Climate change is already irreversible

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- Carbon capture paper: www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S...
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- Further paper on carbon capture: science.sciencemag.org/content...
- Species extinction due to climate change: science.sciencemag.org/content... and www.theguardian.com/environme...
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[@nomesa7374]

Great Video Simon. Well done. But I didn't quite get what "not eating meat" has to do with climate change. Having said that, I don't eat meat a lot (maybe once or twice a week). But I do not know how can that help.

[@SimonClark]

A fair question! Basically meat (and beef in particular) has a colossal carbon impact. Give en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_production a skim.

[@marlonchristie2177]

Was saying the same thing, that is a bit drastic.

[@maxwellmiles2430]

Vice has a good documentary on it

[@julioequinones]

Simon Clark hey Simon great video thanks for all the content you put out! would you have a look at the comment I made and the response someone had and give me your thoughts? thanks!

[@marlonchristie2177]

Large scale Agriculture has alot to do with the negative effect. Well that is another thing that has gotten out of control, as increase in population force the need to produce more. But this is all the price of the choice us humans make, we do not have to produce and consume so much meat.

[@talos2384]

It seems we have forgotten the old proverb “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” If humanity is to become a semi colon in history rather than a full stop we need more old men to plant trees.

[@vojtechadam7911]

The right to vote should be limited by maximum age worldwide

[@reuireuiop0]

Trees can't be relied on. First, every quarter century, fools like Trump or Bolsanero come along & allow their cronies to cut down what you've planted. See what's done to Bialowiecsa Forest, Poland by the PiS government. Woods are on fertile soil, timber is value, even stabile govt can't keep it safe- even swedish old growth is dwindling. More important, there's simply not enough open land to plant them co2 Capture trees. Farm folk live there, if not, it's already forest or it's unfertile or too dry. Greenpeace calculated about 2 times the surface of india is needed for current offset schemes using trees. We don't have that kind of empty land surface. Third, emissions are enormous. The average Car drive of 10-12 miles emits ca. 2 kilo CO2 gas, about 1m3. To reduce 1 cubic meter to 1ppm, you need 1 million m3 of air, that's twice the payload of a major container ship, for reducing one commute emission to one lousy ppm. 400 of those rides, doubles the CO2 content in 2 big container ships, or equals the emissions of a single flight, or about 30 cubic feet of cement concrete. Yep, better use trees for building, which is all right, except that wood buildings burn easy. Same goes for tree based Carbon Capture Schemes

[@OpiumBride]

@@jellyfishi_ this kind of mentality is why old men don't plant trees... We don't appreciate our elders, we abuse them. This is why the future generations will suffer abd wonder why previous generations didn't give a fock.

[@meeshu6156]

@@reuireuiop0 as a republican it pisses me off that the climate crisis is continously denied by most conservatives. I hope the new generation will become aware of climate change.

[@meeshu6156]

@@reuireuiop0 not to mention conservation, its sad such obvious problems are mixed in with political ignorance.

[@lauchieharvey6196]

Pfhh, What would an oxford graduate with a PhD in atmospheric physics know about climate change?

[@SimonClark]

Beats me, I don't know why people listen to me either

[@hendrycaven]

Simon Clark Double PhD or nothing.

[@saralkoirala1355]

LISTEN!!! Even worse! 10s of millions of people have watched you. Glacial Melting is an inside job

[@nikhilsrajan]

DOUBLE PhD FTW

[@TreespeakerOfTheLand]

Would a double PhD in Christian Theology turn one into PhJesus? I'm leaving...

[@bigbrainapeman5987]

I don't know if I should feel happy that I get to live my entire life, or depressed that future generations will suffer.

[@Hey-jw3dm]

both

[@Hey-jw3dm]

If you don't know how to choose that means you value both😊

[@patrickbrianguy3390]

The second half of your life is going to start feeling the effects.

[@MrSvenovitch]

just do not breed more life onto this miserable rock. spoiler alert: life was, is and and always will be a miserable affair. Regardless of how many trees we have

[@peachscouts2141]

It’s ok to value both ❤️ past present and future lives all are equally important

[@actimelnono4657]

“The youth climate activists will save the climate or die trying ...” I just tell myself that whenever I get anxious

[@lhaviland8602]

They will die trying tho...

[@antonikudlicki1100]

Ekofascists: We have to change the world by force so people won't be consumed by flames! Medieval catholics: I like the way you're thinking

[@dreaminez472]

@@antonikudlicki1100 Only this time the flames are literal and real.

[@davidpeppers551]

@@antonikudlicki1100 So we all decided to willingly destroy ecosystems and greatly reduce the livability of this planet? That is what we all want to do? No force involved there? No violence? No coercion?

[@saoirseL]

ooh i dont know... i think too many are watching love island and making bets on neverending football matches like their life depends on it

[@paxwallacejazz]

"We are under the gross misconception that we are a good species going somewhere important and that at the last minute we will correct our errors and God will smile on. It is delusion." Farley Mowat

[@gulcinyuksel847]

Wow, I see you all the time under 20th century avant-garde classical music score videos but I never thought I would see you here.

[@tubewatch59]

+paxwallacejazz - We are a bad species headed somewhere evil (and absurd), and at the last minute things will get so bad, so fast (on the part of those who've decided to ignore God), that God will step in to correct our errors by smiting us. That IS what's going to happen (and I'm not talking about 'climate change') - The Bible.

[@catvapecult5876]

There is no god

[@surfinmuso37]

pffft-i have never subscribed to such an opinion. Always knew we are a problematic parasite that needs constant population reduction via war and disease or we get out of control. From a simply moral standpoint we deserve extinction.

[@surfinmuso37]

@@tubewatch59 yes and the easter bunny and santa claus will be there too. Sometimes surprises me that people who believe in imaginary beings can actually form a sentence.

[@TheBushdoctor68]

Earth doesn't doesn't care what kind of atmosphere it has. It will keep circling the sun, with or without humans for billions of years to come. Humans on the other hand, should very much care what kind of atmosphere the Earth has if we don't want to become just a blip in the history of the universe. We keep wondering where all the alien civilizations are.. I think it's pretty clear what happened to them, if you look at what we've managed to do to our own planet in just 250 years.

[@elgieswift3498]

Maybe they were smarter, or are peacefully living in another galaxy after observing us and seeing what NOT to do.

[@TheBushdoctor68]

You could be very right Elgie... I think that's why they're keeping a close eye on us.

[@elgieswift3498]

I would be keeping a close eye on us too, were I a sentient species on another planet. I would also have my planet cloaked, to use a Star Trek term, so Bezos and Musk couldn't find it if my planet were close enough to travel to. "Clean your own planet up rather than escape with your germs, viruses, and greedy ways" and poof! The cloak will hide us. (Yes, there are those I think worse than Bezos and Musk but I hoped those two would be different than the other Randian libertarian types). Even though I hope to have a spaceship to travel the universe in my next life to explore ( I make up my own afterlife since there's no scientific proof of any) I would definitely be respectful of any life form or livable environment I came across. One only needs a small amount to survive. Earth species will be known as crazy consumers who had to replace perfectly good stuff every few years because... style or something. And who has the most stuff is the best mentality. Each moment in nature is precious especially being so close to the ending of this story. Aw, you thought I'm nuts! HA!

