There’s Hope in the Latest Climate Report
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We recently got an important update from the IPCC, the definitive source on the climate crisis. And while there's not a ton of good news, there are some bits of hope if we can ramp up our actions now.
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LIES!!!!! Why do you think they stopped calling it global warming? they made it climate change as it quit getting warmer! Took like 20 year pause. Hotest year in USA was 1931 where 95% of the country was over 90 F , compared to 55% in 2020.
They are constantly cherry picking climate data and ignoring anything the doesn't fit their narrative.
If Greenland gains and extra 12 gigatons of ice, and the 9 melts. Rather than say there is 3 more gigatons of Greenland ice. They say 9 Gigatons of ice melted off Greenland this year.
So they make Ice GAIN look like LOSS. ect
Why not plant a tree locally
@@zs7903 planting trees (while a good solution) is not going to save us from climate change.
we really need terra forming figured out
@@Bozemanjustin thats... not a well grounded arguement. I'm on your side, but dont get into weird specific measures in statistics like that... that route isnt that useful nor is it required.
The good news is there's a chance. The bad news is it depends on worldwide cooperation... Yeah
We’re basically all dead
So you're saying there's no chance.
Joe Rogan had a long podcast with Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson, check that out they cover what the weather and climate was like pre 12,000 years ago, turns out we have been really stable since then. Before that the world was hell, one day it would be the hottest summer, the next week it would be the coldest day of winter, but a lot hotter and colder. I say we are safe unless that happens again, though we are not sure what caused the stability we have today.
@@DJxSGGxNeo Joe Rogan is literally the worst source on anything except sports and fitness. While yes the climate has been relatively stable for thousands if years that has nothing to do with the situation we are currently.
Good luck motivating China, India and the middle east.
And of course the US
the good news is that the bad news could have been way worse
I mean it's better than the alternative
Bad news being way worse
The real good news is that international cooperation works.
It also could've been much better if we hadn't allowed the fossil fuel industry and chlorofluorocarbon industry to exist in the first place. I guess we really aren't that different from great apes and primitive humans in terms of intelligence, we just make more sophisticated mistakes on a larger scale to collect massive amounts of profit mostly in the form of fiat currency. Basically we're destroying the climate for nothing because we still have no solid comprehension of basic logic and scientific method, although a small portion of us do but the problem is convincing some to give a damn about it in the first place. We're not even a type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale, so I do not consider humanity as an intelligent civilization until we actually have a respectable position on that scale.
this about the news I expect about climate change, people love short term gratification, so if was worded differently, I'd be mad at this article for contributing to the problem, the less people think this is a problem, or its being fix.
good news is, we are still doomed
I love growing up in a world of existential climate dread
Used to be nuclear war threat. Wonder what it'll be in 30 years, after the planet has cooled back down a few degrees.
@@chaz000006 Bold of you to assume the temp will drop.
@@rustythecrown9317 if we get our act together, it will. just in a few hundred years rather than 30. Cooling down in 30 years is without a doubt impossible.
@@Alex-fu3mi IF we get our act together... you might as well throw rocks at the moon. While a majority of us little people might act responsibly and actually do what we can for our planet , it will come down to the filthy rich , and unscrupulous governments , ignoring the climate in favour of money.
@@rustythecrown9317 I’m not counting on politicians or the ultra-rich to suddenly gain a conscience. I’m counting on regular people like me and you to shift the balance of power. It’s the only way we can course correct in time.
Unfortunately, 20 years is quite a bit longer than the 4 to 5 year election cycle in most countries. I'd love to share your optimism, but I fear that too many wealthy and influential institutions have too much to lose by allowing us to reach those 2050 targets.
Please most green groups still have anti-nuclear stances. An issue that in the 1980s basically sealed the deal.
@Ionic777 The idea of nuclear as a stopgap option is ridiculous, and shows a clear bias of ideology over practicality. It takes decades to commission and build a nuclear plant (and decades to decommission one), and the capital costs are out of the reach of Third World nations, who need affordable power right now (and preferably green options). Not to mention there is no infrastructure to extract, refine, transport, and just as importantly, safeguard nuclear fuel on a worldwide scale.
Solar and Wind are the best stop-gap power options for developing nations (as well as developed nations looking to diversify their power generation). Maybe in a few decades, we can talk nuclear, maybe even Thorium reactors (if that gets off the ground). But nuclear is not a near-term solution, and not all problems with nuclear have been solved (although Thorium reactors have shorter-lived nuclear waste byproducts than Uranium plants, and are a much lower risk of nuclear proliferation).
We'll know when billions die not to vote for the same person next time!
@Ionic777 Yeah, sorry if I sounded grumpy about this, there have just been a lot of pro-nuclear posts recently that are anti-solar/wind, and I didn't mean to take it out on you.
You make a good point that solar and wind are a bit unreliable, and need supplemental energy storage and extra power generation (perhaps from an emergency coal or natural gas fired plant) for peak usage and outages. But at the same time, nuclear is great at base load, but you can't just scale up and down power generation from a nuclear plant by raising or lowering the control rods, either, so we'd probably still need those coal plants. There were plans for carbon capture and advanced cycle coal plants that are more efficient and less polluting than traditional ones, but nobody was willing to spend the money to make them happen, not even the pro-coal lobby (who are much more pro-making money for themselves than looking out for the jobs of coal miners).
So in the end, we need a diversified energy solution, including renewables, storage (batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, etc), and probably some fossil or hydrogen for peak loads. In the short term, however, it is much easier for a famer in, say, Nigeria, to put up some solar panels than it is for him to build his own nuclear plant, or even wait for his government to build a nuclear plant and also all the infrastructure to get the power out to the whole country.
As for youtube swallowing comments with links, I agree that it is very frustrating, and it makes it hard to share data or studies when having technical conversations.
Well, it's time to put to bed the myth of peaceful protest having ever accomplished anything except when backed by the credible threat that there will be violence should it fail and then to remember that the members of the oligarch class and political class all have names and addresses.
gotta be honest, not hearing any "good news" here, more of a "we haven't completely screwed ourselves YET"
It is all a bunch of BS!
Well, considering popular opinion in the scientific world has been under the impression that it's already too late, I would be curious how this news as a contrast to that could not be considered "good news"
Same
@@darinr3748 You wouldn’t know BS if it sewed your bible together
I thought the effect of the protection of the ozone layer on atmospheric carbon was very good news.
*Empirically:* there's a chance we avoid the worst.
*Realistically:* well... we all know what to expect from humans.
*Hopefully:* we survive whatever portion of the worst we bring on ourselves with minimal irreparable damage.
