest industrial country in the world,there is no reason that china to aviod it's responsibility to the climate change.And that has been the common sense throughout the china,and the "Grenn rule" also enshrine in our civil law as the rule of law,which encourage every equal citzen reduce the carboon emission as they can. So,I would say chinese understanding that the protect enviroment is important,and we already doing our job,such as planting tree in the northern,and we even eliminated the desert in Shannxi Province(mu us desert). china also have the bigest generating capcity from wind energy、solar energy and hydroenergy. If we want to solve cliamte change problem,and given our future generation an plant could provide shettle,food and beautiful scenery,we shoud work togather ,because the earth not only is the future of every country,but also is the future of the human kind and lives. (sorry,my english wasn't good)QAQ
@@frostydowns because currently the cost of transporting the electricity to places that can use it is far more than people are willing to pay. If you want to use the center of Australia, it should be using solar power to generate hydrogen from sea water then shipping it to Japan in ammonia.
*“And as long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist.”* This quote comes to mind when talking about governments’ unwillingness to respond and adapt to climate change.
Oh boy, can see the future of the reply section. Listen, this is a channel mostly based on research that have some sort of backup. If anyone wanna make claims, please provide example and proof of the example. I'm not here to pick a side, but for anyone who wants to throw in their 2 cent and opinions, please remember to show proof and source unless you want to start a keyboard warrior war. Thanks.
@Scientific Humanist we should have turned this ship without panic 40 years ago, but we didn't. That is why we need more radical changes than replacing light bulbs or other small things 😉
Me, an Australian: lol we only have 25 million people we're not the problem "Australians have one of the highest carbon footprints per person" : .... oh
That's irrelevant. If a country of 10 people each emit a lot of carbon, but it's still less than most other countries, then in terms of CO2 it doesn't matter. Population and population growth matter and are just as culpable for destroying the planet.
Htrac - Have you seen Australia’s coral reef and massive wildfires*??? Tell me with a straight face that Aussies don’t contribute to that and I’ll call you a liar
" After you " must be one of the most powerful moves to delay actions. I always think like that when someone talk about stop using air-conditioner to not let the world hotter. I think that I will also do it if everyone about me do it too 😥
It becomes even more complicated when u factor in that most of goods produced in China are consumed in western countries.. a lot of services provided in india are for western and European countries..
Yup. Developing countries should not blame others and developed countries should help developing countries to develop tech. One way of doing this is capitalism. VC should invest in developing countries which helps stop climate change and also helps the country to grow economically.
@@aryan3229 The problem here is quite simple. Our "leaders" are either ignorant or do not care as this is not gonna have a huge impact on their lives. That needs to change or we'll all die.
@@zed7038 Both. They are ignorant (to some extent) and don't care. What we need is innovation and capital. And we need them quick. Innovation can happen if we have a) incentivization b) capital. Capital is a huge problem. If someone outside the US or Europe, they can't get funding.
It's more of a prisoners dilemma. Where everyone acts in their own personal interest rather than that of the whole. When it comes down to it there is really nothing we can do as a whole since everyone is so divided. Why should I suffer for you when I want to grow as big as possible, and the counter premise. Why should I have to suffer when you reaped all the rewards. When you think about it we are truly doomed. I know for a fact I rather grow at 100% then have to suffer a mere second just so we can all win. I rather win at all cost. Prisoners dilemma.
@@dtmsolid1234 tragedy of commons suits here too. If I close all fabrics that emits CO2, this fabrics just will be open in some other place. Even if all world stop emitting CO2, all emitting moved to China, for example.
USA and Europe and they are not doing enough, so third world countries will continue to burn forests to feed their economies and become developed countries
We need to fix this as soon as possible! Europe has just broken Hottest winters on record! United States seeing less snow. Extremely hot summers in the United States! I am ready to help fix this problem!
Either governments needs to step in and regulate the shit out of every aspect of business or we as consumers have to take action and be responsible with what we decide to buy and do to make business follow our money.
Yeah, and the funny thing is that a lot of people buy it and proceed to waste their time and money to useless behavior and products made with outdated technology but advertised as "organic" or something.
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"We need to take decisions using facts and everyone needs to work together."
We're doomed.
lol
Rip
Yeah we hella screwed
Ideological fanaticism is big problem when it comes to climate work.
1) Here 20% of population is shut out of decision making because "their way" to fight climate change is wrong
2) Our Green party is jamming and hurting developement of Fossil fule replacements due "We arent allowed to cut more forests"
Hard to get wood based fossil fuel replacements, if you arent allowed to make them.
We’re fucked
the famous quote: Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.
This comment deserves more likes!
Thats got to be the highest body count that I saw in a yt comment...
Where is this from? It sounds like something Douglas Adams would write.
r/almosthadastroke
@@Killerfox512 It is
Countries: Let’s solve climate change!
Also countries: After you
Climate change doesn't need solving it is natural and cyclic!
Ted Clapham but humans are making it faster jackass
@@vex2x9710 yes probably
@@vex2x9710 yes actually
We are all ruled by stupid peoples.
There is one more factor: China made the most industry products and exported them to all over the world. The emission to make these products are counted in China. In other words, the emission in China actually includes the one which is actually consumed in other countries especial USA and Europe
跟鬼佬讲这些没用，它们要的大家都心知肚明，它们只不过在给自己立牌坊好站在所谓的道德高地不停地指手画脚而已，并不是真的想给自己加限制。
@@zhangyi5145 中国应该负环境变差点的责任，这毋庸置疑
@@guitar--hero ？不看人均？
@@lckglckg258 不就是因为你们的毛泽东弄得人口这么多，污染才这么多吗。
@@lckglckg258 不看看人口为什么这么多？
"Almost every year has broken some horrible record."
So 2020 is an overachiever
At least we can screw the earth even more for another year
@@squigga_4237 well that's not a good thing to be proud of..
lol
So 2021...
I’m more scared now than I was about the 2020 downfall
The good thing about 2020 is that emissions were down globally for awhile
Short answer: everyone.
Long answer: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne
noice
fax
nope, have you watched the video?
I mean he’s not wrong. We breath out that stuff all day
S you got liked nice
Countries: "You go first"
"No you go first"
Kurzgesagt: "Just F-ing go!"
@@xtensioncordtv1969 kinda... but its more of a slow walk than a run towards the goal.... sadly...
@@xtensioncordtv1969 Nah man Iceland, Norway, Scotland and more are all using a higher percentage of renewables
Please take some time and Google this; "46 STATEMENTS By IPCC Experts Against The IPCC" or the "Suspicious Observers" 🧙
😥
@@malepauling7431 What do you propose? People losing their jobs? Economies smashing into the ground? People's retirement funds being partially or completely wiped out?
All because you want renewable energy now? What a selfish and idiotic worldview.
As a native of China, I don't know if the United States has done anything. But I know that China government is planting hundreds of millions of trees every year. And there are many solar power plants in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. These can even be searched on youtube. Even my hometown, a small village in Henan, has been installing wind power stations on the mountains since 2016. We want to be rich, but we also want a beautiful environment. We will do our part.
Pretty blatant CCP propaganda.
@@thimble347 Right, right, speaking for China is CCP propaganda. Speaking for the West is freedom and democracy. Which country are you from? It makes me sick.
@@godtolove6984 It's one thing to speak for China, it's another to reiterate nothing but Xinhua talking points as you do so. Facts are, China has done very little to improve it's own footprint and likely never will - especially now that they're facing a recession due to the failed zero covid policy.
@@thimble347 China's per capita carbon footprint is insignificant compared to western countries not to mention that she produces the most products for the world. The best way to bring down carbon emission would be to make western world poorer and waste less energy, and fortunately that is already happening.
@@tinkerknight8022 If that's the case, why did China refuse to release it's economic data this year? Furthermore, China is already on record as having the worst environmental impact out of both the US and Europe combined. Air quality indexes alone show how horrible their policies are for their own citizens let alone the wider world. Let's not forget the unregulated over-fishing of the worlds oceans by vast amounts of fishers who frequently poach other nations waters, especially in Africa where their government's have been debt-trapped to be powerless to stop them.
