The greenhouse gas no one is talking about

You may know laughing gas from your visit to the dentist. But did you know that it's actually a climate killer - 300 times as potent as CO₂? Why is no one talking about it? And how can we to stop it?
#PlanetA #nitrousoxide #greenhousegases
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world - and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
Credits:
Reporter: Anna Carthaus
Camera: Neven Hillebrands
Video Editor: Neven Hillebrands
Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Interviewees:
Eric Davidson, environmental scientist, University of Maryland
David Kanter, researcher, New York University
Caroline Orr, microbiologist, Teesside University
Steven Hall, environmental scientist, Iowa State University
Read More:
"A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks"
www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
"Urgent abatement of industrial sources of nitrous oxide"
www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
"Stanford expert explains why laughing gas is a growing climate problem"
news.stanford.edu/2020/10/07/...
"The world's forgotten greenhouse gas"
www.bbc.com/future/article/20...
Nitrous oxide emissions 300 times more powerful than CO₂
theconversation.com/new-resea...
"Laughing Gas Is No Joke: The Forgotten Greenhouse Gas"
www.eesi.org/articles/view/la...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:07 History
01:59 Why is N2O so bad?
03:21 Why do N2O levels keep rising?
07:11 Solutions
09:53 What needs to happen on a political level?

[@michaelobrien5891]

"Laughing gas parties" reminds me of the 18th century electricity parties where people would all hold hands and get collectively shocked on purpose.

[@magesalmanac6424]

Or huffing ether 😬

[@michaelobrien5891]

@@magesalmanac6424 I haven't heard of that one! I wonder how often people caught on fire. 😳

[@nos9784]

Electric shock: We did that in school one day :D 15 years ago? Someone was doing a talk about electric fence power supplies and brought one, so during the break, we formed a big circle and got shocked. It was fun :) I really need to find that video again...

[@c87kim]

Damn you must be old

[@ryanreedgibson]

N2O is so much better. They are called whippets and people still do have parties but that isn't the purpose of the party.

[@simoneravazza5451]

Regenerative agriculture must be taken in consideration. There are many regenerative farmers that don't use any chemical fertilizer at all and have the same or even greater yields. Gabe Brown is one of them: he's running his farm in regenerative way since 1995. Take a look, please ✌️

[@petrlonsky2332]

Absolutely! Regenerative agriculture is great answer not only for reduction of nitrous oxide 👍I ad: more plant based diet = reduce animal products.

[@lrwerewolf]

@@petrlonsky2332 Little problem. Check out Project Drawdown, one of the main repositories of ways to address GHG. If you add up all the animal-involved agricultural solutions, animal ranching could actually absorb the whole annual emission of green house gasses and then some, per year. Reduce animal consumption TOO much and you reduce the economic viability of an area of agriculture that could literally SOLVE the problem.

[@stevenmayhew3944]

I especially like what I learned from Living Web Farms' KZbin videos about how to treat your farm like an ecosystem hosted by Gabe Brown.

[@youkofoxy]

It does not look much, but is honest work.

[@tonygorman9462]

Plant based diets are causing this problem, animal based regenerative agriculture is the solution. Plant based diets are the primary reason for many of the worlds problems, eg, the loss of insects world wide is due to the use of herbicides and insecticides. Tens of billions of small animals (eg mice, rabbits,) are killed each year by farmers to protect crops and vegans eating these crops then illogically rant about the killing of a much smaller number of cows/sheep to feed non-vegans. @@petrlonsky2332

[@michaelhuntley6175]

It's weird how the first few minutes of this seem to be a hitpiece on N2O as a party drug and then, and only then, pivot to the actual problem which is agricultural and industrial uses.

[@Unwanted_truth_]

A hit piece? If anything they were irresponsibly neutral on that spinal cord damaging, brain damaging stupid choice of a drug I don't know what kind of adults would care to defend it, other than those who use it

[@elitepauper7400]

Its weird that you find that weird

[@pamparanea]

​@@elitepauper7400 It's weird that you think it's weird that he finds it weird.

[@thischannel4326]

@@pamparanea It’s weird that you think it’s weird that he finds it weird that op thinks it’s weird.

[@salvito46]

i agree, it's weird

[@veggieboyultimate]

I’m not surprised the agriculture industry is the biggest contributor to nitrous oxide emissions. This is why supporting local farmers is a better option.

