It's like being in the garage with a car running and everybody's having trouble breathing so we're being told to breathe lesd and to try to be more efficient with our breaths but nobody talks about turning off the car
Eh, we’re still doing our part to fuck up the Earth. In your scenario we’re more like the guy in the back hitting a one hitter every once in a while. Are we still messing up the air? Sure… but the driver definitely shouldn’t be yelling at us.
@@liamalexandr9282 puffing a one hitter has such a small impact on the environment at large that it almost negates being mentioned in the same breathe as vehicular pollution. But if you switch to vaping (and trust me... spend 30 years smoking weed, and you'll want to switch also... may even *need* to) it kind of solves that problem.
We just _can't_ shut off the car. How else are we going to heat the garage? The least we could do is install an industrial air filtration system so we won't have to worry about the fumes, but there's no way to make that profitable. So, the only logical solution is to die.
I just love the fact that his Daily Show intros are literally just him as a person. Pretty sure we’re all collectively waiting for Moment of Zen tho. Just sayin.
I’ve always loved this guy and gained Massive respect for him after watching him go before congress to shame them for not supporting the first responders who were all dying horribly from ground zero exposure.
@@TheRealBatCaveyes. But it was shameful that many representatives didn’t show up and there were many empty seats. He called upon them and shamed them for that too. I am not sure but I think it passed theft day.
It did pass but it literally took many lives and decades as well as Jon going to DC and publicly shaming them as well as calling them out on his old show to garner attention. The first responders were dropping dead with crazy amounts of cancer and first they tried to say it wasn’t from the pile, then when the evidence was overwhelming they tried to say it was a NY problem not a federal problem. The official response time for NYPD on 9/11 was something like 26 seconds. FDNY was right behind them. Jon pointed out that each and every single person who was supposed to be present at the hearing had posted on facebook “never forget” on the anniversary of 9/11, yet when it came time to get them help they literally avoided them like the plague. Jon went door to door in the capital building to get someone to help and was told they weren’t there, and literally had to move because a lobbyist was there for a meeting. Normally a very funny man he broke down and cried and yelled at them, Where do you get off? How dare you? It was a despicable disgusting display of political bs and red tape vrs help for those who saved lives. So yes they got the help they deserved but not when they could have saved them and fatefully there are very few left.
If “climate change “ is such an “existential” threat. Maybe individuals and corporations should NOT be allowed to OWN “ideas”? Many solutions EXIST. These solutions exist in the patent offices. Open the patent offices. Save the earth.
Everyone is bad except for everyone who liked Carlin. That is Carlin's message. He told his audience ' 'You guys are good, everyone else is bad'. Very much like some religions do.
I was around 14 years old when I saw “The Daily Show” for the first time. 9/11 was three years ago, and I had never cared about political stuff at all. Then Mr. Stewart explained things in ways that could make me laugh, think, and consider the importance of the world stage and the choices of the psychopaths that run our world. Thanks Jon, I’m 31 years old now and my kids are watching you now
Compare this to the travesty that is currently called the Daily Show, where Trevor Noah bends over backwards to take cheap shots at Bernie Sanders with some of the most crudely sawed-off cherry-picked excerpts you've seen. "Ha ha ha! You guys are gonna let me be rich like you soon, yeah?" calls Trevor to his new 'friends', who just smile and nod, knowing he will never be more than a tool. It's the path he chose, instead of joining the ranks of worthy Daily Show successors with John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Jordan Klepper and the rest.
Okay so I first came here to say: I started watching the daily show with my dad, around 12 or so. I watched Jon’s 9/11 coverage. I’m 34 now, and watch it with my partner and we will watch this show with our children. Jon Stewart is legacy like this. It’s so important. THAT BEING SAID: To the other dude trying to dunk on Trevor Noah. Trevor Noah is fucking amazing, and was a great call for the new direction of the daily show. Jon was done with the daily show and needed to grow. They are different things, and represent different things. You can like the original flavor of something without hating the new one. Get some perspective, please. If you respect Jon’s views you should at least intersect with Trevor’s views.
I was never aware of John and his Brilliance until I seen the clips from his Mark Twain award. I can say I wish I new how funny and honest he is. I am in a hospital dying of cancer and watching all the John Stewart as I can find his humor is making me laugh out loud for the first time in a very long time. It takes my mind of the pain and discomfort making my time a bit better. Thank you John for helping me with this ordeal.
@keithgurciullo740 If you're still with us, I hope you're doing well and am glad Jon Stewart was able to entertain you when you needed a distraction. If you've since departed, I hope you're resting in peace.
Yes..laughter is extremely important..important for you and for everyone...I laugh out loud too..Jon is the best..I'm so glad you have discovered him...take care my friend...my laugh out loud friend.
"We shoulda known recycling was a scam when they made the bins out of plastic" It's actually worse than that... The plastic the bins are made from is non-recyclable.
it's even worse than that, the plastic you recycle isn't recycled at all. at best its ground down and buried with the trash most the time...because it turns out that plastic is forever
BP sales objective should place focus on the people, and looby the government to mandate personal responsibility. - All we need to do is plant 142 trees each, and take 57 poos in the field. That may sound funny but apt. The trees will offset a huge percentage of Co2 and the poo would replenish critical organic activity for soil. Humankind will naturally want to improve their poo content quality by reducing fast food and potato salad; as pooing in a field just 57 times in one's lifetime is no easy thing. It is a movement that will address our problems with heart disease and diabetes.
We should have known it was a scam when it was proposed. Did we really think miners and roughnecks were going to quit their jobs and start collecting cans and bottles on the side of the road? How many people make a living off climate change or climate change regulation? Millions? If you solved climate change tomorrow would we put all those people out of a job? Hell no! People would tell you to shut up and sit in the corner. When you run for president nobody asks you what you're going to do about your nation's carbon footprint, but they do ask you what you will do about employment. The recycling thing made me laugh as well. I'm in my 50s. I remember when it started. Some great industries have sprung up because of it, but they all have to emit some level of pollution to make something new out of all that recycled material.
I know it was a joke, but let's get real. It's single-use plastics that are the problem. We have a choice not to buy them, but it's difficult, that's for sure.
“We’re not a prevention folk. We’re an angrily lash out at our lack of preparation in the middle of a preventable emergency folk while eating tacos stuffed inside of Chalupas.” Pure poetry.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent." Sep 24, 2020 BTW Jon Stewart is vegan. Link at my channel under "About."
@@erismana2105 We agree about that, but deciding today not to have children does not have an immediate effect. Ending animal agriculture as we know it would! The huge amount of methane produced by cows and sheep is 80 times more potent than CO2 in the first 20 years after it is emitted. The Amazon is being burned to graze cattle and to grow soy. 70%+ of soy is used for feeding farm animals.
I really admire John for continuing to work as hard, if not harder in his “retirement” and now coming back into the mainstream when he’s most needed. 🐐
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent." Sep 24, 2020 BTW Jon Stewart is vegan. Link at my channel under "About."
btw this is a nestle studi its the same shit what he talks about with recycling. since the vegan movement was growing nestle and co are the biggest part of the vegan lobby. if you fight your self you can't lose. the numbers with meat ant real. they take all out what meat cost but don't at anything what it cost then you eat more vegetables. if you eat some stuff less you eat some stuff more. so more vegetables means MUCH more cost even for the environment. in germany the biggest problem are vegetables because the chemicals for the plans kill the earth and the water. we have the biggest death spot in the German ocean of all EU because so many chemicals get into the ocean...so still the same topic...you eat meat so you are responsible NOT the company's...pls what's cheaper John'S video again 😘
@@akimtu9523 Actually, with the exception of grass fed and finished cows and sheep, animal agriculture requires more crops to be grown than if we ate the crops directly. We do not have enough land for current demand for pasture raised cows as it is, let alone the growing demand from a growing population. "While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident. The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist pro-business president, who is backed by the country’s so-called “beef caucus.” While this may be business as usual for Brazil’s beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror. So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as “the planet’s lungs” for producing about 20% of the world’s oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat." -CNN Growing soy is another reason they are burning the Amazon. Animal agriculture is a leading cause of deforestation around the world, not just the Amazon.
@@akimtu9523 70%+ of soy grown is used to fatten animals for slaughter, and for dairy and egg production. "More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh. The idea that foods often promoted as substitutes for meat and dairy - such as tofu and soy milk - are driving deforestation is a common misconception." - Our World in Data I could also cite the USDA if you don't believe this credible source of data.
I just wish he'd chosen a platform, if one exists, that would allow all of us to watch him. Those of us from Poortown can't watch his full show for some reason. 🤔🤨
@@alasdairmacintyre9383 Are you referring to that Bay that pirates live in where you used to be able to find almost any kind of booty but now it's like a shell of its former self?
Good comedians are always like that. Although he is wrong on many things, Bill Maher is like this too. Bill's politics is way too centre left liberal for me, but he knows what;s funny.
@Ur Mama Apparently you care so much about me, you wrote me a personal message :) Look how sweet you are. You might as well be in love with me gagagagag
When you want to solve a complex problem, you identify and address the major contributing factors first, and don't sweat the small stuff until you've taken care of the big items.
@Martin Deano CO2 is also essentially permanent in the atmosphere once emitted. The vast majority of the warming above industrial levels we currently observe is directly due to American/Western economies emissions (of which the US did most) ...
@Martin Deano After outsourcing all manufacturing to China, using fossil fuels for generations, hindering the booming pre-colonial Indian economy through colonialism, not letting Russia join the free market, you have the gall to blame them for trying to survive? Rural India doesn't have clean fuel so they literally burn dung to meet their energy requirements. The West doesn't have a right to put a timetable on countries they exploiting 75 years ago. Have you seen the per capita statistics with respect to emissions? The historical figures? The cumulative figures since the industrial revolution? Something tells me you haven't.
@@aghanim01 Word. Plus, I think Stuart showed us a great place to start: those 100 fossil fuel companies that create 71% of global emissions. Let's bring them to heel.
I sense that the Op didn't care 💅 for Trevor Noah. I think that you are wrong but that's ok. I miss Trevor but I am happy that everyone else is glad that John is back. ❤❤
All of these conversations you showed at the start were very much making me go... "Didn't you all say this 20 years ago? It feels like we HAVEN'T done anything, and we're all fucked."
They literally said the world was ENDING 20 years ago too. When are people going to wake up that the "cimate crisis" is just another scheme to get money and nothing to do with making the planet healthier. Not to mention Russia and China laugh at all the "climate change" initiatives.
Anyone who still believes that climate change is just a big hoax, well, there really is no hope for you simpletons. Go walk off the edge of the flat Earth.
They’ve been saying this since the 1950s. Wake up people, it literally started with “Global Cooling” - it’s a control technique. They’re keeping you distracted while they roll out the new International order. By the year 2026 there will only be 100 million living Americans. They want you dead.
I worked in a 2 story office building that was all glass windows on the outside for several years. That building killed so many birds every week that hawks and buzzards would sit in the trees around it just waiting for their next meal. I am positive more birds die from glass office buildings than from wind towers.
also, those stupid glass and girder towers don't allow for any natural air flow. That should have been a lesson over the past 2 years - we need to work in buildings with opening windows, not be trapped in boxes that recycle the same air all day.
Wind power kills 600,000 Birds a year. Power lines delivering electricity of all kind kill 11.8 million Birds a year. I wouldn't worry about your little building. And no I'm not saying you should stop using electricity I'm saying put this crap in perspective.
Companies are people. Ie the public. Not sure what you mean by this. And I'm not sure why you then seem to think renewable companies are somehow Scot free in all of this.
As always, great to see Jon again...unfortunately there is no light at the end of tunnel while Citizens United v. FEC decision stands. Unless it is overturned the representatives we have will always hold big business' interests above voters, especially on issues such as climate change. THIS is the topic that has to be addressed, everything else is just spitting in the wind. These industries have annual profits larger than the GDP of most countries. They have the funds to put their politicians in the limelight and sway public opinion twenty times over. As long as the actions of Big Oil is profitable their carbon emissions will not be limited and climate change will continue.
