Why haven't we solved Climate Change (yet)?

[@ClimateAdam]

What problems and (more importantly!) solutions did I leave out?!

[@beyond-garde5530]

Pls, make a debunk of Stop being a climate change doomer By channel BritMonkey Thx!🙏

[@KosaBrin]

@@magiccloud3074 My thoughts exactly.

[@KosaBrin]

@@magiccloud3074 I think we are already at the point where large scale geoengineering will become a reality very soon.

[@assemblywizard8]

What you left out? Political action to change the economic system and the industrial production rules. It's very dangerous to push responsibility on individuals only seen as consumers, because you implicitly relegate the spectrum of action to consumerist choices. We need radical mobilitation to solve the climate crisis.

[@KosaBrin]

@@magiccloud3074 I am unsure what scares me more. Global warming or the thought of our species having control over the global thermostat. The second option gives me the shivers. But the physics is more or less sound. Its either that or we go to hot house hell anyway. So my concern is how to mentally prepare humanity for the responsibility that comes with such power. Not with much success I shall add.

[@gabriels5581]

I wrote this email to Paul discussing a Carbon Quota: When the first Auckland flooding happened early this year I started communicating with Green Peace about my idea that a Carbon Tax should take in the revenue of the estimated future global warming disasters cost of damages. This idea came to me because I had heard Greta Turnberg say in an interview that the politics to the solution to climate change don't exist yet. One thing that Eliot from Green Peace said was that hopefully it would reduce carbon use and people would not just pay the tax and carry on using carbon. After this I learned that the richest 10% of people use 48% of the world's carbon. Then I thought of the idea of having a Carbon Quota and I wrote to Eliot again. Eliot shared that Degrowth was working on a similar idea and he gave me your email address. My opinion on what I think would solve the climate change crisis: Because some people don't care that they are causing the climate change crisis and some people don't even think that climate change exists, I think that a Carbon Quota is needed in as many countries in the world as possible. However if it is tradeable it makes it a bit more like a carbon tax then a carbon Quota as rich people may out bid people that really need the carbon. I think the world needs both separate things, a Carbon Quota that stops the end user of using to much carbon and a Carbon Tax making green renewable energy solutions cost competitive. All possible loopholes must be planned for to avoid what happened with Trump for example, he pays no tax while still being able to live a lavish lifestyle. I think everyone that wants to stop global warming needs to unite behind the Carbon Quota and Carbon Tax policy idea. We need to get everyone onboard these two main ideas. I have sent Greta Thurnberg a message but she has 14 million followers and I don't think she read it. Please let me know your thoughts, opinions and insights.

[@toychristopher]

I think the main problem is we have a small group of really powerful people working to make climate change worse (and themselves richer). Focusing on people who are devastated by the reality of our future (doomers) or people who don't "understand" climate change is a distraction.

[@ThomasBomb45]

Again, capitalism

[@___.51]

@@magiccloud3074 this is why I think we're doomed, nobody wants to look reality in the face, nobody wants to accept a less comfortable life for the sake of a problem that's "50 years away," climate change is a ratings killer because people want to stay comfortable

[@LeanAndMean44]

Completely agree, blaming it mostly on conservative media, the average person (talking, consuming) is counterproductive and pretty ignorant actually.

[@chl0erenn]

Brilliant video! I would say the biggest problem is having a leading class of people who care more about pandering to large corporations than regulating them, combined with a media run by the same leading class to maintain this world view! So another important solution is alternative media (like these videos!) . And other important solutions are: making public transport (and other low carbon lifestyle choices) more accessible (if not freely available!) to all, and ensuring peoples social needs are met so they actually have time to think and act on climate change... Thanks again for a great video :)

[@ClimateAdam]

excellent solutions (and I'm not just saying that cos they include things like my channel)!

[@SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

Under the umbrella of capitalism is how swamped we all are as citizens. Many people are at work 9-10 hours a day and then have to rush home (often a 1 hour drive) in order to cook dinner and help kids with homework. So it’s only normal that we often end up taking shortcuts with certain things but these short cuts almost always end up releasing more emissions. I think that solutions like UBI are super important stepping stones to larger solutions being more effective.

