10 years to transform the future of humanity -- or destabilize the planet | Johan Rockström

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"For the first time, we are forced to consider the real risk of destabilizing the entire planet," says climate impact scholar Johan Rockström. In a talk backed by vivid animations of the climate crisis, he shows how nine out of the 15 big biophysical systems that regulate the climate -- from the permafrost of Siberia to the great forests of the North to the Amazon rainforest -- are at risk of reaching tipping points, which could make Earth uninhabitable for humanity. Hear his plan for putting the planet back on the path of sustainability over the next 10 years -- and protecting the future of our children.
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[@ozzyfromspace]

*"We don't inherit the land from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children"* - Native American Proverb

[@RayMarsRover]

@Marcos Filho where do you get your information? Much of your comment is nothing but typical socialist ranting without any common sense.

[@owdeezstrauz1268]

That doesn't make sense, but i guess that's why only 1 person quotes the Indians.

[@owdeezstrauz1268]

@Marcos Filho Who will pay for you to work if there aren't any rich people dummy? Who is gunna pay to create better computers and phones for you to leave stupid comments?

[@davidjohn6253]

@Shane d they got the message across, i think that should count. Stop trying to be “smart” for once!

[@davidjohn6253]

@Marcos Filho you can’t help the poor by bringing down the rich.

[@Lucky-dw2cu]

Man, i wish this was trending so it will be seen by more people

[@kennethkatona5482]

Make a video eating pork. That is a trending video nowadays.

[@TheNewBeginnings2012]

I mean, if people get together and buy GameStop stock, people can make this trending, we just need to want it .. keep spreading the word people! Those in charge will always listen to the universal demands so that they can stay popular and in power.

[@lamagiduneinstant76]

~Tweet it -with me.

[@clairewhite5789]

Oh look another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!

[@Akira282]

Could always repost it on your social media, etc.

[@noahsamuelsson7203]

These are videos that should be trending...

[@palakshah175]

These are comments that should get 10k likes

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

It’s hard to keep people’s interest when they keep saying the same things for over 50 years and they’re wrong all the time.

[@clairewhite5789]

Oh look another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!

[@cordata100]

Correct! It is all lies. They only want you to give up quality life, your properties and all. Global leaders want the earth for themselves and you to be dead or if not, to work for them. Wake up!@@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869

[@farhan44able]

Never underestimate human stupidity. There was a time when I used to view environmental apocalyptic movies with fun and joy. Turns out, they were actually documentaries.

[@nelsonlighthouse8089]

Really? Which ones have come to bear?

[@carlbennett2417]

Don't be a doomer. Get angry, get active.

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

I have been watching and waiting for some of the harbingers that tell me that these monkeys may be right…once. None of the climate catastrophe predictions are coming true.

[@mmoser9483]

no, just op eds, via telling you what is true, according to the belief that eneergy will be a commidity that only the global elite will be allowed to defirne

[@clairewhite5789]

He's another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!

[@justlisten82]

"If we don't prepare now we will panic and fail. Last time I checked there's not another planet for sale..."

[@justlisten82]

@Edit your name but is it for sale? Lol. It's going to be a long time before life on Mars can be even slightly comparable to life on Earth. Living in lava tubes sounds good for a holiday but that's about it. Too bad we didn't continue with moon missions and build a base there years ago, then we could already have the infrastructure in place to do proper Mars missions. We'll get there, eventually, hopefully.

[@tradeprosper5002]

Yep, Mars is a red herring... (1000 X more toxic than earth even after warming)

[@AnIdeaIsLikeAVirus]

@@tradeprosper5002 red planet... red herring... ...I see what you did there xD

[@justlisten82]

@John Bosevski ?

[@gregbors8364]

@@justlisten82 We f*cked up this planet, expanding into space would just mean we’d f*ck up more

[@jackyjess7273]

I feel like we all know this already and we want to help, but we can't do anything. Yeah we can all try do our part, but we aren't gonna see any success unless large organisations/government act NOW. 'Countdown' is a good start

[@tallulah9789]

Vote and tell everyone else to vote and speak up when someone doesn't want to vote

[@davidvazquez4873]

Yeah the only way americans can really help is to elect biden at this point because trump doesnt believe in climate change

[@andrju3916]

@@davidvazquez4873 While you're right, that's probably not nearly enough still. Biden is unwilling to make major changes.

[@mrandmrshavechickens1475]

Before we stop at this video maybe we should watch about a million more because stats also are pointing the opposite way of this guy. Research and then research some more! Watch people you don’t agree with and everyone else. What happened to Al Gore? He was afraid of rising water but bought a mansion on the beach!? Weird!

[@andrju3916]

@@mrandmrshavechickens1475 That's bs, show us those stats and any reputable experts who claim that. Some rich person buying a mansion has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that sea levels won't rise and displace people in the future.

[@Lokidog1]

Johan is articulate and had defined the challenge well. But it is 2 years later and we are still heading at full steam to flip all of the tipping points.

[@joanguimaraescastro]

Then lets make a bunker.

[@chyfields]

When explained so simply, how is it that people can still deny there is a very real correlation between how we treat the planet and the climate?

[@privatprivat7279]

because we are a global network now. evry country,race,religion is an obstacle we need to overcome3 so many People are still living in there own world with there own problems and can not even imagine one day we will be ONE. and evry country is afraid to make the first step, and get punished for it. because it is in a way still a verry scary thing! dont worry! we will get there! love from belgium!

[@westa8427]

@Marcos Filho Sounds strange. Poor people mostly have to think about everyday problems and getting more money and basically food, ones who is not poor can actually pay attention to problems that will affect them in the future.

[@westa8427]

@Marcos Filho If I were an evil leader, I wouldn't care that much about these problems. I would have lived like its all right. In a bunker or on the lonely island with the cleanest air/water, of course. So I disagree. We all should pay attention to what is going on and find best ways to change the future.

[@chyfields]

@@westa8427 If life is a Matrix based simulation those who caused this and those who hide in their bunkers would surely not pass the test.

[@westa8427]

@@chyfields I prefer to think of this world as a huge... Accidental event. We all just see it through our beliefs, they're different.

[@KurtPollock]

The people who need to hear and see this video won't bat an eye.

[@jacktheripperVII]

Any ideas to fix this?

[@rainierpeters2532]

@@jacktheripperVII Can it be made profitable?

[@jacktheripperVII]

@@rainierpeters2532 if I knew how I wouldn't be broke

[@charlietube7165]

@@TJ-xt6pc when you speak the truth nobody will give you a like, that was from me

[@balancepositivetherapy]

Sadly true...

[@leodahvee]

Last time I was this early, climate change was considered a real problem by both Republicans and Democrats and was not twisted by Big Oil.

[@VooDooTube...]

This video should be the most watched video on KZbin. The fact that it is not, means so much. We are doomed!

