Why protests matter.
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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at why climate protests matters. Specifically, I look at environmental protests like the recent September climate strikes in order to understand protest's place in creating much-needed climate action. Via various organizations like the Sunrise Movement, Zero Hour, Fridays for Future, and One Million of Us, youth protests across the world are crying out to world leaders to act strongly on climate change. Greta Thunberg certainly has added fuel to this growing fire, but she's not the only climate protest leader. These movements show not only the strength and solidarity of a new wave of climate activists but the mounting pressure on politicians to create broad-based, inclusive, and transformative policies that combat climate change.
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List of Climate Activists and Influencers:
1. Jerome Foster: / jeromefosterii
2. Lily Gardner: / lilygardnr
3. Jamie Margolin: / jamie_margolin
4. Isra Hirsi: / israhirsi
5. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez: / xiuhtezcatl
6. Green Kerene: / greenkerene
7. Mary Heglar: / maryheglar
8. Vic J. Barrett: / vict_barrett
9. Mari Copeny: / littlemissflint
10. Aneesa Khan: / aneesa_khan95
11. Naomi Klein: / naomiaklein
12. Fight Toxic Prisons: / fightxprisons
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Resources:
1. The Assault on Environmental Protest (ACLU): www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech...
2. 'We have a once-in-century chance': Naomi Klein on how we can fight the climate crisis (The Guardian): www.theguardian.com/books/201...
3. The Good Fight The Invisible Young Women Driving Climate-Change Activism (Bitch Media): www.bitchmedia.org/article/yo...
4. How Green Party Gains Could Make Europe a Leader Again on Climate (Yale Environment 360): e360.yale.edu/features/driven...
5. Disturbing Report Shows How Many Environmental Activists Are Killed Each Week (Huffington Post): www.huffpost.com/entry/report...
6. Enemies of the State? (Global Witness): www.globalwitness.org/en/camp...
7. Indigenous women traveled 3,000 miles to save an Alaskan forest from Trump (Grist): grist.org/article/indigenous-...
8. US Protest Law Tracker (International Center for Not-for-Profit Law): www.icnl.org/usprotestlawtrack...
9. Climate emergency declarations (Climate emergency declarations): climateemergencydeclaration.o...
10. Carbon Budget (Global Carbon Project): www.globalcarbonproject.org/c...
11. Does Protest Behavior Mediate the Effects of Public Opinion on National Environmental Policies? A Simple Question and a Complex Answer (Alicia A. Weaver): www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
12. Reconstructing Race and Protest: Environmental Justice in New York City (Dolores Greenberg): academic.oup.com/envhis/artic...
13. Petropolis and Environmental Protest in Cross-National Perspective: Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas, versus Minatitlan-Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz (Christopher Sellers): academic.oup.com/jah/article/...
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Images:
1. Black Lives Matter Sign: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota [CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)]
2. Greta Thunberg Picture by Anders Hellberg: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Anders Hellberg
3. NoDAPL video: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Attribution: Megan Smith
4. Jamie Margolin Pic: by Jamie Margolin
5. Extinction Rebellion footage: by Jwslubbock commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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What are your thoughts on the recent outpouring of climate action protests?
Not sufficient yet, but I'm pretty sure it will get bigger
needed because we need actions from leaders
Toon Berry is a great gal hope to see her on climate protests
I think climate action protests are great but people can do more. If people will do mass tree plants and promote recycling it will also make more people aware and also make a physical difference at the same time.
Also many people could protest without even knowing what's the actual solution, I feel it's like thinking that if we protest it will solve everything but it won't. People should understand what are they protesting for and that the end of the day there's a lot of work do be done.
@@cheezenachos1770 I been saying this before the 2016 US election.
Here in Colombia, thousands of climate change activists and general social leaders from all aspects of life have been selectively murdered by the government and terrorist groups. Protesting agains building an oil pipeline might very well be the last thing you do, especially if you don’t live in the big cities
@Wesley Why does that matter? If the drug cartels do it they're still doing it because they're protecting the interests of oil companies. The only thing that changes is that the government and companies have an easier time washing their hands of this but if you believe that they're suddenly innocent because a gangster did it instead of a cop then you're a fool. In the end it does not matter who specifically caries out the killing when the end result is that action on climate change is blocked. Just because one appeals more to your stereotypes about South American countries doesn't change anything.
