It's unfair to talk of the 'developing' countries increasing contribution to Co2 levels without pointing out that the main reason they are increasing output is because they are now the ones manufacturing the West's products. In other words, Europe, Nth America etc are just farming out the damage they are doing, they are still the bigger problem.
True and a lot to be said about that (including the new Apartheid from sweat shops elsewhere to feed Europe & USA with goods). I'm in South Africa now and the G7 discussing this week with our president a 73 billion package to sub saharan Africa to quell fossil fuels here to and make Africa green
1000% the bottom line is people want to pay as little as possible or the goods they consume. Because of this, they will always rely on developing nations to produce those goods for so little money and zero progress will be made.
@@fgaeg2209 earth will not get hurt at all since after every major extinction earth recovered. but it is us and animal. i am an anti climate activist as i know we wont be able to save us and so i am an animal activist
This has been the main point for decades. The planet will simply recycle itself as it’s always done. The animals on the planet, though, including us, will be destroyed. We can survive it, we survived the last Ice Age. But it’s going to be a tough experience.
This is amazing that Netflix has released it for wider public to see. Irrespective of the subscription. This is a very important topic. Thank you Netflix. And Vox.
_This is amazing that Netflix has released it for wider public to see._ It's notable that Netflix also released Cowspiracy and Seaspiracy, both of which seem to claim that those industries are the biggest destructors of the environment, not the oil industry. Ball of confusion...
@@imacmill all of them are destructive to environment. Pretty common sense and fast fashion, plastic, conventional agriculture, so on... literally anything we do with our life is destructive to environment. Sustainable is the key for survivor now and future.
USA and UK : takes African/middle eastern oil and use it to develop Africa and Middle East : gain independence and start using thier own oil to develop USA and UK : omg u guys are hurting the environment that’s so bad why you aren’t like us ?
you should be careful not to frame climate change as a political agenda by the rich western world to impoverish the developing world. Climate change is very real and is worsening everyday.
Worse yet - Europe and USA outsource their polluting industries to Asia, then blame Asia for not conforming to strict environmental standards. Pure hypocrisy.
“In order for Africa to transition, it would take an investment of 70 billion every year.” The US war in Afghanistan cost 300 million dollars a day, or about 120 billion dollars a year.
That depends if you believe in those numbers. The current estimates for the war of Afghanistan is the maximum estimates. The accurate numbers aren't there. What is known that during the 20 years USA supplied Afghan government with 180 Billion worth of USD.
@Maja Kwiatkowska very true. US implemented European technology to effectivize their domestic production. It's actually interesting how USA by 1900 was the largest producer of coal, oil, gas, steel and meat.
@@wutangclan2051 Your message clearly shows that you shouldn't post on the internet and get some Professional Help. WOuld you like to talk about it? I'm here for you.
1. Plunder nations into poverty. 2. Pretend to fix the damage while finding new ways to plunder even more. 3. Give back a fraction of what was taken and call it aid, like you're doing them a favor. 4. Complain about spending anything to help plundered nations and blame them for their poverty. 5. Remember that none of these steps was "Stop plundering"
@Ballstavius Deadeyes yea but the thing is, no one willed their way into this world. Our parents willed us into the world so no one should feel guilty by that logic other than people who’ve had kids.
I’m Nigerian and I blame our leaders and not Britain or US. Our leaders corruption is why we are still underdeveloped. If we utilized the fund we got from oil well, we would be like Dubai
True talk. Though I ought to blame our leaders, but their hands are tied by the same people who keep echoing 'leapfrogging'. Keeping their country prosperous while they choke other nations is inhumanity. Nevertheless, all the bucks start and end with our leaders.
@AileDiablo first of all, why u taking about the military so much, sure deference’s matter but that isn’t wha u should focus on. Also “rockets” aren’t made up of oil, they are nuclear, and if u mean rockets like space rockets then yeah they don’t use oil they use liquid hydrogen. Oil is a non-renewable resource that the future can’t depend on, if we keep using oil our world will become a wasteland, we need a new way to power our cars and other vehicles. And in fact we do, called electric cars, they don’t use gas they run on electricity. If we keep using oil and other toxic gases, climate change will rise and the world will go through horrible things, such as more intensified natural disasters. The list goes on and on and theirs no point in me telling u the effects of climate change, climate change is the biggest problem out generation will face and people like u are the ones that are making it even worse. Check ur facts before trying to tell people how the oil industry works.
Electric cars arent going to fix it. We need walkable cities with good public transit and bike infrastructure. We need to dramatically improve our rail networks for both intercity travel and freight.
Fixing the ongoing climate crisis needs very much an “all the above” type of approach. This includes everything you mentioned but will have to include electric cars as well.
That's a nice idea, but it is simply not possible, nor desirable for all people to live within walking distance of their work. Plus, we have seen the health dangers of living in human storage units, where pathogens can spread rapidly. Individual vehicles will always be desirable, no matter how much marketing campaigns attempt to inculcate otherwise. Electric or hydrogen vehicles are our best bet to bridge the gap between improving the climate crisis, and meeting the needs for individual transportation.
Too many people are happy driving alone for us to completely give up on the car and switch to mass transit. Just look at how many single occupant cars go out on the roads in rush hour, compared to how many use the HOV lane. At least leaving an electric car (or hydrogen, or some future clean option) as a choice will make transitioning easier.
@@joermnyc that's not because they are happy driving, that's because there is no mass transit in most American suburbs. If you look at cities with good mass transit, like London and New York, it's obvious that people take it. The famous quote is "you don't judge the need for a bridge by the number of people swimming across the river".
As a Nigerian, I can tell you that although there’s currently a lot of rhetoric about net zero, the reality on ground points to very little if any intentions of cutting down on carbon emissions in the near future, and the argument is basically around the unfairness of the developed world asking this of us just when we’re beginning to get our act together having not too long ago come out of the doldrums of colonialism followed by military dictatorships, wars and political instability.
The Nigerian people and country are great and they do deserve reparations and help from the former colonialist states to develop adequately and in a lower carbon fashion - net zero and negative carbon are jobs for the top 10 economies
Sadly i don't see a huge shift in policy any time soon. I live in Norway and work in the oil industri where new permits for exploration is still beeing handed out. Even with the newly election switching away from the conservative side, non of the "green" parties did particular good. The facts about the harm has been known for a long time now, and i hope oil producing countries like my own will take their responsibility and use some of its wealth to develop new and cheep green energy sources.
It will come from the demand side. You cannot expect a petroleum company to stop producing petroleum, if there is demand for petroleum. And production will grow if demand grows. It is simple, cannot blame the producer for answering demand. But there is a shift happening in demand, soon demand will start to fall and when it does producers will be forced to produce less. The worry for countries like Nigeria, is are they prepared for a massive reduction of demand? Do they have anything else to replace the jobs and revenue when demand falls and it forced production to fall? The stalling tactics of the global fossil fuel industry are starting to fail. But they have delayed it so long instead of a slow manageable decline it is going to be like ripping off a bandaid. There will be a lot of pain all of a sudden. (Instead of reducing growth 50 years ago, instead we are going to get a 50% drop in demand in less than a decade) So the only organizations not hurt badly are the ones who are prepared for this reality. Diversified revenues, not investing in petroleum growth, investing in the new solutions. Is Nigeria ready for falling petroleum demand?
it's important to educate ppl on this topic ! I'd take this ,over strangers things , on any day of the week .. it's so important 4 ppl to see this info!
@@MeiGunner sorry I got a typo. I meant to say this is one of my favourite programs. Changed it already. And yeah, I’d rather have more of this than some of the trash quality shows like Riverdale which is distributed by Netflix internationally.
@@mixmasterf the earth won’t run out of oil anytime soon. There’s enough oil in Venezuela alone to keep us going for a long time. If we continued on our current path the sky would turn black before we would run out of oil. That doesn’t mean I’m with the idea of oil because we all want our energy to be clean, but as it stands now oil will be continued to be used for at least another 50 years.
