How humans disrupted a cycle essential to all life

How one animal dug up carbon and put it back into the atmosphere at an astounding pace.
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Carbon cycles through earth at a steady pace. Plants and microorganisms absorb carbon, which helps them grow. Animals and bacteria eat the plants, breathe out carbon into the atmosphere, and take some carbon underground when they die. And a similar process happens in the ocean. It's nearly a closed loop, although some plants and animals don't decay fast enough so they turn into fossil fuel, which traps the carbon underground. But one animal started to dig up that carbon - and burn it.
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[@Vox]

Happy friday everyone!

[@lilaclizard4504]

Happy Saturday from Australia :) & great video! Nice & clear & offering some of the best of the genuine, practical & affordable solutions that we have no excuse not to be doing right now!

[@lawrencetchen]

Hard to be happy when the topic is so depressing :(

[@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii4222]

Would using electric cars for the collection of carbon or cars in general be a viable option? If you had a device that could filter out carbon from the atmosphere, scaled it down, distribute and build it into a lot of vehicles wich could then at some point just dispose of it in some form, maybe a cartridge everyone could easily replace, that would be the dream. You wouldn't even have so suck it out of the air and everyone could help.

[@prometheus575]

I love the animations, great video!

[@lilaclizard4504]

@@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii4222 the easiest version of what you are talking about & what was shown in the video is to collect any charcoal left over when you have a BBQ & bury it. That charcoal is pure carbon & will remain stable in that form & out of the atmosphere for around 1000 years if buried in the ground or otherwise safely stored :) You can make a bio-char creator at home yourself too if you want to, take an old food, coffee or paint tin & make a small hole in the lid. Fill it tightly with organic matter like timber or dry leaves & put the lid on, then put the tin into the fire when you're cooking your next BBQ. All the "wood gases" will burn off but because not enough oxygen can get in to combine with the carbon & form CO2 (CO2 is carbon 1, oxygen 2), the charcoal (solid carbon) will be left with everything else removed. To test if it's done, try to light the gasses coming out of the hole in the tin (carefully), they will light & burn while gasses are coming out, but when the flame goes out & can't be re-lit, then your charcoal is done. You can break it up into fine pieces if you want to (makes it harder for anyone to ever retrieve it out of the ground that way) or you can bury it in chunks, it doesn't matter, it's carbon locked into the ground & out of the atmosphere :) Added to pot plants or gardens, it will hold 70 times it's weight in water & also retain fertilisers & provide a home for micro-organisms that keep the soil healthy, so it's great for gardens as well as the environment There's lots of videos on here if you want to do it but want more details first :)

[@evaristegalois6282]

Thanks, Vox, for giving us our daily dose of existential crisis

[@Vox]

@@sebastianelytron8450 Level 100: Call out the heart from Vox, but get a heart from Vox

[@observer6892]

Proger13 10 solve the fundamental problem of skewed human morales and miscommunication we need to work together and recognize our faults before we try to solve anything, this includes HUMAN equality NOT just gender equality like feminism and the realization that broken families and abusive child hoods are responsible for creating sociopaths and other mentally ill who unfortunately hold high positions in our society and deteriorate human communication even further if you are serious about your post then this is the most fundamental issue that needs to be solved

[@Udontkno7]

@@Vox *meta*

[@ammarsiddiqui3602]

That's kurzgesagts job

[@jamesmalik3355]

Felt like watching a kurzgesat video

[@ethanvaldez5875]

The level of which VOX presents this video is for 5th graders on another planet to explain why we died

[@agnosticatheist7529]

Or it was produced for right-wing Americans...

[@ernestojuarezrivas8440]

Is meant to be seen by Donald Trump

[@kabochaVA]

@@ernestojuarezrivas8440 But it won't be seen by Donald Trump because it's on Vox, not Fox...

[@binozia-old-2031]

It is for 5th graders I think

[@gamingfaceeu595]

Seriously, do you Liberals have no better arguments than to insult people. God wonder why Trump won????

[@todaysgrailtomorrowsbeater]

If there ever was a video made for children, this is it.

[@WHBJr]

We are all children of Earth.

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

Today's Grail Tomorrow's Beater Sadly there are far too many people with the mental capacity of children in this world... hence this video being made for them.