[@brianmucha6426]

Yeah buddy! Right on Doc!

[@ADEehrh]

Chances are we look at other planents atmospheres and know we can't live there; so aliens look at @ us & the crap we pumped in our atmosphere and say... we can't breath that surely nothing else could live there! No sense in going to look for live on that 3rd rock!

[@humbletumble221]

As a marine biologist with training in chemical oceanography, I link people this video when they ask how i think we can fix climate change. Thanks for saving me from a multitude of depressing and ultimately pointless conversations.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

"when they ask how i think we can fix climate change." Point them to a page that says "Too late! You are doomed!"

[@michaelnice93]

Stop shouting fire in a crowded theater. It’s irresponsible and beyond idiotic.

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Humble Tumble, please stop telling people to give up. That is counterproductive. Tell them to stop voting for people who don't think climate change is important. (Republicans and other right wing nuts)

[@ManOfLore1]

How responsible of you.

[@toddberkely6791]

abandon your friends, quietly move to new zealand, tell them its bc you are a lotr fan.

[@VictorMartinez-zf6dt]

Idk man, $3T feels kinda low especially when you consider how much the US government spends on lesser things.

[@f4lc099]

US spends 740bilion per year on army Globally its 1.3 Trillion, we would need to get rid off army and still be 2 trillion Short

[@Halo2012me]

@@f4lc099 American gdp is over 20 trillion and we’re less than a quarter of the world economy

[@infidelheretic923]

That number would go down a lot if we reduce our emissions. Switch from coal to nuclear. Electric vehicles and plant some trees

[@enricod.7198]

@@f4lc099 the damage from +4c (which we'll hit if we don't reduce and stop emissions) is estimated in 600T$ which is more than what the entire humanity economy is worth. Basically we don't soend today, we won't be able to survive as a whole. Also, it has to be treated like doomsday because it is. Like ww2, we need to work and change like there is no economy at all, but only our survival. Stupid governors need to treat the climate change crisis like the most important crisis we are facing. They spend billions in contrasting its effects already, without working on the cause.

[@jamesboulger8705]

Are you suggesting we give up our fun, military toys?

[@loneenvoyyale5259]

Tbh. We shouldn't have to pay each other to save our own good damn planet. We as a species have become too self centered. This is the root of our problems, but I cannot see people changing...

[@James-nv1wf]

iAgree

[@tommyevans5866]

Haha. I was thinking the same thing. Just do it otherwise we not gonna be around to do anything else.

[@casperr1299]

At the same time a lot of people depend on the money provided by fossil fuel energy. It’s literally like the basis for global monetary value. A lot of people will also die or suffer for the rest of their lives taking it out this abruptly.

[@JadineGaming]

@@casperr1299 A lot of people will suffer and die if we DON'T take out fossil fuels abruptly.

[@Alex-ki1yr]

+

[@DerAua]

"We can't just give up." Thank you.

[@crazyasitis1940]

Give up what??? Crap like this video, just skip it!!

[@almightybunny3320]

Why not? I mean there is nothing we can do! We humans are greedy, aggressive, violent organism which destroy it's enviroment. So as long as we are humans nothing change! It's called human condition and it will destroy us in the end too.

[@MartinA-kp8xg]

Just thought I would say with respect to you this video is nonsence

[@almightybunny3320]

@@MartinA-kp8xg Well that is part human nature, denial! What we can't accept or don't want to believe we deny! I don't say this video is right but our time this planet is ending because as humans we just create more and more problems which we can't solve and in the they escalate.

[@jrh7178]

@@MartinA-kp8xg Climate change is factually unstoppable. Humans never even started it. We just sped it up

[@danyka2888]

Remember guys: "we can't just give up"

[@richardmoeller5351]

Well, even if we had a solution you think everybody's going to band together and just fix this? Give up heating, air conditioning, cheap food, consume less food, stop the use of plastic, walk not drive? That wouldn't even be enough because, particulates in the atmosphere, aerosols, jet contrails.. They dim the Earth thus, cooling it and we get those pollutants in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels otherwise we'd be at 5C so, go ahead and litter, it makes no difference for life on this shit planet or it's shit people.

[@InvalidUser_]

@John K covid 19 is destroying the oil companys they could all go bankrupt.

[@KasirRham]

Sheeeeeeiiit

[@arrietty1619]

Was kinda hoping for the world to end soon

[@chrismitchell9631]

Adithya & Les' back and forth makes our immanent demise a little less painful.

[@SunnySombreroo]

Too many of these videos are in my recommend and I’m already under stress..I feel too hopeless

[@trafficjon400]

they rather fight than truly find the truth.

[@trafficjon400]

don't be under stress 'its not going to worm up any time soon. God be with you.

[@Hey-jw3dm]

MAY HOPE AND PEACE COME FOR ALL😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@everythingcoffee8901]

@@_blank-_ do i spot a fellow jimmy snow/mr atheist fan?

[@andrewwilliams9312]

@Matthew Mesa. There may be hope, in Sep 2020 Trump sent Prof Dr David Legates into NOAA to look into the quality of the work being done there kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpDUn4Jmad6Um7s heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/david-legates Don't forget even the observed temperatures are actually the "final adjusted data" as altered by NOAA, which turns a cooling trend in the raw data into a warming hockey stick. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZeXmHZvesRmn7c The "final adjusted data" version of the temperature observations shows all the climate models are overpredicting for the RCP4.5 senario. www.thegwpf.com/climate-models-vs-observations-2019-update/

[@avocedo975]

Politician : climate change will affect future we don't even gonna live and i want MONEY now

[@aspiringscientificjournali1505]

cool then how about you give me all of your savings after you die you dont care about your kids right ?

[@alexandremotkalyuk7184]

Thats what you get with moral relativism

[@aspiringscientificjournali1505]

@@alexandremotkalyuk7184 no its what you get from a undereducated voting population

[@alexandremotkalyuk7184]

@@aspiringscientificjournali1505 exactly who wouldnt suport nuclear?

[@aspiringscientificjournali1505]

@@alexandremotkalyuk7184 fossil fuel ceo

[@Ozzah]

In 1956, a 5MB hard drive was the size and weight of two large fridges, and was priced far out of reach of anyone. Today, I have a 1TB microSD card that weighs half a gram, could fit inside my ear canal, and costs under $150. What I'm trying to say is that while carbon capture is no doubt totally infeasible today, as you said the technology in its early days. Since neither halting our carbon emissions nor carbon capture is likely to mitigate the effects of climate change, we should work aggressively on both options, no?

[@friedegg3732]

okay but what about plants

[@GOLD117on]

Valid

[@f3tsch906]

50 years ago there were also people saying that some great new techology will save us from climate change... Yet they were wrong and we have to fight more than ever... Before the wright brothers were able to fly a plane there were dozens of others who attempted the same, yet they failed. Carbon capture might be the solution in the future. But we dont know that... At this point your comment is merely a distraction. A distraction from real and already functioning solutions. A distraction just so you dont have to look at the pile of problems and work before us... What will happen if we follow your thoughts and bet on carbon capture. Well if carbon capture still fails, then humanity fails.... Stop gambling

[@OfflineLukas]

@@friedegg3732 nobody is proposing to get rid of them.