Like all the international problem. Only thing everyone agree, is someone else should do more.
yeah, everyone sees people as nations and not just people
Just human nature
Ya that’s dumb you can solve it but you still blame there people
every one is to blame for climate change and no one is one cause for it its just that every one needs to stfu and go green all of the people in power are old farts that think it does not exsist like trump ect we need people who are younger and people who can see the damage we are doing to the environment we need to stop useing fossile fules also they will not least forever because there is a fineite amout of fosile fules that means it will run out eventualy and we would have to end up useing green power but it would be too late. Some ways of green energy are
nucllear energy - no carbon emitions but very hard to get rid of wast
wind energy - cheap and easy to use but very dependent on wind
solar energy - very good in sunnyweather but expeenccive and less power when cloudy
water power - dams and other methods but very expencive
another way of reducing emitions is to encourage biking and have more no car zones because it has worked fantasticly is some areas in the world there are so many ways of perventing climate change but all of the idiots in power are not lissoning and doing nothing.
during lockdown the world has had time to heal and repar its self and we can see this in countries like china who had smog before lockdown and no birds chirping to haveing no smog and haveing the birds cherp. because if we dont stop our ways now our planit will die and we will along with it and it will just be another barron planit in the endless void of space.
also for all of what we know we are the only civilisation in the universe and if we dont treat our planit well we will fall and the universe will truly be empty
idc if you hate this but things need to change and sorry for my spellin
@ China is doing more by tree planting and limiting the emitting while USA quit the agreement.
Your comment that it pollutes more than all other nations is subjective. Your comment itself is subjective and I literally didn't see any stats you provide here that support your objectiveness which make you sounded neutral while assuming it.
They are putting effort in throughout the years responding to the summit and it's own people.
The argument of this video is that benefits comes with responsibility, and the inequality created by industrialization is arguably not the reason to one line cut the global emissions.
China is doing a lot in my observation. Definitely not enough but indeed more than a lot other nations. China limits lifestyle emissions, enforce trash separation and recycling. Stopped importing electrical and other trash, planting impressive amount of trees, putting serious amount of restrictions to pollutive manufacture, and in major cities, no more open air BBQ, no more 2.0 and more engines for family uses. China also have environmental enforcement in every cities, and have actual law to prevent individual or enterprises to over emit and dump. In China, cutting trees without permission is a crime.
Chinese people also stopped burning for warmth in major cities and this trend is tremendously expanded over the past decade as cities opt to natural gas warming supplied from powerplants instead of burning coal by community or individual families. Over the past fifty years, it built one after another nuclear powerplants and remodeled or replaced tons of thermal powerplants. China has largest inland power project in the world which it started while it is really poor because it realized burning coal is not the solution and is not sufficient for industrial needs.
Near Beijing, China is building xiong an, a model city that eliminate cars and makes people sufficient in community and rely more on public transportation. If it successes the Chinese cities are going after this model, which increases human interaction and reduces commute in the same time.
Quit your double standard and look for facts. If we eat less beef and stop luxurious fireplace and high emission cars, we can contribute. China needs to do more, but the established world also need to move in. Doing this and contribute together, so we can survive.
When do we fix climate change?
"Now!"
Who's gonna fix it?
"Somebody besides me!"
Me: *eats plastic*
_im helping the ecosystem_
Said every country in the world
Classic bystander.
@@randomthings6977 underrated
Why is this so true lmao
When your boat is leaking badly and requires team effort to quickly seal, but instead of sealing the hole you spend all the time arguing whose fault it is and everyone ends up drowning.
@Kent Horvath the world is saver today, but a climate crisis can and will change that very rapidly. We need to do everything in order to prevent a climate crisis.
@Kent Horvath in this analogy, your basically saying, "the boat's only leaking a little, lets not fix it and worry later when the boat starts sinking"
@Kent Horvath you didn't watch the video lol
@Kent Horvath Floods and hurricanes. Ever hear of those? Take a good look at the states near the coast. Look at the numbers. Do you see it rising? Great.
yet the only ones with tape to seal the boat are blaming on the ones that have no tape and waiting for them to do something lol
I love that this video is not biased .
Most other channels blame developing countries like China and India .But these developed countries have contributed more than China and India in historical terms .But that is no excuse for these countries to follow the same path.
«I love that this video is not biased. Most other channels blame developing countries like China [...]» They still missed something big: **accounting for imports/exports** of greenhouse gas emissions per capita. A.K.A. carbon footprint. So for example the figures attribute the emissions for making EU & US electronics and goods mostly to Asian people.[1] Rich countries are outsourcing emissions to other countries and the video misses that.[2] It changes + or - a few tons of CO2 for many countries and part of the ranking changes.
Source: Wikipedia "List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita" and compare section "Production-based emissions" for 2015 with "'Consumption-based emissions" for 2016.
China goes from 7.7t/person to 6.27t, rich countries gain 1 or a few tons depending on if they have a manufacturing or fossil industry that exports. A dramatic example is Belgium going from 9.2t to 15.61t. Likely due to not having much industry. Check out the above source for more.
Caveat: that's still not complete, it's not actually the carbon footprint, it's CO2 only and not all greenhouse gases (so it misses a lot of agriculture impact and all leaks from gas industry) so all the figures should be a bit higher and countries ranking should again change due to difference in food diets (% of animal products) and again upping the rich countries. Anyone knows where to find such data? To solve that last big bias. And is anything else big missing?
[1] a laptop is like 0.5 ton!
[2] almost a third of the carbon footprint of someone in France are goods. And more than half is imported. source: course 8 (Carbon accounting) at École des Mines 2019 by JM Jancovici
Developed countries are still polluting the environment today, they have moved polluting factories to developing countries，They stopped polluting their own country, but didn't stop polluting the world now, It is hypocritical for them to cheat on environmental protection
What do you mean no excuse for following the same path? Do developing countries have any other options other than burning coals and gas?
@@huanglong08 I mean they should try their best to use alternative energy as much as they can
@@ashwanthvinod5190 how? Are there any developed countries willing to share the clean energy tech with them for free?
Every country agrees that every other country should do more to handle climate control.
Except for the US, whose current administration outright denies that climate change is real and the climate isn't affected by people in any way. It's hard to say if they're just stupid, or they know the truth and are lying because they don't want to give up using their sacred oil for everything. Not to mention the oil billionaires and millionaires profiting off the destruction of the planet.
@@mvvagner as a US citizen, help
@@mvvagner Help us
Socialism: being very generous with other peoples resources.
People just got start doing something
Mvvagner someone’s got to make them realize that that won’t last forever, and if the planet dies, there’s no more business for them. Especially given that sustainable sources are cheaper to implement and could thus make them more money than their current system. I’m very sad that this has happened to our planet, but we’re in the stages of. Climate change where we can still make a difference, and we should.
Acting irresponsibly yesterday is a horrible excuse for repeating same mistakes today.
-Kurzgesagt 2020
There has been some slight cooling over the past century, but I don't think that we can really do much to reverse the milanchovitch cycles. The title "who's to blame" perplexes me.
Litteraly
I dont feel guilty as im vegan
Also, we should not forget that nations like Germany reduced their carbon footprint by having their products produced in China because it was cheaper and environmental restrictions were less strict. So we put our debts in their hands and then blame then for the emissions. :-/
Exactly, not only Germany did that but the US did as well.
@@Ayveh Yes, many countries. I just used Germany as an example since I'm German myself, and before pointing to others we should reflect ourselves.
We should stop buying from China anyway because of their use of literal slave labor, among other issues.
Germany loves blaming Poland for it lol
Well, if China didnt have such cheaper and shittier environmental restrictions they wouldnt be putting out so much emissions in the first place.
Idk,but it should be mentioned that China is taking positive and practical actions towards this issue in recent years.
yeah，we Chinese don't need Greta，we all know what we should do to save our earth.
