PS... -It turns out that Vanuatu was technically hit by TWO cyclones not 4 as I state in the video. I got that number from a cab driver who I'm guessing misconstrued a temporary calm in the same storm as two separate cyclones. I'm not sure. -I tried to find if there was any relief efforts for Vanuatu, but since I filmed this back in March I couldn't find any active ones. I did find this list of charities though that seems very helpful for over all environmental issues around the world: impactful.ninja/best-charities-for-climate-change -For any concern over us being there at all. We immediately booked a flight out once we realized they were recovering from a cyclone. The following afternoon we flew to another island in Vanuatu that wasn't badly affected. -The fruit we found is Terminalia sepicana. It is a terminalia that specifically grows in Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
I was there and can confirm there were two category 4 cyclones with a 48 hour gap between them. We experienced a short calm as the eye of the first storm passed over us. The ongoing impact on the availability of locally grown fruit and vegetables has been severe although the situation has improved considerably.
Can confirm. Hurricanes are fucked up. Was on a small island during Hurricane Julia last year. With all the damage and downed trees, I was utterly impressed that palm trees never lost their coconuts. You know it's very very bad when the coconuts are gone.
Those round pineapple looking things hanging from the wind worn trees are called Pahong, pronounced Pah-hong, in the Marianas. Those there look very small in comparison. I think they are in the Pandanus or otherwise called, Screw Pine family. You break apart the individual pods and cut it open length wise. Inside is a delicious creamy white almond-like nut that can be eaten raw. I'm not sure what else the locals did with them or how else it was prepared. It was years ago when I had tied them. I don't remember much else. I met an artisan not too long ago from Samoa. She was using the pods to stamp dye patterns on Tapa Bark Cloth. She had cut the pods diagonally on the smaller pointy end and frayed the fibers out to resemble a fat paint brush. Although I do enjoy every learning about every new exotic fruit you find, I've enjoyed this episode just a tiny bit more. It's because I saw things that look somewhat familiar. Luckily for us, you are very brave to try new and different things! Stay safe!
I got spooked when Steven manipulated the castor beans. And seeing the aftermath of that cyclone is pretty heartbreaking. But showing a country that not a lot of people know much, if anything, about is a truly commendable effort. As usual, amazing video, Jared.
Thank you for editing this with footage of just how bad things were. People don't understand how climate change is affecting smaller countries and you highlighting it in an entertaining way is good.
How do you know its related to climate change? Hurricanes, and cyclones are normal/natural.. How can u say that one bad storm is because of climate change directly? Im genuinely curious how u make this correlation..
@@JonHop1 These cultures on pacific islands have known cyclones or typhoons for centuries. Some places encounter multiple every year. They know what is normal intensity and what is abnormal. In many places their architecture have adapted to the weather and can withstand them. The trees have adapted to typical cyclones too and normally wouldn't be killed by one. For it to become a disaster, something must be wrong.
@@YelDohan That makes no sense.. There is no such thing as "normal" Weather patterns change constantly over time.. The earth changes.. Maybe you do not know this, but just because there is a weather "disaster" doesnt mean anything is wrong. Climates change naturally. We go thru warming and cooling cycles all the time. Its normal.. Fact is, this person has no clue if 1 storm is correlated to human-caused changes.. Fact is, it is far more likely is was just a normal rare storm that happens from time to time every few decades.
My parents went a few years ago there was also a big storm that defoliated everything. Vanuatu is so good. The people are lovely and the diving is great. Don't eat the coconut crabs they're endangered.
Your trips are so valuable to bringing awareness to fruit and the environment! Thank you for exposing so much on your videos. You are one of my hereos.
I have been suscribed for years and you are an inspiration for me, I am sure for many others too. We get to meet new places, their culture and amazing fruits that I never imagined they existed thanks to you. I wish the best for you man. Cheers!
Curious factoid--around the year 2000, Amway owned in the neighborhood of 50-75% of all the world's Acerola cherry which they used widely throughout their lines of cosmetics and skin whiteners (destined for asian markets). They tried putting Acerola extracts into literally anything that destined for application to the skin.
I'll never understand the fascination of cosmetics, beautycare, & haircare companies making their products sound more like a fruit salad than something you're supposed to slather onto your person.