Nail on the head. People are too greedy to stop it. Sad
exactly. people call me a pessimist when i'm being realistic. ironically the same people who won't change a thing about their lifestyles because they can't be bothered
We need to avoid a self fulfilling prophecy though. We have a tendency to stop efforts when we feel things are hopeless, then fail because we didn't try, then say "see? I knew it was hopeless."
I swear most of the people commenting live in a town where the boy cried wolf.
The IPCC has an abysmal track record with its predictions and the unintended consequences of their policies that often lead to worse outcomes.
How many times will the boy cry Wolf before you realize he's seeking attention?
@@kevinbroderick3779 I live in a region were tornadoes were a extremely rare occurrence. We now had a record amount of tornadoes for 2 years to a point that the goverment now watches for tornado forming weather. My countries Forest are equally burning down at a quick rate due to record breaking temperatures 10 degree under the safe heat for humans. That country is canada and even though i live on the other side of the countries fire we have smog alerts due to them.
We don't need scientists telling us climate change is coming. We are feeling it as we pass our afternoons in the shade or inside cooled building.
Humanity: "YAY! There's still hope! That means we still don't have to do anything. At all!"
Start by living like North Koreans.
Turn off your computer and stop watching RUclips for a change.
@@Misaka-gt5yj ironic because without it you wont have a platform to change people life choice
Very out of left field, Misaka
@@Misaka-gt5yj how bout you do that too huh big guy
@@Misaka-gt5yj Why do you watch SciShow, if you only resort to stupid conclusions? Try Breitbart, that seems more up your alley.
I'm about to watch it, if this involves "if we all work together" or something like that, I'm gonna have a depressing chuckle in the dark by myself.
Haha...i was right...hahaha...sob.
Yeah it's the same story over and over again... "If humans were just better we wouldn't be in this situation!" Realistically we need to look at alternatives. The best path towards success is getting AI working and stepping back from complex scientific and government jobs as much as we can. Humans just aren't built for the stresses and complexity of the society we've helped build. I say help because how much actual work do we even do anymore? Pretty much everything important is automated or heading in that direction. Most science and engineering is done by machines built by other machines tracing all the way back to the invention of the lathe. Most errors are created by humans. We need to write ourselves out of the equation, own up to our inferiority.
Room for one more?
I'll bring frozen pizza and ice cream. :(
"There's a chance..."
Humans: "let's do it after there is no chance"
capitalisms at its finest
We can do it but it will require MULTIPLE political angles working together in Radical Centrism -
State - banning things as required, taxation to pay for nationalised sequestration at global scale, as it's just not profitable at this time.
Authoritarian Right : Nuclear Power is far less harmful than fossil fuels, safer, and much lower emissions.
Libertarian-Left: Use Ecosia search engine to get trees planted, heavily reduce meat consumption, consumption in general, stop chasing the latest iPhone.Renewable Energy.
Libertarian-Right: Low or zero taxes on green tech until it's firmly established and we've won.
@@Maddin1313 did he mention communism, I'm confused?
Also humans: then after we destroy this planet we can move to Mars!
Sounds like me with my homework
Let be real, most government and large multinational companies arent going to do a thing until they absolutely have to. So no I have no hope for the future.
And even if the governments will do a thing, people will still ignore those.
The pandemic pointed those out.
Yeah, I have no hope too.
@@onellbrianmeliston8960 that sounds more like the US
why did scishow make it sound like this was a problem of individuals, if its way more a problem of giant corporations & governments? are they trying to make us think its our fault that giant factories dump sludge into the water?
Lets be more real, most RUclips commenters are going to do less then multinational corporations and governments. After all, it is easier to talk about "other people" on RUclips than to actually do anything. But hey, showed the internet that you cared right?
@@AuntBibby Um, I would hate to point it out to you, but this video was not about water pollution. This video did not talk about any factories.
However, the largest sources of greenhouse emissions come from electricity generation and transportation. But I'm sure you already own an electric vehicle and never waste electricity. How are your solar panels working for you?
Individuals offsetting their carbon offset is like child's play compared to the huge amounts of CO2 generated by corporations, their strategy of planned obsolescence requiring us to keep buying products, and the completely inefficient ways our economy has utterly centralized the production of many products and increasing the need for long-distance freight hauling.
Agreed on every point except the last one. It's absolutely impossible to predict the emissions of any given thing if it's production/supply chain were any different. There's raw materials and a million other supply chains that are unimaginably complex.
You can't just think that the emissions to make a computer, for example, would be the same if it were produced any differently. Having production centers next to important raw material centers is cheaper and definitely saves on emissions. Factory towns don't pop up just because corporations like having their factories close to others.
@@miguelzavaleta1911 This may be true for a few specific industries, however, there is also a lot of waste in long-distance freight hauling that really doesn't need to exist. Furthermore, in the case of for example computer chips, it would be much preferable to have production centers on at least multiple continents as decentralization allows communities to be more autonomous and be less reliant on global power politics.
@@hierlinksaf1946 It's true for every industry i can think of at least. Like I said -- modern supply chains are so unimaginably complex, it's ridiculous to make any claims about what would be better or not. I can see the freight situation being just as bad (if not worse) if every town needed trucks worth of raw materials being brought to every individual factory distributed across the world.
And to your last point -- it could arguably be better for geopolitics and stability, but it doesn't say anything about the change in emissions, which is what we were arguing about, no?
Gotta say this is probably the first 'argument' I've seen on RUclips where no one insults each others intelligence. Just a good ol' debate
There's no chance fixing this with the current capitalist system. It's only about profits which leads to things like planned obsolescence like you say. There's no incentive for corporations to choose an environmentally friendly option over a more profitable one. Carbon footprint bs is just what companies push to put the blame on the individual rather than themselves.
I have so little hope after seeing how COVID played out....
mostly how covid is/was handled
Covid isn't even done yet considering the vaccine merely gives you resistance, not immunity, and its mutation potential.
@@aytekineric8306 so true. I don't think it's ever going to be "over", but hopefully one day it is more similar to the flu in terms of how well we are able to treat/vaccinate for it
@@elenchanted9904 it won't ever disappear. Looking at history, plagues that spread through large portions of world often ended by killing everyone in those areas until they couldn't spread it to anyone. Covid has spread worldwide. It won't just disappear until we find a vaccine that gives immunity, which is unlikely considering its mutation potential/rate. For example, the flu gets a new vaccine each year if I'm not mistaken because of the heavy mutations it goes through in such a short span of time. I personally agreed with the quarantine but sadly we will eventually have to stop before it starts having drastic effects on economy and general health, which will most likely happen before we find a solution to this.