[@ericlotze7724]

@@friedegg3732 Look up Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration, if done SUSTAINABLY it is a good tool in the toolkit as well. Especially if using native grasses / plants in the cycles that allow for it, or algae etc. Also deep burial of the charcoal/petcoke etc like "Reverse Coal Mining" instead of potentially unstable CO2 injections

[@tusharsingh4543]

"The planet is fine. The people are fucked." - George Carlin

[@olechristianhenne6583]

I happen to agree its Only ah matter of time

[@appleslover]

Not so deep nor that smart either, I hate pretentious quotes

[@paulespinosa5195]

g.carlin hero of the counterculture * he had a way of making us all look at ourselves, he had a nack of cushioning the BLOW

[@paulespinosa5195]

@@appleslover maybe should have used the saying "hero of the Stupid

[@damndirtyape1363]

The planet will eventually heal itself, humans will be long gone tho

[@wuld7915]

"The quality of life is more important than life itself."

[@Hey-jw3dm]

i agree. Imagine coming to the world and all you do is suffer. we've come so far but it seems we're right back where we started. Tch humans never learn I'll be happy seeing yous alongside me. Comrades in death! OWO that would be the time people can be truly honest with themselves, in face of death where everythings gonna end. They're gonna regret EVERYTHINGG they've done in their lifetime and ask why. Why me😂😃 I'll be like yes you. You made thisu happen and now you'd rest eternally wit mee!!

[@Hey-jw3dm]

Welp it's a good end for us. We'll go back in the soil where we belong 😴

[@alexandremotkalyuk7184]

I hate moral relativism

[@MinhNguyen-wz2wn]

I dont agree to some extent

[@wuld7915]

Pain and relief are the most relevant features of being alive as a being who's primary motivations center around them. What else could be said? The moon must exist, is wholly beautiful, independent of the ability to perceive? What about works of art? Surely, they hold intrinsic value and the more there are of those paintings, even with no sight upon them-there would be value-what is that? Quality of experience is the most practical and relevant thing to being alive as a being of pleasure and pain. You couldn't verify anything else beyond that.

[@briangarrow448]

What is so heartbreaking is the lack of commenters my age who watch these videos. I hope they are just shy. I sincerely hope that the coming generation can fix the foul upset of mine and previous ones. I don't want my grandchildren to curse me after I've gone for being selfish and short sighted.

[@Deebz270]

You neglected to give us your age Brian ... I'm 59 and always comment.... Read my large comment here (on this sub-thread....) to get a concise rundown on what we and those that follow are facing.... It's not good.

[@earldecker7760]

Brian Garrow- I will be 81 this year & taught all my children & grand children & everone else that I have met & were interested in that climate change is natural & God given to mankind as one of His blessings to His creation. Read it in Gen.8:22 We are god's creation and ALL humans are His children & He cares & provides for all life on earth in accord to His WILL. We were created by His will to do His will. God is in control & His laws govern the running of His Universe. Our duty as children of God is to be good stewards of the earth & be fruitful & multiply & replenish the earth & subdue it & have dominion over every living thing thatmoveth upon the earth , oceans & sky. Gen. 1:28. Also Gen. 8:22 gives God's promise that the climate will remain adaptable for all life on earth as long as the earth remains. I also taught my kin & told my friends when I die that I would be waiting for them in the next life where Iwould be with all my deceased family , friends & people I never met. If any of them die befor me I taught them that they would be with those deceased ones & waiting for me when I die. We never fear death & have a better life here & future of an even better life after our little flicker of time on this earth ends.

[@deanrao7554]

That's a GOOD one...LOL!

[@ahaveland]

Oh dear Earl, I'm afraid based on your testimony that you're going to be going several hundred floors below where you think you're going.

[@nomorewar4189]

Brian Garrow don’t buy the lie again - science of global cooling (70’s) now Global warming - oops the numbers that aren’t fudged have come out and there has been an error - ok 👌 let’s just call it climate change so we can point to every anomaly in the weather and keep this farce going and don’t forget tax everyone for it as well - use your head. Bet you don’t even know what the #1 greenhouse gas is ( nor do these quasi scientists who comment on this thread.) “Data collected on nine nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines indicate an average CO2 concentration of 3,500 ppm with a range of 0-10,600 ppm, and data collected on 10 nuclear-powered attack submarines indicate an average CO2 concentration of 4,100 ppm with a range of 300-11,300 ppm,” vancouversun.com/opinion/opinion-not-seeing-the-forest-for-the-trillions-of-trees

[@rowanmeddings4567]

i know you mentioned it at the end but i feel the emissions from the agriculture sector are not nearly talked about enough as they are one of if not the biggest contenders of climate change and the best thing you can do to battle climate change is a change in diet.

[@sebah1991]

@Don Vito Corleone I think you need to get that checked out. Something is wrong with you.

[@mintymilkk]

was ready to comment this too. I realised that I couldn't claim to care about the environment while also eating animal products, so aligned my actions accordingly

[@workguy2275]

lab meat? anyone??

[@imicca]

i dont think so. choosing public transport over private. renewable energy over fossil fuel, EV cars and other things that do not have to be directed in what we eat ... dont shame people for eating meat

[@ericselectrons]

Rowan Meddings - Your claim that the agriculture sector isn't talked nearly enough about. Where your argument fails is the fact that agriculture includes plant agriculture. So merely changing your diet wouldn't radically change much of anything. The same trucks that transport dead animals transports fruits, vegetables, grains, and rice.

[@lordshmee]

Guess what we’ve done since this video came out. If you guessed, “fuck all,” then you’re correct! In fact, we’ve gone down hill from there, and will continue to do so until we’ve turned this rock into the next Venus. Pleasant dreams everyone!

[@xanderthecommander7491]

You must be fun at parties

[@jaderex8327]

@@xanderthecommander7491 you too

[@xanderthecommander7491]

@@jaderex8327 I am fun why you bully me

[@haveaniceday5693]

We are a fuckin plague who doesn't give a shit about earth or anyone me,me,me,me,me

[@Toastcat890]

Venus 2.0 coming up.

[@NicK-vd3hj]

Can we please not fear monger against nuclear (thumbnail), it is not what caused our situation and is actually one of the best tools we have to fight climate change

[@robynb7083]

Ikr

[@dingusdingus2152]

You don't know why? Have you been living under a rock? Cher fucking nobyl, dumbass! Exploded in 1986, duh! CHERNOBYL! Google it, shit for brains. While you're at it, look up 3 mile island. And you may even recall Fukushima. Nuclear power is the stupidest thing the human race has ever contrived

[@SallyLePage]

04:58 "In the 31st century, how global average sea levels will have irreversibly risen..." Are you saying that in the year 3000, not much will have changed but we'll live underwater?

[@SimonClark]

I don't think you understand how hard it was to not make that reference in this video! Was so so so tempted to put it in

[@kenvandeburgt1232]

5:14 ... thats water vapor ... not carbon ... coming out of the stack.

