One Decade to Midnight (part 1): Problematique

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Georg Rockall-Schmidt

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@GeorgRockallSchmidt 3 ай бұрын

Part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIe3p6GNepWigMU

@vicarnagra7135 3 ай бұрын

Why did you get popped with the climate change moniker under your video?

@NSGrendel 3 ай бұрын

If you didn't move to the US to get better access to weaponry, then your commitment to our cause may be under review, tovarisch. Every morning I wake bathed in sweat. In an unrelated matter, I worry about you becoming the Keith Allen of Reality Theorists. I almost said Keith Harris. That would have been even harder to parse. Based on surge pricing, you need to get into audience participation theatre. We're talking triple digits. Maybe anything up to tree fiddy. Thank you for being the Metro 2033 of KZbin. I hope this helps.

@ObsceneSuperMatt 3 ай бұрын

@@vicarnagra7135 He mentioned Climate Change.

@egonne2316 4 ай бұрын

Another dose of Georg's limitless optimism

@billwaterson9492 4 ай бұрын

Why is it refreshing though

@kenon6968 4 ай бұрын

Slurp up that Hip Tang

@Gliese380 4 ай бұрын

I bet he's a hoot to hang out with at funerals.

@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120 4 ай бұрын

His rant stinks of tankie tears, sweet sweet tankie tears, that bitter fatalism of a pouting child that screams "it was gonna fail anyways" as he eyes you enviously.

@razjeban 4 ай бұрын

@@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120what are you on about? Do you think he's wrong or he's not wrong but you still wanna dunk on "tankies" despite them being right?

@LegwarmerProductions 4 ай бұрын

I'm truly thankful it's still only the 1970s. We have time!

@DaxxTerryGreen 3 ай бұрын

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@mauriciomorais7818 3 ай бұрын

I'm sure those 2020s chaps will come up with a solution.

@SkyNick 3 ай бұрын

@@mauriciomorais7818 nah they lost to the battle of brainrot

@noahrafter-lanigan2409 3 ай бұрын

If anything, the few intelligent people left in society will have a field day trying to control the idiots easier, maybe if we are lucky they can use the idiot labour to create a better world

@nuggyfresh6430 3 ай бұрын

Lol

@GyroFootlose 4 ай бұрын

I was asking myself: "what could possibly fuel my depression this coming week-end?" Thanks Georg!

@hydrophobicbathtowel6816 4 ай бұрын

Makes me less depressed and more hopeful to know how seriously others are taking these problems as well.

@redlight3932 4 ай бұрын

you need fuel?

@asagoldsmith3328 4 ай бұрын

@@redlight3932 Yep. What a concept. I could use a little fuel mysef.

@carlpanzram7081 4 ай бұрын

If this fuels your depression then you need to go outside and touch grass. Limits to growths and the related and adjacent ideologies are widely debunked as naive malthusian science fiction. We can't predict ANYTHING in a complex system, and human society is the most complex system we know. Why would we run out of resources? Name me a single reason. We have a giant nuclear fusion reactor providing more energy than we could ever use. We rarely ever "use up" anything. Not a single resource is "used up". We make it difficult to recycle, but far from impossible. We can easily recycle any resource we use in any process. The only reason we don't do it is because it takes a lot of energy. Our energy technology has been improving at a INSANE rate in the past 100 years, and we keep finding out new things about our universe that we can leverage for our benefit. I can promise you that a lack of resources will not be the reason we fail. It's going to be war and misguided philosophies.

@handsofrhythm3415 4 ай бұрын

@@asagoldsmith3328 and we could all use a little change.

@NIL0S 4 ай бұрын

If anything, the problem is stagnation. It's human nature to create, seek and explore. But what we are doing right now is going in circles. That's not growth, it's aimless consumption. The problem is that we are enslaved to "line must go up" instead than to actual progress, breaking of new ground, reaching of new places and ideas.

@nulltan 4 ай бұрын

But the company will have to close it's doors if my fridge doesn't break within 18 months.

@pupyfan69 4 ай бұрын

have you read karl marx? theres a concept in his work of the mode of production (capitalism in this case) growing to become a limiting factor on the forces of production, preventing further progress.

@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120 4 ай бұрын

Define progress, this is such a loose and aimless statement that it can be made into anything, "we dont need to make products consumers buy, we need to make green toaster because THAT is progress"

@sean748 4 ай бұрын

"I haven't even begun to peak"- humanity

@avanonyme 4 ай бұрын

@@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120 I agree with the fact its loosely defined, but it is still true. Like, lets say progress is tied to an increase of value. Value at this point in time is tied to money, and that's how we define progress right now. Imo a big part of the solution is to recognize that value is personal and has different meaning to everyone, thereby letting people decides what they want to focus on and making 'progress' on. If you think making green toaster is progress then by all means suit yourself

@letsburn00 4 ай бұрын

I've worked in mining. Probably the greatest flaw in their reasoning was an awareness of the uneconomical deposits. I've seen a significant number of mines where it's a single material mine, but it actually has multiple materials available, they just never bother to "bolt on" a recovery system. For instance, one of the biggest uranium mines in the world is actually a copper and gold mine, but they extract uranium as a bonus section, since it's worth recovering due to the price.

@postmodernmining 4 ай бұрын

Short sightedness plagues the industry at all levels. I had a buddy running a diamond placer operation in Sierra Leone. Gold dust poured over the edges of the recovery unit to go straight to tailings.