[@dennisenright9347]

You are assuming that large agricultural producers are using fertilizer less efficiently and therefore producing more nitrous oxide than small local farms. That might not be the case

[@ThomasBomb45]

Are local farmers guaranteed to use fertilizer in spring instead of fall?

[@gregorymalchuk272]

I agree, support local farmers using modern chemicals to maximize crop yields and improve our standard of living.

[@andrewj22]

11:19 "What do YOU think we should do?" What do I think? I think the media should stop perpetuating the view that non-experts should maintain firm opinions on very specialized, technical issues.

[@geraldfrost4710]

Pop quiz: What is the number one greenhouse gas on earth? Hint: it wasn't mentioned on the list... That would be water vapor. It's 25 x as common as CO2, and 3 x as effective. It is the elephant in the room.

[@andrewj22]

@@geraldfrost4710 Get a university degree. It's worth it.

[@geraldfrost4710]

@@andrewj22 Thanks for asking! My degree is in physics, from UCSB. Yours? I made a Planetary Air Conditioner, which ejects enough heat into space to prevent 250 tons of ice from melting per year. No moving parts, and it doesn't use electricity. I use it to cool my house. I've posted videos, and I've shown the math. The media tells us to eat the bugs to control the weather. If you did that, how many tons of ice would be saved? Please show your math. I'm not being sarcastic; the PAC I built is real. I would like to know how much methane emissions would be reduced by eliminating bovine flatulence, and how much one person's lack of contribution would actually help. As an aside, the animal with the highest CH4 emission is termites, both by total species production and when looking at a kg of termite biomass as compared to a kg of bovine biomass. The conversion of wood-pulp (lignin) to sugar by the bacteria in a termite's gut is the source. Go figure.

[@mollypenwhistle7918]

I wonder if this is why gardening makes me so happy!

[@cyrilio]

Don't forget that Nitrous Oxide also has medicinal purposes. It's widely used at dentist offices.

[@beyondredemption8179]

It was actually phased out of dentist offices in the first world countries in the 1980s. Mostly because you need an anaesthesiologist to administer it in a hospital setting.

[@Fred_the_1996]

Also you can inject it into engines and make cars faster hehe

[@notinterested8452]

It was mentioned.

[@Magnum3144]

Hello, Texas Registered Dental Assistant here. We use N2O daily with almost every single patient we treat, in fact most if not all pediatric dentists use it. No hospital setting needed and I have been certified to administer this gas myself. It is very safe with proper use.

[@beyondredemption8179]

@@Magnum3144 Guess it must be different in the UK then because they are only qualified to use local anaesthesia.

[@GoingtoHecq]

I don't think i would do it as a drug but it is great at the dentist's. I had no idea it could come from soil and fertilizer. We need to use better agriculture practices

[@All2Skitzd]

They banned OTC asthma inhalers causing me to have to go to hospital instead of spending $12 to fix it at home. Let's just say the environment took a hit as a result.

[@paxundpeace9970]

I believe that we will need in medicine for many decades to come but agriculture is an more important issue.

[@notinterested8452]

Unbelievably addictive.

[@obaid5616]

Sadly in London, you see them all over the street... Young people tend to blow em in to balloons to get high and has left many people paralysed or in comas 💀 Big problem in the UK

[@lawrenceheyman435]

Thanks for opening my eyes to this. At least the video looked at solutions that allow the major sources to continue. The only thing missing was how much extra do the slow-release nitrogen fertilisers cost. I know current times are tough with a high cost of living, but if the message is it adds 10cents to the cost of bread, but solves a big issue, then I'm definitely in. Alternatively, it could mean countries subsidising farmers to use the slow release fertilisers.

[@catalina5382]

If you reduce the amount of dairy and meat you eat especially from ruminants, you are doing your part in reducing NO2. You can look it up online, see it's not bogus as most of the NO2 emissions come from the livestock industry. Bread is not a problem, animal products are much more land, water and fertilizer intensive than plant based ones.

[@sfract6833]

I wish that we could talk about the real impact of n2o... instead of using figures that are built to amplify the impact... why not compare it directly with something like CO2, or Methane? probably because the impact is minimal.. and inconsequential in comparison? ... Yeah... also hugely beneeficial, compared to the impacts? the n2o literally helps us to lock away other greenhouse gasses... This whole thing is so unnecessary.

[@DWPlanetA]

Hey there! It's the third most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and methane and it traps heat way stronger than CO2.