[@ngchcgufviyvv6691]

Chances are more children will actually understand the point of this video than majority of the adults on this planet. And I'm not even gonna touch the actual number of people who are gonna do anything about it.

[@gobarn1877]

It's actually made for Fox viewers!

[@lilaclizard4504]

@@gobarn1877 and vegans, but sadly in both cases they seem to be commenting without even watching, let alone learning from it :(

[@Name-co5qi]

love how they called us all animals, both scientifically and as an insult

[@Lord_Santa999]

Sounds like this video was specifically made to explain global warming to Trump.

[@heyimrobee]

My first thought was the same :O It is funny meanwhile extremely sad.

[@vanman118]

Fake news it snowed yesterday!! Wheres all this global warming at?? XD

[@caydenmichael98]

@@vanman118 are you joking? You just described a weather event in a specific part of the world at a specific time. That's not even climate.

[@OptimusShr]

@@caydenmichael98 It was a joke about what climate deniers actually say.

[@caydenmichael98]

@@OptimusShr it's genuinely hard to tell these days if people are trolling or not

[@rashad123us]

This was made at a 3rd grade level so conservatives could understand.

[@lankyalpaca]

LMAO i snorted

[@Leo-zk9rd]

It really was though

[@lilaclizard4504]

It's for the extremists on BOTH sides!

[@PerceptionVsReality333]

Cuckservatives still won't understand this video.

[@sunshinedaniela8572]

TRUE

[@yato3520]

Hoho, these animals really screwed their lives up. Oh..

[@maroonmochi3426]

underrated

[@GasterFollower]

i thought this would have 10,000 "lmao"s

[@ghast4839]

So please, Please vote for Politicians who believe in Science.

[@pianoslayer2516]

Ermhs Parasoidis What makes global warming pseudoscience?

[@maroonmochi3426]

@Ermhs Parasoidis say that when your skeleton is 500 ft below sea level

[@ibadetismayilov3511]

none of them

[@salokin3087]

Still aghast how people will still deny it, for a paycheck of course

[@TuanNguyen-ko9wz]

For power and privilege

[@psycho5553]

is it so crazy to think it doesnt exist? because it was warmer before, i mean i live in sweden and at the times the vikings was alive it was hotter here then now(and its pretty hot for being sweden right now), thats why they also found greenland. Personally i still believe in global warming but just saying we could be wrong it could be nature causing it

[@zacharyrocks1]

Not a matter of denial, a matter of no better solutions.

[@fifen1846]

@@psycho5553 the average rising if global temperatures impacts everywhere differently. They didn't go into it in this video. But it change weather dramatically. Also you can't just look at the current weather and think "it's too hot must be climate change" this is why they gather averages. I love in the western US. Over the last 15 years we have gotten far less enough then we did in the prior 15 years

[@FirstnameLastname-hq5rd]

@@psycho5553 But when the earth has warmed and cooled in the past, it's been gradual enough that life adapted. This warming is happening so fast that the charges will be sudden, which is dangerous

[@GamerbyDesign]

This video will be used by toddler aliens to understand how we f'ed the earth up.

[@toogaytofunction3029]

Namely the one in a certain ovular office.

[@thebigsad9463]

*We are the 6th great extinction event*

[@aryabhattaborah1321]

Yay for humans!

[@eemelilounela1212]

The only question that remains is will we ourselves survive the extinction wave.

[@commie563]

More likely Fire, or Cold. Atom bomb or the struct methane from ice

[@pepesylvia9354]

Eemeli Lounela lol no we won’t. We will go extinct. Humans are meant to go extinct. Just like 99% of species who have ever existed. We aren’t special like we pretend we are.

[@bltvd]

More specifically “Capitalism” is the extinction event!

[@englesledgehammer]

You should start a "Vox Kids" channel where you can put these videos.

[@nikhilchauhan6890]

yeh trump supporters might actually be able to understand things too that way

[@kabochaVA]

Call it "VOX and friends"... and pray that the Orange-in-chief will watch it.

[@epsilonjay4123]

They're just trying to put it at a level that Trump can understand.

[@englesledgehammer]

@Nick Name You Got 'em!

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

*Nice animation. Good for children !* Very easy to follow :-)

[@animewatch4213]

This feel like a video for Aliens to learn about Earth's situation.