As an italian 17 y. old I'm RELIEVED that so many youngsters like me are taking action, protesting, making their voices heard and changing the world around us. That said, I believe, as the french philosopher Montesquieu once said, in the division of labour: I mean, every individual being ought to find himself a place and a role in society. Thus, from what I've experienced during these protests and by talking to people on the streets, especially my peers, I've realised that what is missing is not motivation or action, but a radical shift in mentality. Too many don't even know what climate change is, and that's unacceptable. So I've made it my duty in life to be the one that acts under the radar, illuminating people about the truth of science and the mistakes made by themselves and the climate movements. I don't have the possibility here on youtube to fully argue my point, but in short I see most of this "climate action" as a consumeristic manifestation of capitalism itself, which is kind of a paradox but if you really think about it it makes sense. So MY ROLE must be to instruct and get involved in scientific reaserch, also because politics would be nothing without it. I need to make people understand that they are not emancipating themeselves from the broken system unless they change their mentality. They must acheive what greeks named "autarkeia": indipendence form exterior conditionings that are not scientific. So thanks Greta and Greenpeace, but I've got some work to do that you are not doing at all.
Alberto Mattia Perronace I completely agree with your comment. I think it’s a probably too, that the protesters mindset isn’t alligned with what they’re protesting for. I support you!
I don't agree that Greta is not doing it. She is doing what she can to eeducate people. Look at speeches she held, a book that she wrote, a video she made. But that is not enough. Alot of people are not listening to her. So of course everyone everywhere have to spread the word...
@@lotta7235 I am not saying that she is not doing alla that is in her power, as I wrote I love what she is doing and let's be honest: she changed the world. BUT she is kinda like a mythical figure, that unreachable thing that just happens. She may inspire poeple, which she does, but, again, she remains a distant thing that becomes less reliable for those ignorant people. See what I mean? That's why I said we need to act under the radar: talk directly to people, create bonds with them, make them truly understand what is going on, be kinda like a homie: they will listen only to such an approach, not else. At least that's what I've seen here in Italy
The problem with focusing on science and research is that it didn't matter if the public doesn't hear it, and the politicians ignore you. That's why protest is necessary. That said.... everybody has their own role to fill. If you're interested in science, it's amazing if you can pursue that and make contributions that way.
@@KatieBadenhorst I didn't say protests don't work, I just feel like I need to do 2 things: science and talking directly to people, go around and be a "prophet" if you see what I mean
Here in Mexico, sadly I don´t see that polititians actually listen to us, even worse the goverment is promoting a policy to support fossil fuel industries.
Everywhere arround the world governments are promoting animal agriculture, one of the leading causes of climate change, destruction of nature, heart desease, world hunger and the biggest and worst system of opression of all times.
Sadly Mexico has a corrupt government with lots of bribery
Russia's even worse off. Putin and his oligarch friends will do anything to extract as many resources and make as much money as they can.
@@moritz3168 much more land is destroyed building urban centers and the power plants that provide them energy
farmers for centuries have incorporated land preservation techniques and its only become more prevalent
even miners now do land reclamation
That is a good thing because CO2 has nothing to do with climate.
I've been involved in the climate strikes in Germany for about half a year now and have recently moved to the U.S.
Fridays for future is a lot less known here but this has been changing especially ever since greta came to the U.S.
In Deutschland ist es abnormal weit verbreitet, glaube ich
@@maxime556 jup
Here in Germany, we also have most of the protestors worldwide...but that doesn't mean our government acts accordingly.
Fridays For Future
FFF = 666
(A=1, B=2 etc)
U have been duped and u r being used (just like Greta). Learn about agenda 2030 ruclips.net/video/3PrY7nFbwAY/видео.html (that is why the scammers r in such a hurry. Only 12 (11 now) years left.
And there is no global warming because of CO2 emissions. ruclips.net/p/PL4rE35d72gIYseyh00g7m5SrjtKDFRGns
In the playlist, also a video that describes what the CO2 taxation is all about an who will take all those money. Your country and u will also become poor and many people unemployed. Have fun (CO2 is not a poison, but a gas of life. The CO2 levels we have now are still very low, compared to history. It's also in the playlist). Educate yourself. Then tell the others, because at the moment u r guilty of destroying the world. Though not in the way u thought. /s
@@staffan144 please stop spreading misinformation. I honestly watched like 2/3 of this crap and she has not cited a *a single* source. people like you and her seem to only see what you want to see.