[@geraldfrost4710]

​@@DWPlanetANope. It's the FOURTH greenhouse gas on earth, a far distant contributor compared to water vapor, which didn't even appear on your list.

[@sethlogee]

Oh no the nitrous mafia won’t like this😂😂😂

[@saranbhatia8809]

Great documentary as always.... thanks DW!

[@VR00100]

3:40 why did you interview a microbiologist whose speciality is not chemistry, when the topic is more closely related to chemistry and physics She doesn't even research about N2O

[@janklaas6885]

☠, the future of mankind

[@mari-atonjalkanen9920]

at least we will die laughing.

[@paxundpeace9970]

What an underreported issue. I knew much off it before from my planetary health classes and some own reading on the subject still getting it explained again just shows hoe important it is. Still the Ozone layer is one of very few things that the mankind destroyed and help to regenerate.

[@oneandonlymoth]

Less balloons guys. Come on.

[@somerandomfella]

If governments and industry won't do it we can. Stop over consumption.

[@DWPlanetA]

Hey there! You could be interested in one of our recent videos talking about the concept of degrowth 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWOVnn6blLR_qck

[@andrewj22]

You want people to stop eating? Sure, stop buying so many clothes and cars and flights, but this particular pollution is from food. There's only not much less you can consume.

[@mrsneeklamy]

​@@andrewj22 Or we stop producing and then throwing away so much food. Worldwide, around a third of all food is wasted. In the US, it’s about 40% of food, 54 billion kilograms (119 billion pounds, worth about $408 billion). Source: Feeding America - Food Waste and Food Rescue

[@carpo719]

So you are saying most of the climate problems come from Dead Shows? Dang... my bad :D I am ALSO an advocate for this third greenhouse gas. I'll take care of it! Drop it on my doorstep and I will make sure it is disposed of

[@dipendragahamagar2386]

Informative video as always thanks a lot

[@markjoyce3172]

Didn't mention what the shiny bulbs are or what percentage of the global output comes from them or how fast that percentage has been growing for the past twenty years. NZ streets are covered in them, partly because we're not allowed to recycle the bulbs

[@PeaceLoveUnityRespect]

Working at Starbucks we would go through about 48 cannisters of nitrous oxide DAILY!

[@Fred_the_1996]

What did you use it for???

[@MAGnetICus_Attractus]

@@Fred_the_1996 they use it for whipped cream.

[@wilsonbethlehem3101]

Laughing gas needed in medicine. Eg: during labour

[@sheebanishat]

What is the coating on the fertilizer made of that delays the release of the nitrogen? I hope it doesn’t contain plastic. 8:26

[@JQ3B94]

clay

[@magwheels1232]

Advocate for regenerative agriculture in the US farm bill!! They are deciding theses policies now in the US so reach out to your representatives if u are in the US ❤

[@oakpoacher433]

2:27 Dont forget to include water as a greenhouse gas.....97% worth to be more precise. Tonga Honga volcano injected massive amounts of water into the atmosphere and months later there is massive flooding and dam failures.

[@malachiteofmethuselah9713]

This is how big oil fights alternative fuels. If nitrogen is worse than carbon, ammonia cannot dethrone hydrocarbons.

[@lorenzoortinoghini9773]

Going vegetarian/avoid beef helps a lot: less food needed (beef production Is far less efficient in producing useful calories to us than vegetables one) --> less fields needed --> less fertilizer needed

[@ltandrepants]

Protein too, calories and protein

[@ottoflouer1750]

Modern industrial agriculture is the problem, all the worlds food demands could be met with 5-10% of the current land use. It has nothing to do with beef and everything to do with keeping the public ignorant to the source of the issues. Plenty of farmers around the world using all sorts of natural faming methods and using permaculture systems to properly manage their land. There's no secret that the people running them systems easily out produce the conventional brainwashed farmers that throw chemical fertilizers on their land and then cry about the cost of the pesticides they have to use to stop their weak crops from dying.

[@antonyjh1234]

This is where I have been saying for years this zeitgeist is wrong, Beef's main diet is grass, usually on non arable land, or land that doesn't get fertilised. Going vegetarian/vegan causes more of the synthetic fertilisers to be used. Of what we feed to them as grain it's 15% of the corn crop in USA, 9% beef and 6% to dairy, a lot of place around the world have their beef on pasture and they wouldn't see grain until the got to the yard. Nothing beats weather irrigated, self fertilised produce from non arable land that we barely put anything into. Over 100 years methane is 28 times worse than CO2, N2O is 298, there is only 5.6 times more methane in the atmosphere. Moving to a vegetarian diet, away from beef, would be the opposite advice I would give if we wanted to lower nitrogen emissions.

