20k Q&A

[@pepealexandre]

Books: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Paperback by Naomi Klein A Civil Action Paperback by Jonathan Harr A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, Michael Braungart orogeny by Irène Mathieu Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic by Ben Stewart Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us by Simon Clark A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis by Samantha Montano

[@zentouro]

oh wow thank you for typing all this out! going to pin your comment and add my final recommendation which is: Generation Dread by Brett Wray

[@pepealexandre]

@@zentouro Thank you. 👍

[@AndrewThoesen]

How to Blow Up a Pipeline is phenomenal. Bait-y title but it really gave me a good introduction to the necessity of radical activism in real historical change. Suffragette arson, Nelson Mandela before he went to prison, etc.

[@ambulocetusnatans]

Fan of Aldo Leopold here. One of these days I'm going to make it up there to Wisconsin to see the Leopold Center. I hear it's really something.

[@zentouro]

That is on my to read list! Unfortunately that pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger....

[@zentouro]

ooops i forgot a book because it was not on the right shelf. i also have to recommend: Generation Dread by Britt Wray www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647141/generation-dread-by-britt-wray/

[@WatersonBill]

If you could pair one famed work of art and one flavor of soup, what would you choose?

[@zentouro]

ben i'm going to be trying to find the perfect answer to this question for the next year at least

[@FruchtcocktailUndCo]

Love to see you alive and well here posting a Q&A. Your work is amazing and I hope you can manage your PhD together with talking to us about climate. Great climate on this channel btw. Thank you for the term "activist inventor" it was new to me and I identify with it the most of all the roles one can play in this whole endeavor.

[@arcadiaaa1370]

I would love to see a video talking about your phd experiences so far :)

[@zentouro]

noted! although mostly i just stare at my laptop frustrated my code isn't working so i'm not sure how exciting it would be :P

[@arcadiaaa1370]

@@zentouro that sounds just like the phd vlogs Simon Clark did 😂

[@dianewallace6064]

Great Answers to Q&A. Great to see you again. As a Chemist, I research (just for fun) methane clathrate thaw, the sticky wicket of latent heat vis-a-vis loss of cryosphere and wet bulb temps. I see the combination of these three drivers as having exponential impacts of global temperature rise and human animal deaths and non-human animal deaths.

[@ambulocetusnatans]

I think I heard a paleo-climatologist say something about that the second wave of extictions in the Permian Event may have been the methane clathrate thaw.

[@liamunderscoret]

I'm curious what you think about the IPCC report's wording around dietary impacts on climate change. Wording in the final report was apparently watered down from encouraging a switch to plant-based diets, to encouraging "balanced, sustainable, healthy diets". Do you feel that enough focus was put on the animal agriculture industry in the report?

[@ItsRadishTime]

C O M P O S T

[@ItsRadishTime]

also, now that i think about it, i think you're a torterra

[@winterburden]

Hey, thanks- congrats!

[@KarolaTea]

10:10 oh it's not just me then, huh. traaaiiiiinnnns!!!! :D

[@darkforestcinema]

Thanks for the book recommendations.

[@Boyten88]

Thanks for the response :D (I was the lost and dmg fund q). Really hope the loss and dmg fund doesn't flop

[@zentouro]

sorry I didn't have a better answer! someday I'll do a whole video on the topic and explore it more

[@ClimateAdam]

ahhh always such a treat when a new zentouro vid drops. also: great flag.

[@zentouro]

just subtle bi things

[@thomascalvert1800]

very informative - thank you!

[@Mrbertiification]

You are not particularly good at uploading, but you are the best to Upload! :)

[@simplethings3730]

I was surprised when asked about civil unrest to address climate change that your reply was basically... Tallyho! 👍👍👍👍

[@zentouro]

tayllho!

[@ordan787]

A delight! Thanks!

[@ordan787]

~e n g a g e m e n t

[@zentouro]

thank you thank you 💚

[@null.psyche]

Maybe I'm focusing a bit much that I got to your channel through the channel Hot Mess and not having looked much at your actual video archive but I expected you to mention Bill Gates's climate change book and I'm very glad that you did not mention that book and it's lukewarm takes that don't spend enough time recognizing the effects capitalist systems have on the climate.

[@zentouro]

oh yeah no i did not enjoy that book.

[@michaelbyrd7883]

Bright woman but completely uninteresting, Adam's much more engaging, impactful and watchable. I don't feel joy, hope/hopeful, interested, embraced, curious. I feel a sterile and distant vibe. She's a person who knows a lot but I wouldn't want to hang out with her more then 10 minutes. Desacelerar!

[@zentouro]

fine with me, i don't really want to hang out with you either

[@michaelbyrd7883]

@@zentouro Oh I'm sorry darlin, let me take back my comment. Sometimes I'm very foolish and say things impulsively. You were right to call me out . I flip quick and fall in and out of things a lot. You're interesting, very intelligent and it's a pleasure hearing your perspective on the environment and making it easier for people like me to understand. I just prefer Adam. I hope I dug myself out of that hole? Peace and love!

[@oluOnline]

your discord link doesn't seem to work! loved this vid, congrats on 20k!

[@zentouro]

oh whoops, i must have copied an expired one. hopefully this one should work: discord.gg/jKeUhVtX9s thanks for letting me know!