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Dovi Memes and Fun
August 3, 2023 at 2:37 pm
Here again ❤
Donald Rusk
August 3, 2023 at 2:37 pm
First, maybe?
ItsKeagan
August 3, 2023 at 2:39 pm
YouTube “context” warns me that I’m about to watch some propaganda.
Evangelio Channel
August 3, 2023 at 2:42 pm
If you think it isn’t good for you then unsubscribe your comment doesn’t help
MaleAdaptor
August 3, 2023 at 2:47 pm
Don’t put down an ex car salesman.
Phil Stanton
August 3, 2023 at 2:54 pm
I’ve noticed that its there no matter the person view on climate change, if the video is about climate change
MyDearBrotherNumpsay
August 3, 2023 at 3:27 pm
That goes under every video about climate change including NASA and NOAA
ItsKeagan
August 3, 2023 at 3:35 pm
@Evangelio Channel I have watched good Ted talks and my opinion is okay to leave on this video as well. Thanks for giving me to option to unsubscribe though.
rishav raj
August 3, 2023 at 2:40 pm
1st to comment ❤
zworm2
August 3, 2023 at 3:14 pm
Nope! Just a fool
Evangelio Channel
August 3, 2023 at 2:41 pm
Wow this is one of the nice discussion 🎉
ItsKeagan
August 3, 2023 at 3:38 pm
So nice, I think I’ll go buy an EV to reduce my carbon footprint. (joking)
You can’t be that insensible my friend. YOU are the carbon these folks are trying to reduce.
MaleAdaptor
August 3, 2023 at 2:46 pm
Oh no, the nutters are trying to run the asylum.
Koshi
August 3, 2023 at 2:48 pm
I think the people are too individualistic often in their choices, and a sum total of those individual actions has made us what we are right now – a human civilization on the brink of destruction. Not just policy level changes are necessary, but also inclusion of climate studies in school curriculums and a general change in the attitude towards the entire planet being Us rather than just me or the tiny boundary I have built around myself to protect my “individualism”.
Rumford C
August 3, 2023 at 3:47 pm
been on the brink of destruction for about a hundred years now… must be a really big brink!
lev the dude
August 3, 2023 at 2:48 pm
…yet another big money agenda supporter on ‘climate change’…he is providing data, GW here and GW there, but he never explains what’s that electrical energy enough for…lame TED talk…hard truth propaganda crap on big money green plan in cooperation with beloved and fair usa powered UN…
joe snake
August 3, 2023 at 2:49 pm
CLIMATE HAS CHANGED FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS IN THE 1930S IT WAS HOT I THE 70S IT WAS COOLING THERE HAVE BEEN FLOODS FIRES BLIZZARDS ICE STORMS HURRICANES HEAT WAVES ETC ETC SINCE RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT RANDELL CARLSON COMPILED SOME OF THESE EVENTS BACK 500 YRS THESE THINGS HAPPEN ON EARTH EVER HERE OF THE ICE AGE THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW
Tennessee Jed
August 3, 2023 at 2:52 pm
I hope he is right.
Alan Cunningham
August 3, 2023 at 2:52 pm
Apartheid compared to Climate change? One was a state sponsored systemic human rights violation the other an anti growth woke agenda to shame humanity for our progress.
Planet has been warming and cooling for 4.5bln years as evidenced by 6 major ice ages.
Calm down, we’ve loads of time until the next ice age.
Joe Stetz
August 3, 2023 at 2:53 pm
Propaganda
Tom Pink
August 3, 2023 at 2:54 pm
Biden has approved more oil drilling than Trump, a decision most people on the left are opposed to. The issue isn’t that Biden is unaware of the will of his voter base, the issue is money in politics. Allowing oil companies and polluters to lobby our elected representatives has to end before meaningful change can occur
AW
August 3, 2023 at 2:56 pm
What bugs me is the people who deny its happening will just say “sorry, I couldn’t have known I was wrong” when we are gonna be deep inside of the pain of climate change.
What do we do with those people who refuse to be accountable for their egregious oversight on their own education? Because its hard to run to help out in an emergency when one of your legs refuses to work because its lazy and prefers not to do what the rest of the body wants to do.