Thank you for sticking it out and posting this video; such devastation yet so uplifting at the same time because life continues and people are rebuilding. The people of Vanuatu who saw you two must have thought you were some bad a** tourists who decided to go foraging when room service was discontinued....
Y'all be fruiting. Always very impressive. I'm a long time viewer and... I'll keep watching! You are proof of how interesting this medium can be. Thank you! Stay fruity. ❤
Stinging nettle isn't dangerous it's more annoying also the leaves are edible if you cook them into like a soup or something my mom grows them in the garden
Normal stinging nettles are safe but there relatives of them called gympie gympie which can burn your or very irritate your skin also when he mentions stinging nettle he might get confused and think about other species because he visits tropical places. The species you’re taking about is urtica dioca which doesn’t grow fruit either
This is Tree Nettle which is genuinely dangerous. In NZ we have tree nettle called Ongaonga. It’s painful, much more than European nettle, and causes more serious symptoms.
Thanks for your video, Jared. I'm moving to Vanuatu next week, they are still recovering but bouncing back! I hope your coverage means more visitors in the future for the country, its a special place. I wish you had more time in the Pacific so I can use your videos to find new fruit, too!
While on vacation in Kauai, I noticed lots of trees that looked like those tropical almonds you showed. They were all along the shore line. My mother told me they are like the almonds that grow in the Marianas. Unfortunately, we never picked them to try. Mother told us they were not ready to pick yet. I'm sure you can find them all over Hawaii. In case you ever make your way to Kauai, we found them in abundance right on the shoreline next to the only road there in Anini Beach. I'm thinking not many people there know about them and just pass them up. Perhaps some natives still pick them. For the most part, Anini is a very tiny beach community where mostly wealthy non-Hawaiians live.
Steven always teaches me so much! I love when he gets into the biology of why and how plants do their thing. I want to get cozy and listen to him give a lecture. 😅 My tangent because I think it's wild: The craziest part of ricin is that there is no antidote (we have antidotes or treatment measures for most known poisons, but not ricin) and it takes way less than a full seed to kill a person. I think it's in the micrograms. There was a famous reporter who was assassinated by ricin poisoning from powder that was on/in a tiny lead pellet that was stabbed into his leg from the tip of a modified umbrella. He thought it was just an insect sting. The facts are usually misconstrued as the umbrella was modified into a gun that shot him, but that's not accurate. It's "shot" as injected not shot as in projectile. He was waiting at a bus stop outside London iirc and didn't notice until he got back to the office. Ricin stops your cells from being able to produce the proteins they need to function, so they just die. It's wild because castor oil is in lots of beauty products because it's good for the skin and body, but the ricin byproduct is so deadly.
On the ricin in castor beans: the lethal doses are broadly understood to be 3-4 beans for a child and 8 for an adult, not just the one, though you would definitely get sick!
The damage to the coconut palms was actually caused more by the invasive Rhinoceros beetle than by the storms. These beetles have been destroying the palms at an alarming rate on the main island of Efate. Luckily other islands have not been affected.
Had to check I was watching your channel as TVNZ intro confused me. The damage caused by the cyclones is stink and only going to get worse. What that does to fruit will be interesting.
totally unrelated: i found a nursery in north wales called jurassic plant nursery that grows rarer and exotic fruit trees, might be worth checking out.
the music doesn't appear to be what's reported in the description. it doesn't sound like 'nonstop' by Kevin Mcleod and I would like to know what it is.
Speaking of the islands said & in wishing them a good recovery, might it be time to rename the section Melanesia (which is a rather dated name) to something like Lapitanesia or Lapinesia (for short) in honor of the predominant ancestral archeological culture that has begotten many of those to wander to Micronesia & Polynesia? Hope you find a way to help the nesians in need anyhow
When I went to Thailand, the king died soon after I arrived. All the major attractions shut down, and everyone started wearing black. Traveling has all types of unexpected twists and turns, but it’s Sri an experience.