What is the clean alternative? EV production emit 70% more pollution (source VW group). In most of the country electricity is produced using coal, oil, gas. And most the power grid are pretty enifficent, there is a lot of losses. Even in a ultra rich state like California. I do believe that EV would make thing much worse.
I think city planning and transportation also play a role in our energy consumption. Too many people opt for private vehicle because cities and towns have been built for them, not the people. The reliance on private vehicles is further exacerbated by inferior public transit systems and induced demand for cars wrought on by too many road projects. If we were to address this part of the problem I think we would be able to reduce energy consumption significantly.
much of the country uses private vehicles as often there are few if any alternatives. perhaps you can get by if you right in the middle of a city but many of us do not.
@@sutionojoyodiningrat3610 Fun fact: you need a Dyson Sphere to build a Dyson Sphere. (And some estimates say that the mass of material required to build one would be larger than the mass of the Earth)
There's never talk of rethinking and redesigning our cities to be less energy demanding. Such as, not having to use a car for daily needs aka being able to walk or take public transit. Sometimes less is more.
@@Robert-cu9bm To be fair, yours is a rare case where a private vehicle is feasible. For one, you do fully utilize the capacity of your van. Many vehicles tend to have only the driver and nothing else. Not even cargo.
USA is inefficient cause USA allows car companies to lobby the senate and government and manipulate your favorite representatives and bend to their will.
Something overlooked in the video was the opportunity to talk about car dependency, which is the single greatest cause of oil dependency. In the U.S., transportation represents two thirds of all petroleum usage. If the entire world were to have a per capita car ownership equivalent to that of the U.S. (the most car-dependent large nation), it would result in over 6.4 billion vehicles on the road worldwide, and over 4.5 times increase over the current amount. Having all of those being powered by gasoline would be catastrophic to the environment, not to mention it would accelerate peak oil. There are serious concerns about whether there are enough viable mineral resources to create enough batteries to replace our current fleet of ICE vehicles with EVs, plus mining for the required materials poses environmental and human rights issues of its own. The only workaround to these issues is to move past the notion of widespread car ownership. We have to be smart with how we design and re-develop our cities in the future, especially as the world continues to urbanize. Cities of the future need to avoid being like the resource-hungry, financially-insolvent urban sprawl that's sadly endemic in North America. The way we've designed cities for the past 70 years makes it to where most people have to own their own vehicle just to function in society. There are no real alternatives to the automobile in most American and Canadian cities, as walking and cycling are often dangerous and lack suitable infrastructure to support it, and transit is usually woefully inadequate and underfunded. Our cities need to have suitably high population density and focus on mixed-use, transit-oriented development. Cities absolutely need to be built to where the preferred means of travel should be walking, cycling, or mass transit, with cars being dead last. We need to stop prioritizing individual vehicle ownership and start prioritizing better alternatives. We need to stop building massive freeways and start investing in better, more affordable, more expansive transit. Car dependency is simply unsustainable in the long run. There is no excuse why we can't have cities designed to where most of what people need or want is within walking or cycling distance, and that if those aren't options that there's a reliable, safe, and affordable transit option. Smarter urban planning will benefit every nation on Earth and go a long way to breaking our dependence on limited resources.
Damilola Ogunbiyi spoke really well about these issues. Both African people were outstanding in their understanding of the problem and how infeasible it is to just expect developing countries to phase out fossil fuels, especially when they have nowhere near the same resources. Plus, the developing countries are not burning fossil fuels as a hobby, it’s for industrial use, of which the end consumers are worldwide and often these massive conglomerates are owned by developed countries. Really, there’s no use to point fingers at anyone, we all will suffer if we don’t work together. If the end of the world as we know it doesn’t bring humanity together, I don’t know what will. And honestly, I’m kinda really worried we might not make it. Maybe this is the Great Filter of civilisations: whether greed can outweigh morals.
I kinda think it is okay to point fingers. And as stated in the program it is exactly developing countries that will suffer more the effects of global warming.
@@adeeRoKUO …actually we are doing a lot. We segregate, invest in renewables, have high standards for diesel cars and also have carbon tax… while you drop plastic in the ocean… and don’t care at all…so please …you could do even the minimum.. but you don’t. Wait for others to solve your problems with cash! It’s called bad attitude.
@@JFoch8014 just saying China is leading at renewable energy and EV… They have pretty good infrastructure for public transport compared to a certain country in North America too. Can they do more? Yes. Are they doing anything? No.
The profits are private but the costs are paid by the public. Until they get sued like the tobacco industry and opioid makers, the profit motive will govern their decisions.
Private companies are always profit driven and will exploit at every step it can get away with. While it is easy to just say capitalism bad, but it is also important to not forget that it is more directly a failure of our system. Does not matter whether it is lobbying, latent response, or shortsightedness, failure of policymakers and legislators to adapt with reality and regulate private companies is what lead us to here.
Oh they cared. That's why they've waging a disinformation war and have been funding climate change deniers for well over 40 years. They still care even today because the deniers and corrupt politicians are still received dark money from the fossil fuel companies.
Veiled and throughly hindered truth by means of multiple excuses which is related to all the “developed” countries. Even though we live under the same sky and breathe the same air.
What damage? The UK discovered oil and industrailized, how is this their fault though? The harms were unknown and the benefits were massive, without the uk and fossile fuel you would not be writing this comment. Nowadays the UK is doing everything to stop emmisions, and you still have to hate on them, why? Your just mad that they were able to discover and industrialize before you.
Somebody tell that man from Nigeria that the UK and oil industry's didn't destroyed their country. They did it themselves thru massive corruption and poor management.
Somebody tell that man from Nigeria that the UK and oil industry's didn't destroyed their country. They did it themselves thru massive corruption and poor management.
It got on my nerve when the lady was suggesting 'us' developed nations and 'they' developing nations. Hope she do know that these so called developed nations plunged, looted and wrecked havoc in creating the poor nations of today. Destiny has played the justice card so now the rich has to pay the poor for their survival.
?? It actually sounds fair when she was referring "us" ..cause she was trying to make a point of who the blame really falls to... And distincts the different area of the world
She is literally telling the developed world to stop their hypocrisy. The developing may have looted but they still aren't the greatest emitters of carbon
@@predatorxfilms6904 perhaps you'd like to volunteer as your presence in harming others per your faulty logic... or just maybe neither ppl or the planet is in danger and all this climate panic is just politics
22:08 "We don't care if transitioning is bank breaking for developing countries, you have to do it so we can be sure you will never progress the way we did so easily"
I don't think anyone is demonizing them except the environmentalists. I think the conservatives in the west are resigned that the ocean levels will rise and there will be ecological transformation everywhere, some advantageous and some not.
14:47 I don't see why the Western media is blaming the developing world. Per capita, the average Westerner is emitting 8 times as much carbon than the average Indian. The average Westerner is emitting twice as much carbon than the average Chinese.
For the record, India is the only major country achieving it's Paris Climate target. And also read India's Solar Mission, the developed countries might come to shame
You know there's a saying: " Man cannot learn to walk without falling " We've started to fall, and once we're at the ground we'll get up and make sure that we won't fall again. But we will fall, nobody can stop it!
Please, stop saying that electric cars are a solution to emissions. What we need is more compact, walkable cities with good cycling and public transit networks.
That’s a nice thing to advocate for in new developments, and in rebuilding developments, but you can’t just tear down the thousands of un-walkable car-friendly suburban developments that currently exist and replace them - at least not for many many years. Reducing demand for cars is good, but you will never get it to zero.
@@apmcx You don't need to tear down those places. There are many ways to adapt them and to make them more human friendly. It isn't going to be perfect, but that doesn't mean that the process shouldn't start. As you said, in the same way that the current car-centered was developed over many decades, the same is going to be needed for the reverse. The main point is that the benefits are huge for quality of life, public health, local businesses, and so on. Many cities in The Netherlands are good examples of how to go from car-centric to walk/cycling cities. Another point is that I agree that the demand for cars is never going to zero and it shouldn't, however, its current use is excessive and unproductive, and it causes more problems than solutions.