@NickLaslett 4 ай бұрын

Although the general concept of limitations of finite resources, has some merit. We are so far from that point. Human society is incredibly inefficient. However hard it is to comprehend how society will function differently, we will adapt. That is the nature of life. The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones.

@alexx12545 4 ай бұрын

@@postmodernmining im not sure how u can live with ur self cooperating with exploiters and expletive behavior that hurts and kills innocent people, ig im making assumptions here so i'll give u a chance to defend urself

@ceeemm1901 4 ай бұрын

@@NickLaslett Tell that to the Easter Islanders....

@MB-st7be 4 ай бұрын

You see this all the time in academia, they don't understand the difference between reserves and deposits

@Blackfyre741 3 ай бұрын

Growth means nothing without the welfare of human beings

@Hemostat 3 ай бұрын

All our Bitcoin rigs will continue humming as we rot

@roscojenkins7451 3 ай бұрын

Profits above all else. Capitalism ensures an autonomous bank account will own all wealth long after we have all been killed off by the necessity of adding a percentage point to the autonomous stock portfolio

@Blackfyre741 3 ай бұрын

@@roscojenkins7451 who cares about the planet when we can make the magic number on the screen go up

@roscojenkins7451 3 ай бұрын

@@Blackfyre741 exactly

@paulsansonetti7410 3 ай бұрын

Actually without growth,human being go back to killing each other ad nauseam Growth means people can get benefit from trading The second the pie stops growing,they instantly go back to pillaging Violence has gone down due to less conflict over resources mostly Amazing how few leftoids realize this fact

@cholst1 4 ай бұрын

Yeah what happened to all that free time technology was gonna give me, strange that.

@Tofu_va_Bien 4 ай бұрын

Capitalism happened, unfortunately.

@Watchmanskey 4 ай бұрын

Well, with AI taking our jobs, yes we're all gonna get a lot of free time Just don't expect to be paid a single cent when that happens

@pummisher1186 4 ай бұрын

The cake is a lie.

@NateTheNarrator 4 ай бұрын

An Age of Strife is what's coming for us. With no work and seemingly no future, people aren't just going to lay down and resign themselves to starve or die in poverty. There will be wars and rumors of wars. Technarchs, warlords, tyrant governments, and marauders will make our world a dangerous place. Weapons, the likes of which we never imagined, will be deployed to bring destruction and devastation to the masses. Those who survive will be a hardened and bitter people who will do whatever is necessary to survive. Then again, I may be wrong and for the sake of a bright future for mankind...I pray that I am.

@Elora445 4 ай бұрын

@@Watchmanskey Don't understand how not everyone can see this. It is already happening, damn it!

@markfrancis5164 4 ай бұрын

50 years ago - anyone who was interested and wanted to know the real prospects for the developed world where quite clear in the 1960’s & 1970’s. We just choose to ignore the problem and ‘Carry On Regardless’. If an economic and ecological car crash is inevitable & unavoidable, why not drive at top speed and see how far we get.

@antonyjh1234 4 ай бұрын

I don't think it was chosen to be ignored, I think they believed things were being taken care of and they went back to their jobs, got money and the cycle continued. There was no limiting factor after money could be printed out of thin air.

@Trace-l7k 3 ай бұрын

Ronnie Raygun opened the floodgates for an oligarchy to supplant a democracy. It’s working exactly as planned.

@paulsansonetti7410 3 ай бұрын

Too bad This thesis has been completely disproven See " The ultimate resource " by Julian Simon for the copious receipts

@GruntKF 3 ай бұрын

Those at the reins of the status quo chose that because their belief systems are informed by colonialism which they inherited. Don't be so quick to write off all humans when it's really a small minority of psychos hellbent on unsustainable ideas

@HealingLifeKwikly 3 ай бұрын

@@paulsansonetti7410 Yeah, Julian Simon "won" that bet with Paul Ehrlich in the short run, but in the long run, it's clear that Ehrlich and the other scientists warning us were right.

@sprobablycancr4457 4 ай бұрын

I talked to my sister about this. She called me a "Negative Nellie". Now I'm in prison.

@PoptartParasol 4 ай бұрын

An average Bitlife playthrough :p

@daviddewey2107 4 ай бұрын

All the population all over the world is going down very quickly. So none of this is actually relevant.

@atomictraveller 4 ай бұрын

nah. west papua is worth fighting to keep free. they actually do function a bunch higher than anyone you know would believe.

@gmw3083 4 ай бұрын

@@daviddewey2107 where's there proof of this?

@Nick2Stix 4 ай бұрын

declining population might actually be worse than overpopulation, as there will not be enough people to work the fields or drive the trucks or move the containers we need to facilitate international trade. this will also lead to famine and societal collapse@@daviddewey2107

@filteredjc4653 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Georg. I just got back from a night of music, drinking and hugging my friends. The intro alone brought me back to bleak reality

@JoshTheWhale 4 ай бұрын

❤ be well my friend 🐢

@troddedet 3 ай бұрын

Did you get sober?

@joeyj6808 Ай бұрын

What were you trying to do? Have fun??? How selfish! jk glad to hear someone is

@alexscott1257 26 күн бұрын

The good news is that we are actually living in eternity. We are just playing a game with ourselves where we string the eternal moments together to create time. Just ask Alan Watts!

