Can We Restore Earth’s Climate? | Dr Johan Rockström

[@cosmicaug]

It's a good presentation but it would have been nice if the video had shown his slides instead of always focusing on him or on the audience.

[@ronmasters751]

Why can videographers not understand that failure to show the graphs everyone in the audience sees is maddening. Johan is cute, but I want to see his data!

[@klokangeorge4005]

He supposed you know Its.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Copyright?

[@richardallan2767]

Amazing talk, loved to have seen the graphs

[@Tengooda]

I agree with previous comments lamenting the lack of data (graphs etc.) in this video. I have great respect for Johan Rockström, but I am not going to spend time watching a video that does not show that data, so I have switched off about half way through.

[@rinnin]

Why no slides? 🤦‍♂️

[@paulgrandy1670]

The time for mitigation has passed. 99% of humans are just unwilling to make the necessary changes. So the the time for preparation is here, if you want any chance at long term survival.

[@user-ku2ev4gk1m]

@@paulgrandy1670 Exactly!! Survive, Preserve, Rebirth---with the knowledge to prevent it happening, again. I'm on a boat, with my destination (after I finish getting le Nonade ready), the Magellan Strait in South America. Warming is half as fast, south of Equator (WMO data, which I've concluded is because the permafrost Methane (4 time normal, measured over Canada and the Arctic Ocean), is less by the time it reaches the equator---which nobody has really expressed, just yet.) Rebirth must start, after Capitalism falls (from its own excesses of constant expansionism), and my conclusion is that the Global North will be such a mess, it can't be reborn there.

[@compostjohn]

I appreciate what Johan is saying but something has just Trumped his message. I think it's very unlikely, now, that we will be able to avoid these tipping points. I echo the comments here about the annoying lack of slides and graphs for us to see.

[@klokangeorge4005]

I think HE ultimatelly want' TO wake us. He Want' US to Stop do consum. Or Earth stopped IT, do IT yourself! Big food crises comes!! No one Word about IT!

[@LemauriceL]

There is a basic conceptual misunderstanding in present politics, who consider the restoration of a climate sustaining life on this planet to be the antagonist of a successful economy. The economy - this term is an ideology-driven generalisation by its own right - will always be favoured by those in power, since their foremost interest is pumping money to the top 10 percent of the richest people on earth. We are effectively transforming the health capacities of this world into - in a purely materialistic sense - worthless digits on bank accounts. But in reality, the direct cause of inhabitable conditions and exponentially increasing damage done by catastrophes such as floodings etc. will automatically result in economic collapse, de-valuating all the digits in ther accounts and finally fully obliterating all the sacrifices the working people have made without equally profiting. If we do not change course, humanity will go extinct because stopping climate change was cost-inefficient and the richest could not make good profit from it. What a world we live in. Thinking reversely, rescuing this planet also means rescuing the economy, which in turn should be worth some effort, shouldn't it?

[@YvonneGonzalez-c2v]

@@LemauriceL & Trump will only hasten our demise

[@gehwissen3975]

What is the value of 'economy'? There is a need for bread and so....

[@pddellow]

It is terrible that we now know how to fix it but due to political powers and their shortsightedness, we are unwilling to do so.. so now what? It is maddening to see the results of this election, knowing that the climate is not something they even want to consider.

[@johnkintree763]

I think something like 90% of humanity has a smartphone, a cell phone, or a landline phone. Some people have more than one. The best use of language models would be to act as a conversational interface between people and a digital representation of the knowledge and sentiment expressed by people during phone conversations with a global platform for collective problem solving. Decisions to be made not by the top 1% and their minions, but through collective terrestrial intelligence.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

they're considering it for sure. Drumpf was pissed that the U.S. military considered global warming to be real.

[@markwis5285]

​@johnkintree763 maybe but how many of the billions don't start at home and sort,compost their household waste?

[@GeorgeHagstrom]

We are primates, driven onto the ground, ran into fire to escape predators for protection. Our species adapted to fire, lost our fur and walk bi pedal carrying fire wood. Fire and humans are inseparable. Using fire doesn't make us smart. We didn't discover fire anymore than the deer discovered the forest or the fish discovered water. Fire is an environment. Fire is dangerous. Our species is not very old. Extinction is commonplace.

[@gehwissen3975]

We don't know. We just say we know how to. We avoid hysteria. That's all.

