Climate change has been going on since the Big Bang theorem , So don’t try to use any of your virus in the language trickery

Is it assumed that the conflict land areas stay constant through the years? Because as population increases, I'm assuming the scope for finding low conflict zones for project development would also decrease.

28:35 Diocletian 47:00 can't simply choose to decrease complexity 57:00 Carnot limit

Everyone should understand how global human culture has become a meta-organism for radiating energy (oil energy). Any understanding of civilization should contain reference to thermodynamics like Tainter does. A billionaire is basically an energy wasting entity. A billionaire is very efficient at maximizing waste. And wherever there is a pool of energy, it screams to be spent (wasted). Neoliberalism removes the barriers to the flow of capital. Capital has to flow to burn energy. Thermodynamics. If there is a way for this system to expend the oil energy that's been dumped into it, it will find it. When there was a block in the late 70s, Neoliberalism removed that block in the 80s.

Using wastewater treatment plants could be a clear way for the US to gain influence in hydrogen markets. Co-location strategies show considerable promise in innovative energy plans.

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The root cause of man-made climate change is our heartless reckless behavior towards our environment. The first thing we need to correct is our behavior. Our behavior is guided by our heartless reckless behavior model i.e. 'profit = income - expenses'. This behavior model is wrong in two ways. 1) Money isn't profit. Money is a permission slip that allows us to purchase our actual gains, and all of those gains come from the environment. 2) This reckless behavior model says we can maximize our so-called profit by minimizing as many expenses as possible. In other words, we must ignore the damages that we do to the environment, and we must keep the labor force as small as possible. This clearly explains why the earth is on fire and why there is so much homelessness. The only way we are going to resolve the climate crisis is by first correcting our behavior model. "Profit = protecting and enriching the environment". Under this new behavior model, our only major expense is ignoring our obligation to protect and enrich our environment. The new profit model requires us to create millions of new jobs that will come under the heading "Caretakers of the Environment". Caretakers will have many specialized categories: 1. Collecting pollution that is already in the environment 2. Collecting pollution before it gets into the environment 3. Dealing with all of the waste in such ways that are good for the environment, and or good for the production of products 4. Designing new ways of producing products so that those products last for a long time and don't have to be replaced every two years 5. Thoughtful distribution of wealth 6. Economically incentivizing families with two or fewer children There will be many more types of Caretaker jobs. Every company and government will have Caretaker jobs, and everybody will be schooled, from elementary school through university about how to be caretakers of the environment. We will all be caretakers of the environment. What do you think about this idea? How can we transition from our present reckless economy to this entirely new economy that requires us to behave rationally and responsibly. It may already be too late to save our environment, but it is never too late to try.

My only disagreement with Prof. Rees' excellent presentation is with his dependence on the "other" (government, UN, environmental organizations, etc.) when the ONLY possibility to follow his guidelines is on an INDIVIDUAL basis, and the powerful propaganda machine of the fossil fuel lobby will spend its last nickel to resist INDIVIDUAL change.

We are now in a certain death spiral of rapidly increasing global temperatures driven by fossil fuel dependence, which can only increase more and more rapidly as we must use more and more AC/ELECTRICITY to cool ourselves and stay alive.

I think it's soon going to occur to the kings and queens, and the lords of the world that a lot of these problems go away if a lot people go away. After all, it already occurred in Syria after the Arab Spring.

well if we don't reduce our enegy useage AND to a cleaner energy source then Climate Change and the 6th Great Extinction will prevail !!! and we suffer and have nature will reduce our populations.

Sadly, Prof Rees has swallowed the CO2 pill, when the heat energy being generated by fossil fuel burning, whether the result of GHGs trapping heat energy or the direct effect of waste heat are the true source of global heating and climate collapse. In fact, water vapor is the primary GHG by a ratio of 10-14:1 by weight over CO2, and global heating of land and sea are producing 1-1.4 trillion tons of water vapor daily, even though it only stays aloft 10-14 days. The fossil fuel propaganda machine has done a fine job of misleading even scholars like Prof. Rees. Polymath Eliot Jacobson calculates that we are producing/entrapping the heat energy equivalent of 20 Hiroshima nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND, where each one releases 63 trillion BTUs. What could go wrong? Everything?

Bill Rees is at the very top of my "Heroes" list.

"Fossil fuels are the primary problem of..." too many humans using too many natural resources and producing too much pollution, including the waste heat driving climate collapse.