If the planet survived the Bubonic Plague and the Eemian Era, it will get through this. I'm not saying it will be pleasant.
We!? We need to up our efforts!? Dude, I work from home, only going to the office once or twice a week using a car that I share with others. I live in a house that has a MASSIVE solar array. I am currently trying to mitigate my meat intake.
Meanwhile big ass companies are happily polluting away as if nothing is even going on. Its time for THEM to go and do something but I dont know how.
What could I possibly do
The best thing any of us can do is vote smart and spread the word as much as possible so that the people around us do the same. As Hank mentions, regulation has already proven to be very effective to curb ozone destroying chemicals and it can absolutely do the same for carbon emissions.
Think about how many pounds of CO2 an individual is responsible for day to day compared to that of companies. It's absolutely a drop in the bucket. I'd argue one's votes at the local, state/province, and federal level are proportionally much larger drops.
It's definitely more abstract than changing our individual day to day carbon emissions, but I'd argue much more impactful long term, and climate change is a long term problem.
Also, if no one's told you this yet, thank you for being so carbon conscious. It sounds like you probably already vote intelligently on this issue based on how much you care, and in that case, if others follow your example there's hope for us yet! :)
Boycott the worst offending companies (if you can) and encourage other people to do the same. Also pressure governments to put more regulations on the companies and ways to make sure they're following regulations. Pressuring local governments to reduce the need for cars would also help
@@123goldenlily Good points, I didn't think of these!
Okay, so do you think you’re the entirety of “we?” Or maybe your name is “we”? Otherwise I don’t know why you’re taking personal offense to a general collective statement. Obviously at this point consumers aren’t the major offender, but it’s still better not to do extra harm, so why are you acting like his statement is inaccurate? He’s not presenting the video to a board of companies, he’s presenting it to their RUclips audience who are mainly young adults and below
Companies only listen to that which affects their bottom line.
I can't even get 5 people to work together on a project
Imagine trying to make all countries work towards the same goal
I don't think that would be very hard, the difficult part starts when you get to do "what to do about it" part
Cause everybody thinks their idea is the best, pretty standard for humans from what I've noticed
Yeah, just ignore all the times it’s happened...
Dude did you not hear the good news in this video? WE SAVED THE OZONE LAYER!
It's a step in the right direction and it shows us the world can work together if it really tries.
@@adarshmohapatra5058 Yeah, all it takes is an unmitigated disaster with a side of skin cancer. Truly, what great species we are
Honestly, it isn't hard. Me and my friends meet for board games weekly. We are a mix of libertarian, conservative, and moderate. We have differing opinions on the severity of the problem as it relates to a human impact. The funny thing is that, because we game, we can brainstorm a dozen plans for almost anything. If we can all agree that a quadratic scaling monetary penalty should probably be used to disincentivize illegal ocean dumping I'm sure almost any group of people could come up with inovative solutions. The first problem is that education on a product is expensive, and you have to sell any new system to the public. The second problem is the nature of a job in politics.
Politicians only get fired if they lose an election. Therefore a politician's job is to get reelected. As an example, the reason politicians almost never lower expenditures is because you will probably lose your next election. This is a problem because our politicians are experts on getting reelected and not experts in governing. The choice to do nothing (republican) or throw money at climate lobbyists for boondoggles (democrats) will keep you getting reelected even though it is an exercise in stupidity and cowardice. The real problem is that the nature of digital age democracy itself makes concensus impossible.
Ah yes, my daily dose of world crisis.
As a gen Z this seems normal now..
yeah
They could say a nuke was dropped somewhere and I don't think I would care that much
Lol for everyone it is normal the generations before had it much worse a global nucleair war, world wars, crisis in the 30s
@@goodcomrade2949 Gen Z grew up with 9/11, War in Afghanistan, 2008 Recession, COVID-19 pandemic, unaffordable housing, and of course the likely death of most of us in the future due to climate change. So yeah, our generation has it pretty bad.
@@goodcomrade2949 I agree
As an environmental activist- I officially support this channel
"this episode is sponsored by wren"
me, who is named wren: huh whuh
Thank you for sponsoring sci show I guess
You pretty much have
to pay for the next episode.
Good luck.
I thought it was the kitchen supplier.
read Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
... great character in it called Wren
Hope? Is that a new type of polluent?
Kindness is a slow and insidious poison.
Smartassery is not allowed
@@Rolatnor unless it's funny.
Lmao
@@existenceisillusion6528 A misspelling of pollutant.
The Montreal protocol was a success because, in my opinion, it was easier to follow and implement. Banning a few chemicals can be done fairly quickly and without too many negative consequences for politicians, but banning cars or coal plants? Much more difficult. Don't get me wrong, the solutions are there, but I doubt most governments will do something about it because it can take years to implement, is a complex issue, and might alienate some of their electorate, and as we all know, most politicians want to be in power and stay in power, and are unwilling to do the right thing if it doesn't directly benefit them as well. I still hope meaningful actions to mitigate climate change will be taken but realistically, I doubt it.
So when is SciShow going to talk about how 70% of the carbon emissions come from just 100 companies?
Yes. I would like to hear about this research more. I've seen the articles.
This has been discussed by many. I actually think Hank discussed it on a recent blog vlogbrothers video.
It just shows how little we as individuals can do compared to corporations. We can do everything in our power but if there's not a political drive to push corporations for a sustainable future it's not going to happen.
@@leviticuscornwall5052 that political drive can be fueled by individuals.
@@selainx yeah! It could be and it should be. If we could hold them accountable for not full filing their promises it could work. But it seems like they are working more for their donors than their voters
The real question is how do we get people who's not affected at this moment to give a damn such a sad situation we are in
We pull their purse strings if you know what I mean
Pull their purse strings really? Have you examined where the emissions are coming from? How exactly do you think you have any sway over the world's purse strings especially in nations less effected by inflationary policy?
Mess with their money. Money is their main drive, if nothing involves that then they won’t give a damn. There’s a strike coming up on October 15 that’s supposed to be a message to corporations to pay their workers a fair wages. Not only that, but sign petitions that encourage erasure of your carbon footprint and preservation of the Earth.
Getting people to care doesn't really matter. They can't and/or won't do anything anyways. All we can hope for is regulation change and big pushes from countries to be as green as reasonably possible.