@joshuahebert7972 4 ай бұрын

Or, "How I learned to stop worrying and love the Hiptang."

@sven-erikviira1872 3 ай бұрын

@chloegrobler4275 2 ай бұрын

"It's what the plants crave"

@gdemorest7942 4 ай бұрын

"It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."

@zerg0s 4 ай бұрын

@mas7833 Good job spotting the joke, mate!

@aby110 4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Lemme predict the past

@peterwiley706 4 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure the pencil I'm holding will fall to the floor if I let go of it.

@thelostcosmonaut5555 4 ай бұрын

@@peterwiley706 I'll bet you 50 Greek drachmas that it won't.

@roscojenkins7451 3 ай бұрын

I make predictions about the past all the time. And I'm never wrong

@Metalfrailruiner 4 ай бұрын

Peak Georg. I hope that part 2 covers the MIT study that initially predicted collapse around 2040 along with the recent KPMG recalibration/buttressing, along with the Pentagon and NASA's assessment around a similar timeframe. I've been grappling with this reality for years now. I spent the first little while spiraling into despair especially as the global pandemic set in, nowadays I try to live in the moment and appreciate what I have because the more time I spend worrying about the future, the more time's gone out the door and less for happiness.

@Iwasneverhere84 3 ай бұрын

Coming to the same conclusion myself. Time to enjoy the planet. Even if we wipe ourselves out, the earths beauty will still persist.

@1873Winchester 3 ай бұрын

Same except despair it's more like, serves you right.

@WolfeSpeider 4 ай бұрын

Gonna have to start digging into the Hiptang reserves

@henryglennon3864 4 ай бұрын

Hiptang! [Dial up noise]

@paineoftheworld 4 ай бұрын

Touch the Strategic Hiptang Reserve ™ at your peril. Please understand Citizen, you are being watched.

@flatline8580 4 ай бұрын

I sure hope there are Hiptang asteroids or something that our saviour Elon can harvest for us...

@Ethan1123Ac 3 ай бұрын

Hiptang! “At least it’s not people”

@adamelliott2302 4 ай бұрын

Perfect! Been looking for a new book to read the kids at bedtime.

@ZendegiLeonard 4 ай бұрын

Well, that trip to England certainly lightened the mood

@davidmeyer3795 4 ай бұрын

The Soylent green music always adds anxiety

@mercurysunlight5689 4 ай бұрын

Caught that. 🐉

@darkdave1998 3 ай бұрын

Non-renewable resources are incredibly inefficient, except for Nuclear energy, which is ridiculously underused. We've also become better and better at getting more output from less energy. Hell, even with fossil fuel, the 20th century significantly underestimated the Earth's oil reserves, so even those will, for better or worse, sustain us for a while still, EVs notwithstanding. Climate change is genuinely a much bigger concern than resource scarcity, and a shift to Nuclear and Renewable energy would largely fix both, at least for a long, long time.

@jonhillman871 4 ай бұрын

my quicktake is that it might not look like a collapse but just a case of everything becoming more expensive so that we stop having as many children and buying as much stuff.

@kellywalker1664 4 ай бұрын

Not in Their interests. They killed Roe (and will expand on it), and They'll figure out how to criminalise not buying crap we can't afford.

@baddreams4368 4 ай бұрын

At that point everyone everyone will get so fed up that it becomes a numbers game…

@StarxLolita 3 ай бұрын

@@kellywalker1664 Eh. They killed Roe but that only makes a difference in so many states in a single country. How many of those states have an interest in getting rid of birth control altogether? And how many of THOSE states would be able to follow through before the inevitable US collapse that's coming? It's really not a problem. The birth rates are declining across the board.

@beth8775 3 ай бұрын

You mean how things look today?

@dominictarrsailing 3 ай бұрын

in the west, people are already not having enough children to replace the current population, south korea is the furthererst along that path

@rubenskiii 4 ай бұрын

Nothing more cheerful than watching this with my morning coffee. Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.

@bluegill5802 4 ай бұрын

I guess they did take action by removing chromium from car bumpers. Now they are made of dead dinosaurs and spent popsicle sticks. Thank goodness

@ChrisChocol 4 ай бұрын

oil isn't dead dinosaurs

@scottsauritch3216 4 ай бұрын

@@ChrisChocolyes, but you're forgetting all these people who are on here panicking don't know that so how else are they going to panic? How else would they think we have finite resources if they don't realize energy isn't dinosaurs?😂

@Wheres-my-toes-bro 4 ай бұрын

@@bluegill5802 Oil is abiogenic and replenishes, 'dead dinosaurs' & 'fossil fuels' is a marketing term.

@kellywalker1664 4 ай бұрын

@@scottsauritch3216Yep, Dead Carboniferous Critters just doesn't have the same hook. 😕

@leafbranch1872 3 ай бұрын

Too many cars.

@chadthundercock4806 4 ай бұрын

Probably not gonna end. People don't really understand how supply economics work, things won't suddenly end, they just get gradually worse.

@Danuxsy 4 ай бұрын

a lot of things in history has suddenly ended.

@quillo2747 4 ай бұрын

@@DanuxsyName one? It took centuries for the roman empire to collapse into the dark ages.

@ucantSQ 4 ай бұрын

@quillo2747 France killed off their monarchy and went to war with the rest of the world in a relatively short time. Russia did much the same, in their own way. Sometimes things change slowly. Sometimes the pressure builds until things change all at once.