[@ShaneNull]

thermodynamics is a non reversible process so we need to act smart right now

[@RootsEcho]

"Big world on a small planet" as opposed to the other way around since the 80's I think is a funcntional rethoric and a clear, usable frame in communication and thinking.

[@albertwilmarth6460]

Where are the graphs Dr. Rockström is talking about? This video is useless without them. Editor 👎👎

[@klokangeorge4005]

He do his climate work decade. You don't know thé conclusions?? So study IT.

[@carelthijsse7890]

For the last ten years we can still save the earth but al indicators pointing the opposite.

[@roanbainbridge5109]

Should be noted that the average temperature rise for the last 12 months is 1.64C

[@ronvandereerden4714]

You need to fire your videographer! I stopped watching when I couldn't see the slides and saw the audience instead.

[@dagurru]

Please post this again with the slides 😊

[@guastomike]

This is hopium. Emissions increase each year and the rate temperature change is increasing. These are facts.

[@emceegreen8864]

Seriously. What are we going to do about it? I know most will say “nothing” but that’s the wrong answer.

[@joseenoel8093]

New Year's Eve is coming = more pollution from fireworks 🎆, noise for already stressed out wildlife, could humans be anymore selfish?

[@TheDoomWizard]

A BIG NO

[@jamestaverna241]

Doesn't he know that without Mr Man's hockey stick graph there would be no climate crisis to most.

[@amapolo7211]

why so much focus on the audience?

[@milanp7825]

500 looks in 2 days. No one cares, we're scr...

[@beyonder7817]

​@@milanp7825 doesn't matter the views, we do not have the intention to solve it.

[@markwis5285]

That attitudes attitude helps no one maybe no more share that despare.

[@MrMezmerized]

The problem isn't really the topic. People have become spoiled with catchy videos, with colorful visuals and more animated presentation.

[@d.Cog420]

@@milanp7825 and the vid with the scantily clad woman or jocks driving a golf cart into a lake as they laugh get 3 million. These are the times. Time to start preparing.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Don't mistake Rockström for Rahmstorf. I thought he was Rahmstorf - hence the comment.

[@WFPBFORLIFE]

Begins with stopping animal agriculture and consumption of animals. The damage is detrimental among other things

[@davidwilkie9551]

This human behaviour could easily flip to an economy designed specifically to enact those proposals. When you just look at it, it's obvious why the mistaken interpretation of defense, in tune with mother Earth's ecological circumstances, is instead, an all-out attack on the unshielded economic vulnerabilities.

[@markwis5285]

Proves that our ball of rock is in its own right is a living organism. In relative terms we have disrupted it biocycle. It's not hard to grasp the concept of all the organisms on its land and oceans depend on its natural cycles and evolution has time to adapt.

[@arkytitan]

1:47 "Solar voltaics" is certainly not a natural phenomenon :)

[@carelthijsse7890]

I am not a child

[@dagurru]

You're a big boy!

[@JustAGirl-y1p]

Why didn’t they show any of the graphics ???! Why did we need go see that random group of humans??? This is annoying af

[@CLH5370]

Not to worry. Elon says we can live with him on Mars.😂😅😂😅😂

[@grahamlindsay1263]

Exactly who do I have to be respectful towards, because of the election of Donald Trump the Earth is doomed, is that being disrespectful or honest.

[@JimmyD806]

The paleoclimate deniers are posting videos like crazy.

[@dantonspivey]

Too bad they hired such an incompetent video team. Did they fail to record the graphs, or did they just not know how to edit them into the video? Or did they just have no funding? What a shame.

[@bandit2048]

Can we restore earth's climate? Simply put - No.

[@bentfpv]

The climate has never been stable.

[@reason3581]

@@bentfpv google ”holocene”

[@jetlagger3357]

Thank Johan, despite the topics imporance, and the brilliant content one has to mention that you are a terrible speaker. Terrible! A carpet of unimpeded bla bla that completely ignores the listening brains. Complex sentence structures with causal extensions. You high tension voice is exhausting, the unmodulated stream of one frequency band. No breaks at all. If you would write a text paper, it would be without any formatting or sentence structure or headlines. 6pt font and ultralong sentences. Reason I mention this is that you have an important message and the competency, and even more sad that you just cannot bring the rubber on the road with what could be fixed with a measly rhetoric training.

[@johnvoelker4345]

both global warming and higher levels of CO₂ would benefit the biosphere the Earth is too cold and CO₂ is a nutrient