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[@ContraPoints]

#EarthStrike Free speech suggestion guide: www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php

[@themoustachelady2937]

hi, mom. i'm top comment. i feel very proud of myself. I only hope that climate change deniers are willing to take in the refugees that come with the problems

[@owenmaitzen339]

Hi! With regards to a massive general strike, I noticed you were in contact with the #EarthStrike movement in preparation for this video. It's a promising new organization that has been endorsed by many prominent leftists including Noam Chomsky and David Graeber. We're only a few weeks old right now, and we're still trying to get off the ground and spread our reach. To this end, you've built up an impressive following among our primary target demographic - young, leftist, and online - and an official shoutout from you, maybe in the video description, would mean a great deal. We're organizing three global protests for 2019, culminating in a general strike on September 27. Our mission statement, list of demands, and information about national and local campaigns can be found on our official website at earth-strike.com.

[@MalxaAza]

I have seen your title, and I thought for a moment you were going to talk about the riots in Paris today. I live not far from there, and it is been quite HOT (burning cars, looting, fighting with the police…). Strange synchronicities… By the way, I loved your videos about capitalism. Did you hear about Silvio Gesell and his ideas about money?

[@nicanornunez9787]

Yes. Thanks fuck the 100.

[@georgecorrin6054]

Another great resource for communicating with climate change deniers: grist.org/series/skeptics/ It organizes topics by stages of denial, scientific topics, types of arguments, and levels of sophistication, and it's written with a fun snarky voice.

[@siracastori01]

"what freedom, are you an oil company?" is one of the best arguments I've heard on this matter yet.

[@kimik-sb1bc]

@@alphen9487 I mean, we're kind of responsible for China too, since we tend to use their products quite a lot. Definitely agree in case of, say, India though.

[@sharp7j]

The one weakness of the video is this. Miami going under pales in comparison to the economic loss we will all suffer if we suddenly stopped using fossil fuels. Would you take a 10% purchasing power cut for it? 20? Fuck could be even higher. A lot more people will be fucked if for example India and China stopped using fossil fuels with nothing to replace it. Building a wall in Miami pales in comparison. Now there are still solutions worth doing but simply saying "cut emissions" without any empathy for the people who will be affected is dumb. Humans are pretty cool though I think they will figure something out whether its CO2 eating bacteria or plants, solar technology, nuclear power etc. Also Inconvenient truth did a lot of harm, it claimed NYC would be underwater by now and adds fuel to deniers. Be honest, not alarmist.

[@httohot]

@@sharp7j That is a moot point compared to the loss of profit that global warming creates in teh long term. Not to mention the political instability, scarcity, etc.

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

@@sharp7j Too bad. Economic loos? So what? The alternative is mass death. So fuck the economy.

[@wschippr1]

Sharp Except Al Gore didn’t say that did he? He said if half of greenland and Antarctica melted that would happen, which is true btw, that would happen. This lie that he claimed that come from him saying if the ice sheets melted it flood various areas with him in another part saying that predictions of the ice caps melting could happen as quickly as whatever year he said. Which once again, was a real prediction, he wasn’t making it up. Luckily, we had more time (due to other factors coming into play that we hadn’t taken into account), but overall, an inconvenient truth was accurate and was not “alarmist”... sorry.

[@SeekerSean]

I swear, if we all die because of a South Park episode...

[@cgtaurus]

I doubt it was because of a South Park episode picking on Al Gore that people ignored global warming. It was being ignored already and would have continued being ignored because immediacy of corporate greed won out for decades.

[@meghan______669]

SeekerSean honestly knowing humanity? Not a surprise

[@vincentdawn9689]

They actually apologized for it in an episode from a few years ago.

[@jimmyeriksson936]

Last sesone they had episode that the man bear pig is real, and al gore was right so..

[@unslaadkrosis3489]

I love South Park but I hate that episode. I’m glad they finally admitted they were wrong. That takes courage.

[@bathoryaria4127]

"It's cold outside, where's global warming?" *I had breakfast, lunch, and dinner yesterday, where's world hunger?*

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

right? lol Why is everyone so hungry?!?!?! I just ate!

[@yunglynda1326]

I Kill Everything I Fuck best fucking comment

[@kesorangutan6170]

So you killed noone and nothing. I OWNED THIS LIBTARD BEN SANSPIRO STYLE 😂😂😂

[@MyuFoxable]

@Abu Hajazi Would you agree for both issue the individual's direct experience is not big enough in scope to detect ether issue accurately? From that point of view the comparison seems to hold up just fine.

[@iliketurtles6777]

I Kill Everything I Fuck so very well put.

[@RelativelyBest]

"We're talking about the future of the planet." "Well, I don't care about the planet. I care about me." "Well, don't you live on the planet?" "Mm-hm." "And don't you care about what happens to the planet you live on?" "No." "Goddammit." I think this exchange pretty much sums up the entire problem.

[@Sotryn_Fox]

Started reading this as soon as the clip started playing. I was shook.

[@milesdavila5363]

Big "that's not my wallet" Patrick vibes from that bit.

[@jeffreydenenberg7101]

"What has the galaxy ever done for you? Why would you want to save it?" "Because I'm one of the idiots who lives in it!" - Guardians of the Galaxy

[@shiningnightmare5616]

@@milesdavila5363 Well, I guess every episode of Spongebob is probably have it's own metaphorical meaning now that we live longer

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@shiningnightmare5616 If ANYTHING is worth spamming, its climate-change-coverage; for obvious reasons; so here we go: Hbomberguy, UpisNotJump, Our Changing Climate, Some More News, Climate-Town.

[@jhunt5578]

I feel like I'm trapped inside of the dumbest disaster movie ever.

[@demilembias2527]

its not as dumb as the Roland Emmerich movie about global warming somehow causing another ice age literally overnight. If it makes you feel any better, global warming irl is at least less stupid than that.

[@pheonixrises11]

such a boring movie damage so slow and undramatic for most of it characters too frustrating to be likeable, aka dumb protagonists hard to sympathize with

[@demilembias2527]

@@pheonixrises11 I think the point was to show that there are no real protagonists, and that all of humanity is inherently flawed. quite pessimistic, even misanthropic, but its certainly something to think about.

[@janparadowski4894]

And now the coronavirus

[@dm-ny4ed]

@@pheonixrises11 well then it's a bit like real life

[@Hellooo134]

SHOUTOUT TO ZOË BLADE FOR ALWAYS MAKING GREAT MUSIC FOR THESE VIDEOS

[@marlabeard5352]

It's a bummer that Contra has to use music so that someone won't take her clips out of context.

[@RocLobo358]

I didnt know she composed the Grieg

[@T1J]

poor al. imagine spending your entire career on something (that is provably true) and still having your government and a good portion of your country dismiss it

[@rotciv1486]

in biology we have something similar, but somewhat more stupid. Anti motherfucking vaxxers. So seriously they will cause me a stroke.

[@itamarolmert3549]

*that is definitely true

[@IHSchwingo]

It is the *dum dum duuuuuuuum* ~Cassandra Effect~.

[@slaughterround643]

It doesn't help he actually would have won if it weren't for some fuckery with voting - hell we might not only have been in a greener country but not have went to war in the first place...

[@GayDracula_]

In a way it's pretty depressing. What's worse, is not only did the government/a lot of his country dismiss it, but he was practically ridiculed for it. Made fun of for years. Then when it might turn out he was probably right, he either only got a quiet "sorry", or nothing at all.

[@kipuvi9181]

As a Floridian my state will be gone and that's the one benefit to climate change

[@scoutpark5230]

(thunderous applause)

[@monstermoo4191]

Same

[@searchingfororion]

Hearing about coastal walls: "Well if those don't get approved it's may be the ONE way we could finally get rid of Cruz and Cornyn. 😑"

[@jimjones775]

Based

[@rachelmayhem8679]

Why couldn’t it be California

[@laylette4017]

Is it hot in here or is Natalie educating me while wearing lingerie again?

[@alliephenix]

They're the same thing.

[@elizavetapotemkina4861]

It’s uncontrolled climate change

[@grmpEqweer]

It's climate change, but Natalie is hot.

[@jacobo6652]

Jojo i live in a hot country and i’m burning over here

[@Theantelaa]

I'm sad that the amount of water in the tub wasn't slowly rising throughout the video. :c

[@MonMalthias]

The rising water level was being offset by the increased evaporation from Natalie's _piping hot_ bod.

[@anna-liseetlegenre7922]

What a good visual representation it would have been !

[@MonMalthias]

@@neila6340 It's the apocalypse. Can no longer afford to be picky.

[@friendstastegood]

@@neila6340 not she's not. Go away.

[@dylanhall6355]

Neil A fuck off asshole!

[@benaddenson6317]

2006: "It doesn't exist." 2018: "It isn't our fault." 2038: "We can't do anything about it now." 2100: "Welcome to the 1st annual Hunger Games!"

[@yonatanbeer3475]

@Mac Mcskullface 2500: *silence*

[@unrulysimian3897]

Best thread EVER.

[@eatsandwichesonthursdays420]

more like 2100: Literal crickets, because that's all that's left

[@juanjuri6127]

Pretty sure they're already at "we can't do anything about it now". Soon we'll be at "Well why didn't you WARN me, genius???"

[@rebeccabeard4759]

3300: A mole man invents the wheel... But it's creaks sound like millions of voices crying out in terror, and then it goes suddenly silent....

[@HojozVideos]

Dutch person here: I refuse to drown because orange man bad thinks the earth isn't warming.

[@fardareismai4495]

Same! The Netherlands would simply collapse if this I allowed to continue.

[@demilembias2527]

@@fardareismai4495 doesn't the netherlands just occasionally gain and lose land to the ocean even without global warming?

[@Timbo5000]

@@demilembias2527 Because we allow it to, yes. We've let areas flood or dried areas based on the amount of land we wanted in the past. Last big one was us turning a sea into a lake and creating an entirely new province in the 1950s and now there is talk of perhaps building a big airport somewhere out at sea (unsure whether that will be done). And there is the Waddenzee, which is an area in the north that periodically totally floods. But if the climate change predictions are correct, pretty much all of our biggest city area (including Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and more) will turn into the lost city of Atlantis unless we seriously step up our water management game. There is only so much we can do against the sea, even if we are great at battling the flooding. Guess we'll go live in Germany or something

[@Nautules83]

talk to China about that

[@SaraWolffs]

​@@Nautules83 China's per-capita emissions are way below the US's, and just about on par with the European average. It's just a massive country. They've also only recently become prosperous, and so are not yet in quite as luxurious a position as we are regarding accumulated wealth and capacity to fund rapid change.

[@lucyhtml]

The production value is so high on this channel, it amazes me every time

[@einfachConny]

and it still is an one women operation

[@MeganMcIntosh]

Yes! A feast for the eyes, ears, brain and soul

[@wannucciicrescent6526]

Your aesthetics are so elevated sis, I GAG!!!!!!!!!!

[@tatehildyard5332]

I actually do REALLY want to see a behind the scenes video where we see her do the light setup.

[@fts_space_shark]

JedDraws, right? I know I won’t ever have her talent or artistry, but I would love to know what video editing software she uses.

[@diogenesofseattle2344]

Wow. Preceded by a Prager U ad. Today's word is juxtaposition.

[@madeline7272]

Brett Orlob lol

[@mothiieeo]

Tomorrow's word is motley.

[@aadityaphadnis8399]

They specifically target leftist channels.

[@Egiyt]

@@aadityaphadnis8399 that seams incredibly counter intuitive of them

[@aadityaphadnis8399]

@@Egiyt May be their target audience are people on the fence watching some reasonable discourse.

[@wolvenmoonstone8138]

"You live on the planet right?" "Yes" "Don't you care what happens to the planet you live on?" "No" This right here is why we are still having this debate

[@fts_space_shark]

Sad truth, yes.

[@hustler3of4culture3]

It's actually Dominionists who think Jesus will remake the Earth when he comes back that are killing us.

[@mrbadguysan]

@Another Millennial I wouldn't call it a parody, it's more of a deconstruction.