@hellodelightfulrando 3 ай бұрын

@@quillo2747 love when dudes’ go to example is the Roman Empire. There is so much more history out there than the Roman Empire fam

@spaman7716 3 ай бұрын

@@hellodelightfulrandoYeah but a lot of it is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things when talking about today, the Roman Republic and its transition to an empire are very pertinent to the modern age.

@helios7170 4 ай бұрын

This is the uplifting material I need with my 9am coffee on a Saturday morning ✨

@CraftyF0X 4 ай бұрын

There is a heavy rain out there to further paint the mood xD

@helios7170 3 ай бұрын

@@CraftyF0X Nothing but a blasting heat where I am, but thank you

@thrillhouse_vanhouten 4 ай бұрын

Immediately following the line about famine at 10:09, KZbin served me a commercial for hamburgers

@paineoftheworld 4 ай бұрын

I got Starfleet Command.

@gopro2804 4 ай бұрын

get an ad blocker!

@pacboybbb5487 4 ай бұрын

Burger King

@ysf-psfx 4 ай бұрын

Why do people still watch youtube ads? It's really easy to block them. Adblock and Adblock Plus.

@middler5 3 ай бұрын

I got offshore wind resources. I win.

@db5823 4 ай бұрын

Ok, hear me out, Soylent Chartreuse. We take the tasty Soylent Green and blend it with the Soylent Yellow, thereby extending our resources by making a more palatable Soylent option that is far more sustainable. We are working on Soylent Orange, but there have been issues. Soylent orange is generally not as appealing to consumers as Soylent Chartreuse, and many consumers complain that they expected Soylent Orange to have an orange fruit-like taste (which it does not).

@iGame3D 4 ай бұрын

How about Juicey Soylent, it's soylent of every color, but in stripes! Nibble slow on the part you like, make it last because it's all you're getting until next Tuesday.

@freshbornmute2752 4 ай бұрын

GO AWAY BigSoy! I AM NOT EATING YOUR SOYLENT! I AM NOT A SOYBOY!

@chada75 4 ай бұрын

But Soylent is made of People! IT'S PE-OPLE!

@billlumbergh9251 4 ай бұрын

Don't forget soylent zero for those trying to watch their figure

@Trace-l7k 3 ай бұрын

@@freshbornmute2752it’s PEOPLE!! Say you never saw the movie without saying the words.

@CSGraves 4 ай бұрын

When I hear politicians go on about 'growth', I can help but imagine tumours.

@iandougall7169 3 ай бұрын

That's how politicians see us

@Ptaku93 3 ай бұрын

*can't

@CSGraves 3 ай бұрын

@@Ptaku93 Argh, another typo! If it wasn't for these damned TUMOURS...

@Debbie-henri 3 ай бұрын

Tumour is a word that describes a politician perfectly.

@DrDanQ92 3 ай бұрын

That is what capitalism is. Unending growth in a limited system.

@tattygumcancer 4 ай бұрын

Once again I feel my internal organs shrivel up for a Georg video. Nothing makes me feel so alive

@CraftyF0X 4 ай бұрын

I must say he knows a thing or two about captivating story telling.

@teacherdude 4 ай бұрын

Always good to see Georg referencing that well-known 70s feel-good sci-fi classic, Soylent Green.

@PlatinumAltaria 4 ай бұрын

It's interesting that everyone was wrong. Malthus was wrong that population would outstrip supply, as we observe population growth declining. On the other hand the optimists were wrong that there would be a technological solution, and we have overexploited our planet's natural abundance in a way that isn't sustainable.

@quillo2747 4 ай бұрын

Nuclear power can easily be the technical solution. But its politics stopping it from happening.

@DS-lk3tx 3 ай бұрын

Stop moving to rural areas when you destroy the cities you inherited.

@KateeAngel 3 ай бұрын

Malthus was right in how we described what was happening in his day, he was wrong about predictions and possible solutions. And new revisions of Limits to Growth show in fact we are following the predicted trajectory in many ways

@KateeAngel 3 ай бұрын

@SwordJames city centres in America are bad due to suburbanisation, car-centric development and consequences of past segregation. Where I live city centres are the most elite places, with insanely expensive apartments, and all the places worth visiting

@PlatinumAltaria 3 ай бұрын

@SwordJames You’ve touched on the core of Malthusianism: deep misanthropy and a desire to get rid of undesirables.

@djangofett4879 3 ай бұрын

My neighbor's 6 yr old kid said to me "there's too many people and always more all the time and we're destroying the planet" you dont need science PhD to see the writing on the wall. even homeschooled little kids can see it.

@stoutmacintosh5390 4 ай бұрын

Let's hope we make it to part two.

@lhays117 4 ай бұрын

Nah fuck humanity.

@OffendingTheOffendable 3 ай бұрын

As I step outside and outstretch my arms watching the flash, I say "finally, see ya"

@diegoaespitia 3 ай бұрын

i think the issue here is that no one couldve predicted population collapse from no one having children in developed nations. everyone thought we would continue to grow our population. i believe our population will shrink before we run out of resources. climate change will end us as it will drain the most precious resource of all, water.

@psy-op 3 ай бұрын

No water ? But due to your imagined climate change we get lots of rain and flooding all over the world. That flooding is actually caused by man made Geo Engineering, not climate change.