@@Gandhi_Physique countries are made from people
Yeah, the big shots actually causing 90% of the carbon aren’t gonna care unless their hand is forced.
but YOU have to stop eating meat because somethingsomething1%
China is the biggest producer of CO2 in the world today, output rising, and they are excempt from the paris agreement. Meaning they don't give a crap and they keep bringing on more coal power plants while selling cheap solar to the west..
@@badradish2116 bruh
There are no “big shots” causing 90% of the carbon. If you’re referring to the “100 companies make up 70% of emissions” stat, that’s because those are fossil fuel companies. They produce oil so that you can drive YOUR car, watch RUclips on YOUR phone, and keep YOUR home cool by running the air conditioning all summer long. A big reason climate change is so hard to tackle is because many millions of people have attitudes like yours, deflecting blame onto others so that they feel like they shouldn’t have to make any sacrifices themselves.
@@Castal-xo1yz you do make a good argument, even if I do believe there’s things above me that need to join in the change
This does make me feel better, even if I'm rather cynical on the whole with this problem. I may have little hope we'll actually _do_ enough, particularly in the U.S. to get the best possible scenario, but just the fact that what we've done _so far_ as a species has done _something_ makes me feel _so_ much better! Glad I clicked this!!
There are 3 thousand of us in the comments. Even 3 thousand people trying to improve a spreading awareness can make a huge impact. We can't give up!!! We can make a change!
the good news is that we are naive enough to think rich companies especially oil and gas that they do what they promised instead of doing what they always do pay politicians to look the other way
Every time I hear this argument I don't really get it. Are you not a consumer? If you don't like the oil industry there are ways you can mitigate the need to buy oil.
I've also noticed that people like to lay all the blame on the oil industry complain about subsidies. But it's odd because a lot of the money they claim the oil industry gets from the government is stuff they wouldn't complain about if it was a different company. If your local mom and pop grocery store loses money, people having a problem when they don't pay taxes on the loss, but somehow when Exxon Mobil declares its losses it's a evil back room deal.
@@woodchuck003 Climate nuts hate reality so they comfort themselves with this nonsense. They know this can never be done because countries will always have different interests and needs that contradict those of other countries.
"doing what they always do pay politicians to look the other way"
When you have a government big enough to control things like what gets a tax break, what regulations are favorable to a company, and where things can be done, you create incentive for large corporations to game the system and use this a s a resource. You either need to shrink government control on such things or, make a police state that cracks down on these violation more harshly, or live with what we have. All have their pluses and minuses, their pros and cons.
@@woodchuck003 Came to say this. Those companies exist because we buy their products. The richer you are, the bigger your carbon footprint. Unless you don't use the money.
if you're one of those oil and gas billionaires, you will do the same, because it's real situation, those shooting game pros will be shaking in fear when they're deployed in a real battle field
Living in tropical country, i swear this last year it has been raining constantly. Usually we get 3 or so months of 'summer' with little to no rain at all, but nah these days we can't go one week without it raining
One year is weather. If you can demonstrate a trend over a decade or more, we can talk about whether you are seeing a climatic shift towards wetter weather.
What is this "rain" you speak of? I think I read about it in books once.
I haven't seen rain in months. Regards from the middle east
@@xXNibiNoNekoXx 45C?? That's worse than the middle east! I always think of Canada as somewhere pretty cold. How are the winters where you live?
@@limiv5272 Oregon and Washington got shoved into a blast furnace earlier in the year. I lived in California's Central Valley for a while, and even there, we wouldn't see such a sustained heat wave over 100 like they had.
It's deeply unsettling that before I could even grasp what climate change was. I could notice while growing up that it was snowing less and less. And it was getting hotter and hotter.
The world has been heating up for over 100,000 years, do you think it stopped at the end of the ice age yet we have convinced ourselves we are responsible for it
@@delladogThis is true, however, if it continues to heat up the way it is. Human life won't be sustainable and we won't be able to survive for very long.
@@delladog we actually have proof it's caused by humans though lol
Ten years of personal experience is not climate. Where I live, it actually got colder in the last two decades.
That does not mean anything. That is not how climate works.
Well, that;s climate change for you. Shifting climates and all. For me it starting to snow in spring, which kills like half of the spring plants.
While we are still here, there is more than hope, there is a great possibility we can do this. We must all try.
As long as unchecked greed exists, there is a zero percent chance that humans will survive.
@@THE-X-Force there is a chance
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
"Don't do that ... don't give me hope."
I'll give you hope.
NOAA data is partially faked and largely adjusted. Adjust enough to create both warming and cooling. The 30s were actually hotter but due to bias adjustments that incorrectly lower observed temps, many scientist are given altered data that says otherwise.
So theres your hope... the dismantling of ALL work based off NOAA station data, which includes NASAs work since they only add a tiny fraction of data to NOAA data to produce their own set.
In fact all the major sets are basically 90%+ NOAA data.... so that's why they all agree.
Would be happy to help you understand how the global hellfire believe is a government religion if you're open to science.
Don't worry, the whole world has to work together sooo ...
don't worry,they skip the most important problem,there is no hope.
Don't worry, we can't do anything even if we had a greater chance than this..
The fact that the best we "can" do is keeping temperatures below the 2.4°C increase is scary. Also, there are really no truly good news expecting us concerning the climate crisis; where we stand, the most positive news i can think of will be those reminders that we are not yet scalding
Life goes on, with or without us.
@@itheuserfirst3186 The Earth goes on with or without humans...
It's unfortunate that that is the goal now. If it hits 1.5°C then so many island nations would be wiped out. So much flooding, so much destruction of land. It's really sad. I highly recommend Wendover production's "the final years of Majuro" it's a documentary about the Marshall Islands
@@itheuserfirst3186 Life will die in 1 billion years when the sun gets too hot and the last extremophiles boil of with our remaining oceans.
@@ronclark9724 Earth will be probably destroyed at 5 billion years when sun expands to its giant read phase and consumes earth but by that point life would be already gone 4 billion years before.
"good news" is starting to look a lot like "we haven't completely screwed ourselves"
yet*
"The good news is what happens next depends on what we do right now"
uhhhh yeah that's not good news
The Canadian company General Fusion is scheduled to start building a 70% scale demonstration fusion power plant in the UK next year, so finger's crossed things work out.
if you hate free energy device, then that fusion has the same principle
Unfortunately even if this is legit, fusion will be coming too late to make a difference. Even if the first commercial fusion plants went online in a mere decade, and we were aggressive at building them, it would still take the better part of a decade to build enough to transform the energy sector. We need that transformation a decade ago, not 2-3 decades in the future.
You want people to have hope for the climate crisis?
Tell them the O-zone thing. It isn't a lot. But, it is a victory. And that boosts morale.