I agree that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United, but doing so is a drop in the bucket of addressing corruption in the US. For example, if we got rid of Citizens United, these things would still be legal: -Lobbyists coordinating fundraisers and making donations to politicians -Legislators taking lavish vacations paid for by special interests -Legislators starting lobbying jobs right after they leave their government positions -Not disclosing all political money to the public Even without Citizens United, the US government would still be deeply dependent on rich donors, special interests, and lobbyists. We need to pass legislation that makes that dependency illegal. We also need to fill the ensuing vacuum with voucher-based public campaign financing (see the For The People Act for an example) to incentivize politicians to engage with the majority instead of a concentrated group of wealthy people. There's so much work to be done beyond Citizens United. I highly recommend finding local, grassroots efforts that are working on these issues in your area. Thanks for reading my spiel :)
The entire fossil fuel industry will come crashing down when marijuana is legalized, and industrial hemp is openly grown across the planet to make society's transportation fuel, energy, plastic and paper. This is the real reason why marijuana was outlawed. In 1917, a machine was invented that could crush the stalks and separate the fibers from hemp plants faster than doing it by hand, like Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin, but for hemp. This stood to make Cannabis hemp economically viable as an abundant alternative to coal and oil for transportation and energy, as well as trees for paper and construction. This is when major oil and timber companies began lobbying state governments to outlaw Cannabis hemp as the dangerous drug, "Marijuana." Cannabis Sativa was effectively outlawed by the US Federal government in 1937. But after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the US supply chain was disrupted and imports of raw materials from Asia were cut off by the Japanese Navy. The US suspended Cannabis prohibition and (secretly) encouraged farmers to grow "Marihuana" to make equipment for the US military. In 1942, the US Department of Agriculture made a 14-minute instructional video titled *Hemp For Victory.* The Special Tax Stamp that was issued by the USDA that is shown in the video reads, "Producer of Marihuana." After World War II, any mention of *Hemp For Victory* was banned from history books and public broadcasts, and the American voting public was once more and to this day indoctrinated with anti-marijuana drug war lies. Because the video was made before television and only shown to a few thousand farmers throughout rural Kentucky and Wisconsin, it was easy for the film to be forgotten, especially with the public being told from birth that Marijuana is evil and will destroy America. *Hemp For Victory* was uncovered in the Library of Congress in 1989 and has been officially available to the voters from the US National Archives since 1990, but the war on drugs has actually escalated since then, along with climate change. Every administration since World War II has kept this film out of the public's notice (EVEN THOUGH THERE IS AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT LINK TO THE VIDEO ON EVERYONE'S CELLPHONES) so that "business as usual" could continue. It would be great to see Jon Stewart tell millions of people that growing "Marihuana" will make fuel for our cars and completely end corporate America's lie that we have to bomb poor Iraqis or let a pipeline rupture and pollute Native tribal lands to get cheaper gas. I want to see someone in national media explain to the voting public that all paper and plastic products can be made from the stalks of pot plants, without ruining the planet. I'm tired of typing all of this out in comment sections. No one is going to read any of this. Just one celebrity talking about this could change the world.
BP sales objective should place focus on the people, and looby the government to mandate personal responsibility. - All we need to do is plant 142 trees each, and take 57 poos in the field. That may sound funny but apt. The trees will offset a huge percentage of Co2 and the poo would replenish critical organic activity for soil. Humankind will naturally want to improve their poo content quality by reducing fast food and potato salad; as pooing in a field just 57 times in one's lifetime is no easy thing. It is a movement that will address our problems with heart disease and diabetes.
Well, we here in Canada don't have any 'Citizens United vs', but guess what, Canada is even MORE of a petro state than the US. Hell. remember that 'carbon tax' thing? Yeah, so in our province we HAVE a carbon tax. Its like eight cents on a litre-sorry, don't know what that is in gallons. But anyway, guess what, our carbon tax goes to fund the expansion of the natural gas industry. I shit you not, you see, our premier is an ex Irving manager. If that name doesn't ring a bell thats the family that owns the largest oil refinery in North America, and so our carbon tax is going to create MORE greenhouse gases, thats how crazy a world, or a coutnry this is. of course with a different premier we could have brought in a cap and trade program, but if you don't know about canada, go look up our electoral system, if you thought the american system was something to be desired, our Prime Minister is a guy who came SECOND in the election. We only get ONE vote, thats for local rep, party rep, AND federal leader. Our provincial leader has total power by getting 35% of the popular vote and provincially we don't even HAVE a senate, while federally our Senate is NOMINATED by the Prime Minister. So yeah, thats what WE"RE up against. At least across the border in Maine they have citizens initiatives. They were able to vote and kill three LNG terminals. In our province the two only parties were climbing over each other to see who could offer the Irvings the biggest tax breaks. So in the end they forced an LNG terminal on us that only employed eight people, and they capped the property taxes on it at half a milion so they pay less in tax than a chain of doughnut shops.
I'm all for recycling but what's the point when most things aren't recyclable when they're made? Why is it the peoples fault and not the manufacturers?
@Maxwell Long reusing is great too but not everything can be. Reducing, well again the manufacturer. Why is it necessary to bag a product inside a box inside another box?🤔 Everyone must do their part but it also needs to be looked at from the start of the process which is manufacturing, not consuming. Sure you can argue with supply and demand but at that point the argument is just going nowhere in circles.
Yep ... one way or another ... it's all gotta' be cradle to grave biocompatability ... which is not a word even recognized by spell check Al Gore Rhythms.
@@buttafan4010 An ERB fan I see...but the point of it is obvious. Companies exist to make profit. Using more environmentally friendly methods of production are more expensive and thus reduce profit. That's why they put it on the consumer, just like they pass the costs of higher wages and higher prices for production materials on, so too with the biological effects of their production methods...
@@42Mrgreenman We the sheeple paid for the "vaccines" twice. Pfizer made over 62 billion in profits in 2 years of selling the "vaccines" which tax dollars funded the research for. And as for production methods, the mRNA spike protein protoger gene sequence was spliced together at the Fort D. Trick USAMRIID Level 4 Labs and also the Chapel Hill Level 4 Labs. HIV spke protein coding added to the sars-cov-2 genome at Chapel Hill, and the coding for S1 furin cleavage points at Fort D. Trick, from where it was both leaked and intentional leaked; spread to the Wuhan World Military Games in Oct. 2019 by 14 infected athletes sent to compete there against athletes from all over the world. It's a bioweapon psyop to get US to take a "vaccine" that does not provide immunization, only very temporary protection from severe symptoms.
"Just bicycle to work" - That would require a significant change to how we build our neighborhoods and putting in actual infrastructure to encourage and support biking. As well as making it more financially feasible for people to live closer to their jobs instead of living in car-dependent suburbia. That and significantly improved public transit would actually help reduce emissions, but the NIMBYs care too much about the ~ChArAcTeR~ of their neighborhoods to actually let it happen any time soon.
@@worldofcyn Doesnt mean we cant try. Even in dense urban areas, where distances are very short, people still feel unsafe biking. 60% of all trips in the US are under 6 miles. 70% of trips are not commuting, but most of our transportation design is centered on commuting. What that means is that even in the suburban hellscape, theres a lot of trips that are doable with an e-bike in less than 25min. There just needs to be safe infrastructure and a disincentive to driving (like taxes)
Ahhh the apathy of "it doesn't work for everyone, so no one should do it" mentality. People who live in cold climates need gas powered vehicles as electric doesn't work as well, so no one should have electric, in some parts of the country it snows 4 months of the year so no one should use solar, it's not convenient for me to ride a bike to work so absolutely no one should be asked to ride a bike to work.
I love John Stewart and am so glade he has a voice again. Climate change is a terrible problem that will be with us long after I am with you. That out of the way, I am member of the working poor, and now disabled retiree. I cannot ride a bike or walk to the grocery store. I cannot afford an electric car. I cannot afford overpriced food delivery service. I am concerned about the high cost of energy. I am concerned that I will not be able to afford the cost of gas or any vehicle to get to the store to buy healthy food that I cannot afford so as to stay out of the hospital that I cannot afford. As a lifelong Democrat I am concerned about the ever-increasing, often high hated rhetoric of weathy liberals telling me about solutions I cannot afford. I know if anyone reads this, someone will proclaim I am not truly a Democrat and they will be correct. I am no longer a Democrat, I now consider myself a Libertarian and maybe I always was. Our problems are self created. Blaming those "BAD" oil companies for giving us the cheap energy we wanted is delusional. Progress and change are incremental because drastic change is often doctoral, autocratic and "FREEDOM " is the ability to do and say things that others disagree with. Just my 2 cents.
also a libertarian both parties are corrupted, that said. You're a moron to vote Democrat in the past 10 years. All they've done is cause historic inflation and take away people's rights with their Covid-19 overstepping that mauled the economy for no reason. I have always hated Mitt Romney but looking back now the country would've been in such a better place had he won in 2008. None of this never ending warped discussion on race ruining the country or this whole toxic woke culture, the Republicans may have been the party of the wealthy 30 years ago but now it's the party of the working man, and the democrats are the party of undeservedly rich elitists virtue signaling telling everyone else how to live and buy electric cars. Obama made fun of Romney when he stated that Russia is the biggest threat facing our country which it's not China is but it's a close second. Obama said Al Qaeda like wtf? Dudes in sandals with AK's are more of a threat than Russia, but that's Obama for you, smooth talking sociopath but nothing he says is actually true
Nope. A world where you need a car to live is. Of course, you *could* do something about that personally, but you really need that big back yard and 3 car garage. And that's just too much of a delicious selling point that you're willing to spend 3 hours a day in traffic to get it. Try searching RUclips for urban design and solutions to traffic sometime for the real scoop.
@@gromm93 I thought most of that was an accident of geography. I'm an American who has lived in the midwest and west a lot, and those places are HUGE. There is no reason to live all cramped up, and no chance to really live there without personal transport (at least there hasn't been for the last 100+ years). Meanwhile, I have also lived in Amsterdam for 3yrs and did a little travel through Germany, and well...Europe has been highly developed for a long time. Their public transport system is awesome b/c it is necessary--they don't have the space to urban sprawl, nor for all the personal cars that would require.
@@Crimethoughtfull Dear Loki no. It's because after WWII, GM et al wanted it this way. They wanted the American public to be utterly dependent on the car, so they made it happen. It's a long story, but to cut it short, your country did it on purpose. Many of the cities East of the Mississippi aren't like that by the way, because they were all well established in the 19th century.
@@gromm93 if 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions then it's problem, not ours is it. Of-course lets aim to be conservative in our energy usage but we are certainly not going to feel guilty about living the comfortable, convenient lives that we have earned. Many of us improved our life situations by working hard at school in our respective third world countries, saving and spending frugally to get where we are now etc.....
@@gromm93 if 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions then it's problem, not ours is it. Of-course lets aim to be conservative in our energy usage but we are certainly not going to feel guilty about living the comfortable, convenient lives that we have earned. On a personal/individual level, many of us improved our life situations by working hard at school/in business in our respective third world countries, saving and spending frugally to get where we are now etc.....
This scene from the Lost In Space movie really stuck with me as a kid: "Every school child knows that recycling programs will save the planet!" "Every school child has been lied to; recycling programs came too late."
@@gromm93 This. The real damage is done by the manufacturers, and they're not going to stop until they either have no choice in the matter, or they exhaust all the oil on the planet. We've got bio-polymers and stuff that are more or less ready now, but until the oil barons lose their ability to force their way in everything, they'll keep pumping out the same crap they claim recycling will _totally_ nullify, impact-wise. Which all boils down to the wrong people having far too much power for no good reason.
Jon stewart": You are still, the best guy who explain the very serious issues in the super funny way that even people like me can laugh without a tear in my eyes ... ja ja ja ja ja
@@NanNanNABooBoo The suffix at the end of "should've" isn't there to indicate the words "should" and "of" being joined... It indicates the phrase "should HAVE". "Should of" means literally nothing. It is incomprehensible, incoherent nonsense... and I see too many people doing it these days. It's like half the population slept through grade school...
Hardly an indictment of recycling but a solid episode. If we are educated enough, and we understand the amount of energy required and the pollution our recycling puts off, we quickly recognize the importance of recycling certain materials.
This was classic Stewart, he been saying it for decades, but we need to keep saying it, cause the word is spreading. People are starting to see the real problem, is politicians not being held accountable. They make the laws we suppose to follow, but they don't.
We are all responsible! We can all do our part….blaming politicians is just a cop out to avoid our own culpability! We are selfish, always wanting more and unable to control our overpopulation! We are like ticks on a dog and if the infestation is too great, the dog will die! It cannot withstand an ever increasing number of ticks!
@@mikelundrigan2285 The politicians are to blame. And clearly that reflects back to the voters that decide to vote them in. Like who honestly thought MTG was right for Congress? or Ted Cruz, Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell. But ultimately, they make the rules. They are the ones to blame, as a whole. Individually, we need to see what they vote and what they support. But people need to stop supporting politicians, that don't give a shit about people. Like Manchin, Sinema, and of course Ted Cruz.
Millions of tons of toilet paper is flushed away every day. We should collect it for recycling. It could be used to make many items such as paper plates, drinking cups and straws. They could be dyed brown to hide any leftover impurities. So people, install a blue basket next to your toilet. Do your part for the environment.
@@gordonwelcher9598 you must realize most people will have an “ icky” feeling about using recycled toilet paper as food containers??? Other uses certainly but that one will not likely fly!! Also keeping used TP in a container in your bathroom likely has an “ odour” most people would not appreciate!!!
@@mikelundrigan2285 The residue on it must be removed or rendered non-visible. The odor will go away if you unfold it and hang it to dry. I have noticed that recycled paper towels, Kleenex and toilet paper are not as strong and fall apart with use. Sometimes I see small pieces of aluminum foil in it.
@@web-angel George was very progressive. He may have called out dems, but he that was because he was more left wing than they were. He stood up for the gay community years before it was socially acceptable. He stood up for minorities, was pro abortion, anti-religious. Most of his bits called out conservatives, Reagan, Bush, Chaney, Powell, all got direct attacks from Carlin. The only democrat he ever attacked by name was Clinton.
George did tell Stewart in their interview in the late 90s that he would make everyone proud and he sure has. Unlike most comedians, Jon punches up with his comedy like George did, and doesn’t punch down.
I have missed you John so much! This man is just so funny, so happy to see you and hear your perspective on everything currently going on in the world my guy! " I have been wearing the same Bon Jovi shirt since prom" got me!
Sorry, but could you at least spell his name correctly if you miss him so much… I am a pedant, if it makes you feel any better. But seriously. Spell his name correctly.
Someone has to say *"Hemp For Victory."* This has been out there for all to see if they just looked into it, but it needs to be put in our faces, sadly. Industrial hemp can replace fossil fuels for transportation, energy and plastic, as well as replace trees for paper and construction, thereby reducing pollution, cleaning the environment, and stopping climate change.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent." Sep 24, 2020 BTW Jon Stewart is vegan. Link at my channel under "About."