[@cordata100]

People have been misled to think that the carbon dioxide gas emitted when fossil fuels are burned, is a “pollutant. Nothing could be further from the truth. CO2 is really the gas of life. Without CO2 plants and all other life on Earth would die. You are being misled. Wake up!

[@antonpuschl1911]

We can do it!! Although a global crisis needs global united effort, every citizen, community, city and every country leading by example today is critical! We all have the power to make a change.

[@dwaha]

Imagine what we could do to solve these problems if we worked together. So many look at this through the film of politics, and don't consider the ramifications of these changes.

[@zoeskinner2871]

honestly. Humans can achieve anything if we work together and mobilise

[@harrystone6666]

you can! join your local just stop oil or extinction rebellion group 😊

[@knast7093]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate these motion graphics - they're amazing! Such an impactful ted talk, both on content and visuals.

[@clairewhite5789]

Oh look another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!

[@IndexKingOfC]

I heard this same thing ten years ago.... And before this I heard it fifteen years ago...

[@carrdoug99]

And if we had heeded the warning 15 years ago, maybe we wouldn't be in this current mess.

[@IndexKingOfC]

@@carrdoug99 what mess?

[@carrdoug99]

@@IndexKingOfC I don't know about you but I would call these event pretty messy. The largest fire season for the western US in history. The most named storms to hit the US in recorded history. The hottest September for the US in recorded history. A 53% increase in annual storm level events in the northeastern US. A noticeable slowing of the jet stream along with major ocean currents. The 70% reduction of global wildlife populations. The massive loss of glacial ice worldwide. Just to name some of the things that immediately come to mind.

[@user-mv5oq5yc8d]

Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy? One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind. I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist. So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark. In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all. The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only,” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise. Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct. Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership-and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world-is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.

[@cordata100]

Absolute correct. Today"s leaders want you to give up quality life, your properties and all. Global leaders want the earth for themselves and you to be dead or if not, to work for them. As a biologist I kept this quotation: Many well-intentioned people have been misled to think that the carbon dioxide gas emitted when fossil fuels are burned, is a “pollutant. Nothing could be further from the truth. CO2 is really the gas of life. Without CO2 plants and all other life on Earth would die. Keep that in mind as well!

[@MJ-ik4ne]

Funnily enough we just had record floods here in Australia, a year after record bushfires. Still nothing will change, humans won't voluntarily lower their standard of living which we need to do.

[@SuperThischannel]

"This is our mission: To protect our children's future." I can hear the politicians and fossil fuel execs laughing.

[@clairewhite5789]

Oh look another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!

[@ktiemz]

3 years since and no significant change

[@cheesygarlicbread6532]

I'm only a young teen, not too educated on this stuff but I'm honestly scared of what is happening to this world, what if I die too young? And it's barely my fault. I can't vote, all I can do is try to spread the word. I live in Australia. The floods, the fires, everything, It's only worsening. Every spring/summer - devastating bushfires. Every autumn/winter - floods! And in between - dumb politicians making everything worse. 5 years ago we thought that was the worst of it, now some of us are simply losing hope altogether. I think the older generations left us to deal with all of the mess they made, and everyone has to help with this issue, ESPECIALLY world leaders.

[@shaminoranger8588]

For the last 40 years I've been hearing people say, "it's not too late, we can make it if we just change our ways now". We never changed our ways. Around 30 years ago, based on the ecological trends of the day, I modelled WWIII starting in the late 2020's and I see no reason to change that estimate now. It's too late people it's far, far too late. So take care of yourself and your family as best you can. We're all in this alone.

[@frederikandersen8402]

a turn towards sustainability IS happening though. What makes you believe it's too late? Also how did you set up the model for the wwIII prediction?

[@ruairievans]

@@frederikandersen8402 he hasn't got proof, he's making out he's tougher than he truly is.

[@carriefisher2644]

The Club of Rome made predictions about business as usual in the 70's leading to collapse of civilization in the late 2020's to 2030's, and it looks like we are on track.

[@cordata100]

Do not get excited. It is not true. They only want you to be afraid, to get angry with those, who live they normal life, to go out and demonstrate, to get in conflict...but this is all lie. They only want you to give up quality life, your properties and all. Global leaders want the earth for themselves and you to be dead or if not, to work for them. Wake up!

[@stephenmeji3057]

The latter seems to be the most likely outcome to be true.

[@dakshyogi6056]

@Marcos Filho sir you right this stuff all the where

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

@Marcos Filho dumb

[@stephenmeji3057]

@Marcos Filho @Marcos Filho I hear you....but by then there most likely be no time left to reverse the damage done back to where we weren't at the tipping point...we are already at the point at which later generation will suffer from the damage done, fixing things within our lifetime is already a pipe dream. Also Mars may be a better option, instead of the moon.

[@stephenmeji3057]

@Marcos Filho I rather no war would happen, may just a quick MAD scenario where every nuke just went off, that would be quicker.

[@gwak9693]

I feel like I'm the only 13 yr that has an interest in this and politics and philosophy

[@chyfields]

You have common sense. 😉

[@privatprivat7279]

No no ur just one of the first that got awaken and consciousness! be proud! hold ur head up high! and help ur friends and classmates to SE what u se aswell. if they are not ready yet dont push it! but be proud ! u are ready! poverty,pain does bad things to a human mind. so they can not se yet! love from belgium! and stay safe!

[@bradklemmer4251]

Well you seem like a smart kid, so realize that adults with power will always lie to keep their power. Just watch the sky with an open eye and you will see the lie. Rosalind Peterson addresses the UN on Chemtrails And Geoengineering kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWjKaqKfrr2oiJo Geoengineering Whistleblower ~ Ex-Military ~ Kristen Meghan, Hauppauge, NY, January 18th, 2014 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHnQYYueqamskKM GeoengineeringWatch.org

[@privatprivat7279]

@@bradklemmer4251 dont be so negative and fiend the light ! ur wrong we are changing and change is coming! kzbin.info/door/VcjqV_e4_OeyzZ1UVZHTKA watch this and start believing! dont lissen to him piemelon, he is a depressed adult! love from belgium

[@dkt6408]

@retarded piemelon you are definitely not the only one

[@canidhiacharya5088]

There is a need of actions to be taken at government and corporate levels.. Builders are making concrete forests 10 times of demand by cutting natural forests, and there loans become burden on economy.. there are plethora of such examples..if global leaders will take strict actions, there may be some positive impacts..👍

[@cordata100]

Do not get excited. They will not stop that. They only want you to give up quality life, your properties and all. Global leaders want the earth for themselves and you to be dead or if not, to work for them. Wake up!

[@tamarajasinski820]

I have learned about an Oxford study, which found out, that the best single one thing everybody can do is to lead a plant based lifestyle.

[@munyansebastien7127]

You mean become a vegetable!!?

[@tygeryoshi7559]

#6, "The Amazon rainforest is weakening and may start emitting carbon within 15 years". Welp...it didn't look like we needed all of those 15 years :-(

[@arlinegeorge6967]

Great amazing talk. But when people in power don't act. Then divine intervention act. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.

