Don't Look Up | James O'Brien - The Whole Show

[@benandrew21]

I hate the argument of "the earth has been through worse". Yeah it has. WHEN WE WEREN'T ON IT.

[@tkengathegrateful4844]

Yeah - it's as dumb as saying "What's wrong with cutting your salary to 30k/year? You were fine with less than that in 1987!"

[@StevenRemothLarson]

People love to conflate the saying, " your killing the planet" with a mistaken concern for the actual ball, then dismiss the problem because it won't destroy the ball. The thought of our relying on the current state of the ball doesn't even cross their minds...

[@brianbell3836]

No need to rage against the dying of the light. We've already knackered ourselves. The planet has millions of years left. Humanity, sadly, has committed suicide. We just haven't realised it yet.

[@peterbyrne9106]

Lead by example then.

[@BsKB1000]

The lady coming on and sharing her own experience, that was sooo powerful to hear and I hope she will find a way to move past this. I cannot imagine what she went through and don't have the proper words to express how much I wish her all the best!!!

[@amberc3728]

❤

[@Dylanesque]

We're always in touch with the trees. Our property is surrounded by them. They're our trees. We pay extra insurance in order for them to remain close to the house. They will stand for as long as we own this property. And every day I remind them they'll stay😊

[@stephanieb1574]

I feel the same about my trees. I also.promise the wildlife that as long as i live they will have a safe home on my property.

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

@@stephanieb1574 A lot of people cried when the sycamore at Hadrian's Wall was vandalised. It felt personal.

[@stephanieb1574]

@ArtyFactual_Intelligence I remember that story not to long ago...made me sad as well

[@Mossielif]

Please lbc can we get time stamps

[@JulieWinter-p4c]

Im not buying fuel from Shell because they are suing green peace😊

[@Anon-commenter]

I need to buy shell petrol today

[@Dylanesque]

I don't but fuel from Teboil because of the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Choosing to do so does not and will not bring that conflict to an end. Just saying.

[@robertovienescu8580]

Nice try BOT. 2 weeks old account.​@@Anon-commenter

[@Anon-commenter]

@@robertovienescu8580 everyone who is new is a bot right?

[@---df5sr]

I’m sure that will make a big difference 😂😂

[@marioncassell8760]

My sister lives in Scotland and no frost this winter! I live in Australia and this winter in the far north it was very wet and am in dread of the summer to come. I heard from a friend her son who lives in eastern WA had an expected temp. of 53C last summer. My son fights climate change on a daily basis only to find that where money talks, the thought of stopping of the money coming in scares them more than climate change. I can never get passed the idea of them leaving their children a world of horrors, is difficult to understand.

[@nelsterceira7120]

Love watching/listening to you sir

[@jamiewalton666]

Why, he thinks Starmer is a brilliant PM and Labour are doing great, and likes to put down and make a fool out of anyone who disagrees with him. He's a complete tool.

[@Dylanesque]

​@@jamiewalton666You mean he offers reasoned views? 🤔 Admittedly, Starmer has a number of serious problems to deal with and the majority of those problems all inherited from the Tories.

[@MV-se4di]

So late today. Please can you guys upload these at a consistent time. James’ show ends at 1 PM. Why does it take 8 hours to upload?!

[@dietcola2033]

To encourage live listening probably.

[@MV-se4di]

@@dietcola2033well nobody is live listening at 2 PM when James is off air are they? Plus, it’s on the global player early anyway. I just like to use KZbin as it’s way more convenient and can play it on my TV etc

[@mmmark___]

@@MV-se4di You can watch live you know? No beef just letting you know if you didn't.

[@Sherluck93]

​​​​​@@mmmark___ Maybe we can't. Do you need to argue just because a listener has a request and a question? Also not addressed at you... Sometimes the show takes a long time to become available. I've wondered why, also.

[@MV-se4di]

@@mmmark___I relocated and now I live in the US. So I’m asleep when it comes on live.

[@BidensStairPhobia]

Anything that could have been done to prevent climate change should have taken place in early 1980s at the latest.the planet is way past the point of saving.humanity is like a cancer patient who not only refuses the chemotherapy but continues to smoke 60 a day.

[@martknowler3051]

Working - Middle class is determined by a passive income. Ie, If you don't have to work to be able to exist, you're middle class (landlords for example) .... Unfortunately most working class people will never be middle class.

[@anovemberstar]

It comes down to human nature - 1) sense of powerlessness- it's not something that most people can do something about- I'm all for doing my bit, but it seems futile, and probably is futile, unless major populated countries do their bit; 2) it's not happening right NOW - of course, once it is, it'll be too late, but it's so far into the future, its difficult for most people to appreciate the danger.

[@jl-xs6ud]

I think most people are happy as their own comfy bubble is okay. I'm probably as guilty of this as anyone

[@catznjam470]

Extreme weather events are increasing much quicker than they've done in the past. The tipping point has already been reached, and it's building on itself now - so the time for argument and blame have passed - we gotta get ready for what's coming, and think ahead to where we are going to need to put these things, what will grow here? What will the temps be? High ground?