Can't help but think how it's a little bit ironic how you fly all over the world to try fruits and I'm on my fancy phone watching and supporting you and we're both contributing disproportionately to the emissions that are worsening the problems we are so compassionate about. The world's a complicated place. You're also doing a lot of good, by bringing attention to wonderful and sometimes rare plants, but your hours on planes and cruises... Not judging you here, just confused myself.
yeah it's hard not to be part of the problem all you can do is take some efforts where you can afford to. I feel like I do my part in other ways so I don't feel too bad about getting on a plane.
@@fredo51 That's a valid view to me. My personal ideas: I am am orthodox atheist ;). So I don't think I'm a god-appointed caretaker of the earth (as many christians do). For me it's about the world I want to live in and also a bit about the world other people and beings live in. I like seeing diversity around me, with bees and butterflies (which are almost gone where I live). That's aesthetics, makes me happy, probably heavily culturally influenced. But I also really value clean air, because my throat is quite sensitive (not by choice) and starts hurting when I breath in a lot of fumes. For me, a world with a high diversity in (fruit (to be on-topic)) species, a range of plants and insects, and somewhat stable weather looks good. A world with a lot of fossil fuel fumes, big smelly cars, monoculture fields, no insects, floods all over the place and heatwaves is just less attractive. The changes in the environment, caused by humans, are happening now, I see them around me now, so it's not just for the next generation. For me it's also not distopian to eat plant based foods and travel around by bicycle. I found living in a car-centred US was much more "impoverished" than my life cycling and walking around among other human beings here. And I also care about the other human beings, project my world view onto them and think they will be happier too in my "green utopia" than in your "wealthiest utopia". Climate change is making life harder in a lot of places, and I'd like to limit that. As far as this future view, I care about my 4-year old nephew, who'll get to experience a lot more of the problems, and I wished my parents (and people of their generation) had made different choices. Is it rational to care about others? I don't know, but I live by the idea that if we all do, the world is probably a nicer place. Perhaps it's a bit Hobbesian in the sense that I have this feeling (more than rationalisation) of a common rational good to strive for. But my means to strive for it are not placing myself in the hands of a just ruler (I have very little sense of authority), but engaging in discussions like these. What's your idea, do we just have different utopias for ourselves?
China is the biggest polluter worldwide. The USA is trying to lower emissions and get more renewable sources of energy. Small island nations have to have visitors to earn enough income to survive since an awful lot of things have to be imported. The USA and small island nations are the countries being hit the hardest by changes to weather from global warming.
Hi Steven and Jared my friends the worlds highest vitamin c fruit is the Kakadu plum terminalia ferdinandina combretaceae family it’s a 100 times more vitamin c than a orange it’s native to Kakadu.
I like this channel a lot but can't help finding it kind of ironic to talk about the disastrous effects of climate change on this island while travelling there and all over the world by plane...one of the biggest contributors to one's personal CO2 foot print and doing this at least partly out of leisure interests.
Jerrad I have been watching your channel for years and years. I appreciate what you do and have love for you brother but I have one huge problem with this video. CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT REAL. I am an amateur historian, I was almost done with my bachelors to be a history teacher before I dropped out to be a firefighter. As a historian I can assure you that natural disasters have been occurring since the beginning of time. Natural disasters happen every year, but some how some people act like this is a new thing and that carbon has something to do with it. The truth is carbon can change the climate over hundreds if not thousands of years. Climate alarmists, who make a ton of money off of scaring people, have been doing this for decades and you can look up the dozens of times that they have flip flopped on wether the climate is going towards an ice age or heat age. They have made so so so many egregious apocalyptic claims that have never come close to true. The narrative is sinister and wrong and makes people live in fear. Please don’t spin a narrative until you know the facts. Do some research and please don’t use partial sources. Keep up the good work fruit exploring and if you are ever in palm beach Florida you are welcome to do some fruit hunting with me. Stay safe I keep you in my prayers.
PS...
-It turns out that Vanuatu was technically hit by TWO cyclones not 4 as I state in the video. I got that number from a cab driver who I'm guessing misconstrued a temporary calm in the same storm as two separate cyclones. I'm not sure.