Rumford C
August 3, 2023 at 3:40 pm
so when are we “gonna be deep inside of the pain” of climate change? can you make any accurate predictions yet?
May Moreshet
August 3, 2023 at 2:59 pm
“exponential change is needed” is not the same as “exponential change is imminent,” but god I hope you’re right.
Just Pray
August 3, 2023 at 2:59 pm
Conspiracy and misinformation.
Matthew Staats
August 3, 2023 at 3:02 pm
It is amazing how stupid YouTube comments sections can get.
But they are just a reclection of the blatant lies the Republucan party has been spewing for decades about climate change.
And that’s not to say Democrats are innocent.
Maybe it’s time we stop listening to politicians and start listening to Scientists, the sctual experts.
(Who are, of course, telling us we need to act, and pressure our institutions to act.)
Six Vee
August 3, 2023 at 3:17 pm
May the Anthropocene (Pyrocene (?)) epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earths history. Let us bear witness to the fruition of scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment
Mael Rouge
August 3, 2023 at 3:40 pm
Whether this turns out to be true or not… thank you for spreadimg a bit of hope and good news/positivity. ❤
maikel0245
August 3, 2023 at 3:43 pm
There is no “Climate Crisis”.
The Globalist forces are using climate as a means to move wealth upward, control and reduce the population.
Look into Agenda 21 & Agenda 2030.
Rumford C
August 3, 2023 at 3:45 pm
scams are speeding up. soon we will scam past the point of no return. give me your tax dollars so i can save the world from you.
Bassl
August 3, 2023 at 3:47 pm
Eat less meat, specially red one. 🙃🌏
Corwyn Matthew
August 3, 2023 at 7:56 pm
The misconception that red meat is unhealthy and bad for the environment starts with not understanding that the methane that cows release into the atmosphere is part of the natural carbon cycle that is necessary for plants to grow in the first place. And even if the cows didn’t eat the grass and break it down in their cecum then burp out the byproduct, the same methane would still be released by the grass in the dry season when the bacteria outside the animal breaks it down. This is how an ecosystem works. What happens is, the cows burp the methane, it goes into the atmosphere, it then comingles with other greenhouses gasses (like carbon) until rain is formed. When the rain forms, it falls back to the earth, rinsing the atmosphere of the gasses (particularly methane and carbon) and depositing them into the soil for the plants to regrow.
The problem is that the soil is no longer healthy due to the abuse of the plant-based industry in the practice of monocropping. Monocropping destroys topsoil making it unable to retain rainwater and atmospheric gasses that are necessary for our planet to be green. This is why monocropping fields now require industrial, chemical fertilizer to yield any crops. And this chemical fertilizer is absolutely toxic for the ecosystem, not to mention so too are the monocultures that require the death of everything on the land in which is grows, including the animals, in order for it to thrive. There is no life on these fields that cover our world other than the single crop that infests it. All other life is killed and/or displaced for the sake of our corn, wheat, soy, rice, sugar, etc.. All of which are toxic to humans when eaten in abundance over the course of decades and are the cause of the current health epidemics such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, obesity, and so much more which have increased by 300% since the introduction of the food pyramid telling us to eat more grains and less meat. Plant foods are “snake oils” and the plant-based industry is their slithering conglomerate of salesmen. We have been mistakenly led to believe that plants are not only healthy to consume but also necessary for human life, and this is solely for the sake of corporate profits, not health. There are no effectively bioavailable nutrients for humans in plants because we lack the digestive enzymes to properly utilize them. We are not herbivores, nor have we ever been. This is why so many vegans who have been victims of this plant-based narrative have suffered health issues and are now discovering the carnivore community for the sake of healing themselves and the world around us. Look up “ex-vegan carnivore” on youtube and see what you find. And good luck in your health journey and your efforts to push for climate awareness.
Shap Shane
August 3, 2023 at 3:51 pm
why is he standing so wide 🤣🤣🤣
Jh5578
August 3, 2023 at 6:33 pm
Power stance
Shap Shane
August 3, 2023 at 8:56 pm
@Jh5578 asserting dominance!