Sure, but cars are part of the solution as well. Not everything can be done by public transport. Make cities car unfriendly and give city life back to the people. That will greatly reduce car ownership and use. Not just bikes has good content on this.
As a Zimbabwean I can tell that a decade ago, our seasons started and ended at different times. Our seasons are now screw'd and we had nothing to do with it, neither did we benefit anything.
Imagine if you went around the world exploring for oil, spending millions of your own money. You finally find some, buy the land from the previous owners, raise billions in investments, agree to pay the government almost 20% in taxes and a few years later, have nationalists decide to seize your property and investments.
I'm just wondering, how bad could it possibly be? Assume we don't do anything, the temps rise by 5 degrees Celsius - still, what's the deal? Some southernmost regions will become unlivable, but some northernmost ones will become acceptable for the first time ever. And where most people live, the US, the EU, China, India - nothing bad is going to happen. Some coastal cities might get wet, and the summers might require AC where previously shade sufficed, but it's not the end of the world! Crops will decrease, but considering how much we waste, we can absolutely make do with a fraction of the yields. Ground water levels might decrease, but I don't think low pressure in the shower has ever killed anyone. And drinking water can be easily transported from regions with no issues, no one is going to dehydrate.
@@wojciechmuras553 humans may be adaptable,but animals and plants arent,animals that have evolved bodies that are meant to handle certain temperatures for millions of years won't be able to handle a 5 degree increase practicly instantaneously(remember,evolution takes over 100,000 years to make notable changes,in 200 years it does jack)there's also the fact that it's a bit inconsistent,it's often called climate change because it's not a even 5 degree increase,it's much more sporadic,and can also increase the amount of hurricanes and tornados and stuff like that because complicated science stuff.
@@wojciechmuras553 "Some coastal cities might get wet" Huge understatement. Floods are getting much MUCH more frequent and and stronger in magnitude and some populated atoll cities are at risk of sinking underneath the ocean.
Or like Trump said... It's still cold outside where is this whole global warming thing .....😰 These are the leaders that humanity will look back on and say if only they did something. ..
@@tauceti8060 Who “took care of the planet” before we arrived? Our planet is approximately 4 billion years old. We’ve been burning carbon intensively for less than 300 years. Think about it.
So, what i have been able to take out if this is that the rich countries who got developed using oil want the developing countries not to follow their foot paths but aren't ready to support them on it?
everyone looks at Africa and cries colonialism-but no one is smart enought to research the geography of Africa. 'Colonialism' was more of a blessing than curse
Just wanted to say that I'm writing a seminar university essay on Big Oil and this video is the best starting resource I could've ever imagined. Excellent work guys and gals, keep it up!
Now with only 1/2 of all the oil that was ever in the ground, we are burning through it at the astonishing rate of 2.1% per year. That leaves us only 47 years worth of oil if we continue at this rate and even less if it is used faster. And there just isn't really any other way right now to move around goods and people, to create the vast amounts of concrete and fertilizer the way we do other than with oil. Since most economies depend on these things to at least some extent if not completely, the world is in a really difficult situation.
Yeah, we’re probably going to hit the wall way before then. It’s easy to imagine people at the top of the pyramid wringing their hands; thinking if only there existed a way we could convince people to self-terminate, perhaps some sort of medical intervention.
I highly appreciate how you mentioned biofuels as one of the solutions. A lot of people underestimate how much ships and planes pollute. As well as that, a car that ran on 100% biofuel is much more environmentally-friendly than one that runs on 100% electricity. That's because their emissions would be solely dependent on their production methods (lithium batteries in particular). Biofuels/efuels are likely gonna be the future for most forms of transportation.
Bio fuels pollute 45% less than fossil fuels, its simply not good enough. Not to mention that making biofuels is 30% efficient, hydrogen is 45% efficient and electricity from the grid is 83% efficient. So this means If you drive a Tesla for 15,000 kilometres it will be more environmentally positive than bio fuels, and that’s with today’s grid. Boom.
What happens now is that ships switch fuel sources once they leave the coast then switch back before reaching another port as oil is still the best and cheapest source; it's kinda funny watching them go through thus long process of switching but also shows the complete flaws with the thinking of ppl who impose these nonsensical rules
What a nice mindset! A lot of other people are still passing the blame to someone else, but to actually be ready to face the challenges is commendable! I wish you luck.
Wow, how refreshing to hear your comment. Personally, I am ashamed to be the generation that allowed this to happen. Good on you! I knew this in 1976 and took no action to stop it. Please continue to smile in the face of adversity until it surrenders! It is not the knowledge to fix this that is lacking. It is the collective will to do the right thing that is in short supply.
I'm working as an Energy Transition professional. The consensus in my field is that if all countries meet the Paris goals, we will be between 2,8-3,8 degrees Celsius. With each degree of warming being a factor 10 more negatively impactful than the latter, we are basically already doomed, if we don't all take massively drastic action, now.
there is still a lot of cognitive dissonance even among climate activists, some people act (as though) you can ban plastic straws and stop ice caps from melting but really you should probably sell your car.
6:20 "[Oil has] pulled millions of people out of poverty." While this might be true the question is why were they in poverty? And it was not from lack of oil.
Fossil fuel comes from before there was major decomposers so dead plants and animals don't decompose before getting buried by other dead organisms. This created thick layers of material that depending on the soil conditions turned into coal, oil, and natural gasses. The majority of it was plants, not animals because scavengers would eat most of the material from dead animals before it was buried. The reason fossil fuels aren't replenished is plants decompose before getting buried now.
Also we could switch to using alcohol which burns cleaner and the remaining carbon dioxide gets taken back into the plants we grow to make the alcohol. We throw away so much food waste that could be used to produce alcohol. And most cars can run off alcohol with only minor tweaks. In America all gasoline must contain at least 15% alcohol and E85 is 85% alcohol. So it's already been proven that we could switch.
@@theFLCLguyThe problem with alcohol is, that it is drinkable, which is one of the reasons it is not the preferred engine fuel in the most of the world.
Most 'rich' government are running their budget on deficit. US just approved another reason round of financing to avoid government shutdown. Good luck getting help from rich.
This type of distrust in institutions wasnt always the case. Those institutions over the past few decades eroded the trust of the public with immoral practices and financial corruption. Its all of them too. Religions institutions, political institutions, media institutions, governmental institutions. Its all been about exploiting people, but pretending to save face by speaking about it like a philanthropist. This is what happens when a nation loses its values.
Lol the emissions of developing countries are to produce cheap goods for the developed countries. There should be a rule that developed countries should subsidize the carbon emissions of developing countries so that your daily necessities can continue to be cheap and affordable. Most developing countries people are using more public transportation while every family in the US drives and waste more food that has to be burned off. How about you all fix your own lifestyles before critizing poorer countries?
@@DOHA104p3 they got rid of South American democracies like Argentina they got rid of the democratic government and put a brutal regime in place like they did in Iran
Its on EVERYBODY to change their reliance on fossil fuels and 100% use of renewable energies or no fossil fuels use at all. Walk, ride your bike, mass transit electric vehicles, electric bikes, electric scooters, electric skateboards....
@@grahamt5924 Thomas Sowell's entire view of the resource curse is ignoring the elephant in the room. (Also if you can't tell, I do not think it's a mystery. This was a joke.)
As an Indian it is deeply sad for me to see my nation, India, aspire to join the Global North instead of leading the Global South into a better future. For a civilization that pride ourselves in our harmony with nature we are looking more and more to copy the West of the last century. Just remember this - When the environment collapses and it looks like it will sooner than later all that will matter is the survival of humanity not our economics, not our nationalities, not our political systems!
I wonder why the heck that we still using the average world temperature increase of 1°C while all average person still don't even realize or know how serious 1°C is? Can we just world "increase of local average temperature of 5-10°C" or something?
@Willy Watkins It's not cold enough in the north. Increasing temperatures would just cause more immigration from Europe, North Africa and Asia, causing more instability in society due to cultural differences. Plus we have a corrupt parliament which can't do anything because of the international banking system.
@@kensurrency2564 I would rather believe science and scientists then believe your word. And by the way, it's had been colder during ice age but never hotter on average.