-I tried to find if there was any relief efforts for Vanuatu, but since I filmed this back in March I couldn't find any active ones. I did find this list of charities though that seems very helpful for over all environmental issues around the world: impactful.ninja/best-charities-for-climate-change
-For any concern over us being there at all. We immediately booked a flight out once we realized they were recovering from a cyclone. The following afternoon we flew to another island in Vanuatu that wasn't badly affected.
-The fruit we found is Terminalia sepicana. It is a terminalia that specifically grows in Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
You should check out PNG and the Bismarck Archipelago some time, the origins for many Pacific food species
Thank you fir your explanation and for sharing everything you experience with us that you want to. Take care.
I was there and can confirm there were two category 4 cyclones with a 48 hour gap between them. We experienced a short calm as the eye of the first storm passed over us. The ongoing impact on the availability of locally grown fruit and vegetables has been severe although the situation has improved considerably.
Can confirm. Hurricanes are fucked up. Was on a small island during Hurricane Julia last year. With all the damage and downed trees, I was utterly impressed that palm trees never lost their coconuts. You know it's very very bad when the coconuts are gone.
It’s always great how you how not only show the fruit but also the places and acknowledge the culture.
Those round pineapple looking things hanging from the wind worn trees are called Pahong, pronounced Pah-hong, in the Marianas. Those there look very small in comparison. I think they are in the Pandanus or otherwise called, Screw Pine family. You break apart the individual pods and cut it open length wise. Inside is a delicious creamy white almond-like nut that can be eaten raw. I'm not sure what else the locals did with them or how else it was prepared. It was years ago when I had tied them. I don't remember much else.
I met an artisan not too long ago from Samoa. She was using the pods to stamp dye patterns on Tapa Bark Cloth. She had cut the pods diagonally on the smaller pointy end and frayed the fibers out to resemble a fat paint brush.
Although I do enjoy every learning about every new exotic fruit you find, I've enjoyed this episode just a tiny bit more. It's because I saw things that look somewhat familiar. Luckily for us, you are very brave to try new and different things! Stay safe!
I got spooked when Steven manipulated the castor beans. And seeing the aftermath of that cyclone is pretty heartbreaking. But showing a country that not a lot of people know much, if anything, about is a truly commendable effort.
As usual, amazing video, Jared.
thank you!
Steve stepping on that fruit is like a kitten curiously playing with a mouse
Here in NZ we love our Nivan cousins and were happy to help in any way we could. We will continue to assist your recovery ❤❤
Thank you for acknowledging the disaster, Jared
Thank you for editing this with footage of just how bad things were. People don't understand how climate change is affecting smaller countries and you highlighting it in an entertaining way is good.
How do you know its related to climate change? Hurricanes, and cyclones are normal/natural.. How can u say that one bad storm is because of climate change directly? Im genuinely curious how u make this correlation..
@@JonHop1 These cultures on pacific islands have known cyclones or typhoons for centuries. Some places encounter multiple every year. They know what is normal intensity and what is abnormal. In many places their architecture have adapted to the weather and can withstand them. The trees have adapted to typical cyclones too and normally wouldn't be killed by one. For it to become a disaster, something must be wrong.
@@YelDohan That makes no sense.. There is no such thing as "normal" Weather patterns change constantly over time.. The earth changes.. Maybe you do not know this, but just because there is a weather "disaster" doesnt mean anything is wrong. Climates change naturally. We go thru warming and cooling cycles all the time. Its normal.. Fact is, this person has no clue if 1 storm is correlated to human-caused changes.. Fact is, it is far more likely is was just a normal rare storm that happens from time to time every few decades.
My parents went a few years ago there was also a big storm that defoliated everything. Vanuatu is so good. The people are lovely and the diving is great. Don't eat the coconut crabs they're endangered.
Thanks for informing me about this disaster, it's been hard keeping up with the world.
Your trips are so valuable to bringing awareness to fruit and the environment! Thank you for exposing so much on your videos. You are one of my hereos.
So nice of you!
I have been suscribed for years and you are an inspiration for me, I am sure for many others too. We get to meet new places, their culture and amazing fruits that I never imagined they existed thanks to you. I wish the best for you man. Cheers!
Wow, thank you!
As an Aussie I find Steven's pronunciation of Kakadu hilarious.
ikr lmao - “kadakoo plum”
So, it's pronounced Kak -a - doo, rhymes roughtly with cockatoo.
