Capitalism Might Just K*ll Us All
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2024
- The last mass extinction occurred 66 million years ago with the dinosaurs. The extinction rate we're seeing today is unprecedented since that time all those millions of years ago. How exactly is capitalism accelerating this problem, and what can we do about it?
How Capitalism Is Causing A Sixth Mass Extinction - Second Thought
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1st stage Communism causes famines and millions of deaths. Look at china or Russia
Communist Russia didn't follow the profit motive and look what happened at Chernobyl
Okay so what is the name of your new channel? The link you provided doesn't work. Why would you not share the name in your video?
@@gnomechump-stiny7128 Capitalist Japan followed the profit motive and look what happened at Fukushima
@@gnomechump-stiny7128 "1st stage Communism causes famines and millions of deaths. Look at china or Russia"
Really? The decades long civil war, Imperialist nations looting the country, opium addicted people and all of these followed by stringent sanctions immediately after the success of revolution in China didn't cause famines? There were more famines with each famine being more severe in China that the one famine occurred after revolution. Same was the case with USSR. Imperialist countries fought intervention war with Red army for 5 years, which completely wrecked the nation before they even began rebuilding the nation. And one famine in USSR was in 1932 which happened due to many reasons. First and foremost would be the landlord class of Kulaks who destroyed their farmlands and livestock in protest of opposing Stalin's collectivization process. That year also saw the record level of bad weather condition for growing crops. It resulted in a famine.
Let's say that Socialism was solely responsible for famines in the countries that it got implemented. But still that doesn't make any sense to support Capitalism. British India alone had more than 150 million famine deaths in less than 100 years. Then imagine the number of deaths in all the other colonies of Britain and other imperialist countries around the world. People were turning in cannibals in Indian villages while Britain was becoming rich.
“The wrong Amazon is burning”
The Amazon largely burns because of dundundun...beef, soy farming for said beef
LOVE it
@@TravisTheSavage bro google is free. 52% of Amazon users are female 48% are male. It's nearly half and half and tbh people make amazon to be this big villain (which they are) but boycotting them won't change a thing all it will do is allow the space for the next big villain to take over that area. All the retailers are trying to follow in Amazon's footsteps already go to walmart, target or any other retailer online and you can order products that they do not sell. You are ordering from a third party and they just promising expedited shipping or pick up next day at the store. It is the same thing amazon is doing so if amazon disappeared tomorrow then everyone would go to another website and order the stuff they want/need.
AMZN isn't burning the rainforest.. it's poor people just trying to make a living.
Okay but those stores would be more trust worthy @Steve-tk6xv
Capitalists would choose extinction over losing even 1% of profits.
Wait they are@@starc.
After us, a deluge.
Well, if you do the math, it's probably a lot more of profit in a short time were they'll still be alive... but only for the ones who actually have the means of production, the working class only loses.
They would choose extinction over losing even a cent of profits.
@@starc. who will be able to afford this... probably not the working class.
I was born in 1964. And I have absolutely noticed the DRAMATIC decline in insects over my lifetime. Friends and family think I'm imagining things. Most people that grew up in cities are totally oblivious to this.
I think it's only certain specific types of insects; from what I understand diversity is declining rapidly so most species are dying out rather quickly and that's a major, major problem but at the same time a minority of populations are exploding right now from the same changes. Nature is at least somewhat resilient; unfortunately, we and many of the species we and the rest of the environment rely on are not.
german here.100% on your side. When i am in bosnia on vacation.There is so much fucking bugs and all. In germany? i dont even know why i have insect cleaner for my windscreen wiper ....Nothing....Not even damn worms ,when its raining. This planet is done
I'm only 21 years old and I've noticed it, I miss bumblebees, I miss butterflies. I can't remember the last time I saw a monarch in spring
Agreed and I’m only 17! But god damn are there a sh!T more misquitos then there used to be..
@@LordDomielOfElysium Yeah, those are actually spreading beyond their usual ranges; I think that's one of the species that are currently flourishing so malaria's getting to be a concern in places where it wasn't before too.
Indigenous tribal people have been saying this for centuries but the racism wouldn’t allow us to be heard. Can’t blame us for this one.
Yep.
Wetiko possession is out of control 😔
upside is, i doubt any sane person would.
the history of genocide against the Indigenous people of North America (and honestly all across the globe on just merely lesser extent compared to American colonialists) is so damning it's hard to spin it to avoid feeling morally guilty and responsible unless the person doing the cognitive dissonance is a sociopath
even if I, or my family (Irish & German-Polish immigrants who stopped short of Ohio) were not directly responsible in such atrocities, as someone of European descent I can't help but feel like the damage done warrants reparation to the surviving Indigenous people: up to and including Land Back becoming policy
@@SonicRyan1992 yeah…I just wish folks made the exceptions instead of making generalizations like “humanity”. Please.
anyone who would blame those guys would be insane. they live probbably the most sustainable of all ppl on earth
People think we don't sacrifice people to gods anymore. Are you kidding me? We sacrifice thousands to the god of capitalism every single day while kings still sit on thrones and reap all the rewards.
Are you fammiliar with the philosophy of George Bataille, he expressed a somewhat similiar idea in his works (most notably the Accursed Share)
I call out every "Christian" who supports capitalism as an idolator, they never even know wtf I'm talking about.
@@MrTaxiRobMostly modern American Christian ideology due to the puritans who split of from Europe.
I immediately remember Mephistopheles' air from Charles Gounod's opera "Faust". With what I know stands on Wall Street the lyrics about people worshipping a golden bull become eerily specific.
Uh Ok.😳
That reminds me of a Cree proverb, "When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money".
That originally comes from the prophetic response by Chief Seattle. Look it up. Every paragraph is equally as powerful!
@@stanleykachuik2589Thank you for the info.
I didn't know there was a term for it until today, but it's been floating around in my mind for a while now that the native humans we white people have massacred and relocated for centuries are/were a keystone species. In function, at least. I know all the different races of human are technically the same species... but the natives worked with and within their surroundings in a way we colonizers refuse to.
Not just in North America, either (though that's what I'm most familiar with since it's where I live). All over the world.
Not that you would have any money to eat in that scenario. The government would have it all. Capitalism is liberty. Liberty is life.
@alisont.6878 yall destroyed everything including our joy for life. No one will care until we are all dead from manifest destiny. Thank you for admitting it.
As a man who was born in '71 I can tell you that the insect loss alone is very noticeable. Butterflies were regular sight when I was young now I can't remember the last time I've seen one.
71 is not that long ago but honestly it took me till the late '80s to start noticing the loss. It's going to be harder for every successive generation to notice the loss of wildlife when they were born in an era that barely had any to begin with.
That’s crazy I’ve notice that too up here in Michigan about 13 years ago used to be able to see praying mantis and big black jumping spider around out side a lot during the summers
But now I rarely ever see these two species it’s like they’re going extinct or something
one of the reasons you don't see them is because there was a serious freeze in 2021 over most of the midwest. a lot of plants that can't withstand frost also died
I haven't lived in Missouri since the early 2000s I'm on the East Coast now. They're missing here too.
Regardless, climate change due to pollution isn't a naturall reason for die off.
I live in the Caribbean and was born in 2004, and even I've noticed there are fewer insects and birds than when I was a kid, it's actually so sad.
@@mysteriesphanto3528 fellow michigander here born and raised for 30 years. What I notice the most is the lack of fireflies. I used to see so many during the summer now they pop up for for a few days and disappear it feels like.
Humanity is enslaved by greed.
White people Europeans nade colonial capitalism and it's gonna lead to our extinction. If white folks continue to deny this fact we're doomed. They can't be stubborn on this one.
I feel like capitaIism is currently in one of those army ant death spirals where they endlessly follow each other around in circles until they drop from exhaustion.