[@hustler3of4culture3]

@Another Millennial you give people too much credit

[@LeviathanLP]

me tbh sorry everyone

[@GeCeeMeS]

"When I was a little girl I used to sit on the porch eating watermelon and I'd stare up at the stars and wonder: Where did they all come from, you known, what does it all mean? The cosmos, humanity, our little time here on earth... And that's why I became a scientist: So I could spend my life studying... toposhperic trace gases.... *sad violins start playing*" As someone finishing up their PhD (Solid State Physics) while being on unemployment benefits (which are rather generous over here in Germany) and being just completely disillusioned with the whole system of science, this was just tooo real, Natalie ^^

[@soencoda754]

Fellow French science student here, I'm getting quite depressed about the whole scientific system too. And I'm actually quite terrified that not a lot of my fellow students/teachers seems to give a shit anymore. They don't care much about the political inaction regarding climate change (ok, except my zoology/botanic/ecology professors) and they don't seem to care a lot about the "publish or perish" issue, the whole publishing system, exploitation of PhD students, economical precarity for most of the professors (France is terrible, it might be better elsewhere I don't know), private organizations taking over the scientific system and rigging the publication game, and hundreds of other really serious problems in both hard sciences and humanities... I feel like I'm condemned to study some weirdly defined topics in a shitty educational system, be a sort of slave half of my life, fear to starve most of the time because who cares about "ethology" or something, and be a submissive little boy to the capitalists criminals we call the "big journals"... Ah and yes, the world's "getting shittier" and my field of study might go extinct soon. What the hell. Of course I've advocating for radical political change and direct action, what fucking nightmare did I wake up to after high-school ?! Why is nobody REALLY carrying in academia around me? What is wrong with us scientists?! I don't even know why I'm ranting about this, I guess I need some confort from other science students/researchers/teachers. Anyone here feeling depressed and angry about all this?

[@baguettegott3409]

That. That just fucked me up a little. And by a little I mean a lot. I'm a second semester physics student, also in Germany, so you can probably guess why this hit too close to home, but just.... I'm SO scared, about everything, ALL the time. And this just feels like... even if all of my dreams come true and I am actually good enough to even get a PhD at some point, there's still no point because I'll be unemployed and lonely anyway. I realize this is not about you writing a bad comment, but about me having *issues*. And maybe everything is bad and me having any kind of hope is just an "illusion", and I should thank you for busting my bubble, but I can't. This was supposed to be the safe option, I gave up writing for this.

[@lucasfernandesgrotto6279]

My god guys, you are just me, I'm seriously considering quit university!

[@soencoda754]

@@baguettegott3409 maybe we can change the system? We need scientists like you to challenge the current publishing system, and the structure of public and private scientific research in general. Follow your dreams, don't let them take your passion away from you ! At least let's learn everything we want to learn, and then we'll find a way to both survive in a capitalist system and do science. There's some associative open access journals out there, and some of the posts offered by the State in science are actually not that bad! There's some ways to make it work, don't worry too much yet. And one day, maybe we'll collectively own a scientific lab and freely teach, research and publish scientific knowledge. We can do this! We dreamers (scientists, philosopher, militants and artists alike) must not give up, we could make a difference. If you ever need support psychological support in any of this, just comment here and I'll gladly help. You're not alone in this mate, it's gonna be ok 🙂 Take care

[@ams906]

Tears fall down my cheeks

[@ComicDrake]

It blows my mind that average people think they know better than scientists who are literally experts in their fields.

[@bluester7177]

I don't think we should believe something just because scientists said, they can be wrong. Whats it's actually frustrating to me is people who do no research and just believe any conspiracy or shitty argument they can find so that it won't be true and they can feel good again. I live in a hellhole of hotness that is approaching it's peak known as summer called Rio de Janeiro and it's irritating as fuck to see people saying that Climate Change is a hoax because in Canada is snowing.

[@ComicDrake]

@@bluester7177, Who said anything about A scientist? The majority of climate scientists agree and have a shit ton of data.

[@alecnava5465]

Well you see im not an expert, but i have LOGIC AND FACTS

[@GayDracula_]

@@ComicDrake Pft. I, a regular nobody who knows nothing at all, obviously have the credentials to one up a group of scientists globally. *maximum intelligence*

[@stanconnorstan4266]

There's no denying that the world is getting hotter and the weather is getting fucked up. We really shouldn't be having 5 hurricanes in the US each year or ridiculously hot and dry summers. I mean, California has been having water issues for years that they didn't have 5 years ago. I mean, in my short 16 year long life summers have been getting warmer on average and snow storms have been really early or late in the year. That's not normal.

[@skyleradams5566]

What bothers me is that so much money was spent to deny climate change, when that money could have been spent dealing with it!!

[@sulimanthemagnificent4893]

and what is the point in dealing with it if the whole planet is inevitably fucked anyway? if not by climate change then by the sun dying (fyi i believe in climate change)

[@OliverHeikkinen]

Suliman The Magnificent Because the sun is gonna die in five billion years... that's like asking "why waste energy on saving this infant you poisoned even tho you could easily do it. They'd die at some point anyway". The reason is that I kinda wanna live on this planet. And I don't want a lot of people dying or being miserable.

[@apologia4422]

Luckily it's not too late. But I agree wholeheartedly.

[@sulimanthemagnificent4893]

@@OliverHeikkinen fair enough

[@tahj420]

@@OliverHeikkinen If we can't live forever, then let's live long. I mean it's not like we can't eventually outlive the heat death. With some weird as technology. I mean we predicted all that in a few thousand years of civilization so... idk. Then again global warming threatens to destroy everything so...yea.

[@JuventudCristianaAntiSectas]

I had never closed my Bible so fast

[@molinj.710]

Juventud Cristiana Anti-Sectas not very christian of you 😒

[@josefuentes4198]

Juventud Cristiana Anti-Sectas Hostia, vosotros por aquí!

[@wdarkfenix]

Alabado sea el señor!

[@Fireclaws10]

moon haze e

[@thatdutchguy2882]

You are still reading fiction?

[@BrattyCaffy]

"There could be muslim mexicans for all I know" me I'm mexican muslim LMAO #AmericasWorstNightmare

[@truedarklander]

Let me guess, Lebanese family?

[@BrattyCaffy]

Miguel Laurito nope just ethnically Hispanic and converted

[@scoutpark5230]

LOLLLL!

[@jv-lk7bc]

not America's nightmmare, just Trump's.

[@theevilmoppet]

Yees me and the rest of my ethnically jewish transbian friends stand with you lol

[@devvinnnnn6267]

Great video but i resent the fact that i had to see and hear ted cruz

[@leiram8833]

And also Donald Trump

[@demonjaws6869]

He’s my senator now and I want to cry

[@q345ify]

@@demonjaws6869 I live in Texas too but as far as i'm concerned we haven't had a senator since Lloyd Bentson Cornyn and Cruz are oil execs with a government job

[@NinjaCrazy87]

@@demonjaws6869 Fucking same man just end me lmao

[@JackieBurkhart924]

Even worse for me, I live in Oklahoma and fucking Inhofe is my senator. The political climate in this state is the worst. The oil companies are basically running our entire state government.

[@austinsmith538]

You know climate change is disastrous when it makes South Park correct it's self.

[@WangleLine]

Holy snap

[@TheGoncas2]

Took them long enough...

[@DrexisEbon]

It's is a contraction of it is. Its is it as a possessive.

[@ryanwoodyard4696]

Which episode was this?

[@TheRedRaccoonDog]

@@ryanwoodyard4696 Season 22 Episode 6. Time to Get Cereal and it's second part, Nobody Got Cereal?

[@АлинаАхметова-у5ю]

"Climate change denial is considered an oddity in Europe" *Laughs and then cries in Russian*

[@-ring-a-ding-my-dingaling]

The trajectory of Russia becoming the most economically successful and progressive country on earth and then an economically depressed seat for the Orthodoxy in less than 100 years is a fucking roller coaster.

[@Olivman7]

What? When was Russia ever economically successful in the 20th century? Even during the best periods, you had to buy everything on the black market or wait six months to get it at a minimum.

[@-ring-a-ding-my-dingaling]

@@Olivman7 >When was Russia ever economically successful in the 20th century >fastest growing economy in human history >production outpaced established countries with hundreds of years of infrastructure in less than 100

[@АлинаАхметова-у5ю]

@Abu Hajazi Yes, yes I am!

[@disan605]

@@АлинаАхметова-у5ю Вахалва)) (прости меня я плохо говорю на ингушском)

[@thehorriblebright]

Capitalism: the idea that everything is less important than money. Even the viability of the earth to support life.

[@grace-fx4cf]

this is why I'm cottagecore

[@JKjr328]

I mean it is literally in the name to be fair. Not like we weren't warned.

[@psychepeteschannel5500]

​@Rodrigo Bozzolo True - this is not really about the system of economy, but the system of government. Just imagine the US as a centrally controled economy... with Trump and his party at the helm... It would be even worse. This is more about the current kind of democracy being ill equipped to handle these kinds of issues. You either need a strong democratic principle and well-informed inteligent public (lol)... or a well-informed and inteligent leader/party in an authoritarian system (but the authoritarian system itself does not gurantee that either). The specifics of cash flow are not the real issue... its about people being stupid - either the people "in power" (for authoritarianism), or the people "the people" (for free democracy)...

[@Josh-oj9mm]

It's more about humanity tbh. The environment will relatively quickly go back to normal for nature, but human civilisation is *way* more fragile

[@psychepeteschannel5500]

The core idea of capitalism does not really depend on money at all though. Its just the natural order of things if individuals can own property. No other rules are necessary realy. If you can own something, it can become capital. Money is nothing, its just a virtual quantification of value of stuff. If you have money, you have the potential of owning other things. Money itself is litterally nothing. Funny thing is that the actual succesful capitalists understand that very well. Its the poor that place real "value" on having money, which is just not good - money is not supposed to be hoarded, you want to get rid of it (profitably) ASAP. Its like in strategy games, noobs think its good if they have a large stockpile of materials. In a pro game, this is seen as a complete blunder - if you have a stockpile, its just a useless number and you f*cked up - that stockpile should already have become something usefull.

[@WingedWyrm]

If the beginning was nothing more than an excuse to show off your body... then thank you. That said, as for the rest of your video... thank you. So, thank you.

[@seu.rosinh4]

Her body. Her rules.

[@WingedWyrm]

@@seu.rosinh4 Indeed. And, for reasons entirely to do with the content and presentation, she rules.

[@markganus1085]

only the ugly and the degenerate want others to notice them

[@datfisheboi6519]

My state (California) basically burns to ash every summer because of Climate Change. Thanks Republicans.

[@bonthebunnycat667]

Here we live with 100F :(

[@slug7080]

Turquoise Cheetah You’re mad because it isn’t easy (or getting harder) for the average person to own a deadly weapon. Do you have brain worms or something??

[@rogermwilcox]

To be fair, the severity of California's wildfires is primarily due to the century of "total fire suppression" that came before. It's left a hell of a lot of fuel on the forest floors, so a fire that would otherwise burned at a low level instead becomes a raging inferno. Sure, global warming isn't HELPING Cali's forest fire situation, but it's not the primary driver.

[@CycleGirl-77]

The carbon built up over 100 years. Democrats were in control at least as much as Republicans in the USA. And don't forget, it's worldwide, right now, the USA contributes about 12% to the world total.

[@AZ-qw1kz]

@Turquoise Cheetah You're statistically less safe with a gun in your house, so you and your children are less likely to die. Also, if you're a mentally and, law abiding citizen, the you should have no objection to having checks. Would you want any random person driving a car who doesn't know how? How about flying your plane? But it's not actually about protecting yourself, it's about that feeling of power. Just like wearing a healing bracelet makes you feel healthy. It's not about the data, it's about the feeling.

[@Matrim42]

PSA: Hey, kids. Don’t use smelling salts recreationally. You’ll just end up giving your sinuses and trachea chemical burns. I speak from experience.

[@tressmith8842]

PrettyNeckslashes People die from that shit

[@strawberrymilk1683]

@@tressmith8842 people will also die from climate change -

[@Rikku147]

16:20 "Look Doc, people die all the time. What am I suppose to do, cry about it?" Holy fucking shit. This is what the public response to this goddamn pandemic was. I have NO IDEA how to get people to care anymore

[@juniperrodley9843]

There's no point in trying to convince those who've gone that far. They've thoroughly failed as humans. When presented with the choice to work hard and solve a problem, they instead decided to give up, pretend the problem wasn't real, and fight the solution just to prove it to themselves. All because that made them feel warm and fuzzy about how great they were.

[@eneyavorodecky]

Good question.

[@KD-ou2np]

The truth is our brains weren't built to really comphrehend or care about much more than the place we live and a few hundred people directly in our vicinity. Its impossible to wrap our brains around the sheer amount of violence constantly committed on a global scale, so we selectively care about certain incidents, and about things that happen to those we know personally but we have to kind of filter out the rest just to function.

[@margaretgibbs6673]

Exactly. No wonder people burn out. There's no way to get so many people who are that willfully, maliciously selfish to care and THAT is what makes me despair way more than even the most depressing pictures of the planet's possible future.

[@very7962]

We don’t. Go cry about it

[@ComboioSuburbano]

And with the current pandemic, we see that even people dying left and right, sometimes literaly on the streets, is not enough for the bougies to stop.

[@IizUname]

It's enough to make them want to accelerate the destruction

[@TheRevDel]

This is a theory that's quite wild, make of it what you will: What if the "bougies" literally want the poor to die. A lot of us only do jobs that benefit the poor, service jobs, and with automation taking away factory jobs even less of us are going to be doing jobs that benefit the rich. So why not let a few million of them die to a pandemic, saves money in the long run. Why not let even more die from climate change? Thins the herd. The ones in power aren't going to notice a few million less poor people, and would even benefit from that, so why wouldn't they push it?