Took me a sec to work out that he was talking about the Kakadu plum : )
Ikr 😂
Curious factoid--around the year 2000, Amway owned in the neighborhood of 50-75% of all the world's Acerola cherry which they used widely throughout their lines of cosmetics and skin whiteners (destined for asian markets). They tried putting Acerola extracts into literally anything that destined for application to the skin.
interesting!
I'll never understand the fascination of cosmetics, beautycare, & haircare companies making their products sound more like a fruit salad than something you're supposed to slather onto your person.
Thank you for sticking it out and posting this video; such devastation yet so uplifting at the same time because life continues and people are rebuilding. The people of Vanuatu who saw you two must have thought you were some bad a** tourists who decided to go foraging when room service was discontinued....
Love the random street grazing!!! Neo-neo-realism♡
Y'all be fruiting. Always very impressive. I'm a long time viewer and... I'll keep watching! You are proof of how interesting this medium can be. Thank you! Stay fruity. ❤
Also I could read the sadness in your eyes. Thank you for having a heart, and a face. To stuff fruit into.
The large Terminalia fruit is probably Terminalia kaernbachii (okari nut) which is from PNG but was brought there for commercial purposes.
Stinging nettle isn't dangerous it's more annoying also the leaves are edible if you cook them into like a soup or something my mom grows them in the garden
Normal stinging nettles are safe but there relatives of them called gympie gympie which can burn your or very irritate your skin also when he mentions stinging nettle he might get confused and think about other species because he visits tropical places. The species you’re taking about is urtica dioca which doesn’t grow fruit either
This is Tree Nettle which is genuinely dangerous. In NZ we have tree nettle called Ongaonga. It’s painful, much more than European nettle, and causes more serious symptoms.
Not dangerous really. but they can sting. Some more than others
@@WeirdExplorer there is totally stingless fruiting relative of them called suhosine mulberry would be cool to try.
Thanks for your video, Jared. I'm moving to Vanuatu next week, they are still recovering but bouncing back! I hope your coverage means more visitors in the future for the country, its a special place. I wish you had more time in the Pacific so I can use your videos to find new fruit, too!
Also, I'm excited to pick from this tree next time it fruits and try fruit from the same tree as you both haha
Congrats! it's a beautify country with so many islands to explore 😁
Steven is an encyclopedia of knowledge
Didn't expect to see Mike McRoberts/NewsHub right at the start of a Weird Explorer video but I'll take it
Good to see everything is alright
I adore how romantic your guys trips are
Good video though.. including non popular information about these beautiful Islands.great work.❤
Steven is my favorite yoooo. You guys gotta come visit and eat maaaad tropical fruit yooo
Kakadu "Ka-ka-doo" Plum, Terminalia ferdinandiana, native to Northern Australia.
Did Steve mean kakadu plum ?
We normally pronounce it KAK-ah-doo (unless its a different plum I don't know about!!! :D )
great EP as normal, cheers!
While on vacation in Kauai, I noticed lots of trees that looked like those tropical almonds you showed. They were all along the shore line. My mother told me they are like the almonds that grow in the Marianas. Unfortunately, we never picked them to try. Mother told us they were not ready to pick yet.
I'm sure you can find them all over Hawaii. In case you ever make your way to Kauai, we found them in abundance right on the shoreline next to the only road there in Anini Beach. I'm thinking not many people there know about them and just pass them up. Perhaps some natives still pick them. For the most part, Anini is a very tiny beach community where mostly wealthy non-Hawaiians live.
Southern Vanuatu was hit the hardest, and the earthquake caused little damage. Reminds me of the mag 5 earthquake in socal during Hilary.
The plant at 8:39 is actually a declared noxious weed in Australia. It takes over very rapidly and chokes out native vegetation.