What about animal power? Didn't we use animals to do all kinds of work back in the day? Like plowing or wheat grinding.

Back in the 70s and 80s, there were PSAs that asked people to preserve the Earth for their grandchildren. Now we recognize that we don’t give a shot about the well-being of our grandchildren.

What I took away from this is that it could work if we work collaboratively and strive for a more equal society. But we know a considerable subset of society will fight this - even if it's in their best interest - because it sounds too much like socialism.

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...if humans attempted to really teach (teens) children that sex is as much , or more, a spiritual transition experience (rather than social/physical happening)....and the deep importance of personal responsibility and the pain/suffering we can personally cause by being irresponsible. ...maybe fewer suffering children would be unwantingly be created?

Gosh people's, the Holy Bible is true & its happening in our life time , u know y , because, people's have sealed their fate by their iffy walking, y all this ! 💝💒👣👑

The taboo 2 words: HUMAN OVERPOPULATION !!!!! Don’t breed more breeders . Humans are the problem..

Don’t breed more humans to suffer and die in a horrible future. The Frontier is OVER.

Great video

Does the World NEED a Benevolent Dictator to Recognize / Make / InAct the Global Hard Decisions necessary for the Blue Marble Floating in Space to Survive ? In a Country / Norway where EVs are 90% of all New Car Sales the lack of a Noticeable Dent in Oil Demand is a Cautionary Tale for those Predicting a Drop in Oil Demand due to EV Sales.

Art Berman believes that CO2 is a pollutant? How unscientific, CO2 is essentially a fertilizer and it has a little warming effect, which is overall beneficial. CO2 concentrations follow temperature rise caused by solar cycles, there's a lag of about 1000 years as the oceans warm, that is a fact.

Not a forest fire, Art...its an aurgument with G-D...no, you and the other god-pretenders, will not affect any outcome, but your own...

Wind simply doesn't work, ask the UK. There is so much that doesnt work about it that I can't begin to explain it here, electrical harmonics, maintenance, intermittency, massive subsidies, list goes on and on. Secondly, we love to blame all of our problems on politicians... well wake up America! who the hell do you think keeps electing them. Every nation has the leaders it deserves.

Trump's irrational anger against wind power has one single origin: his failed fight against a wind project near his unprofitable Scottish golf course. Denigration of wind power started there and was then amplified and generalized by the Right wing media echo chamber. (The story started in 2006 and was summarized by the WP's Philip Bump on April 15, 2022 under “Why Trump hates wind turbines”

Ammonia, Steel, Concrete, Plastic - All can come about via nuclear energy electricity and process heat.

This world population is unsustainable

U of Texas “ energy institute” is probably funded by fossil fuel companies, and that's why he says that fossil fuel is not replaceable. In reality, oil and gas reserves are running empty in many places and need to be replaced with renewable energy or nuclear. Use Wind and Solar energy to produce Hydrogen to gradually replace the dwindling supply of fossil fuel. Hydrogen can be added to waste biomass to make biomethane to replace natural gas, and methanol to replace gasoline to advantage of existing natural gas infrastructure and liquid fuel refilling infrastructure. Use nuclear energy wherever wind and solar are not available, because nuclear energy is still a lot more expensive than Solar and Wind energy. More importantly, however, this talk emphasizes a bigger problem: Over-consumption of natural resources while polluting the planet severely. The rates of autism has gone up 40 folds since the 1960's. The rate of other diseases like dementia, cancer, asthma, diabetes, etc have gone up significantly as well. Sperm count has gone down several folds and the infertility rates in women has gone up significantly. We are poisoning ourselves and not enough people realize it or doing anything about it.

No trained, practical science could accept this as anything more than half-truth.

Moving from combustion to electricity upgrades from the stone age to modernity. The hydrogen economy is a big, big deal. The renaissance, phase one, concludes with Nikola Tesla and his grid invention. Phase two opens with the completion of the hydrogen economy build out. Make hydrogen when surpluses arise, or co-locate them with generation capacity.

....this is ALL a very expensive and wasteful use of resoutces that has absolutely no basis in physical reality and in no manner an accurate predictions of any REAL outcome.....it is justication for an CO2 exhalation tax on every human born.....dont let these monsters steal our childrens future. Thay can never control the star we all live on the planet that is very close to....its called the SUN...

