Climate change: Are there too many people? - 6 Minute English

What do you think is the biggest cause of climate change? Improve your English vocabulary and listening as we discuss the controversial link between overpopulation and climate change - and whether the size of your carbon footprint depends on where in the world you were born.
This week's question
How many people are there in the world today?
a) seven billion
b) eight billion
c) nine billion
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
✔️carbon footprint - measurement of how much carbon dioxide is produced by someone's everyday activities
✔️crunch (the) numbers - perform many mathematical calculations involving large amounts of data and numbers
✔️mod cons (= modern conveniences) - technology and machines like cars, washing-machines, air-conditioning and fridges which make life easier and more pleasant
✔️affluence - having lots of money or owning many material possessions
✔️apologetic - showing that you feel sorry for something harmful you have said or done
✔️let your heart rule your head - (idiom) do something based on emotion or personal desires rather than for logical or practical reasons
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VOCABULARY IN THIS VIDEO “Climate change: Are there too many people?” 1. Judgmental: too quick to criticize people 2. Carbon footprint: measurement of how much carbon dioxide is produced by someone's everyday activities 3. Crunch (the) numbers: perform many mathematical calculations involving large amounts of data and numbers 4. Mod cons (= modern conveniences): technology and machines like cars, washing-machines, air-conditioning and fridges which make life easier and more pleasant 5. Affluence: having lots of money or owning many material possessions 6. Apologetic: showing that you feel sorry for something harmful you have said or done 7. Let your heart rule your head: (idiom) do something based on emotion or personal desires rather than for logical or practical reasons. 8. All the mod cons: all the things that are fitted in modern houses to make life easy and comfortable ALL THE BEST FOR YOU. 19/01/2023

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VOCABULARY IN “climate change: are there too many people” 1. Carbon footprint: measurement of how much carbon dioxide is produced by someone's everyday activities 2. Controversial: causing disagreement or discussion: 3. Soared: to rise very quickly to a high level 4. Astonishing: very surprising 5. Crunch number: perform many mathematical calculations involving large amounts of data and numbers 6. Mod cons: technology and machines like cars, washing machines, air-conditioning, and fridges which make life easier and more pleasant 7. Reckon: to calculate an amount 8. Affluence: having lots of money or owning many material possessions 9. Derive: to get something from something else 10. let your heart rule your head (idiom) do something based on emotion or personal desires rather than for logical or practical reasons

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MUSTAFA ISILAR------Much of the plastic that people believe will be recycled isn't. We don't have the chemical ability to breakdown the molecular structure of a high percentage of the plastic. It's buried in American landfills and the same goes for foreign counties. Lately some of these countries have had large floods bringing landslides and the landfills are unearthed and run into the rivers creating masses of dangerous plastic in huge areas that may get stopped at a dam or other wall like structure where it may be collected again, or it makes itself to the oceans where animals are found to have these plastic molecules in their body cells. I don't believe in so called climate change; it's a political lie. The earth has had much more happen in terms of CO2 and other gases long before man was around, from thousands of volcanos and huge meteors. Humans couldn't change the weather if we all set out to do it. CO2 isn't our enemy. If we go back to 1970 and study all the fake reports that the sky is falling and continue it forward to the present , we would all see how it's all political propaganda.

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Agree that there are too many people, but I guess its more of a problem that there are too many people in one place, making it congested and so. That's why the government and businesses needs to branch-out their services to rural areas so people wouldn't flock the cities

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Bingo, we only take up 4% of all the land. Why not branch out and create new SMART GRIDDED cities. Oh, that's right the elites won't have as much money.