[@Donthaveacowbra]

Ken Van de Burgt it's not that simple. We have already established a significant portion of our population within the regions that would be threatened by sea level rise. It's not as simple as picking up our homes and shifting them back a hundred feet. It's the order of trillions of dollars. No one really understands that it's a matter of all the investments we make in these areas will be underwater in a given timescale. Even a relatively small city of 500,000 like where I currently live is in the order of over a trillion dollars in value....

[@kenvandeburgt1232]

Its one of the reasons I like Justinian public trust doctrine where it says no one may own the ocean front. Spain has a 100 meter exclusion zone. Mexico has a 40 meter ZOFEMAT zone. So moral of the story is if the projection is 2 meters in 1000 years or if you accept the more alarmist projections such as 4 meters by 2050 ... then no one should be allowed to build in the zone. End Stop. Its the same with all the disaster stories of people building on known flood plains, in the hurricane flush zone, and in the Tsunami zone. Don't build there and you won't have a problem.

[@Thega]

Ken Van de Burgt the problem comes when that means that half of Holland suddenly becomes uninhabitable, half of America, Japan, New Zealand etc have to evacuate because they live on faults, vulnerable to volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Also noone is allowed near the equator because the risk of a tornado is too high. The solution lies not in prevention, as Simon said, it's too late for that. What lies next is a reduction is our contribution to the situation, adaptation to the new environment, and better education about the long-term consequences of our actions.

[@daviddegenhardt5420]

Let’s introduce a yearly treeday where everyone tries to plant as many trees as possible.

[@daviddegenhardt5420]

I declare the 26th of may as international treeday!!!

[@desp8161]

@@daviddegenhardt5420 I think genetically modified kelp would do more good

[@stephentrueman4843]

where? the land in england has signs like "trespassers will be prosecuted" (atleast I shouldn't get shot)

[@tifogra689]

@@daviddegenhardt5420 What a nice idea!!! How do you think we can do this?

[@daviddegenhardt5420]

tifogra I dunno, just buy a lot of seed and throw the somewhere where there is space. Then try to tell your family and friends to do the same, and then you make it into a tradition.

[@lennysmileyface]

I remember seeing something about a synthetic version of photosynthesis that could produce starch 8 times more efficiently than plants. That could possibly help. Either that or we genetically modify bacteria to be more efficient somehow.

[@Meleeman011]

you gotta link? bacteria already do decent work, without us trying to modify them, big fan of biogas i am, gonna start some preliminary tests and protoypes ehre soon.

[@chrisslater4053]

Have you noticed how society/people think short term, but fail to figure the ramifications of those actions long term? It's a collective blind spot.

[@chrisslater4053]

It's also true that people take what happens now without much consideration for how much it's changed. Flying insects are mostly gone along with a few hundred million birds, and fires threaten parts of California every Summer, but like a changing dream while sleeping, it's just accepted.

[@jamesboulger8705]

After tossing out the third plastic water bottle, I did stop and go,"wait this is stupid." I don't see why the engineers couldn't see that before making millions and millions of them.

[@iamJuxen]

As a vegan, thank you for not shying away from mentioning the huge impact that animal agriculture has in the environment in this video as well as mentioning earlier before as well. Many environment groups don't even talk about meat's impact on the environment.

[@alexcarter8807]

Not a vegan here but I've given up beef and dairy, and I love beef and dairy, because that's by far the biggest change I can make in my diet to harm the planet less.

[@TheDIEfreundlichen]

Yeah you have done your thing. Now you can tell people about their bad lifestyle.

[@Tore_Lund]

@@alexcarter8807 If you are really carefull with your lifestyle choices, you can reduce your footprint by around 25% of your national average, which is excellent, but not near enough to get to a 90% reduction. In 1957, humans emittet 6 billion tonnes CO2, 1/6 of today and it was still too much. We can do something individually, but it is not enough on its own, Climate change can not only be fought by grass roots, we need serious political pressure, general strikes and boycott of whole industries.

[@StefanoDaGiau]

@@bacilluscereus1299 They will maintain it for very few decades.

[@BinaryBandit628]

@Cloo Lcoo Why do vegans have to start every fucking sentence with "As a vegan" XD do you people ever just forget to mention it or is it part of the programme? hahaha

[@babyeater2336]

7:00 that's oddly satisfying to watch the carbon go back into the factory.

[@TreespeakerOfTheLand]

I think it's because we've learned carbon emission to be a bad thing and that footage gives us hope. That's quite an anthropological perspective, but I'm finishing my Anthro course now :')

[@TheAndie130]

Thanks for this, it's nice to see that there are some ways to limit our impact on the planet. I'm making videos too, I've only just started, but I'm hoping to spread the message that there ARE things we can do to at least slow things down a bit.

[@calelsuper2725]

You might want to fact check this video . Try willie soon .

[@Gooobed]

I've been thinking if in 50 years we are on the verge of an apocalypse we can use domes with large air filtration on both sides, air so we don't die, Second use these domes to plant trees with more living quarters underground so the carbon does not Game end us, it is a stupid idea but I'm going to try to make it feesable

[@pain002]

Lol I'm getting mandalore vibes from clone wars. They also had a dome and just barren wasteland everywhere around

[@pollyb.4648]

How much carbon would we have to burn to make the domes and who will pay for the project? For billions of people...though many will die of heat etc before then. So only the rich get domes, what else is new. It's over folks sigh.

[@brianmerkosky9243]

Charge carbon tax of $100/tonne and put that money into the $93/tonne process to remove co2. The costs of emissions should be built into the products creating those emissions.

[@rokadamlje5365]

Still have to store that co2, and it costs some more than that.

[@EdmontonRails]

Don't remove the CO2, you're hurting the planet. The historical average levels of atmospheric CO2 are over 1200PPM, a level at which the earth is much healthier and greener at. We should be payed to put CO2 into the atmosphere, we are helping the planet.

[@rokadamlje5365]

1200ppm is waaay too much. 350 is likely not enough.

[@EdmontonRails]

@@rokadamlje5365 Earth has been as high as 5000-9000+ PPM CO2 in the atmosphere, 1200 is like I said a low average. Imagine a green planet with no deserts where food was many times more plentiful. That's a world with higher CO2 levels.

[@rokadamlje5365]

1000ppm means 10% less IQ as one of the things. And theres no time there werent deserts. More than 400ppm is stupid.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Complex problems do require multiple solutions. We will solve this mess. Electric vehicles and renewable energy sources will make our planet cleaner. Google said that there are about 60+ billion farm animals. Imagine the amount of farting gases. All that gas is not good for the atmosphere. The lab meat and the tasty veggie burgers might solve that issue, while providing better taste, with the development of that type of food. Also, container ships and fraking is causing more pollution than all the cars combined. The faster we switch to electric ships and vehicles, the faster this will be solved. The single use plastics will be replaced by bio-plastics. There are good solutions, if we look out for them.

