Are We Destroying Wildlife by Causing Climate Change?

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Climate change has been in the news recently for a variety of reasons, so I wanted to explore the effect this is having on wildlife but also dive into what climate change actually means, what's causing it and, ultimately, the extent to which we are to blame.
00:00 Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Animals
02:27 What is Climate Change & Global Warming?
03:12 What Causes Climate Change?
07:03 Are We Responsible for Climate Change?
08:10 Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Animals
09:48 Effects of Climate Change on Land Animals
13:10 What is Being Done to Combat Climate Change?
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Creative Commons Attribution
Climate change is no hoax - Mark Dixon / Flickr CC BY 2.0
I don´t believe in global warming - Matt Brown / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
Ice Age Fauna - Mauricio Antón Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5
The world is dying sign - Ivan Radic / Flickr CC BY 2.0
The signing of the Paris Agreement x 2 - Gobierno de Chile / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
COP 21 Display - Guilhem Vellut Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
COP 21 Columns - Presidencia de la República Mexicana / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
Paris Protest (Black & White) - kellybdc / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
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Additional Attribution
Wind Farm - Al3xanderD / Pixabay
Clouds - Marc Wieland / Unsplash
Earth - Daniel Olah / Unsplash
Scientists launching an ozonesonde balloon - NOAA / Unsplash
1.5% - Mika Baumeister / Unsplash
Homeless man - KasunChamara / Pixabay
Surgery - sasint / Pixabay
Media & Attribution
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Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.
→ Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Animals
WWF
www.wwf.org.uk/where-we-work/...
About the Arctic
education.nationalgeographic....
Arctic species affected by climate change
www.wwf.org.uk/updates/11-arc...
Animal Diversity
animaldiversity.org/accounts/...
→ What is Climate Change
United Nations
www.un.org/en/climatechange/w...
Al Jazeera English - What is Climate Change? | Start Here
• What is Climate Change...
BBC Earth - When The World Gets 1℃ Hotter | Climate Change: The Facts
• When The World Gets 1℃...
→ What Causes Climate Change?
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle
www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/gre...
When did the last ice age end?
www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
Greenhouse effect
education.nationalgeographic....
Fluctuations in earth’s temperature
www.climate.gov/news-features...
Main sources of anthropogenic greenhouse gasses
www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geo...
Causes of Climate Change | Met Office
www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...
The scientific consensus on human-caused climate change
news.cornell.edu/stories/2021...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
Naturally occurring CO2 Levels
Full Source List (there were too many for the character limit so I've included a link to a Google Doc with the full source list for this video)
docs.google.com/document/d/1M...
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[@Textbooktravel]

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[@mm-hq4qh]

lol

[@Engifarting456]

the carbon footprint concept literally was made by a gas station company to blame the citizens and not themselves

[@TropicOfCancer1998]

Pls do a detailed individual video on top ten bio diverse countries.

[@zoology6572]

Hello! Sorry about those rude people who say weird stuff about climate change. Also how long does it take to get research and script it? Quick question: Do you just read your research off of a google doc or something?

[@djhagrid300]

I agree that global warming is being caused by humans but I don't agree that ordinary citizens are responsible. If only because we are powerless to act against it as individuals. Maybe if everyone made the choice to stop using electricity in any form, but that is not very realistic. The real solution would be to force our legislators to act in our favor and write in laws prohibiting the use of fossil fuels for generating electricity. When you consider the overall source of global warming, power generation is by far the largest contributor.

[@Engifarting456]

excatly, irony the ones causing all this try to blame citizen, the global footprint literally was created by a Gas station firm

[@BM-qi1ss]

👆 The whole push onto individuals has been deliberate marketing and while we should still take steps to fight climate change, those steps should also include radical actions, working together to fight multi billion dollar industries

[@arnenian3093]

Dang

[@barryohagan9278]

So sad to see this animals stugle to live there natural lives because of our expansion as a species and destroying the natural environment maybe its possible to save our frozen friends

[@Jamafly]

I hope your comment section doesn't get spammed with people upset you said the words climate change. :') Great video btw! Thank you for more info on these animals that needed help now more than ever before.

[@sorrybjoke450]

Uh oh

[@Anuchan]

The adjustment to the environment of various species is predictable, but the vast number of endangered species is indicative of a coming mass extinction.