[@Frithogar]

My favourite excuse is our country/territory/city is too small to make a difference. The US says we won't do anything until China does. But the question is moot. It is too late to prevent disaster even if we all tried our best. The next 20 years is going to be interesting.

[@Pantifaximile]

all you need is 2 classes, workers and owners.

[@cologneconductor8591]

well, im listening a lot and of course its true, that women pre-apologize a lot more. but i remember a lot of "blokes" calling in, instantly saying that they are nervous and apolozing for that or other things the lack in skills (btw. no native speaker, sorry for my bad english ;-)

[@anovemberstar]

The irony with the former airpilot is, if all pilots stopped flying planes to contribute to climate change, it's highly unlikely he would have ever been to that mountain in Peru and had the epiphany that led him to radically change his life.

[@catznjam470]

And it's not just the extraction of fossil fuels or heavy metals, it's the toxic mess they leave behind, and the boom/bust syndrome, communities devastated financially and physically, cancer clusters lead poisoning, breathing problems etc

[@catznjam470]

Hey, we say Divvy it up! I haven't heard it in a while, in connection with food or whatnot..

[@kidShibuya]

Um.. But my boss used to often use the term coconut to describe anyone from an island nation and it was certainly derogatory. I worked in retail and he would tell me to "watch those coconuts" when black people came into the store.

[@---df5sr]

Sounds cool

[@kudosbudo]

so were they white? cos op, who is saying it is a qualifier.

[@Dimitrishuter]

Now that's just disrespectful to the real coconut island.

[@greamespens1460]

Rather than an actress flying all the way from LAX by first class saying that we should do more. Perhaps she should use her weath to pay for those who cannot afford electric cars.

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Electric cars are a marketing scam anyway, they're already starting to rust like other cars, the batteries themselves and not recyclable at this point and unless the electricity itself is generated from a renewable source it's just replacing one carbon source with another.

[@jayr9952]

​ You are the target audience of this discussion.

[@DDoubleEDouble]

timestamps please!

[@tearsinpain]

Is it so hard to realize that the french husband was part of a "group" of like minded individuals that "liked" that kind of content? To say this is a statistical probability that men or a large quantitie of man would behave in the same manner is bonkers .

[@emesfion]

I had deduced the exact same thing as you.

[@JeanSparrow]

I often talk to men about being mindful of not passing close to women on the street, especially when it’s dark. At best they should cross the street to avoid any uneasy feelings in the woman and just be considerate! The amount of men who smirk at this and don’t take me seriously always makes me aware of the “statistical probably” of men who could be part of such a “group” is potentially horribly high. Therefore not so “bonkers”. ALL men can contribute to women’s safety and should do so.

[@BsKB1000]

@@JeanSparrow That seems a bit extreme.. Men need to cross the road when a woman walks up? Do you often think you’re the main character? I agree that everyone has a right to feel safe, but if that means for you that people need to cross the street so they don’t walk past you, I think therapy would be a more realistic help for you than hoping everyone will adapt for you.

[@sarahknowler5348]

I don't think O'Brien ever been attached this is why no child should go to a boarding school he the result

[@bobjones-ns4bv]

I could be wrong but wasn't there an extra step in the guys process, where he met them with here and made some suggestion of a 3 way and then it proceeds to the rest. So its not completely cold calling it, on issue of reporting he has sort to vetted them a bit, sure I read that somewhere.

[@MsMojo231]

Can you please add time stamps for the different topics please 🙏🏾

[@AllIsWellaus]

Ignorance astonishing when there are balanced websites out there if you need those answers in life. In the age of the Internet.

[@seanlove3365]

Had a major case of The Matrix style Deja vous with the pilot caller who travelled to Peru... I'm adamant he had been on weeks/months ago saying the exact same thing. I'm going bonkers 😬🤯

[@deadcert]

i think i will do what jimbo does about climate change, nothing

[@theronster3533]

"no point so long as China...." is the usual comment i hear

[@mandlin4602]

Also the class question you can only move up not down

[@dangavel1283]

A friend of mine told me to 'follow the money ' as he distrusts the science behind climate change, i presume he's picked up the usual 'scientists get grants to lie and attest the science is real " I asked him ,who has the most to lose ? Fossil fuel companies is the answer, but as he's a brexit supporter as well I doubt hes gonna change his mind.

[@Actually-y7j]

Did Lord Ali also pay for her boarding school fees.??

[@grahampressler5371]

I didn’t quite get the work of the family of the lady from Redditch who researched her family from Coventry in the Middle Ages?

[@---df5sr]

That publicity picture James shows at the beginning. How many years ago was that taken 😂😂 at least 20. He looks like Nosferatu now

[@brianbell3836]

He looks all right.