[@greenhippie5360]

It would make such a big difference if the easiest and cheapest options for everyone were also the most environmentally friendly. For example, building our cities around public transit, biking, and walking, instead of cars.

[@SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

@@greenhippie5360 the weird thing is that…I think they actually are often the cheapest options! But corporations have gotten in and made them difficult so they’re not the easiest anymore. Hopefully we can claw most of that back over the next couple years/decades though.

[@ThomasBomb45]

UBI would be nice, but it's a solution that requires state power. With the way money can influence elections, good luck with that. Think big and small at the same time. Forming a union at your workplace helps you and your coworkers now. It also means that you and your coworkers can be part of larger labor groups and maybe massive strikes. You have much more political power then to influence the decision makers, and you had the option in the meantime to get better pay or more free time

[@devluz]

I think the biggest problem is the lack of proper carbon pricing. As long as people can pollute for free we have to work against our own self interest which usually doesn't work very well... I wish countries would just slowly add and raise taxes on anything causing CO2 emissions over the next few years. Any funds raised through this can be given back via monthly payments equally to everyone.

[@BaerbelW]

That's what Citizens' Climate Lobby lobbies for around the globe! Disclosure: I'm involved with CCL in Germany & Europe

[@iknowyouwanttofly]

So you want the goverment to make more money the more carbon.. NO!

[@colour3340]

Its like Exam. We don't want to prepare for it because it requires a lot of effort. At the last moment we study day and night because we don't want to fail.

[@LBeaudoin]

We need to transition from hydrocarbon to other form energies that are clean and not necessarily renewable. Renewable such as solar and wind can only be a part of the solutions. Other clean technologies must also be promoted, such as Hydro and Fission.

[@qbas81]

First you saying that we do not need to change capitalism and at the end you say a lot about changing attitudes - but the attitudes are driven by capitalism. Consumption, growth, treating environment as “externality”. I think we need urgent change of system and systematic degrowth ASAP. Tinkering around the edges of capitalism won’t be fast enough.

[@SonLe-gh3dz]

Won't getting rid of capitalism possibly leed to economic collapse which all in all also be bad for climate change

[@qbas81]

@@SonLe-gh3dz no, capitalism is not the best system.

[@ClimateAdam]

hi Jakub - I don't think I *did* say we don't need to change capitalism. what I said is that whether or not you think we do need to change capitalism, we still need to do as much as possible to treat the 'symptom' (climate change) in the meantime. but you're absolutely right that a lot of the things I'm talking about in this video (maybe all of them!) aren't truly separate, but rather deeply interlinked.

[@intreoo]

I think a system that merges aspects of capitalism and socialism would be good. Then again, my understanding on economics is minimal, and it doesn’t take a genius to know that a slightest change to the global economic system is almost impossible.

[@Venom87542]

I'm always just scared that in the next few decades, Me, my family, and my friends will die from a devastation. :( I just want to know we will be ok. The Doomists got in my head. I live in California.

[@ggb5583]

I LOVED the delivery on this video, it was hilarious! Very engaging and informative because of your dry humour.

[@Andre-qo5ek]

hope you get a subscription boost from the Our Changing Climate promotional short today. You are a refreshing communicator to the sphere.

[@ClimateAdam]

thanks so much André! I actually hadn't seen the short, so thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[@sculptureforasmallplanet]

Thanks again Adam for another excellent video! One problem that I see is that we are literally addicted to fossil fuels. They have only been around for 200 of humans 200,000 year existence and now we can't live with out them?!? The solution would be to re-evaluate the convenience and speed in which the fossil offer in relationship to the well being of all life.

[@ClimateAdam]

we lived without them for hundreds of thousands of years. we built a new economy with them in a couple of centuries. now we need to wean ourselves off them in a couple of decades.

[@intreoo]

Fossil fuels gave humanity the gift of unlimited power and growth. It would’ve been hard to move off of fossil fuels around the 70s or so, but now we have *all* the technology and mindsets required to transition back into living in harmony with nature instead of letting money overtake us and let us believe that we are a superior species that is separate from nature. Fossil fuels fuel every aspect of our lives and have revolutionized human civilization, but moving off a world that has seen unprecedented levels of prosperity solely due to fossil fuels is hard. The sooner we do it, the easier it is.