[@yusufcanbaz8194]

E

[@mm-hq4qh]

ok greta

[@lucasjames7524]

It also seems like a no brainer if someone wanted to "go big" on making an impact is to decide to have zero, one, or at absolute most, two children. You can make changes to your own lifestyle, but foreclosing on another person altogether and the entire accumulated lifetime's worth of energy and resource use seems unparalleled in overall impact. If the planet had only 1/4 of the people, everyone could have twice as much and we'd still collectively only consume half as much, all things being equal. So much of the planet could be returned to nature. But on a planet with nearly 8 billion people, even frugal living will take up many more resources than a planet of only 1 billion would.

[@crosswordboss]

Who's "we"?

[@simonl.8212]

Humans

[@simonl.8212]

@@cruz7579 I'm not specificly talking about you or any other person. And its good that people try to keep the lowest possible carbon footprint possible. But the human species (all billions of them) are the cause of climat change. Humans invented the burning of fosil fuels and the warming of housing with coal and gas. And i am Just saying that humans are definetly responsable for the destruction of the earth. Not aimed at you nor any other 1 human being.

[@CBunt]

I feel so bad for these poor animals

[@gerryhouska2859]

No shit Sherlock!

[@VicariousReality7]

No.

[@billyr2904]

You need to talk about how destructive humans are, because they unintentionally kill many species.

[@viviano4008]

Not just unintentionally.

[@Engifarting456]

some random isolated tribe shouldnt be the same fault as the elite

[@jeffbrunswick5511]

It is futile to discuss environmental destruction of any sort without addressing the role of human population growth. There were 1 billion humans at the start of the 20th century and we're now at 8 billion. The goal of humanity should be to create a high standard of living for all humans whilst living in harmony with our environment. This is not possible with rampant out of control human population growth.

[@zanefish8175]

Very true that human population growth is a contributor to many of today's environmental pressures, but we also must consider that the vast majority of today's population growth is occurring in developing nations in Africa where the amount of resources used and carbon emissions per person is very low. We absolutely should be working towards achieving better reproductive resources, family planning, etc in these places, but also it's not entirely fair to blame our problems on a growing population of people who comparatively have little impact on the climate. Instead, focusing on decreasing the carbon footprints of people who live in nations like the US, UK, China, where resource use is very high per person is likely a good approach.

[@jeffbrunswick5511]

​@@zanefish8175 So you are giving the likes of India and Nigeria a free pass to wreck the planet because they do so by creating grinding poverty and misery?

[@zanefish8175]

@@jeffbrunswick5511 Not at all, I just said that I'm in favor of measures that help people in such countries make more informed reproductive decisions. However, language like "wreck the planet" is inappropriate and inaccurate as my previous comment mentioned that people in those countries use comparatively far fewer resources than people in places like the US. Arguments about how there are too many people on earth are often thinly veiled comments about how there are too many non-white people on earth. Now, I'm not accusing you of being racist, I just think we should all be a little more conscious of our own resource use before we use fast-growing countries as a scapegoat.

[@ChocolateCookieMusic]

What you're saying is somewhat true, but whenever I hear somebody with that sentiment I have to ask: What should be done about it then? I've never heard an answer that isn't rather unhinged.

[@jeffbrunswick5511]

@@ChocolateCookieMusic It is not somewhat true, it is 100% true. There is no need for Nazi style death camps, just an acknowledgement that this is both a root cause of environmental destruction and poverty. You then enact policies that reward people for not breeding. You make birth control information and products widely available. You educate women so that they have aspirations greater than being a baby making machine. Many parts of the world already have falling populations due to policies such as these. China had its 1 child policy and Singapore inadvertently made it more rewarding for women to get a job than have a baby. The first step in resolving any problem is to acknowledge that it exists, the second is doing something about it.

[@SophieBird07]

Haven’t watched the video yet but isn’t the answer to the question “No duh!”?

[@zacharyolerich7521]

I'm not saying global warming doesn't exist but I heard the polar bear population was actually rising

[@jasonedenburg9427]

I'm not trying to be a dick... seriously I'm not but...is that seriously all you got from the video? Ok top of that they are rising due to human took actions to help them bounce back, that in no way even come close to dismissing climate change.

[@zacharyolerich7521]

@@jasonedenburg9427Often media only talks about the bad but barely ever talks about something good that has happened. Polar bears have been used for as long as I can remember as an example of the harm global warming can cause so some people might have taken my comment as me denying global warming

[@zanefish8175]

Time scale is important to keep in mind here. Relatively recently (past few decades), humans have greatly increased the amount of effort spent on protecting wildlife. So, while it's true that on a short-term recent time scales, human protection has resulted in polar bear populations increasing to a relatively stable number, this doesn't mean that they aren't still at risk in the future. Their habitat is still melting on a rather large scale.