Climate Change: Why Facts Don't Matter

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How are we still debating climate change?
The popularity of climate change denial is perplexing when you consider the fact that scientists are pretty much unanimous that man-made pollution is causing it. So how does the debate rage on in the highest levels of media and government? The story isn’t pretty, but we’ll explain in this video: How Climate Change Denial Won.
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[@WisecrackEDU]

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You guys are great🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@jessetorres8738]

You can't take your money with you when you die, yet many wealthy people & corporations don't mind leaving behind a less habitable planet for the rest of us later just so they can make a little more money now.

[@trevorjonathan4405]

2cor0na2cor0na The plan to go from #LDowns to #15MinuteCities

[@endershepard7117]

The world’s 🌎 ecosystem (Circle of Life) was perfect until imperfection was placed into it. That imperfection is us. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us This is a very well made video essay from you guys but I didn’t hear what we could do to properly address and counter climate change at all?!

[@joesjoeys]

This video helped me realize the power of the GOP and right wing "news". They are doubt and "commentary" based, knowing the average person 1)Isnt going to do all the research needed to find out if their talking points are actual and legitimate ones, and 2)Generally not well informed about the workings of the world, our government, and the goings on beyond their personal life bubble. If you give JUST ENOUGH real information then do a Tucker Carlson and go "Do YOU think that ABC would XYZ? I know I dont!" leaving relatively uninformed people to nod their heads and go "Yeah!", and for that root of doubt to take hold without them even realizing it. Insidious.

[@missnoneofyourbusiness]

Slightly untelated vent: I already live in a very polluted and crowded city so I don't get to see the stars often. I was watching the moon on my window about three days ago because it was really bright and beautiful and enter this friggin Subways flying ad with drones. The thing lasted about five minutes and it wasn't even visually appealing. It was five minutes of green yellow and white flashing drones spelling "FREE FOOTLONG...AUGUST 31ST...SUBWAYS...". It made me boil with rage to know that it probably won't be the last. You can't even look at the friggin sky anymore.

[@rooky102]

where do you live? that's bladerunner levels of dystopian

[@missnoneofyourbusiness]

​@@rooky102Mexico City

[@TheRubendjc]

It shows how we want to polute everything as an humanity. But the sad thing. Is that normal humans have their lives being invaded. Even the f*cking sky isnt neutral anymore

[@ChineduOpara]

​@@missnoneofyourbusinessThat makes sense...

[@Amanda-C.]

​@@missnoneofyourbusinessOh, wow. Not to be too harsh, but cyberpunk dystopia sounds pretty fitting for Mexico City to me. It's the juxtaposition of touristy/gentrified areas and actual shantytowns.

[@MoltenPlastic]

Never forget that the richest truly believe they'll be able to guard themselves against global warming. That we'll be the ones to suffer and die. And the worst part is they're right.

[@robgeach8105]

there's no guarding against global warming. why are you acting like 99% of the globe is going to pick civility over their own life?

[@Tacom4ster]

I don't think so, billionaires would always be targeted and hated during Mad Max time. All of remaining humanity will drag Gates, Bezos, and Musk from their bunkers, and be executed

[@ryanlillie8469]

Until we get so sick and hungry we eat them. Ain't no security force able to stop the masses when we all work together. The saddest part is that we won't do that until we're desperate. Might say a lot more about the human condition...

[@IrishSnwbrdr]

the worst part is they’re wrong! they can’t survive without society. being rich categorically requires a properly functioning system to draw on wealth from. they won’t survive either and yet they’re dooming us all

[@johnsmith8981]

Yeah I was looking into places to move to have a better life after the effects of climate change but then I realize that if I'm doing this the rich people are definitely doing this and I'll be priced out of those areas anyway 🥲

[@undrwatropium3724]

Let's look at the conservative playbook: 1. That didn't happen. 2. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. 3. And if it was, that's not a big deal. 4. And if it is, that's not my fault. 5. And if it was, I didn't mean it. 6. And if I did, you deserved it.

[@Frogbaseball289]

I learned this as the narcissists prayer

[@Lew114]

Human stupidity has no apparent limits. Our entire species is on the brink of winning a literal Darwin Award.

[@user-ze5fi7he5b]

It won't be climate change that gets us. It will be our own stupid actions against this non-threat.

[@dan_goodman]

There's a lot more to our climate problem than stupidity, alot of it has to do how our economic systems are built in a way that incentivizes short term gains and punishes long term thinking. Add greed to that mix and you got a recipe for maximizing profits and not giving a shit about what happens to other people or the planet.

[@Frizzleman]

This is not a collective human problem. This is a western problem namely America and Europe. Africans and asians and Latin Americans are simply not responsible for this crisis.

[@Lew114]

@@Frizzleman China, an Asian country, is the world’s biggest carbon dioxide emitter. It’s a collective human problem. It affects all of humanity. Wealthier nations have a moral obligation to carry most of the burden though.

[@Frizzleman]

@@Lew114 even though China is the largest producer they have not been producing for nearly as long as somewhere like UK of America. Additionally China is one of the only industrialized nations set to meet their climate goals and actually reverse some of their negative impacts on the climate. I understand the urge to put it all on “humanity” but it’s simply not true and is a dangerous ideology. Even the citizens of China are not as responsible for climate change as the citizens of the US are. There needs to be a material analysis that considers the span of industrial history not just the last 70 years. Wealthy nations don’t Jakey have an obligation or responsibility to fix this it’s a matter of life and death. The global north is the only group of nations with the power to actually fix things so if they choose not to they aren’t just abandoning their responsibilities but damning billions of innocents to avoidable death and suffering. Even if the people of the Philippines or Uganda or Uruguay wanted to solve the climate crisis (which they do) they couldn’t because they have no power compared to a global empire like the US or UK.

[@josephbelisle5792]

Thank you for including the 'blame the people' conspiracies by corporations. Well done video.

[@damianalejandro6959]

But then she goes on to say the people need to change their lifestyle in radical ways . So what is it, personal carbon footprint matters or not?

[@happytwolaffs6454]

@@damianalejandro6959I like turtles

[@coltonruscheinsky7863]

@@damianalejandro6959 She's saying what everyone says: Corporations are the worst offenders but we all have to do our part. And you know what? It's the truth. Look at us. Think about when you do your laundry. All the fresh water your washing machine. And then imagine everyone in your city washing their clothes, and then your state, region, country, continent and hemisphere. Of course we all need to make a change. No one needs this much entertainment, this much electricity, this much gasoline.

[@secularmonk5176]

​@@coltonruscheinsky7863 Soooo ... personal austerity is downstream of dismantling corporations by government fiat?

[@Globovoyeur]

@secularmonk5176 No one's talking about dismantling corporations -- except the corporations themselves, as a scare tactic. But we might get the government to stop paying billions in subsidies to the most profitable industry on the planet: the oil industry.

[@dragoon1090]

The fact that humans are choosing money over the planet they live on just shows that we're too stupid to survive. We can't even stop arguing over skin color.

[@skyisreallyhigh3333]

You're really only talking about a small percentage of humans

[@abandonedfragmentofhope5415]

@@skyisreallyhigh3333It’s not a small number.

[@bossmedia4028]

The fact humans are gullible simps like you is the biggest plague on the planet

[@lamiagumbo]

​@@skyisreallyhigh3333its enough that we aren't wising up and taking climate as seriously as we need to not to seriously screw ourselves and our kids

[@Gordon_Freeman_PhD]

​@@abandonedfragmentofhope5415 It is a small number of people, like 1%, maybe even less, who perpetuate the system for their benefit. Even if a good portion of the other 99% still buys into their crap, that whole 99% has next to absolutely no say in how any of this goes.

[@stufromoz8164]

It seems like governments can just....manufacture consent on any issue they choose, by encouraging the least educated in our society simply by filling them with misinformation.

[@HarryBalzak]

Yup.

[@funveeable]

Yeah, the most educated are college liberals with a degree yet can't pay off their student loans even though they make more money than those without degrees. I will never listen to someone who intentionally puts themselves in debt and whines for help.

[@reed6514]

Also, city design, systematic destruction of public transit, planned obsolescence, advertising.

[@yt_Ajay_]

It's difficult to overstate what a disaster Ronald Reagan has been for the world..

[@wmeuse2375]

In all the ways you can think of

[@RickReasonnz]

Never forget his partner in crime across the pond. Thatcher or Reagan alone was bad enough for the world, but together they fostered in this neo liberal circle jerk that has ravaged us.

[@RustOnWheels]

True Satan.