Try to look at the actual data and then we might have a talk
@@anna-mariyablue8580 her? What r u talking about? Did u even watch anything at all? And yes, try to look at the actual data.
"People like you and her seem to only see what you want to see" (??)
- "Psychological projection is a defence mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others."
And what do you mean no sources? (ok, so you were refering to the interview with Roisa Koire). Did you even try to find any sources and check it? If you question what she says and what she speaks up about regarding these serious matters concerning agenda 2030 and agenda 21, and you want to check her sources, why don't you, for example, start with her book "Behind the Green Mask:
U.N.Agenda 21". Lots of sources.
Thank you so much for featuring me in this video. You're amazing!
Go get them kid
We got your back.
I'm involved in climate actions (working in FFF) in Tokyo, and I was just so fed up and depressed cos I didn't know if what I was doing was the right approach to take, preparing for the strike and the march... But this vid blew all the negativity inside me! Thanks for making this vid!! Much appreciated:)
I'm a post-starter engineer with a salary I'm absolutely not complaining about. I can save up a good amount of money because I don't need much, in the hopes of getting my own small house that I can tailor to be as green as I can make it.
Housing prices, however, are off the charts. Mortgages require double incomes (and are allowed to be funded by double incomes, hence the stupid high prices). No matter how much I save up, housing pricing is going so fast I cannot keep up with saving. That means that any savings I build up would go towards a house, if ever I get any. That means I'll have to start saving multiple years to fund the adjustments I want to said house.
And then I'm not even talking about green transportation yet.
Until such time that I could, miraculously, fund a proper green lifestyle, I'm bound to overpriced rental apartments that don't see maintenance or green investments, I'm bound to a petrol car that needs replacing soon, but I can't find a greener alternative because public transport is a nightmare here. High-rise housing is also not known for being properly green here and the transport industry is only talking about electric car this, electric vehicle that, instead of switching to fully autonomous transport-as-a-service systems that would benefit everyone.
So what I want I'm no longer allowed to afford, even with an engineer's income and rare opportunity to save money. There are no alternatives that are the green that I want and that our planet needs. My plans are set back by at least a decade, by which I'll be _required_ to invest in greener things (should I actually get a house) that, again, I'm not allowed to afford to switch to. I'm mad. Absolutely livid. Yet politics turns a blind eye and only makes things worse and the majority voters have the best interest in forking the climate over. Long live democracy.
I think the individual acts we choose make a difference too. We can't just protest in the streets, we need to also protest with our dollars. Buying things second hand instead of brand new, avoiding excessive food and beverage packaging, turning the AC up a few degrees to name a few. I've been disheartened lately to learn that most of the plastic products I put in the recycling bin are getting thrown out. It's hard avoiding plastic products but we gotta try. Reduce and reuse!
Let's make 2019 the WORST Black Friday ever! That would be a real protest!
I'm going zero waste, and I'm also a climate activist. I believe we should act on both fronts, individual as well as through protests.
If you made black friday bad doesn't that mean you deny resources of entertainment,education, clothing and more to people who need or want it? Also again maybe use Atomic power the official power SOURCE of France.
@@johnsmith6974 No actually, there's no equality in the system. In Sri Lanka nobody knows what the hell black friday is other than the stinking rich. And the poor workers here have to work overtime in garment factories here so they can supply for the black friday demands in the West. Clothes and electronic items also use up a lot of precious water resources which are free for the poor to access. Our massive consumption is denying them their basic needs.
This is the real solution, not protests.
@@TaylorQuade Why do you hate democracy?
If we want to protest, then we should go for the Hong Kong method and protest 24/7/365
Another thing to do is to either get rid of lobbying or lobby for climate action
Wait, 24 hours for 7 days per 365 days?
Dude, your videos are documentary level. Nice vid again!
Can you please do a video on #teamtrees? It seems like a good effort, but how many trees does it really take to make a difference? On a global scale 20M does not seem like that much...