[@ember-brandt]

@@TheRevDel It's real-life _Dishonored._

[@bbbbbbb51]

@@ember-brandt it's real life Deus Ex.

[@KD-ou2np]

You cant make people care about others, you have to make them understand how things will affect them directly, protest politicians, yell at them, boycott businesses, be loud, picket outside the homes of these people, dig up the dirt they don't want to be seen, continue to gather large numbers of people until those in power start to worry they may not be able to operate so unseen anymore, vote in large numbers, organize. This has been shown to work in the past and it is the only way we have right now to challenge those in power. They need to be scared and think that their current plan of action isn't profitable anymore. They don't care if someone else is starving unless they think it means they might be starving.

[@sophietaylor6755]

“My IdENtITy Is vaLiD” “No its not” “BRing ME My SmELlinG SaLTs!!!”

[@gino7lord]

The netherlands used to hold an annual ice skating race across the province of frysland. This is a dutch tradition. The last of which was like 20 years ago because its not getting nearly as cold enough for the canals and rivers to freeze over. And they actually believe global warming isnt real.

[@CrazySexyDutchYessss]

An environmental group sued the Dutch government for not tackling Co2 emissions...and they won. The Dutch government also just passed a (crappy) environmental bill (they should have gone with CO2 taxes, now it is consumers that pay rather than companies). Unfortunately the newer political parties are climate change deniers. I think in part because the costs end up being put to consumers and not to the actual polluters. People are pissed off with the government / that they have to foot the bill, and instead of voting for The Greens the people that are scared of immigrants end up voting for climate change deniers.

[@matthewbrandt5053]

In Alaska we have the Iditarod, which is the longest dogsled race in the world and a huge traditional sport to all Alaskans. Growing up, the race started in Anchorage where it normally snowed enough for the dogs to run. For the last few years, Anchorage needed to import snow for the dogs and a local ski lodge called Alyeska has been needing to import its snow too. It feels like things are falling apart up here. For instance, the 2018-2019 winter ended early and had much less snow than even last year. The problem is Alaska relies on the snow for water such as refilling Eklutna lake, which is where Anchorage gets its water. Climate change is happening, but in my honest opinion, its too late. Americans won't do anything to stop it except faf about a bit and the forget about it. The end of the world is going to be caused by people who are ignorant, sending humanity into the darkness of time.

[@cgtaurus]

@@matthewbrandt5053 I didn't know Iditerod was having these issues. That sucks. The ignorance has been partially facilitated by the stuff you talk about being suppressed or ignored by our media. Stories like yours should be headlining the evening news but unfortunately all we hear about is some kind of middle school drama involving Trump or how some celebrity publicly embarassed themselves. Our press sources read like TMZ or the National Enquirer while they choose to ignore that the Earth is turning into an ecological quagmire and civilization, as we know it, is in grave peril.

[@kristinarain9098]

I thought they live below sea level. By your rationale, they should be drowneded by now. How come they haven't dieded? We are so insignificant to this planet and everything around it that only human arrogance and ego alone could come up with some cockamamie nonsense about how the earth was made for us, and it only exists because we magically spawned on it. Yah ok This planet will storm, drought, /this inflamme="true", get pelted by frozen metal/rock/preserved bacteria encrusted shit balls from space , incinerated by a vast and sudden torrent of massive volcanic eruptions that could devastate this planet with millions of tons of ash and deadly glowing hot smoldering Rock, launching it up and up out of the troposphere and as high as into the ionosphere where the natural cycle of wind/ocean currents , hi/low pressure systems will blanket the planet with darkness and rain for years until it's all cleared away and life starts anew You know the earth has the ability to heal as it's constantly changing and morphing it's surface and ocean sub surfaces thru tectonic drift/subduction / fissures etc and volcanoes, forming mountains and consistently altering it's features Some alterations take centuries others take mere moments from when a volcano emerges from some atoll creating a massive mountain of burnt volcanic rock that could suddenly explode turning a massive island into empty ocean. We don't control this shit, dude. The earth does. We are just lucky enough to be on for the ride. Stop finding faults and enjoy it. Life's to short to stand around brow beating others

[@loweh1001]

@@kristinarain9098 it is true that the Netherlands is below sea level and that it shouldn't exist if you assume that the Dutch don't do anything to keep the water out, which is something that we're all pretty obsessed with over here. But that is kind of besides the point. To your point, I do get why you say that it must be our arrogance to say that we are so impactful that all of a sudden climate change is happening and that there must be another reason for it. We are so small, how could we possibly be causing all of this. I'm sure that you're aware of the fact that there are billions of us and that many of us drives a car, owns a phone etc. and that all these things involve emission of CO2 into the atmosphere during production and maybe also during use. On top of that comes the change of land use worldwide etc. All of this comes on top of how natural phenomena lead to increased CO2 in the atmosphere, as well as the reduced capability of the earth to buffer CO2 emissions (natural and human) due to changes in land use (deforestation, desertification, oceanic acidification etc.). You can read all about it if you want to, it is really interesting and what I chose to dedicate my career to. It is true that we are tiny creatures, but there are many of us and we change and mold the landscape around us all the time. Humans are not even the first organisms that walked this earth that had such a profound impact on the atmosphere to begin with. I remember being completely awestruck when I first learned about the great oxygenation event which happened around 2 billion years ago. Before the great oxygenation event, there was practically no Oxygen in the atmosphere and what changes this was the evolution of the first micro photosynthesizers who took advantage of the over abundance of N2 and CO2 in the atmosphere. They became so successful and produced so much Oxygen that it became toxic for the majority of all other microscopic life on earth that didn't know how to handle oxygen the way photosynthesizers did. If something as small as a microscopic alga can change the earth's atmosphere completely, why can't we?

[@kiancuratolo903]

"The world is not ending, its just getting shitter" I feel that is such an important line

[@slevinchannel7589]

If ANYTHING is worth spamming, its climate-change-coverage; for obvious reasons; so here we go: Hbomberguy, UpisnotJump, OCC Some More News, Climate-Town.

[@Elrond_Hubbard_1]

Just my 2 cents here. I know it was said sarcastically by your 'mother nature' character, but I'm really sick of hearing this 'Climate change might kill humans but _the Earth_ is going to be fine' argument. Like yeah, the actual ball of rock that comprises most of Earths mass? That's going to be fine. That's not really the important part though. It's the thin film of life that's spread across the surface of this ball of rock that should be the focus here, and if you think that somehow this 4-billion-years-in-the-making cosmic chemical miracle is magically immune from utter destruction, you're kidding yourself. There's no pre-destined plan here. This isn't a dress rehearsal. What's to say we can't kick off some positive feedback loop that turns Earth into Venus? The planet itself surviving isn't really a consolation prize if it just ends up like all the other countless number of lifeless planets in the universe, is it?

[@richardsilva5110]

Gee, that's a scary thought.

[@el_kks_4361]

Mister that comment is a million dollars xd

[@HaHaHannah1369]

Jiminy Lummox you know the saying “life finds a way” there are bacteria that live deep in the frozen ice caps and bacteria that thrive off of volcanic vents in the ocean. It may not be life as we know it but life finds a way. It will repopulate and begin again the same way it did with us and the dinosaurs. Us dying opens up a new slot for diversification and advantageous evolutionary traits. We aren’t killing the earth. We’re killing ourselves. You underestimate life’s ability to thrive.

[@christianknuchel]

I'm not concerned about the simpler life forms, chances are they'll do just fine, even if we manage to destroy our civilization. Chances are even some humans would survive that period, as we'd probably decrease our CO2 production just as a result of our civilization falling apart long before anything Venus-like 'd get much of a chance of happening. The downfall of our civilization, however, would inevitably take billions of people with it. That alone is worth preventing at virtually any cost.

[@PopeBarley]

I think the point is that the ecosystem has suffered worse than what we can throw at it and will (eventually) bounce back. I doubt anthropogenic climate change can render the planet completely uninhabitable.

[@jupiter3589]

As someone who loves fashion and clothing, I advise strongly toward watching what brands you buy from as the fashion industry is one of the worst when it comes to environmental impact.

[@Depressio333]

And support thrift stores!

[@modkip25]

@Abbie what do you mean?

[@Asummersdaydreamer14]

@@modkip25 Google "fast fashion" and explore the variety of news articles, videos, and web pages dedicated to ugly industry practices. It creates a lot of unnecessary waste and poor working conditions on the production side of things.

[@cutienerdgirl]

@@modkip25 Fast fashion has many ethical and moral disadvantages. The negatives are environmental damage, exploitative work, and the non-welfare of animals. Environmental damage caused by the fashion industry can come in the form of resource depletion, pollution, and the overuse of pesticides

[@jaspershepherdsmith9047]

Personal action does not equal political action tho

[@Kyle-gj5ev]

I have nothing intelligent to contribute to the discussion on this topic, I just want to say as a trans woman who is so overwhelmed by depression and can't really even leave the house, it's really amazing to watch your videos and be able to laugh and smile and feel a little happier. You give me a little bit of hope that I can work through stuff and be wonderful and gorgeous like you. Thank you.

[@signin6233]

I truly wish that you´ll overcome your struggles. Have a nice day!

[@stpy7027]

I believe in you! Sending some strength and positivity. Depression is hard.

[@haroldvazquez2614]

It might not feel intelligent, but it's emotionally intelligent. Our struggles our different, but thank for letting others know they find some relief some similar things.

[@iliketurtles6777]

Be well. Know that your life is yours and who you are too. Shine yourself. This world is full of diversity and it’s what makes it great.

[@jsveterans6949]

:( Sorry... From us, the world: It's not you, it's me... (no really, it is,we suck, and I'm sorry)

[@KarishmaChanglani]

The answer to the last question of why racist ideology is so appealing when all the world's science doesn't convince them is simple. A general lack of empathy towards anyone outside of your immediate circle combined with the to urge maintain your current lifestyle.

[@vilagistene2939]

You are the racist! American Democrats are racist!!

[@rvsalka]

"it's soy milk anyway, how do you think I got so feminine?" y'all can fight me if you disagree this is some peak lgbt+ humour right here

[@maxkordon]

maria I mean, the joke is that the alt-right and body builders incorrectly think that soy causes an increase in estrogen levels (it doesn't) because one lady wrote an inaccurate book about it and they're afraid of emasculation

[@asocksual4910]

I know, absolute perfection!

[@DrTssha]

And I know plenty of trans women who are on waiting lists to even SEE an endocrinologist. If it really did act like estrogen, they'd be downing soy milk like it's going out of style. Granted, you'd need to block the testosterone too, since it aggressively overrides estrogen...yet another hole in that ridiculous idea...

[@OmegaSoypreme]

Holy shit, is that what the "soy boy" thing is about?? I finally understand! Well kind of. In so far as one can understand complete nonsense.

[@bonhll8070]

maria I 100% agree I had to pause for ten minutes I was laughing so hard

[@martaszabo465]

The complaints about going vegan and how people go into self-defense mode whenever it comes up remind me of the time when in my English debate class all of my classmates started to violently attack and ridicule the single vegan in my class when vegetarianism was the topic. Friggin abortion didn't spark such a violent debate as veganism.

[@mitchd9582]

The only thing that the Left and the Right can agree is on that they hate vegans

[@MrRogerogerio]

@@mitchd9582 I'm a leftist, a vegan and a supporter of veganism. What does that make me?

[@sanityisrelative]

When I was vegetarian and worked in a grocery store, this guy that worked in the meat department would always get on my case when he found out I didn't eat meat. I've never been preachy about it, and my honest driving reason for going vegetarian was that I just didn't want/like meat, but dude got so defensive due to my mere existence. It blew my mind.

[@mo.ka.9661]

Plasma Dragoon A traitor

[@zenogias01]

@ZMan1471 Weirdly enough, I see more people bitching ABOUT vegans than I see vegans self-righteousing it up. Methinks you might be proving Natalie's point . . . :p

[@maya-parisan]

"It's soy milk anyway, science nerd. How do you think I got so feminine?" LOL!!!

[@MyuFoxable]

There is nothing in science to support that...XD

[@mohammedsarker5756]

HBOMBERGUY

[@eowynsalvador6664]

Maya Parisan completely off topic, your profile pic is everything

[@simonfein3095]

MyuFoxable soy don’t even have titties

[@stephss]

Go to Nutritionfacts.org and look up phytoestrogen, and learn the facts

[@sycastells1212]

Watching during the Global Pandemic of 2020 who else?

[@michelemorselli7047]

2020 feels like the apocalypse is really here, and it's actually doing good for the environment, truly ironic

[@sycastells1212]

@@michelemorselli7047 Well, unless you count the Russian oil spill.

[@sycastells1212]

Accost them in their bathtubs and hold their smelling salts hostage?