It's like a religion to some and questioning it makes you evil. No wonder your statement is so dead on true.
app driving and other gig work is pretty much exactly that
turns out they're too dumb or too greedy to use that power for the benefit of all@@donedeal8385
@@donedeal8385 That's the issue for people but not the only or maybe even main issue for the world at large.
You should read Marx. He talked about the internal contradictions of capitalism that led to these issues, nearly 200 years ago.
It's funny how in 100 years it changed, from "socialism or barbarism " to "socialism or extinction"
yeah we didnt know the consequences yet
So true
@@bartek4873why do you people keep saying "we" when it's the few causing this problem?
@@Dave_of_Mordorif we knew the consequences back then we could try to influence politics the way to help the environment and the poor
@@bartek4873 how do you influence politics?
I remember we used to get brown grass during our winter since it was so cold for so long, and green grass during the summers. Now the grass becomes brown during the summer and stays perfectly green all winter. Feels surreal to have witnessed this drastic change in my lifetime.
Worst part: I am only 20.
When i was a kid the local river used to completely freeze over during the winter, now it doesn't even freeze a little bit, it used to snow quite regularly, now we get snow once during winter if we are lucky. In the spring i used to see tons of dragonflies and butterflies everywhere, now I couldn't tell you the last time I saw either of those. The summers feel as though they got hotter and hotter with each passing year, we hit a record breaking 40° Celsius a few years ago and that's just become the norm during summer now. The active destruction of the planet and extinction we are causing upon ourselves is devastating to watch.
Worst part: I'm only 23 and watching all of this unfold just over my lifetime, I cant imagine what the next few generations of kids are gonna have to go through :/
I am 62 and live in Perth Western Australia. Today, 10/02/2024 is our third day in a row of 40c+ heat. When I was 10 to 45, we never had a day that hot, the worse was 37c and then we always had a sea breeze come through. I then lived in the North, the East Kimberley, from 1988 to 1994 and during the hottest part of the season, it would get to 38c. This year it has had 32 days over 40c. In the Pilbara region, over the last 50 years, a really hot day was 38c. This year, many towns in that area had temps exceeding 40c up to 49c for over 50 days. In the south of Perth, many towns have had temps over 40c, which they never had before in recorded history.
The beaches I used to go to have shrunk to half their size and communities living there for over 150 years, are now watching the water wash their housing away. Rainfall in the 80's in WA was around 750mm a year. Now it is down to 450mm a year and dams are nowhere near capacity. In fact, none of them have overflowed since the late 80s. So much farmland is now salt affected and useless. Less birds, less trees, less animals. And this has all happened in my lifetime.
Think about that.
Another problem is the amount of Right Wing Conservatives who refuse to believe in climate change. Keep driving their big trucks and whining about the price of fuel. They only believe in capitalism and consumerism.
And we'll be sweltering through a handful more of them before February is done. I want to move south, or at least to the hills, but my partner is (justifiably) terrified of the ever-increasing threat of bushfires. I don't know what to do. Buy a home in the hills or down south, we could lose our home to a bushfire. Buy a little apartment in the community he grew up in and we both call home (Freo area) and we could lose our home to rising sea levels. Don't buy, and we remain victims of the ongoing rental crisis, which has already seen us lose the townhouse we called home for five years, have to move in with my mother-in-law (who really doesn't want us there) and hop-skip between house-sits with our little chihuahua so she can have her space as much as possible.
We can't win, no matter what we do.
@@kaydreamer
You are right about the heat. Another 43c day today. The rest of your comment, well that is the cause of Capitalism. The need to make large profits of everything. Housing is out of control, because Capitalism convinced people that housing was their way to wealth. Now housing is pretty much unaffordable for a lot of people like you and me. The CBA has made a 5.01 billion profit in 6 months. That is obscene.
And then you have employers doing their level best to not increase wages claiming they are unable to afford to pay more which is false. It is a sad world we live in today where the Wealthy keep getting wealthier and the low and middle incomes earners keep falling back. I really hope things work out for you. Cheers
Aboriginal people here screaming at the top of their lungs the right to care for country they've been caring for country for tens of thousands of years without this happening but no one listen to them sadly
This reminds me of what Master Oogway said in Kung Fu Panda 3: “When will you realize…the more you take, the less you have?” That quote is a lot more relevant today
Epicurus talked about it millennia before this cartoon was filmed.
@@user-lb4jy4jt2r Yeah, sure. But did Eodipus know kung fu?
Lol as if Kung Fu Panda 3 isn't "today"
@@Zali_ There is not too much data about Epicurus (I mean his personality, not his philosophy). But many philosophers of that time quite participated in the Olympic Games , many of them in wrestling . So he was definitely not a weakling.
@@user-lb4jy4jt2r there is no evidence he had a cool stick tho
Can't have an economy if the ecology that provides us with resources is completely destroyed.
Yeah, it's common in the financial world to completely ignore what the Earth gives us for free. It's like the labour of social reproduction, there is alot of labour, such as child rearing, that goes unacknowledged. The same can be said for resources and ecosystems.
There is a move within Degrowth movement to view ecology as "services" and ascribe economic value to them. But that strain of degrowth believes we can still keep capitalism, which makes there movement pointless.
It's the corruption stupid!
RUclips: "Global Declaration of Independence - Fight the Power"
did you just figure this out
A system seeking endless growth, profit, and expansion year by year, on a planet with ever more limited land and resources. Just to make it more colloquial.
Exactly! That is why we have to make a stand that absolutely includes VEGANISM. Or we won’t be coherent in said stand and our materialistic analysis will be faulty and lacking too!
However critical our movement is and always was of capitalism and its productions relations, food production relations were never highly contested and in the 20th century animal agriculture arose as a fully industrialized system, even using knowledge and technologies from the 2nd World War, like gas chambers and warehouses plus slaughterhouses planned just like concentration camps. What I mean to highlight is how very capitalist animal agriculture is and, as such, it is full of LIBERAL IDEOLOGY to, which goes along the profit chain into the marketing, advertising and overall speciesist/carnist PROPAGANDA.
One of the main functions of this propaganda is to hide not only any search for alternatives, but particularly to conceal these environmental devastations the animal agriculture industry does. It is not just the climate catastrophes, but also:
- Antibiotic (full) resistance, which, left unchecked, can plunge us back, as soon as 2040s, to a world of the early 1900s, in which tuberculosis, a scratch and ANY surgery is likely fatal. But a world in which the discovery of antibiotics is no longer possible (because we burned this bridge);
- Continuous pandemics, since the majority of epidemics with pandemic potential are not only zoonotic (coming from animals in the breeding systems or wild contact by animal agriculture expansion into rainforests or by hunting), but are also accelerating in frequency. In early 20th century a disease with pandemic potential arose every 10 years (which is already elevated), it became every 7 years and now we are nearing every 5 years. All the while the interconnectedness of the world has also increased and our societies are more vulnerable to the damages a pandemic causes;
- Slaughterhouses are centers for disease propagation, ocean dead zones production (because of untreated waste) and one of the worst places to work, that pays the least or near so and even reportedly are involved (in Europe at least) in human trafficking and modern slavery luring poor people from peripheral European countries. Workers of slaughterhouses suffer very commonly from PTSD, just like soldiers after a war and this is ignored and unnecessary;
- Colesterol is only found in animal products and is found in ALL animal products (it is a normal constituent of the animal cell wall) and is also directly linked to the NUMBER ONE cause of death in the world (heart stroke/cardiovascular disease). Not to mention a myriad of other harmful substances that kill us directly, poison the land and degenerate resources! We thus cause and cease to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths yearly by not sharing this knowledge and organizing to prevent it.