[@Morning404]

Disaster is the correct word. Him and Margaret Thatcher destroyed any chance of hope. I hate them.

[@Metalmonkey80]

Capitalism

[@keronian5]

Fun fact: the greenhouse effect was actually modeled earlier in 1859 by a woman named Eunice Newton Foote.

[@Crispr_CAS9]

1856

[@aaronh6734]

Came here for this.

[@melusine826]

Ditto

[@Norom55]

😊

[@GaryCahn-gb4lp]

Check out Fourier's work in 1824.

[@andreyiu]

And you wonder why super villains try to wipe out humanity 🤔

[@jackraymond5319]

It’s really starting to feel like there’s nothing we can do and we’re just screwed

[@anthonymorris5084]

Are you aware that data proves that humanity has never been safer, healthier or more prosperous than at any time in history? Nobody is screwed.

[@CactusCowboyDan]

⁠@@anthonymorris5084That’s denialism right there.

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@CactusCowboyDan My friend that is not an argument and it is you that is in denial because my statement is backed by evidence. Evidence that is easily accessed from authoritative sites. You simply willfully ignore any data you don't like. That's flagrant denial. Whatever metric you care to examine, it's all improved right across the entire globe. Access to electricity, access to education, access to clean water, access to health care, university graduates, literacy rates, emancipation of women, opportunity, GDP growth, poverty reduction, agricultural production, sources of energy, standards of living, quality of life, leisure time, mobility and transportation, communication, available information, technological advancements, disease eradication, life expectancy, nutrition, crime, war, sanitation, recycling and more, all improving. How do you reconcile this?

[@nagamata]

It blows my mind that the best our congress can do is to essentially let the market decide if the earth should hurdle faster down the chute.

[@northwestpsychfest7329]

that's neoliberalism in a nutshell; markets drive policy.

[@xczechr]

*hurtle

[@oerthling]

They wouldn't be able to do this if so many voters wouldn't be willing to get bamboozled and then vote for the wrong candidates.

[@ElyonDominus]

Capitalism all the way down (the drain) baby.

[@J-manli]

If they an charge for air they would.

[@Nunavuter1]

I live in Canada. Everything at the supermarket is wrapped in plastic packaging. But plastic shopping bags are now banned. So, all the corporate producers of waste materials can just continue as always. But if I carry two bags of groceries home in plastic bags, that will destroy the planet. I have to drink from a cardboard straw, but oil companies still receive billions in subsidies. People have to sort their waste into bins for pickup, but there is no requirement for the companies that produced the waste to buy back the materials that pile up at municipal recycling depots.

[@jimthain8777]

Actually they are beginning to buy back materials. Not because they actually care, but because recycled materials are actually cheaper than new, and save them money. Think of it as corporate thrifting.

[@David-ng7cr]

As a Canadian I fully agree. At least I used the bags over and over and for other purposes. Seeing plastic wrap on everything and being thrown away is sad

[@lucasperez2882]

They should penalize the companies that produce waste for the littering. We were all raised to believe that we should be conscious of our actions and not litter, but really they shouldn’t produce products that cause harm to the ecosystem without having a plan to recycle it in their product design 🧐

[@cameronoswald4796]

The largest contributor to climate change is the sun. This is a fact. Science has also shown that earth has been ice free many times well before human activity. We should as a society work on clean tech that does not pollute our environment with industrial chemical byproduct, C02 is not pollution.

[@alanhat5252]

@@David-ng7cr plastic wrapping on everything is tamper proofing & it started in England with a policeman who was caught putting broken glass in baby food. Since it was introduced packagers have discovered they can put in a protective atmosphere to extend the shelf life of some goods.

[@tonykelpie]

The individual responsibility issue is more complex and also more important than suggested here. Governments pursue poor policies because voters allow them to. Individual responsibility is most important in the ballot box, but also features in almost every decision we make .

[@logans3365]

Do you really think that our votes men’s anything? The only way we the people could get things done at this point is through revolution. Our government is 100% owned and operated by corporations, and they in turn act only in corporate interests

[@matthewgagnon9426]

If these people love CO2 so much then how come they don't lock themselves in a room where the only gas in there is carbon dioxide?

[@antred11]

Doesn't even have to be CO2. One of the most frequent arguments I hear from climate change deniers is "plants need CO2, therefore more CO2 == moar better"! We know that we need O2, so going by their logic, more O2 should be better, without any room for nuance, right? Have them breathe 100% pure oxygen for a few minutes and see how it turns out for them.

[@hyzercreek]

@@antred11 That's the stvpidest argument I ever heard. Plants grow much better in higher CO2, and spelling it "moar better" doesn't change that. Who are you mocking, anyway?

[@antred11]

@@hyzercreek Plants do grow better with more CO2, though there are studies suggesting that their "quality" (fruit, wood, etc.) suffers. At any rate, I bet that, like with everything else, the plants-grow-better line stops being true at a certain max. CO2 concentration. Lastly, did you seriously not understand the point of the analogy? People spouting the CO2-is-plant-food line pretend that this would be the only effect of rising CO2 levels when we already know this to be wrong, to the point where many of those other factors will even negate that positive outcome for plants.

[@hyzercreek]

@@antred11 There are "studies" showing that garbage? Plants evolved when the CO2 levels were 10 times higher than they are currently in the Holocene, which is the lowest level in the history of the earth. They certainly don't suffer when greenhouse owners raise the CO2 level to 1000 ppm every morning. Your "studies," which you don't cite, are obviously rubbish. And I failed to address your analogy about the humans breathing oxygen because it's brainless rubbish

[@hyzercreek]

@@antred11 Since youtube won't allow me to post links, just google this: Phanerozoic CO2 levels, and click "graphs", and learn a thing or two. I am 10 levels above your understanding, and talking to you is like educating a child. Do this and learn.

[@tennicksalvarez9079]

It's not about why facts don't matter but also why good arguments don't matter

[@AndrewMellor-darkphoton]

Yep

[@lllULTIMATEMASTERlll]

The older I get the more I believe that human beings are hard-wired to be incorrect and hold onto these incorrect beliefs.

[@CR0SSJ]

Just the loudest person wins.... Feels horrible.

[@destinal_in_reality]

To climate activists, all the arguments about why we need to use more fossil fuels, not less, don't matter either. Because they have their own ideology and nothing can ever change them.

[@user-th1pv6ks5o]

​@@destinal_in_realityNope the 99.99% of scientific census of scientists and the fact we have renewable alternatives can't change the facts of why we shouldn't do that.

[@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield]

That was her saddest sign off ever. Someone please give Helen a hug. 😢

[@SinHurr]

I'd give her more than a hug. I have caramel candies.

[@C4lmaria]

Someone give ecologists a hug This is their everyday

[@MissDanaSophia]

the hug tracking number says it will get there next week

[@yautl1]

We all need a fuckin hug at this point

[@TCt83067695]

Hugs. Smdh Ridiculous 🙄 There are ppl like Marianne Williamson and Cornel West running to change the trajectory of the country and hopefully world. But we would never know that since video essayist can't put as much effort into researching a call to action as they do investigating what happened in 1800s. I mean really? 1800s? Biden right now is giving more permits for drilling than even Trump. Where's her video on that?

[@joseenoel8093]

I'm a chick forest technician from Quebec and left my career over the gouvs lack of proper forest management, our hope lies with future generations, those who can survive!

[@alwynwatson6119]

And that’s more of us than you think. Sustainable development is something that governments have been damming up for decades and it’s only a matter of time before that damn breaks.

[@pin65371]

That is the biggest issues with the fires in Canada. We are like 40% forest and if that isnt managed then we get fires. It is an impossible task to manage all of our forests though. We would need more than the population of Canada just working on that.

[@patbrennan6572]

The good news is that the deniers will suffer an die too, so there's a silver lining behind every cloud.

[@Otek_Nr.3]

But I don't want the deniers to suffer either. Being misinformed by a hugely influential, rich and powerful industry shouldn't be a death-sentence.

[@cassie668]

Everytime I hear about something horrifically bad or f’ed in the world or country, it’s ALWAYS REAGAN. 😂 He decided he couldn’t make it better, but he could most definitely make everything worse.

[@Freiya-]

He's why we don't have any particle physics research.

[@QuantaBee]

@@Freiya- He's also why we still have nitrites in processed meats (the stuff that causes cancer). Reagan was a blight.