Sam
August 3, 2023 at 3:51 pm
This guy looks like Penfold from Dangermouse😂😂😂😂
Marcus Eli Ravage
August 3, 2023 at 4:12 pm
Thumbnail looks like a pastor speaking.
Austin Denotter
August 3, 2023 at 6:33 pm
So you judge a book by its cover?
Marcus Eli Ravage
August 3, 2023 at 10:37 pm
By it phenomenon
chas in lakewood
August 3, 2023 at 4:33 pm
If you watch this at 1.6x speed, you’re done in 5minutes and still don’t miss a word.
Fran Martinez
August 4, 2023 at 1:54 am
Thx, much better c:
DaBruh
August 4, 2023 at 6:00 am
bro got the secret 1.6x speed. I only got 1.5x and 2x
Sayed Nasrat Rashid
August 4, 2023 at 8:38 am
But what should I do with the way that he has stood. 😂
MWhaleK
August 3, 2023 at 4:42 pm
It isn’t the governments that we have to fight to get action, it is the fossil fuel companies determined to make as much as they can while they still can by extracting and burning those fuels.
P. B. Foote
August 3, 2023 at 5:18 pm
And who, pray tell, controls the governments?
DaBruh
August 4, 2023 at 5:59 am
Yes but doesnt it need to be limited legally? So we could take action through legislative power which is in our case the government
sklunt
August 3, 2023 at 4:53 pm
TED what have you become?
Bill Norris
August 3, 2023 at 4:55 pm
I am NOT saying this Ted talk is a false war cry to environmental victory, BUT it does ignore a monumental obstacle to meaningful change.. China, India, Russia, and a few other dubious actors produce over 80% of the atmospheric pollution on our planet and couldn’t care less.. It’s difficult to regularly clean less than 20% of a dirty pool and keep it hygienic.. Humble opinion..
Piku☆🌱
August 3, 2023 at 5:11 pm
The animal agriculture industry must be held accountable for their exploitation and abuse of sentient beings and the planet as well. 🌱🏴👏🏼
David Shenton
August 3, 2023 at 5:31 pm
Of course the avocados and almonds being flown all around the World don’t have the slightest impact, do they?
Jh5578
August 3, 2023 at 6:37 pm
@David ShentonThe GHG emissions associated with food are dominated by the production phase contributing 83%, transportation as a whole represents only 11%.
Food-miles and the relative climate impacts of food choices in the United States
Christopher L Weber et al. Environ Sci Technol. 2008.
David Shenton
August 4, 2023 at 3:44 am
@Jh5578 You’re free to believe whatever rubbish you want. If you think there’s no financial interest at play here, you’re deluding yourself.
Jh5578
August 4, 2023 at 7:53 am
@David Shenton So you dismiss a study based on your perceived conspiracy to do with money? Who’s behind this big brocoli, the carrot corporation, the legumanati? All of the money in food comes from ultra processed foods like soda and snacks or fast food joints like Burger King and McDonald’s. The financial interests are in making up nonsense data that shows Regenerative animal ag is viable and sugary sodas are safe to drink.
David Shenton
August 3, 2023 at 5:29 pm
Pretty sure people were saying the exact same thing 30 years ago, only then it was called “global warming”. Still waiting to see the Statue of Liberty half under water.
LonePaladin🕈
August 3, 2023 at 5:36 pm
“Climate action” is on the cusp of exponential eternal damnation.
Dylan C
August 3, 2023 at 6:25 pm
climate change flymant change
Jh5578
August 3, 2023 at 6:31 pm
I’m glad the UN are acknowledging this. The UN commissioned IPCC have been woeful at predicting the advancement of renewables and EVs and their current and past climate models include such bad predictions not taking into account cost and efficiency curves in line with rights law. Ted need to get Tony Seba from RethinkX in here on a main spot ASAP his predictions have been near spot on.
Saran Bhatia
August 3, 2023 at 7:09 pm
Play your role as responsible citizens by going green and clean !
