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lum tavon
June 18, 2022 at 11:27 am
Agree and let’s start with aggressive co2 taxes to change the mindset and invest it all in green technologies..
And simply ban big dirty engines mainly driven by oil addicts
Alwyn Nito
June 18, 2022 at 11:31 am
I feel like as a technological/scientific race, we’re 60,000-60,600 inventions away from “convenient” space travel or 7-60years (crazy politics/egos) from wasting the planet, not sure why. I wonder whether suns are like balls of resource caches that just need to cool off or more on WHAT they have we can’t get to, I’m just sleepy rambling/venting, goodnight to anyone going by. I’m not the evil kind of crazy at least
Tony Logan
June 18, 2022 at 11:52 am
Yuval would you be open to the Amazon basin being human free and patrolled by human killing AI drones? I would. It makes sense and really is for the overall benefit of mankind.
Brittany Ferera
June 18, 2022 at 1:39 pm
Wtf?!
Jim Foit
June 18, 2022 at 12:43 pm
Sigh. Unimaginative.
Nancy Fornataro
June 18, 2022 at 2:51 pm
You have the top advisor to Klaus Schwab doing TED talks now?? Time to turn you off.
Sheree Kerner
June 18, 2022 at 2:58 pm
Yuval, you have been very inspirational to me. You really woke me up a few years ago to the truth about humanity and our history and potential future. You make us stop and look at ourselves. I have been a vegan for 39 years have been into consciousness and meditation for the past 3 years. The combination of you, my veganism, and meditation is converging causing me to want to redirect my workaholism to the higher purpose of becoming a rounded climate change advocate on an individual level. I imagine there are a lot of people like me who have the urge to see humanity become better and focus on the quality of life instead of the dollar. But just sitting here waiting for something to happen, like most of us do, is not going to get it so I’m going to start doing something about it.
I have started and run multiple companies, including a technology company in 1997, and now I am going to treat my inclination toward climate change advocacy like a business. I am going to adjust my lifestyle toward becoming the required new and better human. One that realizes all of my choices affect humanity. I say that I am going to become a rounded climate change advocate on an individual level because I realize that I must lead by example. As Ghandi said, “My life is my message”. I’m going to begin examining the flaws and lack in my lifestyle then build my curriculum of better choices. And as I master each better choice I will advocate and find a way to teach and assist others so I can spread the message.
Please continue your leadership because it can change the world. Thank you.
Sadhik TM
June 18, 2022 at 3:06 pm
Excellent speach.
Suzana Laşcu
June 18, 2022 at 3:06 pm
humanity becomes futile if it can’t save itself
Sadhik TM
June 18, 2022 at 3:14 pm
Some simple ways to enssure the health of our planet.
Give money to create small forests 1crore forest first time gives 2crore job oppertunity.
Give more money to plastic collection to the dedicated people with licence giving job for another 1crore people
Britton Price
June 18, 2022 at 4:34 pm
The same guy from the World Economic Forum that tells you they are going to hack your brain and the days of free thinking are over. He’s an evil nutjob.
Maxim Kalinin
June 18, 2022 at 4:43 pm
Very well said!
Tim B.
June 18, 2022 at 5:19 pm
Commenting for the algorithm.
Leif Busk
June 18, 2022 at 5:48 pm
👏👍
Fernando Ruiz
June 18, 2022 at 6:36 pm
It seems to me that it is not as simple as simply making politicians sign a check to allocate resources for such purposes. There are interests and structures that will be difficult to change. It is an existential crisis of this kind of civilization and our way of life…there is no way to stop the machinery if we continue thinking about endless growth and the continuous exploitation of nature Simple diagnoses with simple recipes are useless for a problem that is absolutely complex and that involves restructuring an entire type of civilization and the culture on which it is based.
Narco Polo
June 18, 2022 at 6:53 pm
“Winning” the second world war, right….. kinda weird thing to give credit for in a talk relating to oil consumption and climate – not to mention that It’s not like the US was doing any heavy lifting….