[@margotp8038]

and now the huge wildfires...

[@carabiner7999]

15 days to Presidential Election....

[@trogdorina]

This environmental scientist salutes you, Natalie, on producing a more compelling and informative explanation of climate change than any of us have managed so far. I will be sharing this with my colleagues!

[@XenaBe25]

lol *> this watermelon is the earth and the earth is a vagina* Very compelling xD

[@roseanderson4618]

@@XenaBe25 You have to admit that "vagina" sparks curiosity and thus attracts focus on the talk being held tho, so yes,very compelling! XD

[@XenaBe25]

@@roseanderson4618 Vaginas are great :) I like the Gaea Hypothesis, actually. The Earth is our Mother and we should protect her Sacred Womb to the best of our ability.

[@MyuFoxable]

@@XenaBe25 Yeah, I do wish my gas guzzling parents did something to prevent that image from happening.... XD

[@jsveterans6949]

Glad to hear this response from someone in the scientific community... Ya'll need all the help you can get seemingly.

[@the_invisible_practice]

Not on topic, but I want to take a moment to thank you for the top-notch captions. Without that, as a Deaf person I would have never started following your channel like I have to decline so many others that I know otherwise would be interesting to me! You’re doing great work AND keeping it accessible. Thank you!

[@Blunderbussy]

I hope we can get you some cyborg ears in the future!

[@the_invisible_practice]

Lusty Argonian Maid Gesture appreciated, but I’d rather keep my language and culture! ;) Also, cyborg ears already exist - they’re called cochlear implants and they’re mostly unreliable and go against child consent. That may sound like a judgement and it is, so I recommend you do your own research as well.

[@JeremyAndersonBoise]

Connor Yuzwenko-Martin your comment seems precisely on-topic. The quality of production is a perfectly valid thing to comment on.

[@ruedelta]

@@the_invisible_practice How are they unreliable? Curious since I've studied them a bit in college. Thought the audio resolution on them was already getting pretty nice.

[@the_invisible_practice]

Rufei Happy to clarify. The reliability is less about the tech itself and more about the unseen impact on quality of life. Some people do succeed very well using CI to hear speech and sounds, but many still spend years of their life training their brain to understand sound with very limited success. And medical professionals often discourage any form of sign language while learning to hear/speak, so if this doesn’t pan out, a young teen or adult is potentially left with no full language to fall back on. Finally, even with considerable training success with a CI, many still struggle on the same level as an excluded Deaf person in situations that hearing people tend to manage well, such as loud spaces, auditorium classrooms, fast-paced workplaces, and end up using the same accommodations that I would such as an interpreter or CART. So the medical expense of this often ends up being an additional cost on society rather than just going straight to natural language learning and later accommodations. I’m by no means an expert but my life in the community does inform me.

[@copycatsworld7012]

Me and approximately 15K other Aussie school kids walked out on Friday. It's past time to act.

[@joeybaseballs3239]

copycats world keep fighting for your future!

[@katherinemorelle7115]

I think that was just the number that showed up at the demonstrations- and doesn’t count the other demos on Wednesday and Thursday. Also doesn’t count the kids that strikes, but couldn’t get in to the city to protest- like my kid. She wanted to, but I’m disabled and just couldn’t get her in there. I’m sure there were other kids that also walked out/didn’t go to school, but couldn’t get themselves to a protest.

[@brianblades6177]

I just looked up an article on the protest and it seems like the general sentiment is to try to tell you kids to stop participating in politics. insane!

[@MegaLozenge]

In London we also blocked 5 London Bridges for most of a Saturday afternoon with 5000 people - 80 arrests. It is urgent to take mass, non violent direct action to stop this insanity, while we aren't in the realms of the unrest and terrorism that Natalie was talking about #extinctionrebellion

[@watermelondreasymone7144]

Cool, now what are you guys gonna do to actually change things besides going on strike?

[@marswaters]

What if like, for the lols, we all stood outside these mega corps at the same time and set them ablaze? Like, this is a joke for legal reasons but like, What if? hahahahahahahahaha

[@squashfei8907]

Yeah hahahah! Most of those places are oil companies so we could douse the buildings in their own oil and then light them on fire for extra ironic lols!

[@davidlovesyeshua]

Yeah, that would totally lead to society taking climate change more seriously, the deployment of sustainable agricultural/energy technology systems capable of feeding the likely ~10 billion human population of the coming decades, and fill us all with warm glows of satisfaction that are a result of the pure and virtuous knowledge that true justice has prevailed. ... Slash-f***ing-S Jesus Christ

[@marswaters]

@@davidlovesyeshua it's joke a chill out

[@katefriend4085]

Lol count me in hahaha!

[@dipdop9734]

@@marswaters Ha ha! Yes...a joke *slowly puts lighter away

[@brandenmorris354]

Remember science is only valid as long as it doesn’t make conservatives mad😉

[@thedarkmaster4747]

As so for liberals also. The polictical spectrum has four dimensions. Left vs right, AND libertarian vs authoritarian.

[@mr.lalnon5455]

@@thedarkmaster4747 That's two dimensions but ok

[@TeknoSquirrel]

@@mr.lalnon5455 The third dimension is how you feel in the moment, like when you read the comments on a Ben Shapiro video and suddenly everyone deserves the gulag, and the fourth is your level of internalized irony.

[@mr.lalnon5455]

@@TeknoSquirrel I meant like the political compass is two dimensional but fine.

[@mr.lalnon5455]

@Dexter Gesternॐ wtf is genderscience

[@wadespencer3623]

"Maybe you should stop supporting the clothes industry" is my new pickup line.

[@snek9353]

Brilliant.

[@ohd00bley]

Wade Spencer - ...but it's true; "the textile industry alone produces more greenhouse gas emissions than the aviation and shipping industry combined." here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3TOfZqnZ7xsiLc

[@WeiYinChan]

The fashion industry is the second largest polluter after the oil industry

[@iris-mariavaltmann-valdson4958]

I wish we could go back to how clothing was thought of about a century ago - people would have much fewer outfits but they'd be tailored to their body and the materials would be higher quality. Investment in quality rather than quantity.

[@ravioli1381]

@@WeiYinChanI thought it was agriculture?

[@karlabiederbeck3082]

I love you for making this video. I used to be a marine biologist. It was very depressing. I am a nature lover, who will get to watch one by one as creatures of the Earth go extinct during my life time. I'm tired of trying to stop it. I embrace mothers wrath.

[@arnonuhm4022]

Where are you from and what are you doing now?

[@karlabiederbeck3082]

Oregon. I'm training to be a plumber. Plumbers will be very in demand when the water wars start, so at least I'll be able to live comfortably.

[@karlabiederbeck3082]

@@marmarthekat3326 Going into hard sciences is very competitive. You should study whatever it is that you are so interested in that you will study it harder than any other person. Besides that I think that because of climate change, it will be very important to have atmospheric and oceanic scientists.

[@eveninglyric687]

so...there aren't actually many benefits to being a marine biologist?

[@karlabiederbeck3082]

@@eveninglyric687 lol!

[@MeganMcIntosh]

My level of obsession with the content on this channel cannot be underestimated. Edit: I meant "overestimated." Oopsy daisy. Edit edit: Oopsy DOOPSY 4:28

[@fearlessgentleman]

Megan Makeuptosh samesies

[@loesje2204]

same, sis

[@TheTriptamineDream]

Yes.

[@MichaelColombo]

I discovered this channel a week ago and have watched an embarrassingly large number of her videos.

[@jamesn3122]

.... Honey. If it can't be underestimated, that means people are unable to estimate a level that is below your obsession I.E. your obsession level is so unbelievably LOW that others cannot estimate below it. I think you intended to say that your level of obsession is so high it can't be Overestimated

[@SarahZ]

I CAME AS SOON AS I HEARD

[@РутаАсадаускайте]

Angelica.....

[@deadmeme8011]

I just came, too.

[@SarahZ]

All the way from London? Damn!

[@EU-op3db]

All the way from london?

[@thatdutchguy2882]

And then started watching Natalie.

[@freakfree9035]

Vore me up, Ocean Mommy.

[@giga_Lion]

Freak Free! :(

[@GregTom2]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[@jacobford3452]

You could have not said that.

[@waspoppin4784]

Jacob Ford he just spittin straight facts

[@livelaughs]

Today is September 9th, 2020. The west coast is on fire. The sky outside my window is a hazy orange. The air quality is literally off the charts hazardous. And it sure feels like the Apocalypse. We are this close to turning into a corn cob.

[@samantha.redacted]

February 2021, Texas is freezing over and people are left without water and power during the coldest Texas has been in 100 years, because the oil based power plants weren’t weatherized. We are all indeed close to corn cobbification

[@sonorasgirl]

June 2021, Portland just hit 116* F, hottest day on record and beating out the usual temp of Death Valley, and at least 45 people died because it’s not SUPPOSED to be this hot and most houses/apartments don’t have AC

[@gtd2712]

August 2021. Worst heat wave in Canada ever, more than 100 people dead. Forest fires are ravaging Greece.

[@cookie856]

July 2021 - Following droughts and heatwaves, Belgium and Germany are hit by flooding, in non-food area

[@bassyboi581]

September 2021, we Europeans now have bragging rights to a Mediterranean hurricane

[@spaceowl5957]

It's so true what she said about climate change denial being an oddity in Europe. You're basically in the same corner as conspiracy theorists if you're a climate change denier here. I think it's one of those things that make people think that Americans are stupid, like not teaching evolution in school, and Trump...

[@Avrysatos]

Yer Bum many schools do teach evolution in the us. It's why you hear about the ones that don't.

[@frida507]

@TINA Europe is not perfect but government policies ARE different here. To not commit to the UN goals would be unthinkable here. EDIT: That said, the fact that the US is a bit after is not a reason to relax or be satisfied. All of us still have got most of the things that need to be done ahead of us. Rather, if a leading nation like the US is lagging behind, it put's more pressure on the rest of the world to take action. Bc the consequences are global.

[@nyar2352]

Yer Bum Not really. Our government's (right in the middle of Europe) official position is that climate change does not happen, and if it does, it is unimportant when compared to the evil refugees and foreigners on the dole stealing jobs. 'Muricans are the loudest and most obnoxious deniers, but not the only ones. (...our government also believes 50% in chemtrails, so yeah, not the brightest figures in charge...)

[@beatoriche7301]

Exactly! Corporations resort to different tactics here in order to defend their profits in the wake of global catastrophe. Most notably, there’s basically not a single company that doesn’t tell you about some great thing they do for the environment and about how green their products are, ignoring the larger picture, which is that they are responsible for the situation. Greenwashing is far more prevalent here than it is in the US. Another problem is that - at least over here in Austria - people who care about the environment are usually just those who can afford to, and they tend to look down on those who cannot. It’s this horrible mentality that blames individual people for climate change instead of blaming a profit-oriented economic order. I kind of really hate those people. Recent years have seen some notable developments, though. In particular, an initiative called “System Change, not Climate Change” has emerged. Without direct action, we won’t be able to change the world. We’ll have to tie environmentalism to other forms of social struggle and take action - through general strikes, for example.

[@frida507]

@@nyar2352 it's too bad that the nationalist movements in Europe (supported by American and Russian alt-right propaganda/professional trolls) has been growing lately*. the USA and Russia are worse. Which does not mean we should be pleased with ourselves. Accordning to climateactiontracker.org/countries/# Europe's level of action is insufficient Canada's highly insufficient USA and Russia critically insufficient *The Sweden Democrats have grown in Sweden as well but until now the center-right parties have refused cooperate with them while the Conservative party and the Christian Democrats have opened a door. This has created a situation where the negotiations to form a new government after the election in september are still not completed.

[@JohnnySplendid]

What's your milk budget?

[@deadmeme8011]

Too much, yet somehow, not enough.

[@deadmeme8011]

@@cristhianjosesamayoamartin5580 It's all homemade.

[@mrbadguysan]

#ContraPoints is funded by Big-Soy.

[@trillionbones89]

Tree fiddy

[@nogafka]

Forget the chemicals in the water, its contrapoints thats making my frogs gay.

[@Syogren]

*My friggen frogs

[@samlikesplants4363]

Actually all the frogs are dying because climate change is making an environment perfect for a type of fungus that massacres amphibians

[@antoniogureev]

@Mac Mcskullface They should love pizza and fight crime with martial art and biodegradable glitters. Names: Karl, Friedrich, Vlad and Joseph.

[@greysquirrel404]

The truth is that homosexual intercourse is actually pretty common among most animals, and the frogs were gay all along.

[@kejow.]

16:17 "People die all the time. So what?" Brazil's president about covid-19 🤷‍♀️

[@TheJoshSpeaks]

Loved this video! You are such a master at mixing knowledge and theater 😍

[@Journeyman107]

Hey Josh wondering if you can help me with my girl problems

[@TheJoshSpeaks]

@@Journeyman107 sure thing, you can always shoot me a DM @thejoshspeaks

[@nygeriunprence]

This thread is beautiful to see.