China polluted more than others because China has the biggest population. Per individual the pollution is fewer than Americans.
@@luceafarul579 Last I saw per capita China had 5 times the amount of plastic ocean pollution than the US and Indonesia has 4 times that of china. Even though the US has more ocean access ports than any other country. Now they do lead in CO2 emissions but the people guiding "green energy" in America are proposing plans that are counter intuitive by only looking at one part of the life cycle.
@@stephennewcomb4575 lol so? I never said China never pollutes anywhere. You are talking about just ONE type of pollution china has more than US ooptido.
China actually leads in green energy in the world. It’s the largest producer of wind and solar energy for example. China also literally turned desert into forest. So doesn’t matter how you want to measure it, China leads in environmentalism over the US. I’m sure the ocean will be next.
@@luceafarul579 A good example is Austria and Brazil has over 27% hydro alone. So definitely room can be made.
Can we all appreciate how professional and how beautiful those animations are, and on top of that how nice the narrator's voice is?
I'm a graphic designer and believe me if i say that this is very difficult to make, it's clean, it's clearly, it's beautiful,...
yeah, they even make a fantastic soundtrack just for these science shorts!
It looks professional because it IS professional.
JRH For a channel with 12.3 million subscribers? Nah.
@JRH They spend 1200 hours workforce per video.
They actually have a company and I believe that they don't just stick to RUclips. I think they focus on design and communication and such. I might be mistaken though, but that would explain the amount of work put into these videos.
"Others acting irresponsibly yesterday is a horrible excuse for repeating the same mistakes today" - Kurzgesagt
That would be a good line if developed country really do helps out undeveloped country but not used it on tons of nuclear 😊. As long as they are still getting stronger. There will be something just like Hitler happens. Human greeds are unlimited. We doing our best to survive and protect ourself at the same time
I agree. Which is why I'll repeat the same mistake tomorrow. Yeah. That'll do it.
@@MarkRai-ko1sk what mistake? Mistake only happen when u do something unintentionally. We are doing it with caution. We are doing it for our own survival and to protect ourself. Maybe if you would start helping instead of having good life style. We would develop faster and everyone in the world can start talking about it.
Way to devalue all the impacts the US has had with a blanket statement. Developed countries should be the ones leading the way, and they can but they choose not to. The clothing, shoes, laptop etc factories in China are made by US companies and their suppliers chosen by US companies. Yes, China can place a reform to stop it but they're not in a position to. Why? Their emissions are actually not that much per capita, and when considering the rapid development experiencing by China, if a developed country doesn't help out then there's simply no reason to. Take India for example, now tell them to implement green reforms while most of their population is in poverty, does it make sense to you? What developed countries can do is to help develop the infrastructure in these countries to lower the costs of adopting such technology for them or to incentivize social entrepreneurship while working out an agreement for the developing country.
The fact is, Developed countries never want to feel like they're on the losing side when it comes to a trade agreement. Why? What happens when you piss off your citizens by agreeing to a policy that has actual costs towards your country and the only benefit being "Environmental benefit". You'll immediately get voted out. This isn't some easy problem you can just slap China with and tell them to stop
You're on a computer
You probably drive
Do you have heating?
Nothing to do with countries
It's down to people wanting comforts of modern society
Now let me ask you
Are you going to give up any modern comforts and go live in a cave and grow food?
Obviously not so stop moaning
I literally had my longest and most challenging conversation about climate change, who's to blame, what we can do, if we can or should be optimistic and all that just yesterday. Perfect timing for this video!
it would hav been perfect if u had the conversation tomorrow! Cos u'll hav more to say! XD
我的家乡中国河南的一个小县城，自从开始实行减排政策后我们这里的煤矿停了一半，我亲戚的煤矿也停了，以前他的条件很好，现在算中产。山里多了很多风力发电机，我回奶奶家能看到，总之政策实施的不错。
中国在环境问题上已经付出了行动，而且是有效的，但我们还是需要其他国家的努力才可以营造一个美丽的地球，而不是互相推脱责任😓
ನಿಮ್ಮೌನ.....ಹಂಗ ಅಂತೆರಿ ತುಗೊ ನೀವ್....ನಾಡಾಗಿಲ್ಲದ ಬಾದ ಸುಳಿ ಮಕ್ಳ ಅದೆರಿ
现在其他国家已经放弃碳中和了，他们提出这个议题就是为了限制发展中国家加拿选票@@wdia2333
@@wdia2333这的评论都在互相骂，不知道说啥了
@@alexandracreevey7034 honestly they are saying "we are trying bro, but you also gotta try too" i think
I love how you break this huge topic into small "answer-able" questions!
True
It's not hard to figure out
@@neilfox3769 for me with this topic, it is. It's not "just" science or statistics or data. It's the ethic perspective that would make me struggle to answer the question. But they kind of made a mathematical equasion out of it and told us what each variable means.....so i found it very helpful :)
answerable is a real word :)
That's how education works: Chunk a problem up into understandable parts, and keep feeding chunks at different abstraction levels until people understand a complex topic.
Why do people think that it is one country’s problem to solve this. No! We all need to contribute otherwise we’ll never solve it.
Political reason, everything can be used as distraction and weapon. and brain dead nationalism.
I agree
Exactly, my geology teacher docked me points because I didn't call out a specific country when my whole arguement was pretty much "god damnit someone step up and be a leader for once, we all benefit from this and we all NEED to participate regardless"
It's probably partially to do with most western climate activists only focusing on Europe/america/Australia and completely ignore the contributions from Asia by in large. Then when criticized for being oppertunistic they call all critics anti science for trying to drill down the nuance
Chinmay C. lol what? without activism the world would live entirely in totalitarianism and fascism
Since developing nations will suffer the most, fixing it wont be on the agenda of the developed world and so the situation will inevitably get worse until everyone is equally affected, but then it will be too late.
It is on the agenda for many European countries. Global meetings are hold annually by mostly countries from the developed world attending. Socialist and liberal movements turning the question into a left-wing package does however probably not aid them in the goal to counter climate change, it rather turns people away.
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 i dont understand. Isnt it in the benefit of conservatives/right wing politicians to deny climate change. They stand to gain the most from the status quo. Packaging it towards their interest wont solve the issue. Compromise doesnt feel like an effective solution to a global issue that will kill us with 0 effort
it will be, when all the people suffering and starving will knock on their door.
pessemistic much?
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 Wishful thinking and symbols, never acts.
As long as economic growth is priorities there will be no real impact
This is such a great explanation of the different dimensions for the different emissions and what needs to be done.
I agree
I like how "Who Should be Responsible" is question 4/3, because how we can actually make change is the thing no one wants to address but it's the one thing we actually need to
Oh
@RockM was robbed yeah and also don't drive a car, all equally valid solutions nobody wants to do. We need globally enforced rules, that way the individual doesn't have to feel like a sucker for doing the right thing. Carbon tax
@RockM was robbed Thats all busywork though, your carbon emissions will still be many times higher than a poor person living in developing country. You're not helping the issue, you're just bargaining yourself a false clear conscience. The only feasible solutions are either A) Drastically lower the quality of living in developed countries, or B) More funds for research on greener technology.
The question of "who is responsible" has only one goal, to absolve the rest of responsibility and make it a scapegoat, that's about it.
@RockM was robbed nah wont be vegan. Sorry but all i can do is reduce my meat consume. But going vegan? Oh fuck no im no capable. Same to literally BILLIONS of people. Sad but its reality. Not all people can change, and im included on that list. Sorry and sorry to earth. Not to mention the climate change deniers that purposely makes the situation worse because of agendas.
"If facts matter to you" - Kurzgesagt throwing mad shade
Lol Ben Shapiro probably got triggered after this video dropped
i hate it when there are no replies on a good comment
Facts? What do I need facts for when I can *FEELS* whatever I want!
I wanna see Ben Shapiro respond to this video.
