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Dr. Swain, you have given good points. I did not learn this as a student of International Relations.

Thanks Dougald and Azril for a great conversation!

Painfully optimistic. In terms of 1.5 degs not yet reached. 3 or 4 degs warming not till LATE this century. The claim that we have ALL the tools available to 'fix it'. Let alone the political challenges. But refreshingly blunt about our failure as a species, since 1992, with GHG emissions now higher than ever.

What about the escalation of wars. We are not taking stuff seriously at all.

Enjoyable and clear discussion, but to say "we need deep social change" points to truth not yet confronted, and often in fact eluded in scientists' displays of graphs and numbers and percentages. Sure the objective trajectories of climate change are the essential bedrock of 'the problem', but massive political reorientation, and immense social change of the way everyone lives would in fact be the proper focus to avoid about 3-4 degrees rise this century. Renewables won't do it. We don't have carbon capture and storage that works yet. Electric cars are about 10% if that of the solution, and terrible problems with batteries still arise. We can't grow enough trees fast enough on available land. All geo-engineering is risky. Half the world's countries will insist on their right to industrialise like the West did ... etc. Scientists ARE NOT good on topics of social change: we can see now the real problems are human political-psychological throughout our institutions, underpinned by traditional systems of power. At least Kevin Anderson is not technocratic, and understands the systemic character of the changes required.

Has an accurate transcript of this conversation been produced?

Very interesting interview with Pr. Kevin Anderson . He is a nice person ! It seems to me that I know him since a very long time ago...He has almost the same carrier path like me. I am mining and energy engineer but since the Chernobyl nuclear accident of the 27.04.1986 in ukrain, I turn my attention and thinking and doing to ENVIRONMENTAL education. M. Ali Berrada . From Marrakech

Thanks for posting this. Keep it up Kevin. Your appreciated. 🙂

What about reduced aerosol masking after fossil fuel use reduction?

The talk was amazing and more informative on the hard to abate issue Dr Kevin. Climate change is one of the major challenges where few countries have initiated actions to restore earth systems. I wish your team can give more solutions in this area for the new era on climate change 😄🎉❤

Well explained Professor ❤

COP , showing ostriches how its really done .

People have been trying do "do something" for over fifty years with 0% success. I'm not insane. I know when we've lost.

Kevin Anderson - speaking truth 2 power, fine upstanding and highly educated citizen . climate hero!

Political commitments seem more important than lives what about China

Thank you for this interview. How can we make Kevin Anderson in charge of things?

As a specialist on the "human-condition," I CERTAINLY disagree with the grade of "A" spoken of at 08:02, which re-affirms how important it has always been to talk about ourselves, not with this ingrained "human-chauvinism" - which can STILL make the greatest scientist think that we are just one tiny turn away from a major paradigm-shift - but instead, with the CLEAREST mirror of truth facing us and admitting (for the benefit of our collective-unconscious, an important driver of behavioral-change at the species level) that the TRUE first step required for ANY TYPE of mitigation ventures to succeed is that ~ Our species has been the greatest villains against LIFE that this planet has ever known! Professor-Marty.

Far too optimistic...

Kevin Anderson explains his views very well. Thank you!

I believe Kevin has grossly understated our predicament, I still enjoy listening to him but

Kevin is great, so straightforward, matter of fact, mud in your eye, no BS.

I would like to know why the level always increases 3 ppm per year, even though we are emitting about five times as much as 1960. I think 1960 was 8 billion tons and now it’s 38 billion tons, but the whole time atmospheric levels increased at a steady rate.

Thanks to Kevin Anderson. He's always been one to lay out the hard truth of our situation. I fear though that the changes he says are needed aren't going to happen anythung like fast enough.

Excellent talk. Kevin is putting the main questions forward. Zen has been a great practice for me.

It is our actions, not our words, that determine whether or not we are adressing climate change. Talk is cheap.

Yes, your comments on the global climate conferences are evident this week at COP28

This is one of the finest best climate scientists

How much CO2 is the result of unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence? Economists ignore the depreciation of durable consumer goods even though the purchase of those goods is added to GDP. What is NDP, Net Domestic Product? Economists cannot do algebra. They can't tell an air conditioner from a banana.

What about methane levels ?