[@snappycaster]

ewww

[@corhydron111]

*mistress

[@andgeo3374]

+ContraPoints Hey y'all, hi Natalie. I'm one of the people over at EarthStrike, I was hoping to add a little bit to this video. So first of all there is one bit of crucial misinformation in this video concerning the emissions of companies. In reality it's 71% of global INDUSTRIAL emissions that stem from 100 producers, not companies but also for example government it self. Now those direct emissions are a smaller fragment of the global total one has to consider the part companies like Exxon play in this by not only adding directly into the pool of emissions but also fueling factors like transportation, other industry and energy production. Which is why it is important to both understand that we need to change our own behavior but also act politically in order to quickly change not just the landscape on and individual level but also on an industrial level. Attacking the problem on both sides. Contra already makes some good points on what you can do *individually* to help change the world, I'm here to tell you a bit about 3 things you can do politically. 3 Things that are not even that hard. First, take a look at platforms like ours over at earth-strike.com, our friends over at Extinction Rebellion or any other local organizations. Spread awareness by tweeting and sharing, make a meme if that's what you feel like, i mean political memes are lame as hell but if this is gonna go down we might as well laugh a bit right? Talk to your friends, your union or fellow students and workers. Word of mouth is always appreciated! Second, go to a protest. The folks over at Extinctions Rebellion specialize at that and we can highly recommend them. I get it, ugh going out, ugh peope. But just being there helps build up a presence, it shows politicians that we will not sit idly and let our planet die. And finally, Strike! This is where we at #EarthStrike come in, we're organizing a global general strike on the 27th of September to push for stricter government action to *not have our planet die*. You'd think it'd be less controversial but here we are. Yes this is the hardest part but come on, isn't it a bit exciting too?~ Anyway, thanks for the nod and wink, I really hope this video gets us somewhere. :)

[@deadlydimitarr]

and the go vegan bit x

[@Bdognintendo777]

Thanks for the info

[@DrTssha]

"we're organizing a global general strike on the 27th of September" Is that this year, or next year? Or did you mean the 27th of December?

[@DrTssha]

@@jamesreilly3679 Thanks. It kinda seemed weird that they were saying it was a few months ago, so I figured it was either an error of insufficient specificity (forgetting to put a year in the date), or a typo of some sort. December and September do rhyme, so it's not impossible someone would write the wrong month. Also, having it be 9-10 months from now seemed like it was awfully far in the future.

[@Artemis526]

Just wondering, but, doesn't climate change cause warming and acidification of the ocean and therefore kill plancton? You know plancton; those little organisms that live in the sea that pretty much supply us with most of our oxygen... If this is infact a problem, then why don't we just appeal to the resistant, apathetic people's sense of needing to breath? Instead of reporting increasing temperature levels and why don't we report decreasing oxygen levels.... That should wake a few people up!

[@hannahm9205]

The fashion industry actually IS a big environmental problem, with fast fashion culture creating absurd amounts of waste every day. Among other problems, farming the materials creates unhealthy soils and harms workers and surrounding communities; treating and dying fabrics pollutes waterways and again harms communities; and synthetic fabrics requires oil for production. Unfortunately, buying environmentally and socially ethical/sustainable clothes is also often prohibitively expensive. However, I am optimistic that there is change happening in the fashion industry and its culture from the inside. It is hard to be so optimistic about climate change when we see world leaders being purposely ignorant and misleading. Never have I felt such a sense of doom as watching 12:15-14:21 as though it were a history documentary called When It All Went Wrong.

[@linemonssi4108]

One the one hand you are absolutely right but I feel that its maybe more complicated than that. The fashion industry can be very harmfull for people but it sometimes trumps the alternative and while it does involve big injustices with workers being given only a minimal purcentage of the final value of the product we do see countries where the living conditions have become better with industrialization ( yes, fashion-industry based industrialization). And in some cases, after certain industries left developping countries to produce, fore example, in Europe because the customers pushed for it, local communities were left with a massive unemployment issue, a rise in poverty and in even more precarious jobs like prostitution. Obviously this is not always the case but lets say we realize the fashion industry is beneficial for people, should we accept despite the fact that it harms the envirronement? One problem with sustainability is how complex it is.

[@Emiliapocalypse]

Fortunately more and more youtubers seem to be talking about this and rocking the boat a bit for the better. Tiffanyferg did a good video about it kzbin.info/www/bejne/gGKwpKuEi5KVg68

[@CrutonSan]

This is why the legalization of industrial hemp needs to happen. Hemp clothing can be expensive, but it is usually very well-made and sturdy enough to last for years without looking horrible, and it’s antibacterial.

[@Nocturne22]

A big part of it is definitely culture - we need to learn how to re-purpose instead of just chucking clothes when it gets old and out of style. I understand wanting to look chic and for style to evolve, but there has to be a better less wasteful way. A culture where tailors and garment specialists are prioritized and readily alter existing clothes, rather than clothing manufactures creating new ones from raw materials needs to happen. And speaking of capitalism: "luxury" fashion brands need to go. Paying for a well made, ethically produced, environmentally friendly blouse that's cute should not cost $1000. No wonder people wear fast fashion - what's the alternative if you aren't rich and you want/need a specific type of clothing?

[@markganus1085]

fashion industry is for gheys

[@karenpavarandall2618]

"What if I sexually identify as an oil company?" 🤣🤣🤣

[@dandygardner9404]

Haha IKR 😑

[@juniperrodley9843]

The one joke™

[@subroy7123]

It has happened. Natalie is finally The Sea.

[@Matizicov]

Swallow me ffs mom

[@Max-nk9xg]

dark mother, cold mother, CRUEL mother

[@harrybacchus6603]

The first signs were at the end of the incel video. She’s gone from loving the sea to becoming it. From autogynephilia to autohydrophilia 😂😂. Love it

[@leiram8833]

@@harrybacchus6603 Autohydrophilia is my new favorite word, thanks

[@robertwilliams8563]

@@harrybacchus6603 I think it started earlier than that. There's a whole lot of ocean commotion going on in Alpha Males that starts with the same sea scene as the one at the end of Incels.

[@MechanicWolf85]

What is sad is that South Park made another episode apologising and realizing that AI Gore was right

[@johnjohnson-os5gw]

Those episodes were fucking amazing. RIP Satan

[@bluehornet632]

Now if they could apologize for just about every other episode that equates caring about social issues as "being crazy" they might change the generation of alt righters they helped create.

[@justametalhead625]

Which episode was that? I actually want to watch it now.

[@mchevre]

@@justametalhead625 It was two of the most recent episodes from this past month. Titled "Time to Get Cereal" and "No one got Cereal?"

[@VClarity]

Mechanic 93 No, Al Gore was not right. He made a lot of false claims.

[@romxxii]

To be fair to the South Park Guys, they admitted defeat and made a trilogy apologizing to Al Gore (by confirming the ManBearPig exists and making it eat everyone)

[@novasnotvibing]

Mama contra is posting so much lately.

[@ramham24]

Once a month. That seems to be her usual.

[@novasnotvibing]

@@ramham24 could just be me

[@whiskeypixels]

@@ramham24 *his

[@whiskeypixels]

Why doesn't he debate Benjamin Shapiro?

[@tamp2377]

Not nearly enough. I want mama every day

[@PavarottiAardvark]

Electric cars: If you are buying a car, look at electric and hybrid options. BUT if you already have a decent car with ok emissions ratings, keep it. Buying a new car when you don't need one is harmful to the environment - there's lots of emissions released in making one.

[@korianderbadger]

PREACH!!! In general, just stop buying new shit you dont need!!! REDUCE AND REUSE before you RECYCLE

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

PavarottiAardvark If you can afford it, buy an electric/hybrid car - sell your fairly new low emission car to someone who drives an old high emissions car....

[@DKdoman]

actually most of the emissions comes from operating the vehicle, so really, buy that electric car and scrap the old one also buy solar pannels

[@Kaleysia]

Actually, electric cars may not be the best emission wise after all, when taking into account the emissions caused by the production of the lithiumbatteries they use for storing the energy. Soouuu.... yeah. Maybe rather go for a hydrogen fueled car (only if it's available of course). Or buy a used electric car, not a new one.

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

Check where the power comes from in your area. Switching to electric, driven by coal, is not a whole lot better. But generally, it's better.

[@PeculiarKatreen]

You’re going to dictate the aesthetic of the generation

[@ctseneff]

I'm okay with that

[@PeculiarKatreen]

@@ctseneff I am more than okay with that

[@Flyingtart]

vulpine Even if we can’t stop global warming, the survivors will be pretty fab.

[@PeculiarKatreen]

CJ Andrews haha, speaking of the aesthetic - it’s Cody Fern as Michael Langdon on American Horror Story. Someone edited one pic of his well.:)

[@nicolasbautista3599]

Clarification: The history of anthropogenic climate change can be dated back to 1856 to Eunice Foote, a scientist and pioneer who studied the effects of water vapor and carbon dioxide on solar heating. "An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature; and if as some suppose, at one period of its history the air had mixed with it a larger proportion than at present, an increased temperature must have necessarily resulted (Foote, 1856)." She was a pioneer of science and women's rights, she deserves more credit :)

[@mithrae4525]

Thankyou, didn't know that! Sadly, pathetically, it's not uncommon for the deniers & conspiracy theorists to claim that global warming is a recent invention from the 1970s, so the long history of the science is important and Arrhenius' speculation on future, anthropogenic climate effects from burning fossil fuels (beneficial warming, he as a Swede supposed) was a particularly important milestone. Before him Tyndall had identified the physical basis of longwave radiation absorption by some gases such as CO2, and as early as the 1820s Fourier had shown by his calculation that a greenhouse effect of some kind is necessary to explain the Earth's warmth. Apparently Foote's work (a few years earlier than Tyndall's) was essentially unknown, 'discovered' in 2010: "In 2010, retired petroleum geologist Ray Sorensen came across a summary of Foote’s work published in an 1857 volume of The Annual of Scientific Discovery. It detailed the presentation of her short paper, Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in 1856." cosmosmagazine.com/history/eunice-newton-footes-long-forgotten-climate-science-discovery/ Fascinating stuff!

[@lachlancampbell6328]

Perfectly timed after the Australian students strike due to inaction on climate change

[@sunnybubbleday]

If you didn't participate you're a nerd

[@lachlancampbell6328]

@@sunnybubbleday I'm in rural Victoria where there wasn't a strike. Sadly I couldn't support the kids

[@sunnybubbleday]

Lachlan Campbell Oh that's fair dude, I sort of meant as a more general message to people who could have but didn't (tempted to ask where you are tbh but you're probably no where hear me)

[@hecatere6530]

In Quebec, Canada student are going to court against Quebec and Canada because of the climate change issue. They say their inaction goes against the "Charte des valeurs" that says that everyone has the right to live. The student movement are moving worldwide a bit more against their own governement.

[@2lostbikes]

There goes ContraPoints, making the best content on KZbin again.

[@matthewbrandt5053]

( Read this comment in the oldest,angriest, most conservitive white guy voice ) That ContraPoints, always telling these young folk to try and change the world. Back in my day, we simply would have done more to kill the damn commies too, but then again its snowing so climate change is false liberal! Oh...that's ash..

[@AGiven10]

Whoever made the Vietnamese subtitle for this video, I salute to you. Our people need more of this type of content.

[@sammienope9272]

Fuck now I have to go back and watch this in Vietnamese

[@demilembias2527]

*vietnamese people realizing that most of their country only goes like 50 miles away from the coast* "I'm in danger"

[@Mai-zy4vw]

awww, thank you so much. I tried my best but to anyone who feels the need to, please feel free to improve it.

[@milascave2]

Well, at least South Park made a sequel in which ManBearPIG was real, implicitly admitting that climate change is real and mocking those who still deny it. A little late, but still.

[@cracktoon_powerscaling]

South Park sucks

[@sethroy4318]

Donald Trump: I believe it goes this way *waves hands frantically* I think the word you're looking for is fluctuation. Cycle. Sine wave. Anything other than "this way," O man of many words.

[@moundkallefbenoit313]

Seth Roy Donald Trump the wordsmith 😂😂😂

[@bravetherainbow]

I think the more pressing concern is the actual content of his words rather than the words themselves.

[@sethroy4318]

@@bravetherainbow you're not wrong. Just figured I'd bitch about that too while we're all here

[@nicoleboudreau2646]

Its funny thought. TECHNICALLY, he isn't wrong, it's just everytime it goes up like this there is a mass extinction and it has never gone up this fast, so... mabei not a reason to underplay what is going to happen?

