I see you have the newest NVIDIA video card in your thumbnail.

"Co2 scrubbers" You mean like trees?

There would be wars over who gets to control the thermostat

"We have 12 years to turn this around" *checks publication date Well shit...just squandered another years. 10 years left.

Dont go out into the desert and figure out how to live on very little water, we have water problems here in the city!

So I know it is a relatively small part of your video, but I wanted to offer some insight on the clean energy issue from power companies' perspectives. I used to work as an co-op engineer for a power company with about 6 coal plants and 1 nuclear plant (along with some scattered solar and wind farms). I am all for clean energy, I am not an advocate of coal power. I asked the head engineer why we aren't moving more quickly toward renewable energy, and the answer came down, primarily, to logistics. Wind farms are a logistical nightmare. They occupy GIGANTIC plots of land, and finding that much land, all together, in the proper climate is tough. Then comes the mammoth task of actually building and maintaining the things. Windmills are very dangerous and require frequent maintenance to make sure they don't shake too much, and that no debris falls off. Technicians need multiple levels of training and certification, and require a large fleet of vehicles (more fossil fuels) to navigate the land. They are also unreliable, as a trend of lower winds could lead to widespread outages. Solar farms are less dangerous than wind farms, and easier to set up, but more prone to be hindered by non-ideal weather conditions. They are also much less feasible in snowy climates, as there is less sun, and more issues with the panels being covered by snow. Nuclear is the most promising solution in the works, but is constantly set back by stigmas of historical failures (most failures have actually been caused by poor maintenance and neglect - a well-run nuclear facility is actually very safe). I can't speak on natural gas, but the reason that coal is so popular is that it is an abundant resource. To my knowledge there is no current estimation of when we would run out of coal. Additionally, there are 2 kinds of coal that come out of coal mines: steam coal (sent to power plants) and metallurgical coal (used for making metals like steel). We already have the coal to power them from the mining that will continue, regardless, so there is no risk of instability, as coal also does not rely on weather conditions and facilities can always stay well-supplied. Concerning safety; through monitoring of machinery vibration and testing of machine lubrication samples (both very common, as I was on the predictive maintenance team for my company, where we tracked all this data and ran hundreds of monthly tests), and regular water spraying to keep coal from mixing with the air (boom), a coal plant can be kept very safe and highly efficient on a relatively small plot of land. As I said, I love the idea of helping the planet and being a green civilization. I know many issues stated above are fixable. My point is that it is MUCH easier said than done, and many power companies are working towards renewable energy and expanding their wind and solar production, but it isn't going to happen over night. If we were to stop building coal plants and go 100 percent renewable, we wouldn't be able to keep up with the expansion of civilization energy usage. There wouldn't be enough electricity to provide stable power to countries like the US, and China, which would hurt eco-friendly developments (like electric cars), and force many people to resort to personal generators (more widespread and unregulated pollution). The only solution for the immediate future that is helpful and achievable is to continue development of clean energy methods and keep offering more incentives to make clean power as it becomes more and more feasible. Sorry for the essay, but it is a very complicated subject. Edit: made some changes shortly after post for syntax and clarity

Doing anything to artificially mess with the light coming through the atmosphere is as dystopian as anything one could think of. Not to mention, any company or government that could actually control that would wield an unimaginable about of power. And what does power do? Power corrupts.

Oh boy, i think the planet just found the solution for climate problem. (a good ol pandemic)

You know what thing loves CO2, regulates ecosystems, retains water, produces oxygen, protects soil from erosion, produces valuable materials and is very cheap? Trees.

I often hear people say, we either fix or planet or colonize Mars. I may come with a crazy idea at this piont, but we could fix this planet AND colonize Mars. It doesn't have to be, one or the other. We CAN do both and all...! Great as always Joe...!

Reducing the light hitting the planet is not an option. It would also effect plant growth since they are getting less light and that would reduce the amount of CO2 they absorb

I say lets start using renewable energy and using those machines to pull carbon out of the air, which will be powered by renewable energy

Global Thermostat. Considering the battles you get in some households and offices over where to set the thermostat, I can just imagine trying to get Russia and Iran to agree on what temperature it should be.

You want carbon-negative? Pay Brazil and Indonesia to replant and protect their vast destroyed forests with broad-leafed trees that are commercially worthless but sequester carbon better than pine needles. Also, build wind-powered desalination plants off the California and western Australia coasts to support huge increases in carbon-hungry greenery.

Hey joe im a timber operator and can say that ive been fantasizing about co generation plants for small communities that are scaled down to fit onto the backs of tractor trailers. The idea goes like this, they rock up at the front of a 5k or 10k acre ranch community and connect to the grid then log trucks rock up and start doing restorative forestry. After the clear cutting of the 50s and 60s the forest has mostly tan oak a non merchant able

11:06 my OCD is so happy that the cloud lines up with the book case....