Exactly. That propaganda against wind generators would only fly in U.S. People are so incredibly sensitive to the death of any animal. It is irrational.
@@Redmenace96 Is it really that there are so many Americans that care about animals? I had always assumed it was just some flimsy excuse. "Yeah, wind energy will end pollution, but...uhhh...think of the birdies!"
I live out in the country with a barn and all the cliche rural crap. My parents and others are always asking me why I don't have any cats to kill the mice. After reading about all the damage cats do to birds and other wildlife I just don't want to create unnatural predators, plus they would fill my barn with shit.
@@Praisethesunson I could heat my home by burning tires for the next 20 generations and I still wouldn't have polluted 1% as much as BP did from that one disaster. But I'm supposed to be the one watching my "carbon footprint". I'll pass.
I agree with you entirely. I change my behaviours because it is what is within reach. But obviously corporations need to do a bunch of work. In many ways, changing our behaviour is a useful middle finger we can use as a "of course we're changing, so how about you?"
Exactly, this “the world is ending so buy a Tesla” stuff puts the responsibility on us, not the corporations that built society the way it is in the first place
Unfortunately, computers use more and more energy. Servers, supercomputers, workstations, PCs. PS2 used only 30 watts while gaming in the year 2000, PS4 Pro 158 watts and PS5 203 watts (Series X 210 watts). Of course they are getting more efficient at fixed performance level (Series S with One X performance uses 80 watts), but maximum power requirement goes up. Future Nvidia cards will use 600 watts by themselves, gaming CPUs can use even 200 watts. Soon, a gaming PC will sip 1000 watts from the grid. Deep learning requires exponentially more energy. Therefore, nuclear fusion is necessary.
This is actually one good thing Apple’s been doing. They did the aggressive climate plan, and they’re going for carbon-neutral. Now maybe they could stop being so garbage about right-to-repair…
Excuse me ? They expect you to replace your phone every year. They make them ever more fragile and unrepairable for that very reason. There's not a single good thing about Apple. Wake the F up !
@@TheNefastor well I think you’re actually being unfair now… in terms of build quality, the iPhones are actually some of the best phones in the market. They also don’t expect you to replace it every year because their updates I believe now go back to the iPhone 6s which is pretty admirable compared to the competition, although they would like you to because they’re a business. Personally, I change them every 4-5 years depending on battery life degradation, the design and if there will be any upcoming features which I would like to have but until now I have had no problems with my iPhones whatsoever. I did however have a whole lot of issues with my Samsungs and Nokia Lumia 930 back in the day. The Samsung’s customer service was horrific, although I believe they are much better today and Microsoft’s mobile OS doesn’t even exist anymore… I’d bet my money on Apple products if I want quality, excellent service and durability every time…
So, hilarious thing just happened and I am laughing so hard, I had to share: I start randomly singing, when I get triggered by certain words, so I was singing the refrain of "It's the end of the world as we know it, and the second I was done, he said "and I feel fine", and now I am just dead, because the timing was impeccable 😂
@@Skipbo000 Well, usually random words from the song I'm about to start singing, not even necessarily parts of the refrain, it happens quite often and you can never tell in advance - not always though, might depend on my mood... 😅
Jon was the most on-point political analyst when he left TV years ago, and he effortlessly is again. A singular talent. He's simultaneously smarter than the sea of other analysts, AND, about 50 miles less up his own arse. He just casually, plainly says extremely insightful clarifying things zero other TV personalities are saying as clearly, time and time again.
Absolutely. And it really disappoints me that Trevor just ain't that kinda guy. When people say "Jon made the show his own," he really did. The show was funny, but he wasn't afraid the open up a wound and show everyone the gangrene they'd been ignoring. Sadly, the only times Trevor hits this level is on race relations... otherwise, the modern Daily Show's just kinda room temperature.
The actual solution has a lot to do with changing people's expectations of what happiness looks like. Living in closer-knit communities and finding happiness with the people around you is the best thing we can do, but it requires society-wide urban planning changes as well as social changes. Sprawling suburbs, distant jobs, distant friends... The problem is how far we live from where we need to go, and how much crap we need to consume to make up for a lack of happiness from our social life.
Implementation of any solutions looks tough, especially given the intensity of our modern addictions. Just a tweak to capitalism is possible. No? Fade 'growth' insert 'progress.' Some different metrics instead of GDP and stock market growth, like 'well being' ? or 'lack of disease', poverty etc.. We will not divorce people from energy consumption, so through tech it must be made carbon neutral (or negative). Inevitably Co2 will increase, world will warm and we will cope.
They would rather focus on painting YOU and your footprint being the problem while they burn up fuel in their personal jet going to a city to poison their water. Any time someone talks to you about your footprint tell them f off for being a coward and punching down.
The world has been ending since the 50s. Glad to see they just pushed the goal post back again to 2040. It's weird that they said not a thing about climate change during covid. If the world was ending, you think they wouldn't let up. Fucking lairs.
The thing is, is really DOES depend on you. All of us - everyone standing around saying "the oil companies!" isn't helping anything. The easiest thing that 99% of people can do is stop consuming animal products (or dramatically less) because the entire rainforest is being burned down to raise more animals.
1:20-1:30 'I guess these reporters haven't been to Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona where summer temps can get to at least 120 at high noon. At least it's a dry heat' I said to myself as I was also thinking that there's already a drought in those states and California, plus the devastating hurricanes that we seem to have at least once a year now.
As a NABCEP certified PV installer since 2010, I can tell you that we need metals to move to renewables and get off foreign oil. The trouble is we currently get our copper, nickel, cobalt, aluminum… from Chinese mines in Africa, mines that have been caught using child labor. Minnesota has one the greatest resources of copper, cobalt, nickel and steel in the world. We keep blocking the mining permits needed to get these metals here, with Union labor and with strong environmental standards. Replacing foreign oil with foreign copper, mined by kids doesn’t really change anything.
I hear that. I live in Mn. The problem is getting @ those minerals responsibly. Its not a call i wanna make, to be sure. Lots of controversy. The bottom line is that mining (anywhere) needs to do a shit-ton less long term damage to be worth doing @ all. Look @ all the bad shit happening with fraking...😢
Our current system prioritizes short term profits over global sustainability. It's a capitalism and the centralized states that support it stand in the way of saving our biosphere as we know it.
BP sales objective should place focus on the people, and looby the government to mandate personal responsibility. - All we need to do is plant 142 trees each, and take 57 poos in the field. That may sound funny but apt. The trees will offset a huge percentage of Co2 and the poo would replenish critical organic activity for soil. Humankind will naturally want to improve their poo content quality by reducing fast food and potato salad; as pooing in a field just 57 times in one's lifetime is no easy thing. It is a movement that will address our problems with heart disease and diabetes.
@@nicholastaiariol2631 china is state capitalist with some social services as duct tape. Anarcho Communism would be way better, doesnt decay into a dystopia like Leninist states typically do. The vanguard is a unneeded middleman
Yes! I totally agree. Jon's mumbling below the level of audibility, so I turn the volume all the way up - then BOOM - heavy-duty theme music.! Once they fix the audio level how about a key light on the talent. Why is it so dark?
My favorite part about the newscasters lecturing people about fossil footprint is that each of them will fly more in a year than most of us will fly in a lifetime. Funny they never mention that. And speaking of needless flying... How many business people and politicians are still flying multiple times a week to go to meetings that could be a zoom call, or worse, could just be an email? And how do we hold any of this accountable?
Fax. The stat is 1% of ppl cause over half of all aviation pollution. But guess who politicians/gov will fuk when they implement their “green” (🙄) economy?
Actually this channel also uploaded a writer's room or whatever talk where Jon pointed out that the entertainment industry was notoriously inefficient (although he didn't mention flights specifically). He knows and acknowledges.
@@chrisklappich5998 Yes, but it is exponentially more than can be saved by turning off lights or recycling or riding a bike to work a few times a week. They have us guilted into feeling like this problem is our fault when most of us in an entire lifetime do not have a carbon footprint the size of say Anderson Cooper.
@@patreekotime4578 this is the issue when you don’t discuss specifics. The entirety of aviation worldwide, both personal and freight, produces 1.02 billion tons of CO2. Just passenger vehicles in just the US produces 1.269 billion tons. So no, aviation is not exponentially more than we can impact with things like driving less. Is biking to work going to solve all our problems? Of course not. Can we stop all aviation? Of course not.
The issue with targeting the supply side (oil production) is that this is a big win for established oil producers and wealthy invested interests. Oil prices are shooting through the roof because alternatives aren’t widely available and/or affordable yet. Higher gas and energy prices do help promote fuel efficient vehicles, but most working class people can’t just run out and buy an electric vehicle or spend 4x the commute time on public transportation. The result is the wealthy can keep running around on their private jets and living their excessive lifestyles and the cost for them will be supplemented by their wealth gains; the working class will be further squeezed; and we will continue to rely on fossil fuels
buying an electric vehicle wouldn't help anything anyways, the electricity primarily comes from fossil fuels. all it does is further centralize the means of production.
Biden diverting military oil reserves to public use seems like a half measure to avoid addressing any of these problems. Oil SHOULD be expensive, as should plastic made from petroleum; it should be as non-viable for the manufacturer and consumer as it is for the environment. Only if they are forced to, will the oil companies pay the bill to re-gear their production and research toward sustainable, low-emission fuels and clean energy generation. They won't do it unless you make them, count on that, and as long as they're not forced, they will lobby _hard_ to keep the status quo. These are companies run by psychopaths who are currently looking into the possibilities of biometrically locked food vaults and shock collars so they can keep their unearned power over others after society as we know it falls apart. They give no shits, about anyone but themselves.
I love this on apple. they are one of the biggest contributors, making you buy a phone every 4 years rather than knowing that the phone can last 10 if they kept them up to date and people know how to respect their items.
And let you put in replaceable batteries like the good old days! I have a new phone but I'm still also using my 2014 Galaxy that I've bought many cheap batteries for on Amazon.
Every time I watch Jon after not seeing him on TV for a while, he always reminds me he's the best as what he does, and all the people that came after him (of which there are many) are just poor copies of what he does so well. He's coke and they're RC cola.
Pepsi is better, but I couldn't tell you which one is more efficient at making you insulin-dependent. Brought to you by a dialysis center being built in advance near you.
I haven't seen him for many months and I haven't missed him. And, after watching his gibberish in this video, I think I can I can go back to not seeing him for many months.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent." Sep 24, 2020 BTW Jon Stewart is vegan. Link at my channel under "About."
This video made me realize I was unintentionally saving the world. I only buy clothes I know I will wear for a very long time, I don't have a car so I only use public transportation/walk/ride a bike, and I don't want to have kids.
Or growing corn for ethanol destroying our arable soil. Or palm oil. Or battery waste. Or overfishing. Or destruction of forests and infringement of development on ecosystems. All that's fine. Co2 is what you need to worry about.
@@cwx8 corn for ethanol is actually a direct result of science driven eco activists. See, back in the day, when there was leaded gas, people started to see how terrible it was. So, science came up with a way to "clean" it up a bit. But unleaded didnt produced the type/amount of power we were all used to having. So, science to the "rescue" again. Bottomline, it is the fault of EVERY person who is dependant on an ICE vehicle. It always has been, always will be.
@@JoeMama-oq8wl lol ok. I love how you put the blame on people who are for the most part clueless of what goes in their vehicles. Use of arable land for anything other than edible food should be outlawed. Wouldn't you believe that global warming isn't our only big problem.
@@cwx8 of course i blame clueless people. Isnt that our responsibility ? People just blindly following, now THAT is our biggest global problem. Heres another statistic you may find interesting. That whole "people waste 40%" of the food they get. Thats bullshit. 40% of the food grown in this country doesnt even make it to a grocery store. Because its deemed "defective" by the industry growing it. As in, it looks too ugly. Mainly concerning fruits & vegetables. However, there is an industry standard for chicken & beef as well, that results in significant amounts of waste... Also, we overproduce chicken, beef & dairy products by about 30% in this country. Resulting in millions of pounds of wasted food, every year.
it'd still be nice if someone calculated and put out an itemized list of all the things a typical individual does that requires oil and what the ultimate impact is. Oil goes into not just gasoline, but making plastics and creating heat, and much more. Reducing demand and knowing all the ways we can reduce our consumption while still living a life acceptable to us seems to be a good and easy first step.
Petroleum derivatives are in foods, make up, lotions, medications, vaseline. My recycling plastics does not do anything against the 9 that don't recycle plastics. I'm about ready to start tossing it all.
It would be a big step if the government just made it a law that all products have to be in recyclable packaging within two years, say, and offer grants to inventors with really good proposals for alternative packaging. Single use plastics would be illegal with stiff penalties. Urban planning would have to change to more of an English village style or European style so people would not have to travel so far for common items. I just think most of America is so used to the “good” life, they and the government will keep advocating for change, but always in the mid future, like 2035 or 40, when it is too late. I agree with the gal who said stop having kids, there are more than enough to go around for awhile.
@@lindas.martin2806 The problem is that it's still far cheaper to make nearly everything but metals than it is to recycle them. Our means of recycling aren't practical enough to be a real solution.
Jon has nailed this so hard, there are splinters on the wood. And I laughed because he's taken something that we've all contributed to, and made it soft enough to chew on.
@@georgelayton6641 Stewart has a show and he wants people to watch. That is all that is going here. He sells himself as having something important to say. But in reality, its empty BS.