[@domenicoricci6960]

This needs to be in the trending page

[@KurtPollock]

The pandemic presents an opportunity for us to evaluate some of our everyday life choices. The slow down in global economic activity should force business to reconsider products services and target markets. But.. People and corporations have shown themselves to be unreliable time and time again... Once there are no immediate incentives or deterrents there won't be any change to the state we are in. That's why we need laws and regulations. That's why we need the right law makers and enforcers in positions of government office. That's why we need voting age people to step up and be informed. Your little vote means so much.

[@clairewhite5789]

Oh look another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!

[@leehayward8609]

Powerful video, hope more people 'wake up' and start to incorporate new changes into their life.

[@clairewhite5789]

Oh look another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!

[@abishviruez9079]

Great speech, so clear that I feel the necessity to change some habits in my life. Thank you

[@Jakob172]

Yes! How did it go?

[@VerenaSatriani]

What action should we take to save this amazing planet? While I questioning myself about this, I want you to always remember my friends, the future is here in our hands, all comes down in what we make of it right now, right here. Stay inspired, safe and healthy.

[@Drew_Hurst]

Marcos, arson is not a solution. You can't be serious dude SMH

[@AnthonyCook78]

Extinction Rebellion!

[@adastraperaspera7098]

We as humanity need to come together. Diverse minds all put together brain storming. All skill sets needed.

[@zoeskinner2871]

I agree with the comment above mine. I'm afraid there's no quick and easy answer. Lifestyle changes are undeniably important and do play a role, but the change needed that Johan talks about is so drastic and radical that that won't do it. There is SO MUCH we can do beyond that, because when people mobilise together they can achieve anything. And we have strength in numbers more than ever. And it's now easier than ever to mobilise, with social media. The problem is that all the things we can do are radical, disruptive and take putting our pride to the side. Thinking outside the box, not caring what we look like or what others think of us. We need to put pressure on the systems that rule us. All these things require high levels of hope, determination, and motivation. The quick, easy solutions are not the whole story, and those are all people want. To really find the answer we need to 1. look at past examples of radical change and how they were achieved, and 2. educate ourselves, listen to more radically-minded people in the activism world. They rub off on you

[@geraldmerkowitz4360]

We need to end low cost flights. Crossing the counrty for 50 bucks and getting away with the ecological consequences without paying isn't tolerable.

[@FStyleWWE]

I agree every person should be able only to fly a certain number of times in a decade.

[@maxramsahoye]

Nice homage to Buckminster Fuller & Carla Sagan at the end! However, this video only briefly alludes to economic change when the climate change movement is in dire need of becoming more structuralist in its focus. Unless we transition out of the market system and it’s incentives the optimisation of financial goals will externalise harm to the goals of ecological and social stability and public health. This systems clash needs to be the focal point of climate activism and this crucial insight needs to be conveyed in-depth alongside the Earth science. A monumental first step would be to get Peter Joseph to do another TED video.

[@cordata100]

Do not get excited. They will never realy do that. They only want you to give up quality life, your properties and all. Global leaders want the earth for themselves and you to be dead or if not, to work for them. Wake up!

[@renangodinho1757]

3 years after this video and nothing has changed significantly. We have 7 years for radical positive change on the planet (and I'm afraid it won't happen)

[@samarunnahar1457]

But I an afraid about my country Bangladesh. Cuz the people don't follow the rules of keeping environment clean and decrease global warming. They throw trashes to sea and here & there. Most of them aren't also aware of planting trees.

[@gregbors8364]

It’s an interesting experience, being one of the last of a species and also being aware of it. I’m glad I decided to avoid having children

[@clairewhite5789]

Oh look another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!

[@alij7232]

Will anyone listen?

[@Rifat_J]

extraordinary message with Super extraordinary animation.

[@Virgifus]

Such a powerful, hopeful, and inspiring message from the scientific community, at a time of desperation like now, end of 2023. Thank you. A swift transition for the next 8 years. We can make these key feasible changes. We must believe we can or we have lost the battle already. I have seen drastic changes in global companies (highest polluters) to meet net zero by 2050. With a 2030 mid-goal as described in this video. Once the big brands drive these necessary changes the other brands follow suit. This is how the market works. This is how the industry self-regulates with a clear push from governance. End-consumers (us) must support corporations and local businesses that are making the effort to track and publish their GHG emissions and net zero goals. Or the momentum would be lost as the capital invested (consumer money) gets divided among the fossil fuel and carbon industries.

[@kushagr7132]

1:57 watching this in 2029 Just shock me How he knew about 2022-25 world shakeups

[@danielsykes7558]

...

[@BrushEm]

"1 month ago"

[@jimdarius]

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.' --Albert Einstein

[@fegasegiawan3440]

What a powerful explanation

[@kunalkashyap863]

KZbin the fact that this video doesn't even have 100,000 views is a disclaimer that your algorithm needs to change as well. I do understand that it's hard to write algorithms in such large scales but your platform is one the biggest ways we can spread such valuable information, please do consider it.

[@Marchant2]

I feel very sorry for people born today. There isn't much a future to look forward to if we stay on this dead end of burning fossil fuels.

[@andrewwilliams9312]

"Current CO2 concentrations at 400 ppmv are low when compared with the average atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the past 300 million years or so which ranged between 1000 ppmv and 1200 ppmv." "in past eras [ it ] reached concentrations that were 20 times higher than the current concentration. . .the Earth is actually cooling, in the context of the total geological timescale. . .It is possible that . . .CO2 will increase normally in the course of the next 50 million years to 1050 ppmV or 2500 ppmV." www.biocab.org/Carbon_Dioxide_Geological_Timescale.html

[@Drew_Hurst]

@@andrewwilliams9312 skewed data there Andrew! If and when it was ever that high... how was it measured? It would have had to be an extinction event in any case because the true levels that have been recorded in the past few hundred years have shown and increase from 100+ppm previously to 200+ in post industrial times, and yes about double that now. That data You linked is simply designed to make you feel like it's all natural and We don't need to stop using fossil fuels and most likely by a fossil fuel company-"scientist" and funded by a fossil fuel company to preserve their obscene profit, not this beautiful planet.

[@jollygoodyo]

That's what they said when I was in high school 15 years ago

[@marianneanddaleedwardsberg3712]

Everyone needs to see this. Learn it. Live it. It is a revolution - Sustainability Revolution.

[@Pleasegoaway2024]

Hey everybody we only had two jobs on planet Earth as humanity. Take care of each other as brothers and sisters. And take care of this garden which is Earth. Not doing a very good job are we

[@jimdarius]

"When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.' --Mark Twain

[@norbert4571]

WHAT IS LIFE

[@Drew_Hurst]

Wake up Humans! No, I mean really awaken... only mass Self-realization can save Us now See with 20/20 in 2020!