The fact that India and China are the only countries that are on track to achieve their promises made in the Paris Climate Accord in the field of renewable energy sector by 2030 says a lot about how the developing world is trying really hard.
@@umarbello4463 It is made of these sources include sugar, molasses and rice, corn and potato starches, natural tree... I recommend you TO THINK again.
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Why did yall chose a weather modification background/chem trails?
I talk about the reality of the situation we face on my channel.
@AileDiablo easy, just nuke the US
I didn't know about your activities on Netflix... A whole new world is opening its gates o.O
It's unfair to talk of the 'developing' countries increasing contribution to Co2 levels without pointing out that the main reason they are increasing output is because they are now the ones manufacturing the West's products. In other words, Europe, Nth America etc are just farming out the damage they are doing, they are still the bigger problem.
True and a lot to be said about that (including the new Apartheid from sweat shops elsewhere to feed Europe & USA with goods). I'm in South Africa now and the G7 discussing this week with our president a 73 billion package to sub saharan Africa to quell fossil fuels here to and make Africa green
More like corporation move production overseas for more profit.
@@grishabelotserkovsky993 it is true tho...
1000% the bottom line is people want to pay as little as possible or the goods they consume. Because of this, they will always rely on developing nations to produce those goods for so little money and zero progress will be made.
Imperialism at its finest.
Can't believe in watching This for free, and I'm happy that you guys did it. This is an important topic and it needs to be seen by alot of people
Nothing is free, it is costing you time.
China is a global super power how is it considered a developing country
@@mortalkombat266 what? Who are you? What are you talking about? How is it relevant?
@@mortalkombat266 Its GDP per capita is still low compared to europe and USA
@@mortalkombat266 there is a huge disparity between rich and poor... In some rural area accessibility to basic needs is still problematic.
"The planet will survive, it's not about the planet, it's about us." This hits hard.
L u should ve got a solution right?
@@kulrajsingh2017 no theres no solution in 2030 it will reach 30 C 90 F
@@fgaeg2209 earth will not get hurt at all since after every major extinction earth recovered. but it is us and animal. i am an anti climate activist as i know we wont be able to save us and so i am an animal activist
This has been the main point for decades. The planet will simply recycle itself as it’s always done. The animals on the planet, though, including us, will be destroyed. We can survive it, we survived the last Ice Age. But it’s going to be a tough experience.
At this point the planet deserves not to have humanity.
This is amazing that Netflix has released it for wider public to see. Irrespective of the subscription. This is a very important topic. Thank you Netflix. And Vox.
_This is amazing that Netflix has released it for wider public to see._
It's notable that Netflix also released Cowspiracy and Seaspiracy, both of which seem to claim that those industries are the biggest destructors of the environment, not the oil industry.
Ball of confusion...
Propoganda is always free
It won't do much, I'm afraid. The people that don't believe, despite all the science, wont change their opinions now.
@@imacmill all these things are not mutually exclusive. Grow up and think
@@imacmill all of them are destructive to environment. Pretty common sense and fast fashion, plastic, conventional agriculture, so on... literally anything we do with our life is destructive to environment. Sustainable is the key for survivor now and future.
USA and UK : takes African/middle eastern oil and use it to develop
Africa and Middle East : gain independence and start using thier own oil to develop
USA and UK : omg u guys are hurting the environment that’s so bad why you aren’t like us ?
Ever heard of change? Yeah revolutionary. It seems like you can't comprehend nations ideas change.
you should be careful not to frame climate change as a political agenda by the rich western world to impoverish the developing world. Climate change is very real and is worsening everyday.
Worse yet - Europe and USA outsource their polluting industries to Asia, then blame Asia for not conforming to strict environmental standards. Pure hypocrisy.
Exactly I was thinking the same thing.
Because of bad regulations. How many oil spills have there been? We need higher restrictions.
“In order for Africa to transition, it would take an investment of 70 billion every year.”
The US war in Afghanistan cost 300 million dollars a day, or about 120 billion dollars a year.
That depends if you believe in those numbers.
The current estimates for the war of Afghanistan is the maximum estimates.
The accurate numbers aren't there.
What is known that during the 20 years USA supplied Afghan government with 180 Billion worth of USD.
Would have been more cost-effective to just nuke 'em.
@Maja Kwiatkowska very true.
US implemented European technology to effectivize their domestic production.
It's actually interesting how USA by 1900 was the largest producer of coal, oil, gas, steel and meat.
@@wutangclan2051 Your message clearly shows that you shouldn't post on the internet and get some Professional Help.
WOuld you like to talk about it? I'm here for you.
@@sebastianwallin3726 Does that number include bombs, rockets and bullets shot at the native combatants?
1. Plunder nations into poverty.
2. Pretend to fix the damage while finding new ways to plunder even more.
3. Give back a fraction of what was taken and call it aid, like you're doing them a favor.
4. Complain about spending anything to help plundered nations and blame them for their poverty.
5. Remember that none of these steps was "Stop plundering"
6. Put out documenteries suggesting there is still hope
That pretty much sums it!
@@mikhelBrown Lol
6. Corrupting the already corrupt politicians..
Best comment ever....😀
The saddest part to me is that the most guilty people will never be held accountable.
Terminate them with your bare hands.
@@leshiro5574 it’s easier with a tank
@@nemanacemu2024 an oil powered tank
@Ballstavius Deadeyes yea but the thing is, no one willed their way into this world. Our parents willed us into the world so no one should feel guilty by that logic other than people who’ve had kids.
@muhammad noor did you intend to criticize capitalism? I don't see the connection between democracy and greed/corruption
I’m Nigerian and I blame our leaders and not Britain or US. Our leaders corruption is why we are still underdeveloped. If we utilized the fund we got from oil well, we would be like Dubai
Well said. Great country, lovely people. F'ed up leaders.
Dubai is a joke, all it has are wasteful infrastructures. Most people still work there in very cheap labour.
@@_dayee2388 you mean a realist giving reality checks?
True talk.
Though I ought to blame our leaders, but their hands are tied by the same people who keep echoing 'leapfrogging'.
Keeping their country prosperous while they choke other nations is inhumanity.
Nevertheless, all the bucks start and end with our leaders.
Corruption is the problem everywhere.
"There's a lot being invested in destruction in the world today" That's sad but true
It's not exactly destruction of the world, but destruction of humanity.
THE Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.”
I mean, we have always strived to get better at sources. Burning oil better than burning coal which is better than burning wood.
metallica moment
@@dave_riots Good, because it will solve overpopulation.
The world isn't going anywhere, we are.
- G. Carlin
Aight, where we going?
@AileDiablo first of all, why u taking about the military so much, sure deference’s matter but that isn’t wha u should focus on. Also “rockets” aren’t made up of oil, they are nuclear, and if u mean rockets like space rockets then yeah they don’t use oil they use liquid hydrogen. Oil is a non-renewable resource that the future can’t depend on, if we keep using oil our world will become a wasteland, we need a new way to power our cars and other vehicles. And in fact we do, called electric cars, they don’t use gas they run on electricity. If we keep using oil and other toxic gases, climate change will rise and the world will go through horrible things, such as more intensified natural disasters. The list goes on and on and theirs no point in me telling u the effects of climate change, climate change is the biggest problem out generation will face and people like u are the ones that are making it even worse. Check ur facts before trying to tell people how the oil industry works.
We are taking tons of ecosystems with us. Turtles, alligators are all slated to go extinct.
@AileDiablo no actually. We need to shift away from oil. You could say the same about kerosene... And oil from whales. Our technology moved on.
@@worstgamer1162 "We're going away."
- G. Carlin
So complicated in a world where money for the few is more important than the health of the planet.
The fact that scientists warn them in 1965 and they did nothing really destroys my hope in our species' survival
Actually there was already reports about climate warming in early 20th century.
@@JackieWelles Do you mean late 1800s to early 1900s?
@@JackieWelles 20th. 1900s. Yes, the world hasn't changed. People in power still don't listen to scientists.