[@margaretwordnerd5210]

I remember Reagan's Secretary of the Interior saying we didn't need to worry about environmental issues because within 2 decades Jesus would come fix it all. Which Christians have given for many centuries as a reason to not consider the risks of long term consequences. 🖖✌n b

[@roberthornack1692]

He's also why we still have nukes, because he couldn't give up on his star wars fantasies. But in all fairness he was just another puppet of the war machine!

[@connork9745]

​@@roberthornack1692 That's a good thing though To explain other countries than the United States have nukes and the capability to hit the U.S with nukes so getting rid of our nukes is a tactical blunder of the largest scale imaginable with no benefits and only downsides Nukes are the greatest deterrent to war because you'd have to be M.A.D to start one when both sides have them. M.A.D stands for Mutually Assured Destruction and it is exactly what it means No I do not like the actually bad decisions of which there have been many.

[@rogerreger9631]

I’m sure when the economy starts taking hits due to the more hellish destructive climate. And people start dying due to not having basic necessities like clean water or food, because of drought and crop damage. That’s when everyone starts to enacting changes. That’s how we usually handle crises is when it’s to late and we just pick up what’s left of a disaster and the damage is done.

[@Anonymoose66G]

It's already happening, it's already happened... We're making strives for decarbonization, it's not like nobody cares or were not doing anything. It's just slower than it should be.

[@Nathan-gn3ls]

Doubt it, that's when the 1% pull up their ladders and watch us fight for scraps.

[@dirtbag5408]

It will be much worse than that. Developing nations and the so called "third world" countries will be bear the brunt of it first. We have become desensitized to suffering in poor countries. They are going to suffer and die for no fualt of their own. Except that they share the planet with world super powers. Malnourished children, water wars, dead oceans, killing heat..... incremental change as an option will not work. "Fucking shit up" is an option that is slowly being nuetralized as an option. Technology will prevent any true disruptive action if not started soon.......It is very Bleak and disheartening. I am Gen X. I do not have any power or money to have made a difference. I am truly sorry that my generation did not do more. Be well

[@ApexEater]

That's when the same deniers that created our endless anxiety and instability will use terrorism and institutional erosion to consolidate power and make us shut up about it and die like good little nationalists. That's literally what the global political trend is.

[@noahwilliams8996]

We won't get out of it this time. It's called "global warming" for a reason.

[@stauffap]

The fix is quite simple and it's been described in the scientific literature for a long time now: We have to create an energy system without fossil fuels. This is the main solution (other minor things are necessary as well). And obviously you have to know this and preferably read or at least know the scientific literature that describes how this can and can not be done, because it can't just be done any way you want. E-Fuels for example can't be a big part of the solution. They are so energy intensive, that you can only use them, where there's no alternative. Knowing about this also tells you if we can actually solve this problem by just focusing on ourselves. When everyone has to stop burning fossil fuels, then clearly it's not enough to focus on our own lives. As long as people burn fossil fuels global warming will continue. Also an energy system without fossil fuels can't be built if people just look at their own lives. This requires a community effort i.e. political action that ensure that this energy system will be built. The scientific literature tells us that large wind turbines will be essential for such an energy system. It's obvious though that you can't just put them in your backyard, so again political actions are needed to ensure that enough will be built. If you live in an appartement and your appartement is heated with an oil heater and you can't install solar panels, then you have no power to even get rid of fossil fuels in your own life. So again it's clear that we need political action to make sure that oil heaters disappear and heat pumps are installed. No matter how you look at it, nobody who wants to solve this problem can just look at his own life and not demand political action. To stay out of politics means that you're not doing what is necessary to solve the problem.

[@MePeterNicholls]

When I say climate change science is near 130 years old people are like “liar”

[@larrygordon2109]

HBomberguy did a terrific video essay on the climate change denial

[@SinHurr]

TO WHO BEN

[@malogibeaux4946]

@@SinHurr FUCKING AQUAMAN??

[@SpoopySquid]

Praise Sobek!

[@kathleenrobertpogue6818]

Bet they didn't say anything about the Greenland ice cores.

[@zippidisx2749]

If you say so. More like he just owned random people that are a niche and not many people believe at all because the only time he went after credible people, he got owned for 8 hours straight

[@mightybatillo]

I see something similar every single day in the hospital. You tell people that if they don't stop drinking, smoking, or eating junk food they will die, and you quickly find out that people would rather die in some sad painful way instead of changing their life stile.

[@erichoopes7643]

That's an addiction, not a choice.

[@Redmenace96]

Bingo. Good YT comment.

[@MemeLordCrusader]

Eh it's the future's problem

[@cornebod]

This reminds me of where they show you the difference between a healthy pair of lungs and a smokers lungs, they both dead sooo...

[@Dark__Thoughts]

@@erichoopes7643 You say it like it's different for the climate related issues. We're addicted to our consumerism and luxury. Just look at how little people are willing to drop their car in favor of public transport, even in areas where it is actually good (but I know when it comes to this topic everyone suddenly lives in the middle of nowhere). Just look at how little people are willing to change their diet to consume less or even no meat / animal produce. Especially cow & sheep meat, as well as milk products, are big climate killers. Just look at how little people are willing to vote for parties & candidates who actually want to do something about it People love to blame the big companies, but refuse to see that they're also just producing for us. Changing our fate & future means we all have to pull through. This constant blame game & finger pointing isn't going to help if you don't want to do shit yourself.

[@leeartlee915]

There’s this Carl Sagan video from 1985 where he spoke to congress about climate change. What I find truly baffling is how someone as charming, trustworthy, and cool as Sagan can be ignored by so many people. I think that goes to the heart of the issue: people are intentionally ignorant.

[@Ahrpigi]

The old axiom of "money is the root of all evil" has never been more true.

[@guillermoelnino]

yeah, but who's making the money

[@thenonexistinghero]

If you were smarter you'd know that you couldn't be more wrong.

[@anthonydelfino6171]

A single cruise ship will put out more greenhouse gasses than a human can in multiple lifetimes. There's just no way that we can "personal responsibility" our way out of this problem, and solutions MUST be aimed at big businesses. Fossil fuel companies for sure, but even also things like the fact a single tee shirt will be shipped all over the globe before ending up on the rack at a store only to fall apart after a few wearings and end up in a landfill. Onshoring more manufacturing, and producing goods at a higher quality are also a major factor in combating global warming.

[@destinal_in_reality]

And the personal responsibility is that we consume that good or service, in this case, book tickets on a cruise ship.

[@jimthain8777]

Sure you can, don't go on a cruise. If enough people did that, they wouldn't exist anymore. I've never been on one, and don't plan to go. However, EV boats fascinate me.

[@destinal_in_reality]

@@jimthain8777 exactly. It's really what the consumer demands that decides how resources get used. Big companies can't defy market forces like supply and demand and consumer preferences or they'll go broke.

[@jimthain8777]

@@destinal_in_reality While that's true, they can MANIPULATE us into doing what they want. So it's up to us to figure out what is best for us, and choose that. If the choice doesn't exist yet, then someone has to create it. There are startups doing that every day.

[@milkysue5496]

If we are going to fix the problem, ALL cruises and non-essential travel should have been stopped 10 years ago. It's just not possible to do anything now. And yeah the clothing industry is disgusting. People don't realise how bad it is

[@bicipapi69]

Reagan really did ruin everything huh

[@WisecrackEDU]

Pretty much.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

​@@WisecrackEDUyep❤❤❤❤❤

[@sear925]

don't forget Wilson :,)

[@Jay-xw9ll]

Thankfully the planet isn't in danger. It's the human population that is on the brink. After the last human dies the planet will rejoice.

[@mostsincerlypleasestoplook5025]

People often won't recognize, refuse to recognize, or are kept from regonizing danger till it is staring them in the face.

[@funveeable]

There is no danger. You have been screaming apocalypse for the past 60 years and it never happens. 2012 never happened, 2018 never happened. Apocalypse is not real because humans are terrible at predicting the future.

[@SimGunther]

Money. That's how we got to this point.

[@destinal_in_reality]

Money, and the standard of living money can buy. We don't use other forms of production that would cost more because most of us aren't independently wealthy and can't afford to pay all the extra money to be kinder to the planet.

[@ethancoster1324]

We need a new economic system.

[@destinal_in_reality]

@@ethancoster1324 more liberty and freer markets would be nice. If they'd legalize nuclear that would be nice also.

[@SinHurr]

Money: it's made up!

[@SinHurr]

@@destinal_in_reality Lol no free market voodoo isn't going to solve a goddamned thing. It never has.