[@Drew_Hurst]

@Marcos Filho The old "cut off your nose to spite your face trick" eh? Greedy people will still be greedy after you burn the rain-forests, but probably not so much after self-awareness. (Just My experience-based opinion though and I do see Your point).

[@Drew_Hurst]

@Marcos Filho if you believe that burning the forests is the solution you are the embodiment of the expression "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing". You don't seem to understand how important preserving the forests are to supporting life on Earth You don't understand greed either. Greedy people will not stop being greedy if you burn the forest. Greed is insatiable. Greed wants it all! Wake up and take responsibility for your words, stop saying such ridiculous things that they sound like trolling, because whether you are trolling or not, you may influence the thinking of people even more stupid than you, to actually burn the forests, which would be disastrous and move Us further away from the solution of the protection and preservation of the biospheres that support healthy air and water, healthy plants animals and people, and all life on Our Planet. 🌍🌎🌏

[@cheapgrooves5467]

Amazingly well said!

[@henryarneson9337]

Regenerative agriculture.

[@mikeharrington5593]

It helps but is not a cure-all. The consequences of continued global heating will destroy plants & agriculture. Greenhouse gas emissions must be drastically reduced for our grandchildren to survive into middle age. No IFS, no BUTS, no MAYBES.

[@henryarneson9337]

@@mikeharrington5593 It could be a cure all. Better food, healthier people (less strain on resources), carbon sequestering, restoring of ecosystems, increasing the capacity of the land to store water (thus restoring ground water), restoring of local climates, increasing biodiversity, increasing land yields, reducing the need for deforestation for farmland, limiting fossil fuel dependence to name a few... Let's not forget that about half of the world's topsoil has been destroyed by modern agriculture in an alarmingly short amount of time. And actually, plant life will do just fine. More carbon in the air means more plants (plants literally eat CO2). The question is whether WE will survive, because plants will do just fine. Saying that plants will get destroyed is not scientific in the least and is deliberate misinformation (or fear-mongering). So, in my opinion, a ground-up solution to restore the land (and potential "cure-all") is much better than reductionist top-down approaches that could end up doing more harm than good. I'm convinced that we will face food shortages far before we feel drastic climate effects and a solution that addresses both, like regenerative agriculture, is the literal definition of a "cure-all".

[@jaykhandwala5533]

Yes. Regenerative agriculture is a big carbon sink. Capture YUGE amounts of carbon and puts it back in the soil.

[@andrewwilliams9312]

@@mikeharrington5593 Look at all the failed predictions based on the climate models and ridiculous claims made by activists and scientist activists. NASA Goddard Institute (GISS) and NOAA constantly adjust the same temperature data to produce "bogus" warming graphs. There is doubt about the validity of some of these adjustments. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn7GYqJoqbp1mtU See why climate alarmism is ridiculous: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZmQdYGEfrqdgbc It's not true that 97% of scientists agree with this climate alarmism. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6itZ4d_bciWd9k Dr Chris Landsea hurricane researcher at NOAA resigned from the IPCC saying "I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound". The Plenary Panel of political appointees at the head of the IPCC approves the outline of the IPCC report before the scientific authors are selected. The Summary for Policymakers is also written by them. Any scientific studies not consistent with the Summary are removed from the IPCC report. Or so says Climatologist Dr Richard Keen who seems to agree with Tony Heller as regards surface temperature adjustments. The video is from 2015. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ7GZqpofpJ5eaM Dr Peter Ridd was sacked for telling the truth that the Great Barrier Reef was in excellent health, climatechangedispatch.com/climate-skeptic-professor-fired-for-telling-truth-great-barrier-reef/ Reports of GBR death have been greatly exaggerated. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2Orm6Z8a9ySh5o&feature=emb_logo See this example of climate propaganda which cherry-picks start and end dates to produce misleading graphs when trying to influence journalists and policy makers. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmWYZn57ec6nprc As an ordinary person am I expected to believe the extreme alarmism from Extinction Rebellion & others who say climate trends are dangerous, and we have 12 years to save the earth before tipping points lead us to extinction. "We're saved. More than 12 years, here's why". It was a single reference in an IPCC SR15 Report taken out of context, which said this is where we would like to be in 12 years time. kzbin.info/www/bejne/npjMdpyXbNiparc Even today scientific reports are produced giving exaggerated outcomes based on the thoroughly discredited RCP8.5 "business as usual" climate model, but these outcomes most scientists don't believe will ever happen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bISydqZmgd-Neck If you have time, why not read What the Climate Wars did to Science by Matt Ridley www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/wha

[@ccsleepy8342]

I prefer permaculture

[@MartyrLoserKing]

They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.

[@haysjack6818]

I thought we were going to reach a tipping point 15 years ago!

[@TheWayofFairness]

A Way to Save Ourselves It takes two to Tango. There is usually fault on both sides. At first, we often realize we were not quite right with our simple conclusion about the problem. Then we begin to look at both sides and then there are more sides. Soon the issue has become very complex, and it begins to include the big picture - the whole picture. There is always one word that can be used to describe the problem: Unfairness. We have gone from simple to complex and then back again to a simple solution for all conflicts. Get rid of the unfairness - all of it. Fairness is simple. Unfairness is complicated. Fair people are simple people. Fair people are most powerful. Power is simple. Unfair people are complicated. Unfair people are less powerful. Are you on the side of fairness or unfairness? It has been said there are no rules in war. In an unfair world, war would be despicably evil. Fairness has rules. We must be fair with our punishment. If we had fairness for all, there would be no wars. Put all this aside for a minute. Just relax and see what happens next. Take no action for a minute. Stop all your thoughts. We want everyone to be fair to everyone. We want the unfairness to stop happening to us. Ask the all powerful all for help to make it happen. Fairness is good. Unfairness is evil. Is there a problem? Who is being unfair? We all need to surrender to being fair to everyone everyday. The all powerful all creates unity and agreement. Stop worrying. Trust that this will work. Fair people do not cause the problem. Unfair people cause the problem. Maybe we need to take action. We could tell them to leave from our place. We can terminate our friendship with unfair people. We could refuse to talk to unfair people. We could refuse to do anything for them. We could shun them. Be careful. Unfair people are harmful to fair people. Fair people need to protect themselves from unfair people. Our Governmental laws are so complicated that they are incapable of stopping the unfairness. They are incapable of establishing justice for all. The unfair elite have created laws to benefit themselves. Their system has become a racket - a scheme to gain wealth and power at the expense of others. It has become an in group exploiting the out group. We need fair minded people in government to stop the unfairness from government. Imagine a system of government that is designed to get rid of all the unfairness, both inside and outside itself. Imagine religions also are about getting rid of all unfairness, both inside and outside themselves. I argue that all the mass shooting and killings were caused by unfairness. I argue that all wars were caused by unfairness. We already know it is unfair when some terroristic event happens. We need to stop the unfairness to the people that have become terroristic. Love will not stop the hate that is being created. Our laws will not stop the unfairness. Stopping unfairness will. We all need to agree to be fair to everyone. We all need to surrender to being fair to everyone everyday. We can easily see how factions, groups, support groups, cults, religions, political parties, nations, etc. are a major part of the world of people. These various groups or alliances create various beliefs that are unique to themselves. More and more, these beliefs are about the in group being right and the others being wrong and evil to the in group in some way. These beliefs are not based on facts. Rather, they are based on falsehood. The in group believes that only the in group knows and tells the truth and the others are enemies to the truth. However, this is not true at all. We are in a world of people that are enemies to each other. All too often these groups are about gaining power over the outsiders in an attempt to defeat and then rule them. These people become less and less concerned about actual truth and fairness. Hate of the outsiders becomes the norm. Unfairness becomes the norm. More and more the in group believes it has the real truth and everyone else is delusional or brainwashed believing deception. However, it is the in group that is believing falsehood. More and more, the entire human family is believing falsehood. These ingroups become unconcerned about fairness. They become mean and cruel. This is happening to the other groups also. The world of humans becomes insane from delusional thinking and unfairness. Unfairness to others becomes the norm. I argue that the cause of all of this is a tolerance to unfairness. We allow unfairness in our religions. We allow unfairness in our politics. We allow unfairness in ourselves. Unfairness has become the norm. Denial of truth about ourselves and others becomes the norm. More an more, people refuse to admit the truth. Being born into this unfairness makes humans hateful, delusional and unfair themselves. It becomes very understandable that all unfairness must be stopped. Unfairness should not be allowed to happen to anyone from the time they are born until the time they die. It needs to become the norm that humans are required to admit the truth rather than denying the truth. We need to form a movement and a religion with the main purpose to stop all unfairness. This must be done in a fair and helpful way to all. It is not the peoples fault that they were born into this devastating unfairness. However, it is the responsibility of all to put an end to unfairness , both within ourselves and also in others. Join us. We are The Way of fairness. Share this message everywhere.