Corwyn Matthew
August 3, 2023 at 7:31 pm
One crucial aspect to the fight that people are mostly overlooking is that of the health of our topsoil. Cutting emissions alone will do absolutely nothing to stop the climate crisis because, as he mentioned here, we’re already passed the tipping point as far as what is feasible in stopping or slowing them down. So even if we stopped what people generally think is the cause of climate change (fossil fuel emissions), we would still be heating up due to the current state of the ecosystem and the underrated amount of emissions coming from the monocropping industry. (One hectare of burned crop residue releases as much CO2 as 4,000 cars, and over a billion hectares are burned a year in Africa alone; crop residue burning for the sake of plant agriculture is a common practice around the world, including in the US), we would still be increasing the CO2 while, conversely, fixing the topsoil allows for a place that the CO2 can go that promotes the healthy growth of plant life. How this happens is that when it rains, the rainwater rinses our atmosphere of greenhouses gasses (including methane; this is how rain forms) and then deposits those gasses (carbon) into the soil for plants and microbes to utilize for growth. But if the soil is unhealthy, as most of it is now, the rainwater cannot be absorbed by the soil and simply evaporates back into the atmosphere, increasing the buildup of greenhouse gasses in our skies that has nowhere to go. To learn more about this process, look to Alan Savory’s TedTalk on it. And, spoiler alert: the key component to this working is regenerative agriculture. And what regenerative agriculture must necessarily include is animals, if it’s to be sustainable. You can’t have a self-sustain ecosystem without animals, therefore livestock is absolutely key to restoring our planet’s vitality and reversing climate change. Also look to a documentary available on Netflix called Kiss the Ground for more information on this aspect of the fight. It is absolutely vital that people understand that cutting emissions alone is worthless. The key to reversing climate change is under our feet, not above our heads.
Robert Quigley
August 3, 2023 at 8:19 pm
Let us know when the PPM of greenhouse gases pollution declines. Endless doses of hopium green washing baloney have only put the people to sleep.
Stephen Butler
August 3, 2023 at 9:15 pm
Facts; Energy consumption is directly related to material standard of living . There is no economical way to store renewable energy. The majority of people will not voluntarily consider reducing their standard of living . Non proliferation Nuclear fission energy ( specifically CANDU non enrichment uranium reactors ) can safety replace most fossil fuel sources of energy , proven by multiple long term studies and experience. Most people don’t understand the fundamentals of basic science. Back to square one and ever increasing carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Tragically it’s possible CO2 concentrated can reach 800 ppm by 2100 , which means the end of civilization as we know it well before 2200 . It’s that simple .
elmer phudd
August 3, 2023 at 9:17 pm
I actually did not believe any of this until i witnessed the polar caps melt 20 years ago. my kids ask me what snow looked like back in the day.
Will Jackson
August 3, 2023 at 9:30 pm
I believe Konstantin Kisin made a great point about the fact that the dominant powers now, such as the US and the EU, have no right to tell developing countries that they can’t industrialise to grow because that would worsen climate change, and because of the fact that in a few short decades they will without a doubt surpass us, what must instead be prioritised is the investment in and development of economically-viable green technology that we can then provide those countries with. Changing our lifestyles is important in a moral sense, but doing so to stop climate change directly is pointless.
The conclusion being, the responsibility of the western world currently is almost entirely for governments and businesses to make a concerted push for green technology.
Will Jackson
August 3, 2023 at 9:34 pm
Also this guy has the widest foot stance I’ve ever seen
Robert Marmaduke
August 5, 2023 at 10:21 pm
China provides the solar panels and Germany provides the wind machines. You seem to have developed your own renewable technology: the wind bag. : ) IPCC is demanding $2700-a-CO2-Ton. That translates to $5,400 a year utilities tithe, and $28 a gallon tithe at the gas pump. That titheing = absolute end of Western Civ.
MAGA Mike
August 4, 2023 at 1:16 am
Country by country will be destroyed. Sri Lanka style.
theIdlecrane
August 4, 2023 at 2:35 am
Stopping the rain and heat waves is not the same as stopping apartheid, obviously…
Scott
August 4, 2023 at 3:04 am
A relationship manager at Nokia and the Chairman of the Grenada Board of Tourism and real estate investor in the Carribean.