@@bikashdaimari8326 yea sorry I meant to say early 20th century.😅
THEY GOT WRONG THEY SAID WE BE UNDER WATER BY KNOW
Electric cars arent going to fix it. We need walkable cities with good public transit and bike infrastructure. We need to dramatically improve our rail networks for both intercity travel and freight.
Fixing the ongoing climate crisis needs very much an “all the above” type of approach. This includes everything you mentioned but will have to include electric cars as well.
@@SputnikCrisis Nope electric cars require energy, which is mostly gained from non-renewables.
That's a nice idea, but it is simply not possible, nor desirable for all people to live within walking distance of their work. Plus, we have seen the health dangers of living in human storage units, where pathogens can spread rapidly. Individual vehicles will always be desirable, no matter how much marketing campaigns attempt to inculcate otherwise. Electric or hydrogen vehicles are our best bet to bridge the gap between improving the climate crisis, and meeting the needs for individual transportation.
Too many people are happy driving alone for us to completely give up on the car and switch to mass transit. Just look at how many single occupant cars go out on the roads in rush hour, compared to how many use the HOV lane. At least leaving an electric car (or hydrogen, or some future clean option) as a choice will make transitioning easier.
@@joermnyc that's not because they are happy driving, that's because there is no mass transit in most American suburbs. If you look at cities with good mass transit, like London and New York, it's obvious that people take it.
The famous quote is "you don't judge the need for a bridge by the number of people swimming across the river".
I missed the part where the use of oil actually ends…
As a Nigerian, I can tell you that although there’s currently a lot of rhetoric about net zero, the reality on ground points to very little if any intentions of cutting down on carbon emissions in the near future, and the argument is basically around the unfairness of the developed world asking this of us just when we’re beginning to get our act together having not too long ago come out of the doldrums of colonialism followed by military dictatorships, wars and political instability.
Nigeria is a wonderful country. I hope it works out its problems
The Nigerian people and country are great and they do deserve reparations and help from the former colonialist states to develop adequately and in a lower carbon fashion - net zero and negative carbon are jobs for the top 10 economies
If Nigeria(and Africa) don't leapfrog there will be no Nigeria in the future.
Sadly i don't see a huge shift in policy any time soon. I live in Norway and work in the oil industri where new permits for exploration is still beeing handed out. Even with the newly election switching away from the conservative side, non of the "green" parties did particular good. The facts about the harm has been known for a long time now, and i hope oil producing countries like my own will take their responsibility and use some of its wealth to develop new and cheep green energy sources.
It will come from the demand side. You cannot expect a petroleum company to stop producing petroleum, if there is demand for petroleum. And production will grow if demand grows. It is simple, cannot blame the producer for answering demand.
But there is a shift happening in demand, soon demand will start to fall and when it does producers will be forced to produce less.
The worry for countries like Nigeria, is are they prepared for a massive reduction of demand? Do they have anything else to replace the jobs and revenue when demand falls and it forced production to fall?
The stalling tactics of the global fossil fuel industry are starting to fail. But they have delayed it so long instead of a slow manageable decline it is going to be like ripping off a bandaid. There will be a lot of pain all of a sudden. (Instead of reducing growth 50 years ago, instead we are going to get a 50% drop in demand in less than a decade)
So the only organizations not hurt badly are the ones who are prepared for this reality. Diversified revenues, not investing in petroleum growth, investing in the new solutions.
Is Nigeria ready for falling petroleum demand?
I’m surprised the full episode is uploaded here. This is actually one of my favourite programs on Netflix.
it's important to educate ppl on this topic ! I'd take this ,over strangers things , on any day of the week .. it's so important 4 ppl to see this info!
@@MeiGunner sorry I got a typo. I meant to say this is one of my favourite programs. Changed it already. And yeah, I’d rather have more of this than some of the trash quality shows like Riverdale which is distributed by Netflix internationally.
Show name
As much as I love the idea of clean energy, I won’t deny the obvious. Oil will still be in large scale use by 2050 and beyond.
until it's gone!
@@mixmasterf the earth won’t run out of oil anytime soon. There’s enough oil in Venezuela alone to keep us going for a long time. If we continued on our current path the sky would turn black before we would run out of oil. That doesn’t mean I’m with the idea of oil because we all want our energy to be clean, but as it stands now oil will be continued to be used for at least another 50 years.
What is the clean alternative? EV production emit 70% more pollution (source VW group). In most of the country electricity is produced using coal, oil, gas. And most the power grid are pretty enifficent, there is a lot of losses. Even in a ultra rich state like California. I do believe that EV would make thing much worse.
@@victorhl69 alot of tree huggers dont want to acknowledge that EV is actually making the world use more oil. Due to the inefficiences stated
@@giraffeman326 Venezuela has enough oil to meet world supply for only 9 years. That's not a 'long time' in my book.
I think city planning and transportation also play a role in our energy consumption. Too many people opt for private vehicle because cities and towns have been built for them, not the people. The reliance on private vehicles is further exacerbated by inferior public transit systems and induced demand for cars wrought on by too many road projects. If we were to address this part of the problem I think we would be able to reduce energy consumption significantly.
much of the country uses private vehicles as often there are few if any alternatives. perhaps you can get by if you right in the middle of a city but many of us do not.
Very true. Poor urban planning, urban sprawl, nascent transit options, and good ol' greed make the problem all the worse.
@@makeitpay8241 It's almost like you didn't read the comment at all
@@l-_olvlo_-l it's almost like you didn't like anything i said.
Yes and if you plant a train seed and water it it will grow….
The Stone Age didn't end because of the lack of stones...
It ended because of the bronze age.
The oil age didnt end because of lack of oils. It ended because of Dyson Sphere
@@sutionojoyodiningrat3610 Fun fact: you need a Dyson Sphere to build a Dyson Sphere. (And some estimates say that the mass of material required to build one would be larger than the mass of the Earth)
@@LonelyRacoon how about just a ring world ;)
@@jeremytine Like in the movie Elysium?
Ok
so depressing, this is why im starting to saving to purchase a piece of land and become a self sufficient permaculture farmer
OPEC to their investors: Don’t Panic.
The Future: Yeah… panic.
oooh... thats funny but scary true.
Rich people: carry on as normal and don’t change anything.
Westerners: who did this mess ?
@@zaidusama8240 true :(
No oil, no water, no problem. Just keep procreating.
There's never talk of rethinking and redesigning our cities to be less energy demanding. Such as, not having to use a car for daily needs aka being able to walk or take public transit. Sometimes less is more.
There is never talk like that in the usa. The rest of the world is working on that stuff.
I don't think the bud driver will be happy me carrying a van load of tools.
@@Robert-cu9bm To be fair, yours is a rare case where a private vehicle is feasible. For one, you do fully utilize the capacity of your van. Many vehicles tend to have only the driver and nothing else. Not even cargo.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 My college campus is working on this
USA is inefficient cause USA allows car companies to lobby the senate and government and manipulate your favorite representatives and bend to their will.
Something overlooked in the video was the opportunity to talk about car dependency, which is the single greatest cause of oil dependency. In the U.S., transportation represents two thirds of all petroleum usage. If the entire world were to have a per capita car ownership equivalent to that of the U.S. (the most car-dependent large nation), it would result in over 6.4 billion vehicles on the road worldwide, and over 4.5 times increase over the current amount. Having all of those being powered by gasoline would be catastrophic to the environment, not to mention it would accelerate peak oil. There are serious concerns about whether there are enough viable mineral resources to create enough batteries to replace our current fleet of ICE vehicles with EVs, plus mining for the required materials poses environmental and human rights issues of its own.
The only workaround to these issues is to move past the notion of widespread car ownership. We have to be smart with how we design and re-develop our cities in the future, especially as the world continues to urbanize. Cities of the future need to avoid being like the resource-hungry, financially-insolvent urban sprawl that's sadly endemic in North America.
The way we've designed cities for the past 70 years makes it to where most people have to own their own vehicle just to function in society. There are no real alternatives to the automobile in most American and Canadian cities, as walking and cycling are often dangerous and lack suitable infrastructure to support it, and transit is usually woefully inadequate and underfunded. Our cities need to have suitably high population density and focus on mixed-use, transit-oriented development. Cities absolutely need to be built to where the preferred means of travel should be walking, cycling, or mass transit, with cars being dead last.