[@natty2760]

I never know this before. The Gov keeps telling people only the carbon footprint, CO2 emission. Watching from Bangkok.

[@tanithrosenbaum]

Laughing gas: It's no laughing matter.

[@xtev7222]

So fertilizer isn’t the problem. It’s that we overuse it. If half of it becomes no2 then why don’t we use half as much fertilizer so the crops use it and none is wasted to the soil. That would save farmers money in using less fertilizer and then less no2 emissions all while maintaining high crop yields.

[@AlleyTrashBoards]

We just decommissioned our N2O pipes in system. Now instead of of a manifold with H cylinders, they now have to order smaller E cylinders.

[@orjansunnerhagen867]

How much would it help if we had stricter regulation on selling laughing gas for parties etc? What percentage is recreational use vs farming use?

[@DWPlanetA]

Hey there! The majority of nitrous oxide emissions come from agriculture in the US (about 80%), wastewater treatment (6%), transport (4%). So, having stricter regulations would not hurt but it would not solve the big problem.

[@gregorycotter6461]

We need lots if oil, electricity and chemicals.

[@DWPlanetA]

Tell us about your experiences and if you knew about the climate impact of laughing gas?

[@azharmukhi5894]

Never smelled laughing gas but after watching this video I don't think I will ever...😅

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Yes, I've known about N2O for decades. It is a fun high. The problem is the agricultural emissions, NOT dentists or partying teenagers.

[@planetarysolidarity]

*You're* talking about it.

[@Fred_the_1996]

Never smelled it but i was in a car that sprayed and that shiiii hit harder than vtec

[@SjoerdSoundz]

@0:20 Is that David Attenborough?? Who made over 400 trips, traveled more than 2 million miles in an airplane? "save the world, from major damage." 🤣🤣😅

[@cmd4789]

EPA needs to lock down Monroe, LA area gas sales also. Continually allowing unlicensed owners/operators/employees to buy or steal is a WORLDWIDE HARM. Imagine being downwind.

[@stoodmuffinpersonal3144]

How do you tell this to governements and companies

[@andrewvermey2366]

“Why is no one talking about NO2” - Two separate of my classes literally talking abt NO2 today, guess I go to a good school🤷‍♂️

[@digifomation]

The quantity of nitrous oxide release in the environement as per said in the video is from agricultural source, a cans of nitrous oxide is nothing compare to the scale of agriculture!

[@Camilodigiorgi]

We should, we must, we have to. We who? Great video but are all countries equally responsible for that? Which are the main polluters of the world? They have to be truly addressed, their companies!

[@DWPlanetA]

Hey Camilo! You could be interested in our video on whether the rich countries should pay climate reparations. Check it out and let us know what you think 👉kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXiyp4WkasSEiMk

[@slimlogic]

Hey, love your videos and they help me to keep from falling into pessimistic thinking. If I may humbly suggest perhaps you guys could do a video on adobe and compressed earth blocks as a sustainable building material. Thanks once again for your amazing content.

[@Fenthule]

I'd also love a deep dive video from them on mass timber buildings and the engineering that goes into them and why they should honestly be the way we build structures going forward. carbon sinks, rapid deployment, reduced construction crew size, fewer trips to the job site, the benefits are numerous.

[@slimlogic]

I agree. I love mass timber as well. The more solutions and the more easily accessible for all is the way forward.

[@slimlogic]

​@@alanhat5252 I saw those buildings. They are so cool, and to withstand so much time and the elements is a testament to their construction.

[@albex8484]

there is so much info on this. No idea why people think this is the answer.

[@erinmac4750]

​@@alanhat5252I hope to see those some day. It still amazes me that there were living in very similar structures to ours today. Fascinating!

[@fallencobra5197]

Luckily we have discovered a nitrogen fixing corn which will lower fertilizer use by a ton if we figure out how to add that gene to regular everyday maize

[@themightyangustma2753]

It has a crucial medical purpose today. We are keeping it.