@Jocoreno 1. It's the left who are BLM, not liberals. Nice political literacy you got there. 2. The struggles of black people is a fact, and has been for centuries. You being ignorant or biased doesn't change that. 3. Why are you dragging your ass about BLM on a video about climate change?
Ok but my question is how can we make these decisions? The people with the most power to make the change are also the ones with the least incentives to do so.
Fortunately, many of us live in democracies, so if you can demand a more environmentally friendly policy, and China will probably follow the same course if it wants to continue in trade, adding that China is already taking into account the change to more energy. renewable and in reducing the pollution of their cities
@@dfm2656 usa is a democracy, look how that turned out for the environment.
@Michael Jay A two-party oligarchy with others there to fuel the illusion that they are a democracy
@@RoScFan tbh USA more look like a dictatorship
Signs of a dictatorship
1.have a crowd that follows u blindly
2. Accuse public media that doesnt support you fake news
3. Suppressing of protesters with violent force(look at the fckin police brutality on the ones THAT WERE PEACEFUL holy fuck)
4. Leader racist af
Etc, etc
Bill gates helped sponsor these videos, so it looks like there are those with power who are making change.
Thank you for puting these amazing videos together
French actor Jean Yanne once said: "Everyone wants to save the planet but no one wants to take the garbage out".
True
Its so easy yet we dont
"'Let's fix the world' said everyone, not knowing how"
- A guy named Bill Wurtz
"Everybody wants to shit, but nobody wants to wipe."
Ironically we actually do know how, we’re just too lazy because everyone that needs to do their job *isn’t* always going to do their job because they aren’t immortal and immune to every single disease in the planet, (but also many of them are just assholes), we expect or want someone to do something yet we don’t act when we *need* to do what we wanted from that someone who didn’t do what we expected. And if we do do it, we’re just angery and then we all just blame each other then the cycle repeats.
Respect for no adds , epic content , free content, better education than school and birds
I wish they'd put at least one ad on it. That way we can contribute without paying our own money.
@@jacobtorris3428 ¨they are sponsored so they of course make the money they need. there is always a reason
I received an ad
And 60fps
I think that they have problems getting ads from youtube. The algorithm makes problems and the conten is not ad- friendly.
But they get funded by Germany. They have a german channel were some of the videos are published months before.
Who is responsible?
Yes.
Who should start to fix?
Yes.
Answer: we are all
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I’m sure you’re meaning to have a constructive conversation, but I can’t really understand you. In your first paragraph you stated that most of our products are made by people desperate for work, which is true. However, in your second paragraph, you say that *consumers* are slaves to products. So which topic is it?
if it werent for industrialization we would still be in the ice age 😣
Me:*grabs popcorn*
@@omatofi No, you are right. The so called 'market solution' is not a solution at all because the current rules created that result in the first place. And the rules are not fair or correct in many cases. It's an externalisation of responsibility.
What needs to change is law. That way, established companies will have to change their practices - which is much faster, easier and more reliable than building new companies from the ground up, only to compete in an unfair environment. But changes in law are slow at best because politics is too influenced by those who benefit short-sightedly from the current situation, and too predicated on personal belief.
"it's the countries that contribute least to the problem that stand to lose the most from rapid climate change". There you have it.
This is is like that saying "everybody wants to talk but no one wants to listen" except it's "everyone wants to change but no one makes changes"
There are a few admirable persons who devote their life to preserving environment,sadly they are still in the minority.
Jinsi K are they sure that earth’s overpopulation is the problem? Because if human start to address that and them become underpopulated, business will suffer and then they will say it’s a problem of underpopulation.
The best change we can make as individuals to reduce emissions is to live a vegan/plant based lifestyle as this will allow less land/resources to produce our food, which is essential to fight problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, species extinction and ocean dead zones for example. People can argue or make excuses all they want but this is objective and it's best not to shoot the messenger. Check out cowspiracy for more information 👍
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We leave the cleaning to the government and us we just have to make sure big companies promote cleaning pollution. If the government didn’t care about global warming our air would end up like China’ s
Environmental laws in a nutshell: Everyone agrees that everyone else should do more
Most of politics in a nutshell…
Most of politics in a nutshell…
The United States is always blamed for being one of the worst in terms of pollution, despite being one of the biggest advocates of clean energy. The entire reason we pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord is because we aren't going to be the only ones to sacrifice our economy so everybody else can feel good about themselves. The EU and friends didn't give a damn about the agreement.
Yes, before anyone had a clue about climate change, the US polluted more than anyone else. Such a shame they weren't psychic. Now stop bringing up the past.
No, we can't begin today. The idea that we can just stop using fossil fuels is ridiculous.
Considering everyone's heavy reliance on them in daily life, the cost to replace *every single thing* that uses fossil fuels, the jobs that would be lost, and the horrible effects on the economy would be more than enough to bring America to its knees.
The Green New Deal is garbage, climate activists have unrealistic expectations, other countries are hypocrites, and we aren't stupid enough to destroy our way of life. It's not happening, so quit crying about it.
@@jamesmoriarty9433 oh yeah sure Mr.Trump let's get back to using coal bc its such a great and efficient power source
@@jamesmoriarty9433 This right here is true no one was following the rules of the paris climate accord but america. Why make a deal when no one else will follow it especialliy when those other countries like China talk about wanting to replace us all the fucking time.
We need to slowely shift oil companies to begin investing in other forms of energy and to manufacture solar panels (which needs coal) to replace the oil jobs that will be lost. Nuclear fusion is the future and without it were never gonna stop any of this
Question 5/3: Does any of these countries really care about climate change or do they just keep bringing it up just to look responsible and important? Are they willing to give up an easy and cheap way of energy production to completely reform their power grid for the planet, or do they care more about profit?
Well I know that the US doesn't care. Other countries somewhat care
"Countries" aren't monolithic entities. They're composed of millions of individuals and thousands of politicians and people in power. Some of them care about climate change, some don't. Those of us with the privilege of living in democratic societies have to do everything we can to campaign, vote, and put pressure on the people chosen to represent us however we can. It's an uphill battle and, believe me, I know things look bleak. But we have to try. It's either that or guaranteed oblivion.
I mean some countries have climate change as a pro
The thing is, it's not like sustainable energy is not a good investment in theory. Unfortunately, those that are rich now don't have any stock in green energy so there is no change.
@@pulkitmohta8964 Free markets of USA has reduced 2x amount of emissions my country produces in total.
(2016-2019) USA reduced annual emissions 100 million tons.
My country creates 50 million tons annually everything combined.
As we have seen in the video, some countries can be blamed by one or two reasons, but only the USA can be blamed for every single possible reason for global emission, however USA simpally refused to do anythong for it.
American tradition: I am sorry for this, but I do nothing to compensate you
Yeah and the fact that the average American emits nearly twice as much as the average European is ridiculous. They emit nearly THREE times as much as the average Italian.
Americans must be insanely wasteful if they manage to emit 3 times as much as us and we already drive everywhere and don't put _that_ much thought into it.
I remember reading in the comments of another video that it's common for people who have second homes in places like Florida to leave the AC/heat on even when they're not there, because otherwise their poorly built houses literally rot from the moisture building up.
That is INSANE to me, and probably to every other person on this planet who isn't American.
@@demoniack81 Its absurd and negligent to a good portion of Americans as well... Its sorta the majority, but when you dive into specific policies, most end up split by party. And while the USA is more of a Democracy than China, its a pretty poor one, so it doesn't respond to it's citizens views very well. When you see the "Political Polarization" hyped news articles about the USA, Climate Change action is a dominant reason for that polarization. In other words, somewhere around half of the USA is fed up with the other half for not acting, and are breaking apart their relationships in response. Some are literally splitting up their families over issues like this. So at least some are taking action.
Yall know the info in this video is outdated right?
It's everybody's fault not just the US's
Me, an Australian:
"Nice, not a single mention of Australia."
Me at 4:51:
"Uh oh."
To be fair though, we are also a large coal and oil exporter.
So if we can ignore the outliers, you can at least smudge numbers down a tad for Australia.