We need to stop prioritizing individual vehicle ownership and start prioritizing better alternatives. We need to stop building massive freeways and start investing in better, more affordable, more expansive transit. Car dependency is simply unsustainable in the long run. There is no excuse why we can't have cities designed to where most of what people need or want is within walking or cycling distance, and that if those aren't options that there's a reliable, safe, and affordable transit option.
Smarter urban planning will benefit every nation on Earth and go a long way to breaking our dependence on limited resources.
Excellent comment and often overlooked point.
Damilola Ogunbiyi spoke really well about these issues. Both African people were outstanding in their understanding of the problem and how infeasible it is to just expect developing countries to phase out fossil fuels, especially when they have nowhere near the same resources. Plus, the developing countries are not burning fossil fuels as a hobby, it’s for industrial use, of which the end consumers are worldwide and often these massive conglomerates are owned by developed countries. Really, there’s no use to point fingers at anyone, we all will suffer if we don’t work together. If the end of the world as we know it doesn’t bring humanity together, I don’t know what will. And honestly, I’m kinda really worried we might not make it. Maybe this is the Great Filter of civilisations: whether greed can outweigh morals.
I kinda think it is okay to point fingers. And as stated in the program it is exactly developing countries that will suffer more the effects of global warming.
It's sad to see the amount of confusion and devastation caused by the lies of the rich and powerful. You see it in everything.
Turn off the heater, don't use your car, don't buy a car, don't buy food, don't breathe too...
"We all need to work on this together whether not its fair in any sense" Yeah lady, easy for you to say.
@@SayaRamah Maybe start electing people who don’t cheat their own countrymen so you can be taken seriously. Then we talk.
hypocrisy coming from the westerners.. preaching but not doing anything
@@adeeRoKUO start by doing something yourself, and not always waiting for the Westerners to do something.
@@adeeRoKUO …actually we are doing a lot. We segregate, invest in renewables, have high standards for diesel cars and also have carbon tax… while you drop plastic in the ocean… and don’t care at all…so please …you could do even the minimum.. but you don’t. Wait for others to solve your problems with cash! It’s called bad attitude.
@@JFoch8014 just saying China is leading at renewable energy and EV…
They have pretty good infrastructure for public transport compared to a certain country in North America too.
Can they do more? Yes. Are they doing anything? No.
I like that y'all decided to post this one on RUclips, too. If there was ever a topic covered on this show to make widely available, this is it.
They knew the whole time. And didn't care. Now we're dealing with the ramifications.
The profits are private but the costs are paid by the public. Until they get sued like the tobacco industry and opioid makers, the profit motive will govern their decisions.
Capitalism baby.
Capitalism in a nutshell.
Private companies are always profit driven and will exploit at every step it can get away with. While it is easy to just say capitalism bad, but it is also important to not forget that it is more directly a failure of our system. Does not matter whether it is lobbying, latent response, or shortsightedness, failure of policymakers and legislators to adapt with reality and regulate private companies is what lead us to here.
Oh they cared. That's why they've waging a disinformation war and have been funding climate change deniers for well over 40 years. They still care even today because the deniers and corrupt politicians are still received dark money from the fossil fuel companies.
The mention of leap-frogging and the explanation of why it's not possible in developing countries was satisfying to watch.
It’s unbelievable how the UK and their “queen” did all that damage to different countries around the world
Veiled and throughly hindered truth by means of multiple excuses which is related to all the “developed” countries.
Even though we live under the same sky and breathe the same air.
What damage? The UK discovered oil and industrailized, how is this their fault though? The harms were unknown and the benefits were massive, without the uk and fossile fuel you would not be writing this comment. Nowadays the UK is doing everything to stop emmisions, and you still have to hate on them, why? Your just mad that they were able to discover and industrialize before you.
Somebody tell that man from Nigeria that the UK and oil industry's didn't destroyed their country. They did it themselves thru massive corruption and poor management.
Somebody tell that man from Nigeria that the UK and oil industry's didn't destroyed their country. They did it themselves thru massive corruption and poor management.
you were born from those circumstances. you should be thankful
It got on my nerve when the lady was suggesting 'us' developed nations and 'they' developing nations.
Hope she do know that these so called developed nations plunged, looted and wrecked havoc in creating the poor nations of today.
Destiny has played the justice card so now the rich has to pay the poor for their survival.
?? It actually sounds fair when she was referring "us" ..cause she was trying to make a point of who the blame really falls to...
And distincts the different area of the world
She is literally telling the developed world to stop their hypocrisy. The developing may have looted but they still aren't the greatest emitters of carbon
Can’t quite describe my excitement and the buzz I feel right now but I love this topic of discussion because it’s necessary.
"What's at risk is not the planet, it will survive. What's at risk is us the humans"
This reminds me of george carlin
Its better if humans werent to live on the planet anyways.
@@predatorxfilms6904 You can help yourself
Neither ppl or the planet is in any danger
@@predatorxfilms6904 perhaps you'd like to volunteer as your presence in harming others per your faulty logic... or just maybe neither ppl or the planet is in danger and all this climate panic is just politics
15:00 "Developed countries used all the fossil oil they wanted, but if developing countries do the same they'll be the villains".
Yup.
22:08 "We don't care if transitioning is bank breaking for developing countries, you have to do it so we can be sure you will never progress the way we did so easily"
I don't think anyone is demonizing them except the environmentalists. I think the conservatives in the west are resigned that the ocean levels will rise and there will be ecological transformation everywhere, some advantageous and some not.
Unless they are China they get a free pass.
Libral politics at its finest
14:47 I don't see why the Western media is blaming the developing world. Per capita, the average Westerner is emitting 8 times as much carbon than the average Indian. The average Westerner is emitting twice as much carbon than the average Chinese.
For the record, India is the only major country achieving it's Paris Climate target.
And also read India's Solar Mission, the developed countries might come to shame
Cool, where did you read this?
A worthy point. But India had a lower "starting point". Not that that excuses any of us with the original sin.
@@archstanton_live Fair point. But given the mamoth size of country and it's huge population, with growth at fastest speed, they doing amazing
@@karanseth4726 indeed.
@@karanseth4726 Perhaps affluence and unfettered capitalism may be the issue?
It's just coincidence that oil men would wage war in oil rich land. Cause Brutus is an honorable man.
So are they all - all HONOURABLE men.
Remember to walk to work, and don't heat your house.
You know there's a saying:
" Man cannot learn to walk without falling "
We've started to fall, and once we're at the ground we'll get up and make sure that we won't fall again.
But we will fall, nobody can stop it!
"There is a lot being invested in the destruction of our world today."
-Nnimmo Bassey
Brilliant you caught that.
Duh, that is just a negative externality, why would they care as long as they get a lot of money
Please, stop saying that electric cars are a solution to emissions. What we need is more compact, walkable cities with good cycling and public transit networks.
That’s a nice thing to advocate for in new developments, and in rebuilding developments, but you can’t just tear down the thousands of un-walkable car-friendly suburban developments that currently exist and replace them - at least not for many many years. Reducing demand for cars is good, but you will never get it to zero.
@@apmcx You don't need to tear down those places. There are many ways to adapt them and to make them more human friendly. It isn't going to be perfect, but that doesn't mean that the process shouldn't start. As you said, in the same way that the current car-centered was developed over many decades, the same is going to be needed for the reverse. The main point is that the benefits are huge for quality of life, public health, local businesses, and so on. Many cities in The Netherlands are good examples of how to go from car-centric to walk/cycling cities. Another point is that I agree that the demand for cars is never going to zero and it shouldn't, however, its current use is excessive and unproductive, and it causes more problems than solutions.
YES
I personally recommend watching the channel "Not Just Bikes".
Sure, but cars are part of the solution as well. Not everything can be done by public transport.
Make cities car unfriendly and give city life back to the people. That will greatly reduce car ownership and use.
Not just bikes has good content on this.