These are just the bigger and more pressing issues related to animal agriculture and the ONLY (non liberal) ideological stand against to carnist ideology (under the liberal ideology) is veganism.
Of course since the dominating ideology hides and disguises itself, vegan activist groups are simultaneously attacked (e.g. there are no vegan activists, there are “pushy/annoying vegans”) and co-opted into ineffective direct actions and boycotts tactics or the fast rising ecofascism! So the vegan movements also need socialism too, but this gap is initially too much for the majority of them to bridge.
We socialists can see and understand to capitalist co-opting and crushing much better and, thus, help vegan activism groups understand that only organized and united as workers, for our class, aware of class struggle we are strong and, eventually, unbeatable. To do this and also to not have faulty materialism we HAVE to incorporate veganism as a fundamental part of being historically-dialectically materialist and anti capitalist. Our prize beyond basic coherency will be the capacity to accelerate the growth of our movement out of the fangs of fascism.
We have zero chance for revolution on the planet, if there is no planet as we know it and depend on to thrive…
Greetings from Brazil! 🖐🍀🖐
It's unbelievable how denial people can be about it. As Mark Fisher said: 'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the capitalism'.
bem demais camarada
Brasileiro querendo chamar atenção como sempre
Brasileiro é foda
You are one of the few people who talk about global warming that focused on the food supply. I think a lot of people just focus on temps, but disregard the consequences of billions of people dying because of food supply.
Yes, a point to emphasize with people who downplay the risk. Agriculture will take a big hit.
Being Native American my grandpa saw this coming. All those years ago. I just feel bad for the one that live through it.
That would be YOU
As a biologist I have to say you did a fantastic job explaining the ecology of keystone species with the Yellowstone example.
overpopulation is the biggest problem.
as with the wolf, the thing that kept our numbers sustainable for so long was disease, now a curable thing.
the earths population doubles every 40 years, so have fewer children ? NOPE, that results in an aging population that requires even MORE youngsters to look after the elderly !
it is a catch 22.
there is only one solution to stop total societal catastrophe, that is to withdraw all medical assistance to anyone over the age of sixty and to stop all cancer treatments.
sounds harsh, but the alternative is hell on earth.
Trophic cascade is crazy.
I used to see migratory butterflies every year in my area. Now they’re just…not there. That’s sad enough before you realize the food chain is collapsing and at the rate it’s going food scarcity is going to become a serious problem in most of the world.
I live in Brazil, and besides the Amazon deforestation problem, we're facing many cases of desertification in other biomes. Miles and miles of diverse and unique biomes gone forever.
Desertificação do cerrado já tá oficialmente começando e eu simplesmente não consigo sentir nada além de ódio, essas pessoas merecem tudo de ruim.
i'd say anyone who brushes off extinction as "those animals aren't important anyway, so sad"; the same can be said about them.
Far more about them. Those animals serve a purpose on the planet, keeping it in balance. All we've ever done is ruin whatever we got our hands on.
@@Serai3Even further, i would say that CEOs and Landlords and people that inherited private property aren't really producing anything.
Bezos and Musk and all those people are actually receiving much more than what they are actually producing.
I've also heard it said that our souls would get lonely without the animals
It's as if humans weren't animals by definition...... but seriously though, just because we have developed lifestyles over other species, doesn't mean we don't share a single space together and still need each other for survival..... Baffling how little people realize it /S
The best thing they could do is to contribute to the Human Evolution. It's Natural Selection.
When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.
It's the corruption stupid!
RUclips: "Global Declaration of Independence - Fight the Power"
Everything is interconnected for sure.
'Consumption drives extraction, extraction drives exploitation,exploitation maintains poverty and suffering.' Great saying 😮. Great video ❤❤👍👏
I hope this video gets ten million views. The very real prospect of extinction overrides any argument in favor of capitalism. We must stop at nothing to save our species and end capitalism. ✊🌍
Okay commie. So you’re giving money even though you hate capitalism?
This is a very boomer thing to say, but when i was a kid in the US northeast, any time my parents took us on a roadtrip theyd have to regularly clean the windshield because of all the dead bugs. Now, even as i drive those same routes during the same seasons, i have maybe 1 bug hit my windshield. This is because bug populations are in mass free fall since the 90s. Ive seen some estimates that 70% of insects are gone now.
Bugs on the windshield seems meaningless but bugs are key for bird populations. Which have already dropped 30%. Give it snother decade or two and I'm sure bird's predators will shrink too. We can't keep doing this, and i can't believe anyone would deny climate change, or think its not a problem that needs to be urgently solved,when anyone around 30 years old has already watched it decimate one of the base animals in the food chain.
Same here in NC. Since 1950s I saw devastation of frogs, insects, butterflies, birds, fireflies, many varieties of each are totally gone and ddt destruction and habitat. Etc etc. It's too late. We destroyed everything. Including ourselves with metastatic end stage predatory capitalism. Mission accomplished.
Monsanto
No insects, no life. We are all interdependent and we may have already passed the tipping point.
@@ey67 Your cancer reference is telling. I suspect all the cancers we're seeing today, is a direct result of what we're doing to the planet. My grandparents said cancer used to be unheard of. Now, everyone knows several who have it, had it, or died with it. Do we even know what Dow, and DuPont are dumping into the water and air? If something kills the bugs, what do we think it's doing to US?
I'm not even thirty yet and I remember finding little frogs, skinks, and other little critters every summer as I ran about my own back yard. Now I get super excited to see one as It is so rare now. That is despite me covering literally dozens of times as much ground in a year, a good portion of which in areas we have "set aside" for nature. It isn't enough to just say "this little bit in the corner, this mother nature can keep".
I swam in the Gulf of Mexico as a child and I could handle it. I was able to work up a sweat and not feel faint. I went swimming in the gulf as an adult and I felt absolutely sick. I was getting heatstroke IN THE WATER. I saw bone-white coral graveyards and barely any fish. The oceans are dying and it’s devastating.
Sounds like ur getting old
@@nick4281and i guess the corals got old too
@@nick4281 How sad to be young and not be able to see and experience the beauty in nature, it's part of being human and enjoying life.
@@shirlynnann6053 what makes you think I'm young smart one ? And there's many reasons the corals are dying namely physical destruction of corals and through waste and chemicals in reefs , overfishing would be number 2. If u actually listen to marine biologists like I do and not the headlines of mainstream media , u would know that aswell . But enjoy ur carbon taxes cuz they are obviously saving everyone while ur politicians live the same life they've been living. Delusional
Reminds me of the huge BP oil spill that occurred there. It's also what's believed to be what killed by brother back in 2010
i love how he changed it from "the sixth mass extinction" to "capitalism might just kill us all"
JT is not messing around.
Yeah it's been on my mind for a while now that "we" are not talking about climate change properly: instead of saying "save the planet" we should be saying "save our species" in order to motivate the appropriate level of urgency among the masses and our decision makers.
@@wilsonov87 agreed. also it seems that everyone's idea of saving the earth is using reusable utensils and not littering, and while those things are good, it is far more important to implement nationwide and worldwide changes to the economy and government.
@@demo-crazy-2022my idea is start using energy like nuclear power plants which quite literally don’t create emissions. Make mass hydro dams. And catch and release against carbon. Now I am a libertarian free market capitalist I agree corporations need to work harder to stop climate change and so do governments. I always like to hear perspectives from socialists as well because I often find myself agreeing with you guys in some stuff
@LoganGlidden corporate social responsibility was created to allow corporations to pillage and destroy the planet, but legally. Corporations don't need to do better unfortunately a lot of them will be required to entirely stop what they're doing because the only reason it exists is profit creation. The future is going to be a world where the priority of all things humans do is to preserve life or we will not exist and frankly won't deserve to, at least not those of us who contributed to this issue (corporations and the people who enable them)
Worked in environmental science for about 5 years now. Recently made the decision to move home to work on our farm full time. Simply put, there is no advantage to being a climate scientist right now; almost every piece of news is negative, and those who recognize what has to be done also tend to not want to make the drastic changes necessary. Not to mention that the average person (you are not “average” if you are reading this; I mean people who know nothing about the climate crisis) will absolutely fight back against necessary changes once they have to pay the price for them.