[@mariacostello1976]

There is a great movement now started in California. Letting down the tyres of petrol or diesel guzzling and totally unnecessary SUV's that now plague our city streets. It does not cause any permanent damage which is what we must all avoid, just inconvenience and a worthy message to move away from ICE vehicles asap.

[@gneissgirl728]

Just curious. What would be the average age of viewers and commenters of this video?

[@zanthornton]

Thank you for CAPTIONing/ transcript/

[@basbekjenl]

We need to scale back our luxurious way of living, a car is a luxury and yet almost everyone has one, that is not how luxuries should work, the cost of producing a car should include the cost of the harm being done to the climate, the same should be the case for everything else for housing to transport of goods. Everything is way too cheap is probably a weird argument but I think it is important to realize that everything really shouldn't be this cheap. Clothing food and trinkets get thrown out without a second thought because it is cheap, increasing the price of everything would reduce consumption from the majority of the population, two groups should get special treatment however, the richest and the poorest. We can't allow people to starve or continue their way of life without change. The rich need to earn their riches by taking part in society and pay for their share of the problem and the poorest need to be given for free the food, clothing and basic necessities to function in society, this includes education and healthcare. Modern life is wasteful in part because it's cheap, the rich must be forced to do their part of solving the problem and the poor need to be shielded from the transition period. Step 1 education, teach the people why this needs to be done, step 2 execution, just do it don't let your dreams be dreams etc etc. We need some aggressive changes if we want to stay ahead of the worst outcomes. Making do with less is already a great first step, convincing others to do the same is how we'll save the world.

[@shaunaburton7136]

I personally believe you are cute enough to solve climate change. Unless cuteness is not the key.

[@hollyexley]

Hi Adam, your channel is such a brilliant resource, I appreciate it so much!

[@ClimateAdam]

ah that means so much - thank you, Holly!

[@LeanAndMean44]

7:35 what about tipping points? Aren’t they presented by this switch pretty accurately? Also, can you make a video about the topic? Forgive me if you already have, you just have made so many videos over the years.

[@timbrown1878]

Your hair nearly caught fire at 1:23. Be careful.

[@ClimateAdam]

the risks I take for this channel, I'm telling ya!

[@stanohps]

Consume for capitalism is like oxygen for people, and at same time for environment its like carbon monoxide for people. Solution: 1st. step using gaus function to reach balance due online voting, based on references on everything. Variable tax will be created and change aimof production by adding one more thing to consider except money.

[@KJSvitko]

Europe and Germany in particular have been to slow to transition to wind and solar energy and all electric vehicles. Wind and solar energy do not need to be imported and can be produced locally in any country. Europe needs to provide incentives for homes and businesses to install electric heat pumps and get rid of old polluting gas and oil boilers. The move to electric vehicles will also be sped up. There is no good reason to help fund Putin's war by buying oil, gas and coal from Russia.

[@ClimateAdam]

if you speak German, I found this video really interesting on the topic of renewable energy in Europe in the context of energy independence from Russia: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3-wpGhspbZse6c

[@oleonard7319]

no we can't solve it maybe if we did something 20 years ago. We are already locked in at 3 degrees. It's just a matter of which dystopian future we are going to have

[@LeChat084]

11:40 : It will be far easier if we change by choice.

[@greenhippie5360]

I think lack of cooperation is a big reason why we haven't tackled climate change. We need to set aside our differences and work together to change our climate destroying habits. I'm sure an entire video could be made on this. I feel like people are more focused on taking sides and taking down the people who don't agree, instead of having a conversation and trying to understand one another. It's like the David Suzuki quote: "We're in a giant car heading toward a brick wall, and everyone is arguing about where they're going to sit."

[@intreoo]

I agree that a lack of cooperation is to blame but I feel like it’s general consumerist attitudes and the fact that decarbonizing entirely is a very expensive process that most countries don’t see the benefit in as it’s a long term goal. The world came together in 1987 Montreal for the Ozone situation, and now the Ozone is on track to heal completely in a few decades. Global cooperation is 100% possible; in my opinion it’s that money is blocking everything. For example, Western nations were supposed to invest around $100 billion into Africa for renewable energy projects, and yet only $10 billion has been seen. Money really brings out the worst in people.