@@EvilParagon4 With global capitalism, there's always some way you can shirk responsibility. China/India's response can be a similar "we are just supplying the west with cheap consumer goods". Where we land on the pollution rankings is not as important as figuring out what we're going to do about it.
@@pannychanman I just mean that identifying outliers and giving them a pass is a precedent already set.
If we don't want to have that issues, we shouldn't ignore those outliers.
Read this upsidedown
At least Australians can change this in a couple of minutes by divesting from fossil fuels and investing in renewables through switching their super fund to Future Super and their bank to Bank Australia.
'Others acting irresponsibly yesterday, is a horrible excuse to act that way today.'
That was powerful.
The odd part is that the countries making that arguments (China, India, etc) are also countries where energy-efficient industries are flourishing. China produces most of the world's solar cells and hydroturbines and has the world's largest tree-planting project, and India comes up with the most ingenious inventions for doing more with less energy.
@@day2148 Thank you for telling me this!
@@day2148 Producing solar cells is in now way shape or form an energy efficient industry. If the same solar cells were built in a western nation they would adhere to much stricter environmental policies and cause less environmental damage per W produced.
The reason we all shipped our industry to China is because it is cheaper, due to them having far less standards and more people with no say. Globalism makes us think its a good idea to triple handle every material, dig it up at home, send it to china to be refined then shipped back home as sub standard goods that last half as long as they should, meaning you have to buy it again sooner.
Odin Thorsdad oh no don’t ruin the kids irrelevant little factoid
The countries that polluted the most in the past didnt even know climate change was a thing
"who needs to fix it" the fact we even need to ask that shows some of us arent ready for the responsibilty
You're right. I nominate you to fix it.
imagine 3 persons are suspect in the court during trial and one of them killed someone. if logic "it's not important who did this" is right, then all of the suspects are guilty.
@@abitw210 i get your logic, and i agree some countries are worse than others, but when the trash fills the oceans inbetween land masses we no longer have time for any blame games. The entire world needs to come together on this now to enact laws and policies that allow for a greater impact than what individuals can have on their own. its not always an "individualist" issue.
thanks ! excellent information ! ✨✨ Blessings 🙏🙏
Every Kurzgesagt video:
-Facts
-Scares you
-Then calms you down
-Add birds
True af
Kinda like humanity in a nutshell but first it's good then it's bad then it's good again and then it's bad again..
Do you have something original?
Every Kurzagesagt video:
-Has a copied comment like this
Why do people keep liking copied comments?
"Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked"
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
We are definitely not the most intelligent thing, there are plants and fungi a lot smarter than us, check out Michael Pollan
@Stygian Eons Fuller counts with him
Gravestone Science
That's pretty obvious, ever heard of trial by error?
@@soejrd24978 being more adept at certain qualities, like ants farming or slimemold adapting, doesn't make any of them smarter than humans. Unless one of the animal species or fungi you mentioned can do everything humans can do and more, then they're not more intelligent. (though they are possibly more intelligent than certain singular humans)
It is 100% everyone’s responsibility to tackle climate change, also I think we have left out an important factor: developed countries often base factories in developing countries. Apple for example, produces its raw material in China and does the “assembling” in the US. This means the “producing” part which generate the most CO2 would be done offshore. You can see the proof of that when general production is decreased in China due to the COVID19 outbreak, CO2 emission decreased, which is followed by our lack of access to consumer products in developed nations. The problem here is not which country is responsible, we’re all interconnected, people of the same race moving forward together as a species. Empty politics generate friction that leads to conflict, it starts issues rather than solving them. I love this video and I hope more people are being educated by this, otherwise humanity would be headed down a terribly dark path of self destruction.
Great Point 👍
@@anjitthomasminz4856 Not really. 228 million iPhones in China. 120 million in the USA.
This. All those 'Made in Germany' or 'Made in France' etiquetes are false. Almost all of those were made in eg. China or Vietnam and just assembled in developed countries for the etiquete.
Exactly, the problem with so many issues in the world today is the failure to look at things beyond the country level and refusing to admit that things are interconnected. Climate change is a great example, another could be poverty in developing countries. Countries need to come together to tackle these problems and its up to the public to encourage and support this as we know politicians main concern is getting elected
You can’t ignore why those companies make product in other countries. Money. It’s cheaper to build goods in those places because the government in the USA has destroyed manufacturing because of over regulation and a weakening dollar. Companies want to make money just like governments want more power.
People love to blame the leaders of their countries for not doing more, but I would imagine that any leader who actually did as much as they should to combat climate change, would be voted out in favor of somebody who did less. The issue is that people are selfish, and the change needed to combat climate change also lowers quality of life. So the average voter is not going to vote for a person who promises to deliver on climate goals, because it will mean higher costs of living and in general a lower quality of life. The fact that people also like to blame leaders is another thing which makes it easy to shift responsibility away from oneself. In any democracy, it is the voters who decide the leaders, so in the end, they bear the responsibility of who makes the decisions.
Short answer: Everyone
Long Answer: Everybody
*big brain*
Common sense!
Lol
If the US stopped all it’s imitions it would barely do anything globally.
Nah, I pass. I don't like cults.
Politicians be like: "How can I be responsible for climate change? I never wanted it!"
Green-Omb also politicians: yes oil companies I will take your donations to not enact laws limiting emissions.
Donald Trump "Climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese"
@@footballnerd277 what's weird is the Chinese dont care about global warming lol
@@anoon- and so does USA during the 20th century how about you who has the resource start reducing on it too its not like you emit below 10 percent of emission
@Kraptonite yes they certainly will reduce it soon or later, they had to
"Let's save the world!" Said everyone not knowing how.
Let's invent a thing inventor said the thing inventor after being invented by a thing inventor.
By the way, where the hell are we?
Ikr
Actually the thing is they do but to stupid to actually *do* it
And nobody want to really move.
A wild Bill Wurtz reference appeared
Very objective and reliable. I like this video
The blame doesn't befall on Everyone, but Everyone is responsible.
but what do i dooo!?!?!
I fart :)
Nope cant u see America and China both do the most and are emitting for lifestyle and other countries are emitting for survival and development u cant put the blame on everyone and expect to call it fair. Point is wrong and unjust
@@user-oi5ty6mk2k Hes not blaming everyone though. Hes saying we are ALL responsible for what happens next.
@XeuNyx Cypher now I feel constipated...
Everyone: Let's fix climate change by forcing each other to fix climate change
climate change: Thank you, this is definitely helping.
Donald Trump "Climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese"
@@footballnerd277 yeah trump is an extremist when it comes to climate change
@@samw7998 when it comes to anything* he claimed that the flu was worse than COVID-19
@@footballnerd277 Big problem is that no goverment tried major scale emission reduction by using a carrot. Aka, "Corporations and businesses and invidual people get tax reductions or other benefits etc" if they work for less emissions.
Instead it was delayed and delayed and now just in few years Green parties are smacking people with sticks and punishing polluters.
This creates huge counter force that manifests as Trump and other climate change deniers.
"IF-thinking"afterward is useless ofc, but imagine if 10 or 20 years ago people were grown to idea that "Causing less emissions means more money".
This is way more encouraging than "Start reducing emissions or I come smack you with this stick"
@@footballnerd277 I'm not sure if he said that though
"Others acting irresponsible yesterday is a horrible excuse for repeating the same mistakes today." Thank you. I've been trying to tell people this every time they say but they did this first so why can't we? and I always just get so frustrated because everything just keeps getting worse
Amit Parihar it is impossible not to admit carbon. You breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2. Mother nature literally found the solution for the energy problem for life and it’s to exhale CO2.
It's irresponsible to make so many children for sure man made.
The explosion of human populations in Afrika and Asian is the real problem .
Africa and Asia are not able or willing to provide basic needs for many.
Everybody has the rights to develop and grow as others...
@@indrajeetsinh_v indeed, but why not instead of repeating the mistakes of others, we try to learn from them and do better?