Most of the serious advice I can give you on how you can “help” can’t be typed here. Instead, I recommend everyone who reads this to move away from the coast to a rural area, refuse to conceive children (adopt instead), and start consuming all local foods with an emphasis on vegetarian protein sources. This will provide you the best possible chance to have a nice, quiet life if you are not already wealthy enough to just counteract the incoming effects of climate change.
I appreciate everything you done to inform about the climate, and no one could blame you for feeling the weight of talking to a brick wall
Yeah, like the other commentor said! Even if all that work has lead to nothing of greater change, we thank you for your efforts in trying to help. I'd rather live knowing that there was a solution, than to be entirely blind or in denial of the results of research.
Yes, but how when you’re 23 without any capital !
I would give anything to grow my own food with my wife and cut off from this mad world, but we don’t have any money to buy anything right now.
It seems that you must be in the system to make money to leave it afterwards, which is to me, absurd !
Your recommendation is exactly how I want to live the rest of my life. I'm stuck in the unemployed trap and I can't afford to move, let alone house myself in another country that's actually trying to take this climate crisis seriously. Do you have some thoughts on the best countries/towns to consider for rural living? @opossumboyo
@@virgodiva21I had a very long answer typed out, but I think I can actually help with this one pretty easily. Daniel Zetah is a regenerative farmer in Minnesota who has an excellent opportunity for people willing to apprentice in regenerative agriculture, and it is open to folks who have little/no experience in the field. Room and board are provided, but you’ll be expected to work.
Take a look at “New Story Farm” if you want help. I don’t know what his waitlist is at the moment but he might be able to help you find other opportunities if you need them.
I dont think the average person will realize what's happening until it's too late.
The average person is media bombed into thinking everything is ok
The average person does but they are not the ones in a place to do something about it.
The average person does, atleast in the west.
They just happen to actively ignore it. Either by being a right-winger and disregarding it all as fake news or by being a liberal and putting short term profits ahead of longterm sustainable goals.
Majority of people on the left also feel powerless and unable to do anything so we just live in apathy and do business as usual trying to atleast live or lives aggregating dopamine hits.
@@mommifong *The average person works a job for someone, if the average person refuse to work as a protest against capitalism then a change will happen for better or for worse*
@@__________Troll__________ average person gets replace by another money hungry average person. We cannot find solution alone, we have to collectively act!
I grew up in a microclimate that’s already been devastated by climate change. I was born into a mountain community that sits at just a mile in altitude. My father and grandfather grew up there, too. In my grandpa’s time, the winter meant multiple 2-4 foot snowstorms, and a general blanket of snow at least a foot deep all winter long. The lake would freeze each winter. That snow pack would provide slow-drip watering for all the plants there well into the spring.
By the time I came along, the winters only had one major snowfall, and generally snow didn’t stick all year round.
The summer I was 12, the lake level dropped 26 feet. Trees, weakened by the drought, were unable to fight the bark beetle infestation that swept through. The trees died where they stood, so fast that they refused to fall. The evergreen forest turned this chilling shade of bright orange. I remember that as the summer of chainsaws: all summer long, arborist crews worked round the clock to try to bring down some of these “dead man standing” trees. Fire control organizations raised the alarm that we would be at high risk for wildfires that fall.
And in October, an arsonist lit the fuse. He was angry at his family and wanted to get back at them. The fire he lit burned 91k acres, killing 6 people. It sparked the largest wildfire evacuation in state history, with 30k people on the move at the same time.
Fire controllers had planned for this, and that’s the only reason more people didn’t die. It’s the only reason I didn’t die. My family’s car was one of the last 10 cars to make it out, as 100-foot-tall flames flanked our escape route, the tinder-dry trees acting like candle wicks.
All those trees burned off, and our community stayed evacuated for two months. Many of my friends never came back to school- their family homes burned. I remember picking through the ashes of my friend’s house, looking for a family photo that had been on their nightstand, originally two stories up. The chimneys were all that were left of blocks of houses, just emerging through the ash and smoke like ghosts. even months after the wildfire stopped.
That winter, the precipitation that would’ve normally fallen as snow, came down as rain. Without all those plants to hold the soil together, flash floods and mudslides took out our roads, cutting us off from the city. The mudslide down the canyon killed 26 kids, scouts at the local community center.
Our town is now considered a high desert. It went through a population bottleneck in the aftermath of the storms and fires. As the weather gets more extreme, it affects us first- we who live at the cusp of such a fragile climate anyway. Last year, we got 99 inches of snow in 8 days, trapping elderly residents in their houses. But usually, we barely get any snow at all, and wildfires sweep the hillside, clearing huge swaths of trees and making the problem worse. This past week, our area was under a tornado watch for the first time in living memory.
If you think this can’t happen to you, you’re wrong. Are you willing to bet your life and your home on it?
Damn. That's just something else, I don't even have anything I could add to that.
This post should be an essay published somewhere better than YT. Maybe Medium. Classic cautionary tale stuff.
Here in Houston, we keep having "500-year floods." every few years.
We have an infrastructure set up to get a LOT of rain into the bay, but 40 inches or 50 inches of rain in under a week is more than we can handle.
...I note New Orleans is now having to barge in water from upstream to produce drinking water from, because the Mississippi river at New Orleans has gone brackish.
...IMO, Oil companies ought to have all their money taken to help pay for the civilization-level retooling we have to do, due to their actions.
@@kellywalker1664
Brilliant response to a brilliant post
Here's my (measly) 2 cents
RUclips - where brain cells go to die
@@Jose_Hunters_EWF_RemixesI've seen some painfully stupid crap on here, I admit. There's far dumber places on teh intruhnet, though....
I studied Biology around 15 years ago.
At some point in ecology class I had just this realization: as long as the mantra of eternal growth and the pure focus on profit maximization exists, all enviromental protection is pointless.
The amount of money put into production of goods and new infrastructure is by default magnitudes above the amount put into enviromental protection. The destruction of nature always outweighs the protection of nature.
I was mentally ill for the last decades. Now I am fine (as fine as one can be in these times). I think I am ready to act on these realizations and work/fight for change.
You can start by educating Americans and Westerners in general. Americans in general, especially those who are republicans, are contributing to environmental destruction not only in the US but elsewhere in the world.
I just finished watching a Sciencephile video in which he explained that in order to advance as a society, society had to go through a bad quality of life and sacrifices in the past; I think right now we’re at that stage in late capitalism/corporatism where people HAVE to get fed up with the bullshit for something to change.
And they think grocery store prices are high NOW??? Wait til the food starts getting scarce 😂😂
Its why i already grow my food, corpo trash doesnt deserve my dollar
Today we pay for our groceries with little pieces of paper. Tomorrow we will pay for our groceries with little pieces of lead.
I like to imagine a world where a billionaire wakes up one day and suddenly realizes there is nothing left to buy because all food is poisoned and all nature is ruined. Everyone, including them, has their blood poisoned by pollution, causing infertility and other serious health problems, which even if you fix, you still go back to a world where they are inevitable to come back. All that money, all for nothing. I fear that world is approaching fast, and no other thing will convince those people of what they are doing - and at that point, it will be too late.
They'll be on Mars by then... leaving all of us behind to suffer...