I'm 33 years old. It's 12:30am. And I'm on my 3rd Jon Stewart video with a half a tear rolling down my eye. I've had his videos suggested to me for months and I've resisted because I just can't stop once I start watching Jon do his thing. I can't believe it's been so long, man. I felt like I was taken back to the glory years of the Daily Show on Comedy Central, right after the Colbert Report, I called it 'happy hour'. I went to college during the previous recession in the late 2000's and life was bleak back then. I was from the generation that got our news from Jon Stewart and the guy made it all bearable and at times, even fun. The man is a fucking legend. I'm gonna give him all his props while he's still nice enough grace us with his presence. He could've been a politician or used his fame in different ways, but he's accomplished so much more being himself. Gotta give credit where credit is due.
I really wish we'd get serious and start using nuclear energy in a big way. The returns are phenomenal, and the risks have been way overblown by a couple of high profile disasters.
The political implications are too great for the world to reconcile, at least at this point in time. Unless we're talking about Thorium (for which the technology is not quite there yet), there is no way that the NSG would accept every country to become a nuclear power.
Sadly, we're all being introduced to a new risk of nuclear power plants we've never had to consider before - nuclear power plants in war. My understanding is that chernobyl's gone dark last night and is no longer reporting to the IAEA after losing power and being switched to generators, and a physics university with an onsite test reactor was i believe shelled. We could be barrelling towards the worst with no way to tell right now (as in, chernobyl could be actively degrading right this moment). If we should expect increasing conflict especially as droughts lead to water wars, then we have to start thinking about the consequences of these things in wartime too, not just peacetime.
@@winter_silhouette Shave 20B off of the budget and Thorium becomes viable overnight. The tech is there, it's 99% finished, it just needs large scale implementation. Virtually no waste, no possibility of meltdown or critical failure. Thorium is cheap and abundant. And that's why it's not happening. Until the oligarchs can profit off it while not destabilizing the nations of their butt buddies, it'll remain on the shelf.
What we need is better city planning. Most modern suburbs encourage driving via their distance from where we shop and where we work. If my house wasn't a 7 minute drive from the nearest grocery store, I would have less reason to drive there. And let's not forget that plants process CO2 into oxygen - We'd probably have less carbon in the air if we stopped cutting down all of the forests and polluting the ocean. Also, why aren't we incinerating our trash, filtering the smoke, and compressing the ash into bricks or something? I feel like we'd have less plastic in the rain if we just destroyed it vs trying and failing to recycle. Plastic burns hot, use it to generate electricity too
Atmospheric CO2 is at 412ppm and rising around 3ppm per year. Our record of atmospheric data from ice core samples goes back 800,000 years. In it it shows Atmospheric CO2 at 250ish to 300ish in repeating up down cycles. Those cycles correspond PRETTY MUCH EXACTLY with ice ages at 250ish vs temperate times at 300ish. What is 450ppm gonna look like? 500? Thats 30 years at current. Our planet hasn't seen anything like this in the last 800,000 years. You know, the time of humans.
Hallelujah! Thank you for speaking about this... I recycle religiously, use biodegradable garbage bags and bamboo paper towels. Still, I know that it is nothing compared to how much damage is caused by oil companies and other big companies. Take united, for example, or other airline companies; how much plastic they use per flight is insane... how about all this egregious deforestation caused by construction and paper companies? What about renewable energy, sustainable products, eco/high-speed trains? how many subsidies do they receive...not so much, unfortunately... and yet they make us believe that it is solely our responsibility
Jon, please do an episode on Food Production and how it affects climate change. I recently watched Trevor's Interview with Sadhguru and it was an eye opener for me.
Thank you Jon for bringing these up in clear view. The one thing no one I know of has mentioned is the effects of wars on climates, environment and animals. I know you and your wife Tracey are animal lovers. I read her book when it came out. Everyone is concerned about loss of human lives, but hardly anyone mentions the effect on wild life and environment. A few clips I have watched about rescues of wild animals hurt or misplaced in Ukraine brought tear to my eyes. The affects of these wars on the environment will carryon for decades. People who cause all these wars should be prosecuted not just war crimes but for ALL lives lost.
Best podcast yet, Jon. Gotta go, I'm reducing my carbon footprint by turning off half my lights, collecting organics. Right now I'm recycling my old engine oil. Then I'll start up my new wind turbine, 'cause Papa needs some energy so he can kill a bird to eat for dinner. Who needs chickens from a store. I'll roast my turbine-whacked bird over a campfire, because firewood is still a sustainable energy source up here in the Boreal Forest. I hope it'll be a turkey that takex all day to get just right. Aw fuck, It's a crow. I won't eat that. So I'll leave it out on the street for the eagles to find. Aw fuck, my turbine blade just whacked an eagle. I hate eagle; it's way too dry. Boy, this environmenal responsibility shit is way harder than the climate change proponents all said it would be.
It’s a catch 22… we depend in oil & natural gas for everything, so when prices go up the poor go without food. Until we transition to clean energy we are dependent on it.
I am as poor as you can get, having nothing, but even poor people can make changes to help. Some very cheap foods are actually good for you, like rice. If poor people would stop buying garbage food, they could lower their carbon footprint and lengthen in their life. Get chickens if you can. I've survived for years on rice and eggs.
@@theobserver9131 Rice? I love rice, but rice alone contains practically ZERO nutritional value. Rice provides mainly carbs. And a little bit of B6 and Magnesium. And chickens? You think people should raise your own chickens? Where do you live? In a little house on the prairie? Good luck with that. I never figured by your screen name "Old man" that your real name was Charles Ingalls
@@theobserver9131 I had pretty much said what I felt needed to be said. Self sufficiency is a nice pipe dream, but those days are long gone. Even in the frontier days, when people harken back to the days of self sufficiency, they really weren't self sufficient. Without the army to wipe out the native Americans, the settlers of the old west would have been wiped out. You have a good day too.
They'd just be replaced by someone else who can deliver us all the oil we want. The goal here should be to redirect our infrastructure away from fossil fuels. Switch your gas heating and stoves to electric. Lobby to increase the density and walkability of your city. Invest and USE public transit. The oil companies have fought for years to fuck up our urban centers, to make us car dependent, and it's made us not only dependent on them but both the victims and purveyors of climate change.
If “climate change “ is such an “existential” threat. Maybe individuals and corporations should NOT be allowed to OWN “ideas”? Many solutions EXIST. These solutions exist in the patent offices. Open the patent offices. Save the earth.
I hope someone recommends John to watch the RUclips channel "Not Just Bikes". Unironically, bicycles would be great for the environment. Just look at the Netherlands. Not only are bicycles better for the environment, but it is also much cheaper to maintain Bicycle infostructure rather than car infostructure. The problem is that the current design of American cities discourages Bicycle usage, and it's virtually illegal for an American city to redesign its transportation infostructure to favor bicycles.
If the govt really cared about climate change, we would have had reliable public transport, high speed rail etc. But that would diminish the tax revenues that comes from car and gas sales. Politicians are here fill up their pockets in the short run, and petrol giants employs them.
It's like being in the garage with a car running and everybody's having trouble breathing so we're being told to breathe lesd and to try to be more efficient with our breaths but nobody talks about turning off the car
And it's all because the one guy that is lounging inside the car has the AC cranked up.
I mean, thats less of an analogy and pretty much exactly whats happening.
Eh, we’re still doing our part to fuck up the Earth.
In your scenario we’re more like the guy in the back hitting a one hitter every once in a while. Are we still messing up the air? Sure… but the driver definitely shouldn’t be yelling at us.
@@liamalexandr9282 puffing a one hitter has such a small impact on the environment at large that it almost negates being mentioned in the same breathe as vehicular pollution.
But if you switch to vaping (and trust me... spend 30 years smoking weed, and you'll want to switch also... may even *need* to) it kind of solves that problem.
We just _can't_ shut off the car. How else are we going to heat the garage? The least we could do is install an industrial air filtration system so we won't have to worry about the fumes, but there's no way to make that profitable. So, the only logical solution is to die.
I will never ever get sick of Jon Stewart starting off with "here's the thing"
For me it's the tapping of the pen with the pause in speaking lol
It's nice to see him back somewhere ranting about people being people....
I just love the fact that his Daily Show intros are literally just him as a person.
Pretty sure we’re all collectively waiting for Moment of Zen tho. Just sayin.
😅😅😅😅me either.
You just know the next bit is magic when those words come first.
I never realized how much I missed Jon Stewart. Happy to see he has a show again.
John 3:5 - Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
@@jackfrosty4674 What does this have to do with the video?
@@greglinsmythe3375 Good to know when evil abounds. Also Jon Stewart has a channel on you tube now.
it's fun getting to hang out with Jon
Nothing against Trevor Noah, he's great, but Jon Stewart is always welcome... now I've got the daily show and the problem with Jon Stewart... WINNING!
I’ve always loved this guy and gained Massive respect for him after watching him go before congress to shame them for not supporting the first responders who were all dying horribly from ground zero exposure.
Congress is fictional.
Did the people he was shaming end up helping those?
@@TheRealBatCaveyes. But it was shameful that many representatives didn’t show up and there were many empty seats. He called upon them and shamed them for that too. I am not sure but I think it passed theft day.
@amirahsadre4570 we did it or didn't it pass?
It did pass but it literally took many lives and decades as well as Jon going to DC and publicly shaming them as well as calling them out on his old show to garner attention. The first responders were dropping dead with crazy amounts of cancer and first they tried to say it wasn’t from the pile, then when the evidence was overwhelming they tried to say it was a NY problem not a federal problem. The official response time for NYPD on 9/11 was something like 26 seconds. FDNY was right behind them. Jon pointed out that each and every single person who was supposed to be present at the hearing had posted on facebook “never forget” on the anniversary of 9/11, yet when it came time to get them help they literally avoided them like the plague. Jon went door to door in the capital building to get someone to help and was told they weren’t there, and literally had to move because a lobbyist was there for a meeting. Normally a very funny man he broke down and cried and yelled at them, Where do you get off? How dare you? It was a despicable disgusting display of political bs and red tape vrs help for those who saved lives. So yes they got the help they deserved but not when they could have saved them and fatefully there are very few left.
Jon was born to do this, he is a master at monologue that is clear and understandable. Truly an art!
George Carlin was right when he said the world will be just fine, it's the people that are screwed.
He stole that from keanu reeves in the day the earth stood still.
Well, people and other living beings, but yeah....
If “climate change “ is such an “existential” threat. Maybe individuals and corporations should NOT be allowed to OWN “ideas”? Many solutions EXIST. These solutions exist in the patent offices. Open the patent offices. Save the earth.
No he didn't. The bit comes from Carlin's '92 show "Jammin' in New York"
Everyone is bad except for everyone who liked Carlin. That is Carlin's message. He told his audience ' 'You guys are good, everyone else is bad'. Very much like some religions do.
I was around 14 years old when I saw “The Daily Show” for the first time. 9/11 was three years ago, and I had never cared about political stuff at all. Then Mr. Stewart explained things in ways that could make me laugh, think, and consider the importance of the world stage and the choices of the psychopaths that run our world. Thanks Jon, I’m 31 years old now and my kids are watching you now
Compare this to the travesty that is currently called the Daily Show, where Trevor Noah bends over backwards to take cheap shots at Bernie Sanders with some of the most crudely sawed-off cherry-picked excerpts you've seen. "Ha ha ha! You guys are gonna let me be rich like you soon, yeah?" calls Trevor to his new 'friends', who just smile and nod, knowing he will never be more than a tool.
It's the path he chose, instead of joining the ranks of worthy Daily Show successors with John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Jordan Klepper and the rest.
Just because its your culture doesnt make it okay
Okay so I first came here to say:
I started watching the daily show with my dad, around 12 or so. I watched Jon’s 9/11 coverage. I’m 34 now, and watch it with my partner and we will watch this show with our children.
Jon Stewart is legacy like this. It’s so important.
THAT BEING SAID:
To the other dude trying to dunk on Trevor Noah.
Trevor Noah is fucking amazing, and was a great call for the new direction of the daily show. Jon was done with the daily show and needed to grow.
They are different things, and represent different things. You can like the original flavor of something without hating the new one.
Get some perspective, please. If you respect Jon’s views you should at least intersect with Trevor’s views.
@@nomoregdm Jon Stewart is a rabid racist
@@nomoregdm Just because he was raised to hate doesnt make it okay
I was never aware of John and his Brilliance until I seen the clips from his Mark Twain award. I can say I wish I new how funny and honest he is. I am in a hospital dying of cancer and watching all the John Stewart as I can find his humor is making me laugh out loud for the first time in a very long time. It takes my mind of the pain and discomfort making my time a bit better. Thank you John for helping me with this ordeal.
I hope I can face my end with half your courage sir
I don't know what to say but my heart goes to both of you. 😥
Laughter does help with the pain but not as much as morphine. Much Love to you sir
@keithgurciullo740
If you're still with us, I hope you're doing well and am glad Jon Stewart was able to entertain you when you needed a distraction.
If you've since departed, I hope you're resting in peace.
Yes..laughter is extremely important..important for you and for everyone...I laugh out loud too..Jon is the best..I'm so glad you have discovered him...take care my friend...my laugh out loud friend.
"We shoulda known recycling was a scam when they made the bins out of plastic"
It's actually worse than that... The plastic the bins are made from is non-recyclable.
Actually it's worse than that. There are no buyers for the stuff we put in our recycle bins. It's going in the landfills with everything else.
@@margeehenry4915 In the UK the plastic gets sent to China....Where the Chinese put it in landfills.