[@Biden_is_demented]

Just this saturday we had the hottest day on record. In some places of the country, temps got to 46ºC, and here in Lisbon we had 44ºC. I am 44 years old, and i´ve NEVER seen anything like this before! Around the planet we had heat waves, from Sweden to Japan. Forest fires are out of control, the sky is not blue anymore, it´s grey, from all the smoke, dust, and a million gases that make the air a poisonous miasma. I doubt anything CAN be done. It´s too late. Even if you halted every single CO2 emission planet wide today, there is already too much of it in the atmosphere. Our forests are vanishing in front of our eyes. There is fuck all you can do about it now. I am thankful that i have no children, because the next generation is fucked. I might not be here to see it, but this planet has an expiration date. And it´s coming.

[@hellboy6507]

No, becoming some kind of vegan isn't going to do much by way of preventing climate change. If all livestock were eradicated, greenhouse gas emissions would only go down about 3%.

[@attiliorusso8793]

Pladimir it would be the 15% actually, greenhouse gas emissions from livestocks produce more emissions of all the trasprts toghether and they also pollute the environmet through other factors such as deforestetion making them the first cause of pullution.

[@hellboy6507]

+ Attilio Russo No, livestock does not account for 15% of GHG's. Fermentation, which is how livestock pollute, accounts for roughly half of all METHANE emissions; however, methane accounts for the aforementioned15% of all GHG's, with C02 being the primary GHG. Since they only produce half of the methane, livestock would roughly contribute around 7% of total GHG's, which is less than half of transportation GHG's, which is around 17%. Furthermore, beef cows produce almost all of this methane, with poultry and pigs producing a minuscule amount. Agriculture as a whole, including forestry, accounts for over a quarter of all GHG's. As you said, the primary issue is deforestation, just not meat producing livestock.

[@jimjiminy1929]

Wishful, naive, deluded thinking. It’s over.

[@JaNe-hq9lx]

thank you for the video and your research! the only thing I didn't like that much is the title. not knowing your other videos at first sight sounded to me like "well let's give up hope and all efforts then"... I think it's crucial to not slump into despair and hopelessness to keep up our work for change

[@impatientprocrastinator1134]

Thank you for including the meat industry in your climate change discussion! Could you please do a video on this topic for those of your viewers who are not familiar with just how much of an impact the entire global meat industry has on climate?

[@OPsClips4]

This is not true btw it was 3 years ago when we didnt have most of the technology that we have know

[@tsoiboy4073]

I’ve read several experts opinions (which make sense) saying that we need to ignore offsets. If that method works, great, but we cannot and should not rely on ‘undoing’ damage. We need an international treaty far more radical than Paris. As individuals we can do a great deal, but the tragedy of the Commons always mean there will be plenty of people who ignore their responsibilities.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

"We need an international treaty far more radical than Paris" Why? As the headline says, it is too late for that. Doom! Doom! Doom!

[@unf3z4nt]

I think undoing the damage, as impossible as it is, might be the only way to guarantee that future generations do not undo the human experiment out of blind cynical rage.

[@snuseren]

You forgot to mention keeping families small. I'm already vegan, and lost a gf because I said I did not want to put kids into this planet. But what I'm not doing is reaching out to politicians because I just dont know how to

[@davidpeppers551]

Good for you and good for the rest of us! I Thought population growth needed to go negative 40 years ago. I thought 2 kids would be upper limit for me. By the time I got married I was not sure of even one. My wife and I decided on one about 18 years ago. So we had one kid and fairly late in our life. Unfortunately, oir daughter worries a lot about the Climate Chaos and many other troubles in the world. I tell people now. Love the children you have. Don't have more. Don't have any if you haven't already. For the children's sake don't have any. Sorry about your gf. Did you guys consider adopting? Fostering?

[@davidpeppers551]

@Saksham Mishra Who is better really? Is it a person who lives a very simple life and walks, cycles, takes public transit and rarely uses a car because they do not own one, never has taken a plane anywhere and eats meat 4 to 5 times a week, or a person who is consumes somewhat below the US average, but ownes and drives two cars and takes vacations by plane at least once a year, but is vegan? I would say it is the first person. I am vegetarian and am vegan for several days on an average week. I have known vegans who live a very simple and frugal life, but others are highly consumptive and lavish. Please look at the whole picture. We don't need to eat meat. There are some things I do that maybe I don't need to do either. We should encourage anyone heading in n the right direction. We are born into systems which make a certain degree of consumption inevitable. I would not design cities or other urban areas to drive rampant consumption, but to a large degree many countries do. Good luck getting and keeping work in the United States without a car. Good luck getting into a decent school district without having a multiple income household (probably increases your need for car(s)) Good luck getting a place in that district which is not large and/or expensive. It's like setting off an ever increasing spiral of consumption.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

you deserved to loose that GF tbh. Im sure shes happier with someone who isnt such a dipshit who genuinely believes not having kids is a choice when it comes to global warming. "hurr dont have kids, you will just create more mouths to feed, how selfish of you to want to have children!" fuck off.

[@hannabeaches7005]

2021 climate change is happening now. Things are happening much quicker than most predicted So many of these older videos warned us of things happening now .

[@francisestillore2574]

@@anthonymorris5084 it takes 100 years to take seriously the climate change

[@dcyphyr]

@@anthonymorris5084 sources?

[@1everysecond511]

If there's one thing I've learned today it's that Futurama is an inaccurate portrayal of the year 3000

[@naomicugini711]

Guys... I came up with a brilliantly effective and affordable carbon capture technology.... Trees. 😑

[@lordmike9384]

Ariella Ablang thats bullshit. We are only at 400 carbon ppm and plants grow best at 1000.

[@techlab-gi1uz]

@Ariella Ablang There is no photosynthesis at 150ppm, 415 is low. Greenhouses pay for gigantic C02 generators to pump C02 into the greenhouse. They aim for 1000ppm or higher. Optimum is 1200 to 1300 for most plants. Dinosaur age had 2000 to 4000ppm. No cars trucks factories nothing. Shows what you know.

[@brookekilgore5937]

Naomi Cugini hemp is far more effective

[@Krusty-kl5ej]

techlab0293 God these people are duped and brain dead

[@harrybarnhill8029]

Trees and every other plant species, as the rain forests of the Amazon grow back (when we are gone) they will suck a massive amount of that carbon out because it's a cycle, unless our radioactive spent fuel rods meltdown and cause real devastation not just change

[@mgetommy]

I have watched all your video essays and this is my favorite one. Video essay channels have proven to be viable, and I think if you keep making well researched and easy to understand videos like this one (that are more widely appealing than atmospheric physics videos), you can find a real niche and successfully transition your channel away from vlogging. Think along the lines of wendover productions (who i'm sure is already an inspiration for you), but more sciency. I love your content! Keep up the good work, hope this feedback is useful.

[@jollyjokress3852]

I hate most that species become extinct. All because of one species that is stupid.

[@dion5804]

Not only that, but the radioactive and toxic waste we're leaving behind us plus the damages in the natural system will cost thousands of years of evolution and regeneration. IF the planet can make it after all.

[@tibofordeyn1529]

You understand how climate change works, but not at all what we should do about it.

[@DerFrischkopf]

don't sort the comments by newest. It's scary

[@jonahchampaud3136]

Really great video Simon! From a fellow grass pollen sufferer

[@lewislewis3531]

I think we all feel, deep down, that things are not great. Every time you see a crisp packet caught in a bush, a trolley in a river, a hedgehog squashed in the road. Record hot summers, wildfires, and winters lasting until May in England. Yeah. That s**t is surface level. The real damage is so much worse.