[@heyimrobee]

So it's ideal for Trump then.

[@sd-cc-gg]

Vox animators been playing to much Minecraft recently.

[@macyb2726]

Shubhashish Dangwal and I love it

[@gululu_965]

@@macyb2726 so do i lol

[@Omar-ir4gk]

... what?

[@BassEmpire]

0:00 - 0:07 flat earthers triggered by the word cycle

[@WAEVOICE]

Trap Empire Don’t know why. There’s still a circle involved in that myopic view.

[@3nabla376]

The earth is flat. It’s just facing us on the image.

[@InteractiveIdea]

Climate change deniers are triggered by everything else

[@HTPCYMC]

They did it by making Fortnite.

[@SeazBreeze]

REALLY?

[@TheAtti199]

u literally everywhere

[@ConFall]

@@TheAtti199 who

[@ConFall]

How to properly clean your metal computer Spit* Wipe* Tadaaa

[@ConFall]

@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw umm it's She

[@JH-vm2rh]

Some people excuse this issue because they say disturbances, like for example, carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere via volcanos is equivalent or even more to what us humans release. Scientific research has proven many times this idea wrong.

[@brianwood1041]

Maybe it’s not wether , which is bigger ,,,, the point is , it’s another huge amount , The earth was at its balance before humans.

[@spinosri9597]

How humans disrupted *a* cycle essential to all life Is there any cycle important for life that humans didn't disrupte?

[@oogachaka3447]

9-5 job cycle is a a thing humans dare not disrupt because it's deemed vital to their own well being.

[@kbs1212]

I don’t get how people see large scale animal agriculture as a natural "cycle of life". It’s contributing to the destruction of the earth. Yet people still can’t stop eating that garbage. Taking shorter showers and recycling isn’t gonna cut it at this point.

[@oogachaka3447]

@@kbs1212 What humans are doing is introducing invasive flora and fauna to foreign habitats and are actively assisting those invasions for self-benefit.

[@Rollinjoint]

Wait is this Kurzgesagt-in a nutshell? Cause it looks like it but without the voice

[@SeazBreeze]

And if you want to learn how to recreate this animation style, sign up to skillshare.

[@sophiesophie5874]

@@hatedumb its really dificult to make this kind of videos

[@ian-fc2yt]

The intros looks like kurzhesagt:v

[@RetroBerner]

A lot of youtube channels just write scripts then hire narrator and animators.

[@xWood4000]

I think both Kurzgesagt and this video uses something called flat design.

[@James-hg5tk]

Absolutely beautiful how the cycle was explained! Just watched with my daughter now she’s questioning why we do things the way we do :’) I’m so proud

[@mrf4ncyp4nts]

That's what my friends say when I rip a massive fart too

[@thunderb00m]

Weird flex, but ok.

[@DavidAbyssal]

Thanks for ilustrating your Methane and Mercapthane emitions...

[@HumansOfVR]

*Poem: CIRCLES OF LIFE* Everything Turns, Rotates, Spins, Circles, Loops, Pulsates, Resonates, And Repeats. Circles Of life, Born from Pulses Of light, Vibrate To Breathe, While Spiraling Outwards For Infinity Through The lens Of time, And into A sea Of stars And Lucid Dreams.

[@el.262]

just build a wall

[@patrik5123]

Gotta keep the carbon out somehow!

[@repost9581]

But what about the carbons that are already here?

[@Jon.A.Scholt]

Make the carbon pay for it!

[@hemen1126]

*POLLUTION RATE DROPS TO ZERO*

[@lilaclizard4504]

In this case raking the forest floor works better :) Just turn the contents into charcoal after raking, as per the sequestration discussed in the video

[@xuman1234]

This video did not address why global warming can also cause extreme (cold) weather conditions. Otherwise, people will always point fingers at winter storms and say there is no global warming.

[@ConFall]

They pooped just like us Oh wait a sec-

[@caKravartin9]

thanks for giving us a refresher on primary school science

[@karlkastor]

Global warming is the most important issue today. We decide now if the Earth will be livable for generations after us. My suggestion would be to put a hard cap on the amount of CO2 each nation is allowed to produce. Corporations then have to buy certificates at auctions allowing them to emit some amount of CO2. The money that is earned by this is used to support renewable energy and other environmentally friendly technologies.