Of course its a little. But unlike protest which mostly just create noise and panic, this is an achievable goal which will likely be achieved very fast. And to my knowledge, they didnt need to disturb anyone while educating the public on the importance of trees. Who knew that a group of good people working hard could achieve more than a few thousand protestors
@@erwinmoreno23 I'm fully supporting what they do, I'm just curious what effect their effort will actually have on the environment and how many more trees should be planted to make a noticeable dent in the rising co2 concentration. I think governments all over the world should invest in reforestation and preservation on a much larger scale...
Seconded 🙋♂️🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳
@@juliawirth1828 it would take appropriately 35 to 55 billion trees every year to make a real impact on CO2 levels. However, planting suitable trees for their environment is good for other problems too, such as preventing desertification and flooding.
@@Nilsy1975 not to mention food n habitat for wildlife^^
so much admiration for "Greta Toon Berry "
EDIT: did not intend to start a debate on an irrelavant cause + he's close to the pronounciation
Roving Waves That’s how you’re supposed to pronounce it tho
LMFAOOOO TOON BERRY
MsAvly its not
She is swedish so I think it like Toonberj or toonberg with a soft j like the sound of the Y in Yeah if you understand, difficult to explain
That's actually how you pronounce her name. It sounds so weird when English speakers say a hard g at the end😆
I'd love to see a video on whether current climate based proposals would actually be effective in altering the course of climate change and whether any negative side effects of implementing said proposals would surpass any meaningful benefits.
It seems like too many climate activists jump aboard an emotional train, demanding huge sweeping changes without considering the costs (both monetarily and ecologically) and without proof that the changes would actually fix any problem at a measurable level.
I don't see many moderately educated people denying that the climate has and will change, but more often I see those who are skeptical of humans effect on Earth's cyclical climate and whether any change would actually do anything.
On the same note, it seems that many activists are very short sighted. What is the ecological footprint to local habitats of mining resources used in solar panel and wind turbine manufacturing? Is there a net benefit to forcing auto manufacturers to build brand new facilities to manufacture brand new eco-friendly power units?
I wish that more tangible environmental activism would become more mainstream instead of big issue activism that is too easy to dismiss as unattainable and too costly.
What if all these climate activists would focus their will on developing better waste management systems to efficiently recycle materials that are currently being thrown out of the use cycle?
Just a frustrated nature lover who is sad to see the over-politicization of environmental issues and the lack of critical thinking on BOTH SIDES when it comes to meaningful change.
Preach
Its always refreshing seeing so many young voices lead the way.
Gives me hope that we can fix things and make a better future.
ive been to a number of these protest rallies and not many actually care about the environment
the majority are completely covered in litter when ppl leave
some event organizers even leave town before anyone but the cities clean up the mess
dont be a hypocrite do ur part
there's a mistake around 10:00 - it's 36 billion tons of carbon DIOXIDE, not carbon. that's roughly 10 billion tons of carbon.
At 6:57 doesn't he mean 7.6 BILLION, not 7.6 million?
this protest is important to save the planet disaster, never give up, this protest is red alert signal
im from germany where 1,4 Million People striked at the last Global Climat Strike. And we had a lot of Adults at the last few Strikes and even some Retired people over 70 like a Organisation translated called "Grandmas against Nazis"
Some of the attitudes towards Extinction Rebellion protestors in my home city of Brisbane Australia are disheartening. People see protesting by blocking roads as a 'terrorist-like' inconvenience. The State Government also recently passed more anti-protest laws. It seems to be a similar story around the globe. Let's not even bring up how the Australian governments are supporting fossil fuel industries for a small number of jobs for people (rather than transitioning them), and for profits for their mates. In terms of solutions, in Australia we have an independent think tank which is working on them: bze.org.au/ Beyond Zero Emissions
Charlie, yet another great video. I love that you got those youth to speak for themselves. Really solid work man. I'm gonna try and get a video out for Black Friday protests. 👍
This is so important yall! Listen up!
Wow, I didn't think you would see my comment! I just want to tell you, that I really love what you are doing, and appreciate all the work you put in your videos!
It's not enough. Pacifism isn't a viable option to change the world.
Blood must be spilled.
Thank you Greta.