@@PGOuma Haha, they wish. Unlike actual Mars, the technology required to get us there safely and allow us to settle there is actually light years away. The magnetic field alone poses an insurmountable problem, and that's a planet-wide issue.
So, if they actually go to Mars, it will be to suffer, possibly even more than the poor left on Earth. 😂
Their real wake up call will be when they realize that their money is worth nothing in a society where everyone is in survival mode.
By the time that happens billionaires will live alone on some offshore island with their own water purifying facilities and farm handeled by labour and protected by security.
The rich will for sure live in some selfsustaining gated communities that are able to handle high potency climate change. This should be sustainable for a couple of centuries but inevitably things will go for shit for them aswell as entire societies collapse.
@@dustman96To be fair, the last time a wake up call was a sharp heavy object designed to separate heads from bodies. Do you think todays nobility got wiser than that?
More than anything, climate needs to be the primary motivator for revolution at this point. The imperial core is only just beginning to feel the burn, but those of us in the less urban areas feel it much more accutely. Climate will be the thing that breaks us.
As a kid I remember watching massive thunderheads roll over the plains. I loved those beautiful storms. I remember ice storms that would shut down everything, and just having to sit tight out for a few days afterward even in the middle of the week. I remember snow days.
But now? It barely rains. Maybe once every other month. The creek behind my parent's house that nobody can remember drying up hasn't flowed in over a year now. There used to be snapping turtles that would lay their eggs in the garden. All sorts of animals would come through for a drink. Pheasants, turkeys, deer, woodchucks, coyotes, they all left.
What storms we do have are much stronger or much weaker. It can spit for days without ever accumulating anything meaningful, or we can have a 120mph derecho that levels half the trees in the state and shatters windows with air pressure alone. I remember a green sky, which is never a good sign, turning pitch black in the middle of the day. Before the wall even hit that was the most scared I've ever been in my life. That was august 2020. Smaller ones have happened a few times since. There are still people cutting widowmakers down.
And I saw a news story about tornadoes in florida in the middle of winter for fucks sake, does that not scare anyone else? Its wrong, everything is wrong, the weather is sick, the ground is sick, WE are sick, just...fuck.
As a minnesotain that hasn't seen winter yet this year, the future seems grim.....
Americans are the reason for this imminent world catastrophe.
I have 1/2 an acre yard and I stopped mowing 1/2 of it last summer. It didn’t hurt anyone and it provided so much for the local eco system and I had a LOT more fireflies than i usually see. This summer I want to learn more about local plants to my area and plant more of them to increase biodiversity instead of grass grass grass
I've been working on restoring native plants in my yard. It's not easy, but I now see critters I haven't seen for years, such as the milkweed bugs. Now I'm working on pawpaws and American chestnut trees.
A bonus is getting involved with the local community and exchanging information and plants.
@@stephaniet1389 that’s awesome!! I’m moving soon and I hope to attend the local meetings to hopefully be more involved. Local change is still change and can have lasting impacts :>
Thank you 👍
My yard looks like a rainforest. My neighbors hate it.
You don't have an HOA. I need a way that I can do less mowing, and more natural, native plants, without them coming for me.
i’m currently a college student taking a seminar class on the political theory of climate change. one of my classmates recently told a story about a species of butterflies in Guam her grandparents used to run around chasing and catching. Now, because of the US imperial military bases stationed in Guam and their adverse effects to the environment, those butterflies are extinct and she can never share the same memories.
Besides fighting for socialism, what else can we do? I don’t plan on having kids but this is so messed up for the future
encourage social enterprises and decommodification of things - free schools, free hospital, free food or for exchange. The use of money be limited to just exchange, not capital (to store up wealth from profits). Things be done to meet needs and not to make profit.
Im only in my 20s so my childhood wasn’t that long ago but when I lived in Ohio I remember snow that would pile up so large school would be put for year weeks. Relatives would always visit and Ohio was always known as “snowy” and they would complain about it.
For these last past years (im talking over 5) there has been barely any snow like there used to be. This year it has been around 40-60 degrees with last week reaching 60. In December and February. It actually makes me freaked out to think about for too long
I go back and forth between accepting that the end is coming and thinking we can atill salvage the planet. It just feels so hopeless
We live under capitalism, its power seems inescapable, but so did the divine right of kings... eventually capitalism will end and a more sustainable system will arise, its inevitable because infinite growth is not possible with finite resources, but how bad will it get before then?
@@Oborowatabinostk i used to also think that but life isnt guaranteed neither is human civilization. We can and most likely will get to an unsustainable point but why would we then go to a eco-socialist paradise instead of nuking each other in a resource wars.
Not saying we cant escape capitalism but we just have the tools to end everything now and on a long enough timeline we will
Edit: Grammer
Try checking out One Small Town Contributionism and Zeitgeist: Requiem (Peter Joseph), and tell me how you feel after that. It won’t solve every problem but it could give a good community-level support organization to do something to help!
Just make sure that if the end does come, we make sure those responsible pay before everyone is gone.
@@wafflingmean4477 Rarely ever do the people at the high end really pay the price of their egregious lack of integrity and irresponsibility before it is too late.
I think the best response is forgetting them and building a new system that doesn't need them, in your own community, that makes the powerful and unethical obsolete through a new system emerging. See "A Cure for Capitalism (not for dummies)" video by World Beyond Capitalism for more insight on that train of thought.
To these people, profits are far above everything else, above the environment, above the earth.
above even their own lives, more proof of its cult like nature
Profits are not a personal choice. Capitalism breeds a mindset in everyone which puts profits over all. It is not a personal choice when someone gets duped into a different way of thinking through years of collective trauma. Use your compassion and creativity to think of novel solutions. Every human, even the ones we don't "like" share in their innate capacity to be creative, capitalism (a non human entity) just teaches everyone to not be.
These people are psychopaths and they run the world, which proves we aren't nearly as smart as we think we are.
That’s why the term “better dead than red exists” - that’s from fallout but still proves the point because it’s a parody
that's not from Fallout, that's from actual Western populist propaganda @@Witerally_Me
2:27 There are far fewer insects nowadays. You can see this for yourself if you think about how dirty (splattered) your car was 20 years ago when you drove along a country road. The car would have been covered in small insects. This is also known as the "windscreen phenomenon". Cheers ClearGlimpse
The sixth mass extinction, the Capitalocene Extinction, the final extinction, near-term extinction.
It is the overpopulationocene.
@@vsstdtbs3705 That's another good name for it
Overpopulation narrative is racist, classist, capitalist propaganda
In Mexico we're suffering a water crisis but companies and wealthier people continue consuming more than they need.
I swear I saw you comment on a island boys video where they were “speaking spanish” was I right?
@@gaythugsmatter7029 I don't remember commenting on such video
In the US whenever there's a water shortage limits are often set on how much people can water their lawns, but they still do even knowing it isn't necessary and it'll strain the supply and I remember seeing at least one picture--from above, I think--of a wealthy person's house during a drought in, I think, California, and their huge water-hungry yard looked amazing. They only have self-awareness when things like that make the news and even then, I think they still don't care.
I can't psychologically handle listening to this kind of thing right now so I'm letting it play while I'm out of the room and leaving this comment for engagement.
I know how bad things are. Thank you for talking about it.
I understand this feeling, I physically feel pain(at least that's what I think it is)
Watching this, but I just gave up.
I am from Brazil, and trust me things on the amazon are somehow worse, because there isnt only loggin happening, but also mining, native populations are suffering greatly, like to the point the are skin and bones, this is because those miners poison the waters they rely on, i could keep going on that line, but i am starting to tear up.
Aboriginal First Nations in Canada are "Mother Earth" protectors.