@@margeehenry4915 or it's being burned.
it's even worse than that, the plastic you recycle isn't recycled at all. at best its ground down and buried with the trash most the time...because it turns out that plastic is forever
Jesus
7:26 "We should've known recycling was a scam when they made the bins out of plastic."
That really made me laugh.
BP sales objective should place focus on the people, and looby the government to mandate personal responsibility.
- All we need to do is plant 142 trees each, and take 57 poos in the field.
That may sound funny but apt. The trees will offset a huge percentage of Co2
and the poo would replenish critical organic activity for soil. Humankind will naturally want to improve their poo content quality by reducing fast food and potato salad; as pooing in a field just 57 times in one's lifetime is no easy thing. It is a movement that will address our problems with heart disease and diabetes.
We should have known it was a scam when it was proposed. Did we really think miners and roughnecks were going to quit their jobs and start collecting cans and bottles on the side of the road? How many people make a living off climate change or climate change regulation? Millions? If you solved climate change tomorrow would we put all those people out of a job? Hell no! People would tell you to shut up and sit in the corner. When you run for president nobody asks you what you're going to do about your nation's carbon footprint, but they do ask you what you will do about employment.
The recycling thing made me laugh as well. I'm in my 50s. I remember when it started. Some great industries have sprung up because of it, but they all have to emit some level of pollution to make something new out of all that recycled material.
I know it was a joke, but let's get real. It's single-use plastics that are the problem. We have a choice not to buy them, but it's difficult, that's for sure.
@@bcoldwell1 Lol that's a meaningless "choice".
You literally cannot make a dent in plastic production. No matter how much individual choice you make.
Well what should you make drink containers out of? Glass? That requires enormous energy to recycle? Or plastic? That requires very little.
“We’re not a prevention folk. We’re an angrily lash out at our lack of preparation in the middle of a preventable emergency folk while eating tacos stuffed inside of Chalupas.” Pure poetry.
in the midst
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent."
Sep 24, 2020 BTW Jon Stewart is vegan.
Link at my channel under "About."
@@someguy2135 less repopulating would be a great idea
It's called "content".
@@erismana2105 We agree about that, but deciding today not to have children does not have an immediate effect. Ending animal agriculture as we know it would! The huge amount of methane produced by cows and sheep is 80 times more potent than CO2 in the first 20 years after it is emitted. The Amazon is being burned to graze cattle and to grow soy. 70%+ of soy is used for feeding farm animals.
Finally, someone who knows to use fewer, and not less, when referring to something countable! Thank you Jon Stewart!
I really admire John for continuing to work as hard, if not harder in his “retirement” and now coming back into the mainstream when he’s most needed. 🐐
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent."
Sep 24, 2020 BTW Jon Stewart is vegan.
Link at my channel under "About."
btw this is a nestle studi its the same shit what he talks about with recycling. since the vegan movement was growing nestle and co are the biggest part of the vegan lobby. if you fight your self you can't lose. the numbers with meat ant real. they take all out what meat cost but don't at anything what it cost then you eat more vegetables. if you eat some stuff less you eat some stuff more. so more vegetables means MUCH more cost even for the environment. in germany the biggest problem are vegetables because the chemicals for the plans kill the earth and the water. we have the biggest death spot in the German ocean of all EU because so many chemicals get into the ocean...so still the same topic...you eat meat so you are responsible NOT the company's...pls what's cheaper John'S video again 😘
@@akimtu9523 Actually, with the exception of grass fed and finished cows and sheep, animal agriculture requires more crops to be grown than if we ate the crops directly. We do not have enough land for current demand for pasture raised cows as it is, let alone the growing demand from a growing population.
"While the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest may constitute an “international crisis,” they are hardly an accident.
The vast majority of the fires have been set by loggers and ranchers to clear land for cattle. The practice is on the rise, encouraged by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist pro-business president, who is backed by the country’s so-called “beef caucus.”
While this may be business as usual for Brazil’s beef farmers, the rest of the world is looking on in horror.
So, for those wondering how they could help save the rainforest, known as “the planet’s lungs” for producing about 20% of the world’s oxygen, the answer may be simple. Eat less meat." -CNN
Growing soy is another reason they are burning the Amazon.
Animal agriculture is a leading cause of deforestation around the world, not just the Amazon.
@@akimtu9523 70%+ of soy grown is used to fatten animals for slaughter, and for dairy and egg production.
"More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh. The idea that foods often promoted as substitutes for meat and dairy - such as tofu and soy milk - are driving deforestation is a common misconception."
- Our World in Data
I could also cite the USDA if you don't believe this credible source of data.
So great to see Jon grow back into his element with this show... amazing how much better it's gotten from its debut
I just wish he'd chosen a platform, if one exists, that would allow all of us to watch him. Those of us from Poortown can't watch his full show for some reason. 🤔🤨
@@Anjalena have you tried sailing the high seas matey
@@alasdairmacintyre9383 a joke worthy of John Stewart 😄
I don’t know, I liked it from the beginning.
@@alasdairmacintyre9383 Are you referring to that Bay that pirates live in where you used to be able to find almost any kind of booty but now it's like a shell of its former self?
I enjoy when John takes a moment to giggle at his writers' work. That's gotta feel so good for them to see. That bird pedo line was 🪙
They missed the easiest lay up on that one- "You know what is the number one killer of birds?"- Cats!
yes!
Good comedians are always like that. Although he is wrong on many things, Bill Maher is like this too. Bill's politics is way too centre left liberal for me, but he knows what;s funny.
Nobody cares
@Ur Mama Apparently you care so much about me, you wrote me a personal message :) Look how sweet you are. You might as well be in love with me gagagagag
When you want to solve a complex problem, you identify and address the major contributing factors first, and don't sweat the small stuff until you've taken care of the big items.
@martin deano I hear this one other country is also pumping out a lot of pollution, some third-world hellhole called "Amyurika" or something!
@Martin Deano CO2 is also essentially permanent in the atmosphere once emitted. The vast majority of the warming above industrial levels we currently observe is directly due to American/Western economies emissions (of which the US did most) ...
@Martin Deano After outsourcing all manufacturing to China, using fossil fuels for generations, hindering the booming pre-colonial Indian economy through colonialism, not letting Russia join the free market, you have the gall to blame them for trying to survive? Rural India doesn't have clean fuel so they literally burn dung to meet their energy requirements. The West doesn't have a right to put a timetable on countries they exploiting 75 years ago.
Have you seen the per capita statistics with respect to emissions? The historical figures? The cumulative figures since the industrial revolution?
Something tells me you haven't.
@@aghanim01 Word.
Plus, I think Stuart showed us a great place to start: those 100 fossil fuel companies that create 71% of global emissions. Let's bring them to heel.
The problem is that Republicans refuse to admit that there IS a problem.
This man is a genius and the perfect antithesis of what these types of shows have been telling us for the last several years.
The first five words, yes, the rest of your sentence is bs.
What do you mean? All the shown of “the last several years “ were inspired his original show
APPLE is so great for the environment
@@MrAllister9which is exactly why they had to let Jon go. Jon wasn’t gonna pander to Apple’s bullshit
I sense that the Op didn't care 💅 for Trevor Noah. I think that you are wrong but that's ok. I miss Trevor but I am happy that everyone else is glad that John is back. ❤❤
All of these conversations you showed at the start were very much making me go... "Didn't you all say this 20 years ago? It feels like we HAVEN'T done anything, and we're all fucked."
They literally said the world was ENDING 20 years ago too. When are people going to wake up that the "cimate crisis" is just another scheme to get money and nothing to do with making the planet healthier. Not to mention Russia and China laugh at all the "climate change" initiatives.
Because its not individuals, its the big corporations and their giant factories, those are the real problems.
Anyone who still believes that climate change is just a big hoax, well, there really is no hope for you simpletons. Go walk off the edge of the flat Earth.
They’ve been saying this since the 1950s. Wake up people, it literally started with “Global Cooling” - it’s a control technique.
They’re keeping you distracted while they roll out the new International order. By the year 2026 there will only be 100 million living Americans. They want you dead.
@@Auguur Climate is always changing, everyone believes in it, people are just now starting to wake up that the world isn't ending.
I worked in a 2 story office building that was all glass windows on the outside for several years. That building killed so many birds every week that hawks and buzzards would sit in the trees around it just waiting for their next meal. I am positive more birds die from glass office buildings than from wind towers.
also, those stupid glass and girder towers don't allow for any natural air flow. That should have been a lesson over the past 2 years - we need to work in buildings with opening windows, not be trapped in boxes that recycle the same air all day.
And you're right. There are actual statistics about that.
But the real problem is electricity that doesn't come from coal. ;)
There is a show on curiositystream about this. They have begun putting stuff on the glass to protect birds
Lol then we eat them
Wind power kills 600,000 Birds a year. Power lines delivering electricity of all kind kill 11.8 million Birds a year. I wouldn't worry about your little building. And no I'm not saying you should stop using electricity I'm saying put this crap in perspective.
I've had my first genuine laugh whilst watching a satirical news show In YEARS at 8:00. So glad to have this dude back.
Missed these pieces so much. Thank god that bird was a pedophile.😂
If the Trevor Noah version of the Daily Show doesn't make you laugh, you must be a dour son-of-a-gun.
@@origamiswami2275 He's all right, but he never nailed us with lines like that.
It's about time someone said it. Blaming the public for what the companies do is a trick we all have fallen for.
Well duh. Corporations have been spending their ill gotten wealth lying to the rabble for literal generations at this point.
The public should be blamed equally. If it weren't for the demand of consumers, these corporations wouldn't exist.
Companies are people. Ie the public. Not sure what you mean by this. And I'm not sure why you then seem to think renewable companies are somehow Scot free in all of this.
@@cwx8 You are so wrong it would be funny if it weren't so sad.
You have no idea how the systems that govern your life actually function and it shows.
@@Praisethesunson nah I just write government policy on this what do I know. Green zealots never get anything wrong.
This really needs to be spoken out loud so much more often! Thank you, Jon, for all you do. Keep fighting the good fight!
As always, great to see Jon again...unfortunately there is no light at the end of tunnel while Citizens United v. FEC decision stands. Unless it is overturned the representatives we have will always hold big business' interests above voters, especially on issues such as climate change. THIS is the topic that has to be addressed, everything else is just spitting in the wind. These industries have annual profits larger than the GDP of most countries. They have the funds to put their politicians in the limelight and sway public opinion twenty times over. As long as the actions of Big Oil is profitable their carbon emissions will not be limited and climate change will continue.
I agree that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United, but doing so is a drop in the bucket of addressing corruption in the US. For example, if we got rid of Citizens United, these things would still be legal:
-Lobbyists coordinating fundraisers and making donations to politicians
-Legislators taking lavish vacations paid for by special interests
-Legislators starting lobbying jobs right after they leave their government positions
-Not disclosing all political money to the public
Even without Citizens United, the US government would still be deeply dependent on rich donors, special interests, and lobbyists. We need to pass legislation that makes that dependency illegal. We also need to fill the ensuing vacuum with voucher-based public campaign financing (see the For The People Act for an example) to incentivize politicians to engage with the majority instead of a concentrated group of wealthy people. There's so much work to be done beyond Citizens United. I highly recommend finding local, grassroots efforts that are working on these issues in your area. Thanks for reading my spiel :)
The entire fossil fuel industry will come crashing down when marijuana is legalized, and industrial hemp is openly grown across the planet to make society's transportation fuel, energy, plastic and paper. This is the real reason why marijuana was outlawed. In 1917, a machine was invented that could crush the stalks and separate the fibers from hemp plants faster than doing it by hand, like Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin, but for hemp. This stood to make Cannabis hemp economically viable as an abundant alternative to coal and oil for transportation and energy, as well as trees for paper and construction. This is when major oil and timber companies began lobbying state governments to outlaw Cannabis hemp as the dangerous drug, "Marijuana." Cannabis Sativa was effectively outlawed by the US Federal government in 1937.
But after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the US supply chain was disrupted and imports of raw materials from Asia were cut off by the Japanese Navy. The US suspended Cannabis prohibition and (secretly) encouraged farmers to grow "Marihuana" to make equipment for the US military. In 1942, the US Department of Agriculture made a 14-minute instructional video titled *Hemp For Victory.* The Special Tax Stamp that was issued by the USDA that is shown in the video reads, "Producer of Marihuana."
After World War II, any mention of *Hemp For Victory* was banned from history books and public broadcasts, and the American voting public was once more and to this day indoctrinated with anti-marijuana drug war lies. Because the video was made before television and only shown to a few thousand farmers throughout rural Kentucky and Wisconsin, it was easy for the film to be forgotten, especially with the public being told from birth that Marijuana is evil and will destroy America. *Hemp For Victory* was uncovered in the Library of Congress in 1989 and has been officially available to the voters from the US National Archives since 1990, but the war on drugs has actually escalated since then, along with climate change. Every administration since World War II has kept this film out of the public's notice (EVEN THOUGH THERE IS AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT LINK TO THE VIDEO ON EVERYONE'S CELLPHONES) so that "business as usual" could continue.
It would be great to see Jon Stewart tell millions of people that growing "Marihuana" will make fuel for our cars and completely end corporate America's lie that we have to bomb poor Iraqis or let a pipeline rupture and pollute Native tribal lands to get cheaper gas. I want to see someone in national media explain to the voting public that all paper and plastic products can be made from the stalks of pot plants, without ruining the planet. I'm tired of typing all of this out in comment sections. No one is going to read any of this. Just one celebrity talking about this could change the world.
BP sales objective should place focus on the people, and looby the government to mandate personal responsibility.
- All we need to do is plant 142 trees each, and take 57 poos in the field.