[@electronium6378]

they are talking about NO2 not N2O lol

[@dipinjose9848]

Good one. From india❤

[@oscarp9336]

They forgot to mention my favorite use for nitrous.... drag racing 😁

[@Fred_the_1996]

Hell yeah brother

[@squirrelfart2298]

I used to get a box fairly often and it stopped my body from excepting b12 and my body lost motor control functions in my hands and feet almost immediately and was impossible to drive or walk around took year and a half to get back to normal I don’t touch it now stay safe shit needs to be banned

[@Andrew-vj2ep]

🎶Gi-gi, gi-gi, Giggle Cream. Wa wa, waa-wa wa wa, waa wa wa, wa wa *that’s the sound i love*🎶

[@Brett_S_420]

I have friends who have recently found out they can buy tanks with EBT.

[@dxd42]

DW conveniently just forgot: How to feed 8 billion people? 😅 Of course rich countries can afford it, but prohibit or reduce fertilizers will create a HUGE famine in the developing world. But, who cares in Europe, right? Watching this video, I can fell the smell of regulation to protect the Europe "way" of organic farming without fertilizers ... I just want to ask if Europe and the rich countries will provide technology and equipments to developing countries, or will export only new regulations that only some few very subsidesed farmers can get?

[@yuliazni3389]

So N2O is natural gas Which is produced naturally in nature. Confused too because this is the first time hearing about this problem

[@georgeyordanov8317]

Me putting the notorious oxide in my car to save the planet🗿🗿🗿

[@SchgurmTewehr]

11:20 it’s not about what we think, it’s about what works. You can’t have an opinion about such a matter.

[@lrwerewolf]

It is still a matter of opinion. SHOULD we stop climate change is not a question of objective fact. Science does not tell us what we SHOULD do, only what will happen if we make this or that choice. As Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder puts it, science does not tell us we should not urinate on high voltage wires, it tells us that urine is an excellent conductor.

[@kathleenrobertpogue6818]

The rub for me come is when people start acting like they are some kind of hero here to save the planet. Thats why they have to fixate on "its humans fault". Because what we really want is to stagnate the climate and dominate this planets environment so we can extend the rein of humans and the stuff we like. It is a 100% selfish thing. I am all on board for it. But you jave all these people out here pretending like they're some kind of hero here to save the day is kind of off putting.

[@paxundpeace9970]

​@@lrwerewolfStill science has the task to communicate that pissing on an conductor that is connected to a highvoltage is dangerours or at least educators in school or teaching the tread should do it as well as the media has a duty to inform us. They gone tell you too that listening to her S.H. is not great adwise. She doesn't know what she is talking about .

[@alisahan9917]

Nice that Sam Bankman-Fried is in this video

[@tonysolar284]

I use Nitrous Oxide as a oxygen displacer inside of jars when storing oxygen sensitive materials since it's a heavy gas. I could just vacuum seal the jars instead.

[@thischannel4326]

So if the majority comes from agriculture, guess I don’t need to quit my nangs.

[@nickbaugh2034]

There has been over 2,000 nuclear weapons litoff in our atmosphere in the past 75 years and you expect me to believe cars are the problem😂

[@mimikrya8794]

I'm still waiting for news: Thanks to human ingenuity, the following ecological problem has been solved:... So that at least 8 billion people can continue to live on the planet carefree in prosperity. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@lrwerewolf]

Remember that human ingenuity CREATED the problem in the first place. Do you really think whatever we do to solve THIS problem won't just create another just as big?

[@mimikrya8794]

@@lrwerewolf I completely agree with you. But if you remove the irony from my comment, it reads: human OVERPOPULATION is the basic problem. And despite many stories, environmental problems are only piling up.

[@DWPlanetA]

Hey there! We did a video on the topic of overpopulation. Check it out and let us know what you think 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYavXqRtpdl3jZY

[@paxundpeace9970]

​@@mimikrya8794Still wrong overpopulation is not the problem over consumtion is mostly in many western cultures and to some relevant degree in asia.

[@mimikrya8794]

@@paxundpeace9970Those who consume more are numerically fewer, and those who consume less are numerically more. And the Earth has to bear them all. Ever since mankind emerged from the primitive community, there have always been and will always be consumers of one kind or another. And always, those who consume less, try (successfully or not) to get closer to those who consume more. I guess that's human nature. I admit that I STILL do not know about the reverse process.

[@seanlanglois8620]

It's hard to care about emissions. Especially from people that blew up a methan pipeline under the ocean for the biggest methane release in god-knows-how-long

[@TheEsseboy]

DW is not a Russian news channel.