Also, the Dust Bowl was another disaster that was mostly reversed.
It's important to remember that while irresponsible parties and practices can have a devastating impact on the environment, people can also get together and alter/fix much of the climate on similar scales. I just wish we were more proactive and less reactive.
@@Dan-bz4qg YES
@@Dan-bz4qg EXACTLY
I think the problem is with marketing of this victory. When most people hear "the planet could've been one degree warmer" they're not impressed. One degree to them means basically nothing when they reference it to the weather. I think a much better spin on that issue is if we could calculate the loss or raise of energy in the atmosphere. Something like "we've removed 500 Giga Joules from the air and water" sounds a little better to the average Joe - it also means less extreme weather events, and an increasing number of areas is starting to be affected, so it's relatable.
@@Illlium
Was thinking about this, too. My dad knows more about science than I do. But he had a similar dismissal.
Partially. Because. We focus on the 1° part, not the "The entire Earthn heated 1°." And I was like. "Dad, how big is the earth? How much energy does it take warm the whole house? Okay, now how about the Entire. Earth. 1°. That's a LOT of energy. Lol.
But, the Giga jule bit would probably catch attention, sooner
“World cooperation” yea I don’t think that’s going to work so well
Not with that attitude, and not the whole world only the big contributors like Asia, NA and Europe
@@livingzombie4280 I sure hope it works out
Well, they are not required to join the effort "out of the goodness of their hearts", they have to in order to save themselves too. Luckily, otherwise we would have been screwed for sure....
World Leaders: I’m 70+ years old and that costs money. Not my problem
its very frustrating being an individual already doing everything they can for this climate crisis, and its coming down to huge companies and corporations to pick up their share of the work and they just. Aren't, for the most part.
it has to happen. Eventually the Earth will become uninhabitable anyway--in order to push ourselves off this rock long before that happens, we need a few crises--man made or not. If we fail to meet the challenge of spreading life beyond this rock, and meet some cataclysmic end, life will still continue...maybe a species will develop with the natural capability of breaking the gravitational force holding it here--no rockets required. Who knows. All I know is that looking at the big picture, makes me worry less and less about this stuff.
Yeah, I can do my best to reduce my carbon footprint, but ultimately it's going to take legislation to regulate big businesses in order to make meaningful change. We need real effort from the political front and not these empty promises from Joe B. and company.
You nailed it.
and trump and company
@@washtubdysthe9221 Trump isn't in power, this is 2021, I don't understand how dumb you have to be to realize that.
*to not
@I can hear your tears Trump Derangement Syndrome is still going strong I see. He's not the POTUS so he literally has nothing to do with this.
"calculate your carbon footprint" = exxon mobile propaganda, thanks SciShow.
Yes, the idea was popularized by Big Oil, but at least I think CF still makes sense to get an idea of your own consumption. The concern I share is about advocating to offset your CF by individually funding the programmes mentioned (could and might be right out of carbon intense industries' PR playbooks), instead of setting high enough emissions prices and funding carbon negative projects collectively, which is way more effective and fair.
Here’s how we convince big corporations to cooperate- YOU CANT MAKE MONEY IF YOURE DEAD
*Sea levels rising fast
Climate change deniers: That's just weather.
I think the main thing they don't get is that rising sea levels are going to pick up their pace if we continue like this. They see a map with a distant year with some terrains missing, and they don't really think about that people mostly live on coasts. That might be the problem with explaining this to, for example, the fly-over states in US.
I'd make a joke about Rohans, but as far as I know nobody lived on coasts in Tolkien.
no, that's the IPCC actually. According to the last report from 2014, the ocean has been rising at a steady rate of a few mm per year and shows zero signs of accelerating.
Let me repeat that. According to the IPCC and NOA, the ocean rise has been constant since about the 1850s and is so far completely ignoring AGW.
@@Illlium I'm a 1/2 mile from seawater and 500ft above sea level. Not every coastal area is going to be affected.
@@dperry19661 I'd recommend checking where your utilities are, there's a decent chance they might be around water. Coastline doesn't mean all beaches and condominiums. Unless you live in America I guess, you do use imperial
Most questioners don't say this. It is usually questions about how much it will rise, geographical events, natural erosion or island sinking. Every climate prediction is a worst case scenario. Not everyone who considers these is a denier. Even this video didn't claim it was the end of the world that some people have been made to think.
Hope : "Most ecosystems shall collapse and humans will go extinct, but life is going to recover over time"
yes!!!
Like the permian mass extinction but slightly less bad
Good News: at least some small part of the human race will survive
Bad News: the ones who survive will most likely be the ones who contributed the most to the collapse in the first place
The first part is already concerning
Oh yeah, we humans will likely extinctify ourselves within the next 3 centuries, but life as a whole will be fine.
Edit: unless we turn Earth into a permanently deadly place like Venus
"So you're telling me there's a chance? YEAH!!" ~ Lloyd Christmas
Rich people: "water levels are rising"
also rich people "I need to invest in more water front property"
Yes, like Obama buying beach front properties.
The irony of you watching a video that benefits off sponsors and ad revenue while criticizing capitalist machines on a billion dollar platform
while supporting institutes, politicians and organizations that are run off capitalist machines.
Perhaps consider paying MORE taxes so your politicians can continue to bail out WallStreet when they cause another financial crisis like the one in 2008 or start more wars in the Middle East.
@@Misaka-gt5yj I think you read me wrong and we are on the same side here.
What could help A LOT with getting emmisions down quickly would be safe, low waste nuclear power. Like a Thorium plant. I recently read that China made some advancements in that field. If possible, could you look into that and make an update video?
I think thorium reactors are a huge possibility.
What I don’t understand is that we are in desperate need of change in the way we produce energy. Nuclear isn’t the final solution but it will give us time to improve on solar and wind and it’s pretty much green.
@@UrbanNicoya I think nuclear might be the final solution. So much energy is generated with little resources, like an atom bomb. We virtually have the power of the sun, granted it's fission not fusion but still, and we are still burning coal and using the wind
We should just build the ones we know work well. They're safe enough and we need it badly.
@@JonahNelson7 We don't have that much uranium. Sure, we could use Thorium reactors but if we fully relied on Uranium reactors, we would run out of fuel in a century of two.
Fusion will be the best possible outcome for us. That day will mark a shift in Humanity's future.
This is the solution to the Fermi Paradox: We can see it coming but nothing will be done about it and it will ultimately end us.