Wow that's devastating. Been through a few hurricanes in LA and it's so scary
Steven always teaches me so much! I love when he gets into the biology of why and how plants do their thing. I want to get cozy and listen to him give a lecture. 😅
My tangent because I think it's wild: The craziest part of ricin is that there is no antidote (we have antidotes or treatment measures for most known poisons, but not ricin) and it takes way less than a full seed to kill a person. I think it's in the micrograms. There was a famous reporter who was assassinated by ricin poisoning from powder that was on/in a tiny lead pellet that was stabbed into his leg from the tip of a modified umbrella. He thought it was just an insect sting. The facts are usually misconstrued as the umbrella was modified into a gun that shot him, but that's not accurate. It's "shot" as injected not shot as in projectile. He was waiting at a bus stop outside London iirc and didn't notice until he got back to the office. Ricin stops your cells from being able to produce the proteins they need to function, so they just die. It's wild because castor oil is in lots of beauty products because it's good for the skin and body, but the ricin byproduct is so deadly.
Great editing!
Thanks!
On the ricin in castor beans: the lethal doses are broadly understood to be 3-4 beans for a child and 8 for an adult, not just the one, though you would definitely get sick!
Castor oil is used for constipation, because quick exit is the reason it does not have time to make much harm to a person.
4:05 real nerd moment, I love it
Awful about the disasters, but glad you still found some interesting fruits.
The damage to the coconut palms was actually caused more by the invasive Rhinoceros beetle than by the storms. These beetles have been destroying the palms at an alarming rate on the main island of Efate. Luckily other islands have not been affected.
Had to check I was watching your channel as TVNZ intro confused me. The damage caused by the cyclones is stink and only going to get worse. What that does to fruit will be interesting.
That single apple looked lonely
Castor oil used to be a laxative when I was little... Had no clue it could kill you.
you guys should really travel with a nutcracker, lmao
I prefer sugarcane to hurricane.
looks soooo humid
totally unrelated: i found a nursery in north wales called jurassic plant nursery that grows rarer and exotic fruit trees, might be worth checking out.
man i love fruits (controversial)
There’s a lot in California
Man I hate fruits but love the videos
omg same (i am homosexual)
definitely
the music doesn't appear to be what's reported in the description. it doesn't sound like 'nonstop' by Kevin Mcleod and I would like to know what it is.
Oh yeah that ones called Ricinus eating is a bad idea lol
Speaking of the islands said & in wishing them a good recovery, might it be time to rename the section Melanesia (which is a rather dated name) to something like Lapitanesia or Lapinesia (for short) in honor of the predominant ancestral archeological culture that has begotten many of those to wander to Micronesia & Polynesia? Hope you find a way to help the nesians in need anyhow
Kakadu plum?
If they aren't sweet, they aren't ripe. Tropical almonds, when ripe, have the MOST heavenly peachy flavor.
these aren't the same species though so that might be why
@@WeirdExplorer that could also explain it! I know all the ripe ones I've ever eaten were not crunchy at all.
My favorite fruit
And it worth a lot in my country, 15 usd for a kg
Boy do I love biological superlatives. Super cool to learn about both the acerola cherry and kakadu plum.
So, Steven was a parrot in a past life...
I hope this isn't considered inappropriate, I deal with stress and sorrow with humor.
When I went to Thailand, the king died soon after I arrived. All the major attractions shut down, and everyone started wearing black. Traveling has all types of unexpected twists and turns, but it’s Sri an experience.
Mango tree behind you!!!! By the jail.
So sorry for the people of the region.
I'm just gonna agree with Vpusta
Try the sour papaya and hawthorn
Does Stephen have a channel!?
Kakadu Plum
sometime, you should try Pandanus conoideus (a.k.a red fruit)
I tried it earlier this year. video coming up in the future. it's a really cool one!
What was the song you used over the news segment?
Terminalia have tiny kernals that are like almonds.
here you could perhaps link to an aid organization.
No Volcanic eruption?
Also, you maybe should leave the rest for the locals? 8-P
THis is stinging nettle, this is my wife. BOrat voice lol
21s ago?
For goodness sake, don't bite through nut shells. I used to do that as a kid, and now my teeth are so sensitive.
Kiwi accent :)
Seedless almonds…lol
Hoo...ray?