[@Borderose]

Good luck trying to get people to inconvenience themselves--my solution is better and takes much less willpower. We just kill 80% of the human race.

[@KilgoreTrout-vo7uy]

@@Borderose have you seen Utopia?

[@luisguillermo6216]

This is basicly the Kyoto Protocol of 1998. Didn't work very well. Pray that the Paris Agreements will!

[@by.koi.]

Karl Kastor its not just carbon dioxide tho it is one of the major greenhouse gases other gases like methane nitrogen and water vapor can all increase global warming so you idea is good just apply it to all greenhouse gases. We don’t want to end up like venus.

[@meh23p]

Karl Kastor Isn’t that basically Cap and Trade?

[@philipsullivan4885]

I like how you tried to avoid anthropocentrism by saying "these animals" and "bipedal scientists". It's important to recognize that we're organisms just like everyone else.

[@yesistillusehangouts1751]

*In short, we polluted the atmosphere.*

[@max_208]

Thanks captain obvious !

[@KilgoreTrout-vo7uy]

That is how the Mafia works.

[@campkira]

We caused problem. we will figure it out. I go used as much resource before it got too expensive to do. I moved country just to reduced gas/oil consumption. No longer drive everyday. Recycle and sorting trash. What more you want form me.

[@kpi4162]

didnt know einstein still alive

[@markduncombe2120]

The narrators tone of voice makes it sound like he's talking to a 5 year old

[@rodeocyclone]

Mark Duncombe Well you have to when you’re speaking to certain people.

[@ON-YT]

we need to send this to trump. ASAP!

[@markduncombe2120]

@@ON-YT wow! Watch out Stephen Colbert, ON is gunning for your job with witty quips like that one.

[@heyimrobee]

It's designed for conservatives.

[@ziqi92]

Plant more trees! They're great for maintaining air quality and natural cooling.

[@chloebetony2219]

Man love these videos, really cut through what is broadcast and explain why and how we got here, such important news and story telling, keep it up Vox!

[@monstrellsf-w8277]

The Vox budget has really been blown on this video 😜

[@Supertomiman]

Thank you for including holistic grazing in the video, dispelling the myth that livestock is an enemy of the environment. I think that using machines to store carbon underground isn't cost or energy efficient enough to do us any good. We're probably putting out more carbon to power the machines than they're actually storing.

[@phil7081]

Oh, a new animation style? I like some aspects of it, but some others are kind of odd.

[@alveolate]

yea the "animals" don't look very appealing. i get that script wanted them to be transitional into "human" animals too, but they could be cuter or something.

[@michaela3760]

I love how there's a skeleton of a tree😂 2:03

[@1gorSouz4]

Oh, so that is what it was! haha

[@rishabhagarwal835]

Carbon doesn't directly turn into oxygen. The plant breaks water into oxygen and hydrogen ions, which are later used to convert co2 into sugars

[@jerry3790]

Looks like your animators are taking some inspiration from Kurzgesagt.

[@AskieFox-i2b]

Its the shortest and yet clearest explanation id ever seen. Great job

[@CoffeeStreams]

Am I watching kruzgesagt, box or infographics show

[@Redorgreenful]

Thank you for talking about humans as one of Earth’s animals, because we are! We forget that we’re just one of Earth’s species and there are other organisms that depend the fragile ecosystem in which we are living.

[@ernestojuarezrivas8440]

This is the one video that Donald Trump could actually understand.

[@heyimrobee]

Wishful thinking...

[@flyingpaladin617]

Why? This video isn't worth watching. I'm sure he's got better things to do, like drinking the tears of triggered libtards 😁

[@owenallen4863]

Okay so the thing is that cutting down more trees will cause more trees to be planted, because a large number of trees being used sends a message to the economy to plant more trees to make more money. So therefore, cutting down trees to use for wood/ paper will help create more trees for the future.

[@dblev2019]

You deleted my comment! But I guess you couldn’t have someone pointing out the fact that you use Carbon (C) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) interchangeably as if they were the same element. Their NOT! Don’t be dishonest, and don’t delete dissenting voices!