Those developed countries have veto rights at the United Nations. So, we will never be able to force the governments of those countries to take responsibility anyway. It’s sad but true 😢
Russia isn't too developed. Neither is china.
I agree, the right of veto is really stupid
I think that if any developing country get the same power like the developed countries then the world will slowly start to change
Good
Love how most counties play the blaming game, rather than finding an actual solution together.
Blaming is cheaper
maybe because there is no solution? And it all going to get only worse and worse from now on
jur4x Oh there is a solution, and there already countries getting rid of oil and gas factories, but it’s too damn slow.
Because solutions don't get you elected. People like tosee quality of life go up not down.
@Tommy Belciano 雷 Then if the solution is futile say goodbye to humanity and have fun watching your great grandchildren suffer and die on a dying planet... smh cant get over how dumb some people are to say something like that.
Funny how time and time again it seems like humanity on a large scale acts exactly like elementary school kids.
And elementary school kids are gonna be the next generation of leaders. Hopefully they’ll do something. 😔
Keanxz they'll grow watching decision makers of their time do shit, they will still do same
Climate change is fake news. Vote Trump 2020 to abolish corrupt scientists advocating for this bullshit.
@@AzNMadnessXXXXXXX Ah yes, we shall replace them with scientists paid off by the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry.
Time for us to act like Earthlings and not Indian ,American etc
“Let’s save the planet” said everyone, not knowing how.
Bill wirtz
Bill wirtz is very wise
The planet doesn't need saving, it will be just fine. We're killing ourselves.
@@Brokkolesz Bad plagues kill themselves, no?
Bill "Wurtz"
@@Brokkolesz no, all we have to do is stop causing emissions and die off, then the animals won't have to adapt to deal with what we've done
Im so grateful that you made this video to help me make clear of the framework, I was so nervous and don't know where to start at when I first perpared for the MUN. Love you
This shows the prisoner's dilemma
Why?
Well you, as a country, can either cooperate by lowering emissions or defect by not.
If everyone cooperates, everyone saves the world
If you cooperate but others don't, you lose money
If you defect but others don't, you get benefited without working
If everyone defects, we all die
So, everyone will defect
doesn't that test in reality trend toward cooperation? have to start realizing the prison this luxury has put us in and realize our common cause despite our short attention spans
This is why everyone should follow a moral code and stop watching what others do… This video is a great summary about why we are in great trouble! Only the dumbest ppl closing nuclear power plants to produce electricity with coal power plants.. (does this ring a bell for Germans and Japanese?)
so true bro
This is why country’s with high emissions should have high economical sanctions.
@@bartoszbajorek8982 Should be countries with high emissions per person. Costs other's survival wadge to continue our lifestyle is not really fair to say and not convulsive.
"Others acting irresponsibly yesterday is a horrible excuse for repeating the same mistake today" - Kurzgesagt
Yes.
Great quote ngl
amazing quote
Germany- ......
@@TheFinMyster ?
You see when people aren’t comfortable with changing their lifestyle, they go into denial.
Western still try dumping their trash to asia
@Viktors Puksta There's plenty of actual proof of climate change, if you don't believe it you are in denial.
@Viktors Puksta that's the "go in denial" part
@@hyoroemonmeto6874 no Asia (formost China) is bing the plastic :-/
@@CapitanoGUC-gf6el its facts, you can look it up. western company's send their trash to asian country's
Absolutely amazing. Well done
Alright kids, just a final tip before you head down to the comment section: Stay away from anyone who unironically blames one country.
The thumbnail is trying to get people to take sides. Let's just get off of RUclips and read a book.
You no what yup your right its OUR sin even the the other people we should have reduce it now but people built weapons so its out of cintrol
Control sorry
China
@@alvinstrom6443 the magical word to all problems
No one will do anything until the world really starts falling apart.
news flash it LITERALLY IS
We only gonna start once Hawaii literally sinks or some shit
Even after that they'll keep on blaming each other... Look at the world now. When we should come together and fight covid. Countries are still blaming each other
@@danr943 Well, technically it is China that's responsible so that example is not that valid
@@vegetable1495 Islands are already literally sinking, but nobody cares because they aren't affected.
Please do a video on what types of “cleaner” energy have the most promise, such as nuclear, wind, solar, etc, and how they compare. Maybe even some on the horizon possibilities.
Thank you! Nuclear will be a large part of the mix when we decide to do something. Germany's CO2 numbers went up went they closed their nuclear plants. France is a much better player with its nuclear power which it sells a LOT of to Germany.
People are scared shirtless of nuclear when they should be scared shirtless of pumping out billions of tons of toxins into the atmosphere that will cause them to starve to death/drown/die of heat related diseases.
Fear is why we can't have progress. Fear of nuclear, fear of cost, fear of being blamed, and fear of not getting enough money from the fossil fuel industry to get re-elected
Fusion is probably the best energy in terms of cleanliness/energy generated. Like, sure, wind, water and solar are all great, but they are very inefficient compared to the amount of space they take. Nuclear is nice, but you've got to do something with the radioactive waste. Fusion produces a 1000th of a modern nuclear reactor's waste, while having much more energy output. The only problem is, we didn't nail the technology quite yet, and that it requires enormous amounts of energy to start
Fusion would be a great source of energy but currently, the only example of fusion releasing more energy than it uses up is in stars. Stars use the high pressure generated from their own gravitational force to fuse elements, so if the same conditions could be replicated on Earth, fusion would probably be better for the environment than renewables such as solar or wind.
@@aallfik11 Also, you make helium, and who doesnt... *inhales helium balloon* love silly voices?
很好的视频，节能减排是每个人和国家都应该认真对待的事情，大家都做的不好，但都要去努力做好
Very good video, energy saving and emission reduction is something that everyone and the country should take seriously, everyone is not doing well, but we all have to work hard to do well
For those who didn't now: at 8:19 it says "why we, not someone else?" In the old german writing
Thanks kind german
Thank you! Can you also write down the original statement? It's hard for me to recognize the letters with that font.
Now?
@@emadomar1021 "Wieso denn wir?"
@@emadomar1021 "Wieso denn wir?"
The response by many to COVID-19 has convinced me that there is absolutely no chance we will do the right thing about climate change. If solving the climate change problem was as simple as every single person in the world agreeing to press a single button just once in their life, some people would still refuse to do it.
Yep. Some people would refuse to do it "on principle".
"how dare the government force me to push that button!? Mah freedom!".
Learn the correct science, simply Google this; "46 STATEMENTS By IPCC Experts Against The IPCC" or the "Suspicious Observers" and "solar forcing"
@maninredhelm This... Sadly this.
Not only this but the resultant infighting, insanity, volatile hysteria, rioting, buying out all the toilet paper for no fucking reason and then throwing it on the ground during riots only months later... etc
@@jowysw For many people the button "no CO2 emissions" means starvation and death. Pre industrial societies lived under a constant threat of famine. Just think about this, if freedom doesn't mean anything to you.
Loved the ways you guys make us "travel" through the data like that. Seriously a complex topic explained very quickly and efficiently. All my support to you :D
Yeet
Yeah try and talk about this to a flat earth'er then you'll get what I mean haha...
This episode is really easy to understand
The video forgot a key point : China's emissions are also linked to the fact that they're the factory of the world, not only because they have a lot of people emitting a lot.
When an European by a Chinese TV, the emission "cost" is attributed to China because they made it. It also apply when they buy a Chinese-made Solar Panel.
If everyone consumed only things made in their own countries (which seems to be what the video implies), the % between countries would be way different, but that's not the case at all. (And that would reduce transporting emissions.)
[People are arguing in the comments, but my point is not "we should do this way or that way, this is a solution.".
I was pointing out that the video arguing "all individuals from a certain country emit a certain way, multiply by number of people you get total, then this country X and Y" lack a bit of context and nuance, and /why/ some countries are doing this. I'm only saying that the video could have been more clear and go more in depth about why these numbers are there and how our world runs, and not just say "America is 50, China is 60" and using numbers that are not that comparable.]