[@forcingclimateinfo7014]

One more scientists denying we already are at 3c (1750 baseline) So strange what baseline he using 1990?

[@anthonybodon147]

i don't know man

[@Leedeeaa]

I'm optimistic that we can change things for the better, thank you!

[@clairewhite5789]

Oh look another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!

[@linusbecker]

How could this not be seen by more people...

[@naominicholson2677]

If only more people would consider making a few little changes in their lives. A little change can make such a big difference. I feel like a small group is trying to make a change for to make up for the poor choices of the rest of the world 😢

[@ImaGummibear]

Rabble! RABBLE RABBLE! RABBLE😝. Suggestion for simple solution. Have the ones who can do something, live in the areas where affect is needed. Survivor style. Have a matched economical situation to the average family income of that area. And have the community absorb them and not discriminate or ostracized, but to interact with one another in a communal way. Hear the stories of thosr affected and learn to have more of a developed compassion and understanding of a situation. Otherwise. Those who have, will. And those who want, will as well. Be the ones who do. Do make an effort for better. Do help who you can, when you can. Do choose a smile instead of being a troll. Do be better than you think you should be. Always try to make things better.

[@anthonybodon147]

yeah man, you're right

[@Drew_Hurst]

Wise comment!

[@panacea9790]

This was amazing ❤️ Loved it

[@meta.aesthetica]

Share it now

[@TheContrariann]

Thanks

[@citizens4future109]

Thank you for this great video! Let's stick together and let us do whatever we can to solve the climate crisis. Stop talking, let's do it!

[@cordata100]

Do not get excited. It is all wrong. No such problem. People have been misled to think that the carbon dioxide gas emitted when fossil fuels are burned, is a “pollutant. Nothing could be further from the truth. CO2 is really the gas of life. Without CO2 plants and all other life on Earth would die. They only want you to give up quality life, your properties and all. Global leaders want the earth for themselves and you to be dead or if not, to work for them. Wake up!

[@daveedk7439]

imagine we didnt have covid this year to slow down our everyday lives and shut down the factories and stuff, the state of earth would be sm worse.

[@blackvirus7887]

i fear for the future of the human race because we a listening to people like Johan Rockström

[@andrewwilliams9312]

The world is not going to come to an end in 10 years, even if temperatures rise. Temperature and CO2 have changed from low to high in cycles throughout earth's history. geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/glad-you-asked/ice-ages-what-are-they-and-what-causes-them/ "There have been five or six major ice ages in the history of Earth over the past 3 billion years". [Wiki]. "Current CO2 concentrations at 400 ppmv are low when compared with the average atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the past 300 million years or so which ranged between 1000 ppmv and 1200 ppmv." "in past eras [ it ] reached concentrations that were 20 times higher than the current concentration. . .the Earth is actually cooling, in the context of the total geological timescale. . .It is possible that . . .CO2 will increase normally in the course of the next 50 million years to 1050 ppmV or 2500 ppmV." www.biocab.org/Carbon_Dioxide_Geological_Timescale.html

[@blackvirus7887]

@@andrewwilliams9312 thanks man, open some ignorant eyes ;) . its funny and scary how deep these doom-thinkers go with their believes.

[@Tauan]

It's because of people like you that our planet is going to collapse. Let's see if your skepticism holds up for about a decade and a half, eh?

[@DanielSt143]

Does Anyone Know what Chart he is reading from? 4:50

[@Shirden]

Until the power dynamics between governments and its people are stopped, no one is going to fix anything because no one is going to change for the bullies we live under. We live in a co-dependent world and we're all suffering greatly from its dysfunctional dynamics. The tragic thing is that the planet and its inhabitants are suffering for it . . .

[@pauljung3534]

We either sensibly change, or incomprehensibly wither. We either steer smartly, or drive over a precipice. We either sing together, or croak in indifferent weather. ~ A Matter of Fact/Fate "Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change." ~ Brené Brown "What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places-and there are so many-where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction." "And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." ~ Howard Zinn "It’s 3:23 in the morning and I’m awake because my great great grandchildren won’t let me sleep. My great great grandchildren ask me in dreams: What did you do while the planet was plundered?; What did you do when the earth was unraveling?" ~ Drew Dellinger "Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure." ~ Paulo Coelho "It is, what I cherish most about life, that chariots me away from my troubles, & chariots me back to face them." ~ Paul Jung "The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon." ~ Steve Maraboli

[@SusannaSaunders]

I'd love to be able to say that I believe that this and many other messages like it will make a difference... But it won't. Humankind is way too selfish and greedy to give a flying fig about what happens to their children's generation... If humanity had an ounce of 'humanity', we would have eradicated poverty and starvation globally by now. But we haven't because we are all too busy protecting what we have worked to obtain. None of the wealthy westerners want to have their standard of living eroded by generosity to the pourer nations. With that as a backdrop to the climate crisis, this message is just blowing in the wind. What little change that will happen, will be too little and too late to make much, if any, difference... Thankfully, I'll be dead by then... I just feel so sad for the kids of today!