I love this part most with the idealist at 16:36 and then the person who knows the facts on the ground 16:47.
Simply brilliant.
" I have a guy that is good at explaining a problem, I need a guy that is good at explaining the solutions.'' - me
Yeah. My boss told me from the beginning, "Don't bring me a problem without a probable solution". Brainstorm it first.
Love Ethan Hawke's narration.
Was that Ethan Hawke? I missed that.
@@stevechance150 yup it is at opening credit. 2:20
He gained some street credit with me too! 😄
As a Zimbabwean I can tell that a decade ago, our seasons started and ended at different times. Our seasons are now screw'd and we had nothing to do with it, neither did we benefit anything.
I want to be optimistic, but my gut tells me we're all f**ked.
Touche!
face the reality we live in
@@checkerpoo3215 absolutely
I’m reading a book called, “Turning Oil Into Salt.” I recommend it if you’re interested in this topic.
Thank you!
Thank you
Thank You
will do! thank you for the recommendation
Thank you 🧂🧂🧂🧂🛢🛢🛢🛢⛽🛵
"...otherwise we're all gonna fry..."
That is pretty much the point
There will never be an end to oil. Everything you own has been made by a byproduct of petroleum.
Imagine if I "discovered" gold underneath your backyard and claimed it as mine...
Hey- I was wondering who took all my gold...
It would be a "mine"
Imagine if you went around the world exploring for oil, spending millions of your own money. You finally find some, buy the land from the previous owners, raise billions in investments, agree to pay the government almost 20% in taxes and a few years later, have nationalists decide to seize your property and investments.
@@johnmonrow9981 yo based nationalizers
Why do you think Britain has so many foreign museum artifacts huh.
Climate deniers aren't denying climate change: they are frightened of the social-political change that would accompany admitting we made a boo-boo.
I'm just wondering, how bad could it possibly be? Assume we don't do anything, the temps rise by 5 degrees Celsius - still, what's the deal? Some southernmost regions will become unlivable, but some northernmost ones will become acceptable for the first time ever. And where most people live, the US, the EU, China, India - nothing bad is going to happen. Some coastal cities might get wet, and the summers might require AC where previously shade sufficed, but it's not the end of the world! Crops will decrease, but considering how much we waste, we can absolutely make do with a fraction of the yields. Ground water levels might decrease, but I don't think low pressure in the shower has ever killed anyone. And drinking water can be easily transported from regions with no issues, no one is going to dehydrate.
@@wojciechmuras553 humans may be adaptable,but animals and plants arent,animals that have evolved bodies that are meant to handle certain temperatures for millions of years won't be able to handle a 5 degree increase practicly instantaneously(remember,evolution takes over 100,000 years to make notable changes,in 200 years it does jack)there's also the fact that it's a bit inconsistent,it's often called climate change because it's not a even 5 degree increase,it's much more sporadic,and can also increase the amount of hurricanes and tornados and stuff like that because complicated science stuff.
@@wojciechmuras553 "Some coastal cities might get wet" Huge understatement. Floods are getting much MUCH more frequent and and stronger in magnitude and some populated atoll cities are at risk of sinking underneath the ocean.
@@chaosincarnate7304 Call the Dutch.
@@wojciechmuras553 For what?
"We'll probably need to find other sources of energy and not rely completely on oil"
US government: I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
Or like Trump said... It's still cold outside where is this whole global warming thing .....😰
These are the leaders that humanity will look back on and say if only they did something. ..
US Government: Agreed! We’re fracking for natural gas now!
Same for EU countries. Except France.
E, that's an ignorant statement as expected
I was missing this kind of content from VOX.
Amazing content
I do request the concerned people to act quickly and effectively
Thank you Vox for running this series on the wide-ranging effects the climate crisis will bring on us. Please keep it up.
'The planet will survive, what's at risk is us'.
That's deep.
Without us who will take care of the planet?
@@tauceti8060 in a 1000 years it will fix itself ,earth has survived much bigger things than climate change.
@@tauceti8060 Who “took care of the planet” before we arrived? Our planet is approximately 4 billion years old. We’ve been burning carbon intensively for less than 300 years. Think about it.
@@kensurrency2564 Our planet has seen much worse that what we could ever create.
So, what i have been able to take out if this is that the rich countries who got developed using oil want the developing countries not to follow their foot paths but aren't ready to support them on it?
exactly
They are supporting it but the money isn't enough
We're now at a point of no return on earth, the next 15 years will be terrifying
I feel its already affected people’s brains and all rational thinking
@Ismael i don't think this is something anyone can run from💀
If the next fifteen years are going to be terrifying, then what would you call the fifteen years after that? Extinction?
@@loopslytle could be yeah
Lol
the atrocities done by British colonial rule can't be written in million pages🤐
at least they have the excuse of it being so long ago. The USA continues to do worse everyday.
nor could the atrocities before British colonial rule.
@@cstonemma human history …
@@Imbalanxd oh, so the UK stopped being colonial? News to me.
everyone looks at Africa and cries colonialism-but no one is smart enought to research the geography of Africa. 'Colonialism' was more of a blessing than curse
Just wanted to say that I'm writing a seminar university essay on Big Oil and this video is the best starting resource I could've ever imagined. Excellent work guys and gals, keep it up!
I hope you have finished it 😊
Just asking how it went? A+, I hope
It's a shame the class issues weren't mentioned.
this video is about developed countries and in development. talking about class issues is embodied in them
@@agusgamalerio9038 and classes within the both types of nations
Wow, I'm so happy seeing Nnimmo Bassey doing a documentary with Vox and Netflix. I see him in church every Sunday here in Nigeria.
He is a wise man. I’d love to be able to talk to him.
Now with only 1/2 of all the oil that was ever in the ground, we are burning through it at the astonishing rate of 2.1% per year. That leaves us only 47 years worth of oil if we continue at this rate and even less if it is used faster. And there just isn't really any other way right now to move around goods and people, to create the vast amounts of concrete and fertilizer the way we do other than with oil. Since most economies depend on these things to at least some extent if not completely, the world is in a really difficult situation.
Yeah, we’re probably going to hit the wall way before then. It’s easy to imagine people at the top of the pyramid wringing their hands; thinking if only there existed a way we could convince people to self-terminate, perhaps some sort of medical intervention.
"This transformation would require on average USD 70 billion per year."
Bezos's net worth right now is $211 billion.
Your understanding of money 😭
@@mitchellbaker2872 Okay, please explain how Veee's understanding of money is wrong?
@@mitchellbaker2872 although it’s not exactly the same, it’s similar. And he does still have a point
@@mitchellbaker2872 you realize that countries don't pay each other in hard cash?
@@Xiph1980 do you really think bezos has that in cash?
14:16 Australia does NOT have a carbon tax, it HAD a carbon tax
Thanks LNP
So this is really a story about the age old "the have's against the have not's". Greed is a powerful force.
So the country who became rich by oil r teaching the developing countries how to stop oil usage.. right?
yeah pretty much...Such hypocrisy
@@vinceandrewbirot9367 Im sorry would you prefer they do nothing? I swear people will take any excuse to try and blame the west
The nostalgic intro music brings back memories
I did a project on Eunice Foote. She was completely overlooked in her time, and her work taken by a man. Thank you for highlighting her :)
men also took over farming..... farming was started by women
Developed countries: going green with renewable energy and technology in their own backyard
Also Developed countries: invest in fossil fuel overseas
Human living fossils: **
We are the next oil 🛢🥺
I highly appreciate how you mentioned biofuels as one of the solutions. A lot of people underestimate how much ships and planes pollute. As well as that, a car that ran on 100% biofuel is much more environmentally-friendly than one that runs on 100% electricity. That's because their emissions would be solely dependent on their production methods (lithium batteries in particular). Biofuels/efuels are likely gonna be the future for most forms of transportation.
Bio fuels pollute 45% less than fossil fuels, its simply not good enough. Not to mention that making biofuels is 30% efficient, hydrogen is 45% efficient and electricity from the grid is 83% efficient. So this means If you drive a Tesla for 15,000 kilometres it will be more environmentally positive than bio fuels, and that’s with today’s grid. Boom.