Now minister of climate resilience and the environment Grenada.
Nice accent for speeches but it appears you dont have much of a climate background.
Billy The Kid
August 4, 2023 at 4:37 am
There is no “Climate Crisis”, there has been no rapid rise in sea levels, or surface temperatures. There has been no increase in droughts, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, or wild fires. Wind and solar as grid power sources are a unicorn dream, and dangerous. Depriving developing countries of cheap fossil fuels, destroys the environment, and condemns millions to death and poverty. Wake up, the “Climate Crisis” is a cult.
sIvEe5odCS 1I2F1I1jGz
August 4, 2023 at 5:43 am
I have been in south america. the avarage person runs cars from the ’80 with gasoline at 1.70 per gallon. how do we address that
Old Scientist
August 4, 2023 at 7:52 am
There is no objective observational evidence that we are living in a global climate crisis.
The UN’s IPCC AR6, chapter 12 “Climate Change Information for Regional Impact and for Risk Assessment”, section 12.5.2, table 12.12 confirms there is a lack of evidence or no signal that the following have changed:
Air Pollution Weather (temperature inversions),
Aridity,
Avalanche (snow),
Average precipitation,
Average Wind Speed,
Coastal Flood,
Agricultural drought,
Hydrological drought,
Erosion of Coastlines,
Fire Weather (hot and windy),
Flooding From Heavy Rain (pluvial floods),
Frost,
Hail,
Heavy Rain,
Heavy Snowfall and Ice Storms,
Landslides,
Marine Heatwaves,
Ocean Acidity,
Radiation at the Earth’s Surface,
River/Lake Floods,
Sand and Dust Storms,
Sea Level,
Severe Wind Storms,
Snow, Glacier, and Ice Sheets,
Tropical Cyclones.
There is no objective observational evidence that we are living through a global climate crisis. None.
JSH
August 4, 2023 at 9:02 am
The “greenhouse effect” has never been measured or observed. These self-righteous narcissists are making all of this nonsense up.
Britton Price
August 4, 2023 at 9:09 am
It’s funny how a century ago it was “global cooling” and everything was about to die. Give the government your car, your stove, ration water and eat bugs. You want to be a hero don’t you? Submit to the government and give up everything and they will save you.
Tom Blinstrubas
August 4, 2023 at 10:02 am
Unless and until China, Russia, and India hop aboard, all we’re doing is providing cleaner air for Europe.
Mark Stephen
August 4, 2023 at 7:21 pm
While he may be right in saying that an exponential rise in climate action is coming, what is likely to come before that is a rise in antagonism towards climate action. Some governments around the world are introducing harsher penalties because they detect a ‘I’m so over it’ attitude amongst the general public. And of course big business and elements in the media are in favour of the new policies.
Robert Marmaduke
August 5, 2023 at 10:12 pm
pan-Media is 100% PAID ADVERTISEMENT behind Global Boiling!! It’s a political slush fund, just like ‘war'(sic) in Ukraine. The HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD!!(c) ran for just three days that Congress voted on a Green Slush rider to the Defense ReAppropriations budget! *It was an AI COMPUTER SIMULATION.*
Steve Muratore
August 5, 2023 at 1:13 pm
Or, How to shift “cultural hegemony.”
Robert Marmaduke
August 5, 2023 at 10:03 pm
The HOTTEST DAY ON RECORD!!(c) ran for just three days that Congress was voting on a $85BILLION in Green Slush rider to the Defense ReAppropriations budget. Politico pointed out the HDOR report small-print said, This was a *SIMULATION*. They own all the Media, and They own you. You’ll pay Their $135 TRILLION WEF Climate Tithe.
mau mau
August 6, 2023 at 10:30 am
Donald Trump and Rudy Ghouliani and Mark Meadows with Mitch McConnell and Margarine Taylor Green, Lindsey Graham, Kevin Marcathy, Lorene Blowbert, and Greg Abbott are gonna fix all this. So do not worry.