RESPECT from California!!🇺🇸
I was a flight medic during Iraq/Afghanistan (humanitarian veteran now physically disabled from service). Environmental activist for 28 years. Local Green Party Rep and organizer. Sustainable Systems Engineer. When I go down town to speak with the younger ones - many of them tell me or encourage me to seek elected office. Often. This makes me feel a bit awkward, since I am not the sort of person that seeks power, or to be in places of 'authority'. Never (ever) considered elected office. In my late 30s now. Any input/suggestions as to if this is something I should seriously consider would be appreciated. Or is my time better spent on patenting the new sustainable/green tech systems I have been?
I hate seeing how this younger generation looks at me (like they need help and guidance), but not having the time, platform or resources to do so. Granted, most are young men. Either way, it's rather heart breaking. Something that weighs on my conscience when I think about it.
He’s not saying “Thunberry” - he’s pronouncing Thunberg correctly, unlike the majority of English speakers.
She's Swedish thought. In Swedish you say ThunBERG.
@@annanikochan it's ThunBERG...
Anna Nikolajeva I’m also Swedish. The emphasis may be slightly more in the last syllable when speaking Swedish, but the pronunciation of the last consonants is correct.
The right way to say it is thunberg
Juwangsang He IS saying Thunberg, just not the incorrect American butchering of it.
At least Climate Change is now far and widely imprint into every human's consciousness..Let us see how innovative ideas , innovations and mitigation actions plans can roll out integratively and effectively ..
I am glad people are finally getting on board. It is just beyond me that basic facts and the idea that we should not destroy our entire species is political. Not dying seems pretty basic.
thank you so much for this video!!!
introducing Brilliant at the end of the video turns this video as an advertisement instead.
Your videos are getting better and better, keep up the good work!
I’m so glad I support you on Patreon
Very good!!! The youth need to keep pushing us older minds for theirs are different. Bigger questions need to be asked then we entrenched thinkers and scientists . waaaay out of the box thinkers must be encouraged.positive thinkers, observing minds, what if kids! And at the same time these people need to be well protected from biggggg money fears. We dont need a revolution in our country. Many good people will come forward if encouraged by other good people. Fortunately goodness is contageous!!
It would have been nice if the Canadian politicians held their climate debate instead of cancelling it because of one party not wanting to attend.
Inspiring.
Hi changing climate, you make some incredibly interesting and well made videos and I would like to ask do you think consumer activism works? or would you suppose it is a bandaid solution to a wider systemic problem. In my honest view, despite buying more environmentally ethical products I still feel as if i do it in part because it "feels good" however when i look at some of the facts i find there is little my money can do.
Its a bandaid imo
For every action i do, 100x more is weighed in opp direction
Hence i support citizen assemblies to debate n find our current best practical answers n solutions with least impact on poor n vulnerable. We must mitigate eco apartheid nationally and internationally
A gov policy such as the uk's 5p for plastic bags made a big impact compared to my individual choice of carrying a rucksack when shopping
"voting with your wallet" is bullshit. It's an illusion to make the worker think they have more power they do. In reality the "sustainable" brand is still owned by Nestle so nothing changes. That's why you need to organize and use the channels that are available to you such as local government, activist organizations etc. The individual has a lot of power but it comes from their actions not their purchases.
Even though it is sad to see that that was only 0.1 % of the population of the world at the time, it still meant something significant...
I think what this video is missing is what it is that we as individuals should actually do. Economics got us into this problem and economics can be what get us out. Each of us makes a vote every day with their dollar. Each plastic water bottle purchased is slowly poisoning our future, every kilowatt of power from coal costs us. We have to reduce our gas usage, our meat consumption, and challenge companies to use less plastic and more bio-decomposable material. I believe in innovative solutions that have to replace this, hence why companies like Tesla and beyond meat alternatives are making waves. If we all buy it the price will go down. If you want to really make change we need better marketing and ban government lobbying. Crooked politicians are the ones approving it and someone had to elect them. Education and mainstream normalization of the change necessary have started and I believe in a brighter future.
great video, thank you!
The only title of his with a forgone conclusion, not biased at all.
I love that people can make an impact
Awesome video!! Thanks for producing these. I keep posting this information on sustainability and environmental topics on my LinkedIn and could not agree more with you on this video. I’d be interested to see a video on corporate goals and how those are contributing to the wider net zero global requirements in Paris agreement. Are they doing enough? (I can help with research and other bits)
Good video, thanks.