Look, there are all kinds of theoretical solutions to preventing climate breakdown or however you want to phrase it. But none of them are realistic, humans are not proactive and the world is not run by sensible people with the right attributes for such endeavors. If you really want to do anything about this “crisis” and actually see some result, you need to take the world for what it is – accept that we will burn all fossil fuel we can get our hands on until it is completely depleted and accept that CO2-levels in the atmosphere will continue to grow.
Now with that reality in mind, we have to find ways to actively reduce the CO2 levels in the atmosphere an that in a way that you can make a lot of money of and build a industry around. A solution with an investable vision that will become part of a global market with amazing returns, and not a solution that competes with the most profitable greedy evil business known to mankind.
John Roekoe
June 18, 2022 at 7:17 pm
What about these conspiracy theorists saying he is one of ‘the elite’?
An_nie_dy C
June 18, 2022 at 11:00 pm
Believe them.
logicalempiricist
June 18, 2022 at 7:33 pm
You are telling me nothing new. Tell me however how to overcome the global nationalist systems and how we get to a global government.
2% of Global GDP seems not much, and the U.S. should pay it all. But they refuse to. Go into Congress and tell them that they are killing us, and they will tell you that they will gladly kill you, as long as a few rich fucks get away with all the money today.
It is NOT that we don’t know these facts, it is that a number of very powerful evil people are in the world today and you cannot bring them away from the course of killing us all for making a few more bucks today.
I have known rich people in the U.S. personally, I am telling you that they are really that evil.
So get out and fight your fights: I say, we will all die, because the REAL owners do not want us to survive.
György Demarcsek
June 18, 2022 at 7:51 pm
While in general I very much look up to YNH and I read his multiple books and he makes some excellent points in the video, I think he leaves out one important detail regarding “clean technologies and infrastructure”. Nobody knows what that really is. Which makes it difficult to invest into. And of course, this is in the interest of the fossil fuel lobby very much, so they are heavily invested in keeping it this way using clever marketing trips and bribing scientists and politicians (probably the same way the tobacco industry tried to sell us the idea that cigarettes are not that bad for your health). This will also likely create a similar economic bubble as the dot-com one, this time with “green” technology and/or ESG stocks – all our 2-9% investment might go to waste if these companies are not vetted properly, but as long as there is little scientific and political consensus on what qualifies as “clean” and “sustainable”, this is close to impossible to achieve. I am surely not be well informed enough on the details, but I’ve heard this is a problem being worked on in various branches of various governments – question is how much time we have to figure it all out.
Lawrence Frost
June 18, 2022 at 11:47 pm
You haven’t read any books on the subject of clean technologies and infrastructure have you?
Siranut usawasutsakorn
June 19, 2022 at 3:32 am
I’m pretty sure at least Tesla company is clean.
Miros100
June 18, 2022 at 8:05 pm
talking head for WEF.
taturay
June 18, 2022 at 8:42 pm
“Apocalypse” Does he has evidence to back that up? con someone share a source of that conclusion?
Alex Plante
June 18, 2022 at 8:50 pm
Cows in the tropics like to stand under trees.
Adam on Keys
June 18, 2022 at 8:52 pm
Oil companies will NEVER allow a transition off fossil fuels. Proof: last 30 years and the lack of any meaningful progress in transitioning off. They will continue to pollute minds like cigarette companies and furthermore they own every single politician no matter their affiliation all across the globe. Unregulated Capitalism is like only swilling sugar. Sure you get a boost in energy and we need it to live but it’s not enough to keep you alive and healthy for long just on its own.
Winston O'Boogie
June 18, 2022 at 9:15 pm
History proves optimism is foolish. Wealth and power can never say “enough”, all the way to their graves. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try anyway, and philosophically, even though it’s futile, it’s the right thing to do.
Like everything else, if we had started working on it 50-60 years ago we would have it figured out by now. Conservative thinking holds the world back.
Peter Simcox
June 19, 2022 at 12:08 am
Great Video !!!.
Peter Simcox
June 19, 2022 at 10:10 am
@T E D Thanks for replying.