What happens now is that ships switch fuel sources once they leave the coast then switch back before reaching another port as oil is still the best and cheapest source; it's kinda funny watching them go through thus long process of switching but also shows the complete flaws with the thinking of ppl who impose these nonsensical rules
Times are changing, but they're the same problems. I feel honored as a young person to take on this generation's challenges.
Unlike boomers who just kicked the can.
What a nice mindset! A lot of other people are still passing the blame to someone else, but to actually be ready to face the challenges is commendable! I wish you luck.
I share your perspective!
Wow, how refreshing to hear your comment. Personally, I am ashamed to be the generation that allowed this to happen. Good on you!
I knew this in 1976 and took no action to stop it.
Please continue to smile in the face of adversity until it surrenders!
It is not the knowledge to fix this that is lacking.
It is the collective will to do the right thing that is in short supply.
Yeah, unless you got money to spare you ain't helping
I'm working as an Energy Transition professional. The consensus in my field is that if all countries meet the Paris goals, we will be between 2,8-3,8 degrees Celsius.
With each degree of warming being a factor 10 more negatively impactful than the latter, we are basically already doomed, if we don't all take massively drastic action, now.
You are right, but I fear many people will not understand, at least not in time.
there is still a lot of cognitive dissonance even among climate activists, some people act (as though) you can ban plastic straws and stop ice caps from melting but really you should probably sell your car.
6:20 "[Oil has] pulled millions of people out of poverty." While this might be true the question is why were they in poverty? And it was not from lack of oil.
There's a billion reasons people can be in poverty.
Most of us were living near poverty centuries ago. It’s human history. Very slow progress.
"me and my companions have a disease in hearts, and oil is the only cure"
Fossil fuel comes from before there was major decomposers so dead plants and animals don't decompose before getting buried by other dead organisms.
This created thick layers of material that depending on the soil conditions turned into coal, oil, and natural gasses.
The majority of it was plants, not animals because scavengers would eat most of the material from dead animals before it was buried.
The reason fossil fuels aren't replenished is plants decompose before getting buried now.
Also we could switch to using alcohol which burns cleaner and the remaining carbon dioxide gets taken back into the plants we grow to make the alcohol.
We throw away so much food waste that could be used to produce alcohol.
And most cars can run off alcohol with only minor tweaks. In America all gasoline must contain at least 15% alcohol and E85 is 85% alcohol. So it's already been proven that we could switch.
@@theFLCLguyThe problem with alcohol is, that it is drinkable, which is one of the reasons it is not the preferred engine fuel in the most of the world.
Developed country has to stop their hypocrisy and stop expecting same efforts as them from a developing country without helping them.
Most 'rich' government are running their budget on deficit. US just approved another reason round of financing to avoid government shutdown. Good luck getting help from rich.
We have almost half of the nation denouncing vaccines, do you really think we can do the right thing and curb oil consumption?
This type of distrust in institutions wasnt always the case. Those institutions over the past few decades eroded the trust of the public with immoral practices and financial corruption. Its all of them too. Religions institutions, political institutions, media institutions, governmental institutions. Its all been about exploiting people, but pretending to save face by speaking about it like a philanthropist.
This is what happens when a nation loses its values.
Leaded gasoline is another example. The dangers were known for about 30 years before the oil companies relented.
I love that the coup of '53 is being talked about more and reaching more people with more knowledge of the us-iran relationship beyond 79.
I’m blown away at what I learned in this video. Utterly shocked in some ways. Thank you to all who worked on this piece. 🙏
As a Norwegian, this isn't gonna be easy as our main stream of revenue is oil, we don't really have the industry Sweden or Denmark has.
Lol the emissions of developing countries are to produce cheap goods for the developed countries. There should be a rule that developed countries should subsidize the carbon emissions of developing countries so that your daily necessities can continue to be cheap and affordable.
Most developing countries people are using more public transportation while every family in the US drives and waste more food that has to be burned off. How about you all fix your own lifestyles before critizing poorer countries?
Aight guys no more oil
No more USA in middle east
Also it's surprise to watch a Netflix series for free lol
Thanks vox
Don't worry they will start bringing democracy and regime change to Bolivia and Mexico
@@mika274 doesnt Mexico and most South American country have democracy?
They do... But Americans don't like the democracy because they have large deposits of lithium
@@mika274 OK I won't be surprise if America starts invading those countries
@@DOHA104p3 they got rid of South American democracies like Argentina they got rid of the democratic government and put a brutal regime in place like they did in Iran
This is something to be discussed more on every platform these days.
Hello from Armenia 🇦🇲
It mostly depends on agencies and politician , not on normal people.
Its on EVERYBODY to change their reliance on fossil fuels and 100% use of renewable energies or no fossil fuels use at all. Walk, ride your bike, mass transit electric vehicles, electric bikes, electric scooters, electric skateboards....
@@robertlee8805 well not the current generation now we've done nothing the last generation should of fixed this.
"Countries don't necessarily do better just because they have an abundance natural resources"🔥
WHAT??
AZ, please study world history
Rich countries emitted tons of emissions to become Rich and now they expect developing countries to stop all emissions.
The ignorance of man will also be his downfall
China is a global super power how is it considered a developing country
Greed. They know what they are doing and they just don’t care.
Yeah "the resource curse" is a huge mystery. -The Queen, probably
It's not a mystery. Thomas Sowell and many other economists have explained it extremely well.
@@grahamt5924 Thomas Sowell's entire view of the resource curse is ignoring the elephant in the room. (Also if you can't tell, I do not think it's a mystery. This was a joke.)
@@gg3675 What's the Elephant he ignored?
@@grahamt5924 The fact practically every nation burdened with "the resource curse" was also burdened with extractive colonization.
@@gg3675 Wealthy countries do not become rich through resourses, they become wealthy through production. They make things people want.
As an Indian it is deeply sad for me to see my nation, India, aspire to join the Global North instead of leading the Global South into a better future. For a civilization that pride ourselves in our harmony with nature we are looking more and more to copy the West of the last century. Just remember this - When the environment collapses and it looks like it will sooner than later all that will matter is the survival of humanity not our economics, not our nationalities, not our political systems!
India is doing a lot in renewable, infact it is one of the few country who met the paris2015 goals
I wonder why the heck that we still using the average world temperature increase of 1°C while all average person still don't even realize or know how serious 1°C is? Can we just world "increase of local average temperature of 5-10°C" or something?
@Willy Watkins and why is that good?
@Willy Watkins It's not cold enough in the north. Increasing temperatures would just cause more immigration from Europe, North Africa and Asia, causing more instability in society due to cultural differences.
Plus we have a corrupt parliament which can't do anything because of the international banking system.
How serious _is_ 1°C? It’s been much hotter on the planet, even before we showed up. And colder, too (lots of people died during ice ages).
@@kensurrency2564 I would rather believe science and scientists then believe your word. And by the way, it's had been colder during ice age but never hotter on average.
@@songsantov you don’t have to believe me, or anyone else for that matter. The data is available for all to see.
1:50 "Governments are starting to agree."
Also goverments: oil☝📈📈📈
Based and energy pilled
Depends on what government, if ur taking about western countries then yea most are starting to take action
I love these my high school science classes!! Perfect length for one period to watch and still have time to discuss!
The fact that India and China are the only countries that are on track to achieve their promises made in the Paris Climate Accord in the field of renewable energy sector by 2030 says a lot about how the developing world is trying really hard.
An everage American 60 times more print than an Indian
@@yojiviriak675 print ?
@Respected Sir, wahi asli wala kya hai
The End of Oil?
Me: "Hahahahaha".
How are you going to build new roads?
Don’t go there…it’s too obvious.😌
Bioasphalt, bio-butmen
@@umarbello4463 It is made of these sources include sugar, molasses and rice, corn and potato starches, natural tree... I recommend you TO THINK again.
If you end oil you would have to end avocados too. They have oil in them too. Then you liberals would starve.
0:20 "An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature".. *goosebumps*