[@bek_quereshi]

Last time I was this early, Socrates was alive.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Man made global warming is a fact. In the 70's the ferns and other plants under the redwoods were above my waist, but was starting to thin out by the 80's. By the 90's there were around half as many ferns and plants on the forest floor. Now the forest floor of the redwood park I grew up a few blocks away from is nothing but sticks and dirt, with a few plants here and there. In the 70's it used to rain here on average 28 days during the summer months alone. Now we are lucky to get that much rain in the entire year. Since they started keeping track in 1930, 17 of California's 20 biggest fires happened in the last 20 years. That was before this year. I now live a few miles away from what used to be California's largest fire ever at over 400,000 acres. But there is a fire burning about 60 miles north of me that was over 1 million acres now. 4,000,000 acres have burned in California this year alone, many people have lost their homes (some lost everything), some even lost their lives. But because we are all lefties who disagree with their precious gop, the trumpers don't care at all. All they care about is "owning the libs." Well, I have some interesting news for trumpers: Most of the people who live in this county are republicans, but because of misinformed people like them causing so much destruction by trusting trump and people like him, many of them are voting for Biden now. It wouldn't even matter to any group other than trumpers what sort of people lived here though. But trumpers want to murder (or at the very least: let die) anyone who disagrees with their hatred, refusal to accept responsibility for the freedom of others, and their murderous intentions. climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ice-sheets/ nsidc.org/cryosphere/quickfacts/icesheets.html www.antarcticglaciers.org/2018/06/mass-balance-antarctic-ice-sheet-1992-2017/ www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/ice-sheet/ phys.org/news/2018-12-greenland-ice-sheet-centuries.html www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/after-decades-of-ice-loss-antarctica-is-now-hemorrhaging-mass/562748/ www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/13/antarctic-ice-loss-has-tripled-in-a-decade-if-that-continues-we-are-in-serious-trouble/?.513e4487ea53 www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619543532/antarctica-has-lost-more-than-3-trillion-tons-of-ice-in-25-years www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/environment/climate-change/ice-sheets-and-sea-level-rise www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/climate/antarctica-ice-melting-faster.html Here are just a couple more of the millions of articles that support this: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-real/ climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ blueprint.ucla.edu/feature/climate-change-is-real/ www.eartheclipse.com/climate-change/is-climate-change-real.html www.edf.org/climate/how-climate-change-plunders-planet/climate-facts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change Do you trumpers care nothing even for the future of your own children? Is owning the libs really all that you care about?

[@andrewwilliams9312]

@Aylbdr Madison Look at all the failed predictions based on the climate models and ridiculous claims made by activists and scientist activists. NASA Goddard Institute (GISS) and NOAA constantly adjust the same temperature data to produce "bogus" warming graphs. There is doubt about the validity of some of these adjustments. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn7GYqJoqbp1mtU See why climate alarmism is ridiculous: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZmQdYGEfrqdgbc It's not true that 97% of scientists agree with this climate alarmism. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6itZ4d_bciWd9k Dr Chris Landsea hurricane researcher at NOAA resigned from the IPCC saying "I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound". The Plenary Panel of political appointees at the head of the IPCC approves the outline of the IPCC report before the scientific authors are selected. The Summary for Policymakers is also written by them. Any scientific studies not consistent with the Summary are removed from the IPCC report. Or so says Climatologist Dr Richard Keen who seems to agree with Tony Heller as regards surface temperature adjustments. The video is from 2015. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ7GZqpofpJ5eaM Dr Peter Ridd was sacked for telling the truth that the Great Barrier Reef was in excellent health, climatechangedispatch.com/climate-skeptic-professor-fired-for-telling-truth-great-barrier-reef/ Reports of GBR death have been greatly exaggerated. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2Orm6Z8a9ySh5o&feature=emb_logo See this example of climate propaganda which cherry-picks start and end dates to produce misleading graphs when trying to influence journalists and policy makers. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmWYZn57ec6nprc As an ordinary person am I expected to believe the extreme alarmism from Extinction Rebellion & others who say climate trends are dangerous, and we have 12 years to save the earth before tipping points lead us to extinction. "We're saved. More than 12 years, here's why". It was a single reference in an IPCC SR15 Report taken out of context, which said this is where we would like to be in 12 years time. kzbin.info/www/bejne/npjMdpyXbNiparc Even today scientific reports are produced giving exaggerated outcomes based on the thoroughly discredited RCP8.5 "business as usual" climate model, but these outcomes most scientists don't believe will ever happen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bISydqZmgd-Neck If you have time, why not read What the Climate Wars did to Science by Matt Ridley www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/wha

[@MrSam-cl5vn]

Thank you for a great video. Could you please provide some actionable suggestions for individuals? I.E. changing eating habits, limiting personal air travel, or adjusting consumption habits? Cheers :)

[@zoeskinner2871]

Lifestyle changes are undeniably important yes so do play a role, but the change needed that Johan talks about is so drastic and radical that that won't do it. There isn't a quick, easy, convenient answer, so we resort to lifestyle changes which are definitive and arguably much easier. But there is SO MUCH we can do beyond that, because when people mobilise together they can achieve anything. And we have strength in numbers more than ever. And it's now easier than ever to mobilise. The problem is that all the things we can do are radical, disruptive and take putting our pride to the side. Courage and imagination like another commenter said. Thinking outside the box, not caring what we look like or what others think of us. We need to put pressure on the systems that rule us. All these things require high levels of hope, determination, and motivation. This is why so many feel there is nothing we can do. Because the quick, easy solutions are not the whole story. To really find the answer we need to 1. look at past examples of radical change and how they were achieved, and 2. educate ourselves, listen to more radically-minded people in the activism world. They rub off on you (sorry i've posted this comment everywhere haha but it's just because i'm seeing lots of comments about the same thing)

[@GauravKumar-jr2dq]

We have to do something for our planet rather than debating about it. Please do your part and we all feel good by doing such.sometimes we have to see beyond ourselves.

[@JominC]

One personal action we can all take is eating less beef.

[@ronpaulrevered]

As a cattle rancher; I denounce this.