@matthiuskoenig3378 3 ай бұрын

Climate change won't get rid of water though. Have you even looked at any of the mate modles? Even the most catestrophic (and so far extemely unreliable) modles show that the overall presipitation will actually increase. Some regions will be drier yes, others will be wetter. You climate change almarists are just as much science deniers as climate change denialists. Worse infact.

@danielflanard8274 3 ай бұрын

@@psy-op Potable water, fresh water. The ice caps are composed of freshwater but they rest in a saltwater ocean.

@travispardy8649 2 ай бұрын

I've lightheartedly made comparisons between your channel and the work of Adam Curtis before, but this series makes it more apparent - and I mean that as the highest form of compliment. This is insightful and informed documentary filmmaking, and very provocative (if terrifying).

@dougsinthailand7176 4 ай бұрын

Since humanity’s inception, our population and our territory has been growing and growing, even taking the form of stealing territory from less advanced cultures. But now we’ve occupied every inch of land on the earth, and we’ve stabilized our population. Unfortunately our culture is so linked with growth, it’s hard to have a conversation about the economy without mentioning growth. If we can’t find a new paradigm, we’re dead.

@antonyjh1234 4 ай бұрын

Not sure about the less advanced culture bit but good people have to be able to stop bad people and sometimes we forget that. Imagine if one country says they want to continue or even one state, if they have all the guns, how would we stop them? It'll probably, well it is now, going headlong towards destruction and those on top of the rubbish heap will think they have won if their families are still alive. Maybe emergent response from this next few years heat will turn things around and we go in a new direction because this one is done.

@dougsinthailand7176 4 ай бұрын

Primarily I’m referring to our addiction to growth. And at a certain point it becomes unsustainable.

@antonyjh1234 4 ай бұрын

@@dougsinthailand7176 Mention degrowth and everyone throws a fit and yet food, shelter and medical care should be the low hanging fruit, maintain that for everybody on the planet and we have come a long way but society doesn't seem to have that control, if you have money, everything is supposed to be at your fingertips and for that there has to be supply. With oil running out and the backbone of society and the pumps about to run dry, it sure will be interesting.

@miguelmalvina5200 3 ай бұрын

we need space exploration asap

@igodohealth9884 3 ай бұрын

"..stealing from less advanced cultures"? No. Just more avarice and less love. As long as we keep believing in the fake world paradigm & the whole his-story bs, it all ends in nothingness.

@michaelfiori6700 3 ай бұрын

Followed you for yeara man. Thanks for the content. Just everyone know its gonna be okay. No matter what we all get put back in the box once the game is finished.

@KarmaSpaz12 4 ай бұрын

"We're all winners, just keep telling yourselves that in case you forget. And remember as well that someone out there wants your cookie you got for coming first place. They want two first place cookies, more even. They're not a winner, they're a loser. But don't worry, if you give me a part of your cookie, I'll make them go away. No need to keep asking me for a part of your cookie, I'll help myself. Just remember that if you find yourself without your first place cookie at all, it was that other guy, not me who took it from you."

@freshbornmute2752 4 ай бұрын

That's true. I am the cookie.

@ronindebeatrice 4 ай бұрын

That sounds like Cave Johnston.

@atomictraveller 4 ай бұрын

but the bunch of guys at the lodge with the black and white tile floors, still ignore that, that's irrelevant huh crazy

@gmw3083 4 ай бұрын

Welcome to the jungle. We've got what you need. You can have anything you want, but you'd better not take it from me.

@liamskeo1768 3 ай бұрын

i hope we dont run out of the resources to make my cookie

@aimalek-z9i Ай бұрын

Minutes 5.45: Did the meeting ever considered inviting thinkers from non English and non European countries? Surely global issues require participation from all corners of the world

@glyph2011 4 ай бұрын

This does remind me of many depressing Adam Curtis films. That’s a huge compliment , by the way.

@HonestSonics 4 ай бұрын

'But this was a fantasy...'

@GeorgRockallSchmidt 4 ай бұрын

“And what they found… was *extraordinary*”

@NickLaslett 4 ай бұрын

Curtis actually covers this text and the council of Rome

@antpoo 4 ай бұрын

I immediately thought of Adam Curtis at the very start also. I wonder what he is doing now. Ps, I loved his stories.

@jameseden9380 3 ай бұрын

Nothing since the welsh drama, we wait with baited breath @@antpoo

@GruntKF 3 ай бұрын

Looking forward to part 2. One of the most impactful things about the limits to growth imo is how it has been scrutinized over time yet still appears to hold water, even as recently as 2023. Our ruling class should be held accountable as criminals for so blatantly ignoring such insight and insisting upon a status quo that has already unjustly costed lives.

@robertlackey7212 3 ай бұрын

I read that book and it did not say socioty would collaps in 10 years , the worst likely date was 2040 and many scenarios streached as far as 2060. My best guess would be 2045-2050 based on the book , about 3 billion people die in a few years due to chemical contamination , deficent diet , and just starving. after that there is a slow decline in population. I think we should ban pesticides , herbicides , etc. and start covering crops with nets like in the movie Tobacco row and building greenhouses. We should also start taking recycling seriously. We should stop having wars and awfull leaders. We should ride bikes a lot more than we are now.

@Jamesthomas12187 29 күн бұрын

Clearly you have drank the kewl aid. Plastic recycling is a lie foisted on all of us for profit.