[@qpol]

99% of the time a comment is "deleted" it just hit the youtube filter and was removed automatically

[@rebecasandstrom6526]

A lot of people don’t like the format of this video but I do. It gives an unbiased perspective of what we’ve done. It’s explained simply without any extra flair to show the bare-bone facts, therefore limiting any opposition since anyone who objects would be objecting to literally nothing specific.

[@imaginepithynamehere4257]

Thank you for this!!! Hopefully, climate change deniers will see this super-simple explanation, and *hopefully* even just a small percentage of people who feel that humans aren't affecting these negative changes on our planet have an "ah-ha!" moment, and pull their heads out of the tarpit. We have to all be on board, so we can all change our destructive habits.

[@cyclenewshour4034]

Love the style! 😁

[@mj-100]

If only humans didn't exist most disruptive species in general

[@Rin-qj7zt]

we are an invasive species.

[@user-pq6hy4hx8n]

My grandparents live in the countryside, up in the mountains, 4 kilometers away from the city. It's comforting when on vacation but there's barely any human settlements aside from the neighboring houses. Everything is green and untamed. Farms are erected at various places but the entire mountain range are ravaged by the forest green. At night, everything is pitchblack if not for the urban lights. The moon and the stars shine bright at night, animals, insects and birds sing their hymns...looking back in time, this village could have been submerged underwater or filled with strange creatures unknown to us. Despite the beauty of the place, I cant help but appreciate to live in a time to appreciate these kinds of things. Without humans, these untamed lands are boring and dull. Life continues with only two objectives: procreation and survival of the fittest. Without humans, nobody will be there to appreciate its beauty. We maybe an invasive species but it us who made this earth livelier. Mother Earth probably grew bored watching dinosaurs devour everything and asked Uncle Jupiter to throw her some asteroid. Maybe Mother Earth got tired of the dull life his children are living and was fascinated when apes started to walk upright. Maybe Mother Earth let us live because we are a delight to her. Invasive but amusing creatures. Maybe, the reason why were still here is because Mother Earth is proud that we, her grandchildren went into the moon and explored her sibling planets. We who explored ouside her neighborhood, the solar system. Earth doesnt share our prejudice towards our immorality concerning our actions. We maybe mistreating her but Mother Earth knows, one day we will learn...we will learn to love her the way she loved us... And find her a partner, another planet to call... HOME.

[@felipejung6558]

They basically said nothing new

[@52flyingbicycles]

Children aren’t born knowing about climate change. They must be taught. There are plenty of adults who have never heard of it either, since most research into climate change is only a few decades old. Simple animations explaining gravity are good, same for climate change.

[@4WARD5]

People got tired of being told that the world was going to end within their lifetime and being let down, so now they are ensuring it will happen.

[@withcheesepls]

Those darn animals!

[@aleks456]

I really don't understand why Vox always has a large percentage of downvotes. Their content is pretty amazing and informative. What's the problem?

[@themaffaintmaffin6767]

Me: Who are these Monstrous Animals you speak of??!!!! Vox Be Like: Look in the mirror.......

[@oman636]

Very nice explanation of the problem

[@Faustobellissimo]

Wow, you talked about Holistic Management, congratulations! Nobody dares speak about it, in fear of the angry vegans that monopolize environmental discussions.

[@lilaclizard4504]

exactly my thoughts too :) Only a brief mention, I'm thinking they were hoping they could get away with that, without ensuing the vegan wrath, but it's still an important step! They listed all the best & viable ways to reverse climate change, but holistic grazing is the key one because it can self fund. The bio-char & tree planting needs financial inputs (and trees are useless anyway, just the profit making arm of climate change)

[@Faustobellissimo]

@@lilaclizard4504 Well, it's the second one. The key one is mass murder...

[@lilaclizard4504]

@@Faustobellissimo actually we can get there without that :) well maybe we need some mass murder of right for lifers ;), but if we can get free/affordable birth control to everyone in the world that wants it, along with enough food & medical care that their first children will survive to adulthood, then all the evidence says that populations self-stabilise & then begin declining, as women choose to use birth control & limit themselves to only 2 children on average. Gotta get that birth control out there though! Not play politics with it, like is happening right now with trump cutting all birth control funding to poor people in the US & underdeveloped countries

[@Faustobellissimo]

@@lilaclizard4504 That won't be enough. To reverse the environmental damage, world population must be lowered to the tenth part, or even less, in a matter of few decades. Unfortunately, the benefits of the demographic transition in Western countries are countered by the excessive use of resources by industrialized people, compared to underdeveloped people. So, population reduction must also be coupled with degrowth, a drastic lowering of the standards of living. It's either this or the apocalypse.