[@NP-zt6hy]

I recall some guest on PBS saying that we need to treat climate change like we did WWII, and that means warping the economy with all the necessary sacrifices. That means rationing food, fuel, reducing usage, and cutting luxuries, and drafting able men and women off to war only this time with not arming with guns, but with pulaskis, shovels, biodiesel, fire retardant, etc. to cope with the disasters, refugees, and all the other hardships to come. No, it would not popular but I can’t honestly see how we’re going to wiggle our way out of this.

[@Lew114]

Agreed. At this point we're going to need that level of effort and disruption. If only we'd started working on this as soon as it was discovered. We could have solved the problem gradually over decades with very little pain.

[@jeank8061]

I was thinking the same thing, after this summer of jaw-dropping climate disasters. But no, we just keep on keepin' on - consuming, polluting, denying - and dying

[@iqbalindaryono8984]

​@@Numberzerosixthe problem isn't capitalism, the problem is the concentration of power. Any system that allows the concentration of power to individuals would lead to the same outcome.

[@iqbalindaryono8984]

@@Numberzerosix Using capitalism as an example; now you run at the problem where people are "unequally paid" for their work in their company e.g. the guy who went to school to do international accounting vs. the guy who runs the cash register. The system you envision requires that everyone has equal capabilities and knowledge. Which in practice, will never be achieved even if we somehow create an equal world where everyone has access to everything. Some people have congenital diseases, some haven't mental deficiencies, some are unlucky and got into an accident, etc. Even then you're using a closed system where the ideal "business" have equal value to each other. One would have larger value by virtue of it being a necessity to living and/or higher barrier of entry. It's my first example taken to an extreme, e.g. a shipping "company" that supplies needs and goods to the people vs. a painting "company" that provides enjoyment to others. It's irrelevant what system we use if in the end the concentration of power exists. Replace "business/company" with "government branch" and "unequally paid" with whatever socialism/communism uses. The concentration of power leads to the absence of accountability. "I would supply you with more goods and needs if you don't tell the world about my wrong doing" says the head branch of shipping. "I would send my men to kill you if you wrong me" said the army general. If the workers owned equal shares then you've just created a pseudo family empire. No one is allowed to join and they'll horde their wealth the same way those generational wealthy family kept theirs. Worse, it doesn't stop the mergers that current companies are doing in order for them to get richer. The concentration of power can't be simply wished away by applying simple solutions like socialism, communism, capitalism, or whatever isms people have made up. It requires full cooperation of everyone in order to achieve the "greater good" for everyone, whatever that is. We need to destroy anything that can separate us and create inequality; religion, the idea of race, nationalism, political party, favoritism, nepotism, and the myriad of ways we can be divided. Tell a Chinese nationalist to help the "west", would they do it? Tell the far left to help the far right, would they do it? Tell an extremist Christian to help an extremist Muslim, would they do it?

[@warrenpuckett4203]

Do the math. If you cut your lawn at 2 inches. The ground at noon is 40F or C warmer than 5 inches or grass. But the reason why most cities encourage short grass is you have to water it more often. So why is it called a water and sewage bill again? What is the difference between Mojave and Chattanooga in the Summer. Actually the average temperature is the same. But I bet as Chattanooga gets more gentrified there will a lot more change. In both places. Nighttime average night July temp is 70-72 at dawn in Chattanooga. Mojave 38-42. Those may have a bit higher than that this year. It has happened before. Changes again. The other big save the planet push, north of here. Had much forest burn up this summer? Climate change or bad management? Squawking of Canada? How much forest was there in and around Winterpeg 12,000 years ago. So yes the climate has been a changin. Get used to it. But in order for those carbon goals to be met? Either 7 billion humans need to stop exhaling Carbon dioxide. Or shudder to think of it. The nuclear genies need to replace carbon. But that will not happen. A. Not cheap B. Takes 12 to 15 years for it to break even. But suprise, surprise SGT Carter. It cost less to dispose of when the reactor is wore out. Meanwhile lets mine the Appellations and suck up the liquid and gaseous petroleum. The problem is NOT climate change. It is avaricious and entitled people.

[@stevenmarecle5502]

You'd think all the droughts and rising food prices would be a wakeup call.

[@notme9872]

Thank you for shouting out Just Stop Oil! It makes my day seeing big channels like yours getting behind our protest form. I'm from the german offshoot btw. Liebe und Mut! 🧡

[@sarahwilliams6058]

Hello, how are you doing?

[@funveeable]

If I see you hanging out in the streets, I'm gonna start a business where people get to whack you with a baseball bat.

[@radaliendesigns]

It's pretty hard to individually cut back when your financial situation already blocks you out of most of these activities. Corporations need to be taken to task for the massive harms they are doing.

[@peterthegreat996]

Exactly. The STEM professionals aren’t gonna sacrifice shit - except the rest of us .

[@Raziel312]

​@@peterthegreat996I think you mean the MBAs. The STEM people are the ones raising the alarm.

[@marcomoreno6748]

​@@peterthegreat996Most billionaires are not STEM professionals. "Professional" implies they have a job lile scientist, engineer, or professor. Billionaires make their money by hanging on to previously ill-gotten gains.

[@destinal_in_reality]

Which is why we keep burning fossil fuels. Because most people aren't wealthy enough that they can afford to pay more for everything.

[@HydratedBeans]

@@peterthegreat996stem are mostly workers that are going to die like everyone else. Even Staff Software Engineers don’t have bunker money. And most STEM aren’t in software.

[@maykito14]

I grew up in California and literally had no idea what humidity was until I arrived to Ft Sill Oklahoma for training as a 19 year old Marine. Then I soon after got stationed on the island of Okinawa in Japan and realized how special my homeland was for it’s distinct lack of moisture in the air Now my hometown regularly gets humid enough on some days for me to experience extreme distress if I don’t make sure to monitor and address any moisture around my environment, and it gets even worse if make the mistake of letting my hair grow out too much Do these guys never go outside? How much money is it worth to make California feel like the South?

[@kmoses582]

You were a Marine who can't handle California weather? I think only true Marine's are made at Parris Island

[@QuantumCairo]

​@@kmoses582being a marine has nothing to do with humidity though if we must be specific I'd love to take bets on them vs you in high humidity operation...all day...outside. I know who I have my money on.

[@kmoses582]

@@QuantumCairo I would have my money on the Marines also, and the best Marines come from Parris Island.

[@declaringpond2276]

@@kmoses582 Been living in cali my entire life, it rarely ever got to 100 degrees f, now it gets 100 degrees and above half the year. Its insane to me how people are denying reality and their literal senses.

[@destinal_in_reality]

Money makes everyone able to do more with their lives so it's kind of important. There's a good reason people are making the decisions they are to have cheaper goods and services, cheaper energy etc, because their lives would be worse if those things were more expensive.

[@Colonel__Ingus69]

When they stop reading books like "Chicken Little" you get videos like this.

[@jarehelt]

I've never met anyone deny climate change, just that taxes and politicians aren't the solution

[@Ejacunathan]

Life is change. Anyone who pretends otherwise is a dunce

[@WishWel]

It's hard not to show a bit of vulnerability when faced with this much corruption and injustice. And you're right. What else can we do if not f*** shit up to try and bring attention to this crisis? The past generations aren't listening, and we are powerless to change the status quo otherwise. Thanks for the video Helen.

[@kmoses582]

@marshalmarrs3269 Islamic, communist and native sourced co2 is different.

[@marcomoreno6748]

​@@kmoses582Why Islam, communism, and co2? What was it that you thought you said?

[@cfri9332]

Burn it all to the ground, so a new better world can rise from the ashes. And we can totally do it non-violently, just stop spending money to feed corrupt corporations. But I honestly think saying to take money out of the pockets of corporations is more likely to get me assassinated than inciting violent revolution. 💀

[@hoifzf]

@marshalmarrs3269 Christianity isn't to blame capitalism is way more atheistic than people think

[@kmoses582]

@marshalmarrs3269 You also said colonialism was to blame also, so I according to you those trucks those reservation cops were using do not emit co2 that the atmosphere cares about.

[@anathematic5083]

I think George Carlin said it best. To paraphrase, the planet will be fine, this is us killing ourselves. With that in mind, climate denial is even more depressing.

[@destinal_in_reality]

We're not even doing that. It'll be fine and we'll be fine.

[@glennjgroves]

Strictly speaking most living things on the planet will not be fine. Yes the rocks will be fine, it is living things that will not be.

[@lexismore]

If only!