[@bansho7076]

"EMIC are similar to predicting the weather" Aren't current weather prediction models only slightly better than 50% when calculating anything beyond 10 days? And you say these are simplified?

[@Therysin]

I feel like we’d all die and people would still be saying the same things.

[@RazorM97]

Joshua Farrow the majority of human beings are incredibly uneducated,stupid,ignorant. They care all about trends.. And really popular videos on KZbin. Making fun of others that are weaker and giving up on truly important things,just ignoring them

[@greg20067]

when 1 percent of people die from climate change i will be sure to vote for alexandria ocasio-cortez as supreme leader of the earth and let her make all the decisons but consiering scientist have predicted our doom in the past 100 years because of global warming to global cooling to global warming and now just climate change i dont think it is happening in the next decade or ever

[@leddan6891]

greg20067 the dude in this video says that emissions will peak in 2026, then decrease. We are okay. But dont give up yet.

[@razor3106]

Why don't you lead by example and get off your fossil fuel powered phone? Maybe someone would take you serious.

[@webaazul2500]

@@greg20067 Just because a fucking lunatic like her talks about climate change doesn't mean it's an autoritarian communist talk point. It's exactly like Richard Nixon, just because he was discovered entangled in a web of corruption doesn't mean all Republicans are corrupt. Climate change is just like any other thing that can create a potencial profit, if you search hard enough you WILL find someone who manipulates things to favour themselves, you WILL find someone who scams people. But believe what you want, in the end only time will tell who is right, and I really hope I'm wrong, because if not then my future doesn't look bright.

[@meh23p]

Of course it’s irreversible. We’ve talked for years now about it mitigate it, not prevent it. Isn’t this obvious?

[@Blittsplitt5]

Might want to work on your grammar before you get mad about how climate policy has been implemented in the past...

[@jshroud]

G.P are watching!!🚨🚨🚔🚔

[@martinvysny6514]

Let's tax CO2 emitters heavily, making them pay to for the CO2 removal. Today, it's free to pollute. It can't stay like this.

[@razor3106]

Then get of the damn iphone, hypocrite.

[@error3054]

Better yet Eliminate humans entirely problem solved. Nature always finds a way after all but it just so happens humans still in the way of nature. We all need to die every last one of us💀💀💀

[@razor3106]

@@error3054 Or instead of hypocritically wanting humans to die for their carbon footprints, you can try getting off your damn fossil fuel powered smartphone for a change.

[@error3054]

@@razor3106 lol triggered you are. The planet would be better off without us on it. that's really all I am saying so get triggered all you want because I don't give a damn. 😒 Oh and you can go back to your safe place 😉 I am expressing my free speech.

[@error3054]

And @@razor3106 phones don't use fossil fuel they use electricity 😎

[@hydrolito]

Trees absorb carbon and come from tiny seeds so if they planted trees in locations less likely to have forest fires they could absorb more of the carb.

[@mat7can106]

A tree needs to grow for like 20 years before being really effective

[@thomasmaughan4798]

"if they planted trees in locations less likely to have forest fires" That would be places that have no trees, such as the Mojave desert. You might wait a long time for such trees to sprout.

[@morteza1024]

Trees are not enough and not the cheapest option.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

@@morteza1024 "Trees are not enough and not the cheapest option." I cannot imagine what is cheaper than planting a seed.

[@morteza1024]

@@thomasmaughan4798 Cost of different technologies: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ66oXl5n81jfM0

[@paulmoulton7248]

I quite agree with your point that the effects will last for thousands of years, but what is the actual difference between 410 ppm and 330 ppm? Are people truly suffering from that 80 ppm difference? Is there any significant difference that is obviously negative?

[@Marrianno]

Sorry for my english and limited vocabulary(its not my first language) t's not a big difference in short run, but the problem is that Earth STILL keeps consuming energy from sun and because of that the planet will continue to get hotter and hotter. Earth will not sudenly lose all its gained energy

[@paulmoulton7248]

@@Marrianno I get your point but still disagree There is no perfect balance. the earth was 1000ppm and higher far in the past. We were actually in a CO2 poverty state causing plants to struggle.

[@Meleeman011]

@@paulmoulton7248 i think its our soil management practices that are the real problem, we need that carbon in the air back into the soil, real black gold is black soil, you plant your plants in that, and give them water you are good. soil is a living thing too and we treat it like its not, granted i'm guilty of such mistakes as i used to plow, and now i find leaf mulches and compost to make up for my mistake. i don't doubt your claims of CO2 in the past but also consider the climate and our crop failures and rising rates of drought. these problems while not unsolvable aren't helped by our emissions, more energy in the atmosphere means more storms, and we're losing biological diversity as a result, regardless of emissions we need to manage our impact and be good stewards of our earth

[@yoyoyogames9527]

Before i even watch this video, all I need to say is stop trying to improve the fix and start trying to stop the cause

[@IsleOfFeldspar]

Incomplete article unless it includes the feedback elements of ‘perma’ frost and methane hydrates.

[@billkallas1762]

The tipping point was 40 years ago.

[@rogerheuckeroth7456]

Well regardless of climate change inevitability and irreversibility we have to get off of fossil fuels in the long term anyway. Its just not sustainable, and besides the fact that fossil fuels are non-renewable, they have so many other proven ill health effects. Look at any major city, especially those in China, and you can see how public health suffers. All the people that have commented on this video to say that climate change is not happening, or is part of the natural cycle of the earth need to keep that in mind. Sustainable energy and consumption is an absolute necessity, if we want to continue living the way we do on this planet, so don't stand in the way of the people working on that effort.

[@Blittsplitt5]

Exactly

[@annoloki]

It's never too early to stop making things worse, and it's always too early to predict a limit to what we could solve once we actually start to try... there's a lot of us, and as things rapidly get worse, the level of motivation for people to devote their lives to finding solutions will increase. In time? We'll have to see, we can only make predictions based on if things continue to progress as they currently are.

[@Wodz30]

You have no grasp on the actual scale of what is happening. Imagine that we are in a tiny shed that is on fire and you are focusing on trying to put out a localized fire near a bed, while the entire shed is on fire. Meanwhile it turns out that our shed is sat in the middle of a National Park engulfed in a massive firestorm that will wipe everything out. We need not "make predictions" when very simple A+B arithmetic is front of your face. Our shed is going to burn to the ground with us inside of it, the entire National Park is going to burn to the ground. No action you take is going to prevent that reality from happening.