That may sound funny but apt. The trees will offset a huge percentage of Co2
and the poo would replenish critical organic activity for soil. Humankind will naturally want to improve their poo content quality by reducing fast food and potato salad; as pooing in a field just 57 times in one's lifetime is no easy thing. It is a movement that will address our problems with heart disease and diabetes.
Well, we here in Canada don't have any 'Citizens United vs', but guess what, Canada is even MORE of a petro state than the US. Hell. remember that 'carbon tax' thing? Yeah, so in our province we HAVE a carbon tax. Its like eight cents on a litre-sorry, don't know what that is in gallons. But anyway, guess what, our carbon tax goes to fund the expansion of the natural gas industry. I shit you not, you see, our premier is an ex Irving manager. If that name doesn't ring a bell thats the family that owns the largest oil refinery in North America, and so our carbon tax is going to create MORE greenhouse gases, thats how crazy a world, or a coutnry this is. of course with a different premier we could have brought in a cap and trade program, but if you don't know about canada, go look up our electoral system, if you thought the american system was something to be desired, our Prime Minister is a guy who came SECOND in the election. We only get ONE vote, thats for local rep, party rep, AND federal leader. Our provincial leader has total power by getting 35% of the popular vote and provincially we don't even HAVE a senate, while federally our Senate is NOMINATED by the Prime Minister. So yeah, thats what WE"RE up against. At least across the border in Maine they have citizens initiatives. They were able to vote and kill three LNG terminals. In our province the two only parties were climbing over each other to see who could offer the Irvings the biggest tax breaks. So in the end they forced an LNG terminal on us that only employed eight people, and they capped the property taxes on it at half a milion so they pay less in tax than a chain of doughnut shops.
@@Marijuanifornia : I read it all. I wish I had John's clout. Don’t stop informing and peace be with you.
Thank you for calling out this insanity! Huge problems require huge solutions.
I'm all for recycling but what's the point when most things aren't recyclable when they're made? Why is it the peoples fault and not the manufacturers?
@Maxwell Long ok, good but again it should start at manufacturing. If most products are not recyclable, then why is pressure put on the consumer?
@Maxwell Long reusing is great too but not everything can be. Reducing, well again the manufacturer. Why is it necessary to bag a product inside a box inside another box?🤔
Everyone must do their part but it also needs to be looked at from the start of the process which is manufacturing, not consuming. Sure you can argue with supply and demand but at that point the argument is just going nowhere in circles.
Yep ... one way or another ... it's all gotta' be cradle to grave biocompatability ... which is not a word even recognized by spell check Al Gore Rhythms.
@@buttafan4010 An ERB fan I see...but the point of it is obvious. Companies exist to make profit. Using more environmentally friendly methods of production are more expensive and thus reduce profit. That's why they put it on the consumer, just like they pass the costs of higher wages and higher prices for production materials on, so too with the biological effects of their production methods...
@@42Mrgreenman We the sheeple paid for the "vaccines" twice. Pfizer made over 62 billion in profits in 2 years of selling the "vaccines" which tax dollars funded the research for. And as for production methods, the mRNA spike protein protoger gene sequence was spliced together at the Fort D. Trick USAMRIID Level 4 Labs and also the Chapel Hill Level 4 Labs. HIV spke protein coding added to the sars-cov-2 genome at Chapel Hill, and the coding for S1 furin cleavage points at Fort D. Trick, from where it was both leaked and intentional leaked; spread to the Wuhan World Military Games in Oct. 2019 by 14 infected athletes sent to compete there against athletes from all over the world.
It's a bioweapon psyop to get US to take a "vaccine" that does not provide immunization, only very temporary protection from severe symptoms.
"Just bicycle to work" - That would require a significant change to how we build our neighborhoods and putting in actual infrastructure to encourage and support biking. As well as making it more financially feasible for people to live closer to their jobs instead of living in car-dependent suburbia. That and significantly improved public transit would actually help reduce emissions, but the NIMBYs care too much about the ~ChArAcTeR~ of their neighborhoods to actually let it happen any time soon.
Exactly. It's hilarious how dumb these old school tips sounded back then and they sound even dumber and disconnected from real life in the present.
@@worldofcyn Doesnt mean we cant try. Even in dense urban areas, where distances are very short, people still feel unsafe biking.
60% of all trips in the US are under 6 miles. 70% of trips are not commuting, but most of our transportation design is centered on commuting. What that means is that even in the suburban hellscape, theres a lot of trips that are doable with an e-bike in less than 25min. There just needs to be safe infrastructure and a disincentive to driving (like taxes)
Ahhh the apathy of "it doesn't work for everyone, so no one should do it" mentality. People who live in cold climates need gas powered vehicles as electric doesn't work as well, so no one should have electric, in some parts of the country it snows 4 months of the year so no one should use solar, it's not convenient for me to ride a bike to work so absolutely no one should be asked to ride a bike to work.
or working from home
@@JeremyForTheWin absolutely, but sadly some companies wanna continue the waste people's lives in transit strategy. its sick.
I love John Stewart and am so glade he has a voice again. Climate change is a terrible problem that will be with us long after I am with you. That out of the way, I am member of the working poor, and now disabled retiree. I cannot ride a bike or walk to the grocery store. I cannot afford an electric car. I cannot afford overpriced food delivery service. I am concerned about the high cost of energy. I am concerned that I will not be able to afford the cost of gas or any vehicle to get to the store to buy healthy food that I cannot afford so as to stay out of the hospital that I cannot afford. As a lifelong Democrat I am concerned about the ever-increasing, often high hated rhetoric of weathy liberals telling me about solutions I cannot afford. I know if anyone reads this, someone will proclaim I am not truly a Democrat and they will be correct. I am no longer a Democrat, I now consider myself a Libertarian and maybe I always was. Our problems are self created. Blaming those "BAD" oil companies for giving us the cheap energy we wanted is delusional. Progress and change are incremental because drastic change is often doctoral, autocratic and "FREEDOM " is the ability to do and say things that others disagree with. Just my 2 cents.
also a libertarian both parties are corrupted, that said. You're a moron to vote Democrat in the past 10 years. All they've done is cause historic inflation and take away people's rights with their Covid-19 overstepping that mauled the economy for no reason. I have always hated Mitt Romney but looking back now the country would've been in such a better place had he won in 2008. None of this never ending warped discussion on race ruining the country or this whole toxic woke culture, the Republicans may have been the party of the wealthy 30 years ago but now it's the party of the working man, and the democrats are the party of undeservedly rich elitists virtue signaling telling everyone else how to live and buy electric cars. Obama made fun of Romney when he stated that Russia is the biggest threat facing our country which it's not China is but it's a close second. Obama said Al Qaeda like wtf? Dudes in sandals with AK's are more of a threat than Russia, but that's Obama for you, smooth talking sociopath but nothing he says is actually true
if you want to make a difference, stop calling it "climate change" and start being more specific.
Amazing to see the different paths that Jon and Stephen went down. Shows the power of having a conscience.
What do you mean by that?
Are you implying that one of the men you mentioned lack a conscience?
I love how Stewart can present a serious topic and then show how ridiculous it is to see it as serious.
I love Jon Stewart, I'm glad he's back with the Daily Show style of segment!
One of the biggest cons has been companies convincing the consumer we're to blame. Your car is not to blame.
Nope. A world where you need a car to live is.
Of course, you *could* do something about that personally, but you really need that big back yard and 3 car garage. And that's just too much of a delicious selling point that you're willing to spend 3 hours a day in traffic to get it.
Try searching RUclips for urban design and solutions to traffic sometime for the real scoop.
@@gromm93 I thought most of that was an accident of geography. I'm an American who has lived in the midwest and west a lot, and those places are HUGE. There is no reason to live all cramped up, and no chance to really live there without personal transport (at least there hasn't been for the last 100+ years). Meanwhile, I have also lived in Amsterdam for 3yrs and did a little travel through Germany, and well...Europe has been highly developed for a long time. Their public transport system is awesome b/c it is necessary--they don't have the space to urban sprawl, nor for all the personal cars that would require.
@@Crimethoughtfull Dear Loki no. It's because after WWII, GM et al wanted it this way. They wanted the American public to be utterly dependent on the car, so they made it happen. It's a long story, but to cut it short, your country did it on purpose.
Many of the cities East of the Mississippi aren't like that by the way, because they were all well established in the 19th century.
@@gromm93 if 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions then it's problem, not ours is it.
Of-course lets aim to be conservative in our energy usage but we are certainly not going to feel guilty about living the comfortable, convenient lives that we have earned.
Many of us improved our life situations by working hard at school in our respective third world countries, saving and spending frugally to get where we are now etc.....
@@gromm93 if 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions then it's problem, not ours is it.
Of-course lets aim to be conservative in our energy usage but we are certainly not going to feel guilty about living the comfortable, convenient lives that we have earned.
On a personal/individual level, many of us improved our life situations by working hard at school/in business in our respective third world countries, saving and spending frugally to get where we are now etc.....
Oh man, I just found this show. Jon Stewart is still the master, love instantly reignited. 🙏🔥
This scene from the Lost In Space movie really stuck with me as a kid:
"Every school child knows that recycling programs will save the planet!"
"Every school child has been lied to; recycling programs came too late."
There’s a really good episode of Penn and Tellers Bullshit about recycling. Must watch.
It's more like recycling programs were invented to sell more plastic.
@@gromm93 This. The real damage is done by the manufacturers, and they're not going to stop until they either have no choice in the matter, or they exhaust all the oil on the planet. We've got bio-polymers and stuff that are more or less ready now, but until the oil barons lose their ability to force their way in everything, they'll keep pumping out the same crap they claim recycling will _totally_ nullify, impact-wise. Which all boils down to the wrong people having far too much power for no good reason.
I have missed Jon Stewart since he left TDS and this is exactly the same. He is comedic timing and delivery is amazing.
Jon stewart": You are still, the best guy who explain the very serious issues in the super funny way that even people like me can laugh without a tear in my eyes ... ja ja ja ja ja
He explained nothing.
I THINK WE ALL CAN ADMIT- WRITING JAJAJAJA LIKE A MEXICAN- AFTER WRITING A SENTENCE IN ENGLISH IS BOUT AS SMART AS RECYCLING BINS MADE OUT OF PLASTIC.
Should of went with "Birds aren't real" Segway
He and Bill Maher!
@@NanNanNABooBoo The suffix at the end of "should've" isn't there to indicate the words "should" and "of" being joined... It indicates the phrase "should HAVE".
"Should of" means literally nothing. It is incomprehensible, incoherent nonsense... and I see too many people doing it these days.
It's like half the population slept through grade school...
Hardly an indictment of recycling but a solid episode. If we are educated enough, and we understand the amount of energy required and the pollution our recycling puts off, we quickly recognize the importance of recycling certain materials.
Sooo glad to see Jon back again. I really missed you . Finally can ditch my anti anxiety agents. Laughter works much better.
This was classic Stewart, he been saying it for decades, but we need to keep saying it, cause the word is spreading. People are starting to see the real problem, is politicians not being held accountable. They make the laws we suppose to follow, but they don't.
We are all responsible! We can all do our part….blaming politicians is just a cop out to avoid our own culpability!
We are selfish, always wanting more and unable to control our overpopulation! We are like ticks on a dog and
if the infestation is too great, the dog will die! It cannot withstand an ever increasing number of ticks!
@@mikelundrigan2285 The politicians are to blame. And clearly that reflects back to the voters that decide to vote them in. Like who honestly thought MTG was right for Congress? or Ted Cruz, Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell.
But ultimately, they make the rules. They are the ones to blame, as a whole. Individually, we need to see what they vote and what they support. But people need to stop supporting politicians, that don't give a shit about people. Like Manchin, Sinema, and of course Ted Cruz.
Millions of tons of toilet paper is flushed away every day.
We should collect it for recycling.
It could be used to make many items such as paper plates, drinking cups and straws.
They could be dyed brown to hide any leftover impurities.
So people, install a blue basket next to your toilet.
Do your part for the environment.
@@gordonwelcher9598 you must realize most people will have an “ icky” feeling about using recycled toilet paper as food containers???
Other uses certainly but that one will not likely fly!! Also keeping used TP in a container in your bathroom likely has an “ odour” most people
would not appreciate!!!
@@mikelundrigan2285 The residue on it must be removed or rendered non-visible.
The odor will go away if you unfold it and hang it to dry.
I have noticed that recycled paper towels, Kleenex and toilet paper are not as strong and fall apart with use. Sometimes I see small pieces of aluminum foil in it.
Jon Stewart is the heir to George Carlin. He’s freaking hilarious and tells the honest truth
Not really. Carlin despised both the Dems and Repubs. I'm willing to bet John votes Democrat.
@@web-angel Lessor evil.
@@web-angel George was very progressive. He may have called out dems, but he that was because he was more left wing than they were. He stood up for the gay community years before it was socially acceptable. He stood up for minorities, was pro abortion, anti-religious.
Most of his bits called out conservatives, Reagan, Bush, Chaney, Powell, all got direct attacks from Carlin. The only democrat he ever attacked by name was Clinton.
George did tell Stewart in their interview in the late 90s that he would make everyone proud and he sure has. Unlike most comedians, Jon punches up with his comedy like George did, and doesn’t punch down.
It’s true … when Jon interviewed George he himself said he was looking forward to seeing Jon! Mutual respect!
I have missed you John so much! This man is just so funny, so happy to see you and hear your perspective on everything currently going on in the world my guy! " I have been wearing the same Bon Jovi shirt since prom" got me!