[@paulj6805]

​@@destinal_in_realityHow can you hear stories about massive petroleum corporations lobbying hundreds of millions of dollars to politicians in order to downplay the severity of global warming and think.... "yeah, nothing's going on here"

[@NeonNijahn]

He also said "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." I miss his brilliant takes so much.

[@johannesfranck1770]

Why I getting a Jet gas station commercial featuring a Skelton, while watching this video?

[@logans3365]

I can’t believe how many people in the comments are talking about how more CO2 is good because trees use it 🤦‍♂️ Trees also breath oxygen at night when there is no sun for photosynthesis, and you need CO2 to release oxygen fork the hemoglobin in your blood. Life is about balance, too much of anything is a bad thing.

[@mrunning10]

Well? Then. Just say it. Manmade global warming, real or a "hoax?"

[@logans3365]

@@mrunning10 anyone with working logic can planing see the correlation between increased heat and heat trapping gases production and warming to the planet, it’s simple cause and effect

[@mrunning10]

And? Your point? You change you mind in the last 5 days regarding manmade global warming? You first comments says NO, this comment says YES. Which is it? @@logans3365

[@shybard]

Me: OMFG. This is the hottest year of my life. Scientists: Actually, this is the hottest year of your life, so far.

[@KarlSnarks]

And the hottest since they started globally measuring which is probably longer than your lifetime.

[@SleepyPossums]

This video kind of hurt to watch, given how just blatantly terrible it shows how human beings can be. Really well made though and thank you guys for making it.

[@WisecrackEDU]

Sorry about that . . . but hey . . . maybe if enough of us wanna do better, things won't be quite as bad?

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

​@@WisecrackEDUtrue

[@SPLICEKNIGHT]

@@WisecrackEDU I love your optimism. That said, I can't say my faith in humanity has ever been so high as to expect them to actually act when it matters.... or we would have over a decade ago at worst.

[@RedFlagRevival]

​@@SPLICEKNIGHTEveryone is being lied to by, politicos, news outlets, celebrities, and the rich. ExxonMobil's scientists had already told the company this was going to happen, but it would hurt profits. So what did they do? They paid media outlets to spread misinformation to confuse us.

[@LuisSierra42]

@@WisecrackEDU Let humanity die, we deserve it

[@noahnaugler7611]

Simple: 1: The average person sees the biggest polluters doing next to nothing, and thus feel that their relatively miniscule emissions do not matter. 2: The average rich individual or company cares not for the future in any way aside from lined pocketbooks. Denial is in their favour, so they feed into it. 3: The primary fact cited to convince deniers is the "scientific consensus", which is not a metric of actual fact, and is ignored as a propaganda effort. 4: Many proponents of Climate Change in the political sphere attack industries that are already carbon neutral or even carbon negative, lumping them in with their less beneficial cousin industries. Other such political figures will propose bills and titles named after climate change issues, but riddled with unrelated legislation, breeding distrust and emnity.

[@lindax911]

I have arrived at the realization that there is no problem on this planet that won't be solved by the extinction of the human species. So, bring on the heat.

[@sparksdog8111]

Okay, hey now, let's be fair. The oil industry technically *did* leap into action when the warnings came, I mean they realized that helping would reduce profits so they kept screwing humanity, somehow even more than they already were. Talk about getting productive!

[@someguy2135]

I agree, but don't forget about another part of the problem. A handful of companies control the meat and dairy industries. Systematic changes have to include our food production system! The expert panel of the UN found that animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gasses than all transportation combined! We cannot avoid 1.5-2 degrees of global warming without ending animal agriculture as we know it! "If the world were to end all meat and dairy production and transition to a plant-based food system over the next 15 years, it would prevent enough greenhouse gas emissions to effectively cancel out emissions from all other economic sectors for the next 30 to 50 years. That’s according to new research published today in the journal PLOS Climate. The paper’s authors say such a shift would “substantially alter the trajectory of global warming,” as animal agriculture is estimated to account for around 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions."-Vox (Title etc, follows- "This is how much meat and dairy hurt the climate" That would give us at least 30 years to transition from fossil fuels to renewables!

[@Exsen_V_Ravensun]

This is funny in a dark, twisted, and depressing way.

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

Denying facts is an evangelists favorite hobby.

[@GordonPavilion]

Yep!

[@ravagetime]

I'm immediately skeptical of anything that promotes veganism.

[@suruxstrawde8322]

True on that one, there’s a shit ton of science on human biology that says the exact opposite of veganism.

[@ChrisSonPEI]

I can see the same techniques in use to deny global warming 40 years ago right here in this thread.

[@aaronking-ze5ib]

People can't even be bothered with stopping poisoning themselves, let alone be asked to give up a shred of comfort for others.

[@Jimraynor45]

So you want the elderly and poor to go without air conditioning just to satisfy your whims and those of the elites? What you call giving up comforts, others call life. Its not an exaggeration to say the lives of billions of people depend on our use of oil. If you try to change that through coercion, even a little bit, people won't just be "uncomfortable," they'll die.

[@funveeable]

Rich politicians like Obama and Pelosi don't care about climate change either, that's why they buy large mansions.

[@BoogieBoogsForever]

Great video. I'm always surprised how little money these people will accept to sell their souls. Politicians getting bought for like $20-30,000.

[@NinkSink]

They take the small amounts so that it appears like they're not bought. When in actuality, when they retire from the political realm they are hired by these companies at exorbitant salaries. Or they themselves get paid to be political lobbyists. That's why you see these weasels reappearing in various capacities within executive offices or senatorial offices. And Trump redirecting everyone to think that elections were rigged take your eye off the ball that politics is rigged. Again, like a typical billionaire, Trump is laying the blame on us and our votes and not on the rigged system that allows him to kiss the ass, at our expense, of his monied colleagues.

[@alanhat5252]

Also threats & promises about their ongoing career.

[@vebdaklu]

That's capitalism for you - everyone has a price, but everyone is also constantly desperate fir cash, so you don't need much for bribery.

[@donnaw3765]

@@vebdaklu Capitalism: We can choose to own our own companies, choose where we want to work, how much we want to work for. Who would start a company with all the risks and not OWN it? A small example: I buy every thing i need to and set up a lemon stand. I hire someone to sell it for me. They can either accept what I pay them or find another job which suits their needs. Owners should profit because they OWN IT. "Value takes into consideration what a customer will pay for a product or service, which means the customer is ultimately the one who decides".

[@conchbubbies9767]

​@@donnaw3765my sibling in Christ in an ideal world it would work as you say, but that is not our reality. There are so many other factors that go against this definition. Using your same example, if you're the only lemonade business then the customer no longer has a choice, a worker with a lemonade selling skillset and a family to feed no longer has the choice but to accept your pay. Your objective as the owner is to spend less and make more yea? As such it is in your best interest to eliminate the 'choice' that's supposed to keep you in check. Which is helped by the legal bribing of politicians to ensure you aren't regulated. Nothing is wrong with owners profiting, but shouldn't the people generating that profit not benefit as well? the problem is that there is no contentment up top. Next quarter needs to go up, screw the workers and general population that has to suffer so I can get my third yacht.

[@endlesswick]

I work in the light business so I can attest that banning incandescent light bulbs is huge. Most of the Incandescent light bulbs output is in the infrared which we can't even see. You really have to jack up the power to get them to have output in the visible spectrum. This makes them hot so additional energy is needed for air conditioning to remove the heat. Very insufficient. LED's on the other hand only output light in the visible spectrum, require little energy, and run cool. Banning incandescent light bulbs is not the only measure needed to getting us to net zero, but it is a big step.

[@TraitorFelon.14.3]

17:46 Fun fact. Incandescent light bulbs use A LOT more electricity than LED bulbs. 75 watt against 7 watt. What’s not to like?

[@raruteam]

Something else I'd like to add is how tech companies say AI will (somehow) solve global warming so we don't need to worry about it. But when we point out the fact that energy consumption by AI companies is contributing to global warming, big time, the tech bros call you an AI doomer. Google is leaving people in South America without water, just to cool down their servers, in the middle of the worst drought in a century, but apparently developing AI is more important than people having water to drink.

[@hash8169]

AI could fix climate change by eliminating humanity, problem solved

[@ranterraver5959]

The absolute defeat in her voice at the end made me choke up. That’s exactly how I feel. Helpless.

[@donclark5700]

Well done, excellent job explaining this insanity. Pretty much all the major issues can be viewed by this statement. Psychopaths and their unending supply of minions, just hold up the money.....