Nicolas Lekai
June 19, 2022 at 12:09 am
word
T E D
June 19, 2022 at 9:32 am
👍💪
Victoria Agadzhanyan
June 19, 2022 at 2:24 am
Hopefully, they will here you 🙏
T E D
June 19, 2022 at 9:31 am
Thanks ☺️
tara mcdonough
June 19, 2022 at 2:45 am
Is he a Psychopath? Look up brand new tube = see the truth!! pls write down & Pass on. thx.
see also Hugo talks, yt chan The healthy American peggy hall, yt ch a call for an uprising 3, yt Carl Vernon, Rumble stew Peters = more good info
Mat Karli
June 19, 2022 at 4:07 am
If the government’s so easily redirected the gdp intake to pay for the coved crisis, why did they end up so much more in debt? Why did they have to borrow so much if it is so easy?
Brad the Pitts
June 19, 2022 at 4:48 am
I’m still hiding in my garage with a camping stove and a handgun awaiting the Y2K disaster.
Kath1990
June 19, 2022 at 6:01 am
Man-made climate change catastrophe is a scam. In the name of “climate crisis” many special interest groups are making lots of money. They are stealing money from ordinary masses. Richard Lindzen of MIT and William Happer of Princeton have provided clear explanation on why we shouldn’t worry about climate change. Climate science is also a very soft branch of physical sciences. It is not as difficult as solid state physics or astrophysics.
애교Aegyo
June 19, 2022 at 8:45 am
As a palm oil company investor in Indonesia, I always think that why should I care for environment if I am still poor? Hurray the cpo price went up, I am rich. Go plant your forest in Europe, there are plenty land there. And maybe when we are as rich as European, we will then start thinking about environment.
The point is : at least help us to become rich, then we’ll stop burn the forest.
George Haskas
June 19, 2022 at 9:58 am
Smart enough to deconstruct the universe, dumb enough to run out of oxygen.
Arfat Hossain
June 19, 2022 at 9:15 am
Puppet of klaus showab
George Haskas
June 19, 2022 at 9:55 am
Micromanagement, atheist style.
Grant PJ Scott
June 19, 2022 at 11:12 am
Climate change is natural phenomenon that being profited on by governments and used to make inhumane changes that causes suffering on a global scale.
Ibrahim Hyder
June 19, 2022 at 1:30 pm
most importantly it’s time to bring a strong global platform and system to combat this problems
the existing system is not strong enough to tackle this.
Jonathan Logan
June 19, 2022 at 4:57 pm
Geologic/Ice records show that 400 ppm CO2 means +2C and 10M of sea-level rise. We’re at 420 ppm now and the CO2eq number (which adds CH4 & NO) is above 500 PPM – and. we’re not stopping, rather we’re accelerating CO2 & CH4 emissions all while at the same time we’re radically reducing forests (via fires and clearcutting) and other CO2 “sinks”. Finally, we’ve triggered the melting of the Permafrost (12.5% of all land surface) and Arctic seabed methane – so we’re not stopping at +2.5C without an all-out human effort. More likely, we’re looking at +3C by 2075, at which point most food will not grow reliably, most regions between the tropics will be uninhabitable for a good portion of the year. Then what happens?
Yam Yefet
June 19, 2022 at 7:23 pm
Coca Cola is now responsible for 50% of global warming, instead of 88% in the recent past
ivicaxxx
June 19, 2022 at 8:56 pm
Nice try Mouth of Sauron!
No_Clue_ Gaming
June 20, 2022 at 2:13 am
This guy is soo full of him self as if he just discovered that feces smell bad , the worst thing is it’s all no good.
We could had free energy and wireless… but no mr. Nikola Tesla got shut down faster than a kid running towards the candy section.
What good is money on a planet you can’t spend it on?
psikeyhackr
June 20, 2022 at 7:22 am
What would it cost to eliminate planned obsolescence?
How much do consumers lose on the depreciation of durable consumer goods each year?
How much CO2 in the atmosphere is the result of unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence? Too complicated for economists and climate scientists.
Gianetan Sekhon
June 20, 2022 at 9:13 am
The road to climate rejuvenation travels through both hope and despair. We have people like YNH on one side and politicians on the other side.
It will take all of us to bring about the change starting from our backyards and not waiting for others to chip in.