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[@irenefang246]

Thanks BBC My summary while listening This program's topic is related to the environment, climate change specifically. The main question here is what is the biggest cause of climate change? The obvious answer would be carbon emissions caused by humans. However, recently scientists in the West have focused on another issue which is overpopulation, the ever-increasing number of people globally. Arvind Ravikumar, a professor of climate policy, has findings that are quite astonishing after crunching the numbers. He concluded that two billion low-income people would produce very little carbon emissions while two billion high-income people would increase the carbon levels a lot. This is due to the fact that those with a high living have mod cons including machines and technology to make their lives more pleasant and easier. Therefore, the real problems are actually overconsumption and affluence, but not overpopulation. In an interview, Priti Dhagan, a rich Indian housewife, shared that you could not be judgmental about anybody's needs. In fact, people are drawn by consumer goods which increase their levels of happiness. Generally speaking, her heart wins over her brain so she doesn't feel apologetic about her habit of shopping regularly.

[@Truthseeker371]

Oh, you are referring to materialism and consumerism. Yes, decluttering and not wanting helps reduce the garbage disposal. Shopholic is a metal problem, lack of being loved. Needs a good talk with husband and therapy. So does hoarding, childhood emotional issues.

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A cornerstone of effective climate action lies in education and awareness, enlightening the public about the far-reaching consequences of their choices.

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[@ciuzdamm]

There is no scientific link between CC and CO2 footprint. You might have had some point when you linked GW aka Greenhouse effect with CO2, but dropping GW and replacing it with CC was a fatal move for you. And, yes, there are too many people on Planet Earth: the ones that are saying that there are too many people and they should sacrifice themselves first, in order to save the Planet.

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Of course, We need to solve that. People don't really see how hard it is to have more people. They are just indeed happy with baring more and more kids.

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Its a taboo topic. But economics will solve the issue eventually.

[@Truthseeker371]

Growing old age group is also a concern to the pension and taxation system, not to talk about burden on medical expenses.

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[@Coruscanspadawan]

We really are too many people

[@eugeneayisah7893]

population increase with high demand of developmental projects in the industrial sector is a major reason for climate change, taking Accra as a case study where we do not practice the process of planting trees to absorb harmful emission into the atmosphere The indigenes lacks quality air which posses several health hazards to its environs

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Yes, we all can see that the difference between the usage of poor and rich people. Only rich person can receive high quality living standards especially western countries. People in developing countries struggle to get basic needs.

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This topic leads me to think that at the rate we are going it will be very difficult to rescue the world

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May I suggest some other topics? forgiveness, yoga, pranayam, habit, vipassana etc.

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Bruh you won’t have any yoga when the planet is dead 🤔

[@amyrobinson4451]

thanks for the video - is there a link available for the study mentioned by Ravikumar?

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I would say yes. Many people breed when they can never afford

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Yes, there are and not in Europe, in Asia and Africa

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emissions - overconsumption - carbon footprint

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Are there too many people? YES!

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The summary of climate change is easy. It is the change of humidity in atmosphere, which produce between the (land)and the(seas & oceans) on the other hand... Occurring of rains, snow, storms, and floods at time and in unexpected places, confirm my theory(the change in the directions of winds)which must be balanced... How to reduce the heat of the earth and atmosphere? We must supply the earth with a natural cooling places... Results: ---------- 1- To balance the water vapor which produces between the( ground)and the(seas and oceans )... 2- To balance the pressures of the air in the atmosphere... 3- To balance the directions of winds which caused the climate change... 4- To control upon the storms and harricans... 5- To revive the the first theory of climate change (dynamic horizontal movement). 6- To balance the percentage of gases forming the atmosphere. NOTE :The lack of water vapor is of land not of seas and oceans... These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced

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I don't believe one of the contributors to climate change is overpopulation, but there are more other factors which can contribute climate change, including consumption of fossil fuel ⛽️

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Let your heart rule your head(id) do st based on emotion or personal desire rather than logical/practical thought/ reasons Ex: when we fall in love with sb, we usually let our heart rule our head more. Mod cons: is short for modern convieniences such as washing machines, air-conditioning and fridges which made life become easier and more pleasant. Affluence(n) having lots of money or owing many material possessions Ex: The rich often live in affluence/ a life of affluence. Judgmental: quick to criticize people.