Brazil is huge place. Is there anyone else they could go
@@Kam-King213 They are natives, they live on the Amazon and have rights to the land their ancestor lived on, it's illegal to do anything that negatively affects them or to force them to go elsewhere.
@joaopedroferronbravin brazil is very interesting place, i wish to learn more about it. I even found out alot of brazilians are strong israel supporters , I thought they would be more sympathetic to Palestinain cause but I think maybe cause they are christians.
@@Kam-King213 look man, I have absolutely no idea about that.
I’ve been saying this for a long time now. Capitalism without morals will lead to destruction. There has to be limits on what businesses can do and what we can do by law because we cannot by ourselves follow general morals. We follow money more than morals
capitalism has never been moral and never will be. get this libertarian garbage out of here.
Worshiping our dollars has cost us everything.
I love being rich though.
@@bitcoincryptofreedom3652You’ll learn the hard way that you can’t eat money.
@@bitcoincryptofreedom3652you love money. we love people.
worshipping fire pest rights has cost us everything.
We have rights to breed as much as we want. This leads to more habitat destruction for houses and what else the pests want.
@@bitcoincryptofreedom3652 Lol your name says it all!
thank you for uploading this, it sucks that climate change in america is a political controversy.
Ad a european i can tell you you are not alone. It's always the "same" political direction denying the man made climate change...
*Global Climate Destabilization.. of which “Change” and thus warming are secondary and proxy to..
It probably wouldnt be as much of a political crontroversy if not for the blatant hypocrisy of climate changes biggest chearleaders who take private jets and convoys of suvs to meetings where they talk about how i'll own nothing, eat bugs and be happy about it.
German here, we have the same kind of idiot in abundance over here. Our far, far right party is rapidly gaining popularity and their stance reaches from "climate change doesn't really exist it's just a natural process" to "climate change exists but but but we have bigger problems! Drag Queens! Climate protesters!!'
@@marshalmarrs3269 YEP. "God bless America" irks me most of the time, and I'm a veteran. It's what/who's saying it that saves it from being crap put on my money.
Might 😂 it most definitely WILL.
The greed of western nations has no bounds.
Props for bringing up insect declines. It's a super alarming trend given insects make up like 90% of all animal species and are vital to pretty much every ecosystem, but most people just don't know or care that much about insects.
There was a report as early as 1954 regarding the burning of fossil fuels.
IIRC, one scientist figured it out as a possibility in the 1890's.
Greed is an illness that affects humans. But as you said, we are part of the ecosystem and we seem to be taking it with us.
No one needs or should have a 100 million dollars. And yet that doesn't even make you remarkable in this wicked society.
Greed took down the great auk, thylacine, passenger pigeons, etc. It is kind of sobering that we managed to make a bird that literally used to darken the skies with its flocks extinct.
it's not just greed. greed is natural to humans, CAPITALISM is not.
@@henrycgs Yeah
@@henrycgsI think cooperation is natural to humans. I dunno, when I have more than I need I instinctively look to offload to someone who needs...
@@GerinoMorn absolutely, we're a social species and it was cooperation that made us so powerful. but greed is also just an emotion, which stems from our fear of loss. a little bit of greed mixed with a lot of cooperation is what propels a society to become more powerful and stable.
JT, every time I watch one of your videos, I keep scratching my head how sooooo many people just don't get it. Once again, thank you so much for your input. Cheers.
more like crapitalism
The most infuriating part of our current predicament, to an agricultural engineer like myself, is that WE HAVE the technology to provide EVERYONE with a high quality of life that would rival that of current day small business owners of today with VASTLY smaller impact on the environment and the only reason we don't is because either
a) has lower profit margins
b) the outdated, steam age, capitalist logistic calculations crash at that type of wealth distribution
c) the old technologies are well entrenched and already invested in and thus it would "waste" money that's already making profit to switch technologies.
d)Not creating artificial scarcity and using deliberately wasteful produciton maikes the mathematical limit of profit go to 0
Meaning that capitlaism is the reason why the line that says that a sustainable future would be miserable
In reality we could house 4-5 times our population, while having a transhumanist technological revolution (human lifespan is expanded by orders of magnitude, not just years) and increase quality of life for everyone to current day "high hapiness levels" increases all at a fraction of a fraction of our current environmental impact.
but noooooo
Line must go up
And that's when you get the "solutions" proposed of deliberate mass poverty, limiting living standards for developing nations, limiting access to technology and life saving medical technology because "there's too many of us", limiting technological developments that would solve major problems, etc.
Capitlaism is actively opting in favor of mass death over reduction of profit margins.
because as doctor who said, "it's an algorithm, a spreadhseet" and that algorithm is programmed for one thing and one thing only: profit.
Have you seen Culture in Decline by Peter Joseph? Or his 4th Zeitgeist film called “Requiem” trailer online now, out in March?
Also Ubuntu Contributionism and One Small Town? Something to consider.
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@@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes The ferengi empire is a massive plothole if you ask me
No way such a civilization could exist at an interstellar level when it's based on extremely outdated, inefficient and mathematically broken logistics.
That is super interesting.
Could you kindly give me some keywords/topics to google for?
Plus, if you have the time to give me an insight, what are your takes on
a) animal agriculture?
b) soil degradation?
@@noah8236 You may have not been asking me, but I thought I'd offer my bit of insight. Search for "Ubuntu Contributionism" and "One Small Town" as well as "Zeitgeist: Requiem" for a good start.
A great book to read is The New Human Rights Movement by Peter Joseph and that does address things like animal agriculture and soil degradation.
Sacrificial comment for the algorithm. Side note: I'm not sure any action against the oil companies could ever be immoral, regardless of what means were employed. Self defense.
The legal term id use would be “acting in defense of another” unless your livelihood is directly threatened, in which case it becomes self defense.
@@ringsystemmusicwhat about acting in the defence of humanity?
The best way to combat oil companies, is to reduce demand. Don't buy an SUV. Don't take a 30 min. shower. Don't buy more plastic junk. Don't drive across town for pizza. We are ALL guilty of buying from them. If we reduce our demand, they'll reduce production.
Drastic actions taken against oil companies--like making things go boom--will just dump contaminants into the environment, and they will then scramble to rebuild, and renew the supply.
Don't vote red. Those capitalistic jerks deny climate change. The other side might not be doing anything to prevent it, but they're not trying to roll back regulations, allow wolves to be hunted, and crying "Drill baby, drill!"
Unless you're not human, that's self defense@@kingdomzheartsrocksz
@@ringsystemmusic It's my planet. And yours.
we can't keep going on like this
Old age will kill us all ~ lack of abundant energy will reduce our numbers. These are not tragedies.
Unfortunately theres alot of people who say: "im not here for a long time, only a good time, 🖕future generations. Im getting mine because life is short and full of misery...not to mention the current system incentives it". Hard not to adopt a Carlinesque outlook..
The Littlefinger approach to life.
It's pragmatic, unfortunately. I would like to vote for change, if ever it were on the table.
I don't think that you'll ever conquer the greed factor, without abolishing capitalism.
Greed is the single worst sin in existence.
Pretty much, capitalism incentivizes greed
thats the goal of communism and socialism. remlve the profit motive, and change greed to improving everyones quality of life, not just your own.
It’s also been generations since it took over everything so the population has internalized the norms of capitalism. Don’t have generations to recondition the masses. Violent revolution is inevitable
False, humans have shown throughout their history they are incapable of escaping a natural gravitation towards greed in various forms
I think marx predicted the future
I really love the work you do. Thank you!
The number of commenters here who seem to understand and care about this subject compared to 15 years ago gives me hope.
the problem is, just like the far right, even we are in our own echo chamber. We might seem a lot here, but we are eclipsed by the social democrats, centrists, liberals, and facists of the world
I agree with @@maufagundes47, we just don't have the numbers we need to change things, so people who currently don't think there's a problem or that we can easily handle it won't get on board with any of our thoughts until reality starts hitting hard enough for everyone to wake up. It's more than a bit tragic; where's the fun in saying "I told you so" in the middle of countless daily tragedies as everything you've ever loved crumbles to dust?