Tommaso Suppa
June 20, 2022 at 9:22 am
Yuval, we have known for a long time how circular economies can be designed. Nobody has been able to model the transition from the current system to new sustainable systems. Maybe Ulrike Hermann can remind you of that. Your stage presence and presentation has a lot of room for improvement.
Bas X
June 20, 2022 at 1:25 pm
Current “green energy” transition will provoke worldwide starvation, because food prices are extremely correlated with energy prices, which will go up 10 fold at least. There is not enough heavy metals, neodenium, lithium, grafite etc etc. There is not enough of those to make any transition cheap. And then the it is only 2 % GDP per year. Well, if you cut of 1 toe per year, after 10 years you lost all 10 of them. Guess what, those windmills break down after 20 years and solar quite similar.
ruffyatutube
June 20, 2022 at 1:49 pm
This guy from the start adopts a foolish hypotheses. He asserts the world existed already “billions of years”. Garbage! Can he not see that every level of organization, the deeper you go, the more organization there is? Can he not sense the constant energy flow INTO this world to keep it from collapsing by entropy? His culture is to deny the truth that a God exists. He’d rather espouse some BS theory rather than entertain the idea of Creation. He’d rather trash the Abrahamic, or Jewish culture he was born into. He’d rather give little thought to Torah and its truth, the better to assimilate with the “intelligentsia” in the world at large, poohpoohing his own culture of over 3,300 years! He’d rather have you believe that after billions of years, in the last 5000 years “evolution” suddenly swung into high gear and everything we know about history happened in that tiny sliver of time, whereas before that “evolution” advanced at a much slower pace. Till today – all that evolutionists have to offer as proof of their nonsense is some changes they see in BUTTERFLIES! No other proof exists! But he, like “progressives or “liberals” of today, scorn the Creator and continue promoting a hackneyed “theory of evolution”.
He likes to talk about “catastrophic climate change”. He easily buys into this scientific hoax because of his denial of God. Otherwise he’d understand God is good and would never create a world whose path inevitably leads to destruction.
milwaukeebiker
June 20, 2022 at 3:49 pm
Useless eaters huh? Well we don’t need you, you f*cking moron. We are living life here, and it’s not up to you POS Harari, or any other person or groups of people to determine who gets to live and who dies…THAT is a problem left to the creator, or God to determine how that gets worked out. Go F yourself!!! Disclaimer: THIS comment has been fueled by this educated idiot’s previous videos he has posted that have the comments TURNED OFF!
Climate Change has been happening for millions of years. To put things into proper perspective. When you look out of a plane when at a mile and a half above roads going in and out of a city the largest trucks down there on those roads look like tiny little specs that can barely be made out to be a truck…And if you stacked one million of those trucks on top of each other in that one/100th of an acre square it still wouldn’t reach our outer atmosphere. And there is room for WHO knows how many trucks on the 197,000,000 square miles on the surface of this earth. And that area grows exponentially greater as you go up. So, the molecules coming out of that truck’s exhaust AND every other vehicle on the planet that has ran for 50 years straight TOTAL and hasn’t added up to one drop of red dye in an olympic sized swimming pool of water in comparison to our livable atmosphere area/amount of exhaust compounds solidified, and surely not enough to change anything and won’t for many centuries to come. It’s all fear mongering on media to the general population to take the attention away from the fact that the 3 most destructive things to this planet are the production of pharmacueticles drugs along with the byproducts created in their production and it’s waste from living humans and animals that have used them, AND sending solid fuel rockets through our outer atmosphere system all too often, AND radio waves.
Peter San Miguel
June 20, 2022 at 9:24 pm
This guy reminds me Joseph Goebbels.
Aimee Finch
June 22, 2022 at 10:16 pm
How?
Jon Schoen
June 20, 2022 at 11:00 pm
This clown shoe….
R1GAMBLER
June 21, 2022 at 3:32 pm
☝🏻 *enemy*
Rose S
June 21, 2022 at 3:55 pm
He says politicians are good at shifting money around, yes and the Canadian government can’t account for where it’s gone? They refuse to hand over documents and when they do ,all redacted. How many infrastructure bank contracts are accounted for? The MP could not account for a large amount of them.
We are just to trust the governments, shut up and You don’t need an account for where your taxes are gone!