CO2 scrubbers have been around for over a decade now. I live in Perth, Western Australia, and we had a state of the art iron smelter built by mining juggernaut Rio Tinto called the HiSmelt. It was basically a prototype to test and prove a new method of creating high grade pig iron from low grade iron ore, and part of that process was CO2 scrubbers, and in reality, its a pretty simple system. Your using water, H2O, to capture the particulates, this is done by firing a series of sprays through the smoke, each water drop captures particulates, runs down pipes into the catchment area, where the mud is dried off, and then can be used for building material, be it bricks or building foundation material, or road base. So as you can see, theres nothing really complicated about it, and really shouldn't cost much to install, in comparison to the price of a new plant. This kind of tech is also used at grey water treatment plants, to greatly reduce unpleasant odours emitted, we also have facilities here in Perth already using that tech, which was installed a good 10 years ago. So its got me baffled as to why plants burning fossil fuels wont implement this tech, but Rio Tinto used it in a new iron smelter, and its used by our Water Corp simply to stop the air smelling like shit. But with Fission tech getting closer and closer, the old goats burning coal need to step up their eco game, or they will become forgotten dinosaurs them selves...

Optimism about teraforming Mars might have something to do with the fact that there aren't any lobbyists on Mars... Yet

15 years ago we talked about extracting shale gas and that seemed very futuristic, but we made it (with all the cons we know though). I just hope the ideas shown in this video will emerge soon enough. Great video !

@answerswithjoe thanks a lot for your enthusiasm towards giving interesting information and education. My 10yr old asked what your page was so she could follow you!

*Fusion* Honestly, why, if the Earth is in danger, is going full-bore Manhattan Project on fusion R&D not the first thing out of everyone's mouth when it comes (especially) to the environment?

Turn carbon into building materials is probably the best method as we are running out of sand for concrete

The problem is, we don't know for sure what kind of secondary effects these massive projects could have.

Would be great if you could give an update to this video - new projects (like algae-based tech), status of the older ones, etc.

Allan Savory work for fighting desertification and China's efforts to restore deserts to stabilized soil is also of great importance. Deserts make up 2/3 of current land mass.

You have the answer to basically removing coal and most fossil fuels already: Nuclear. The only technology that can both meet the demand and is robust enough to supply our current growth. Solar or Wind can be added as bonuses too, and we could put more towards researching fusion and pushing it faster to reality.

There's also the simple method of increasing albedo by painting or otherwise colouring the roofs of our buildings white or other light colours. Obviously this wouldn't wouldn't work if you're using solar panels or solar panel shingles, but for those who aren't, having white roofs would help reflect the light in the same way as snow.

What Happens In Lagrange Point, Stays In Lagrange Point.

Well last resort we can all go out in a bang and trigger Yellowstone's super volcano.

I am a conservative and I fully believe the statistics about climate change. I also accept that something needs to be done about it and would like to help in any way I can. This isn’t all about political parties it is about the future of out planet and our species as a whole.

lol, i just checked out your merch shop and i see ill be looking like a joe scott die hard fan girl in about 5-7 business days loool

12:34 Space Debris: I'm gonna pretend I didn't watch this

Someone needs to work on converting carbon into some type of solid to use In 3d printers

Type 1 civilization ? We are more like a Kardashian civilization right now.

Your background music somtimes sounds exactly like my alarm clock. Haaah, the thrills. Thanks for the content, very much appreciated. :)

Joe your reading my mind. I'm at the 3:12 mark and this so far is exactly what I've been saying,thinking and trying to help with. You can start by growing a tree in your yard,or a bunch

It kills me that people who do nothing for mankind think that the people who have the ability to do something for mankind can only do one thing at a time en-mass for mankind. I think we can try to fix the environment and go to Mars at the same time. We have done more than one thing at a time in the past, and we will continue to do more than one thing at a time in the future while those who can't (or won't) do anything for the environment sit on their collective ass eating a hamburger and criticize the people who push humanity forward for not fixing all of their mistakes.

We can capture the CO2 and sell it to the paintball community.

Really interesting. If only we could all work together.

Gas X in background of "tangent cam" is perfectly placed.

Carbon is emitted while creating energy. And the same energy is being used to capture carbon from air. 😶. Edit: Trees does the same job by capturing carbon in stem, but using sunlight unlike air capture companies using electricity. So instead of investing in capture plants invest in some green plants.