To those who do not like disruptive protest... Civil rights movement was very disruptive and you will not find many people saying it was a bad thing they did. Protesters may cause chaos and you may not know why it is happening but we sadly we need it. You don't have to be a part of it, but you have to at least appreciate everyone doing it.
Tell me how blocking a metro or airrports and pissing people off is going to help environment? Peacefull protests where thousands of people gather together has much more power in democratic society...
@@repcek22 Exactly. And this attitute renders meaningless the few activist doing good work. Acting like theyre Rosa Parks when they are really just using the protest to virtue signal how "good" they are
@@repcek22 Personally, I personally don't support blocking airports and especially train stations like in London. But we need to get attention of city and federal officials and I don't think walking through the street is doing that. In my opinion, we don't people to like us but we needs laws to change. When laws are changed, we should work on public opinion. But hey, I see your point too and I agree there is a little danger to public disliking protesters.
Incredible video, keep up the good work.
I enjoy watching your other videos about what we can do personally do and how we can change the way I as an individual lives to combat climate change. I don't see any significant change coming from government anytime soon. And even if we did government would just find a way to make life worse.
Steven Homan I think the problem is the current age of most politicians 🙈 it’s time for a new generation to step up
Gouvernements are and will be part of the problem
You don't need to wait for the government to take action, you can force their hand by lightly threatening them with revolution. That's how all meaningful change was achieved, the civil right's movement was successful because the CIA realized that either they give into the demands of people like MLK or they'd have the Black Panthers leading a revolution. And if that revolution happened the US army would be outnumbered.
@@frietogo5080 *solution
Amazing video
Awesome video! Could you make a video discussing whether the Pela compostable phone case company is legit too? They claim to support a lot of eco activism with their sales but I’m not sure if it’s true or not.
Can you make a video on Metal-Organic Frameworks?
This was a wonderful video with some great ideas. My only concern is that most protesters are in fact preaching to the choir everyone knows it's 1% of the population that gets to make all of the decisions and since a better world is not profitable WE the people need to become self reliant and stop hoping stop hoping that the government will do the right thing simply because were asking.
I feel like I'm looking through a lens and can see a possible future, in a world where the good guys win, but as it sits the future is uncertain. The bad guys are winning right now, and it is going to be so hard to get to this future... I hope I see the beginning
switzerland recently voted for the people in the federal council. The biggest party(who isn't doing anything for the climat) lost 2,9 % votes, the two parties who're strongly for the climat gained together 4,8%. That's the difference from 2015 to 2019.
Jerome Foster is awesome!
Im all for protests as long as its peacfoul, if somone gets hurt the whole cause gets hurt
Like most complex problems, they requiere a nuanced solution. But most of the "movements" by youths are just headless displays of naivete at best with some misguided sence of guilt . The worse is that they use them for propaganda while some other organization pulls the strings to creat chaos, martyrs, theatre.
If they want to educate people they could create videos like this and teach people what to do about the problem. Theres little need of over using marches. And most of all. They need to educate themselves. Thanks for your awesome videos!!
You know that you are part of the problem when you are calling young people naive?
Any movement that fights for a sustainable society is great and young people are very often far more responsible than old people
thank you how much you educate us about climate change and things we can do
good on ya
Totally unrelated but Lily Gardner reminds me of Baby from Dirty Dancing :P
But Great video! Excellent research! Subscribed!
Amazing
love your channel
Friday's for the Future but at workplaces would make the capitalists listen.
Actual climate justice is just possible as part of class war/fight and with that against capitalism.
@@joselaw6669 How do you name yourself after Hitler and still think you're the good guy or have anything of any value to say? What kinda decrepit bootlicking life do you lead? Do the boots at least taste good?
