Tim Flannery: Here on Earth | Nat Geo Live

From the Best of NG Live Collection: Scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery views the impact of humans on the planet and asks if our species will survive.
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[@Krazeel]

This conference should be shown in every school, everywhere. Really valuable ideas and questions arise from it.

[@punksunitepodcast]

Thanks for putting this up, it is nice to hear a different view on climate change and what could happen. It is a shame people doubt the power of humanity when we work together particularly if we all have a common goal.

[@MarkoTomic]

awesome video!!!

[@mokmok8080]

amazing

[@svendbosanvovski4241]

Make no mistake, Tim Flannery has a brilliant mind and is one of the best science educators in the world today. If you pick up any one of his last three books, unless you are a practitioner in this field, you will learn something new on each page.

[@baerabas]

I wish he'd made this entire talk about the more interesting topic of "information organizes matter".

[@Aurrian]

@derallter Truer words have never been spoken.

[@acekicksaxe]

@McTaggstar there are too many questions to say that there is a god. but when i see people talking logic it makes more sense to me rather than a book. so for now im going with science for the reason of logic

[@ds12z]

Why are so many NatGeo videos unavailable in my country!? (U.S.A)

[@necox5]

This was the best lecture I seen in a long while! Truly awesome stuff!!

[@shwatislove]

I put my feet up when I saw the cockroach lol x;

[@jabafuller]

13.5 billion years has been upgraded every time we have upgraded our instriments. I believe our universe is far more older than 13 or so billion years. The barrier to knowing the future is to repeat the past, I propose that we are far below the intelligence that spawned us from their dieing world some 44 billion years ago, but we just can't see that far yet.

[@kindJake]

@ChristinaWolfle tthnx for the warn!!! GTG OUT OF HERE!!

[@jose510]

@ChristinaWolfle Amen

[@TrEnergon]

@derallter i disagree, but you do have the right

[@magicemail]

WROOOOONNNNNG!!!!!!!!!

[@islamfrommars]

00:14, dude they're totally wrong xD

[@77rxpharmacy]

@Static172 I see, this is your opinion. It is what it is.

[@lucasplus10]

@derallter can u explain me how beliving in some sort of god is taking mankind to its extinction?

[@bone656]

Car commercial before this video?

[@Hartz93]

@TheVirtualGravity haha, well if you update, youll get full HD

[@Remis20000]

where is such info proven?

[@MurkyMists]

To say human's formed just 10,000 years ago seems abit strange.

[@hellagunner1]

BADGERS BADGERS BADGERS BADGERS!

[@TheHadesShade]

I watched this instead of some cartoons

[@samysasy419]

@scottclements78 Homo sapiens have only been around for about 10,000 years.

[@Bakuhatsu233]

@derallter simple as that.

[@CavemanTravels]

I got lost on what he was saying after the little bit on darwin like the part about each generation becomes a little different completely lost track.. so backed. honestly if you look at other animals and insects and plant forms.. have one thing in common.. living the longest they CAN

[@vishee2906]

@bob38559 we are harvesting trees that we planted decades ago and then after chopping down they are re planted.trees cut down for urban sprawl now that does damage.

[@bob38559]

he talks about environment change, but if his book became popular, he would use paper to make more books and hurt the environment more, we have the technology to put it in computer!!

[@Emily-ck7en]

It rather this be a documentary .. not a speech ..

[@aceey2]

See? NatGeo isn't THAT bad :)

[@GetsugaTensho85]

@Ninja9191 I LIKE TURTLES!

[@islamfrommars]

00:13, it's totally wrong xD

[@MrFlunkorg]

WHERE ON EARTH IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?

[@06livefast]

Oh shit Joe Rogan's gunna go nuts!

[@TheVirtualGravity]

real fans watch in 240p \m/

[@seanmoss5536]

I remember this bloke saying it would stop raining for good in Qld, we have had two floods instead, he has been pretty quiet last couple of years, I suppose he is enjoying his ill gotten money.

[@cmckilla]

@MsTaz98 hahahah south park lolol

[@RobbHoule]

that's what I'm saying ... you can have the operation of the creative process AND the sovereign command of a God over that creation. In fact that is what we have, what we know, today! Good luck on your quest to find the golden fleece, I hope He makes you rich.

[@necox5]

@surfdude102 Erhm, I think you miss understood the whole theory. You should go over it a second time please.

[@pcfaulkner]

@Ninja9191 dry roasted?

[@TrEnergon]

@derallter so you know everything about everything?

[@scottclements78]

10000 years ago? Humans have existed 100000 years or more??

[@BloodHarvest21]

@TheArtObsessed haha I was just joking

[@lucasplus10]

@derallter it s true that in medieval time the catolic chuch left ppl blind to knoledge, however, it more logical to blame the corruption inside the roman catholic instituion then the catolic faith since in theory it doesnt aprove any of the things that happened.