[@124085]

@@Wodz30 A defeatist attitude isn't conducive to change or discussion. Unless you're proposing we form a suicide pact right now, we need to prepare for the coming storm and do our best to equip future generations for the challenges ahead. Even if we can't reverse the damage that doesn't mean we shouldn't make the effort. Worst case scenario: We end up improving our society for nothing

[@ELEMENTJ21]

@@124085 Defeatist attitude? You're not paying attention at all. Don't you get it? Wodz30 already nailed it nicely about the situation. And what about you? Are you 100% sure that your lifestyle does not contribute to this mess at all? Wanna know a great example of Wodz30's analogy? Come here in Southeast Asia. And behold the thousands of acres of forest being burned every year for the sake of Palm Oil plantation. It's so bad that those living in Malaysia (east and west), Indonesia, Singapore, and southern parts of Thailand, have grown used to expecting trans-boundary Haze every year, which bring about stifling heatwaves during the warmest months of the year. No amount of lobbying can stop it because it's too big to fail! Oh yes many have tried to no avail. Go ahead and check your household items. Do you own products by Nestle, P&G, Johnson&Johnson, etc? Guess what, these companies are beneficiaries of the palm oil industry. As long as you brush your teeth with grocery bought toothpaste, wash your hair with Shampoo, buy snacks or any food containing oil, you're definitely part of the demand that encourages the supply. Don't even get me started with companies producing tech items that allow us to have this conversation on the internet. Don't you see? Even if you manage to get a large number of people in your place to do something, on the other side of the planet, there's a unified effort to render all your hard work futile on a scale of a 100 times over! And what about the Oil and Gas industry? You think they wanna stop digging and switch to cleaner fuel? hah! And those people filling the seats of governments and the UN? fat chance! All they do is talk and produce tons of paperwork for endless summits and conferences. At the end of it all, everyone goes home while they drive their petrol cars, consume products made by palm oil companies, checking wishlists on Amazon, etc. Oh how about let's accelerate our scientific endeavors and push revolutionary energy technology or colonizing other planets? Oh wait. Sorry, there's no budget for that. Because developing weapons and researching new ways to kill each other is far more important. We also need to divert focus towards identity politics, religion, trade wars, etc. There is nothing defeatist about it at all. It's called REALITY!

[@ecrin7065]

basta patay na tayong lahat

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

It’s irreversible, but we can still work to keep the damage as minimal as possible.

[@trafficjon400]

OK LETS START

[@menameboblolbro2472]

@@trafficjon400 sorry I'm not the president the best I can do is plant a tree but I don't have any seeds

[@spackle9999]

We could, but won't.

[@brandonvelde5774]

Heck, we might even be able to adapt to it.

[@ravenken]

We should have been having this conversation about 30 years ago. Now, we have permafrost collapse. We don't have the means to fight that back. I am with you regarding trying to limit our damage but we are fighting Murdoch and money - i.e. greed. Good luck.

[@QT5656]

Exactly, have you listened to the podcast Drilled by Amy Westervelt?

[@Bobo-ox7fj]

We were, but it was all about how we were going to freeze to death. But the long-term trends changed, so all of a sudden we were about to broil. And so on and so forth.

[@emilioschepis]

Extremely interesting (and worrying), thanks for the video Simon!

[@08wolfeyes]

It's clear then that it's not our ability to be able to reverse the problem but money. As humans, we can do so much yet money holds us back rather than really progressing us in ways we really could, in ways that would make huge differences and make a better life for everyone.

[@user-yn9mp4bt3q]

The root

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

How would human civilization work without money or some other mode of exchanging value for effort?

[@raton5936]

@@TheNightWatcher1385 by working together as a race.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

CVRSED死 It’s a nice sentiment, but we need specifics. Every human culture is built around exchange. Even tribal ones. The concept that value must be exchanged in return for something else of value is ingrained in our very DNA. It’s a behavior that’s even found in lower order primates.

[@rglongr]

Well Simon,here we are three years later. How are we doing? Looks like we broke something. What to do? Prepare for impact!

[@davesmith3884]

I am not a Nuclear fan but the Nuclear power plant does do not give off C02 that was steam coming out of the top of them in a cold climate.

[@timpearson3932]

4. Support expanding nuclear energy.

[@kenhasibar2624]

That's what the people near Fukushima say too. But they're also idiots.

[@timpearson3932]

@@kenhasibar2624 Dr James Hansen, and 70 of the world's leading climate scientists support expanding nuclear energy to stop climate change. Why are they wrong and you are right?

[@kenhasibar2624]

Because nuclear energy is far too dirty and dangerous. They won't even be able to get into Fukushima to start cleaning for another 30+ years. Meanwhile, it's dumping thousands of tons of radioactive water into the Pacific, affecting wildlife and the food chain. Look into the loss of sea life in the ocean - fishermen are claiming they don't see any life out there anymore. Catches are scarily down, almost to nothing. Do you know what "half life" refers to in terms of radioactivity? It's scary shit. And it's sad that in our technological "advancements," we've managed to begin the destruction of all life on Earth. I have a 16 year-old daughter; I am scared of the world she is going to have to live through. That's why I'm correct, and they are wrong.

[@brendanbullock2892]

Ken Hasibar nuclear fusion is an ideal solution to most problems onset by nuclear fission. It produces a great amount of energy that is also safe. And because of fusion, the radioactive problem that occurs in fission doesn’t happen. I don’t believe it’s something to rely fully on, but it would help a lot to reduce the radioactive waste and the greenhouse gases that are released. I don’t think it’s the best mindset to completely turn away from newer technologies, but that is only my take. I’d look into nuclear fusion if I were you just to know as much as you can.

[@PennyAfNorberg]

Maybe try to build automated ccs things drivven on solar/wind, feasable? I know very many are needed. And i think we need to clean up energy production now and countries that are there need to find methods to clean other proceses or help other countries to reach clean energy. I'd love some gen iv wastebreeder btw.

[@strawberrydonkey5576]

I use a board so I guess that’s good I’m doing my very small part

[@apuuvah]

True. A typical case of "a day late, a dollar short". Now we gotta deal with it.

[@anenvisionedtheoryofeveryt9553]

Nice video Simon. we need to work creatively so that we can save the future.

[@GabieRetana]

Awesome video Simon! Sadly I keep making the mistake of reading the comment section, yikes.

[@savagefist1029]

I was a climate skeptic and this video changed my mind more than any propaganda pushed by government, media, etc. And no, the video does not deny humans are causing accelerating global warming but that the government's need to stay in power by irresponsibly fighting climate change via geoengineering is making it worse than telling us the real truth. Dane Wigington wants to reach across both aisles(believers and deniers) so we can be made aware of the real truth and at least have a chance of staving off a mass extinction. I really hope someone much smarter than me watches this and would love to hear their feedback because I want to know what I can do as soon as possible. kzbin.info/www/bejne/inXZfXaGmp2pn7c

[@crystalgiddens7276]

Savage Fist you mean you were an idiot and you are still an idiot. your mind is the same as it ever was.

[@curiousone4757]

I make the mistake of commenting

[@lucasjames7524]

The single most powerful thing each individual can do to limit their overall climate impact is to choose to NOT HAVE CHILDREN, or to have only one child. We can and should make lifestyle changes, but those are a drop in the bucket compared to reducing the size of the next generation overall, because a total lifetime of emissions is far more than whatever one person can do within their own lifetime. But everyone seems to be afraid to get to the root of the problem, which is that we have to multiply out resources and energy by the total number of people on the planet. 7.8+ billion is nearly seven billion too many.

[@aluisious]

"$3T a year isn't possible." The USA alone just threw out an extra $2T to make rich people happy during COVID. It's absolutely possible and completely necessary.