@jamesfinch691 4 ай бұрын

Two days ago I was telling my partner about my favorite KZbinrs and you came up. I couldn't remember your name, and I wasn't subscribed, so I was unable to find you! The algorithm spit out this video for me today and I'm both creeped out and ecstatic about it! I'm subscribed now and I have many videos to catch up on. Thanks Georg!! ❤❤❤

@GeorgRockallSchmidt 3 ай бұрын

Welcome back, cheers

@glass7923 4 ай бұрын

And good day to you too, Georg!

@ellingeidbo8469 4 ай бұрын

So long as we are unwilling to change, there will always be an impassable obstacle.

@Otherlevel51 3 ай бұрын

There is enough growth for everyone. Only problem is oligarchs dont want competition

@ADITYAMISHRA-h7g 3 ай бұрын

Respectfully disagree about growth, but the point about oligarchs is true. From a fellow aston martin fan

@morenofranco9235 Ай бұрын

Thanks for this Georg. I remember Peccei's work. I had this documentation in the early 1970's. We KNEW. But we were to busy serving ourselves. Later generations will write on our epitaph: "THEY WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO SAVE OURSELVES".

@Jury4318 4 ай бұрын

Georg, you have become my favorite Englishmen living in the states.

@Billtwiggmeister 3 ай бұрын

It’s not all doom and gloom, societies come and go, but the people remain. I’ve got a nice house, what would it be like if society collapsed but we were able to still eat. I could still live in my house without power, I grew up on a farm that had intermittent power outages. We had a propane cook top and a fire place. That’s all I need to survive, something to eat; a way to cook it, and a place to stay warm in.

@mattockman 2 ай бұрын

I v'e done the same.

@Bodomi 4 ай бұрын

You should make a video showcasing your cast iron pans, film it as if you're a big cast iron enthusiast channel, talk as if you have like 10 years worth of cooking and cast iron review videos, plans for the future, etc, etc, etc. Just a thought.

@MinecraftSpongeT Ай бұрын

Good thought.

@shlep444 4 ай бұрын

i was just thinking of your channel the other day and couldnt remember what you were called. and there you were in my recommends. i like you

@CrabeVideos 4 ай бұрын

Georg you are really on a run lately. Love your videos and you keep on improving I think.

@ironickrempt 3 ай бұрын

I would recommend reading “Cadillac Desert” to anyone interested in the bit about agriculture. Haunting book that one. If you are looking for hopium in regards to agriculture, I recommend doing some reading on Cuban agricultural reforms following the collapse of the USSR.

@mr.nobodymc9741 4 ай бұрын

It truly is the old Scottish proper verb of “what are you selling and how much does it cost?”

@fluffycolt5608 4 ай бұрын

Oh georg, greetings from sheffield. "Someone didnt" had me laughing. Keep it up.

@kevinmcqueenie7420 4 ай бұрын

So I only have to wait half a decade to start singing "Five Years" by Bowie without feeling disingenuous? OK, good to know.

@swade4202 4 ай бұрын

Daaaaad

@StookyBill 4 ай бұрын

fantastic video, i read limits to growth about 5 years ago but never knew the context to how it came about so this was very informative and i'll have to dig out that copy i have where ever it may be.

@WobblesandBean 3 ай бұрын

As a scientist, I am endlessly frustrated at humanity's refusal to course correct. I don't see our species surviving to see the end of the millennia.

@ishmaelmcgoo2945 3 ай бұрын

Millenium is awfully optimistic! Taking your words literally, I agree, because if we we're unlikely to make it through the next couple of centuries, we can't make it to the next millenium, but I think the clock is ticking much faster. Gotta love that scientific precaution and modesty (I'm not insulting you, I do love it, it's why scientists should speak out more and people who aren't as good at reasoning should speak less and listen more). Humanity is trashing its environment so quickly and doing so little planning for how it's going to deal with the crises that will come from this, that we're almost certainly headed towards a significant collapse after a chain reaction. Even a moderate reduction in food production combined with a large increase in migration due to climate change will lead to conflict, which will reduce our ability to provide for everyone, which will lead to more conflict, in a death spiral. Not only that but most people will have forgotten how to live a less technologically advanced lifestyle, and the environmental devastation will make it much harder for those who do know. On the other hand, anything can happen in that length of time. It's fully possible to produce people who are forward-thinking and responsible under the right conditions, and those people may become very powerful and correct the course. We have to let go greed and classism if that's going to happen though, because right now a lot of the most capable people are totally spellbound by their power and status and not doing much for the world.

@Trace-l7k 3 ай бұрын

I’d be surprised if the human species survives another decade. Climate change will impact all. Insects are constantly becoming extinct, if one of those species is the honey bees, humanity has only a few years left.

@CIB8282 3 ай бұрын

If you're a scientist then you'd be aware of how adaptable humans are from a survival standpoint. Yes, society is screwed but tribes of people will exist unless Earth is completely destroyed.