@@ellielynx3071 it is not gonna be fun to tell other people we told them so, but at least it will be catarthic AF for us.
@@ellielynx3071I feel like something will change in our lifetimes at least I hope so
Because boomers(a big part of the problem) are dying. And the younger generations are seeing the complete savagery reaped by the boomers
The rate of extinction we are currently experiencing is happening at a rate that dwarfs the rate that occurred during the Permian Extinction, often called The Great dying. What we have wrought in 100 years took 10,000 years during the Permian Extinction.
You forgot to mention that the 4°C (which is probably a low estimate) rise in ocean temps will be the prime cause of sea level rise due to thermal expansion.
few people even think about expansion as a component of sea level rise
@@MrTaxiRob even though it is the biggest cause
@@WowUrFcknHxC Yeah virtually all of the sea level rise thus far since the industrial revolution is driven by thermal expansion with the delay in ice sheet breakdown as well as the temperatures of the melt waters produced currently mitigating their immediate contributions to sea level rise. What most people don't get is that we have likely already locked in tens to hundreds of meters of latent sea level rise by allowing ice sheets to reach a critical collapse threshold (tipping point).
The current estimate (if no additional pledges are kept and the adoption of renewables doesn't keep accelerating) is 2.5 degrees of warming, not 4. Where are you getting 4 from?
@@General12th ocean temps,not atmosphere. The oceans tend to warm faster than the qtmosphere
I don't know who said this, but it sounds so accurate--The problem is not that we cannot feed the poor, but that we cannot satisfy the rich.
@HollyDutton-wz8fe Exactly right! That's why we need to be done with capitalism!
@@ClassicalTrainingso you won't be satisfied until the rich are dead?
@@Uarehere I don't mind the rich being alive. But, I have a problem with what you are asking. We are talking about "rich". Could you, please, kindly share your definition of "rich" so that we may be on the same page?
@@ClassicalTraining He probably thinks "rich" means someone who lives on a somewhat decent house with green lawn.
The average person is completely unaware of what actually "rich" means. Owning so many properties and assets that you need multiple companies managing them. Having so much power and influence they can dictate the direction a country will go.
The average person thinks "middle class" means "rich" because they have contact with this middle class people on their daily routine. They share the same social spaces, so their reference of rich is these people. Average people do not share the social space with the actual, rich people, and so they can't possibly imagine with being rich actually is.
Thanks! Keep up the good work
I believe eco-socialism is the only way.
that's why we vote for the green party (if you can in your state)
It's the only way forward.
the only way that the people can implement the changes needed is if we have the authority to do so. "eco" as a prefix is unnecessary, just like "democratic" since socialism is both explicitly.
socialism is in practice, always more environmentally friendly than capitalism!
I believe that socialism is already "eco"
I gave you a thumbs up because I hated this episode. Ok, I don’t hate the episode, I’m mad at the idiots who are allowing this to happen and not do anything about it. Thank you for sharing this vital information, no matter how much it hurts to see this truth. Then do what you can to stop it.
That’s pretty much this channel in a nutshell
There are people who would rather see the world burn than be forced to share even a small portion of their wealth/power. There are people who would rather own 99% of a very small pie than 50% of a very large one. These are the people who rule and who control human destiny.
Small hats?
When i was a kid the local river used to completely freeze over during the winter, now it doesn't even freeze a little bit, it used to snow quite regularly, now we get snow once during winter if we are lucky. In the spring i used to see tons of dragonflies and butterflies everywhere, now I couldn't tell you the last time I saw either of those. The summers feel as though they got hotter and hotter with each passing year, we hit a record breaking 40° Celsius a few years ago and that's just become the norm during summer now. The active destruction of the planet and extinction we are causing upon ourselves is devastating to watch.
Worst part: I'm only 23 and watching all of this unfold just over my lifetime, I cant imagine what the next few generations of kids are gonna have to go through :/
Oh, finally someone else read the f*cking phd papers. We are so utterly f*cked.
Bro ur getting information from a guy who test drives super cars on his other secret channel. He is a bigger capitalist than hasan. They are grifting u $$$$.... notice those ads that played?
here's the comment I was about to make, We've got 5 or 15 years until complete collapse.
..Oh no! ...he thinks we are NOT overpopulated?! 2:57 - Damn, I just lost ALL respect for this guy...
Have fun watching 50-90% of us humans die-off in the next 20ish years!
@@Dartagnan65
Overpopulation is a nazi dog whistle talking point to justify genocide, that has unfortunately found its way into the general population. There is no scientific evidence for it in reality; there is more than enough space and production for our current population, but capital isn't willing to adapt to it
@@Dartagnan65 Correct, we are *not* overpopulated. We have enough space, food and water for atleast 10 billion humans. The problem is not "too many people", but "too much greed."
@@Dartagnan65
"Overpopulation" is a dog whistle with no real scientific support. We have enough space, food, and production to meet the needs of our current population, but 1% of us control 99% of it.
I’m glad I will never have kids. I’d hate for them have to face this cataclysm.
It's sad, but at least I thank you
#lastgeneration
I highly doubt socialism can solve all of these problems at this point. Seems like it's too far gone.
Capitalism relies on unprecedented growth and destruction of the environment for profit. The economic system values that profit and growth above everything else, leading to constant consumption, production, and resource extraction. The effects are disastrous, with natural habitats being destroyed, resources depleted, and greenhouse gas emissions skyrocketing.
Multinational corporations are some of the biggest culprits when it comes to capitalism's impact on climate change. These companies prioritise profit over environmental sustainability, and their actions reflect this priority. For instance, oil and gas companies have been known to engage in practices such as fracking and offshore drilling, which release substantial amounts of methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Great video as always! It's always very inspirational to watch your videos, keep up the good work!
This should be shown on every open TV channel as a public information service. Just by reading a few of the comments here, I got a smile back on my face. The video did its job. Perfectly. The type of discussions being raised here IS EXACTLY the type of discussions we should have had 100 yrs ago (well, most of them so far, at least). Better late than never.
Thank you so much for your service, comrade. If you may (I am not aware how this is done), please enable automatically generated subtitles for other languages. I am from Brazil and I would love to show this to a few people here, but language can be a barrier.
"Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains."
Oh my god the "wihich side are you on?" reference 😱 Damn that hit deep ✊🚩
That was soooo deep 🥺🥺🥺 stfu bruh
this is one reason why i got a vasectomy, among many others. my descendants will not have to deal with the declining earth, and they thank me for it.
How can your descendent thank you when they dont exist. Besides, do you seriously believe that a proletarian revolution won't happen?
hooray!! the capitalists poisoned your mind with so much defeatism that they have convinced you that a natural aspect of your life is not worth it. look, i'm not judging your personal choices regarding your own body, but the mindset that all hope is lost is precisely what the 1% wants.
Your work is much appreciated
Who would imagine, that a system that only wants you to make as much as money, would cause many problems
Capitalism is a blight on the earth and humanity.
If that shine was a scorching blaze of hellfire
@@furiousdestroyah9999 I think you might have misread my comment.
There's no alternative. That's like saying “breathing oxygen is a blight on earth”.
@@thegethconsensus393Huh, I swear it said something else a few days ago 😂
@@gaythugsmatter7029 Ah yes, the Capitalist realism fallacy
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 *🌍 Understanding Mass Extinction*
- Mass extinction refers to 75% or more of existing species dying out in a relatively short period.