Fridays are for the bois
Could you do a video on the actual effectiveness of Mr. Beast’s efforts to plant 20M trees and remove 30M tons of plastic?
great video
As someone who lives in a developing country, I can't really organize protests since most people really don't see climate change as a problem. Even if someone sees it a problem, they are seen as just crazy. As a muslim (closeted atheists really but this is what almost everyone here identifies me with) living in India, everytime I try to talk about the environment and how hindu and muslim festivals are effecting the environment, it may be the fireworks in Diwali or the amount of plastic thrown in barah wahfaat, I am either a hinduphobe in the former or crazy in the latter, because I am ruining the "fun". It's not as simple as educating them, because to educate someone you need to get them to actually listen. There's also the problem of getting the people to act up when they are barely supporting their families or do not get time to act up. Like, how can you even make them act up when they don't even have time to do so? I don't even know someone who is down to acting up here. Even if I act up, not more than a dozen people are really going to join even passively.
Honest question here for the very well informed viewers of this channel. Could it be that disruptive protest might both polarize and alienate people, being, sadly, counterproductive?
Look at the history of literally any social movement. You'll find that everyone got extremely upset over how "polarizing" their protests were at the time and in every case those movements were successful. No one ever talks about how polarizing MLK was anymore but when he was alive people sure did have a lot of complaints about him and many thought that he should have protested in a "less disruptive" way. People only get upset about protests in the moment, none of that anger ever lasts because ultimately it's not serious, it's just an excuse people come up with to justify their opposition to a movement. But over time the thing that does last is the gains those movements made through protest. The LGBTQ rights movement started with Stonewall and today it has made gay marriage legal in the majority of the west and enacted anti-discrimation laws. It's a clear example that "polarizing" is just bullshit and protests do work.
Speak up for the future of the planet.
Get active in your community.
Please do one for team trees!
I wouldnt mind a vidio on what's going on in the uk update on this.
hey I'm from Seattle and how could we have more environmentalist focused candidates even on a local scale to lead the way to a carbon neutral, plastic free, etc city
@@dan26dlp as much as it is important to push on that national scale for the bigger scale, it also starts with those small places proving it works which is why right now I like emphasize local elections where it's more viable *right now* for legislation to get approved. As for prices in Seattle yeahhh idk what to do ab that bc economy and money is important but how to do that as sustainable as possible, Seattle just needs to annex the greater Seattle area lmao
Great video, as usual. A future topic in extension of this might be the following: How does the increasingly draconian response of authorities to protest affect democracy as we know it? In UK XR organizers were arrested on suspicion of "conspiracy to cause public nuisance", and a building where they were storing props was raided (source: www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/05/london-police-arrest-extinction-rebellion-activists-in-advance-of-environment-protest). In Belgium an XR sit-in in a public square was met with water cannons and pepper spray. More and more people want to call XR and other climate protesters Terrorists. It doesn't bode well for a democratic society if non-violent protest is met with increasingly violent counter-measures.
It's the crackling facade of capitalist democracy. When it is met with an actual strong movement to try to change things it starts to show it's dictatorial face. Climate activists need to become better at protecting themselves and their comrades, it also means that we might have to ready ourselves for violent clashes.
As an adult growing up in the Eastern Block of post communist Europe I always had the experience that protests sadly do not matter. Governments have all the power to either completely silence you or to promise everything and then go back on all their promises immediately after they get elected. They can simple avoid all accountability because they are in charge and there is little one can do about it.I am glad that there are still people in this world that keep trying because I have lost my faith in this many years ago.
Children are literally under Attack by the GOP, right now.
GOP wants to make Children
into mindless Drones as "Some More News" points out in his Third GOP-Video.
The world won’t die we will
No surprise to hear no mention of animal agriculture being the biggest single cause of climate crisis. Only when we begin to acknowledge that can we truly begin to address of the climate and social issues in the world
With the recycling restrictions that China put on the USA a few years back, it severely damaged our waste management industry. It showed a lot of the glaring inadequacies in our system and forced businesses to either close or innovate. Those who innovated, while they lost jobs in some areas, they gained those same amount of jobs or more in others. More inspectors and more intelligent systems to help sort, new machines and operators for those machines, new marketers and representatives for partnerships with other companies and manufacturers to buy the sorted wasted. It's through these major pain points that forces change.
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I'm that guy recycling every piece of cardboard and plastic i can get my hands on even though I know it won't really help until we educate the world that we all should be recycling.
P.S. The guys that pick up my recycling hate me because I always have a full bin and boxes cut up and placed inside another box next to it every week.
Empathy over ego
Well done for highlighting the work of indigenous activists of color !