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Short answer yes there is too many people in the world there has been for decades

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in japan, there have been massive deforestations for the solar panels construction in this decade. is it the right countermeasure against global warming ?

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Up

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What about Gas emissions and exhaust fumes from vehicles

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Yes . To many people . Bill Gates is working on that as he's stated himself . He liked the idea of a pandemic in his own words .

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@@samuelalonso22 🤣🤣 bill gates is serious to save the people by killing people. A typical hypocrite.

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Yup, bill gates is serious, he wants to save the people by killing people. A real hypocrite

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

YES! YES! and YES! (to the question asked in the title to this video)

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It's pretty much about a person's carbon footprint.

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We can live together nature.

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Too many people? No, there are too many malthusians. Is the sentence correct?

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Do not attack the earth, this is how nature and land get angry? ... Everything has a weight ... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced

[@RNRezamohammadi]

great

[@hayleyfay4779]

The greenest gift you can give mother earth right now is NOT HAVE CHILDREN- The planet was at it best when there were 4 billion

[@henryarero]

The Developed Countries and emmissons of gases into atmosphere.

[@Luxury_vagabond]

Leave only 1 million people on earth is a good idea.

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The richest produce the most CO2 and do the least work.

[@blitz8702]

no there is not too many people it is about management and curb greed and corruption .

[@fadxacumar1752]

But I think it's temperature not human activity

[@teixautarlo]

Huge population.

[@Needglory23]

Yes

[@helium73]

Population growth is slowing down. We really don't need cars. We've become dependent on them because cities now contain large residential zones. You need a car to get from the residential zone where you live to the commercial zone where you shop and the zone where you work. Even if you take the bus you will have to walk a long way to the bus which doesn't usually enter any commercial zones. If we just made residential zones residential and commercial and allowed people to build stores or start businesses in residential zones we could reduce the need for cars. We should also make it illegal to tax property unless it's in a commercial or industrial zone because when property tax was introduced it was a form of income tax. It was assumed you would run a business on your property whether you lived on it or not. People used to live above the stores where they worked. We need to remove the incentive to buying cars. Also despite having cars if people don't drive them it will reduce carbon emissions that way. But cars don't even benefit the people who own them. They are money pits.

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Ignorant...

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Abstract : The energy that dominates the earth is very great, some of it is natural, like the heat of the sun and volcanoes, and some of it is human action, by cutting down trees, without replacing them and cultivating in their place... There are five forces that control or dominate the planet... 1- The first theory (horizontal dynamic movement) and its end... The occurrence of storms, rain, floods and snow, at unexpected times and places, is because of the expiration of this theory, which needs to be balanced... 2- The second theory (vertical dynamic movement) and its end... This movement or force controls or dominates the earthquakes, earth cracks, drying up of rivers and lakes, earth openings, mountain collapses, and the emergence of drinking water springs on the ground... It becames out of control... These phenomena increased due to the end of this theory... The third theory: it is water that rotates the earth... The fourth theory: the Earth's axis of rotation has tilted 2° degrees... The fifth theory: The Earth has a new orbit... These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000 YOUSIF A TOBIYA FORCIBLY DISPLACE

[@tomwatson9710]

In a word, yes :(

[@user-qp3zl5vm9n]

Vocabulary recap Carbon footprint Crunch number mod-con affluence apologetic let your heart rule your head

[@shanemitchell5807]

Its obvious that the high carbon emissions can be significantly reduced if we go back to living like poor people. The west needs a hard lesson in gluttony.

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[@yousifatobiya7279]

Any explanation or talk about any topic or theory without solutions ،is like someone blowing a flute without a beautiful melody... I present to you the reasons and solutions... Who knows the causes? knows the solutions... Any natural phenomenon should naturally balance... These studies were completed and posted on July 26, 2000... Yousif A Tobiya forcibly displaced

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At 5:18 they recap the vocabulary