@bonitajanssen745 3 ай бұрын

“Behold, I come quickly.” ~ Jesus BOOK OF REVELATION IS COMING TO PASS

@Debbie-henri 3 ай бұрын

As a gardener, I have to agree. I argue with people who claim there is no climate change, even though they know I am as connected with the environment as it is possible to be. Every year, for the past 20 years, but the years following the pandemic in particular, something changes, often drastically. The smell of the air, the power of the sun - and the 'different' way it burns skin and leaves, the way I cannot scent rain on the wind anymore, the overall diminishing productivity of soil (even though I do more to feed it than ever), the sudden omissions in insect/animal species - which are then replaced by feral/invasive/highly adaptable 'vermin' species, the way insect species are migrating to and past my location at an increasing rate, peculiar growth rates in plant species - enabling some to suddenly dominate beyond the normal balance, the massive increase in plant diseases (blights this year have been at their worst), the change in wild species balance, and the despairing rate at which people are just giving up (obvious by the increasing rate they are willing to befoul the landscape around them, buy silly stuff to distract themselves from immediate problems, continue to try and keep up with the Joneses (like that's the most important thing), and breed indiscriminately (with no thought of their children's future in a fast diminishing world.

@RandallSlick 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for your work. I find that your videos back-to-back with Just Have a Think's are a welcome antidote to the relentless jollity and good news of todays mediaspace. Refreshing.

@EllisThings 4 ай бұрын

This was a fun one. More of this content please.

@SisyphusianSaturnite 4 ай бұрын

The long awaited return of the minutes to midnight chronology

@kelownatechkid 4 ай бұрын

Excited for part 2!

@Pablo668 4 ай бұрын

This is very interesting and well put together.

@Michael0663-qo4wx 3 ай бұрын

Money is the cancer of the earth

@andybaldman 2 ай бұрын

That and the humans who it has captured

@cat19649 3 ай бұрын

Love when YT presents me with a solid channel.

@kubexiu 4 ай бұрын

I hate those intellectuals. They always think and work from the actual rulers perspective. Nothing related to the society as a whole. Always We, and them and how to squize as much as possible from citizens.

@leafbranch1872 3 ай бұрын

So you hate posting on social media I take it?

@theewildrose 2 ай бұрын

Pleasure to work with you Captain

@TruthSword7 4 ай бұрын

I think these types of reports also make the wrong assumption of thinking that they truly know how much of a given resource is available on the whole planet. And more importantly, they assume that humanity was intended to go on just as it is now, forever. Which we aren't.

@effexon 4 ай бұрын

ive seen lectures on youtube where they explain this mining thing exactly.... smaller amounts of cromium of copper per ton of rock is gathered nowadays meaning more energy and effort is needed to get same output. eg uranium mines stop mining when price goes too low. perhaps in china and couple other places taxpayer subsidizes it for their domestic industry so we dont see total collapse.

@Jury4318 4 ай бұрын

and wildly ignoring plastics

@Linterna001 3 ай бұрын

I think there was an update somewhere in the last years that said that we were currently tracking for BAU2 and CT which are two of the four main scenarios proposed by the original LtG.

@AnyoneCanSee 3 ай бұрын

I've just discovered your channel. This is an excellent video. Thanks

@kenon6968 4 ай бұрын

If Georg had access to the BBC footage and sound libraries he would be on the par with Adam Curtis

@TransmissionEpicts 3 ай бұрын

Very. very close indeed! Which is fascinating as Schmidt doesn't have a background in journalism or making current affairs pieces for TV. But perhaps almost ten years of making increasingly thoughtful and well argued videos on important subjects has honed a natural talent in much the same way.

@GrouchyOldBear7 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

@theunknowncorps22 4 ай бұрын

I've known about limits of growth and what they have been saying for years althought I never read their book. I just knew it was somewhat famous and the general thesis. The authors have been screaming about this for 50 years. The issues of finite resources but people have spent their time either ignoring it or arguing against it rather then acting on the central problem presented by their work: the impossibility of perpetual growth. Now we'll find out if the timetable is correct as well.

@MVargic 4 ай бұрын

World population will soon peak and start to decline, and developed world economies have sucesfully decoupled economic growth from co2 emissions, so demand for food and energy will stop growing. Even if natural resources were infinite, the era of exponential growth is ending and a global malthusian scenario has been averted. Climate change is a far greater danger than running out of resources and its effects are already kicking in, while we are centuries away from exhausting rich deposits of resources and can always potentially recycle. Elemental resources dont disappear after being used, they are just transformed.

@kchuk1965 3 ай бұрын

@@MVargicyou have it ass backwards. Climate change is a non existent problem. A little extra plant food in the atmosphere is of no consequence. In no way has CO2 emissions been decoupled from production. Production has simply been moved out of the West mostly to Asia. So the West produces very little. It mostly consumes. Does that sound like a stable arrangement?

@vitorafmonteiro 4 ай бұрын

"to undermine the idea of a proletariat utopia (and we were so close!)..." And those side remarks are why I love Georg's stuff.

@jwalkerblck 4 ай бұрын

Oh god why do I subscribe to this? Looking forward to part two

@TheMoovix1 4 ай бұрын

Also by The Club of Rome in a publication entitled The First Global Revolution : "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.". Don't swallow your enemies propaganda.

@andrewbaumann2661 4 ай бұрын

Well I guess pollution isn't a problem then. Thank God for that!

@TheMoovix1 4 ай бұрын

@@andrewbaumann2661 Of course pollution a problem and a tool. Fixing pollution would be far from an insurmountable task if there were a will to do so. Likely food shortages will be also at some point. All will culminate into totalitarian controls over our lives if nothing is done to stop it.

@dodgechallenger2116 3 ай бұрын

Club of Rome said back in the 70s, we'd all be dead by now.

