What Can You Do To Stop Climate Change?

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@rynebozzell 10 күн бұрын

The challenge with addressing climate change, like many other issues we face, lies in this paradox: if you didn’t create the problem, you likely can’t solve it. If you believe you did cause the problem, you would have resolved it already. If you don’t believe you caused it, there’s little motivation to fix what you see as someone else’s issue. In the end, if 1,000 starfish wash up on the shore and are doomed to die, tossing one back into the ocean becomes more about personal gratification than meaningful impact. Love your content. Thanks for putting this out there. Make it a great day.

@DAVID-io9nj 11 күн бұрын

This accepts the fact that climate change is driven by human activities and is potentially dangerous to human life. Except there are plenty of reputable scientists who do not accept that premise. That is the same situation as the idea of America is a racist society, and discussing how to change it. A topic that has been called into question in prior segments of this class.

@rynebozzell 10 күн бұрын

The Earth’s climate is immensely complex, and while we should act responsibly, the idea that humans hold the power to fundamentally alter it might be giving us too much credit. The bravado of humans is amazing: you want to control the environment of the planet but you can’t even control the environment of your family, your home, or even your own mind.

@mynameisjeff1405 9 күн бұрын

It’s not even about a want to control environment, necessarily. We as humans alter our surroundings as a product of living at a transitional and post-industrial scale. How can one deny that humans are changing our environment when new layers of earth are being formed from concrete instead of soil, or when nearly 20% of the Amazon has been lost because our demand for beef has fueled the cattle industry’s want of pastureland?

@AiUchiMe 12 күн бұрын

Should we stop the climate constant? Nobody can tell us any baseline nor was climate ever constant. The assumption that it should be is strange in my eyes.

@REG3305 11 күн бұрын

Exactly. In the 70s , "NASA scientists" suggested coating the Artic in a layer of coal dust to "prevent the impending Ice Age from coming.."

@patmcbride9853 11 күн бұрын

Humanity's contribution is so minuscule that anything proposed would not make a measurable difference.

@dillonsong5551 12 күн бұрын

The earth has its own cycle. Period

@bpsnelson4751 11 күн бұрын

There is literally nothing any of us can do. The reality is it's nature and even with the industrial age it has always been to vast for us to influence it one way or the other.

@AleksAngel82 11 күн бұрын

Human hubris is amazing to experience, image the level of ego you need, to be able to imagine yourself as a threat to a celestial body, that inhabits a vast amount of organisms and life forms that could easily reduce humanities numbers, and that's not even taking in account all the external threats, like cosmic things, meteors, asteroids, solar flares etc. But I guess that's to hard to wrap our minds around, because we never truly take the time to think in that large of a perspective.

@OrangeManGood2024 11 күн бұрын

For starters you could maybe admit that it isn't really a thing and stop creating anxiety issues in our youth.

@williampage622 6 күн бұрын

Sam why did you not ask your students, which are the countries that pollute the earth the most and what is the common factor in these countries.

@andanssas 12 күн бұрын

If you get China & India to stop their coal plants and unregulated factories, all other environment friendly actions will seem insignificant.

@drishyaman 10 күн бұрын

Do not comment if you don't understand how economy works!!

@andanssas 10 күн бұрын

@@drishyaman please, feel free to comment on how you believe "economy works". If you provide a satisfactory answer I'll oblige and stop commenting.

@rynebozzell 10 күн бұрын

The Earth’s climate is immensely complex, and while we should act responsibly, the idea that humans hold the power to fundamentally alter it might be giving us too much credit.

@4850937 9 күн бұрын

Vote republican -> free speech -> solutions

@chadn3754 8 күн бұрын

If we could get most of the graduates from penn state doing hard physical labor burning calories instead of fossil fuel this would help.

@davidlee8406 12 күн бұрын

Finally, talking about the elephant in the room. Nothing else matters if human race gets decimated by global warming, pollution, micro plastics. We will survive pandemics, economic inflation, future great depressions. Yet nothing to stop ongoing and progress forest fires, tornadoes, floods, mud slides, fishing collapses. Earth temperature trends keep going up steadily, has not declined. Where were climate candidates during recent elections?

@DAVID-io9nj 11 күн бұрын

Temperature has been both hotter and colder in the past, by a lot. Stop using a short time frame to analyse the situation. In my 70 years on Earth, I can remember the following "Earth Ending" problems: Air pollution, Acid Rain, Depletion of oil in 50 years, Ozone layer destruction, new Ice Age.