[@wesleycolvin7158]

Unfortunately, there are always going to be that demographic who will fight this tooth-and-nail in spite of overwhelming evidence that something is clearly wrong.

[@Raziel312]

They're called "conservatives".

[@wesleycolvin7158]

@@Raziel312 Yep.

[@Maelstromme]

Contrarians.

[@lashoes2207]

@@Raziel312no, being conservative, in essence, doesnt mean you ll fight over any change.

[@zwerko]

@@Raziel312 They don't seem very conservative towards the environment if you ask me, quite the opposite...

[@natalieb3766]

I love it when Wisecrack hosts go hard! I just wish it wasn’t due to a much needed response to the unchecked decay of humanity... Fantastic job though, Helen!

[@robertbihn3005]

In 1972 I became 25 yrs old and wanted to help fix pollution. I saw how, in so many ways, we collectively were the cause. Looking back I now see how wrong I was, I had it all wrong. It's not the people, it's the empires that must use earth's main resources to advance. Protesting did not help, turning down/up your heat/AC, buying smaller cars, going green ... pffft. It's going to take governments and corporations to do this working with science.

[@xcoder1122]

You don't need to use less electricity, as long as all the electricity you use was produced by a solar farm or wind or water turbine. And everyone today can make sure that this is the case. Actually green electricity is available for everyone to purchase for over 40 years. All you need to do is to purchase it and pay the slightly higher price. And if customers would only purchase this kind of electricity, companies would only produce this kind of electricity as no company produces a product that they cannot sell in the end as customers don't want to buy it. The reason why electricity is made from coal and offered for purchase is because millions of people purchase it, despite the fact that they could purchase green energy and also could afford to purchase it.

[@sarysa]

There is sort of a hidden underclass in society. Even among those in higher socioeconomic brackets: Those without cars. By not having a car, even if you are rich, you have so many additional hurdles to leap to get anything done. It impacts the poorest the most, however, since it greatly limits career options. I'm posting this here because this is the number one social problem that needs to be addressed IMO to get people behind needed action. I have no idea how we fix what I might as well call the mobility gap.

[@liestricks]

public transport & uber?

[@sarysa]

@@liestricks Sprawl and expense are holding those two back, respectively.

[@Nick_CF]

I only have a bike now and it has made my ability to travel better. So many fucking closures, flooding, traffic, bridge collapses.. I have never been stopped. A hardball mountain bike and a solid base of fitness will get you anywhere. Just plan a head. Fuck cars.

[@Uberzooka]

​@@sarysaurban sprawl is also a problem that needs to be fixed. Fix both at once.

[@sarysa]

@@Uberzooka Nimbyism is the dragon that needs to be slain for that to work. Abandoning the suburbs would require lots more high rise dwellings near city centers which are routinely opposed by existing occupants. Another issue is the fundamental design of most American cities revolves around cars, since the western three times zones and FL started building up after the car boom. The spacing of blocks has a significant impact on walkability. It's like a game of whackamole.

[@MariaCamarena_OneWing]

In my experience, the warm seasons are getting much hotter and the cold seasons are getting way colder. I think this means that the weather of the planet is becoming more and more like a desert. More and more extreme. This cannot possibly be a good thing. But how do we stop it? it makes me feel very powerless to think about it.

[@kellharris2491]

You can work to get out of debt. And work to gradually build up food and water as well as other emergency supplies. Get a power generator as well. Etc these are simple things that can help.

[@jimthain8777]

It may sound silly but the number one thing you can do, is reduce your gasoline consumption. Why? They make a disproportionate amount of their profits from gasoline. They would rather you drive a hybrid and still use some gas, than go gas free. So when the weather permits try not to use the car. Every trip you don't burn gas, means you buy less gas. That saves you money and cuts their profits. If billions of individuals did just that, the oil industry would lose millions at the very least!

[@kimm.8718]

Are you optimistic about anything? I feel the same way you do.

[@JH-lo9ut]

Your personal experience isn't a valid basis for argument in these matters. Global climate data is what counts. The climate crisis will affect different areas differently. We don't know exactly in what way for every part of the world. Some places are pretty obvious, others are not. Some areas will certainly become dryer and hotter like you suggest, other places may get more humid and perhaps even colder, due to the disruption of ocean currents. By giving credit to arguments based in personal experience, you also give credit to all of those who claim they don't believe in climate change, because they haven't noticed any dramatic change. Well, if you compare the climate in december and july, you'll see a dramatic change but still, it is completely normal. This year has been the hottest in recorded history, but I will probably remember it as the year with the coldest and rainiest summer of my lifetime.

[@alienincognito6759]

​@@jimthain8777you do realize fossil fuels are what made our civilization successful...lowered mortality rates, provided cheap, abundant energy, plastics and much more. Eliminating fossil fuels is a depopulation strategy...just look at when the internal combustion engine was invented and how population exploded right around the same time.

[@dandiegidio7729]

I was talking to my girlfriend about this and she just started talking about some bitches at work and I realized that she's part of the problem. Ignore the fire in the house, just move to a different room. We're doomed.

[@antred11]

Many people, even those who _know_ that climate change is both real and a threat, still haven't really grasped yet just _how_ bad this may potentially become. They've got that stowed away in some hidden part of their subconscious for now, like it isn't really a huge or problem or at least it's not _their_ problem (yet). I don't know if it's selfishness or some kind of baked in mental self-defense strategy ... I mean God knows procrastination until the last minute has been one of my favorite "problem-solving" strategies on more than one occasion. :-\

[@OldScientist]

The case is not closed. Any country that attempts it will be indebted or impoverished. Example: For the UK to reach net zero by electrification of its transport fleet and heating system, it will require a tripling (as a minimum) of its current electrical generation capacity among other things. This will essentially require the UK consuming all of the current global supply of copper and other rare metals for the next 25 years. The cost will be unaffordable and the skilled manpower levels unattainable. And that is just to eliminate the 1% of the global CO2 emissions that the UK is responsible for. So times that by 100 for the Earth. 10,000 child slaves in the cobalt mines of the Congo not enough for you? Make it a million. Imagine all the human suffering and environmental damage done from all that resource extraction! It's pointless anyway. In just 8 years (prior to 2021) China emitted more CO2 than Britain did since the start of Industrial Revolution that began over 220 years ago! And China plans to vastly increase its coal fired generating capacity. An electric vehicle requires 6 times the mineral input compared to a conventional one, and the carbon cost is greater until you reach 80,000 miles. Production of all of these minerals has been mastered by China: a totalitarian communist regime that thinks nothing of the mass murder of its own citizens, imagine how much it cares about the rest of us. And why are we embarking on this great net zero crusade? For what? So someone can virtue signal by driving around in a Tesla. Maddeningly, there is no climate crisis. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past.

[@mariammosashvili4150]

And there is also shifting the blame to the consumer, no big corporation, me using less plastic bags might be better but it won't compensate for the millions of cubic tones of emissions you produce every year.

[@destinal_in_reality]

No, she's really wrong about carbon footprint. We're all of us consuming goods and services produced with fossil fuels, because the alternative would cost more and most of us don't have a ton of extra money we can afford to pay for more expensive goods and services so we can feel better about not hurting "the planet"

[@wmeuse2375]

​@@destinal_in_realitythere is absolutely no world in which oil is moved half way across the world are cheaper than the trees in our own back yard is more expensive.

[@daniele4568]

When I was a kid in the 70s, I remember my mom and dad throwing McDonald's trash out the windows while driving down the interstate. It was normal back then. The roadside was covered in garbage. So if the "Italian Indian" guy helped to get people to stop, I don't mind.

[@MePeterNicholls]

Here’s the order: Planet first. Then people. Final and last: profit.

[@auldfouter8661]

Trouble is it's not the oil companies that are packing the planes - it's us going on ludicrous numbers of outings a year. We're the ones with gas boilers in 80% of our homes and demanding that a million houses be built on land that is feeding us right now. So switching from crops taking carbon out of the atmosphere to houses releasing it.

[@Devlerbat]

"Texas chickans are fleeing their farms." "where do they think they're going?" Across the road, obviously.

[@mustang6172]

"Telling us we need to consume less is just big oil's way of shifting the blame onto us. Also, we need to consume less."

[@InfiniteDeckhand]

Why should the common man restrict himself when those who cause 100 times more pollution than him don't do the same? Seems a bit unfair to me.

[@SimWOT]

Big company don't cause pollution in a vacuum. They create pollution so the common man can consume. There's exception and some measure can be taken to reduce pollution and let us consume but at the end, company pollute to create the thing we consume. @@InfiniteDeckhand

[@cancerino666]

@@InfiniteDeckhand Because we will die if we don't? That should be reason enough.