Talk ,talk and talk.... that's the outcome of how many climate conferences? Zero action has been done to try to repair all the damage that's been done to our planet. I'm pretty sure our planet has been damaged beyond repair. There's no way in a million years we are going to undo everything we see around us overnight. We have started a chain of events that we don't have any way of stopping. How are we going to stop the process of global heating that we created? We can't because we won't. Like I said talk,talk,and talk. We have reached too many tipping points in this climate crisis and it's looking very dire for everything from here on. DIRE I SAY because of exponential growth of everything. Here's a few for example. Fossil fuel use,economic growth, war, melting of all the ice on the planet (that can't be good)carbon dioxide ,methane, water vapor increases and generally treating our planet like planet like a garbage disposal. All this doesn't include the extinction event that's happening on earth. IT'S HAPPENING and what are we doing about this? NOTHING AT ALL. Talk about a depressing situation we're in. I hate to say it but this is just the beginning of what going to happen because everything is going to increase at a faster rate. I'm going out on a limb and going to say that we are going reached tipping points in the next few years if we haven't surpassed them already. I think we have already passed tipping points in this climate catastrophe and it's all downhill from here.

Finally, a discussion that tackles this subject with a more serious tone of voice.

Kevin has been the canary in the mine for a long time, if only he had been listened to sooner. What COP 28 has demonstrated better than any of the previous COPs is that the COP (Conference of Parties) should really be called COVIP (Conference of Vested Interested Parties)

Kevin and Isak thank you. With the platform you have are you able to put this in terms of the radical changes essential to the continuation of society? I'm suggesting an emotional appeal, based on science and including words not for the most part acceptable to academic science, such as killing, murder and so on. The world is well past incrementalism, and needs real words to describe and explain what many are experiencing in their reality every day. Hunger, starvation, drought, homelessness, death, killing and murder. It's radical change that's needed, likely rebellion against this system. It's a tall order I know. Interviewing Erica Chenoweth might be an idea? Or Andreas Malm? I would suppose Roger Hallam is a step too far? But thanks for what you're doing. Cheers Brian

Technology, the rise and fall of civilization. Great explanation, i honestly cant see humans stopping, well, anything really. It takes generations to change this, tome we dont have. In the words of rem, Its the end of the world as we know it.. N i feel fine.

No we won’t change until the politics of war and conflicts are settled first…because wars are easier to work on th a climate crisis. And first is social equality. This. is fundamental, social Justice.

What do you think the annual income of COP attendees?

I’m a big supporter of Paul Beckwith, and he’s a big supporter of Dr. Hansen.😮😊

We can't stop! Overshoot, human enterprise has overshot the carrying capacity of the environment.

Equity, justice and fairness actualized can only mean a massive reduction in the material conditions of life experienced/presumed by most living in and benefiting from the "top 1%". Further, these very same material conditions are aspirational for many in the rest of the world. What existing politician, let alone political system, has either the capacity or life span to initiate actual and requisite equity, justice and fairness?

It’s customers who burn fossil fuels, not the fossil fuel producers. Don’t you need to convince the customers as opposed to blaming the producers? If customers stopped burning the product there would be no market for fossil fuels, other than for non combustion purposes (chemicals etc).

More hopium.... And the aerosol masking? And IRREVERSIBLE global warming...?

Kevin Anderson is brilliant, but I wonder why he still peddles hopium. Some of the phrases and vocabulary used in the interview made me pause the video to grasp the meaning. Maybe there can be a translation into simpler English for the bottom 99% :)

Thank you, Kevin and Isak!

All life learns thru a balance of consequence and encouragement. We need to come to realise our misactions, faults, failings as flawed people but also be encouraged to learn and grow and that we all are always learning n growing. Thats how life does evolve

25 yrs ago I attended a Clinical Psychology class and one student stood up and objected to the text because it used male pronouns He/Him instead of female or neutral ones. The professor took her seriously, suggested she might like to attend some other class and refused to find another textbook from which to teach. Thankfully that was the end of it. We all got a proper education and no pronouns were hurt during any of our classes. Really people, feelings in the classroom?

Evergreen is a mess.

Yes by all means make us produce twice as much carbon and then tax it sounds good to me! The bright side is that our atmosphere is dangerously low on CO2!

human choice decentralization; God's kingdom central authority

Anyone wanting an updated version of this video's information should watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqbOf5KJYqqmfpo which was posted in December of 2019. It's not up to date of course but it's a step up from this 2017 video and all the sources are supplied by the speaker.