(Edit : spelling and clarity)
That is exactly what I thought about the climate change issue.
If we eradicate the sweatshop children and most of their population, we immediately improve the worlds health. A dozen nukes should do it and once we take out that superpower, there would be no country who would dare retaliate against the U.S.
@@Cthulhu013 hahaha
Fuck finally someone with a sense
David W afraid of China because the illusion of US empire is crumbling, aren’t you?
This is basically the highest stakes blame game of "who farted"
Not rlly cuz in “who farted” it’s not everyone’s fault that person farted lol
lol
Literally
More like which group of people dutch-ovened the entire room
ಠ_ಠ
"No single drop of water thinks it is responsible for the flood." - Anonymous
@@Corgi_fax yes. yes. water has feelings.
@@Corgi_fax they have higher iq than you
@@hahahaha-jj8op now thats a lotta damage
That's very true. I'm just curious about one thing. Which flood are you referring to? Or are you just meaning any flood in general?
In chinese, it's like“当发生雪崩的时候，每一片雪花都在勇闯天涯”lol
有趣的视频，很喜欢！Interesting Video，I love it ~~~ so cute
I can just imagine a zoom meeting between world leaders like this:
'So that's why we need to end pollution'
'yes'
'yes'
'so whose gonna do it?'
*Half of the world disconnects*
Correction*
More than the half of world 80-90% because many countries are still underdeveloped or developing.!
And I would be surprised if they did it to reduce server energy consumption
What was the last time 2 leaders addressed the situation directly with actual real time interactions without exiting the room?
More like:
'I couldn't hear the question'
'Oh, ok i will repeat it'
'No its ok, lets just move on to the next one'
China can fix it by having a 0 child policy
"Until I am affected, I don't care enough." - The Human species.
Yet we are the only species on earth that collectively can try to change their future. Humans are amazing.
@@superpantman yet depressing...
Yeah, NIMBY is a real thing.
Sometimes we only learn when we face the problem itself. We're pretty dumb lol.
Wayanoru Lunar'Starsong more like a few specific humans
Disclaimer: "All countries were hurt during the making of this video".
hehe yee
Lololololololololol 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 mostly china
Ian Mubangizi, not true it hurt pretty much all countries in different ways. Rising sea levels, temperature, low resources, political problems etc. Also it says here ( *7:26* ) that the “developing countries will be hit the hardest” and then gives a short list of more examples.
@@ianmubangizi6721 i guess you don't watch the video, huh. Western countries pollute way more than developing countries per person as they are already rich now (wealth=pollution). The past century was marked by those western countries polluting the world first which make the total contribution of their pollutions higher than china. China emits the most pollution as they are starting to become richer and have way more people than all western countries combined. So, you are a hypocrite for attacking china as even today most of the pollution in china is caused by the outsourced pollutions of your western countries corporations to make their products cheap which is mostly sold to western consumers.
As a civilization we are ultimately all responsible for "Climate Change" as for who should be fixing it the short answer is all of us. So here is the legacy problem that we face, while we have the U.N. who simply are no longer fit for purpose, the issue will just be a case of "kicking the can further down the road" Which is perhaps sadly what we have been doing for decades.
So what happens now. Well those in authority and positions of power will simply continue to duck their responsibility and what we end up with is a final showdown between Mother Nature and her inexhaustible power to teach us, yes us the whole of mankind a lesson well deserved.
In the past decade we have seen one natural disaster after another and every affected Country has had to pick up the bill for the cost of those disasters. As we refuse not to learn from these past lessons, what becomes blatantly clear is that the rising costs will continue, and eventually we run out of money to fix this.
The result is very simple,
1. Loss of life, across the globe.
2. Further mass migration.
3. Atrocities which sadly go hand in hand when we find ourselves in this predicament.
4. Economies crash and burning or worse on slow burn till, they financial meltdown becomes global.
5. N.W.O. finally comes to the rescue, but is it the rescue that any of us think it is.
6. We are neck deep in fire-fighting all natural disasters and resources finally reach breaking point.
7. Poly-Pandemics take centre stage, as we once again find ourselves fighting on a front we never planned for.
8. Our new enemy becomes the Sun, and it's not quite what we envisaged.
i) Skin cancer is soon to take the number one spot.
ii) Famine returns to our radar as food production is impacted by global warming.
iii) C.M.E.'s, Solar Storms, create for us a whole new set of health problems. Which sadly again no one saw coming which is the Electro Magnetic Field, begins to affect the minds of humans because we are extremely sensitive to this new exposure, which we will see, happen first in the Southern Hemisphere before the Northern Hemisphere is affected. There is a scientific argument that if there was a Polar Shift then you guessed it the tables would be turned and we would then be exposed to this being a combination of Radiation from the Sun, and the subtle E.M.F waves that will penetrate through the expose ozone layer and bring a whole new threat.
9. Oceans and Seas temperature rise increased due to tectonic plates, moving and underwater volcanoes adding heat from beneath the seas and oceans.
10. Permafrost co4 fuels global warming, and releases us to new threats that we didn't allow for.
The list is endless, I am giving you just a few, to ponder over.
the climate is going to warm up regardless of what humans do, it's the endless cycle of the earth between ice ages and warm periods. the last ice age ended fairly recently, so the earth is supposed to be warming up to a degree
@@rasmusvohlakari2304 at this rate.... nah we fucked up.
And relentless...
Let's say we're on a ship that's slowly letting in water. Saying "I won't fix the leak because I didn't make the hole" will just ultimately lead to everyone drowning.
But it ain't as simple as that, it's not fix, it's stop. And the people benefit from the problem.
the Innocent, "what did I do to deserve this" *fixing the hole*
the actual hole makers, "challenge accepted" *making more holes*
Wrong. You wait to fix the leak, let everyone else drown and then plug the hole last minute to save yourself. Now you don't have to share resources, you have it all to yourself.
What if I gave you $100.000 Dollars for making the leak only a tiny bit bigger... Most people: give me that cash and an axe, please..
@@electronresonator8882 You don't pour gasoline on a burning house and then complain about nobody putting it out.
8:20 the fact that the German bird is eating what looks like a cooked bird is utterly endearing
Considering there are different species of birds, this is the same as a human eating pork
country moreCountry Moore like human eating a chimpansee
@@candadismycountry periodt.
Lol, good catch! That is kind of gross
@@candadismycountry No, it's more comparable to a policeman eating pork.
Who wants change?
*Everybody raises hands*
Who wants to chage?
*Dead silence*
Modern society in a nutshell.
Edit this it’s getting a lot of likes and it’s a typo
Ah yes. Chage.
Boom. So true
Yes it is quite unfortunate that people don’t want to chage.
Very thoughtful stuff! I 100% agree as a Chinese person!
“Who should be responsible?”
Kurzgesagt: Yes
Never expected so many likes. Thank you people of youtube!
They always pull this like every video almost lol. It's never clear cut and it's meant for you to decide the answer in the end by digging into more research yourself. But most people watching RUclips would rather be fed clear cut answer to not think too critically.
@@Crambull shut up
weirdintro 9 You just proved his point...
weirdintro 9 aaand,there you go. You proved their point.
@@Crambull shut up
God I hate politics. No change happens it’s just
“You’re bad”
“No you’re bad”
“No you’re bad”
“No you’re bad”
Etc
Edit: guys this is a joke don’t take it too seriously
IM DIRTY DAN... lmao
That's why we need to give more power to the UN and make it country-independent. Only global organizations that have power over nation-states can spur changes in issues like global warming.
@@michaelmao6180 easier said
I'm so happy to see someone else feel the same, at least Kurzgesagt stay really calm and I don't need to hate it
@@michaelmao6180 Doing that is basically giving up your sovereignty. Not gonna happen without war or crippling debt
As a chinese,and also be the citzen of the major character in this video--china--i must say the video is great,it telling us truth without prejudice,and pointout the critcal element of climant promble that we faceing now.