[@bravetherainbow]

Yeah the part where he is almost certainly wrong is his implication that the way it is happening now is something corporations and governments can't do anything to stop, and also that there is nothing to worry about

[@katzap4494]

I love the fact that you addressed why the average person can’t grasp/care about this- it’s so big and huge of an issue that feels too far removed from the concerns of our daily life, and there’s no one thing or person to vilify. I often wonder if our general inability to grasp long term consequences of our actions is innate or taught, or a little bit of both. I believe our generation and our progeny are learning how to balance living in the moment while understanding that all decisions have an impact outside of ourselves, both communally and for the future that need to be considered. Also your representation of the sea reminded me of the ancient goddess Tiamat. I loved it.

[@goldfishsnake]

I think videos like this prove that these issues are often a lot simpler than we believe, because we've been purposefully misdirected and fake information has been put out there to confuse us, muddy the waters, and convince us to give up and move on.

[@ruthruthless]

Whenever Natalie releases a new video, it's always a Wynn. Addition in edit: So I just finished watching this video, and a few points: 1. carbon emissions from the animal industry are larger than all transportation combined 2. a lot of industries depend on the existence of the oil and animal industries, using the by products of these industries, so if the entire world went vegan and switched away from non-fossil fuels - it would have a real impact... the problem is getting there, but perhaps just a critical mass of say, out of my ass, 10% could be enough to make that happen. Companies that don't adapt to changes in the market *do go under*, it is not unheard of, capitalism isn't too big to fail... and from their ashes new companies arise to exploit the market. We just need to keep making sure to control our demand so that it doesn't support exploitation. 3. voting for a different president would be good, but it's not like Obama did so much for the environment... as much as anti-capitalists like to say otherwise, the money vote is the strongest vote people have. Politicians will make promises they will 90% of the time not keep or even go against them. Many of them are bought out by the lobbyists. So again, using your wallet is the best vote you have. 4. anti-capitalists will say that the corporations will just find a way around and continue exploitation... to a certain degree, yes... but eventually the pressure will be too great and they will have to adapt or go under to be replaced by new companies that have adapted. These mega corporations are rich because we make them rich. They can stop being rich if we stop making them rich until they change their ways or go under. Now I am not one to say capitalism is perfect, far be it... and a new system needs to be implemented if we reduce scarcity enough using new technologies... but until then, in the current system, a dollar vote is more powerful in my opinion than a political vote, but sure - why not do both? Also, does this mean you're vegan now, Natalie?

[@s2sHoXXs2]

Ruth Ruthless Hehe...... Nice

[@yickel]

Re: carbon emissions caused by the cattle industry, studies have found that slightly enriching livestock diets with seaweed or algae (studies vary) reduces their methane output by, like, 50 percent. Also, we know we could reduce CO2 already in the atmosphere by encouraging algal blooms in dead areas of the sea (which, by the way, literally all we'd have to do to for that is put some iron in the water). Basically we know how to fix this, we just need to get our shit together.

[@dylans8198]

Nobody said that we can't make individual choices, only that it's far more challenging and less efficient to try to make a bunch of people change their habits than to regulate a hundred companies. Nobody said not to do both, but do you really think we're gonna get a vegan wave?

[@ruthruthless]

I just think that individual choices when performed collectively have a more powerful effect on corporations than trying to regulate them, and technically no one is stopping us from doing it except us. Regulations might happen, might not, might work, might not... but if people stopped buying x product then x product would stop being made. Practically, changing people's minds especially collectively is very hard. But take cigarettes as an example. First came the research. Then the public protest. Then the government regulated warning us of cigarette damage. And people still buy cigarettes anyway, but much much less than before. The regulations came from the public making individual choices. Wars - an all out war can't be commited without risk of revolt if public opinion is not in favor of it. Public opinion can be manipulated and people still buy cigarettes despite the known health risks. Products like cigarettes, processed food and animal food prey on our instincts to eat the most calorie dense food available. It would be easiest for public health if they were made illegal and did not exist, but freedom of choice is also important to us. So at the end of the day, since politics is influenced more by money, the only way we can do to animal foods what we did to cigarettes is making collective individual choices that will force corporations and the government to respond. And it's very difficult because everyone is biased towards maintaining their bad habits and making excuses why meat is essential for health just like they once did with cigarettes and doctors recommending them for health. My point is Natalie makes it seem as if voting with our money is useless when I think that if performed collectively it is way more powerful than a political vote. Problem is getting there, but it is technically possible to do now, no one is stopping us except us. In the end humanity will live and die by our collective choices, the corporations and goverments will bend to those choices, they will have to.

[@WatsonAndDaughter]

Watching this during a heatwave that cause fucking CANADA to hit 121 degrees and killed 500 people is sobering.

[@joshjams1978]

And we’re in the second and it’s even worse…. (In Québec anyway)

[@yunongwang7301]

The child scientist dream hit me too hard

[@HerculeDevantrien]

"Climate change denial is considered an oddity in Europe." Weeell... To be honest... Most of American right-wing politics is considered an oddity in Europe...

[@HerculeDevantrien]

@CM Beadle Oh, yeah, we have our own right-wing nutjobs, and they're on the rise, but I always thought their bullshit was not quite as outrageous or trivialized as it can be in the US... Maybe that's just an impression tho

[@skullz291]

The EU hides it better than the US.. Y'all are heading the exact same direction, I promise you. If your politicians could get away with it, they'd gut your healthcare systems, dismantle your public education, and make you just like us. I even _heard_ people say _exactly this_ during the Euro crisis. That austerity was being imposed not because it was necessary (it is demonstrably the dumbest thing to do in a recession, and they know that), but because, to quote them, "recessions are the only time you can justifiably attack and permanently reduce the public sector." We've done the same thing in the United States, we've just had a head start since we began this process in the 80's and never stopped.

[@HerculeDevantrien]

@@skullz291 Oh, sure, most of our politicians are as crooked as those of any other countries -whether they're left or right. I am far from considering Europe as perfect or anything, hell, large-scale protests against the president are taking place in my country right now, basically due to him economically screwing up the lower and middle class. What I meant was that a lot of mainstream talking points of the American right are viewed as strange in Europe, even in right-wing circles. It is still pretty much unthinkable for a mainstream politician to argue that climate change isn't real. People are way less prone to defend candidates with scandals. Conspiracy theories are not as nearly regarded as valid talking points in political discussions as they seem to be in the US. The idea of guns being easily purchased while mass shootings are commonplace has us raising our eyebrows. I could not cite you any European country where the Bible still does have its place in the political discourse. But of course, politicians constantly try to screw up healthcare and support services, and large parts of right-wing rhetorics echo those found in the US (fear of the migrants, etc), and we're still pretty fucked up overall.

[@SenorZorros]

I'm dutch and Wilders is actually very much misunderstood. The pvv, as bad as it is, is not the far right bastion people think it is. Of course he is extremely anti-immigration, pro-military and the party is very undemocratic but they also support rent control, social healthcare, low retirement age, indexed pensions and student financing. They are actually low-key climate-sceptic (though you won't see them say that because it's extremely unpopular) but pro-nuclear because it would make us independent from russia and the middle east. doesn't mean it's not a neofascist party though and rest assured. I wouldn't want to be caught dead supporting it.

[@blane2472]

@@SenorZorros That's a good point, even our most extreme political fool (Wilders, who oddly enough also has weird hair, guess it's a 'thing' for racists), comes across as more moderate than the American ones. BUT I'd say the only reason for that is because he realises the Dutch political landscape wouldn't let him succeed otherwise. I don't think he gives a shit about any of those social issues, he just knows that his base does. Saying all that, even if he did believe in those (and it isn't just lipservice, I mean even Drumpf promised affordable healthcare), his policies towards immigrants, certain countries, and his violent nationalism would still place him as a far right bastion. (Basically I'm saying, his terrifying nationalism, his outright racism towards marginalised groups makes him far right, no matter how often he says he wants to keeps rents low, as those first ideas should weigh much heavier.)

[@ModelVGameComment]

I like how when I first heard of Cantrapoints they introduced her as "A conservative leaning transwoman." I really wish conservatives actually thought this way.

[@sadnessofwildgoats]

They may hav gotten her confused with blaire white

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Conservative leaning trans women sounds like an oxymoron

[@bananewane1402]

@@airplanes_aren.t_real You haven't watched Blaire White

[@vilagistene2939]

​@@bananewane1402She's not conservative just anti-Woke.

[@bananewane1402]

@@vilagistene2939 Define “woke”

[@genessab]

Natalie is posting drop everything and worship!

[@benjaminherrera1987]

literally what i'm doing rn

[@kaylaklimas6058]

a very thirsty boi

[@fts_space_shark]

Genessa, I got the notification on Patreon and literally jumped out of bed to watch it twice. Now on my third viewing.

[@leiapasquarelli3274]

I feel like any high school student who took a crash course in oceanography, knows more about weather patterns and global warming more than Trump.

[@scoutpark5230]

I think you're absolutely right.

[@jv-lk7bc]

No need to limit that statement to global warming. Any high school student knows more about anything than Donald Trump. Trump doesn't need or want to know stuff. Facts would only get in the way of him spinning the yarns that get people to do what he wants. His system has gotten him through 7 decades of a charmed life .. and into the White House! Why on earth would he change now? How would that happen? He's already fired anybody that could have tried to talk him into it. (many were fired for trying). This is how tin pot dictators work.

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

@@jv-lk7bc kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGm8XoNmq5d7npI

[@catrielmarignaclionti4518]

@@jv-lk7bc The only thing trump know is social skills.

[@juniperrodley9843]

@@catrielmarignaclionti4518 He knows social skills in the way that Onision knows youtube video making. He fails completely at every turn, but he does know how to fail in a way that his fucked up fans find appealing.

[@gormongous]

I know that Jackie's not a real person and can't actually be convinced, but I couldn't help wishing the Doctor would point out that hot weather causes grapes to have more sugar when they grow, that more sugar makes for inferior wines, and that the past four years have been the hottest on record. Even if climate change doesn't ruin a harvest outright with temperature fluctuations that cause vines to bud early and be killed off by a late frost (2017) or with hailstorms that destroy entire crops (2018), it will still make for less and worse alcohol. Two thirds of wine regions are projected to be agriculturally or commercially nonviable by 2020! If you care about literally anything on this dumb earth, there's a good chance that it'll be ruined in whole or in part by climate change. The problem with confronting people with that fact, using their favorite thing, is that people can always retreat into flat denialism because humanity, as a whole, is really good at believing that something won't happen if they don't want it to happen. Just like I don't want to believe that cognac might not technically exist anymore, in a handful of years!

[@snek9353]

Wow what a whiner.

[@thepanda9782]

lngfcjhn well not necessarily, not all regions can be used to grow food because it's already taken by other industry, and in general we will see an overall reduction in viable farm land for soil quality reasons. Hence famines, and not just in third world countries...food and water is going to get REAL expensive.

[@coldDrive]

I happen to be a winemaker by trade, and I'm either in the wrong part of the world or greatly uneducated, but both your ideas about winemaking/bad years and your projections sound super off to me. "more sugar makes for inferior wines" is an extremely simplistic argument to begin with, and while hot summers usually make for more % in the harvest, it's way more about the amount of rain than it is about the heat. Half a week of rain in september can lower the sugar concentration a crazy amount, and far outweight the temperature thing. Plus, there's a ton of tinkering with different types of... yeast? are they called yeast in english? the magical wine fairies. Most die off halfway through the fermentation process at "high" sugar concentration because they make environments where they can't survive due to the alcohol content, but theres specialised types of yeast that live in unusual environments to correct or salvage that shit. Also, you can water the wines, or more commonly mix them with lower sugar concentration juice to lower the alcohol concentration. Which, "worst wines" argument and all, is a completely valid way to salvage a botched fermentation, and a few liters go a long way. Were it not because of this, my region would rountinely make red wines in the 17-18º range, which is the kind of wine that we made on the 80s and early 90s, way before climate change got to this point, just because we didn't know better and we had like three proper enologists in the whole region. So you know, I'm all for jokey "hit the rich where it hurts them" points, but I had to type this because I then find folk online saying the dumbest stuff.

[@iguananaut]

On top of that, something I was almost sure would come up with The Sea: kiss sushi goodbye.

[@gormongous]

@@coldDrive Unfortunately, KZbin comments being what they are, I was simplifying a lot by mostly focusing what I've learned about wine-growing in the Cognac and Champagne regions of France, where the value of terroir has a DOC in place. With cognac especially, I've read that the optimal alcohol yield for the grapes is six or seven percent, and many producers have complained publicly about how that's becoming difficult to guarantee year to year. That's a big part of why cognac prices, even among the Big Four, have risen sharply and Hennessy has had to blow through its reserves. The rest of your post is interesting! A lot of it sounds like it might be a distinction, but maybe not that much of a difference? Sugar levels in grapes are vulnerable to heavy rain more than to heat, there are special yeasts to handle oversugared juice, and you can water down the juice if the fermentation gets botched... so yeah, wine's going to become more of a hassle to make and to suffer in quality as climate change wreaks havoc on the world, just maybe not in the ways that I said? Regardless, I appreciate learning from an expert and not just from articles on VinePair! Hopefully I haven't added more "dumb" stuff to the pile.