Sorry, but could you at least spell his name correctly if you miss him so much… I am a pedant, if it makes you feel any better. But seriously. Spell his name correctly.
@@dulcinea_ no I won't
I've been waiting so long for this format. This will be my new favorite show if it stays like this
Someone had to say it. This has been out there for all to see if they just looked into it, but it needs to be put into our faces sadly. Thank you Jon
Someone has to say *"Hemp For Victory."* This has been out there for all to see if they just looked into it, but it needs to be put in our faces, sadly.
Industrial hemp can replace fossil fuels for transportation, energy and plastic, as well as replace trees for paper and construction, thereby reducing pollution, cleaning the environment, and stopping climate change.
@@Marijuanifornia they thought e85 was the answer, too.
In practice, it's bs.
He also said the planet would be just fine, and we should worry about ourselves.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent."
Sep 24, 2020 BTW Jon Stewart is vegan.
Link at my channel under "About."
Cars, buildings, and cats kill infinitely more birds than wind energy. This should always be stated when discussing bird deaths from wind mills.
Exactly. That propaganda against wind generators would only fly in U.S. People are so incredibly sensitive to the death of any animal. It is irrational.
My cat gets his quota
@@Redmenace96 Is it really that there are so many Americans that care about animals? I had always assumed it was just some flimsy excuse. "Yeah, wind energy will end pollution, but...uhhh...think of the birdies!"
I live out in the country with a barn and all the cliche rural crap. My parents and others are always asking me why I don't have any cats to kill the mice. After reading about all the damage cats do to birds and other wildlife I just don't want to create unnatural predators, plus they would fill my barn with shit.
Yes indeed. And so do global warming and climate change
Thanks for coming back, Jon.
"a petroleum company of the British persuasion"
That sentence construction will never not be funny
Good to have John back, and also glad to see his style and delivery havent suffered for his hiatus.
I will always laugh when I see oil companies lecture me about clean energy
I promise not to dump millions of gallons of oil into the gulf of Mexico
@@Praisethesunson I could heat my home by burning tires for the next 20 generations and I still wouldn't have polluted 1% as much as BP did from that one disaster. But I'm supposed to be the one watching my "carbon footprint". I'll pass.
Amazing show. I feel like a teenager again watching the daily show haha
This is the Jon Stewart that we still need, and that I dearly miss.
Damnit Jon I am SO glad you've decided to come back.
Seconded.
I didn't know he had another show but RUclips had my back.
*STEWART / ROGAN 2024*
The name Rogan is not even recognized by the CIA (Mossad) spell check A-l G-o-r-e R-h-y-t-h-m-s. _(Gotta' d-a-s-h now.)_
Damn why you had to go on Apple TV Jon? The world needs you on the biggest stage you coudl imagine.
apple is trying to apologize for the wheel of time and new LOTR
He doesn't care about you.
He's been rich for like 35 years lol.
The above comments are right. Did you think he was joking about the refrigerated skin care products?
Are you familiar with a platform known as RUclips?
NM, you are evolving this piece so fast I can't keep up. SO Well Done!
I agree with you entirely. I change my behaviours because it is what is within reach. But obviously corporations need to do a bunch of work. In many ways, changing our behaviour is a useful middle finger we can use as a "of course we're changing, so how about you?"
If we didn't buy their oil, who would they sell it to?
@@theobserver9131 the change doesn't come from boycotting. It is some other necessary change.
Exactly, this “the world is ending so buy a Tesla” stuff puts the responsibility on us, not the corporations that built society the way it is in the first place
They can't see your middle finger from the top of their towers.
Unfortunately, computers use more and more energy. Servers, supercomputers, workstations, PCs. PS2 used only 30 watts while gaming in the year 2000, PS4 Pro 158 watts and PS5 203 watts (Series X 210 watts). Of course they are getting more efficient at fixed performance level (Series S with One X performance uses 80 watts), but maximum power requirement goes up. Future Nvidia cards will use 600 watts by themselves, gaming CPUs can use even 200 watts. Soon, a gaming PC will sip 1000 watts from the grid. Deep learning requires exponentially more energy. Therefore, nuclear fusion is necessary.
Nobody can shine the light on world problems like Stewart can! I am so glad he's back!!!
We had Mr. Carlin. That would have been a good show Stewart and Carlin
This is actually one good thing Apple’s been doing. They did the aggressive climate plan, and they’re going for carbon-neutral. Now maybe they could stop being so garbage about right-to-repair…
They’re saying that they will… let’s see how many years, complaints and regulations it’ll take them
Somebody thinks apple did a good thing
Lol
and really nobody knows what that means
Excuse me ? They expect you to replace your phone every year. They make them ever more fragile and unrepairable for that very reason. There's not a single good thing about Apple. Wake the F up !
@@TheNefastor well I think you’re actually being unfair now… in terms of build quality, the iPhones are actually some of the best phones in the market. They also don’t expect you to replace it every year because their updates I believe now go back to the iPhone 6s which is pretty admirable compared to the competition, although they would like you to because they’re a business. Personally, I change them every 4-5 years depending on battery life degradation, the design and if there will be any upcoming features which I would like to have but until now I have had no problems with my iPhones whatsoever. I did however have a whole lot of issues with my Samsungs and Nokia Lumia 930 back in the day. The Samsung’s customer service was horrific, although I believe they are much better today and Microsoft’s mobile OS doesn’t even exist anymore… I’d bet my money on Apple products if I want quality, excellent service and durability every time…
So, hilarious thing just happened and I am laughing so hard, I had to share: I start randomly singing, when I get triggered by certain words, so I was singing the refrain of "It's the end of the world as we know it, and the second I was done, he said "and I feel fine", and now I am just dead, because the timing was impeccable 😂
what usually "triggers" you?
@@Skipbo000 Well, usually random words from the song I'm about to start singing, not even necessarily parts of the refrain, it happens quite often and you can never tell in advance - not always though, might depend on my mood... 😅
Jon was the most on-point political analyst when he left TV years ago, and he effortlessly is again. A singular talent. He's simultaneously smarter than the sea of other analysts, AND, about 50 miles less up his own arse. He just casually, plainly says extremely insightful clarifying things zero other TV personalities are saying as clearly, time and time again.
Absolutely. And it really disappoints me that Trevor just ain't that kinda guy. When people say "Jon made the show his own," he really did. The show was funny, but he wasn't afraid the open up a wound and show everyone the gangrene they'd been ignoring.
Sadly, the only times Trevor hits this level is on race relations... otherwise, the modern Daily Show's just kinda room temperature.
totally agree, he is so brilliant!
If you apply that fiction to him…
The actual solution has a lot to do with changing people's expectations of what happiness looks like. Living in closer-knit communities and finding happiness with the people around you is the best thing we can do, but it requires society-wide urban planning changes as well as social changes. Sprawling suburbs, distant jobs, distant friends... The problem is how far we live from where we need to go, and how much crap we need to consume to make up for a lack of happiness from our social life.
Like, I'm going to Bolivia to meet a girl because I just don't think anybody on my own continent wants me. It's not an efficient way to live.
Implementation of any solutions looks tough, especially given the intensity of our modern addictions. Just a tweak to capitalism is possible. No? Fade 'growth' insert 'progress.'
Some different metrics instead of GDP and stock market growth, like 'well being' ? or 'lack of disease', poverty etc.. We will not divorce people from energy consumption, so through tech it must be made carbon neutral (or negative). Inevitably Co2 will increase, world will warm and we will cope.
Hear hear!
They would rather focus on painting YOU and your footprint being the problem while they burn up fuel in their personal jet going to a city to poison their water. Any time someone talks to you about your footprint tell them f off for being a coward and punching down.
we all want to be blameless, as if u never bought a product that was for ur own convenience and nothing more.
The world has been ending since the 50s. Glad to see they just pushed the goal post back again to 2040. It's weird that they said not a thing about climate change during covid. If the world was ending, you think they wouldn't let up. Fucking lairs.
The thing is, is really DOES depend on you. All of us - everyone standing around saying "the oil companies!" isn't helping anything. The easiest thing that 99% of people can do is stop consuming animal products (or dramatically less) because the entire rainforest is being burned down to raise more animals.
The vast majority of carbon emissions come from coal plants, airplanes, and cargo ships. Personal automobiles are basically statistical noise.
Just like Democrat politicians
1:20-1:30 'I guess these reporters haven't been to Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona where summer temps can get to at least 120 at high noon. At least it's a dry heat' I said to myself as I was also thinking that there's already a drought in those states and California, plus the devastating hurricanes that we seem to have at least once a year now.
This is exactly what we need to hear, thanks Jon.
As a NABCEP certified PV installer since 2010, I can tell you that we need metals to move to renewables and get off foreign oil. The trouble is we currently get our copper, nickel, cobalt, aluminum… from Chinese mines in Africa, mines that have been caught using child labor. Minnesota has one the greatest resources of copper, cobalt, nickel and steel in the world. We keep blocking the mining permits needed to get these metals here, with Union labor and with strong environmental standards. Replacing foreign oil with foreign copper, mined by kids doesn’t really change anything.
I hear that. I live in Mn. The problem is getting @ those minerals responsibly. Its not a call i wanna make, to be sure. Lots of controversy. The bottom line is that mining (anywhere) needs to do a shit-ton less long term damage to be worth doing @ all. Look @ all the bad shit happening with fraking...😢
Our current system prioritizes short term profits over global sustainability. It's a capitalism and the centralized states that support it stand in the way of saving our biosphere as we know it.
BP sales objective should place focus on the people, and looby the government to mandate personal responsibility.
- All we need to do is plant 142 trees each, and take 57 poos in the field.
That may sound funny but apt. The trees will offset a huge percentage of Co2
and the poo would replenish critical organic activity for soil. Humankind will naturally want to improve their poo content quality by reducing fast food and potato salad; as pooing in a field just 57 times in one's lifetime is no easy thing. It is a movement that will address our problems with heart disease and diabetes.
Communism would make everything green! China has zero smog
@@nicholastaiariol2631 china is more capitalistic than the US, everything checks out
@@nicholastaiariol2631 china is state capitalist with some social services as duct tape. Anarcho Communism would be way better, doesnt decay into a dystopia like Leninist states typically do. The vanguard is a unneeded middleman
I'm such a big fan...So wonderful to be laughing so loud....my neighbor actually heard me.
Not much different than him on The Daily Show - dude is still killing it!
Except now he gets to swear. Kudos, Jon. Keep doing what you're doing. 🍻
John 3:5 - Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
In case nobody has already realised it, Jon Stewart is a national treasure.
The volume is too low. The sound editors have figured out how to make the music audible, but not the content.
Yes! I totally agree. Jon's mumbling below the level of audibility, so I turn the volume all the way up - then BOOM - heavy-duty theme music.! Once they fix the audio level how about a key light on the talent. Why is it so dark?
Sounds fine on my iPhone.
And then you get blasted with a loud riff at the end of each video
Mind blowing fact: “Its the end of the world as we know it” is older than “we didn’t start the fire”.
My favorite part about the newscasters lecturing people about fossil footprint is that each of them will fly more in a year than most of us will fly in a lifetime. Funny they never mention that.
And speaking of needless flying... How many business people and politicians are still flying multiple times a week to go to meetings that could be a zoom call, or worse, could just be an email? And how do we hold any of this accountable?
Fax. The stat is 1% of ppl cause over half of all aviation pollution. But guess who politicians/gov will fuk when they implement their “green” (🙄) economy?
Look. Aviation isn’t great and should be cut down. But aviation, all of it, accounts for 2.5% of global CO2 emissions.
Actually this channel also uploaded a writer's room or whatever talk where Jon pointed out that the entertainment industry was notoriously inefficient (although he didn't mention flights specifically). He knows and acknowledges.
@@chrisklappich5998 Yes, but it is exponentially more than can be saved by turning off lights or recycling or riding a bike to work a few times a week. They have us guilted into feeling like this problem is our fault when most of us in an entire lifetime do not have a carbon footprint the size of say Anderson Cooper.
@@patreekotime4578 this is the issue when you don’t discuss specifics. The entirety of aviation worldwide, both personal and freight, produces 1.02 billion tons of CO2. Just passenger vehicles in just the US produces 1.269 billion tons. So no, aviation is not exponentially more than we can impact with things like driving less. Is biking to work going to solve all our problems? Of course not. Can we stop all aviation? Of course not.
I wish we would hold these companies accountable
*STEWART / ROGAN 2024*
The name Rogan is not even recognized by the CIA (Mossad) spell check A-l G-o-r-e R-h-y-t-h-m-s. _(Gotta' d-a-s-h now.)_
How?
Tax them more?
Gas price goes up.
So, how?
@@donaldgminski8621 Make their actions crimes punishable by jail time. Because they are literally killing us.
The issue with targeting the supply side (oil production) is that this is a big win for established oil producers and wealthy invested interests. Oil prices are shooting through the roof because alternatives aren’t widely available and/or affordable yet. Higher gas and energy prices do help promote fuel efficient vehicles, but most working class people can’t just run out and buy an electric vehicle or spend 4x the commute time on public transportation. The result is the wealthy can keep running around on their private jets and living their excessive lifestyles and the cost for them will be supplemented by their wealth gains; the working class will be further squeezed; and we will continue to rely on fossil fuels
Basically , any answer under capitalism isn't working, without major related for the working class
buying an electric vehicle wouldn't help anything anyways, the electricity primarily comes from fossil fuels. all it does is further centralize the means of production.