[@dropyourself]

idk about that 2 trillion number but the spent more than that on war in the past decade so the point still stand

[@milkbread9616]

An ad for saving plastic popped up before the video started lol

[@kundavanriel6142]

plant more green. they green just loves co2

[@spaaps]

Kunda Van Riel Well said mate

[@Rainier214]

Especially trees, and if you can, bamboo. Bamboo actually sucks in more CO2 than trees (or maybe it was just a lot faster?) but trees are still very good.

[@aspiringscientificjournali1505]

The issue is it requires alot

[@pain002]

@@aspiringscientificjournali1505 that.

[@aspiringscientificjournali1505]

@@Rainier214 Have you calculated the mass of trees needed?

[@wavyiann9788]

Coronavirus: hold my beer

[@johnziggykelleher4871]

All economies are planning on growth. How can Co2 peak in 2026?

[@aletheiaarts1664]

I wonder what our technology will be like in the next year! :)

[@tmaka2354]

Oh god this hasn’t aged well

[@narke2667]

Here 3 years later and we just got better computers so we care less about reality each day.

[@steevesdd]

Very bad news. Review , Regenerative soil methods. It is a very low tech, low cost option that removes carbon from the air and stores it in the soil. As a bonus it makes the soil more fertile and productive for farming without many inputs that farms now use. Reference , no till fields, Alan Savory work on animal grazing , or the work by China to reforest deserts. Investing in water desalination plants near deserts and pumping the water to areas that turn deserts into productive land. The cost would be high but would be offset by the value of the productive land created.

[@wobblybobengland]

we make charcoal and stick it in the ground?

[@josephfigliuolo7286]

Drew Steeves Yes, renewable energy powered water desalination to green deserts and raise living standards for impoverished areas.

[@pain002]

If you compare the costs relating to the natural catastrophic events leading up due to climate change, building 2 death stars would be less expensive. I wish I was kidding. You know how expensive Hiroshima was? Imagine 1 country submerging completely under water. Now imagine 19 countries all fucked up in some way related to floods. Yeah.

[@EhHandleNow]

The bad news: this video is 5 years old and the "Titanic Earth" is still sinking, now faster than ever.

[@burtstineman449]

Well sounds like we’re screwed, no sense in changing anything

[@dialecticalveganegoist1721]

How about we exhale less time per minute so we release less CO2?

[@brodymcculloch4576]

Vegan Egoist breaths are carbon neutral

[@trixter21992251]

You missed an opportunity to quote Busted "I went to the year 3000, not much has changed but they live underwater"

[@hondyno3869]

This came out last year on my bday I was so scared

[@capturesexpress]

We always talk about the damage to the planet but what we are really talking about is the damage to ourselves and other living things. The planet is neither damaged or undamaged, merely changed. Nature is the ultimate driver and human nature is at its mercy.

[@peppi0304]

To sum up: Reduce the emissions ASAP then learn to extract it big scale.

[@curiousone4757]

Absolutely no emissions

[@DareToRS]

This is a fantastically well-made video, Simon! If this video is at all representative of the kind of informative content you hope to upload once you have "really-really" finished your Ph.D., I can't wait! The way you present and articulate upon the topic brought to mind the cinematic style of CGP Grey, especially as he used in his "Humans Need Not Apply" video. Brilliant work!

[@Beetle57]

we only have 10 years to fix it

[@lamarsmith5971]

The narrator is obviously a comedian saying that humans will be around in the year 3000. Lol, good one.

[@hendrycaven]

Your voice sounds so adult now! What changed Simon?

[@SmithdoesMinecraft]

grass pollen

[@TreespeakerOfTheLand]

TheAxolotl I think it's a reference to Simon's video Becoming an Adult

[@estontin123]

He must have broken his vegan diet. 😂

[@YTEdy]

Puberty. ;-)

[@pythonjava6228]

Ideal situation: we massively stop emitting carbon and remove it from the atmosphere. But that would only happen if the government wasn't swayed by billionaire fossil fuel companies. Which it is

[@blahblah2062]

Do not remove CO2 its the basis of life and used in hospitals and food growing . You would be dead without it.

[@stevenlonien7857]

Einstine flatout told us that equal and opposite reactions produce the speed of light wooble then infinite values, that elimnates oil nukes gas hells of says to boil waters ! when using just wind and magnetic bearings that are being held back to sell lots more oil coal uranium ect,

[@stevenlonien7857]

Fact that our leaders got elected by greasing therefore owe their oil gas nukes dude's. Hey i quit smoking by not preparing, just dont buy it, ride bike, walk fish whatever, and better,

[@stevenlonien7857]

Flawed capitalizm GE/us. Triple meltdowns are still Unaccounted accumulating numbers unknown?.ozone damage from spacecraft accumalation duration, ,????

[@benlopez643]

You gave me hope

[@michaelstuart7]

Atleast im gonna be dead before shit really hits the fan

[@RitikGupta]

Me too.

[@atavism-dream]

Making minor, individual lifestyle adjustments like adopting a vegan diet or buying electric cars is WORSE than doing nothing at all. It gives people complacency and hope in non-solutions.

[@ramondias3037]

Those "minors and individual changes" are also endorsed by the media, that's why people feel so hopeful about the future, mainly because they are doing something too. But action in reality is the antidote to despair, it's not solving or fixing anything at the end of the day.

[@mikeharrington5593]

Can't stop it, so gotta try harder to slow it down.

[@Thatguy01984]

Oh man, this makes me want to go burn a pile of tires and drive my big block truck around a baby seal nursery with the catalytic converters cut off.

[@kx7500]

Cope

[@googleuser868]

Where's a baby seal nursery? Been there done that on the rest.

[@LaVerita09]

climate models from fancy software computer models have been ssuuuppeerr accurate.... you know because the world ended like 3 times already according to the models.

[@praggypopsqa4652]

I came to this conclusion several years ago, but damn, I don't want to make things worse. I have reduced everything. I avoid plastic as much as possible, too. It's also from fossil fuels. I look for products made of anything but plastic. I don't own a car. I pay a neighbor to drive me when I need. That's all I can do. I'm poor.

[@rogerstarkey5390]

Small things help. If I go to my local takeaway for a treat(!) I take a plastic container for the food. One less polystyrene box in landfill. I take my own bag. If every customer at that shop did the same, even for 100 customers each night (it's more!), that's 35,000 each year from one shop.

[@desertnurse8513]

Thank you! U neede a good chuckle this morning... Hopium at it's finest...

[@markcampbell7577]

The other aspect missing is water removal of carbon dioxide reacts with water to form carbolic acid. Ocean and plants. Right?

[@moondog7694]

Don't you mean carbonic?

[@MrRooibos123]

Looks like we're going to get game ended.

[@sciencemodelaboratory7298]

i have to stop making rockets.

[@Encephalitisify]

It is possible, it is not possible using the same capitalistic system the made it happen in the first place. See the conundrum there?

[@Z.O.M.G]

So were fucked

[@havenbastion]

We can't reverse the changes that are already occurring but we can create changes in opposition to them easily enough, relatively speaking.

[@jackxiao9702]

Carbon Capture should be a Manhattan project.