Who is behind Yuval?
There is no accountability or over sight.
Raw Bacon
June 21, 2022 at 4:03 pm
Things keep getting better and better yet these charlatans continue with these climate cult lies……Doom and gloom sells.
Ferg L
June 21, 2022 at 4:24 pm
This guy is probably Satan’s right hand man. Belive none of the lies. Climate change is a hoax. Its always changing. The tide comes in and goes out, just like our climate it all cycles. If they were really worried about the climate the emphasis would be on India and China. They produce most of the pollution. It seems very strange that with every so-called crisis there are a bunch of elites getting richer by the second. Amazon, pharma, medical insurance companies and all along the everyday people get pulverised. Put your trust in Jesus Christ and absorb his word. Strive to live in his Devine Will (Louis piccarreta) a and turn your back on the evil at your doorstep.
alvin1967
June 21, 2022 at 8:13 pm
Bla bla bla
Greg Gary
June 21, 2022 at 8:25 pm
Couldn’t agree more . Great. But how naive do you have to be to think that pounding the table at COP27 will get anything at all done?
Fool me once shame on you, fool me 26 times maybe I should change my bloody tactics.
Sure let’s make 2% a thing but also let’s not be fooled a 27th time.
Scientific data, moral suasion even children in the streets has not & is not getting it done & by all past experiences never will.
Oh “the market” is gradually bumbling its way towards some improvement (despite active opposition by O&G) but at the current rate it will fall far short of what is actually needed & be far too late.
In my view there are only two things that will move the needle with pace
1. Impacting the bottom line of Oil & Gas enterprise globally
2. outspending the O&G lobbies globally – aka buying back the political processes
Another, slower, approach might be a globally organized effort to attack the politics and implement actual solutions at the local level where the rubber meets the road. As far as I know no such currently exists.
If anybody else has better strategies in mind I’m all for it but banging on political desks, more power points, more scientific studies, more Al Gores or more marches are not going to do it, imo
Given the time we have left I believe that most likely the answer is direct, organized, targeted and sustained consumer-driven economic action.
There are a myriad of tactics that fit in that description.
If you don’t think so fine. Tell me what *will work.
Greg Gary
June 21, 2022 at 8:59 pm
Oh, as well as my other comment I wanted to add – 2% of Global GDP?
Let’s be honest shall we? We can’t really count countries that are
named Russia or China
Run by O&G dictators,
too hungry to participate,
politically compromised (eg America).
That basically leaves the G20 minus a few. So maybe what – 8% to 10% of their GDP?
Harder for the T Shirts I know but closer to the truth.
Allan C
June 22, 2022 at 10:50 am
The more I hear Harari speak, the greater he reveals the breadth of his lunacy and his ignorance of human motivation and consciousness seems to be. His so-called claims regarding how easy it would be to solve the climate crisis demonstrates he has never engaged in the actual work of realizing goals on a global scale. I would like to see him personally demand that corporations, individuals, and nation states adopt the surcharges he proposes. His solutions have the logic of a member of a high school debate team. Perhaps he should announce that to reduce the homicide by gun rate in the U.S., we simply have to prevent people from murdering people by means of firearms.
Julienne Dolphin Wilding
June 22, 2022 at 4:27 pm
If the world’s governments are financed by corporations therefore democracy is dead, right? Yuval doesn’t have any suggestions as to how to stop the tax evasions of these corporations or how to stop the fuel subsidies that are choking the planet. We all know the money is there and that it is unreachable. Chanting “It’s just 2%” isn’t going to solve anything…
Brian Daniels
June 22, 2022 at 8:42 pm
Same guy that calls us useless eaters, and is pushing crispr/transhumanism, dudes brilliant but I don’t trust Davos.
Colin
June 22, 2022 at 8:58 pm
Brave man hiding behind economic forum
Colin
June 22, 2022 at 9:17 pm
Harari
Colin
June 22, 2022 at 9:22 pm
Harari you were raped as young boy feel sorry for you
Colin
June 22, 2022 at 9:24 pm
Phycopath
Metal message
June 23, 2022 at 12:00 am
Bend the knee to Jesus pray the rosary