Biden diverting military oil reserves to public use seems like a half measure to avoid addressing any of these problems. Oil SHOULD be expensive, as should plastic made from petroleum; it should be as non-viable for the manufacturer and consumer as it is for the environment. Only if they are forced to, will the oil companies pay the bill to re-gear their production and research toward sustainable, low-emission fuels and clean energy generation. They won't do it unless you make them, count on that, and as long as they're not forced, they will lobby _hard_ to keep the status quo. These are companies run by psychopaths who are currently looking into the possibilities of biometrically locked food vaults and shock collars so they can keep their unearned power over others after society as we know it falls apart. They give no shits, about anyone but themselves.
@@hazukichanx408 then the majority of people would not be able to afford electricity. raising prices doesn't hurt the rich.
Missed him so much. What a treat. 💕
I love this on apple. they are one of the biggest contributors, making you buy a phone every 4 years rather than knowing that the phone can last 10 if they kept them up to date and people know how to respect their items.
And let you put in replaceable batteries like the good old days! I have a new phone but I'm still also using my 2014 Galaxy that I've bought many cheap batteries for on Amazon.
Soooo glad Jon is back on air
Every time I watch Jon after not seeing him on TV for a while, he always reminds me he's the best as what he does, and all the people that came after him (of which there are many) are just poor copies of what he does so well. He's coke and they're RC cola.
Pepsi is better, but I couldn't tell you which one is more efficient at making you insulin-dependent. Brought to you by a dialysis center being built in advance near you.
@MrSiskie That's an insult to Jon Stewart. Colbert fell off hard in 2016 and hasn't recovered since. His monologues are cringeworthy compared to this
I've missed this man so much. This is the only good thing in the 2020s
I haven't seen him for many months and I haven't missed him. And, after watching his gibberish in this video, I think I can I can go back to not seeing him for many months.
So glad to see Jon Stewart tackle this issue. Looks like at least one of his writing staff watches Climate Town.
and it is not just who writes a joke. the delivery is most of what makes a joke funny. and jons delivery are spot on...
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent."
Sep 24, 2020 BTW Jon Stewart is vegan.
Link at my channel under "About."
This video made me realize I was unintentionally saving the world. I only buy clothes I know I will wear for a very long time, I don't have a car so I only use public transportation/walk/ride a bike, and I don't want to have kids.
It drives me crazy how animal agriculture is always skated over when climate change is discussed.
Or growing corn for ethanol destroying our arable soil. Or palm oil. Or battery waste. Or overfishing. Or destruction of forests and infringement of development on ecosystems. All that's fine. Co2 is what you need to worry about.
Animal agriculture ? Please elaborate.
@@cwx8 corn for ethanol is actually a direct result of science driven eco activists. See, back in the day, when there was leaded gas, people started to see how terrible it was. So, science came up with a way to "clean" it up a bit. But unleaded didnt produced the type/amount of power we were all used to having. So, science to the "rescue" again. Bottomline, it is the fault of EVERY person who is dependant on an ICE vehicle. It always has been, always will be.
@@JoeMama-oq8wl lol ok. I love how you put the blame on people who are for the most part clueless of what goes in their vehicles. Use of arable land for anything other than edible food should be outlawed. Wouldn't you believe that global warming isn't our only big problem.
@@cwx8 of course i blame clueless people. Isnt that our responsibility ? People just blindly following, now THAT is our biggest global problem.
Heres another statistic you may find interesting. That whole "people waste 40%" of the food they get. Thats bullshit. 40% of the food grown in this country doesnt even make it to a grocery store. Because its deemed "defective" by the industry growing it. As in, it looks too ugly. Mainly concerning fruits & vegetables. However, there is an industry standard for chicken & beef as well, that results in significant amounts of waste... Also, we overproduce chicken, beef & dairy products by about 30% in this country. Resulting in millions of pounds of wasted food, every year.
it'd still be nice if someone calculated and put out an itemized list of all the things a typical individual does that requires oil and what the ultimate impact is. Oil goes into not just gasoline, but making plastics and creating heat, and much more. Reducing demand and knowing all the ways we can reduce our consumption while still living a life acceptable to us seems to be a good and easy first step.
Petroleum derivatives are in foods, make up, lotions, medications, vaseline. My recycling plastics does not do anything against the 9 that don't recycle plastics. I'm about ready to start tossing it all.
It's too late for that Alexander.
It would be a big step if the government just made it a law that all products have to be in recyclable packaging within two years, say, and offer grants to inventors with really good proposals for alternative packaging. Single use plastics would be illegal with stiff penalties. Urban planning would have to change to more of an English village style or European style so people would not have to travel so far for common items. I just think most of America is so used to the “good” life, they and the government will keep advocating for change, but always in the mid future, like 2035 or 40, when it is too late. I agree with the gal who said stop having kids, there are more than enough to go around for awhile.
@@janetrose3929 do your homework, young mind.
@@lindas.martin2806 The problem is that it's still far cheaper to make nearly everything but metals than it is to recycle them. Our means of recycling aren't practical enough to be a real solution.
Jon has nailed this so hard, there are splinters on the wood. And I laughed because he's taken something that we've all contributed to, and made it soft enough to chew on.
Nailed what? He is making no sense.
@@peterstafford4426 You don't need to push back on this. Jon just said it isn't being addressed anyway.
@@georgelayton6641 Its empty comedy. Its getting old. Everything must be funny!! Ha Ha!
@@peterstafford4426 What would the Oracle of Delphi say? Maybe it's you.
@@georgelayton6641 Stewart has a show and he wants people to watch. That is all that is going here. He sells himself as having something important to say. But in reality, its empty BS.
I'm 33 years old. It's 12:30am. And I'm on my 3rd Jon Stewart video with a half a tear rolling down my eye. I've had his videos suggested to me for months and I've resisted because I just can't stop once I start watching Jon do his thing. I can't believe it's been so long, man. I felt like I was taken back to the glory years of the Daily Show on Comedy Central, right after the Colbert Report, I called it 'happy hour'. I went to college during the previous recession in the late 2000's and life was bleak back then. I was from the generation that got our news from Jon Stewart and the guy made it all bearable and at times, even fun. The man is a fucking legend. I'm gonna give him all his props while he's still nice enough grace us with his presence. He could've been a politician or used his fame in different ways, but he's accomplished so much more being himself. Gotta give credit where credit is due.
I really wish we'd get serious and start using nuclear energy in a big way. The returns are phenomenal, and the risks have been way overblown by a couple of high profile disasters.
The political implications are too great for the world to reconcile, at least at this point in time. Unless we're talking about Thorium (for which the technology is not quite there yet), there is no way that the NSG would accept every country to become a nuclear power.
Sadly, we're all being introduced to a new risk of nuclear power plants we've never had to consider before - nuclear power plants in war. My understanding is that chernobyl's gone dark last night and is no longer reporting to the IAEA after losing power and being switched to generators, and a physics university with an onsite test reactor was i believe shelled. We could be barrelling towards the worst with no way to tell right now (as in, chernobyl could be actively degrading right this moment). If we should expect increasing conflict especially as droughts lead to water wars, then we have to start thinking about the consequences of these things in wartime too, not just peacetime.
Yea, one of those almost made Ukraine uninhabitable... Which in retrospect, is irrelevant now.
@@winter_silhouette Shave 20B off of the budget and Thorium becomes viable overnight. The tech is there, it's 99% finished, it just needs large scale implementation. Virtually no waste, no possibility of meltdown or critical failure. Thorium is cheap and abundant. And that's why it's not happening. Until the oligarchs can profit off it while not destabilizing the nations of their butt buddies, it'll remain on the shelf.
Those high profile disasters are not nothing. What you are basically saying is that nuclear power is perfectly safe, until it is not.
Climate change is always individualized rather than dismantling big oil.
What we need is better city planning. Most modern suburbs encourage driving via their distance from where we shop and where we work. If my house wasn't a 7 minute drive from the nearest grocery store, I would have less reason to drive there.
And let's not forget that plants process CO2 into oxygen - We'd probably have less carbon in the air if we stopped cutting down all of the forests and polluting the ocean.
Also, why aren't we incinerating our trash, filtering the smoke, and compressing the ash into bricks or something? I feel like we'd have less plastic in the rain if we just destroyed it vs trying and failing to recycle. Plastic burns hot, use it to generate electricity too
Japan was developing a bacteria that eats plastic at least?
Atmospheric CO2 is at 412ppm and rising around 3ppm per year. Our record of atmospheric data from ice core samples goes back 800,000 years. In it it shows Atmospheric CO2 at 250ish to 300ish in repeating up down cycles. Those cycles correspond PRETTY MUCH EXACTLY with ice ages at 250ish vs temperate times at 300ish.
What is 450ppm gonna look like? 500? Thats 30 years at current.
Our planet hasn't seen anything like this in the last 800,000 years. You know, the time of humans.
I love Trevor Noah but no one makes me laugh as much in a short time than this guy 😂
I subscribed on two accounts to this. thats how happy i am that jons back!
I'm glad he got to keep his papers. That was always my favorite part
Hallelujah! Thank you for speaking about this... I recycle religiously, use biodegradable garbage bags and bamboo paper towels. Still, I know that it is nothing compared to how much damage is caused by oil companies and other big companies. Take united, for example, or other airline companies; how much plastic they use per flight is insane... how about all this egregious deforestation caused by construction and paper companies? What about renewable energy, sustainable products, eco/high-speed trains? how many subsidies do they receive...not so much, unfortunately... and yet they make us believe that it is solely our responsibility
Jon, please do an episode on Food Production and how it affects climate change. I recently watched Trevor's Interview with Sadhguru and it was an eye opener for me.
Thank you Jon for bringing these up in clear view. The one thing no one I know of has mentioned is the effects of wars on climates, environment and animals. I know you and your wife Tracey are animal lovers. I read her book when it came out. Everyone is concerned about loss of human lives, but hardly anyone mentions the effect on wild life and environment. A few clips I have watched about rescues of wild animals hurt or misplaced in Ukraine brought tear to my eyes. The affects of these wars on the environment will carryon for decades. People who cause all these wars should be prosecuted not just war crimes but for ALL lives lost.
Best podcast yet, Jon.
Gotta go, I'm reducing my carbon footprint by turning off half my lights, collecting organics. Right now I'm recycling my old engine oil. Then I'll start up my new wind turbine, 'cause Papa needs some energy so he can kill a bird to eat for dinner. Who needs chickens from a store. I'll roast my turbine-whacked bird over a campfire, because firewood is still a sustainable energy source up here in the Boreal Forest. I hope it'll be a turkey that takex all day to get just right. Aw fuck, It's a crow. I won't eat that. So I'll leave it out on the street for the eagles to find. Aw fuck, my turbine blade just whacked an eagle. I hate eagle; it's way too dry.
Boy, this environmenal responsibility shit is way harder than the climate change proponents all said it would be.
Stewart 2024
It’s a catch 22… we depend in oil & natural gas for everything, so when prices go up the poor go without food. Until we transition to clean energy we are dependent on it.
I am as poor as you can get, having nothing, but even poor people can make changes to help. Some very cheap foods are actually good for you, like rice. If poor people would stop buying garbage food, they could lower their carbon footprint and lengthen in their life. Get chickens if you can. I've survived for years on rice and eggs.
@@theobserver9131 Rice? I love rice, but rice alone contains practically ZERO nutritional value. Rice provides mainly carbs. And a little bit of B6 and Magnesium.
And chickens? You think people should raise your own chickens? Where do you live? In a little house on the prairie? Good luck with that. I never figured by your screen name "Old man" that your real name was Charles Ingalls
@@kristopherloviska9042 nice speech. If it wasn't packed with sarcasm, I might have been open to conversation.
Have a nice day.
@@theobserver9131 I had pretty much said what I felt needed to be said. Self sufficiency is a nice pipe dream, but those days are long gone. Even in the frontier days, when people harken back to the days of self sufficiency, they really weren't self sufficient. Without the army to wipe out the native Americans, the settlers of the old west would have been wiped out.
You have a good day too.
@@kristopherloviska9042 I really wish the Native Americans had succeeded. The world would be a better place.
Excellent series! Jon Stewart is one of the best.
To REALLY lower our carbon footprint, perhaps we should consider eating the rich.
That's a layup!
I'd take a break from being vegan if we ever got to that point. Always wondered what Elon's neck tasted like cooked in a stew.
They'd just be replaced by someone else who can deliver us all the oil we want. The goal here should be to redirect our infrastructure away from fossil fuels. Switch your gas heating and stoves to electric. Lobby to increase the density and walkability of your city. Invest and USE public transit. The oil companies have fought for years to fuck up our urban centers, to make us car dependent, and it's made us not only dependent on them but both the victims and purveyors of climate change.
Start at Gala events where the instructions are written on the outrageously expensive dresses
If “climate change “ is such an “existential” threat. Maybe individuals and corporations should NOT be allowed to OWN “ideas”? Many solutions EXIST. These solutions exist in the patent offices. Open the patent offices. Save the earth.
I hope someone recommends John to watch the RUclips channel "Not Just Bikes".
Unironically, bicycles would be great for the environment. Just look at the Netherlands. Not only are bicycles better for the environment, but it is also much cheaper to maintain Bicycle infostructure rather than car infostructure.
The problem is that the current design of American cities discourages Bicycle usage, and it's virtually illegal for an American city to redesign its transportation infostructure to favor bicycles.
If the govt really cared about climate change, we would have had reliable public transport, high speed rail etc. But that would diminish the tax revenues that comes from car and gas sales. Politicians are here fill up their pockets in the short run, and petrol giants employs them.
Thank God your back. Please please just run for president.