You see, this is why we are planting so many trees.
Can you do a video on careers that help climate change??
What about the reactions of the common people? In my opinion these climate strikes have somewhat backfired in Belgium. I used to go with them and I used to be really active in the protests, but ever since the last elections I've doubted the protests' effects.
If I talk to people, the reactions I usually get is that they're tired of climate strikes & protests. That they already know about the problem. That it's been enough.
It's almost always a negative reaction. And because of that, they start to look negatively at people trying to save the climate. They start to laugh at climate change.
Convincing the government is important, but we must not forget that it's the people who vote. If we make the people look negatively at this, it'll all be for naught.
Funnily enough, common people are a lot smarter than they’re given credit for. Common people have been quietly paying attention for years. Each time the IPCC releases another set of predictions the common people see that not one of their previous predictions has come true. We’ve all seen Al Gore’s movie and can recognise BS when we see it. We all go the beach and see that the sea level hasn’t risen in our lifetimes. We don’t agree that there is a climate emergency. What we do agree on is we need to do something to stop plastics getting in to the oceans and it would be really good if better controls of heavy metals and other poisonous compounds could prevent them getting in to water supplies. We know we can do lots of things better. We’re also realistic and know that nobody individually or collectively knows fully how our climate works nor if what we do will have any appreciable effect on it at all.
That has been said of literally every social movement and in the end they all turned out to be effective. Protest works history shows that, people also complained about civil right's activists in the 60s but history shows us who won out in the end. Before these protests happened those people probably didn't even think about climate change at all, they're just saying they did now because the protests have convinced people that the climate does actually matter. The fact that they're talking about this is a sign that it's working, before no one even brought up the climate, now you can't avoid it.
If you wanna help this movement, but can/will not protest. Do this: rearrange your life on what clothes you buy, what foodproducts you buy, what toys you buy etc. Many people forgot that this is such an important way, to support the climate movement
Plus donations to eco campaigns n charities involved in nature restoration
Protest work better then church! It's free and you get to express your frustrations!
I am really disappointed in Australia’s government. I have been in climate protests around the country and Scott Morrison have done nothing. If anything he has taken a backwards step with adani,
The betterment of the environment will be determined by the amount of 18-30 year old voters in 2020 who are actually gonna vote. If the % stays unchanged then nothing for the future will significantly change. If you can't convince those who are actually gonna live in the muck we are brewing then what is the point.
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How can people believe that one is "free", if some politicians just forbid you to use your democratic power to protest?
no images from the Charlottesville protest;)
Cold Fusion of LENR will save us all. Make it work you inventors and scientists.
OH MY GOSH YOU DID NOT JUST QUOTE HOWARD ZINN HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Read Howard Zinn's primary sources and you'll be like ???!?? what is he saying where is his logical conclusion this is all philosophy and the information we have today overrides everything being said. We reviewed 3 of his articles in AP English and made presentations on how horrible they are :)
You pronounced Greta's name very well!
How do I add translation. Help.
we we’re 1.4 Million of 80 Million in Germany on the last date, when we invited all adults to join us.
And as someone who’s deeply involved in the German movement I’m telling you: we’re going to get just bigger and louder. Our movement is strong and has professionalized itself over the last year.
Something most people outside of the EU don’t even know is that we already influenced many (!) elections by a big margin.
Green parties have risen from 5-8 % to 18-23 %, depending on the country.
Although these parties mostly aren’t radical enough we managed to change big parts of public opinion in many european countries.
Let’s keep on going, this ain’t enough yet.
#Climatejusticenow #FridaysForFuture
I don’t wanna give up my lifestyle, but i’d rather have a planet to live on. Who knows, maybe supply chain issues this year could spark real change in the way we americans treat christmas
Children are literally under Attack by the GOP, right now as "Some More News" points out in his Third GOP-Video.
Just dont protest jn library.
4:00 What is Mexico doing in Asia?
jamie margolin goes too my school she's such a fucking legend
Does anyone have a list of activists in Mexico?
I think there is a big difference between Politics and Science.
Dawh you wernt invited to the Team Tree thing =(
but hey you can still make a video youd probably have an audiance with a high donation rate =3
even if its not the biggest
Ben #TeamTrees
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