I'm a little bit disappointed you did not get into carbon sequestration through natural means which can be extremely productive in many ways. Planting trees increasing biomass in soil increasing hummus and soil all sequester carbon. Soil is dark brown because of the carbon in it and the Richer the soil the darker the color because the carbon is increased. Just spreading compost across large amounts of rangelands can increase the bacteria in the soil and draw out carbon from the atmosphere by simply spreading compost in 1/2 inch thick depth. I've seen studies that estimate it would only take one third of us farmlands going towards a carbon sequestering method of farming could draw down significant amounts of carbon. No-till farming compost adding biomass to soils all of this stuff can significantly suck the carbon out of the atmosphere. There's also the added benefit of anything growing being much healthier and it holding moisture in the soil due to the block of sun evaporation. Just leaving Fields open dirt they off gas carbon dioxide in huge amounts. Then of course there is the forestry industry we need trees for building houses anyway why shouldn't we sequester carbon by doing massive tree planting operations and then log them sustainably and continue to add to our overall Forest Interquest of the carbon in the building of houses or whatever other structures. I think the natural means deserve some serious consideration.

Don't use mirrors use solar panels and beam the energy to earth as microwaves to terrestrial receivers.

Just a question, how do you power the fan of the co2 extractor? Because it might need a lot of energy to have any impact.

Pull the CO2 from Earth's atmosphere and ship it to Mars!

Its such an easy fix. All we have to do is reverse our air conditioners. If everyone cooled outside we would all be happy.

When he said artificial volcanoes and need of planes I immediately thought of the SR - 71 then he said fuel efficient. That idea went out the window as fast as that plane can fly

All right finally found one of your videos. I usually watch Our Ludicrous future

Sometimes I swear I click so fast on these videos that KZfaq is gonna think I’m a bot. I’m not. Love your videos tho Joe, for real 👍🏻

Oil companies and coal companies should be paying large share. Equal to the benefits they enjoyed.

The first minute, I laughed out loud in utter agreement at everything you said...

8:15 the picture on screen lines up perfectly with the shelf

Wait... wouldn't all weather related disasters be considered as climate change related disasters? Like did the people who came out with that statistic have a list of ones that were related and ones that they considered not to be related?

7:32 I really was hoping for a fart joke

People think they're so clever bringing up trees. Here's a gold star sticker for your fridge.

Thank you

Here's how I imagine things will go in the upcoming future. At some point in this century, the effects of climate change will get so bad that several countries will get torn down and destroyed by wars triggered by stresses brought by climate change. Mass migrations happening because of climate change related catastrophes, coastal or island cities getting flooded several times a year, desertification and killer droughts, potable water becoming an increasingly scarce commodity, entire portions of countries becoming completely uninhabitable, a shift in ocean currents causing severe changes in global climate... in summary, fast changes that humanity isn't prepared to deal with. The problem with climate change isn't, weirdly enough, about climate changing itself. The problem is the speed. Human societies are not equipped or built to deal with fast changes. We have developed into the stage we are today during a miraculous period of time where global climate kept pretty stable... so our mentality nowadays is based on this stability. If it was a couple of degrees increase in averages over say, a millenia, we'd probably handle it better. In a century this not only means we can't develop adaptations fast enough, we might also have too many extreme events that will kill tons of people and leave parts of the planet almost impossible to live through an entire year. Imagine parts of the US you can only stay during certain months, having to move outside of it everytime storm season comes, or everytime forest fire season comes. It's kind of already happening. Give it a few more years for it to affect even more countries and awareness finally reach it's peak. If we're not already neck deep into trying to remediate all the problems that are already happening, perhaps out of desperation we adopt a massive geoengineering plan. Something that requires massive funding, massive ammounts of people working, and cooperation of several different countries. I can already imagine we botching one of those up real good, creating massive side effects that will be even worse than climate change itself, which kills a huge percentage of all life on Earth. It is the most likely scenario given how little we actually know about doing something on that scale. It's something that might have killed past civilizations, or have left societies in very dire straights during our own history. The only difference is that we don't see them as "geoengineering". For instance, if you change perspectives, climate change might be seem as geoengineering. Through several apparently unrelated processes, we increased the greenhouse effect by pumping a whole ton of gases from deep into the Earth's crust to the atmostphere. There are vast tracts of land in several countries that we rendered infertile due to massive agricultural projects and whatnot. There are some theories about ancient civilizations going extinct because of processes involving large populations that changed the local climate and conditions that weren't predicted. Humanity will be left in such a shape that it'll look like either post-apocalyptic scenarios or one of those zombie movies without zombies. Pandemics will also come and tons of people will die, even though we could have saved many with research and development... just that we won't be able to reach or finance the costs of curing most people. By the end of these very dark times in our species, we'll either be left in a state like previous to middle ages, or in a direct path to extinction. At that point climate change won't even matter anymore, it'll only be about survival. Geoengineering won't be attempted anymore because it will be considered too dangerous, and there won't be funds to do it anyways. And then, we either start over or just let go...

Fossil fuels philosophy: privatize massive profit, socialize the cost, and pay no or little taxes.