[@EleonorG33]

It's also become a popular drug for kids in Eastern Europe.

[@NineSeptims]

Yeah it ruined my brother turned him to stronger stuff and he went psychotic and useless

[@EleonorG33]

@@NineSeptims I am so sorry to hear that, I hope he finds a better path.

[@ferench1145]

Brother's lost the double bond pieces

[@user-fq7vs8dl5k]

Air-conditioners don't use cfc's anymore.

[@Fred_the_1996]

yes? it was mentioned in the video

[@ivanbarbosa81]

And still we can't undo weather change

[@Suburp212]

Yep. And Ban SF6 switching gas.

[@SjoerdSoundz]

My arse is also a big player after a dish of chili.

[@nangelov]

DW, make a video about nuclear power. Maybe if Germany stops burning coal and instead use the 0-CO2 emission nuclear power, we'll all be much better.

[@DWPlanetA]

Hey there! We did a few videos on nuclear energy, check them out and let us know what you think: Germany´s nuclear exit 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4jYeIOVlqeij8k Nuclear storage underground 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3eolWiIoNSnfKc Thorium nuclear energy 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZ6ZnKSvoL1sZpI Do we need nuclear to fight climate change 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4mTYZSiZqumoK8

[@Arthurjshurley]

Water vapor?

[@kennethreffitt2051]

Lets not look at the rockets punching holes and burning gas rite threw the atmosphere

[@prestonhanson501]

Ill simply manufacture it in my basment useing ammonium nitrate. You cant ban it because its so easily produced

[@EvilNeuro]

Go ahead. But one day you’ll get some hefty fines or jail time lol

[@EmeraldView]

We really are toast

[@UNIQUENAME2007]

leave my dentist alone!!

[@thatguy7683]

IMO just the whole concept of stopping the change of climate is beyond bizarre as thats what nature does, constantly changes and creates new challenges, and trying to stop that is like fighting gravity In other words GIMME GIMME GIMME

[@MadScientist267]

Wish someone would ban treehuggers 🙄

[@davelowe1977]

Most potent greenhouse gas by far is water vapour.

[@DWPlanetA]

But not one we humans are directly adding too, which is why we are more concerned about those gases whose occurrence we can somehow influence. 💧🦾

[@SonnyDarvishzadeh]

4:17 this is the reason we should all go Carnivore 🙌

[@LoganL17]

You know whats great, we love to fuck shit up & fix nothing & leave a paved path over everything that once was, & is now behind us, lets leave a tree or something like in the days of old… Just got me a thought i wanted to share.

[@williamhayes8864]

Do you think that someone studying microbes who doesn’t understand how the bacteria actually behave might influence how the bacteria behaves in lab setting. Wouldn’t bacteria behave more appropriately around a shamans microscope

[@clarklight2918]

Saving the world is not a laughing matter....

[@JMPCARREPAIRS]

Heres an idea limit usage of private jets to help reduce greenhouse gases, or better not be at war , machines of war have no emissions controls, for reliability reasons, many countries fly large aircraft nearly 24 7 burning tons of fossil fuels.

[@DWPlanetA]

Hey there! We did a video on rich people´s lifestyles on the planet. Check it out here 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqeznXaolMuDiaM

[@josephtpg2205]

We are way past small ideas. How about far out ones. Thermoaccustic cooling. Vibrating water vapor in atmosphere to release heat and cool the planet.

[@Google-Username]

Water vapor also catches a lot of pollution. Not a terrible idea 😅

[@lefeee8888]

No more whippits!

[@boi0330]

Hb we keep it in peoples mouths’ instead of leaking from open faucets

[@norenguhs8619]

Wow

[@kiwidiesel]

Ok I will cut back my nitros oxide fun parties to just two per week to do my part of reducing emissions. I will not be able to convince my car that it needs to cut back tho.

[@fiskurtjorn7530]

Nitrogen oxides have been discussed big time in the last few years. Your title is a bit off.

[@abhayanand9585]

It's political issue because of which industries aren't putting nitrous oxide extractor!!????

[@Fenthule]

In terms of farming, the solution is simple: stop traditional archaic farming methods and move it all indoors, into the cities that largely need the food the most. Reduce transportation dramatically, use hydroponic vertical stacked systems run by AI and robots on green energy, using no pesticides and fractional amounts of fertilizers. Cut the need for tractors, and large produce processing plants. Reduce water used by 99% and grow up to 300x the yield in a single acre of space. These facilities already exist. It's time people realize that farming, which is among the planets OLDEST technologies, needs to be brought up to modern spec. Why are we still farming the way we did thousands of years ago???