[@kazerniel]

"How am I supposed to care about rising sea levels when there's Muslims out there?" I can't even 😂

[@ahmedamine24]

"I SEXUALLY IDENTIFY AS AN OIL COMPANY" OH GODNESS.

[@markganus1085]

allahu akbar

[@francescacourtin7870]

@@markganus1085 Alhamduli Allah

[@stilltoomanyhats]

You think that's weird? I hear there are oil companies that sexually identify as persons...

[@Maxarcc]

I am so glad the left is on the rise on KZbin with quality content. Hopefully ContraPoints and others will create a ripple effect, just like the right did back in 2016.

[@smorgastarta4205]

Michiel Tbh, it really isn't... Even news media knows this. Contrapoints just a drop of water from a bucket full of leftist idea in a ocean full of people who disagrees with feminism and "social justice" Generation Z is on the rise and they're bringing in Conservative ideas to rise. MSM knows this too well as well.

[@Maxarcc]

@@smorgastarta4205 For now, yes I do have to agree with you. But there are a couple of things I would like to point out: For one, KZbin has a history of content waves. It started out with the atheist community, then it slowly evolved into a new wave we could call the skeptosphere and finally a "post-skeptosphere" (if you will) that branched out into anti-SJW channels. (this is a obviously a very bare-bones and limited perspective on the vastly different forms of content the platform classicaly presented, but I try to stay within the sphere of political channels, just for the sake of argument.) This is where we are now, but it is in decline. It is in decline partly due to the shifting prioritization algorithm the platform is pushing and partly due to the add-pocalypse that is in full swing since 2017. What is happening right now is that the left is able to pierce this system for whatever reason and they are doing it with (you can disagree with me) quality content, instead of the same old tactics the right has been using for years. This particular tactic I am talking about involved getting the worst possible representation of the left, reeling it into their filterbubble, blowing it up, and attacking it as if it represents the entire group. There is only so much pandering you can do on this platform before it gets old for the general viewer. And I would argue the political viewer is no exception. Now the left is entering the stage. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain after they got pushed off the platform back in 2016. But now they are doing it with a deep understanding of the pitfals the right has layed bare in their bombardment of KZbin in the past several years. They refrain from the Audre Lorde method of argumentation and instead choose a more distanced and nuanced method that is less easy to meme out of existence. Who knows what the future will bring. But those are my two cents on the matter.

[@smorgastarta4205]

Michiel Dude, I just want things to be the way they were, like Dark Humour still roaming around, being able to express thoughts, nobody hating on each other like children just because their favourite person lost, whining about "diversity" and "inclusivity" while being racist/sexist about it, and for people in Hollywood to actually stop screwing up with everything by putting identity politics and stuff. If being something that isn't a Dem. could stop this then I'll take my chances. Also, everyone is tired of these people. I know what you mean by "the right blowing things out of proportion" but it's understandable to think so when the top extremist ideologues comes from Democrats in the Higher ups in California, controlling what we watch or hear. With every action there's an equal and opposite reaction, and that's what has come to it, People getting tired of it and now Gen Z are going to more Conservative; the opposite of what you guys want, and it's all because of the insanity that has been left to run around rampantly. Just in case: before you start saying I'm a Nazi, White Suprrmacist, republican, Christian, cis, straight, white, male, i'd advise you to refrain yourself from doing so. It's like those people are trying to create a utopia, but they're ending up in creating a Dystopia. There's a book call Utopia, which talks about a city where it's amazing, but looking into it it turns out it's actually a Dystopia. It seems like these people just want something good that they causing something bad to happen. The left is "rising" on KZbin because the Right is getting banned, demonitised, etc. Basically it's not that they're rising, it's more like the right is getting diminished. It's like if there's 100 pennies and 100 quarters, and I start removing quarters, it would seem like the number of pennies are rising but really it's just me artificially taking out the quarters, that's what's been going on for the last 2 years to couple months. There is no rise! It's just people getting banned/deplatformed because of the dumbasses who stand against bigotry actually doing the thing they claim to fight against!

[@Maxarcc]

@@smorgastarta4205 Don't worry, I won't label you in any way shape or form. I know the internet has conditioned you into thinking that this is the norm, but I distance myself from that pitfall. I am a firm believer of the dialectic method and I think labeling someone with an ideology is very counterproductive for this very reason. I'll just take your argumentation as you wrote it down, without any presumptions about how you identify politically. This is not where I'm after. I think you make a few valid points. But I would also like to question a few claims you make. I'll start from top to bottom. The claim that Hollywood is presenting a form of identity politics is a valid point, in my opinion. This also goes for your claim about California. Where I disagree however, is that this is a form of extremism. Extremism is something that politically deviates from the status quo, and because these media companies don't function in a vacuum (but in a neoliberal capitalist system) I find it hard to believe that they were able to harness this influence without an enormous base of people who consume their media. Your claim might stem from your own perspective, or the perspective of the group you identify with (again, I won't make assumptions as to what this might be). If you are a left-wing authoritarian for example, the ideas of a conservative person are way more likely to be interpreted as extreme or even unethical. I also don't agree with your claim that these left-leaning media companies control everything that we see or hear. I'd argue the right has been successful in dismantling this paradigm by making use of supply and demand. About your penny story: I see your point, but I still firmly believe the left is on the rise. With the right being deplatformed the void gets filled up with political content that is viable for KZbins' idea of a business model, again due to supply and demand. You can see the overall time for attention of all political viewers combined as a stagnant and finite pool that can be tapped into by content creators. In a twisted way the attention of the viewer can be seen as a currency. For more information about how this functions I recommend academic papers about the attention regime and I remember the book Netocracy by Alexander Bard also talking about this phenomena. I remember reading a striking essay about the attention regime, but I can't find it right now. If you're interested I could delve deeper for you to dig it up. regards, Michiel

[@MadCDeeJay]

As an hard right Antimigration Guy i am also glad that the intellectual left ist back. Can't discuss much with idiots. Not that there is much to discuss as i agree on roughly 95 % she says.

[@Vegibyte]

As a vegan I have had the "Animals were killed farming the vegetables you eat" card played on me so many times....

[@matthewbrandt5053]

Quick question. Up here in Alaska we do a lot of subsistance hunting and fiahing, so would this be considerd ethical. Don't get me wrong, the towns and cities can get fresh produce but the problem is cost. I was simply wondering if this style could be an option for people who like meat, occasionaly getting wild game.

[@shimpey2410]

Matthew Brandt I’m vegan, and I honestly have no problem with people who hunt and use every bit of the animal, or it’s the only option for food where you are. It’s not like ur purposely hunting animals to take a photo with and then just...leaving them there.

[@TheSuperRatt]

@@matthewbrandt5053 Yeah, so long as y'all aren't decimating the environment it's fine. It'd be a problem if the hunting and fishing was deteriorating the local ecosystems.

[@matthewbrandt5053]

@@TheSuperRatt Fair enough. Commercial fishing honestly sucks, it kills too many fish and thanks to climate change, we have fewer salmon to begin with.

[@SlighlyMacs]

@@matthewbrandt5053 I’m vegan and I think hunting and fishing for survival is 100000x more ethical than the factory farm industry! Plus u earn what ur eating!

[@cmulthauf3]

I've been having severe anxiety about climate change for weeks now, and this video was the first step for me reconciling with it. When you're too scared of something to learn about it, you superimpose your own worst fears onto it, and it actually ends up being much scarier than it is. This is compounded on by the fact that most of what I knew, I knew from social media and mainstream news sources, which presents the crisis more as a series of hard-hitting soundbytes than a cohesive narrative. The facts are consistent, but the presentation isn't, and this creates an atmosphere of uncertainty. I'm not saying climate change isn't frightening. But you present the issue comprehensively -- as you do in all of your videos -- and that helps me feel a little less world-weary and a little more in control.

[@andeggbreaks]

I experienced the same thing recently, well put. Climate change still causes me intense anxiety and hopelessness but not as much blind panic as when I understood it less.

[@Thytos]

I know this comment is 3 years old already, but I recommend ClimateTown - it's a KZbin channel which has very thorough takes on the climate crisis and at the same time he manages to somehow keep it entertaining and actionable

[@Lincolnt4]

THE EROTICISM OF THE SEA

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

The Unofficial Dragon Mania Legends and that’s why I vote republican

[@trevorm1876]

Got a prager u ad before this lmao

[@snek9353]

Those guys are great huh.

[@reuteratwork8983]

@@snek9353 - Yeah, great for a laugh -- & that's about it...

[@rawhamburgerjoe]

Always. I make sure to watch the whole thing so she gets their $.01. I mean, hey, if they're gonna be douches.....

[@reuteratwork8983]

@@rawhamburgerjoe - Yeah, it's pretty funny, really -- they get to put an ad in front of an audience that's too smart to fall for their crap, & CP gets the ad revenue -- poetic justice, of a sort...

[@MascaraMorada]

Same lmao

[@ZbjetisGod]

So happy this channel exists! We need more high quality left wing content to combat the huge amounts of right wing garbage that gets posted online.

[@JaseekaRawr]

Yep. She's said that was her inspiration to make these videos in the first place, too. This channel is sorely needed & even more are needed to combat these garbage, right wing propaganda videos that KZbin/its algorithm so loves to push. Funny how so many people complain that left wing politics is the majority on YT, though I'm never recommended socialist or communist videos, ever. They see capitalist, corporate news channels as leftist - because they clearly don't know what leftism actually is. It's really as simple as that.

[@michaelguarneri352]

ZbjetisGod To be honest I think it’s the other way around. We need more high quality left wing content to combat the mountain of garbage left wing arguments/content on the internet and in society.

[@Udontkno7]

@@michaelguarneri352 it's a good mix on both

[@anschn7166]

Great video, but also really fucking depressing watching this over 5 years later

[@jennyr4057]

It's still bugs me that the ManBearPig episode caught on the way it did, I think it did have a pretty big effect on how a lot of people view climate change (and Al Gore). I generally like south park, but that episode always made me furious, Al Gore was SO over the top and so annoying. But south park and its creators did issue an apology earlier this year about ManBearPig, and made an episode this past season addressing how they were wrong, and that climate change is a real threat (the episode is about how people are still ignoring it despite the fact that it's a huge terrifying undeniable monster at this point.) I think Al Gore is still a doofus in it, but ... well, it's still good that they admitted this.

[@jennyr4057]

@Henry Wells I agree! It's totally too little too late. One episode isn't going to change the impact of what they did, not by a long shot. Also South Park is a lot less relevant than they used to be, so it's not going to make much difference even if they did do this. (Both culturally and climate-change wise...) But people realizing they are wrong about an issue and changing their minds, it's still worth mentioning at least.

[@nootnewt9323]

I agree. Generally I find myself agreeing with South Park for the most part (like their Black Friday episode was genius and the one where Randy says the n-word) but that one episode is annoying. On one hand I’m glad they realized their mistake, but on the other I wonder what made them make that episode in the first place.

[@superduperfreakyDj]

@Dexter Gesternॐ Bruh you're the idiot if you think we're the minority. More than 150 countries signed the Paris accords, you're the minority.

[@thirdpowerful1]

The tactics of the climate deniers are EXACTLY like those employed by big tobacco for DECADES to deny that nicotine is addictive (in spite of their own conclusive research AND efforts to make it more so). And because Americans can't remember last Thursday, let alone shit that happened 20 years ago, we're falling for it all over again.

[@apologia4422]

3rdpapaya true

[@demilembias2527]

its ironic that people were able to defeat big tobacco but not big CO2, because all this talk of the world ending makes me really need a smoke.

[@djavanalderromero]

@@justifiably_stupid4998 wft? What better PR than scientific consensus

[@GuerillaBunny]

It's not exactly LIKE, it's literally the same strategy, manufactured by the same people as with the tobacco skeptics. And that last word is important, because a lot of the strategies that go into denial aren't technically denial. It's skepticism and confusion as a tactic of attrition. So instead of downright claiming that it isn't happening or that we're not contributing to it, they ask how it could be happening or more importantly claiming that we don't know to what degree we are contributing to it. "We can't rush into costly changes if we don't know if they'll have an effect! We need more research!" Feigning participation in the conversation just to waste people's time debunking nonsense. With that said, don't take the bait. Do not comment. Simply add a downvote and move on. Or if you're on facebook, don't comment or react. It all registers as engagement, which causes the algorithm to push them towards the top, because to an advertiser, the quantity of comments is more valuable than their quality.