[@cypress1337]

Keep up the vids! Thanks Adam.

[@michaelbyrd7883]

Capitalism is probably better then communism or socialism isn't it? I'm of the opinion that Capitalism has been perverted or maybe it's a planned ism? I describe as: Legalized thievery! Now Democracy is our best system of equality for us all, however, for some weird, bizarre reason there's people among us who think that freedom is not what we need. Democracy does carry the weight of equality, fairness, morality, and restraint. A good well informed populace with equality and justice for ALL! Thanks again Adam for your insights and sharing your knowledge. You're a good friend to us! I always wanted an Oxford grad, I could call friend. Not so easy to top that kind of a formal education. Harvard? Stanford? lol awesome

[@qbas81]

I think we should stop talking we have X decades, we have Y years. We need climate action NOW.

[@mechtheist]

Having prices reflect the true cost of is an old and very well understood and known economic concept that usually goes by the name 'externalities'. It's one of those things that once you hear about it it's so obvious you want to kick yourself for not tripping to it on your own when you were pretty young. It should be at the heart of virtually every discussion about laws and regulations that have economic consequences, which is virtually all of them, but it isn't, it's almost never discussed and this makes economics as practiced an almost ridiculous caricature. That's one of the reasons we ain't solved the problem yet, another is refusal to make it clear the best thing you can do is not have kids and at least make anyone with more than two a pariah. Oh yeah, and kill rich folks. Guillotines make wonderful gifts.

[@godotbartha]

THX

[@khronos893]

I think you dismissed capitalism too quickly. Yes we need to act quickly but understanding the power structures that created this problem is the best way to start dismantling it. Many of your suggestions for change are hindered by capitalism. Voting for example, in the US at least, has almost no real power to address climate change because of the capitalist system we live in. Corporate interests have bought our government. The way we change is through unionization and a mass labor movement. Hitting the ruling class in their wallets is the only way we can change things.

[@chris4973]

Agreed. Michael Parenti recommended a tax strike. Given that the government has been cutting resources from the IRS, if enough people just refused to file… there aren’t the resources available to the government to track them all down and prosecute them. Overwhelm the system. Do it by depriving it of the resources it requires to continue. Yanis Varoufakis has recently recommended much the same thing on DIEM25,. An idea that can help bring down this BS system of Imperialistic exploitation of the (VAST) majority, which currently favors only the ((EXCEEDINGLY SMALL!) minority in whose benefit it the current system works.

[@SonLe-gh3dz]

Isn't the best way to hurt wallets is through consumers not workers

[@lsauce45]

Who Runs the Government? We or They?

[@roberthicks1612]

Here is the real question. IF you are so insistent on going green, why is it that alarmist REFUSE two technologies that would make it cheap to convert to non fossil fuels. 1) nuclear power. Plenty of research on it. 2) Bio fuel from bio waste. Most people think of bio fuels from crops, but they can be taken from algae feed off bio waste, such as from your toilet and shower. This bio waste has to be treated at a cost to the taxpayers. Instead of paying for it to be treated, you can feed it directly into algae tanks where the algae will "treat" it by feeding off the human waste. After a couple weeks, you end up with water clean enough to water city lawns or parks, and more electricity than it uses, AND the result is either bio coal, or bio diesel. Most importantly, it would not cost an arm and a leg and it does not put us under the control of china. YET alarmist will fight this as "its not going to remove the co2". Its carbon neutral.

[@fidelgomez6491]

Good vídeo❤️❤️❤️

[@petername2608]

If i know gulf countries has a program called masdar ,this company is working towards renewable energy and making cities according to them ,and Saudi is a mega city were they are calling all the rich people to invest in it and be a part of it. So richest people will be still going to Saudi ,who sell crude oil . Karma

[@kaiyamwilliams5641]

Great video

[@KarolaTea]

Great video!!!