Yeah, and just us, billionaires would still live life at it's best, as if it wasn't their fault
I genuinely believe this though. Humans have got way too complacent and are used to the future being an improvement on the past. In the tiny blip of time that human civilisation has become the industrial, interconnected technological behemoth it is today, we have seen so many emergent environmental crises. I think civilisations simply destroy the planets they are on and we are watching that rapidly approach us.
That's not a paradox, it's a logical fallacy. Too much of our culture of instant gratification is wrapped up in the notion that "we know about the idea of aliens now so why aren't we seeing them now?" Maybe some civilizations wipe themselves out, others travel the stars in a limited fashion, and others become main state civilizations that don't significantly technologically change, or advance past an indigenous tribal state, until their planet can no longer life.
@@OpenBiolabsGuy So your solution to the Fermi Paradox is NU-UH NONONONONO? You should write a book. With thick cardboard pages and lots of primary colors.
When you’re more excited by this title than the release for the game the character you use for your RUclips name that has been hyped up for at least a year now
this video is sponsored by Wren, where you can calculate your personal carbon footprint. spoiler alert: it's nowhere near the carbon footprint of Exxon or the US military.
Henk..... Seeing the way people react to a pandemic I have very little hope in us man.
Seriously humans for many reasons are terrible at working together.
You are not alone. 😉
If you mean specifically the US, the government is literally made to divide the people so that they can't change things.
Sadly trying to change things can often result in you killed.
Most of the world actually did a pretty decent job. The US and the UK to a lesser extent were just outlandishly terrible because we, in particular, fetishize individual freedom to the detriment of the common good.
@@nzuckman It's worse than that, we in the US fetishize *our* individual freedoms at the expense of everyone else's. Look at our resistance to the Civil Rights Movement (both past and current). Americans think that 'Freedom' is a zero sum game, and that the more of it everyone has, the less there is to go around.
world war happened twice, combined estimated 100 million people died, it's simply irreversible, even if you wait for million years they won't return, but if you wait climate change for million of years, it can naturally return to normal ... then you know why humans don't care, humans get used to do the irreversible
First of all, I would rather reverse the warming, not limit it. Second of all, I was hoping the good news would be that geoengineering works really well, in reversing warming.
Nah, the IPCC doesn't do out of the box thinking.
They make darned good math though.
Just block the sun a lil, what could go wrong??
call Musky man, he knows how to turn the Mars green
@@electronresonator8882 lol, you aren't even arguing against my point.
@Ajit Adonis Manilal Yeah. I never disagreed with that.
Thank you so much for a straight forward summary.
I went to Wren to check my climate footprint and...
"If everyone lived like you, we'd reach 1.5 degrees C within 10 years." And that's at a footprint 60 percent lower than the US national average!
That was...sobering.
Damn
do Exxon and the US military next.
*Scientists:* "So we're slowly cooking ourselves but thankfully we do have a chance to avoid the worst of it if we manage to pull our collective heads out of our asses."
*Capitalists:* bUt ThE pRoFitS tHouGh
I am no capitalist but it's not just profit. The worse thing is not giving a crap. Like...A billionaire working on freaking rockets instead of fixing the planet. Imagine if instead of building a rocket they invested in reforestation... that would be much more helpful. By the time we settle the moon the Earth will become mostly unlivable so I think rockets are not a priority.
@@dementiasorrow yeah it's sad.. do you remember that brief moment in 2019 when team trees was doing a fundraiser and all the rich people and corporations competed to donate the most money?? I think we should make that cool again since it perfectly strokes the ego of billionaires,,,
Also scientists "the earth will slightly warm, weather will be more calm, the oceans rise due to man made Co2 is statistically insignificant, and theres nothing to worry about."
By "we" They mean "China, US, Russia."
Russia is a lot less important than Japan and the EU
@@appa609 Russia makes its money through harvesting and selling gas, oil, coal and other natural resources, it is very much an important part of the problem.
And America...
China Brazil and India not US
@@adrienlefloch7855 Look it up
The comments calling in to question whether cc is real or not enrage and depress me. How can someone who knows damned well that a major disaster is coming for humanity intentionally cause doubt for money??? I submit that greed is a mental illness
How about the comments calling into question the need for AGW advocates to constantly fearmonger and shame the whole of the human kind?
@@thstroyur guess tornado warnings or hurricane warnings are fear mongering lol. We need to stop warning people of impending weather because of their feelings.
@@BladeValant546 Then you guess wrongly, sweetheart - cuz "warning people of impending weather" isn't the same as "fearmongering" - unless we're talking the weather forecast for the next 100 years, that is...
We have to work together to fix the climate crisis. Great Video, Sci-Show.
Have you seen how stupid humanity can react to a pandemic?
I love you guys, but my trust in humanity is very low at this point
I don't blame you bro
People are nuts
Exactly, I talked to neighbors that weren't even aware that the food they bought required a supply chain and human beings to produce it. It amazes me how little people actually think about things around them. Do they think food in grocery stores just materialize without people MAKING THEM ?
@@brianh2287 lol, seriously some people are out of everything, they are not aware of anything. Dont know how some people live without curiosity to learn some new things outside of their 'bubble'.
@@milosstojanovic4623 It was shocking to me when the pandemic started. I live in a very highly educated area in the U.S., one of them had a Phd and the other a Masters degree. It reminded me when Kyle Kulinski tweeted "This is land by the Colorado, Kansas border from a plane. Pretty cool. I have no idea how/ why it looks like this" from his airplane window. If you don't know what I am referring to please google it, you will be shocked.
@@brianh2287 it didn't surprise me Kyle didn't know what a farm is. The dude can't even read a survey properly.
Sadly, the problem is, that in order to get everyone to agree to work together to fix a problem on its own is hard. But it's possible, but made harder when you can't even get everyone to agree there is a problem that needs to be fixed in the first place. That is the problem. Not everyone will admit it needs fixing.
It's because the groups pushing the climate change narrative are all corrupt power hungry globalists fly private jets all over the world.
@Ajit Adonis Manilal Not at all, and you show just how little you actually know about it. Renewables can be used literally everywhere. And solar and wind alone could easily be used to power an entire country of over a billion people with no issues what so ever. Based on your comments, you have fully bought in to all the lies told about them by the far right and fossil fuel companies. As you are spewing their garbage, and compeltely debunked talking points almost word for word. And yet, we know for a fact, none of it is true.
@Ajit Adonis Manilal I, nor no one else ever said all reusables can be used in all places at all times. But, there is always a renewable choice that can easily be used. A nuclear is among them, though right now that is expensive, but it can be done. But keep beleiving what ever lies you want to.