[@MsTaz98]

PPL BELIEVE IN THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER..... HE BOILED FOR YOU SINS!!!!!! XD LOL

[@TouchedbyCastiel]

I misread the title. I thought it said "Hell on Earth". That would be a lot more interesting than all the hippie crap :/

[@1MuchButteR1]

Maybe we're the first inteligent super organism in our universe but dont forger new theories explain that their might be other seprate universes, i dont know it just feels like their is something big we dont know about yet......

[@royalspin]

If we are to survive we better start being proper stewards of this planet and realistically start thinking of colonization space and soon.The fact is all our eggs are in one basket and we will suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs if we don't use our brains and technology to save our species.

[@BloodHarvest21]

@boosted28 I was being sarcastic

[@TheArtObsessed]

@BloodHarvest21 lol okays

[@jromasterofone]

@Ninja9191 I like eggs...

[@TheNutish]

@scottclements78 Intelligent being....

[@yuhichiro]

well, i do believe in both religion and science.

[@vishee2906]

@surfdude102 you really should know something about the big bang theory before you post.

[@fr33d0m0f3xpr3ss10n]

If he is indeed a conservationist, then why is he wearing leather? >.

[@MurkyMists]

@gblueslover2 where so advancing so rapidly, to think the pyramids were supposedly built 2500yrs ago .... ( although theres evidence of water corosion on the sphinx that would date back to 12.000yrs ago, also tunnel alignment with the stars in the pyramids that would date back to 12.500yrs ago ) ..... with the knowledge n wizdom n craft we caunt repicate now. would suggest 2 me there was an ancient highly developed lost civilization many 1000s of yrs ago, likely ATLANTIANS,

[@AndThePincers]

7th.

[@REPINTDOT]

@Ninja9191 cashews

[@3mora3mora3mora]

WOW over 300 likes :O Who thought this was cool. Most people watch this kind of shows, or speeches?!?!?!

[@grimslider76]

i like pineapples!

[@theSilverBullet1100]

17th damn

[@shawnyeng]

@Static172 no, God doesn't say that at all.

[@Kerminashii]

I think.. he's too optimistic. We are intelligent super species, but not yet "global" enough to be able to deal with the many terrestrial problems such as ozone destruction. Maybe I am too pessimistic.

[@1MuchButteR1]

12th

[@classictwist123]

GOD is the answer to everything...

[@wannatouchmyballsDKz]

@Hartz93 Hahahahahahahah!! X)

[@chase1146]

first

[@BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

Flannery's a bit over-enthusiastic about us escaping the Malthusian curve. The tech system allowing 7 billion people is completely unusable without oil & synthetic materials derived from it. The only true "command and control" systems in nature that last are the ones hardwired in by speciation ie ants and termites. Any semblace of C&C in primate social groups is imposed and fleeting. For humanity to be a C&C species is to re-engineer us into queens, workers, and drones without free will.

[@RobbHoule]

Robb9096: Because the theory of evolution shows, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that no deity is required for life to have come about. It all happened by purely natural processes. Therefore, if we do not need to invoke a deity to explain the origins of life ... therefore there is no reason to believe. right. the rest of us have chosen to invoke to God to ... well, to resurrect, and He has! We who believe now live in that reality. I live in the reality of His resurection, the hope of such ...

[@Alex2009AC2]

@XvChriisvX lol "jealous of america"

[@vishee2906]

if you people don't stop arguing about evolution vs creation i.m going to tell Santa. and no gifts for you.

[@awe414]

next time i think Arabic luggage

[@kenfla2]

al gore proved it when he sold his company to an oil rich invester

[@uternpunkin]

here on earth...well, the rich gets all the good things and thats pretty much it!

[@TheArtObsessed]

@BloodHarvest21

[@77rxpharmacy]

@Static172 No that is not what ppl who believe in God will say. Do not presume. Your comment is predicated only by your poorly conceived presumptions. Which then perpetuates your beliefs, which feeds the confirmation bias, which... etc etc. The ignorant one is you. And I don't mean that as an insult. I'm choosing the word ignorant to delineate your lack of knowledge in this matter. I don't mean it in the cliche and ostensibly offensive context.

[@RobbHoule]

Why does faith in Darwin's theory atomatically nulify faith and hope in a sovereign God? Listen to me: God said, "Let there be Darwinism and evolution," and there was light! My faith is stronger than your indecision; and God is here whether you believe or not!

[@BloodHarvest21]

@boosted28 But we know that the only God is the Christian God, just read the Bible. You can't hide from the facts

[@DoubleAlegg]

Blah, Blah, Blah...the answer is God!

[@Xyleryx]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooring

[@esotericagenda]

@Ninja9191 I like turtles.