BC
August 6, 2023 at 7:59 pm
Funny how the people pushing the climate change agenda who have been wrong about every prediction, could care less about all other forms of pollution, you don’t see much effort at all put into fighting micro plastic for example, or providing clean drinking water, ban forever chemicals, it’s all one big tax scheme to punish and control average western citizens and allow corporations and governments to pay for their carbon use… as if that helps.
Thơm Đỗ
August 6, 2023 at 9:29 pm
Thứ2/7/8/2023
double-oh-seven
August 7, 2023 at 1:03 pm
Simon says _”Then ask yourself the question, ‘How can I apply this to the climate crisis?’ then do exactly that thing. If you act, then the exponential change that is needed will happen.”_ Simon, if I was a climate superhero with the mechanokinetic power to disable *_all_* the passenger vehicles in the US, what would the reduction in global CO2 emissions be? 1.006%. If I had the mechanokinetic power to disable *_all_* US-attributable aircraft (commercial, military, general aviation), what would be the reduction in global CO2 emissions? 0.418%. If I could disable *_all_* air conditioners in the US, what would the reduction in global CO2 emissions be? 0.314%.
In the five years between 2016 and 2021, the US reduced per capita CO2 output around 3%, but reduced *_total_* CO2 output just 0.087% — less than one-tenth of one percent. In other words, if we’d have done ten times better than we did in that period, we’d still have reduced America’s total CO2 output less than one percent. On the bright side, the US share of global CO2 output is shrinking, but it’s mostly because the emissions of much of the rest of the world is growing. As it stands now, in terms of CO2 output per person, it would take nearly two Chinese people to equal one average American. It would take nearly eight (7.7) Indian people to equal one average American.
By the year 2100, the US is projected to fall to sixth place (from its current third place) in terms of population. Which countries are projected to pass America? In order, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Let’s look at their current CO2 output levels, using the same comparison type to China and India above. It would take 23.22 Nigerians to output the carbon of the average American. It would take 15 Pakistanis to output the carbon of the average American. It would take *_495_* Congolese (from the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to output the CO2 of the average American. Do you think the per capita CO2 output of India — let alone Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo — will decrease over time, especially if they can increase their per capita GDP? What about the other poor countries who (like most everyone) aspire to improve their situations?
Simon, you didn’t detail the kinds of major changes *_you’ve_* personally made to how *_you_* live? What about anyone else watching this video? When it’s hot out, how many of you have kept your air conditioners off? How many of you carpool? How many of you have increased your income and bought *_smaller_* televisions? Again, even if we do *_all_* of that (you probably won’t, and we probably won’t), it essentially would not make any meaningful difference. In general, the people in the world who _cannot_ afford all the luxuries we’re surrounded with will _want_ all the luxuries we’re surrounded with, and will start accumulating those things just as soon as they can afford to — like we do, and like we have done for decades.
So, what do I think? I think I’m going to prepare. We’re planning on buying a second home further up north, in a location projected to be one of the top places in the future for climate migration. And we’re also having a large whole-house backup generator installed at our primary home (already scheduled), to prepare for increased grid-overload outages.
You were able to get on the TED channel, Simon, to pass on the message that we can effect changes and turn this around. That’s further than I’ll ever get — I’m sure I’ll never make it on a TED stage. So tell us now _what_ we can do. Tell us the projected effects (with numbers) of what you propose we do, and _specifically_ what you propose we do.
Tennessee Jed
August 7, 2023 at 2:23 pm
WASF
double-oh-seven
August 7, 2023 at 2:43 pm
@Tennessee Jed, I’m not sure I agree with that. But I can say I don’t think we’re headed for global de-industrialization, which, given today’s technologies, is just about what it would take, if you believe that (in theory) humans acting as-one could reverse global warming. I _do_ hope the world continues research and development & investment in more sustainable (and hopefully revolutionary) energy sources. But then you have to deploy them.