@Ajit Adonis Manilal Learn to reead, I never said every single renewable can be used in every single place. But there is always an option. So form can be used.
There is no need for us to use fossil fuels at all anymore. We could come off them completely if we really wanted to. And we should/ Doing it too fast isn't a good idea no. We should start converting now. And jsut steadily work at it, spreading it and replacing at a pace that can easily be kept up. And bigger countries will have to help smaller ones yes, but that's our responsiblity. We've caused most of the damage, and should help others in fixing it. If we take the proper steps it can be done and with out interfering very much and will make the world better and livable to all in to the future. Which currently just isn't going to be true.
@@MarkHill45 who are the globulist?
I wonder if increasing the ozone layer thickness BEYOND the natural coverage thickness might help plants capture even more CO2. Base load power plants might be able to use ozone generators as a place to dump some excess energy instead of having as many peaking generators cycling on and off.
Change isn't good or bad. It's just different.
RIP. Doggerland.
Dethrone oil barons and suddenly a lot of change becomes possible.
We already have the tech. Electric cars, solar panels, wind, hydroelectric, etc. It's just a case of getting the resources and cost. The cost is the main issue
also get peoplo to stop using oil? and coal too , if necesary like if you have to burn coal to not die is also a probrem
@@nonec384 The only reasonable use for oil is lubrication like in cars. Not for straight up burning
@@andreyrumming6842 yes and no i was talking about that you could die if you burn oil or coal in countries that cant aford nuclear and or renewble arent posible , not that they are any fisible anywhere realy
Abolish corporations in general.
"There is a chance…"
Humanity: Not if I have anything to say about it!
How I wish to commit mass genocide of corporations and politicians
Says the person that after this video goes back to scrolling on tiktok instead of doing something
@@livingzombie4280 you can’t do anything as an individual, the big polluters are companies and countries but also militaries
There’s an old saying that I’ve ironically not heard used in a long time, it goes “don’t mess with Mother Nature”. Well we’ve already messed with her for way to long & realistically it doesn’t look like we’re going to be stopping any time soon. I give us 50 years tops.
The most economical option seems to be to use renewables to offset our emissions from current transportation technology.
There is still hope! This this the silver lining that all our efforts have been fighting for! Don't stop believing that with enough effort that we can still make the world a better place!
We cant make it better but we definitely have chance to not make it any worse
What we can do matter little when we clearly don't do. It's an amazing and horrifying time to be alive. Better be content with happy right now. For me at least as I'm way into my fifties already. So sorry for all young people.
Yeah, I could use some hope for our future
Our future, lol, for how long. Till you hit 50? At some point you don't even care anymore cause your grave is already dug, and your just counting the days till you join the rest of humanity in the nothingness.
@@stevenutter3614no, I won’t join you in nihilism. media focusing on climate doomer nonsense is getting the desired result I see, but that’s exactly what biggest perpetrators of global warming want you to say.
“Yup none of you can fix the problem it’s already done and everything is terrible, whatever you need to hear as long as you don’t cost me money”
You have fun with that
You will not get that from the green parties of the world - nor from this channel whenever climate change is the topic.
On the other hand, if you just take a look at the other reports the UN is making public - that being how world hunger, world poverty and worldwide number of wars is decreasing, while worldwide GDP is actually rising - then you might actually get the idea that things aren't all that bleak.
The world isn't going to end, and the sooner you get that idea out of your head, the sooner we can make it an even better place than it already is.
This is humanity's great filter, but not in the same way you would expect. While climate change is the effect, our actions that led to it are the cause. Greed, lack of unity, and not trusting people who know better than ourselves is what allowed this situation to get as critical as it has. Knowing how its gone up to this point, I am not very optimistic, but im always holding the door open a crack in case a glimmer of hope shines through.
FINALLY, some good news. It's about time.
If People would really worry we would be building nuclear power plants...
Nuclear power plants take 10 years to build, run for 40-70 years and then take 60 years to decommission.
I hope ITER works...
Fusion is the answer and it is just a matter of time, hundreds of millions of dollars were sunk into research and engineering prototypes just last year. It will happen and it will have nothing to do with any of the people talking about the climate, they are just making money out of the fear and controversy, but ultimately their efforts will have no long term impact compared to what fusion offers.
Yeah...more nuclear meltdowns to deal with caused by stupid beings.
@@jrzzrj The potential benefits would far outweigh the costs especially with the advancements made in safety since Chernobyl.
@@jrzzrj You should study more about nuclear technology, a fusion reactor can't do that, nor acan a waste burning subcritical fussor moderated one.
I've never really understood people who deny climate change. Even assuming climate change isn't a thing, wouldn't reducing pollution be a good thing? Isn't preserving the ecosystem a good thing? For example if you have the choice between doing a wasteful and polluting option versus something that's a bit more green if they're about the same price why wouldn't you take The Greener alternative?
But to quote my brother, I love Humanity but boy do they disappoint me sometimes
I think they deny it because the truth terrifies them.
"I've never really understood people who deny climate change" You might try to qualify that better; I myself never found nobody actually claiming there is _no_ change in the climate - only that such change is mostly from _nonanthropogenic_ origin (whether you agree with that or not). And yeah, I'd still care about pollution, recycling, greener chemistry, etc., regardless of the _global_ effects of doing that or not may be; what I _don't_ care is the constant fearmongering, and clear political manipulation behind the curtains of a science that isn't that controversial when it keeps to modest claims about recorded data, as opposed to wild extrapolation from those into an irrelevant imagined past in order to boast useless forecasts for the future and grandstandingly point an accusatory finger to the general population and shame it for sucking so much
It's not that they don't believe in climate change, it's just they don't believe mankind is the sole contributor
The problem is the technology is still not their yet in many cases so the price to switch over is still high. And the older industries still have a lot of power. Look at how many people are mad over gas wanting trump back just because of that it's insane. The only way to get people to switch over is if we develop that technology more.
@@dustin872 And still, what is the problem with reducing pollution?
If we stopped that O zone hole we can definitely sort this problem out
Heres an idea minimise waste by composting at home and if you have garden space use it to grow your own produce. you've made your own plant food in the compost bins and taking trucks off the road for hauling the produce to the shops also the less trucks going to landfill
The video honewtly has a very future oriented and lightly motivated tone - it doesn’t feel doom and gloom, or panicky. I think it’s a really good way of sharing this information - it’s information, not cause to scream or lose hope completely. I’m seeing a lot of very depressed comments which is understandable. But I’m truly hopeful because I do believe in people. I don’t believe in power, but I believe in people. People ultimately can come together. Most people chose to be careful during the pandemic. There were large groups of outliers but the majority was altruistic. We need to insist and apply pressure where it matters - who has the power to get things done.