[@BronyumHexofloride]

@@cancerino666 one rule for me and another for thee? sorry but Joe public isnt taking a private jet or helicopter to go 60 miles down the road or heating 30+ room mansions

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

Isn't that just the same rate but scaled up? 🤷@@InfiniteDeckhand

[@johnneytee5314]

Great Reporting on an issue that will most likely end in the mass extinction of all beings! My mother fought to protect the planet in the 70s, 80s and 90s. She was told by CEO’s of several main oil companies that she is right in her quest to protect the environment and that her life is at risk for caring.

[@tobi1314]

Man, in my country we banned incandescent bulbs and only took us a year. So good to have electricity produced in sustainable ways and not through fossil fuel

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

It’s always fully appreciated how high quality, passionate and well researched your videos are! Your content is always an instant watch! Thanks Helen!

[@navneetyadav7139]

Its true people aint gonna do shit until we are literally floating in shit. All i do is hope that will not be too late. 😅

[@speedingoffence]

You have people buying millions of 6,000 lbs 450 hp luxury cars and claiming that they're good for the environment because they're electric. People are only interested in LOOKING like they care. They don't actually care.

[@The_fusion_physics_guy]

I’ve been interested in the whole “we’re gonna have to buy fewer things and travel less if this is gonna work, also corporations” line. I’ve started hearing this a lot lately from climate channels. Who is telling you to say this? There are sources of energy other than carbon. There are ways to make products well and sustainably. They’re just not or less profitable. So if the only problem is that we’re only ever gonna do things that are the most profitable, why do we have to drive less? Why is that even mentioned as an issue? I genuinely do not understand who thought of this talking point. The average human doesn’t like being told that the result of change is going to be a life with fewer comforts than they already have, for them and their children. Most people don’t have much already, don’t have the privilege of driving less or buying more sustainable stuff. Maybe the issue is how we decide what to do as a collective group.

[@ThePopUpH8r]

It seems we’re as chained to capitalism as we are to climate itself. Growth always has an expense. Hopefully a socioeconomic impact will be established.

[@SimGunther]

These rich folks lording on everyone like Eren Yeager for thousands of years. Guess they "deserve" ultimate freedom over everyone because they were "born into this world" 😂

[@liestricks]

We are not though. Capitalism is optional, plenty of other options throug out history. Pretty sure climate has never had a alternative

[@LuisSierra42]

Maybe this situation is already beyond our control and humanity's demise is meant to happen

[@ThePopUpH8r]

@@liestricks I’m arguing capitalism depends on socialism.

[@Chrischos]

@@ThePopUpH8r *fascism fixed it

[@ImplodedAtom]

I can feel the rage through the screen. Brilliant video!

[@Exsen_V_Ravensun]

Same.

[@chalinofalcone871]

"Ads seem to work on the very advanced principle that a small pellet or pattern in a noisy, redundant barrage of repetition will gradually assert itself. Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion." [Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan, 1964, Ch. Ads]

[@Semmster]

It seems to me, that hypocrites and idiots eventually come around when their own chestnuts are over the flames. So, just give it time. I only wish that their pain be in direct proportion to their hypocrisy and foolishness, instead of everyone bearing the consequences.

[@anthonymorris5084]

"Just give it time"? We've been listening to apocalyptic rhetoric for 43 years. Data proves that life for humanity has never been safer, healthier or more prosperous than at any time in history. How do you reconcile this?

[@Semmster]

@@anthonymorris5084 That's what the data tells you? I guess it depends on what data. I think this quote summarizes my reply to you; “Someday President Nixon and the other world leaders are going to find out that once they catch the last fish, once they cut down the last tree, they won’t be able to eat all the money they have in the banks,” -Thomas Parker, whose Indian name is Sakokwenonkwas, November 1972 , The Harvard Crimson

[@anthonymorris5084]

@@Semmster "It depends on what data"? You can't be serious. Whatever metric you care to examine, it's all improved right across the globe. Access to electricity, access to education, access to clean water, access to health care, university graduates, literacy, emancipation of women, opportunity, GDP growth, poverty reduction, agricultural production, sources of energy, standards of living, quality of life, leisure time, mobility and transportation, communication, available information, technological advancements, disease eradication, life expectancy, nutrition, crime, war, sanitation, recycling and more, all improving. Your little parable is hardly relevant or an adequate rebuttal.

[@toaonua523]

Hindsight 20/20? No we knew the whole time

[@eastly2009]

Since when, the ice age?

[@trevorjonathan4405]

2cor0na2cor0na we see right through you #ThePlan to go from #LDowns to #15MinuteCities

[@iloveprivacy8167]

Most people live paycheque to paycheque, have little spare energy for chasing down subjects they are not educated in, and come from an education system that hasn't exactly earned plaudits in recent decades. There's plenty of crises on the nightly news, & it's the experts who are featured THERE who might be listened to. It isn't fair to average North Americans to blame them for not discerning the important nugget in the flood of... EVERYTHING.

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

But it would be fair to blame them for wasting their spare energy on complete nonsense leaving them open to missing important stuff.@@iloveprivacy8167

[@myboysd5772]

Nothing will change before things are much, much worse. A lot of heads need to roll.

[@berkpick]

@11:55 worst thing the media has ever done was not intentionally misinforming but refusing to weigh in while presenting both sides as valid. The media shouldn't have a political agenda but they should have and fiercely defend a strong bias in favor of objective reality.

[@jarretpaul]

This is a nice video but you really did not talk about the real issue of cost and what is causing everyone to deny. It's not only the natural resource stealing sector, but our economists who are required to turn profit and there is no profit to be made in climate repair. This is a huge problem! Ideally, humans would not consume large amounts of carbon and the demand would go down, but that will never happen until it's too late. She did not even talk about capitalism or inflation which are 2 driving forces behind keeping everything status quo, and not fixing the issues.

[@Dr_1212]

Climate change sucks In Texas where I live the summers are getting hotter & the winters colder & our stupid power grid can't handle either 🤦‍♂️

[@richardw0929]

Its not getting hotter in Texas just search ( average temperatures in Texas last 150 years ) was hotter here in Florida in 1895 then 2022 before cars....silly humans

[@Dr_1212]

@@richardw0929 As a lifelong Austin tx resident it.s always been hot here but this summer has been brutal & the last couple of summers have been getting worse whether you want to admit it or not global warming is the cause

[@richardw0929]

@@Dr_1212 It was hotter in Texas in July 1952 then in July 2022...www.weather.gov/fwd/dmotemp

[@richardw0929]

@@SigFigNewton Climate changes every minute of every day some years are hotter some cooler and has been long before mankind and long after there is no scientific way to prove a global average way to many variables. The claim is its steady rising over time since we been recording it no way to prove what the cause is as the sun itself is out of our control but you can check any location on earth here is Texas..www.weather.gov/fwd/dmotemp

[@Chrischos]

@@richardw0929 u basicaly dissed urself with that end note but ok

[@eaglesclaws8]

I would tell them to close their garage door with car running so they can have a convo with jesus about it.

[@lefu87williford55]

I've said this for years. They know it's poisonous. They just don't care. They don't care about anyone.

[@georgefspicka5483]

"The popularity of climate change denial is perplexing when you consider the fact that scientists are pretty much unanimous ..." A great example of Confirmation Bias.