- The current mass extinction is unprecedented since the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
- Human activities, especially since the Industrial Revolution, are driving the current crisis.
01:17 *🌳 Impact of Industrialization on the Environment*
- The dominant economic system focuses on extraction, accumulation, profit maximization, and endless growth.
- Unsustainable practices like deforestation for profit undermine crucial ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest.
- Rapid habitat destruction accelerates the extinction rate, affecting countless species.
03:51 *🐺 Keystone Species and Ecosystem Stability*
- Keystone species, like grey wolves, play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem balance.
- Reintroduction of grey wolves in Yellowstone led to remarkable ecological recovery.
- The loss of keystone species due to extinction threatens the stability of entire ecosystems.
06:53 *🌊 Climate Change and Oceanic Impact*
- Climate change, fueled by human activities, poses a severe threat to marine life and ecosystems.
- Ocean warming, acidification, and oxygen depletion jeopardize marine biodiversity.
- Disruptions in oceanic ecosystems have cascading effects on global food security and livelihoods.
09:00 *💡 Economic System and Climate Crisis*
- Capitalism's profit-driven model perpetuates overconsumption, exploitation, and environmental degradation.
- Unsustainable consumption patterns exacerbate climate change and threaten global food security.
- Addressing the climate crisis requires challenging the capitalist system and transitioning to sustainable alternatives.
13:05 *🔄 Urgent Need for Systemic Change*
- The current mass extinction crisis is human-induced and requires immediate action.
- Transitioning away from capitalism is crucial for creating a sustainable and just world.
- Despite challenges, there's a growing recognition of the need for systemic change to ensure the survival of life on Earth.
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Thank you so much for your admirable work, your channel is one of the most valuable in my opinion.
After watching this video and realising that our Brazilian rainforest is being decimated by illegal mining and greedy landowners is such a pain...
Greed is killing humankind.
Just be sure that you don't automatically associate deserved wealth with greed. Many of the worlds most competent, hardest working and successful people are wealthy, and while the instinctual desire for success can be seen as a form of greed, these instincts can also help foster some of the worlds greatest and most competent leaders who could help to rally people or industry towards progressive change. So, say what you will about the indulgent wealthy, but those who get there through legitimate success should be accepted and welcomed to help lead towards a better future rather than quashed under an envious society.
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Guess it is okay to trash nature if your "hard working". Hitler was a hard worker too, it didn't make him a good person.
@@nolan4339 It takes a special type of stupid scumbag to say the things you're saying.
@@nolan4339 lol, billionaires inherit more than they earn by themselves nowadays, what are you talking about ? Most of the actually competent and skilled people are not particularly wealthy, now that inheritance is the number 1 factor in becoming wealthy.
Overconsumption? Vs the overproduction. I wish you touched upon overproduction and put emphasis on that, framing is everything
Quality content! Keep it coming
Great quote! I might spread this message.
“It’s socialism or extinction”
My school blocks your channel lmao.
lol thankfully that just makes students more interested in watching
Indeed.
also super exited to see you reply, I love your vids!@@SecondThought
i mean my school blocks mine lmao
Your school is a pile of orange Moby Trump droppings
That is because its not a school its a indoctrination camp for the output of worker slaves, that can't think and believe their interests are the owning class.
I love the work you're doing and tune in for every episode.
While this doesn't change the point you're making, I thought I'd let you know that much of the information on wolves that you talk about has been proven false. I'm not some anti wolf person, in fact, I spend my working days educating folks about Yellowstones ecology. These ideas about wolves being responsible for all of this activity has not bared out in other studies. In fact, what we see is that there were an incredible amount of different factors and strategies that led to the overall health of the Yellowstone ecosystem. For instance, the beaver didn't just come back because everything was better. They were introduced into rivers and creeks outside the park with the intention that they'd follow them into the park. Also, we had a very serious problem with a sharp decline in our native trout species, and many bears that used to prey upon spawning fish have switched their spring diet over to elk calves. Black and Grizzly bear account for 65% of elk calf fatalities. That is a HUGE piece of this puzzle that is never even mentioned when it comes to the conversation about wolves' role in the ecosystem. And those are just two examples. I can talk for hours about this!!!
Powerful video. Thank you
As a wildlife biologist and conservation educator in Kentucky, I really wish more within wildlife itself were aware that capitalism is the root cause of (most) of our ecological issues. We are aware of the disparate causes of individual issues, but the field doesn’t want to acknowledge the connective tissue. The vague anti-human nonsense is just that, nonsense.
A big hurdle to proper education about this is that we are not allowed to teach the true cause of habitat destruction, for example. I teach kids 4th-6th grade and I have to try to subtly connect issues to get them thinking. But since I, and most other wildlife professionals, work for either state or federal agencies, we can’t exactly condemn the true causes of our issues without losing our jobs.
You can start by educating Americans and Westerners in general. Americans in general, especially those who are republicans, are contributing to environmental destruction not only in the US but elsewhere in the world.
That's why I am in wildland management now. Because many environmentalists are cringe and need some help with that cringe factor urgently
You don’t see bug squash on your windshield much anymore. Or butterflies, bumble bees, even mosquitoes much in your yard.
Or bees, or, fireflies, like the content creator said.
Yea i was talking with someone about this and they didn't notice it.. idk how tho
Carpenter Bees (they're like bumble bees on steroids), Miller's moths and bee hawkmoths are pretty rare now. I did however start to see egrets, herons, orioles and hummingbirds in Northern IL in the 1990s, the long awaited payout from the DDT ban.
In most of the U.S., it's time to order your seeds if you have a yard and a few $$$. Seeds are cheap. Get stuff that pollinators like.
If you can't do that, try to cultivate something scavenged out of a vacant lot that you observe bees all over. In your yard or in pots.
Native "weeds". The tougher, the better.
If nothing else, bees and other species love dandelions and white clover - both are edible for humans.
If you have a bit of ground to spare.
If you grow a food garden, this will probably increase yields.
I gathered this stuff called "turkeytangle" that I think grows all over the USA as a weed. It's a native plant. Not too flashy, but bees LOVE it. You can grow it by just sticking a strand of it, with a root, in good dirt, and keep it watered decently.
I live in Canada, in southern Ontario. When I was a kid, we were blanketed in snow from November to mid-March. I went tobogganing all the time, and I wasn't the most outdoors-y kid -- I lived in a city, but we made do. This year, we've hardly had any snow at all, just a dusting, and it didn't last more than a day or two at the most. "Winter", if you can call it that, is just grey, muddy and miserable. I haven't been able to take my 8-year old little boy tobogganing EVER in his entire life.
Other people just joke about not having to shovel it, but I miss the snow. I miss having a real winter.
My dad still thinks climate change doesn't exist, that we have barely have an impact on the climate ,and that we still dont know where oil comes from. He won't look it up. I've given up trying to convince him of the obvious. We are fucked
That's really just massive reality denial and ideology. I can tell easily how climate, wildlife, vegetation changed in my hometown. I can even describe the differences between now and 10 years ago, and 10 years ago and 20 years ago. And I'm not even an expert on biology or live off the land or anything, I literally just pay attention to how the environment is changing over the years.
Yes the meteor could destroy most of life on earth, but think of the mineral deposits it’ll bring
The whole earth will be covered by a thin layer of Iridium
To whom?
that's the joke@@FurtiveSkeptical
@@BrigitteEmpire Yes.
My comment wasn't a parable.
I was reinforcing your valid sentiment.
I didn't actually think you were excited for a forecast of doom minerals, delivered posthumously to an empty stage.😉 ✌
Cheers and Be Well
Don’t look up
Well done brother. Been watching your videos since the pandemic. You've had a huge impact on the way I see people and the world. Ty
We don't own this planet, we share it. It's high time people realize that.