Several years ago I watched a tv show w/ competition to develop a method to scrub CO2 while being economical. There was one winner. Did you see it? What happened to the technology? It could have been 10 yrs ago I forgot the name. The winner was set up in NY football stadium i think.

Thanks for all great examples of hubris Icarus

And the simplest most cost effective but generates no money is planting the damn forests back and leaving them alone. The lungs and air conditioning of the planet are pretty important

I read the title as "4 Megaprojects that could change answers with joe" And I was like...whoa

Tried to find Drawdown by Paul Hawken on Audible, it's not there.

Well done, one of the best on climate change.

I will claim that 25 million dollar price from Branson! A hose made from CO2 hosing CO2 to Mars... See! Brilliant 😏

I only have one thing to say. Thorium salt reactors!!!

The situation is dire, but not hopeless

Is the “draw down” no longer free on audible? It says I have to sign up for premium….

Lower CO2 down to 260ppm creates potential of Sahara Desert for AGRICULTURE, essentially as it was in 15,000 bc.

This is first class. You inspire people. Thanks for sharing.

That volcano one sounds like the beginning of Snow Piercer

That mirror idea reminds me of when mr.burns blocked the sun in the simpsons

What could go wrong with centrally planning the earths climate?

As to the Coal Burning Companies just raising their prices that is not necessarily so since they are in competition with Renewable Energy Companies.

I got the plan. Ever been skiing at night when they're making snow on the trails? We get all of those to the poles....

The word "Megaproject" sounds like it came from Hermitcraft

Planting trees and reversing desertification seems like the best and cheapest solution.

The reason why Mars is easier to change compared to Earth: *People own land on Earth and they decide if they want to do anything in the first place.*

Hey Joe, two questions. 1) When you reference "climate change related natural disasters" are you accounting for the way that federal insurance has changed the behavior of land developers (guaranteeing insurance for properties even if they are built in previously known risk zones)? 2) The sir scrubbing mega project seems like it would be vastly more efficient if it were built in areas like Los Angeles, or the Salt Lake Valley where the natural geography already captures a huge amount of carbon dioxide. How much more effective do you think a scrubber would be if it were placed strategically rather than in a grid across the globe?

Can't find this book on audible 😩

"Wind and solar are on par with coal." We don't have a final price on renewables unless we count the price of gas and other hydrocarbons required to compensate for the downtime and/or take into account the energy storage solution and maintenance over time. As far as I understand, those statistics tend to completely disregard that kind of data, ignoring that compared to hydrocarbons solar and wind are 100% technological sources of energy. And you must 100% include the pricetag of the technology in its entirety to make the final cost evaluation.

If you play this video at .75 speed this guy seems very stoned.

Hey Joe. I'm surprised you didn't mention remote volcanoes in your "GOT unpredictable seasons" video. You know? Every once in an unpredictable while, a volcano erupts, far from Westeros, and BAM! Winter has come.

I'm just pumped that our once tropical planet has almost completely recovered from that nasty ice age.

We have a "smart system", it's called the biosphere, it runs an OS called Ecology.

I like this stuff, keep up the good work, dude!

Stratospheric Aerosal Injection is basically the plot of Snowpiercer.

Peter diamandis is insanely cool. The projects he runs and reports on are INSANE

I've never once heard any explanation of the 'twelve years' thing. It feels like yet another arbitrary timeline for saving the planet.

They could use the Co2 for carbon nanotubes^^ Maybe they will find a way to Split the Carbon from the O2

Just send all our industrial Industries to Mars terraforming level 9000

Would it be possible to genetically modify a plant or a tree to be super efficient at absorbing C02?

If a coal company paying to capture the released carbon puts the price of that energy up, good, that's the price it should cost for that. Having the cost of coal power kept artificially low by both subsidies and lack of responsibility being placed on the companies is what is holding back solar and other renewables in the first place. If we were paying the true cost for our dirty energy, solar would start to look a lot more appealing in an instant.

Wow we only have 12 years left?! Joe ocasio cortez! Hahahahaha!

Climat control doesn't deal with toxic dumping, plastic in our water, over consumption, species extinctions (bees)... Shareholders need to change their attitude towards wealth and start thinking about repercussions of their fortune making entreprises... People (the consumers of these companies) need to simplify their lives and start thinking self-sufficient and local. WE NEED TO OWN THE FUCK UP FOR WHAT WE"VE BEEN DOING!

We just need to start dropping giant ice cubes in to the ocean.

11:05 hey... is that an early idea of what some weirdos call chemtrails? 🤣

Nukes at equator will fix the problem in no time :)

The plane idea reminds me of snowpiercer

just listening to the video as background noise and I hear "...Nuke the poles...", I had to make sure I was still on the right video.