[@lilaclizard4504]

@@Faustobellissimo There's no evidence I have seen to support any of what you just said. Please link to a reputable source to back those claims

[@noer143]

They should show us this at school Edit: They just did

[@qvanicha7498]

clearly explained. thanks for calling us "animals"

[@Planet_Cents]

In the world of advanced science & technology, we believe there can be so many amazing innovations such as these ones, we just love how individuals can make such a difference. We will like to add this to our Planet Cents playlist to inspire more people. ~Team PlanetCents

[@enriqueva6688]

*The reapers were right!*

[@-biki-]

wommmmmmmm! Assuming direct control

[@beccalanning6370]

Yall I did not need this kind of anxiety going into the weekend like this

[@MrAykut23]

Prudent & aware nuclear energy

[@kj55]

This video is so true. We really need to do something about them dam groundhogs and all that carbon they are releasing.

[@Yoxs]

I aproove of this videos message, but it is full of errors. The carbon cycle has never been stable, and massive sudden carbon outputs from underground have already caused disasters in the past. Its not the first time this has happened, its just that this time is our fault

[@theinformationcenter1248]

I disagree with what you are saying and it' s misleading. You say you agree with everything in the video then go and deny everything in it. You are a climate change denier. The point is that it hasn't changed of a rate this fast. Only disasters and catasrophies causes climat change so quick like this. It's said because people like you will be the reason humas die off.

[@micooms]

Walter Alzurutt , spot on! Indeed there’s no elegant, balanced cycle of carbon on a geological timescale. It’s just the way we humans go about things and destroy biodiversity, warm up the place and can’t unite for a common future...

[@theinformationcenter1248]

@@micooms well said.

[@theinformationcenter1248]

@@micooms I don't think Walter really made sense but you did.

[@pauliisosomppi]

@@theinformationcenter1248 Walter said that he approves of the video's message, but doesn't approve of the way that they describe how the carbon cycle works.

[@lil_rotini]

this feels like a cautionary video that'll be shown to school kids in in 1000 years

[@mymicks21]

Thanos was right.

[@nadiiaihumnova7907]

The video was was so peaceful and relaxing at the beginning...

[@AvangionQ]

The solution to global warming is threefold: eliminate the most polluting aspects (coal, beef), plant hemp and others that grow faster than trees, and seed the oceans to encourage cyanobacteria to bloom ... those last two steps will provide more carbon capture than our civilization's output.

[@lilaclizard4504]

you didn't watch the video did you! Beef can reverse climate change when raised with holistic grazing. Meanwhile hemp is a C3 crop, that means that when conditions get hot & dry, as they will with climate change, it stops photosynthesising & if it doesn't get cool periods during the day, it just dies! It will therefore be more & more necessary as time goes on to switch from C3 plants to C4 plants, as they can continue photosynthesising in hot & dry conditions, unlike your hemp. When grown in the same environment, at 30 °C, your hemp will lose approximately 833 molecules of water per CO2 molecule that is fixed, whereas C4 grasses will lose only 277. (according to wiki, credit to them with a partial copy & paste in there) so FAR more growth than your hemp from them. For perspective, sugarcane is a c4 grass, it can produce up to 200 TONNES of organic matter per hectare per year! Hemp will produce an average of 6, but up to 12 tonnes per hectare, up to 4 crops per year in good conditions with year round rain or irrigation, so max of 48 tonnes per hectare per year instead of 200 tonnes, but with much more fossil fuel & labour involved to obtain just 1/4 of the material due to 4 plowings & harvestings instead of 1 (that's if it's harvested before seed, if it's multi-use grown & food is desired, then it's only 2-3 crops per year not 4, unlike the sugarcane that achieves both uses in that 200 tonnes C4 plants are primarily grasses found on the world's natural grasslands in hot, dry areas. Trade off for their hugely efficient carbon sequestration (23% of terrestrial carbon fixation despite making up only 5% of plants) is that they need a lot of manure & pruning, ie lots of cows in properly managed holistic grazing

[@AvangionQ]

@@lilaclizard4504 Almost none of what you said was in the video, except for holistic grazing ... which we are not doing. To the contrary, cattle production comes in two main forms: factory farming and deforestation ... topics not covered in the video either. That said, you have a good point about C4 grasses.