@leafbranch1872 3 ай бұрын

Oh yeah? Where can I read that publication. @@dodgechallenger2116

@gnardawgyt 4 ай бұрын

One of your very best videos, really hope there actually is a part 2!

@GeorgRockallSchmidt 3 ай бұрын

Part 2 will come out September 27th. Cheers

@TheDoomWizard 4 ай бұрын

Ah yes the yearly reminder of how effed we are. Thanks for this.

@erwin643 4 ай бұрын

Wow, excellent documentary. Love the inspiration from Soylent Green at the beginning of the video (Which was released in theaters a year after LTG was published, I might add). For me, following the LTG study all these years is the closest thing I have to a religion. BTW, love the narrators' kitchen, with its post-collapse motif.

@Gary_Hun 4 ай бұрын

What is even growth, anyways?.. really, it's just a bunch of increasing statistics in the eye of investors. It does not take quality into account whatsoever. Economical stagnation is nothing to be worried about, it means you have reached a nice environment, now it's time for intelligence to flourish.

@Francois-XavierSarrazin 3 ай бұрын

I just wish you could buy 1 car guaranteed to work for 30 years (or 5 times 6 cars that last 5 years) or a house you could heat with one tonne of coal all year long... little things. Instead we are forced to waste and buy this insane bs.

@tedarcher9120 4 ай бұрын

Peak oil is just around the corner guys i promise just arohnd the corner

@dianasalles0 2 ай бұрын

I love your sprinkling of humor

@3DAndy76 4 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the interview with the EPA guy in HBO's "The Newsroom". Can't wait for part two.

@thatfatman6978 4 ай бұрын

As a member of the International Bell Protectorate Organization or IBPO, I must inform you that Bells are to be rung, you may ring a Bell, Bells may not be banged, clanged or otherwise cajoled into producing sound. Please, for the sake of Bells everywhere, refrain from promoting such malicious actions in the future. P.S I rung your bell.

@GeorgRockallSchmidt 4 ай бұрын

More disinformation from Big Bell

@Glaucus08 4 ай бұрын

Another critique of Malthus is the self-fulfilling nature of Malthusian driven economic policy - take the Great Famine in Ireland, where the supposed overgrowth of the Irish population led to the disaster, despite very limited state intervention and continued food exports

@postmodernmining 4 ай бұрын

I would say severe state intervention, just not in a good way.

@legend36555 4 ай бұрын

And by state, you mean hostile British occupiers.

@matthiuskoenig3378 3 ай бұрын

@legend36555 and by hostile British occupiers you mean the Irish. The Irish nationalists like to pretend they were oppressed, but they had power in the British government, and their local governments. And these were elected by the Irish. Ie No more and no less than any other British subjects.

@legend36555 3 ай бұрын

@@matthiuskoenig3378 you haven't a clue

@frantisekcerny6677 4 ай бұрын

What a video!!! looking forward to part two!! :)))

@87Julius 4 ай бұрын

I haven't read the study, but it would seem to me that trying to statistically model the entire production of the world as a predictive system not only has its limits, but is somehow irrational - or "too rational", if you will. It's not so much that a it cannot predict x or y element which would break the course of its calculations, rather it is that statistics can't say much about political or cultural issues. If resources are dwindling, it seems more likely that the global south or poorer classes are going to take the hit, not the entire species. The cost of restructuration will perhaps be authoritarian solutions and so on. The idea of extinction or apocalypse raises some world solidarity, but only in an abstract humanist sense. International intervention will only weakly be motivated by an apocalyptic discourse, because everyone will just think about saving their own hides at the expense of others. I don't think fear does anything to produce solidarity, even if it can unite people in some sordid manner. Historically what is probably useful right now is to think of something like the collapse of the roman empire. The collapse of civilisation means its restructuration. It doesn't mean zombies and people getting shanked in the streets in some nightmare Mad Max scenario (which is our media-fulled apocalyptic vision ; back in antiquity the christians had their own idea of it). I assume part two will remind us that we're, in fact, already living the collapse.

@antonyjh1234 4 ай бұрын

Imagine you live in a media bubble, imagine you live in a world totally reliant on oil, a resource that has no replacement and is running out, that you can't use it all, not in the current way otherwise the world will go to hell very quick. The last time the earth warmed to where we are going 86% of all species died and at that time it took 700,000 years of sulphur, that at our current rates would take 2300 years. Imagine a heat that at the moment hasn't been around for 3 million years, imagine an ocean rising the fastest it has in 3000 years and decadal warming had a 100% jump in about 14 years and is increasing in speed and 3 metres of sea level rise is locked in. Imagine the human species as a bell curve, somewhere in there is the middle, you are somewhere in there financially, the value of your life and relationships all depend on a resource that those at the top of the curve will have further to fall to a baseline when it runs out, those in the global south not so much. I don't think the Roman Empire collapsed, they shifted because of resource depletion, now there's nowhere else to go.

@Haruhater 3 ай бұрын

It's pretty fascinating, yeah

@EvgeneXI 4 ай бұрын

There’s been “sequels” published since TLtG but they aren’t particularly optimistic either. But what gets me is that it’s obvious. All these companies and governments seeking constant growth are deluded. EVERYTHING is finite.

@IHATEGOOGLESOMUCHFUCK 4 ай бұрын

It's malthusian nonsense.

@Armored_Saint 3 ай бұрын

World turns slowly. Sun don't shine. Silence stills the air and kills the chime. ~ Black Sabbath (1990)