[@musicaismylovica]

Stop polarizing people away from the real issue. The problem isn’t greed, it’s that we don’t have the means to replace every single thing fossil fuels provide for our economy. The problem isn’t “those greedy guys DANG” it’s that infinite and continual economic growth is incompatible with going off fossil fuels and onto green technology. We make EVERYTHING possible with fossil fuels. EVERYTHING. There are no villains here, only a collective superorganism fighting for its continual growth aka survival by capitalism. Blaming oil execs throws your audience off the wrong trail and makes a villain that simply exists because society demands the use of fossil fuels to run. And that’s a problem. The real problem.

[@Oscar_Barajas]

Algorithm boosting comment.

[@___.51]

we need to retrofit and redesign almost every community in the united states to not be as reliant on cars, lol. we're screwed.

[@samuelprice538]

I really liked this video. The reason I unsubbed from OCC was his video stating that the only way to solve CC was communism. If he is correct we might as well all just give up because it's obvious the entire world isn't going to convert to communism in time to save us from CC. We have to work within the system we have, whilst also trying to change that system for the better.

[@samuelprice538]

I also appreciated you talking about being kind when we communicate. There's a small group of loud people on twitter throwing insults at everyone who isn't as 'green' as they think we all should be. The vitriol is extremely off-putting to whatever validity their message has.

[@yayforeffort]

@@samuelprice538 oh god forbid people watching anxiously as the human civilization nears the brink are being too mean... clutch my pearls!

[@toychristopher]

Our Changing Climate knows what's up. Capitalism is driven by market incentives. What market incentive would there ever be for degrowth?

[@ThomasBomb45]

What if he is right? Being "saved" from climate change isn't a binary outcome. Every ton of co2 makes life a little worse for the future, and therefore every ton prevented makes the future better. So if the status quo isn't making changes, a labor movement has the ability to reverse that course. And no, there's a lot that workers can do before communism. Socialism or even just unions under capitalism have a lot of opportunity

[@AlanBolshevik]

Unfortunately the chance of making the massive changes to the processes of what we, as a species, produce and distribute, including the energy used for that by working within the capitalist system is actually the impossibke scenario. Eternal growth and profit before all else are hard wired into capitalism. So depite the reality that overthrowing the insane capitalist system and replacing it with a new social system with real democratic control over the processes of production and distribution where condiderations of profit play no part (whatever term you use to describe that) is a long shot it is at the same time a completely necessary part of averting the ecological and social collapse into a horrific barbarism that is otherwise coming.

[@fer_meseguer]

ridunkulus

[@magicmaze1998]

What language did you write in that KZbin translated that into "mileage"😅

[@fer_meseguer]

@@magicmaze1998 😂 whaat, I wrote it in Spanish I guess

[@ThomasBomb45]

Cum

[@AlanBolshevik]

Good grief. So ending capitalusm can be an "ultimate" aim but concretely lets just do things which are about making reformist tweaks within capitalism. So even if parliamentary reforms is a way which can make the massive social and political changes required to avert catastrophic ecological collapse just how many parliamentary cycles foes he think we have? While all the time big capital keeps on with their commitment to making money from fossil fuels. The reality that Adam seems to be keen to overlook is that we have to integrate building towards ending capitalism into our climate activism right NOW. Any strategy which relegates that to some pue in the sky nice to have idea but is unrelated to what we actually do is effectively just green washing for bug capital. Ironically what Adam is outlining here is just partnif the problem.

[@ewelinaagata912]

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[@aladinin]

It`s a lie - it`s not real - it`s fake

[@KosaBrin]

You mean his hair right? It really looks to shiny to be real. I think you might be on to something.

[@toychristopher]

The oil companies that created this crisis know it's real-- that's why they've spent millions on creating the kind of disinfo that makes you think climate change is fake.

[@tomdumbell3731]

Jealous much? Their hair is clearly lush. Also, if you have to result to insulting a person's appearance, you've lost the argument.

[@KosaBrin]

@@toychristopher I dont think that the oil companies are the only one to blame. We regular humans also have our share of the blame to carry. It was us who consumed the oil they were producing. The companies just told us the convenient lie that everybody wanted to hear.

[@ThomasBomb45]

Ur mum's not real