Consider India, for example, emitting just over 1/8th the carbon per person as the USA. Nearly 594 million (or 48%) of its population practices open defecation (according to UNICEF) — only half the population of India use toilets. Do you really think that India is the problem? Even if we develop _revolutionary_ technologies, how are we going to deploy them to a country that large, that still doesn’t have widespread modern sewer systems? Do we really think that the per capita emission of carbon in India is likely to decrease over time, in the foreseeable future, and/or within the timelines the most climate alarmist among us are doom-warning us with? Zero percent chance, in my estimation.
So if we’re causing this, and so could (in theory) act _globally _*_as-one_* and reverse this, what’s the chance of that happening? Because that’s just about what it would take. Given today’s technologies, it would essentially take de-industrialization. But this opens up another discussion that I am very willing to have, and that I want to be wrong about. Right now, though, I would just like Mr. Stiell to give us _specifics_, not just an eloquent version of _”Yes We Can!”_ He had the dais, but he told us little. He is the head of the UNFCCC, the UN’s entity supporting the global response to climate change. Please, Mr. Stiell, I am _sincerely_ asking you to tell us about effectible proposals and their projected outcomes (with numbers).
Tennessee Jed
August 7, 2023 at 3:21 pm
@double-oh-seven furthermore, we are up against thermodynamic laws. Even if we did create some new technology to decarbonise our atmosphere with future technology such as superconductors and fusion energy it would take as much energy as we have ever used to power such a chemical process, the same chemical process they gave us all the energy in the first place to overpopulate and over consume the biosphere. Say we did create some sort of nuclear solution we might have to dig up every Forest and every mountain to get those raw materials. Then we would have a problem of waste heat with that process as well as degrading more of our biosphere.
Under the current paradigm we are looking at war, famine, disease, scarcity and mayhem as our societies/economies fail to provide any real solution. Words like gigadeath are going to become part of the dialectics if news can be relayed at all.
double-oh-seven
August 7, 2023 at 3:35 pm
@Tennessee Jed, whether it’s intentional or not, I think a lot of this serves only to divide us, rather than unite us. In a recent conversation with my father, he was attacking “climate deniers,” and I asked him what he was doing that was so different than those he was referring to. After some honest and hilarious discussion (we were both laughing rather a lot at moments), he reluctantly admitted the answer to the question was “nothing.” If you believe that humans are causing climate change, but your neighbor completely disagrees with you, and yet you both do the same things (where carbon footprint is concerned), what makes one neighbor better or more virtuous than the other?
I had this conversation with a friend recently, he on the side that we have to do _something_ and me on the side that it won’t make much difference (the reasons in this discussion being some of them). I live in a home that’s about 1000 square feet *_smaller_* than the average US home, and drive a 14-year-old car that’s small, light, and relatively fuel efficient. My home isn’t small, nor is my car small, for reasons of maintaining a low carbon footprint — I just never bought a big house or particularly fancy cars. My successful friend (no doubt having attained more financial wealth than me) has (as he has become more successful) bought a house that I’d guess is about 2000 square feet larger than the average and he owns three Porsches among the vehicles in his driveway/garage. So, in the eyes and judgments of someone who loathes climate deniers, who’s the better man? The one who believes we need to do something yet maintains a carbon footprint that’s no doubt much larger than mine? Or me, with a smaller carbon footprint (than my friend), who believes there’s little we can realistically do, even if (in theory) we could act globally *_as-one_* to reverse it?
If we were all being super honest on this topic, a lot of people seem to believe that being a better person in this context only takes acceptable thoughts and no real action(s).
Alvin Ernest
August 7, 2023 at 2:48 pm
Well done bro!
Aulia Safadila Azza
August 7, 2023 at 9:26 pm
My passion is in Architecture. I will concern for sustainable concept for my master. And still wondering where is the best univ in this world to concern about the concept?
LannyX2
August 7, 2023 at 10:58 pm
Randall Carlson debunked every facet of the climate change debate over 10 years ago.
None of your Damn Business
August 8, 2023 at 11:41 am
*25 fucking degrees Celsius im August in Spain.*
Thor Tremble
August 9, 2023 at 3:05 am
Love the effort but I was kind of bored watching this.