[@lilaclizard4504]

@@AvangionQ I know that wasn't in the video, the video was trying to keep things as simple as possible, I was just trying to expand on why holistic grazing works. As for it's use, there's hundreds of millions of hectares of land around the world currently in holistic grazing & a lot more farmers that would switch if they could afford the initial infrastructure that's needed. It's fine for countries like Africa, they can do it with cheap, human herders, but for the developed world, the current grazing area needs to be divided into at least 100 or more paddocks & water points put into each one & that's a lot of fencing & infrastructure costs! Anywhere that the government funds that as part of farm or environmental subsidies, farmers HAPPILY switch, so that's what we need to push for, for example, the Australian government funded the change to 1 million hectares of grazing land that was running off onto the Barrier Reef & completely stopped all run off by doing so. Sugarcane is still causing serious run off issues, but all cattle farmers are happily moving all their cows daily in their new smaller paddocks (that they are now stocking with 2-4 times more cows than they had on the farm due to increased productivity with holistic grazing & therefore making huge profits) Now as for the numbers of cows in different systems though, 7% of the world's cows are in factory farms, 93% are on grass right now according to the UN's FAO Full details of exactly what livestock are eating & factory v grass can be found in this scientific paper www.researchgate.net/publication/312201313_Livestock_On_our_plates_or_eating_at_our_table_A_new_analysis_of_the_feedfood_debate & rainforests are cleared because poor people are starving & want an income, it has nothing to do with cattle! They simply grow whatever pays the most & if you remove what pays most, then they go with the second most & clear additional land to make up the financial shortfall from that loss. Amazon generally grows soybeans that are harvested for vegetable oil for human consumption & the waste then fed to chickens & sometimes pigs (since waste levels from vegetable oil production are around double the entire food needs of the world's chickens for a year, so need a second animal to dispose of the rest of the waste so it doesn't have to be burnt), while Indonesia's deforestation is generally for palm oil to meet the needs of vegans who are demanding "animal fats" & "tallow" be removed from everything from cosmetics to money & each time they do that, they demand that more palm oil be planted to produce these replacements, look at the fuss in the UK over tallow in the new polymer notes & vegans insistence that palm oil must replace it! So any deforestation is political & poverty related not cattle related. Cattle are happier on drier natural grasslands, they get fungus in rainforest climates & there are 5 billion hectares of grasslands in the world, of which only half have significant numbers of grazers on them (wild or domestic) the rest are burnt annually to prevent immediate desertification, but this is only a stopgap measure & cannot replace the proper management of returning migrating grazers to that land (and each hectare burnt is equal to 6,000 more cars on the road, Africa alone is burning enough to equal 6 trillion more cars on the roads due to a lack of available grazers to eat that grass! So we need to stop the politics & start the holistic grazing in the correct locations of the world if we want to fix climate change (that & some serious bio-char would be great too)

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@@lilaclizard4504 `So any deforestation is political & poverty related not cattle related.` Except that animal agriculture, specifically cattle, is the leading cause of deforestation. `Of the four major deforestation drivers, beef has by far the largest impact. Converting forest to pasture for beef cattle, largely in Latin America, is responsible for destroying 2.71 million hectares of tropical forest each year-an area about the size of the state of Massachusetts-in just four countries. This is more than half of tropical deforestation in South America, and more than five times as much as any other commodity in the region.` www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/stop-deforestation/whats-driving-deforestation

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@@AvangionQ The Amazon is currently 550 million hectares, so I really don't think less than 2 million hectares of that matters that much do you? Maybe you should focus on where the rainforest & other eco-systems are in genuine threat of being completely eliminated & all plants & animals in them sent extinct! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Indonesia _"Between 1990 and 2000 20% of the forest area in Indonesia had been lost (24 million ha) and by 2010, only 52% of the total land area was forested (94 million ha).[13] Even despite a moratorium on new logging contracts imposed in 2010, the rate of deforestation continued to increase to an estimated 840,000 hectares in 2012, surpassing deforestation in Brazil."_ Likewise natural grassland eco-systems in the US are the most endangered eco-systems, with less than 0.5% remaining. These are the buffalo planes & can be VERY easily conserved while producing beef, yet you don't want to take any action there, just point fingers at poor people & order them to starve so you can keep burning your fossil fuels & producing food you don't even need instead of restoring your country's forests & rainforests & grasslands? Stop blaming cows & look at which animal is REALLY responsible for deforestation! Poor people clear land & grow whatever will pay them the most because otherwise they starve to death!