[@Tayzorr]

How do you not panic though? How does anyone not panic? Not just in an "I'm a pragmatist and I know it won't help anything" sense. What about this scenario isn't nightmarish? Scientific logic has become an inherently political decision. We humour people who pick and choose how reality works as a child chooses sweets from a pick 'n' mix. We exist in a time when empirical logic is optional in globally-important policy making! I feel like I'm on a train speeding towards a cliff's edge, and some passengers are rolling their eyes and denying there's a cliff, and some won't look up from their cunting smart phones. On a sheer, primal, physical level, how do you not panic every day?

[@reuteratwork8983]

Speaking personally, I don't panic because, well, I'm an Existentialist, & believe that life is just a series of experiences we all go through, until we don't -- there never were any guarantees, neither individually nor collectively, about life being "fair", or avoiding suffering, or humans becoming "better" -- human beings have done nothing but crap all over the planet, ever since they clambered to the predator apex & began reshaping the environment to their own selfish needs -- this is not a new thing, this is what, as a species, we've been from the get-go -- &, in my view, it's what we will continue to be, until we either advance our technology to the point where we don't need to ruin everything around us just to live in comfort or, alternately, we foul our own nest so badly that we kill ourselves off -- if some people need a little panic in order to be motivated to act more responsibly [toward our planet, & toward ourselves], then I say, by all means, go right ahead -- but I don't see the need for panic otherwise -- doesn't everyone who gets on a roller-coaster understand that there's a possibility for disaster? But they still choose to expose themselves to the rush & excitement that goes along w/ the threat of impending doom -- that's the best way to approach life, in my opinion -- to be aware that this roller-coaster we're all on could, at any moment, w/out any warning, go flying off the rails to oblivion, but don't let that prevent you from reveling in the joy & exhilaration -- certainly, one should make the best preparations & precautions one can, but also realize that so much of this ride is beyond our ability to influence -- &, if this planet should tire of mankind's abuses, & shrugs us off into extinction, it's really not some great tragedy -- it's just another one of the many extinctions that have occurred throughout the millennia...

[@Tayzorr]

@@reuteratwork8983 I appreciate that from a stoically objective standpoint, your point of view isn't incorrect. To me, however, that kind of logic is irreconcilably alien; it's so dispassionate that it almost seems like apathy. All known life in the universe is at risk, much of it is being destroyed or threatened while we speak, and being an atheist, I can only think that the only mechanism in the universe to determine 'good' and 'bad' is inherent to life, which after all, is the only known force in the universe that has an objective. I can't as easily emphathise with inanimate space debris as I can a human being; one of them can suffer and the other can't. Without meaning offense, saying "nothing's fair" occurs to me as a means of denouncing agency and responsibility, because engaging it is too taxing. I feel like, just as Contrapoints highlighted in her video, that kind of attitude erodes quickly when it's put to the test - oil companies very quickly start believing in the immediate threat of rising sea levels when it's their own property that's at stake, and not some paddy farmers in the Pacific. Or, to put a spin on your own analogy, if you were on a roller coaster, and someone did get badly hurt, would you turn to the other passengers and dismiss their panic because "they knew the risks"? If there was a high chance that roller coaster was on a collision course that would maim or kill everyone onboard, wouldn't you join everyone else in screaming for it to stop before that happens? I don't make a logical decision to panic. I react because I perceive danger, and there's nothing I can do to stop it. Without getting too much into myself, I'm living, voting, buying and politically engaging pretty damn green. I might be living in the last generation on earth who had a chance to do something about it, so I can't put it all into the perspective of a forgone conclusion. I'm scared shitless, and all I can do most days is just distract myself and hope that people stop being apathetic and start caring enough.

[@markganus1085]

girls do the panicking. men do the work. leave it to those who get shit done.

[@reuteratwork8983]

@@Tayzorr - You just asked how people don't panic -- I told you why I don't panic -- if the roller-coaster is going to crash, & there's no avoiding it, then there's no point is screaming for it to stop -- I was on my motorcycle once, & a car pulled a left turn right in front of me -- in an instant, I knew for a fact that a collision was unavoidable -- I didn't scream for my bike to stop -- I just jammed on both brakes as hard as I could, to minimize the impact as much as possible, & braced for it -- the only thought I recall having was in incredulous "Oh, no he didn't!", & then I was in the air, flying past his windshield -- honestly, my only real worry as I flipped through the air, was concern for my passenger, regret that she was endangered under my watch -- look, if you personally can't help it, if you just have to freak out when disaster is imminent, then you do you -- but you asked, & I answered -- life, for all living things, whether they're empathetic creatures or not, is just a spin on the cosmic whirligig, that lasts as long as it lasts -- getting upset because the ride is ending is, to me, like getting upset when a movie ends -- you knew the movie was going to have to end at some point, so why get upset? It's inevitable -- at some point, the curtain will close on the human species, the planet earth, the sun, the solar system, the entire universe -- do I think that we should still do everything we can to keep the ride going as for long as possible? Of course -- so you can take your "apathy" & shove it -- I just recognize & accept that, one way or the other, the ride ends, whether it just slows to a gently stop, or it flies off the rails in calamity -- that perspective is how I keep from panicking -- & that's my answer to your question...

[@AnxiousGary]

This should be taken with a grain of salt, because I do panic every single day, but making big changes in your life in the name of environmentalism will give you other things to focus on while feeling productive about stopping global annihilation. After a while you'll see how what seemed like an inconsequential little thing has added up to a huge reduction. I'm doing that with animal products. Also find people to share your fears with who are similarly action oriented, there are a lot more people nervously glancing around in your train analogy than you realize, I think.

[@padfootblack5503]

**sees title in 2020** Oh dear

[@vitor2571]

California: *literally on fire* People: nah, global warming doesn't exist

[@majestycrush]

Vítor Alba you forgot a lot of conservatives believed that California deserved it anyways for being a liberal state

[@xXTheKingEmothXx]

A fire can be caused by anything that isnt global warming too. Bad point. If I recall, California had a very large Eucalyptus forest. Those trees are very flammable.

[@vitor2571]

@@xXTheKingEmothXx did you ever look up the US Wildfire map? Do you think that this is a regular thing?

[@travelerfinder7840]

Poppy is right though. I agree global warming is a problem but you have to link up the connection for people.

[@alexarias5717]

Trump: we're going to improve forest management

[@rvsalka]

THE GLOVES HAVE NAILS THIS IS PEAK AESTHETIC RIGHT THERE I LOVE THIS THANK U FOR THIS

[@fts_space_shark]

maria, yes yes, I noticed, and I LOVE.

[@Namelify]

The American political focus of this video actually obscures the larger political problem of climate change. The problem isn't even that there are climate change deniers, the problem is that the political and economical systems that the western world uses are entirely incapable of handling the societal changes that are required to adapt to climate change. In Sweden, for example, where I live, there is not a single climate change denier in the large political parties. Still, almost nothing significant is done towards decreasing emissions and the few changes that have been proposed are heavily debated when they should have been implemented years ago. The bottle neck for serious action against climate change is actually not denial, it is the entire modern democratic political system and the way it interacts with capitalistic interests. It would have been more interesting if the video had dealt with this much more complex problem.

[@jkishhabi]

Johnny Edström I agree with you that for those of us educated on this matter it would make for a more interesting video. But understand that this video is still trying to reach the ignorant and apathetic. And I thinks it does that effectively in part due to it being very entertaining and aimed from an American perspective. We do need to have some way of tackling the larger problems that you brought up. I know that even with some education on the issues I do not know where to start at completely transforming our power structures. I understand wanting to destroy them but worry we don't have time to destroy and then build something completely new if there is an expedient way to transform the structures themselves?

[@allencummings7564]

Cool maybe a follow-up!

[@Flyingtart]

Enviroment is pretty high up on the agenda in Sweden though, and the government heavily invests in climate smart tech research. Numerous actions have been taken in recent years to minimize pollution, such as ”congestion tax”, promotion of public transportation, incorporated a buttload of ecological awareness and ”Sustainable Development” in schools (even beginning at preschool) and even a ban on old diesel cars (plus ridiculously high pertrol tax) just to mention some things, the list could be made quite long. The government presented an uniquely ambitious climate-political framework the other year. Sweden can’t be said to be unwilling, passive or inept in these matters. As a matter of fact, one could argue that we are pretty darn radical. This is coming from someone who voted Miljöpartiet in the previous election (not the recent one though).

[@Namelify]

@@Flyingtart I didn't mean to say we do nothing in Sweden, but for being one of the most progressive countries when it comes to climate change, we are so far from doing enough that it's frightening to me. Our emissions are still incredibly high and they have remained almost unchanged for several years. Also, every little law that we try to implement continually meats extreme amounts of protest. Just look at how much fuss politicians made about the small flight tax that came in effect earlier this year. The stuff that we actually need to do is so incredibly much more and would require a total change of how we live here. And that's not possible, even in a country where the dangers of climate change are accepted as fact.

[@EssayOfThoughts]

She literally pointed out that capitalism massively limits the effectiveness of current political attempts and points out it may take something far more dramatic to change things, i.e. vive la revolution if thats what it takes, because capitalism is hell.

[@Uoaefe]

How to get American conservatives to stop denying climate change and actually do something about it: Try to prove it is climate change that is actually causing the "gay crisis", not degeneracy Nothing gets those people more motivated than halting social progression!

[@nunyabizniss570]

Or even just the reality that it's causing increased immigration and refugees. You know how much conservatives hate them

[@she7061]

Nothing In Particular then we should be even better than those dirty third worlders, right? win the contest for how environmentally friendly we can be. America loves the idea of winning

[@jv-lk7bc]

@@she7061 thats closer. We need a big oil tycoon to explain how a big idea, moon-shot-like, will make US wiorld industry leaders, everybody gets rich and lives happily ever after, just like the hollywood movies. doesnt even matter if its true (look at how many votes Trump got!). just has to have Clint Eastwood playing the part in the movie.. or Sly Stallone.

[@sadnessofwildgoats]

Your channel icon is the ace colors

[@paolima1448]

"Global warming is making the freaking frogs gay" pass it on.

[@sgtbluehead]

The fact that South Park contributed to the climate change denial (from a certain perspective) makes me feel so betrayed :(

[@qk-tb2df]

there is nothing we can do about it unless we have mass education and technology advances sorry, your little college campuses won't change the fact that oil companies are worth trillions of dollars I understand the problem, but I don't have an answer to the fix and taxing me 15% more on gas isn't going to solve the issue, it's going to piss me off

[@bongodave13]

South Park popularizes the idea that "both sides are the same," and that it's cool to not give a fuck about anything.

[@ratkinzluver33]

The propaganda campaign probably had the most impact. If you're taking your science lessons from South Park, the education system has already failed.

[@uremawifenowdave]

*Spoilers Ahead* But Al Gore was right ManBearPig is real, the whole of South Park have had to admit their part in the cover up and the apocalypse will come.

[@MFZBitch]

@@ratkinzluver33 well its not about science lessons. Its about an underling feeling in society. And South Park reaches a large (especially for the future) part of it.

[@coldDrive]

As a random spaniard, I was taught climate change in primary school, early-mid 90's, as a creeping threat that we needed to act on right then and there if we wanted to, at the very least, mitigate it. It's not really a partisan issue whether it exists or not and whether something should be done about it, parties only disagreed on the specifics of what to do. Which renewable energy sources to build towards, the specific trashold of emission caps, that sort of stuff. So when the internet rolled around and I saw that the united states had an entire social and political identity built around covering their ears and going "LALALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU" at the problem... yeah it felt weird.

[@Rettequetette]

Exactly. Here in the Netherlands (you know, the country that would mostly disappear if sea levels get to rise a little higher) the importance of environmental protection has been taught in schools even from the late 70's-early 80's and maybe even earlier than that. Boggles my mind how America managed to stay so ignorant for so long.

[@Majubs]

Even here in Brazil, education about climate change was just part of school curriculum, not a partisan thing. At least when I was in school, nowadays it might be different though, which is unfortunate. The way things are now, it's more likely that the elected president is just going to sell the Amazon to the same companies responsible for most of carbon emission, we're going to need a lot of luck for it to survive the next 50 years...

[@BlackBinderGames]

Rettequetette Yes, people are allowed freedom of thought in America. Even if those thoughts are backward. What a terrible thing!

[@coldDrive]

+Black Binder man I can't even tell whether that statement is supposed to be read straight or not. As in, are you saying that teaching stuff in schools and educating the populace about shit they might use in life is a form of mind control, all with a straight face and all. Or are you mocking the obtrusiveness and immutability of education programs driven by inertia, loyalty to tradition, and vested interest of coprprations with political power to keep teaching kids wrong stuff, flippantly calling all of that "freedom of thought" like one of its defenders might. I'm having a major case of Poe's law here. Help me out.

[@sleepingkirby]

To be fair, they also think homosexuality is a sign of the devil, the earth is only like 4000 years old, light was shining before stars existed and that "mixing the races" in a species is a bad thing. (because being homogeneous is somehow a good thing despite the fact that the point of different genders is to mix genes.)