State of the Climate: Looking back at 2023 and ahead to 2024 | Presented by Dr. Jonathan Foley

[@sav376]

Just taking notes for myself and others. 3 big items for food/ag: 1. Deforestation for beef, soy beans, and palm oil. 2. Animals emitting methane 3. N2O emissions from fertilizer

[@lucapeters3150]

Looking forward to the drawdown food initiative

[@robkahn8452]

Thank you for a very informative presentation and the great work you do!

[@sav376]

Could someone help me understand subsidies of fossil fuels? Just want to be able to communicate that with friends and family. Thanks!

[@nelassal1]

Great point … just in 2022 subsidies accounted for U$ 7 trillion for oil and gas. A true absurdity!! Probably much more than subsidizing renewables… unthinkable how this industry lobby against the planet.

[@martiansoon9092]

For cement, there is carbon negative alternatives. Start using them even when they costs a bit more in the building state. Total costs are less when carbon emissions are counted in. This should be done in governmental level. For steel, you may use hydrogen based solutions. And yes, that will mean producing green hydrogen with renewable energy. We need loads more green energy and specially heat storaging.

[@juandiegobernal8473]

Thank you for the video🙌🏼. Its very interesting to see a scientific optimistic view of this tremendous challenge

[@martiansoon9092]

First you should look which countries have reduced their emissions while without import/export changes. If you are exporting some goods that have less emissions, but in the same time importing products with huge emissions, the total balance is bad. Any shift for greener production os good, but it has to include all products. Having a good environmental law in one country should mean that its imports gets cleaner too. This is not the case on global market.

[@ivanc-s]

Good eco messages. A fluent fastpaced delivery.

[@BJAvegan]

We are not all confused. We need engineers to take the science information and design a plan for cooling the planet. Stopping animal agriculture first would cool the planet enough so that stopping fossil fuels could withstand the heating caused by the masking effect.

[@juandiegobernal8473]

👏🏼👏🏼🌱🌱

[@SamWilkinsonn]

I could only make it 11 minutes through. I understand having an element of optimism to avoid defeatism, but this is too optimistic and undersells how severe our current situation is. You can still be non-defeatist while being blunt with our climate predicament.

[@amberazurescale5617]

Kudos. I only made it 7 minutes. Too much hopium. The human species has "a little bit of a shot" at a graceful retreat, nothing more.

[@cbmtrx]

I think don't confuse the messenger with the message. Foley sounds to me like a gentle, naturally optimistic person. So he's not going to be barking at us about do-nothing legislators or approaching famines. Judge him by his work and his message IMO.

[@SamWilkinsonn]

@@cbmtrx it seems you’re the one confusing the messenger with the message. The narrator means well, and seems like a nice guy, but our situation regarding the climate is catastrophic and the narrator is underselling it. If you disagree then I don’t want to change your mind, in a similar way that I wouldn’t like to change a religious persons mind at a funeral when they think they’ll meet the deceased in the afterlife, no matter how silly religion is.

[@ProjectDrawdown]

Thanks for the feedback. We think the core message is this: The current situation/trajectory is dire, BUT we have proven solutions to addressing climate change that need to be deployed at a massive scale as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible. There is a path forward, but we have to act now.

[@AlanPater]

❤❤❤

[@JAD73567]

This would have been a great analysis in 1992. 2024? Not your fault, but it’s too little too late.

[@StressRUs]

"We can still win this race." HA, HA, HA!