[@francescaerreia8859]

What’s more perplexing to me is people not seeing through climate change alarmist thought. Public understanding of science and scientific thinking is sorely lacking (even among most scientists who just keep their heads down and follow the data without thinking of broader implications) and it was studying philosophy of science that revealed to me the errors in thinking on this issue and got me to see how wrong everyone is, myself included at the time. As an atheist, waking up from this thinking felt just like waking up from religion to me. There is consensus that humans are contributing to warming with fossil fuel use, that’s the 97% we hear touted, but there isn’t consensus on what the media tells us and what most people call climate change and what the govt to do. The gap there is massive. And it’s revealing of the major and deeply embedded anti human bias most people suffer from that they would go from that fact to the ones were often hearing. For instance, there isn’t consensus on the idea that it’s more harm than good, that furthermore it’s catastrophic, nor that if we assume those are true that the best way to handle it is with govt mandated reductions of fossil fuel use or carbon taxes Notice how everyone jumps from “humans are doing it” to “it must be bad, and catastrophically bad, and we need govt to step in!” That’s NOT based on science. That’s bias and agenda. It’s no better than anti vax thinking that would say vaccines are bad just because humans made them. And notice that even anti vaxxers as bad as their arguments are use better arguments than that, but even this video uses that line as if it’s all that needs to be said! The anti human bias here is obvious once you see that for what it is. It’s amazing so many fail to see that that’s clearly the thinking here on this issue when they act like the 97% consensus is meaningful- it could only be meaningful for their policy agendas if that is their position. And it’s pure ludditism, ironically, which is about as anti scientific and anti progress as it gets. The sad thing is, the warming seems to be a good thing (although I’m open to evidence on this and wish we could discuss it without the environmentalist anti human bias or something like that is so prevalent everywhere) and the use of fossil fuels and more generally, all the forms of energy we have available, is extremely valuable to life and wellbeing, ironically including protecting us from climate related deaths. We need energy to improve our environment, it’s how we achieve that. Nature is not safe for human life as is, we need to transform it. If you care about the environment, you have to be in favor of energy use so that we can turn it into a good one for human life. Deaths from droughts and floods and so much more for instance are down and staggeringly so, BECAUSE of our heavy energy use. Industrialization and the creation of cities is essential for our lives. Our prolific energy use is the reason most of us are alive and it’s what powers our modern world. Every age of man has had some mystical/religious apocalyptic view that damns human beings and human wellbeing and tries to tell us that our pride and enjoyment of our lives is going to lead us to ruin somehow; that’s what is behind this. It’s not science, it’s just ages old apocalyptic mysticism. Energy powers our amazing lives and mystics want you to feel guilty about it and stop what you’re doing, no different than the puritans who outlawed dancing or the modern Christian’s who fight against sex before marriage. And sadly, this is the perfect fake crisis to invent. With govt funded science which always backs conclusions that give it more power and an anti human impact environmentalist agenda captured populace, it’s easy to twist statistics and since major weather events always occur and climate is always changing you can keep manufacturing fake evidence of the crisis indefinitely to scare people, always saying disaster is just a few years away as you accumulate more power. As the video title says, facts don’t matter.

[@Brambrew]

Follow the money. The corporations and institutions who control the resources are responsible for climate change, NOT the hapless consumers who barely have an alternative choice. Yet companies persuade us what to buy and where to buy it to reduce our "carbon footprint" even if it's not an effective or practical solution. More consumption will not solve overconsumption. The world requires subtractive solutions which are inconvenient but effective, not additive ones which are convenient but wasteful.

[@Nebafyer_DandD]

Are you volunteering to be subtracted? There are definitely ways to help with climate change that don't mean destroying the modern world, though they get less and less effective every day they aren't implemented... But if we use a subtractive process, who are we going to be saying "go die" to? Who is giving us the decide who gets the axe? Who makes the choice? It's not renewable, but nuclear is a really strong and much needed stopgap to help us get more renewable sources. Yes, things will get a little worse for a while, but we either need to start now, or it really will be too late.

[@Bugisme23]

I think the personal onus pushed by large corporations should be used to convince the masses that converting to "green technology" now will benefit their wallets down the line by lowering their monthly bills, something 99% of the country would support. Doing the right thing for the planet just isn't impetus enough for people to truly care about it, and with no quick fix to the climate problem it's just too easy for opponents to argue against and rile up their supporters. I converted everything in my home to be as efficient as possible and saved a ton on my electric bills, then added solar panels to not only eliminate the bill, but to turn it into a small income stream. If stories like mine were front and center to the national messaging I think more people would convert, which would make them believers and end up supporting changes to national standards.

[@TheGallantDrake]

Hear, hear!

[@BrokeredHeart]

I work in residential housing design and construction, and we've been outfitting all new builds with the roof trusses designed to take the added load of solar panels, for when the home owner decides to purchase them, along with the needed plugs and grounding wire for the EV charger in the garage. We also go above minimum code standards when it comes to insulation R value, and window U value. Adding mechanical features such as heat pumps, efficient air exchangers, and drain water heat recovery systems sound superficial, but they go a long way to reducing energy consumption, and they lower the overall cost of heating and cooling a home significantly. The issue is that these are only being made optional for NEW houses and commercial buildings, and it seldom touches the existing housing stock, which remain inefficient and pricey to the occupants to keep cool/warm. More needs to be incentivized so that homeowners and landlords are compelled to upgrade, not just the appliances and electronics within the housing units, but also to increase the insulation and efficiency of the building envelopes overall. I'm also researching more on modular construction and embodied carbon in materials, that is the emissions released by construction materials over the course of their life cycle, from extraction, to manufacturing, to transport, construction, and eventual disposal. Finding materials and assemblies that can be refit to suit different needs, or resources that don't require extensive manufacturing or transport is another critical avenue to explore and it's still in the early stages of development. But my primary area of interest is urban planning and land use, and figuring out ways to bring new infill in sustainable ways to established neighborhoods and communities. I would encourage anyone who's interested in the housing crisis and civil engineering to consider joining their municipal council or housing board to look at solutions for introducing affordable homes and residential infill to areas that have already been developed, rather than expanding outwards to build more urban sprawl. Not only does this ease the cost of infrastructure and public amenities, but research also suggests it lowers property taxes by adding tax density to these developed areas of town. Often cities approve new greenfield developments to generate new revenue through property taxes and development levies. The revenue generated from these developments do not actually go towards funding the services needed for the developments being approved. These revenues often go towards funding necessary services in already developed or aging neighbourhoods elsewhere in the city, which means as each of these new developments age, they too will require another new greenfield development to fund their infrastructure bill. Instead of ever-expanding construction and urban sprawl, the more cost effective and energy efficient solution to land use is sustainable infill. For introductory videos on these topics, check out KZbin channels from Strong Towns, Not Just Bikes, and City Beautiful. Share their videos with city council members like I did to get them thinking outside the conventional box.

[@funveeable]

@@SigFigNewton solar isn't gonna save you. By the time you realize what a terrible investment it is, the people who got rich off your taxes will be long retired or dead.

[@ezkempinkemp3467]

If the people that hate petroleum would actually cease to use oil products, it would make a better statement rather than just demanding others make the sacrifice.

[@logans3365]

The problem is that you can’t stop using petroleum products, there is not viable alternative to cars for majority of the country. It’s car manufacturers and oil companies that lobbied to make things that way in the first place. The only way to bring about actual change is for everyone to demand it on a legislative level, but even then our government works for corporations, not the people, so it would take a fight.

[@ezkempinkemp3467]

@@logans3365 I always vote for freedom and individual choice.

[@logans3365]

@@ezkempinkemp3467 voting does nothing in this country if you haven’t noticed yet, the only way to legally influence change is to lobby (bribe) the government, and the only ones who have the resources to do that are the rich who are exploiting us in the first place, meaning this will progressively go more and more in their favor, and against us. And like I said before, you can’t not use petroleum if that is your only option for transport, and the car and oil lobbies do everything in their power to ensure that no new transport projects get built, Elon musk literally admitted that hyoerloop was only pitched to slow down the advancement of Californias HSR system

[@dodiewallace41]

If we're serious about reducing dependence on hydrocarbons for energy we better get cracking building a buttload of nuclear power plants.

[@nadjapontenogueira7263]

I can feel your anger. It flows through me too.

[@centipedekid9824]

Seems like a waste of anger. If you can't do anything about it worry about it is pointless.

[@Raziel312]

​@@centipedekid9824We CAN do something about it. We are choosing not to out of a combination of laziness, greed, and culture war spite. Anger is the only sane response.

[@sear925]

yo anger leads to the dark side

[@methos4866]

​@@centipedekid9824Well not everyone has the luxury of being able to just forget about it. Can't really turn off my brain now can i?

[@nathanielbables8652]

Ditto

[@camadams9149]

21:08 These stunts are pointless. Attack private elite boarding schools. Aggravating the average person does nothing. Making the powerful fear for their children's lives will get results

[@widget0028]

They're just going to hire security and put you in prison

[@martinbruhn5274]

I think it's crazy, how that guy in the anti Kyoto protocol ad says "We pay the price and they...", when in reality, by the 90s, the majority of carbon emissions in the world came from the USA and a handful of other rich countries, emissions from economic activities, that made them rich in the first place, while everybody else in the world, has to pay the price for them. This is such a self victimisation, where america, as the main cause for global warming thinks its the victim for now having to do something about it, even though the american climate plans even at the time were some of the least ambitious compared to other advanced economies.

[@patrickhaley1312]

Alright, so at what point can we just call lobbying bribes?