[@StreetcarHammock]

Most likely because your method is absurdly expensive and only works for high value crops.

[@halcyon9686]

This is even worse, we don't need a grift technology like vertical farming, we need to recognize crops that work together and engage in urban food forests in your communities, like corn, beans, and squash (iirc), which supercharge eachother and fertilize the soil around them automatically.

[@dennisenright9347]

And when the power goes out, or some other input fails, your entire city starves to death?

[@dennisenright9347]

You do realize what you are describing is the same thing derisively referred to as factory farms.

[@anubizz3]

@@dennisenright9347 Well at least OP family can buy the food from poor country, and let them die , just look how much damage Ukraine war on poor country , while the rich European just fine .

[@erwinjessealjas2826]

Why come up with a solution to N2O that is in sync with the current mode of production when we are over-producing and over-consuming everything, except common sense?

[@jeffbenton6183]

Because we want to avoid mass famine - that and we want a solution that people would actually go along with instead of fighting about it.

[@erwinjessealjas2826]

@@jeffbenton6183 Mass famine is happening as we speak, and it absolutely has nothing to do with agriculture technology or any other thing except the way we distribute our basic needs is broken by design - state-assisted capitalism. The rich are by law permitted to wring everyone else dry in order to feel good about themselves, to be superior. You want to avoid fighting? Why do you think N2O is still in use? The video said N2O was deliberately left out of the ban in Montreal. Someone, some diabolic group, FOUGHT for N2O to remain in production because it made them RICH - and that made them feel good!

[@MannIchFindKeinName]

@@jeffbenton6183 "people" or did you mean "capitalists"? :D

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Who gets to decide what is "overproduction" and "underproduction"? Free consumers, buyers, and farmers deciding on what to buy and how to manage their farms, or some government central economic planning bureaucrat???

[@erwinjessealjas2826]

@@gregorymalchuk272 The over-production is seen in the landfill we make. Metric tons of food are thrown away and frivolous items, as well. A government that is directly answerable to the people, a welfare organization essentially, merely facilitates the sharing of resources amongst independent federations, so as for each one of them to meet their realistic needs. In a state-capitalist system Need is based on greed, thus inhumane income inequalities is rendered insoluble.

[@sabine8419]

This ia not the whole story . Farming has to become a mixed animal crop operation again, where artificial fertilizer isn't even needed There are lots of regenerative agricultural farms using this method. Please make some more documentaries about this. The current industrial farming methods are detrimental to the environment, the climate, and the social fabric of our societies.

[@ProPlay86]

Please stop N20

[@AggamenoT]

My gas is also colorless 😎

[@tomeklipinski4643]

It still shoudn,t be banned

[@realvanman1]

Just when you thought you’d heard it all, you learn of yet and still another way that overpopulation is trashing the environment. There really is no limit to the negative effects of way too many people. And there certainly is no upside.

[@kyh148]

"We are using unsustainable agricultural and industrial practices that are very much possible to replace" -> "There are too much people" What a stupid argument.

[@DWPlanetA]

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[@realvanman1]

@@kyh148 Yeah, you don't have to look far to see the evidence. Look at almost any resource, and you'll see that it is more or less strained. And that's with most of the world's population not even having access to most of the resources.

[@Rodickjose]

The thumbnail is wrong

[@TheLastDeadCat]

You can't burn something and end up with nitrous oxide.

[@nikoappsmuggred7220]

you can. did you fail highschool science class?

[@TheLastDeadCat]

@@nikoappsmuggred7220 No, you can't. Name them since you're a genius.

[@TheLastDeadCat]

@@nikoappsmuggred7220 Burning and heating aren't the same thing. They teach THAT in school.

[@cocotheix2664]

Drug Labs nostalgie

[@TheLaXandro]

I need NOS.

[@jat1992jat1992]

CO2 bottles?

[@seanlanglois8620]

Free the whippets

[@shoutitallloud]

2:02 What's the actual value? 310 ppb? Parts per BILLION? Thats's 0,3 in a million - not even a single item. Could be one in three million parts. How does this HUGE ammount of heavier than air gas, could have SIGNIFICANT impact on planet climate?