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Yes James, it is _"pretty close"_ to terrorism.🙄

[@MAGAted]

in reality of course, during the pre-cambrian explosion of life, the earth was warmer than it is today

[@kudosbudo]

may be true but life was mostly very simple organisms.also everything i can find put temps at about half. were talking 7 degress in australia. so where are u getting your info from?

[@MAGAted]

@@kudosbudo i think the jump from very simple organism's is more difficult than the further evolution of complex organism's, and i'm talking about circa 530 -520 million years ago, not the entire cambrian period, which had huge swings of temperature if anything, global warming really points to the danger of new and innovative life forms developing, rather than any threat to the planet, which is ludicrous hyperbole

[@brianbell3836]

So what?

[@MAGAted]

@@brianbell3836 doesn't it give the lie to the articles proposition ?

[@brianbell3836]

@@MAGAted Humans wouldn't survive whatever killed off the dinosaurs

[@HUMANISTTALKS]

With regard to the second hour's topic, unfortunately, we are descendants of the most violent and A-moral humans in history. Sympathy and Empathy and secular morality are part of our evolution since since systematic removal of literal power through laws and societal punishment. Unfortunately there are those who still act in that fashion when they have the chance to do so. It's most evident in the top "1%" of societ. That is the same demographic occupying the boardrooms, CEOs and Directors, whom, are inflicting similar but modern version of barbaric Ethos of conquering as much as possible despite the cost to environment or ordinary people. I could go on....

[@jayr9952]

The Earth is going to die and so will we.

[@brianbell3836]

True. But the planet has millions of years left. The humans? Maybe a hundred. If we're lucky.

[@WotsisFace]

It’s probably not going to die this side of the next 20 millions years. And you have no evidence that it will.

[@katfeline3781]

Pulp's Common People?

[@shauncroft8899]

Will remove if it gets mentioned- but legitimately the psychological effect is learned helplessness- People feel like they lack power and influence in their lives, so they bury their heads so to speak because "well what can I do about it, I dont make the policies" and theyre so out of the loop that discussing policy with them is like pulling teeth. No matter how well intentioned they are they just feel fear about looking like an idiot to the extent they become foolishly blind to the consequences of their inaction. Also getting them to see how much more influence they could have in becoming active about it hits cognitive dissonance... then they would have to deal with the implications of their misplaced thinking and the excuses they rely on

[@brianbell3836]

Dear Shaun, it's already too late. We're finished as a species. There's no way back.

[@jiiaga5017]

Sometimes those people learned helplessness because they tried, over and over, and it didn't help. They hoped, the put their trust in people who promised, and they were betrayed. And after enough failure and betrayal, even the most stout person will despair and give up on it. And in the USA, the punishment for resisting is real and terrifying. Do you resist, get arrested, get labeled a socialist, get fired, and your kids suffer now... or do nothing and your kids and their kids suffer in the future, for most people it is a catch 22, a no-win scenario.

[@davidjongen1022]

Hopelessness

[@gregchew8225]

UK is not a major polluter of the earth. Our net zero won't make a blind difference when India and China are opening new coal power stations, etc.

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

No, but us buying their stuff makes a lot of difference. If we demand it being made by sustainable means, it will make a difference.

[@CFlfc98]

@@nothereandthereanywhere Not just their stuff either. ‘We’re’ manufacturing ‘our’ stuff in China or elsewhere, and buying American/European goods that are manufactured in China or elsewhere. Developing countries are using an economic system they had little say in creating to try and develop their economies and improve living standards, as is their right. European/American companies should manufacture at home, but they don’t fancy paying the higher labour costs, so they don’t. Ultimately it is the economic system, and a bit of geopolitics, that is the biggest obstacles to solving this crisis.

[@arthurfuxake1946]

Yeah, so let's not do anything then!

[@brianbell3836]

@@arthurfuxake1946 Yeah!

[@mrbrownz554]

One man band

[@danmartin886]

My guess was Dolly Parton 9-5 haha

[@greamespens1460]

So if I have a trainspotting platform and invite others to come along and watch trains is it surprising that they turn up?

[@wizardofjoz9259]

Yes, if anyone shows up when you invite them, it would be surprising

[@JeanSparrow]

Oh the poor trains! They are always being abused and exploited!

[@craigbaxter8619]

Hardly any insects in the garden , no flies on the car windscreen , ffsake

[@brianbell3836]

It's 100% true. I used to hate sunbathing in my back garden, due to wasp and hornet interference. No bother now. Quiet as the grave out there.

[@19Allan91]

I know James can be big headed sometimes, but I didn't think it'd reach the point where it blocks the view of the guests 😂

[@Durka-Durka01]

Free Gear Keir!😂

[@brianbell3836]

Boris Johnson putting 29-year-old Charlotte Owen into the House of Lords will cost the taxpayer over £300 every time she turns up. Rumour has it she's his illegitimate daughter.

[@firefox5926]

4:44 i dont know maybe we could blame it on them for not working as hard as we did and how if they just ate less avacardos they too could own a 6ft by 8 ft apartment and how they dont know how lucky they are... idk