If you feel hopeless, you sound seriously burned out, try to decompress, try to let yourself rest and recover. We have to envision and put pressure for a better future or we’ll never get it. I wish you all well
Thanks for this. Reading a lot of cynicism has always had an effect on me and reading this reminds me to reorient myself.
Same from above, thanks for this message
We'll see positive effects within 20 years if we start now? That's a goal that can be used to hammer home with any naysayers.
I have a feeling if we tried globally to lessen/abstain from CO2 emissions, we'd be back to full throttle in about a decade. Anybody at all pro-oil in power will want to change those policies.
We will never have a chance if we don't try. Don't give up, don't quit, don't be complicit. Let's not produce more negativity. Instead, instill whatever change you can into the industries responsible for climate change. This can be as small as in your own life (eating plant-based diet, reducing carbon consumption and waste, etc.) and as big as petitions, protests, and policy changes in whatever fields you have the ability to.
Thanks SciShow! spread the word
"The first, bitter taste of that terrible illusion: Hope."
I know it's a quote, but if you think about it like that you might as well just give up now. Let's have hope of a better world and, in the process, make it happen!
Edit: Oh dear I hope this doesn't get political...
@@baranorak4080 Can't do that without removing those that stand in the way as obstacles such as the GOP.
Edgy.
@@toddmorningstar4206 Yes, we know, you can get more done in a dictatorship.
@@itheuserfirst3186 1 party state always knows what's best
Whenever findings say something is impossible to fix, it then becomes sciences job to go beyond the impossible.
The sciences started talking about this decades ago when the fix was easy. Don't go putting your hope on science and then waiting passively, science isn't the one falling short here. Politics, industry, and the economy are the ones who are falling short.
@@bramvanduijn8086 You aren't wrong, but science needs to overcome those struggles and challenges and that has always been the case but perhaps if we the individuals invest more in sciences they can have the funding needed to either fight back politically or fix the problems.
@@louisfalcone5494 technically that's more engineering than science.
the problem is this isn’t a scientific problem. We have all the technology now to course correct and solve climate change. This is a political, sociological, and economic problem. We need to shift the balance of power to everyday people.
Thanks for the small bit of hope. Thanks again for sharing.
Just signed up for Wren! Was worried it would be really expensive but was pretty affordable. For me, a teenager living at home who drives to work, it cost $30 to offset my carbon footprint, but there were many different payment options including a customizable one.
Hope?
Lobbyists: *Elimination in progress*
Might be time to eliminate some lobbyists.
Government officials who want to give us hope by doing something: *"Let's lobbyist-proof this legislation*".
@@WaterZer0 Yes.
wow. huge news and haven’t even heard about it other than this video, kinda sad.
idk where you've been, i've seen this everywhere
@@shashwemmie maybe i’m just not following the right sources :(
If you're looking for people talking about this kind of stuff to follow on youtube I'm subscribed to Just have a think, Zentouro, Climate town, and Simon Clark. :)
Most of the other videos I’ve seen on this only focus on the negative
I've seen a lot of news about it myself.
We are in the season finale of planet Earth...! 🔥
Oh, so the terms "good news" & "the best case scenario if ppl cooperate unrealistically well" are now interchangeable? So glad I watched. 👍
There’s hope in climate change.
Countries and companies: let’s crush this hope
The actions we can take as individuals pale in comparison to the top 10 companies that produce some 70% of carbon emissions. I do what I can, but until we stop them...
Have you considered not buying from them? Also, do you have that list to share with the group?
This statistic is a bit reductive.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 what do you mean?
We don't need hope. We need urgency and despair.
I see no problem with a warmer climate.
I do see many, many benefits from one from the standpoint of humanity.
*in a hundred years*
grandchildren: I can’t believe it rained today, I really wanted to go to the park 😩
me, old as hell: you’re just lucky the COUNTRY isn’t still on fire while the GLOBE was still in a PANDEMIC 😷
gc:.......alright grandma 😐
"And we were told nobody could EVER touch their face again or they'd instantly die from Covid!"
~All right grandma...
The good news is we know exactly what we need to do. The bad news is that we are aren't doing it.
we are fooling ourselves that we have the technology solutions to fix this problem, what get rid of fossil fuels, install heat pumps and drive electric cars, yea that will fix it, NOT
@@delladog we do have all the technology to fix climate change? and yeah, slashing 100% of fossil fuels wouldn't entirely fix the problem, but it would go a very long way.
can we get more environmental videos :D i love these! i learn so much more than i did at school! Youre so good at explaining!
I absolutely needed this video so very much. I've been dreading the future, imagining wildfires happening just as much as rain, water droughts, famine, firestorms, heat waves... and having nonstop anxiety and panic attacks ever since the report (and with every news vehicle propagating catastrophism and hopelessness)
don't stress yourself out over it. even if it ends up that way, that's just more incentive to enjoy the present before it gets worse.
lol this video is hopium.
Unless we change our “A Mind of Metal and Wheels” way of life, change seems almost impossible.
@Ajit Adonis Manilal it's a lord of the rings quote
@@touncy1533 Doesn't mean that what he said is any less correct.
Tony do you ride places in cars?
Quality Public Transportation
@@cat-.- do you ride a bus or train for all your transit needs that feet won't handle?
I bought a bike :)
True it was mostly because I was getting tired of walking home but now I only have to take the bus in the winter
nice!!! we can take small steps to improve the climate, together they will have a big impact vs doing nothing at all.
Southern Missouri was -10 last winter. I have never seen temperatures that low in my life.
I won't see the changes in my lifetime, but my nieces and nephews will get to see/feel them!!!
exactly that’s why younger people need to be heard thanks
Hate to say it Karen, but we are already seeing it. Plenty of records being broken and at record rates (pun intended).
"But there is an upside..what our future climate will look like really depends on what we do now"
You sure this is an upside? Because clearly we are aiming for much higher temperatures right now.
It's all hands (both personal and corporate) on deck to really change course, but how do we get the level of change from the corporations that we really need?
We don't. Corporations will never change unless it makes them more money to do so, and this never will. Our only hope is to get rid of the corporations, along with capitalism itself.
The same way the weak have always gotten things from the strong: Whine and cry, loudly and constantly. Keep emailing them, sending social media messages, and whatever else you can think of. If every customer sent a mail once a year they would soon start working on it, if only to reduce the customer service department's overhead.
These were such general statements from such a large worldwide group of scientists.