CLIMATE CULT Timeline to Apocalypse 1970s - Global cooling will kill us all. 1980s - Correction, looks like Global warming will kill us all. 1990s - Global warming will definitely kill us all. 2000s - Global warming stopped. UN memo (original). Let’s call it Climate Change because the temperature keeps fluctuating up and down leading to a 14 year temperature pause while CO2 continued to rise unabated. 2010s - Everyone realises climate change is normal. UN memo (1). Let’s call it a Climate Emergency. 2010s - There was no climate Emergency. UN memo (2). Let’s corrupt the science with unlimited funding to government controlled institutions who are willing to falsify temperature data, then call it a Climate Crisis. 2020s - The Climate Crisis failed to eventuate. UN memo (3). Let’s find a useful idiot and name her Greta. She will be our climate cult Goddess. Australian climate cult members were busy exploiting the dry summer starting many fires leading to many arrests for arson. 2021 - Greta failed to change the climate and just yelled at everyone. 2023 - UN memo (4). We will wait for El Nino to arrive and we shall call it Global Boiling. To ensure success the cult got busy with arson attacks throughout Europe starting in Greece when 79 arsonists were arrested. Arson arrests are made in Canada after a big season of wildfires. 2024 - Everyone realises El Niño is a natural event that has always occurred for as long as the Pacific Ocean has been in existence. 2025 - UN memo (5). We shall declare CO2 a toxic hazard that will kill us all. 2025 - UN memo (5) is immediately cancelled when a 9 year old pointed out that CO2 is the trace gas of life without which we and all carbon based life forms do not exist. All that carbon came from CO2. It is called a trace gas because there are traces of it measured at an incredibly low 420ppmv or 0.042%. Barely enough to raise the temperature in a room full of climate cult members releasing methane in a desperate attempt to raise the temperature. 2030 - The climate cult is exhausted from its endless lies but manages to double down for another decade of stupidity with fresh funding from corrupt governments and corporations making lots of money from intermittent renewable energy that never works when the wind stops and the sun sets. 2040 - The climate cools while CO2 continues to rise and everyone realises temperature and CO2 have decoupled and that CO2 is a very minor green house gas that has little to no effect on the planets temperature. UN admits defeat and commences the biggest compensation payout in human history. Now we can add permafrost Methane release as the latest fake disaster according to COP 28. Every single climate cult doomsday prediction date has come and gone with nothing to show. How many more decades do we tolerate the climate cult clowns that destroy everything they touch. Fortunately the greatest grift of all time will collapse under the weight of its many lies.

Indeed fossil fuels are magic.

Is illegal immigrants being enticed by generous welfare programs exasperating NYC population over-shoot problems?

Do theses audiences just come into these conferences completely blind AND stupid? Is nobody doing any personal research on the human extinction problem? How many stupid questions can this audience ask?? The ignorance is stupifying.

Isn’t the U of Texas “ energy institute” funded by fossil fuel companies? I guess if you have enough money you can buy a university to promote fossil fuel industry talking points. A shill for the industry masquerading as a scientist. 🐝🐝

At last, a neo Malthusian perspective articulated extremely well.

There is one glaring omission in this talk: the concept of Energy Return on Energy Investment (EROEI). How much energy can you get from a system when you put one unit of energy into it. Human and animal energy and firewood has an EROEI of about 5. Fossil fuel has an EROEI of about 30. That massive increase in energy has enabled our modern civilization. Wind and solar have an EROEI of only about 5 when evaluated as a system. The intermittent power is a huge drawback and requires essentially 100% backup by a stable base power source. Wind and solar are truly lousy if used for more than 20% of the total power supply. What truly works is nuclear power. Modem nuclear plants have an EROEI of about 100, and a thorium plant may have an EROEI of 200. They are also inherently safe. The despair in this presentation is misplaced. The future is bright.

Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant! 10:57

Evil people. Pure evil. Art must be over 60…top yourself first and help save us. 😂

Thank you! You have convinced me that Russia is the land of the future: biggest reserves of resources of all kinds, fossile fuels as well as renewable energy for centuries to come and millions of square kilometres of potentially fertile land waiting for climate to get finally warmer.

Comment at 9:15 “CO2 is an air pollutant”. Sorry I don’t think so - we’d all be dead without it. Apart from that it’s a good presentation of some of the dilemmas we face. Thorium could be an answer but no interest at the moment.

The best way to control population growth in Africa and other developing areas is cheap, in relative terms clean, fossil energy to replace biomass and educating girls. Religions and other traditions the biggest obstacles we face on this path.

This is very exciding. This presentation was done in 2022 where are they now?

Of course this mentally deficient is in Texas.