Dam
Man no fruit preview I guess
Stinging nettle soup is supposed to be good
Everyone pray for Vanuatu to whatever god you worship
Can't help but think how it's a little bit ironic how you fly all over the world to try fruits and I'm on my fancy phone watching and supporting you and we're both contributing disproportionately to the emissions that are worsening the problems we are so compassionate about. The world's a complicated place. You're also doing a lot of good, by bringing attention to wonderful and sometimes rare plants, but your hours on planes and cruises... Not judging you here, just confused myself.
yeah it's hard not to be part of the problem all you can do is take some efforts where you can afford to. I feel like I do my part in other ways so I don't feel too bad about getting on a plane.
@@fredo51 That's a valid view to me. My personal ideas: I am am orthodox atheist ;). So I don't think I'm a god-appointed caretaker of the earth (as many christians do). For me it's about the world I want to live in and also a bit about the world other people and beings live in. I like seeing diversity around me, with bees and butterflies (which are almost gone where I live). That's aesthetics, makes me happy, probably heavily culturally influenced. But I also really value clean air, because my throat is quite sensitive (not by choice) and starts hurting when I breath in a lot of fumes. For me, a world with a high diversity in (fruit (to be on-topic)) species, a range of plants and insects, and somewhat stable weather looks good. A world with a lot of fossil fuel fumes, big smelly cars, monoculture fields, no insects, floods all over the place and heatwaves is just less attractive. The changes in the environment, caused by humans, are happening now, I see them around me now, so it's not just for the next generation. For me it's also not distopian to eat plant based foods and travel around by bicycle. I found living in a car-centred US was much more "impoverished" than my life cycling and walking around among other human beings here. And I also care about the other human beings, project my world view onto them and think they will be happier too in my "green utopia" than in your "wealthiest utopia". Climate change is making life harder in a lot of places, and I'd like to limit that. As far as this future view, I care about my 4-year old nephew, who'll get to experience a lot more of the problems, and I wished my parents (and people of their generation) had made different choices. Is it rational to care about others? I don't know, but I live by the idea that if we all do, the world is probably a nicer place.
Perhaps it's a bit Hobbesian in the sense that I have this feeling (more than rationalisation) of a common rational good to strive for. But my means to strive for it are not placing myself in the hands of a just ruler (I have very little sense of authority), but engaging in discussions like these. What's your idea, do we just have different utopias for ourselves?
China is the biggest polluter worldwide. The USA is trying to lower emissions and get more renewable sources of energy.
Small island nations have to have visitors to earn enough income to survive since an awful lot of things have to be imported. The USA and small island nations are the countries being hit the hardest by changes to weather from global warming.
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so this is why my vanuatu pharmacy order is delayed
😂
There's always a place for a little dark humor
Hi Steven and Jared my friends the worlds highest vitamin c fruit is the Kakadu plum terminalia ferdinandina combretaceae family it’s a 100 times more vitamin c than a orange it’s native to Kakadu.
You guys are gonna need a dentist
Steven actually chipped a tooth while filming this 😳
I like this channel a lot but can't help finding it kind of ironic to talk about the disastrous effects of climate change on this island while travelling there and all over the world by plane...one of the biggest contributors to one's personal CO2 foot print and doing this at least partly out of leisure interests.
Jerrad I have been watching your channel for years and years. I appreciate what you do and have love for you brother but I have one huge problem with this video. CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT REAL. I am an amateur historian, I was almost done with my bachelors to be a history teacher before I dropped out to be a firefighter. As a historian I can assure you that natural disasters have been occurring since the beginning of time. Natural disasters happen every year, but some how some people act like this is a new thing and that carbon has something to do with it. The truth is carbon can change the climate over hundreds if not thousands of years. Climate alarmists, who make a ton of money off of scaring people, have been doing this for decades and you can look up the dozens of times that they have flip flopped on wether the climate is going towards an ice age or heat age. They have made so so so many egregious apocalyptic claims that have never come close to true. The narrative is sinister and wrong and makes people live in fear. Please don’t spin a narrative until you know the facts. Do some research and please don’t use partial sources. Keep up the good work fruit exploring and if you are ever in palm beach Florida you are welcome to do some fruit hunting with me. Stay safe I keep you in my prayers.
Yeah and i should be compensated for existing, the entitlement and delusions around climate is laughable. Regardless came for fruit!
Back to your hole 👉
Weather modification is real.
You should be compensated for existing lol, everyone should
What?
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