[@andrewwilliams9312]

@jomin vijilin. I'm an ordinary person, no expert, and I take your point (see background). But It seems you can reduce CO2 emissions without reducing consumption, by eating beef cattle as veal could reduce the carbon footprint on these herds by up to 40%. The 2019 Australian Beef Sustainability Annual Update shows that the red meat industry reduced absolute emissions by almost 56 per cent from 2005-2016. www.sustainableaustralianbeef.com.au/annual-update See how a UK Salers herd aims to be carbon neutral by 2035 www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/beef/how-a-salers-herd-aims-to-become-carbon-neutral-by-2035?name=how-a-salers-herd-aims-to-become-carbon-neutral-by-2035&category_name=livestock%2Fbeef According to Red Meat Advisory Council, Australia aims for it's beef to be fully carbon-neutral by 2030. www.sustainableaustralianbeef.com.au/managing-climate-change-risk www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2019/08/05/carbon-neutral-beef-it-guilt-free-steak-environmentally-aware This newspaper article claims "The use of mob-grazing methods produces "healthier grassland, cattle grazed on rotation are said to increase the soil’s capacity to store carbon"... and can even reverse C02 emissions. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/cows-beef-farming-reverse-climate-change-global-warming-a8202121.html Also it seems there is no increase in the number of ruminants on the planet, the number is roughly the same as 300 years ago when massive herds of bison roamed the earth (and methane emitting non ruminate elephants) . Satellite data does not show any evidence of high emissions of methane over Brazil and Ethiopia caused by the large cattle herds there. Are cows changing the climate? This presentation by the Global Warming Policy Forum concludes not. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXuUfXyjfduXrtk See website of Cows Milk and Climate. Clarifications by Professor Dr Peer Ederer www.milkandclimate.com/ Background: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGrGqJRvhqlqndk

[@tradeprosper5002]

As countries develop, they tend to eat more meat due to more $$$. Chinese certainly eating more pork than they use to.

[@andrewwilliams9312]

Per kg of meat eaten, lamb produces most C02 . . at 39.2 kgC02 emitted. Beef 27 kgC02 emitted. Pork 12.1 kgC02 emitted. Chicken 6.9 kgC02 emitted. Source: see background video

[@andrewwilliams9312]

[Correction:] "With the global population expected to reach 9 billion from its present 6 billion in 2050, meat consumption is expected to double, according to Prof Cledwyn Thomas, Nov 2010". www.thecattlesite.com/articles/2577/reducing-livestock-greenhouse-gas-emissions/ www.thecattlesite.com/focus/5m/2209/beef-sustainability-environment www.thecattlesite.com/focus/5m/2206/beef-sustainability

[@gumbypokey]

Didn't we already pass some kind of threshold with CO2 emissions?...I thought we had 10 years, 10 years ago...When was the first Earth Day?....I feel like I've been hearing the same thing since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring....

[@igbp]

Er, you do realise that the last IPCC report (2021) confirmed we have now triggered irreversible changes? And that the big one, the Doomsday Glacier, hangs by a thread. We thought we had ten years. And it turns out that was about right. I feel like the scientist at the end of Don't Look Up.

[@bettacup8507]

@youtube why you didn't highlight or recommending section this and other videos about climate change To all people.

[@GrantSR]

Thanks for repeating what we already know without giving any new hard information but adding cute animations. Now I have understand!

[@TheREALLYBADGAMERS]

Haven't they been saying "we only have 10 years" since the 70s? (Also, I like how they mention arctic ice melting, but not antarctic ice growing too)

[@cros13]

Antarctic ice isn't growing, total mass is decreasing. There is some minor growth in sea ice cover in the western antarctic due to changes in local wind conditions, but where the propagandists are lying is sea ice, only a few meters thick is being traded for the loss of glaciers and ice shelves kilometres thick. I'm not sure what you are referring to by the "10 years" being referred to since the 70s, but the current deadline comes from the emissions scenarios in the 2014 IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. If we fail to limit emissions before 2030 we don't have any realistic options for digging ourselves out of this hole.

[@LakesideTrey]

Scientific consensus in the 1900s actually thought we had more time then we think we have now. Sure you can cherry pick a couple wrong scientists, but consensus has been pretty close to the mark over time.

[@Viruxxmail]

“How to convince humanity to give away their rights and freedoms voluntarily”

[@mrandmrshavechickens1475]

I’m afraid your comment is going over the heads of the masses.

[@brett4264]

The future is cold; not warmth.

[@linnaung7405]

thank you

[@JadeTrading]

Who else is watching this while reading comments? 😂

[@kamaldeepraj3923]

Unfortunately me😅😅😅

[@andreas0101]

what a stupid comment. "wHo ElSe iS a HUmAn ?"

[@andrewwilliams9312]

@Marcos Filho www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/al-gores-global-warming-deliberate-fraud-to-increase-governmental-power/

[@sharonsloan]

We don't need to take action to protect the planet, we need to take action to protect our species. The planet will adapt.

[@jaykhandwala5533]

Exactly. The planet can and has been much warmer. We as a species cannot survive that.

[@csry3239]

I don't see we can change anything unless all countries or major countries are not chasing financial metrics like GDP, PPP as primary goals. The system stands there and drives everyone unless everyone agrees, we had no chance. I don't see there is any entity can pull the trigger to alter the track of whole human beings.

[@mindexpandingknowledge409]

It took 50 years to raise awareness and another 50 to agree on a solution. Tic-toc.

[@OldScientist]

Oh God! Only 8 years left! It's always 10 years away. Grass will be growing in our jaw bones and still the climate crisis will not have happened. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past. It also warmed faster in the past.

[@karlwheatley1244]

"The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past." NO, the Earth hasn't been this warm for ~125,000 years. The RWP and MWP were just regional events. "It also warmed faster in the past." The last time the Earth warmed this rapidly, ~95% of marine life died off as did 70% of life on land, including everything over 90 pounds. So yeah, if you want to trigger a mass extinction event, rapid and sustained man-made global warming, ocean acidification and ocean de-oxygenation would definitely accomplish that.

[@OldScientist]

@@karlwheatley1244 It was warmer during the Medieval (Elbert, 2013, 2.9°C above present), Roman (Margaritelli, 2020), 2°C above present, also Wang et al, 2013, showing the change was at least hemispheric, and Minoan Warm Periods (Lécuyer, 2018, 4°C above present, links Mediterranean to Greenland Ice so at least hemispheric). It was certainly warmer during the Holocene Climatic Optimum, so during our current interglacial. If you want a citation, try Quaternary Research Volume 53, Issue 3, May 2000, Pages 302-311. This makes the point that it was upto 7°C warmer on the shores of the Arctic during that time, with trees growing on the shores of the ocean (which would have been ice free in the summer - so don't worry about an ice-free Arctic), far to the north of the current treeline.

[@OldScientist]

@karlwheatley1244 The big problem for you doomists is peak interglacial warmth is not now but around 8,000 years ago. Proxies show a downward trend to the present day but with an interruption for the Medieval Warm Period (that doomists aren't allowed to believe in) followed by a decent into the The Little Ice Age (which doomists think also didn't exist), and a very slight recovery to the present day still below MWP though. Now I know what you're going to say about the supposed rapid warming over the last century but that's not a fair comparison. That's instrumental, with annual instrumental measurements compared with proxy data, whose the resolution is 200 years. If we smooth out the current data over the last two centuries you'd be lucky to see ½ degree per century. Your rapid warming disappears, and a very large number of bicentennial periods over the last 16,500 years warm at a faster rate (than 0.5°C/century). And let's not forget the Dansgaard-Oeschger events. The Dansgaard-Oeschger events were global (Dima et al, 2018). One about 11,500 years ago, averaged annual temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet increased by around 8°C over 40 years, in three steps of five years, but a 5 °C change over 30-40 years is more common for these events. So shall we say a rate of change about 20°C per century. If that happened now you'd be foaming at the mouth, but it's all within the range of natural events.