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the animals’ designs are so cute haha

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you can translate into arabic through add subtitles...

[@jazzking1131]

The video was slow And easy to understand and grasp Thanks....

[@zakgraham1283]

A Vox video that doesn't directly blame Trump and Republicans alone for all of our problems??? Is this a Black Mirror episode or something????

[@sammydotorg]

Vox always has the best videos.

[@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642]

Uhhh... Kurzgesagt exists.

[@alicedubois1348]

For everyone thinking that global warming doesn't exist. Let my words sink in: Here in montreal canada, we had a green christmas, and a green new years. Our first real snow fall was a few days ago. My youngest kid went sledding for the first time a few days ago. This is in canada...

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I love a channel in KZbin, ty Vox, you are amazing, congrats from Brazil :)

[@Bacopa68]

I think more carbon is removed as carbonates in the ocean than is removed by any fossil fuel generating process. Of course, some carbonates get the CO2 cooked out of them by volcanoes. Not trying to dispute global warming here, just pointing out that carbonate deposition in the ocean is by far the biggest carbon removing process.

[@hamzamahmood9565]

*Nobody knew a 3rd grade level animation could be so complicated*

[@ms.rstake_1211]

They've been teaching us this since primary school.

[@davidzachmeyer1957]

Instead of sequestering all the carbon in the ground, use some of it to make plastic instead of using petroleum.

[@videovideoyeah]

Thanks for this

[@johnnybadboy3475]

This narrator is like your Spanish teacher speaking a foreign language slowly, except now she’s your English teacher.

[@porksteambun2220]

very nice video, very well enjoyed. you have such a soothing voice

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What where those noises towards the end?

[@nightdx0]

Great video so simple and makes the point and don't let viewer forget easily.

[@clairemerner5773]

This was the right voice for this video

[@churricardo1457]

Haha for a second i thought they were gonna call out my sleep schedule

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I’m excited to be on board!

[@soccerguy325]

So basically, humans' existence was the worst thing to have ever happened to the planet.

[@matthewguerra4797]

How much pollution did it take for Vox to make this video?

[@TheSamuraiXX011]

Very little compared to agriculture, fast fashion, and automobiles.

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@@TheSamuraiXX011 Do they drive to work? Do they use computers and cellular phones? Do they buy clothing? The answer is yes!!! They are part of the problem.

[@artisttick9123]

Nature: Everything is going great, everyone is living happy and is perfectly balanced. Humans: Hello there...

[@zoranailic7153]

The ticking at the end kills me

[@chrisrus1965]

While freeing carbon back to the atmosphere might be bad for humans it increases the potential size of the biosphere.

[@CorpseTongji]

its scary to imagine inhabiting a finite bubble with limited resources and tightly coiled natural processes only just now beginning to unravel , but its necessary i keep an aquarium , and similar chemical cycles are crucial to keep the fish alive , involving the fish , the plants , smaller creatures , and the microbiology of the tank all working together to keep the chemical components of the water at safe and healthy levels if one aspect is tipped too far in either direction everything dies , virtually overnight we need to start considering our situation as being just that precarious

[@arvedludwig3584]

Recently i heard that in the Russian permafrost grounds are melting, thus enabling the microorganisms to digest rotten plants which are in the ground. The amount of roots that are in the ground have a gigantic mass and it's getting warmer and warmer.

[@lilxrich123]

this video was filling me with amazement, then it made feel sad and scared.

[@kevins3821]

Humans: "We're good at doing many things!" Nature: *"That disturb us"* Life: *"And kills us..."*

[@indoorda]

When the animal stood up and started sucking the carbon from the ground, I was shook.

[@thevioletskull8158]

We get it,we humans are terrible,jees. We can fix our mistakes,we just need time.