Since china become the bigest industrial country in the world,there is no reason that china to aviod it's responsibility to the climate change.And that has been the common sense throughout the china,and the "Grenn rule" also enshrine in our civil law as the rule of law,which encourage every equal citzen reduce the carboon emission as they can.
So,I would say chinese understanding that the protect enviroment is important,and we already doing our job,such as planting tree in the northern,and we even eliminated the desert in Shannxi Province(mu us desert). china also have the bigest generating capcity from wind energy、solar energy and hydroenergy.
If we want to solve cliamte change problem,and given our future generation an plant could provide shettle,food and beautiful scenery,we shoud work togather ,because the earth not only is the future of every country,but also is the future of the human kind and lives.
(sorry,my english wasn't good)QAQ
You have RUclips in china?
何景明 哈哈哈哈哈 same, Canadian born chinese person here!
@@classicsalted why not
@@classicsalted VPN user
Hey, you guys can access RUclips? Are you using vpn?
Your videos are so brilliant for all
Australia: has one of the highest CO2 emissions per capita. ScoMo: let’s build more coal plants!
The middle of Australia is desert and HOT why don't they have solar panels out there?, it's bloody stupid.
@@frostydowns because currently the cost of transporting the electricity to places that can use it is far more than people are willing to pay.
If you want to use the center of Australia, it should be using solar power to generate hydrogen from sea water then shipping it to Japan in ammonia.
Elon musk says we should be full of reneweble energy in Australia
It's high because we smelt aluminium, which uses massive amounts of electricity.
@@kirkc9643 So do we here in Norway, but we use hydropower instead. It's doable for you guys too, be it through solar or nuclear.
*“And as long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be. They will resist.”*
This quote comes to mind when talking about governments’ unwillingness to respond and adapt to climate change.
Thanos🔥
Sound's like Black Lives Matter.
Oh boy, can see the future of the reply section.
Listen, this is a channel mostly based on research that have some sort of backup. If anyone wanna make claims, please provide example and proof of the example.
I'm not here to pick a side, but for anyone who wants to throw in their 2 cent and opinions, please remember to show proof and source unless you want to start a keyboard warrior war.
Thanks.
@Scientific Humanist we should have turned this ship without panic 40 years ago, but we didn't.
That is why we need more radical changes than replacing light bulbs or other small things 😉
Old heads man we need younger people in politics to turn this ship around and I don't mean the children of politicians that retire.
Me, an Australian: lol we only have 25 million people we're not the problem
"Australians have one of the highest carbon footprints per person"
: .... oh
That's irrelevant. If a country of 10 people each emit a lot of carbon, but it's still less than most other countries, then in terms of CO2 it doesn't matter. Population and population growth matter and are just as culpable for destroying the planet.
Htrac - Have you seen Australia’s coral reef and massive wildfires*??? Tell me with a straight face that Aussies don’t contribute to that and I’ll call you a liar
woof
@@GEEZYEA777 yes but even if Australia goes 100% green, we will continue to have devastating bushfires.
@@GEEZYEA777 Why would I claim that? Nice strawman though.
" After you " must be one of the most powerful moves to delay actions.
I always think like that when someone talk about stop using air-conditioner to not let the world hotter. I think that I will also do it if everyone about me do it too 😥
It becomes even more complicated when u factor in that most of goods produced in China are consumed in western countries.. a lot of services provided in india are for western and European countries..
the bottom line is that everyone has to take the initiative and stop producing excessive carbon dioxide
Yup. Developing countries should not blame others and developed countries should help developing countries to develop tech. One way of doing this is capitalism. VC should invest in developing countries which helps stop climate change and also helps the country to grow economically.
@@aryan3229 now just hope this happens
@@aryan3229 The problem here is quite simple. Our "leaders" are either ignorant or do not care as this is not gonna have a huge impact on their lives. That needs to change or we'll all die.
@@zed7038 Both. They are ignorant (to some extent) and don't care. What we need is innovation and capital. And we need them quick. Innovation can happen if we have a) incentivization b) capital. Capital is a huge problem. If someone outside the US or Europe, they can't get funding.
It’s just like tragedy of commons. Everyone knows what is the best for everyone but no one will take that action.
It's more of a prisoners dilemma. Where everyone acts in their own personal interest rather than that of the whole. When it comes down to it there is really nothing we can do as a whole since everyone is so divided. Why should I suffer for you when I want to grow as big as possible, and the counter premise. Why should I have to suffer when you reaped all the rewards. When you think about it we are truly doomed. I know for a fact I rather grow at 100% then have to suffer a mere second just so we can all win. I rather win at all cost. Prisoners dilemma.
@@dtmsolid1234 tragedy of commons suits here too. If I close all fabrics that emits CO2, this fabrics just will be open in some other place. Even if all world stop emitting CO2, all emitting moved to China, for example.
I took action. Im currently vegan
Actually France has been doing a lot by switching to nuclear
Actually a lot of western nations are switching to nuclear cutting co2 down by a decent amount while getting even more energy
Everyone : we need to stop calling each other out and actually do something
Also everyone : *keep calling each other out and doing nothing*
cant wait for that gretta girl to teach china about pollution
@@tpenoel88 Oh she already did, she said all east Asians should stop using chopsticks to save trees.
‘Hypocrisy’ seems to be the ideal word here.
dude, not even those who have wealth and power decide to do anything....why would you expect those who poor and oppressed to do something more?
number 39 do you mean Americans
This video need to be studied in every class room
"This wouldn't be happening if you recycled." - Giant Corporations
Here before 64 likes
It would
Corporation with dozens of factories: you should just walk instead of drive come on guys
All they do is burn the plastics or send all the trash to poor country's like india, china etc...
China isn't poor
“Who is responsible?”
*Everyone.*
but mostly we westeners.
Everyone? Nope. Many are taking their responsibility and contributing to a neutral greener world.
I thought the same thing.
@@austrianfuck7450 Asia?
USA and Europe and they are not doing enough, so third world countries will continue to burn forests to feed their economies and become developed countries
This is all like a game of dota where nobody wants to spend gold on warding the map so you can win, but everyone is blaming eachother for it.
oh wait lmao, this is true
Lol that is accurate
havent played that game in a few years, ptsd.
No no everyone blames the support for not getting enough vision on the map
Dota 2 rules
We need to fix this as soon as possible! Europe has just broken Hottest winters on record! United States seeing less snow. Extremely hot summers in the United States! I am ready to help fix this problem!
I just want to point out that it's a scam when companies switch the focus onto individuals and away from businesses when it comes to blame.
I wanted to hear how responsible companies are in this video. Per capita emissions are only half the story.
Either governments needs to step in and regulate the shit out of every aspect of business or we as consumers have to take action and be responsible with what we decide to buy and do to make business follow our money.
Yeah, and the funny thing is that a lot of people buy it and proceed to waste their time and money to useless behavior and products made with outdated technology but advertised as "organic" or something.
Yeah but people won’t do that unless forced to
@@armokgodofblood2504 they mentioned that they were doing a video on that soon tho
humans: we need a quick way to get rid of pollution *NOW* anyone got ideas that will take under a year?
COVID-19: *YES*
Carbon emissions reached the lowest level since World War II thanks for staying home
The name of COVID-19 I suspect is that the Communist Party of China bribed the WHO, and the exact name of the virus should be SARS-CoV-2
Unsocial distanceing
@单车迷情 isn’t the virus called SARS-CoV-2 and the sickness that it causes is called COVID-19
@@starlordz6111 you're 100% right, conspiracy guy over there just wants to keep beating a dead horse
"If facts matter to you."
Well, therein lies the problem.
So sad so true.
Especially when some people claim to have "alternative facts" .
@@kwikdahl Maybe they both have their different opinions and the "alternative facts" could be the real facts.
@@helfrics77 If an alternative fact directly contradicts a real fact, then it is not a real fact, regardless of opinion.
If facts matter to you why make a video about a subject where nothing is proven and where there are only estimates on models they made them self..