[@OldScientist]

@karlwheatley1244 As regards ocean acidification, it is estimated that the ocean’s global mean surface pH may have declined (i.e., become less alkaline and thus more “acidic”) by -0.07 to -0.08 in the last 200 years - from pH8.12 during pre-industrial times to 8.04 to 8.05 today (Wei et al, 2015). N.B. The decline in pH occurred before 1930. However, and very importantly when you look the data after CO2 emissions began rising precipitously in the 1930s, the oceans have become less “acidic”!!! By way of comparison, from one season to the next, or over the course of less than 6 months, pH levels naturally change by ±0.15 pH units, or twice the overall rate of the last 200 years. On a per-decade scale, the changes are even more pronounced. Oceanic pH values naturally fluctuate up and down by up to 0.6 U within a span of a decade, with an overall range between 7.66 and 8.40. This decadal rate of pH change is larger than the overall 200-year span (0.07-0.08) by a factor of 8. Indeed the daily noted maximum pH range of 0.7 (Santos et al. 2011) is far greater than the overall change predicted between now and the end of the century.

[@karlwheatley1244]

@@OldScientist Thanks for your reply. "Proxies show a downward trend to the present day but with an interruption for the Medieval Warm Period (that doomists aren't allowed to believe in) followed by a decent into the The Little Ice Age (which doomists think also didn't exist), and a very slight recovery to the present day still below MWP though." No, we're ~.9 degrees warmer on average GLOBALLY than during the MWP, and our emissions are warming the planet 10-20 times faster than it usually warms when coming out of an ice age. "If we smooth out the current data over the last two centuries you'd be lucky to see ½ degree per century." That would be unscientific fudging of the data--including 140 years in which we weren't burning CO2 at anything close to current rates. More than half the human emissions ever happened in just the last 35 years--and that has accelerated the rate of global warming and the rate of global sea level rise has also accelerated. "The Dansgaard-Oeschger events were global (Dima et al, 2018). One about 11,500 years ago, averaged annual temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet increased by around 8°C over 40 years, in three steps of five years, but a 5 °C change over 30-40 years is more common for these events.": A couple of points: First, Greenland is just around .4 percent of the surface of the Earth, so you don't get to pretend the whole planet had the same amount of warming. The D-O events were globally synchronous events in that there was SOME type of climate disruption triggered elsewhere, NOT that everywhere had just as much warming at the same time. As a paper in PNAS reported six weeks ago... "Furthermore, we identify a decreasing trend in the amplitude of DO transitions with increasing distances from the North Atlantic region. This provides quantitative observational evidence for previous suggestions of the North Atlantic region being the focal point for these archetypes of past abrupt climate changes." Furthermore, DO were cyclical disruptions with the most dramatic effects in the North Atlantic, but our emissions will keep making the whole planet warmer and warmer, and warmer and warmer until we stop our emissions. Take care.

[@Scottlp2]

Anyone who has lived through 2020 knows how accurate the predictions of experts are (sarcasm alert).

[@cros13]

Very accurate. The only problem I see is people ignoring experts until it's too late.

[@TheCenterProgram]

This new generation needs to be changed. Look at the idiocy of half of these people who fail to understand, don’t know, or don’t care.

[@hareyvargas6203]

We need to stop blaming big corporations, it's also our responsibility, at this point everything counts, start being a responsible consumer, change your diet, buy to local farmers..., but do something!!!!!!!!!!

[@patjamesdan]

As cliche as it may sound, Everybody needs to start changing their everyday habits. I am trying my level best. I know what is right and what is wrong. Every single human effort is insignificant unless for unity. Being 16, I want to see the world just as beautiful as it was and leave it for Cyberworld that will come after me.

[@zoeskinner2871]

Lifestyle changes are undeniably important yes so do play a role, but the change needed that Johan talks about is so drastic and radical that that won't do it. There isn't a quick, easy, convenient answer, so we resort to lifestyle changes which are definitive and arguably much easier. But there is SO MUCH we can do beyond that, because when people mobilise together they can achieve anything. And we have strength in numbers more than ever. And it's now easier than ever to mobilise. The problem is that all the things we can do are radical, disruptive and take putting our pride to the side. Thinking outside the box, not caring what we look like or what others think of us. We need to put pressure on the systems that rule us. All these things require high levels of hope, determination, and motivation. This is why so many feel there is nothing we can do. Because the quick, easy solutions are not the whole story. To really find the answer we need to 1. look at past examples of radical change and how they were achieved, and 2. educate ourselves, listen to more radically-minded people in the activism world. They rub off on you

[@patjamesdan]

@@zoeskinner2871 We put a dodgy robot on Mars, Who of us before did that? If we can achieve what was then called Impossible then we can achieve anything now called Impossible. There is one thing mate. NO PAIN NO GAIN.

[@zoeskinner2871]

@@patjamesdan I agree with you! I also said that in my comment

[@mick7sp]

He heard this... like 10 Years ago

[@mick7sp]

@Marcos Filho Pass the salt... :)

[@mick7sp]

@Marcos Filho So you realize the best thing you can do for this planet is.... not be here, Right? :)

[@mick7sp]

@Marcos Filho Bend over and show everyone your stick... ;)

[@parrsnipps4495]

The trouble is for every suggestion of making a green transition, there is a contrary assertion there's nothing to worry about. Humans cancel each other out because our spectrum of consciousness has opposite viewpoints. That's why its so hard to achieve consensus & act on it.

[@marketingdeafiliadosai]

Awesome animation

[@fz_lyu]

Suggestion for TED: Please stop spamming bots in the comments

[@JohnIndicium]

Why would you want yourself banned from this channel?

[@TheNeighborNicky]

How can you tell who's a bot?

[@fz_lyu]

@@JohnIndicium Who, me?

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[@Jakob172]

So clear! So eloquent! So needed!

[@FernaX98]

I can't believe this has so less views... Man this must be known by every person on earth, we need a change ASAP

[@MrLandale]

The world's population has grown explosively in the last 150 years, which is the reason for the environmental problems we now see. We must do something about it...

[@Callahammer]

If the rich are steering the ship, and poor people are gonna be the ones dying, then they the rich aren’t gonna do crap

[@FStyleWWE]

Golden comment

[@Rhygenix]

1970: 10 more years to stop global cooling!! 1980: 10 more years to stop global warming!! 1990: 10 more years to stop acid rain!! 2000: 10 more years to stop global warming!! 2010: 10 more years to stop climate change!! 2020: 10 more years to stop climate change!!