Kurtis Baute I work for a government environmental organization. I hope that helps.

Oh let me counts the ways - It's actually not that hard to make a difference - so many options - kudos to you for your whole experiment - - i watch all your videos, and share your posts on facebook, as you know! :) - I walk, ride a bicycle, or ride my badass e-scooter, instead of fossil vehicles. - I converted to fluorescent bulbs long ago, but now have 100% led bulbs in my home, except stove and fridge of course - My new fridge dropped my power bill by 2.5 kwh per day! - I have off-grid solar equipment that I experiment with, not saving a lot yet, but it's a start, and great for outdoor use or during power failures. - I NEVER use a clothes dryer. Freakin' hate 'em. Hang indoors year round, windows open in summer, and helps humidify in winter. - I recycle, recycle, recycle, and reuse everything. - So far i just grow lettuce on my balcony, but better than growing cows lol. - I keep it cold in my house. Put on slippers and a sweater!! and a blanky for watching tv. Use a programmable thermostat! - New efficient furnaces here - huge savings. - Roman blinds - open in the day for passive solar, close at night to trap heat, during winter. Great for custom lighting and ventilation as they open at the top or bottom - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/freFlNaJvcrDZGw.html - Solar panels on our roof for supplementing domestic hot water. Wish I had more money, would be doing PV solar panels and heat pumps :(

@@yanmanman Thats awesome! I know you do. Thanks so much. As for being a steward of the environment - Keep it up :) :) :)

I drive a plugin hybrid (almost entirely on electric) and i'm installing heat pump and solar cells on the house i'm building, while living in a country that regularly has wind power spike above our entire energy usage.

@@jmonsted Curious - what country? Also, good on ya! Lets hope the rest of the planet can catch up to you :)

Was thinking the same...

That would be super interesting!

Be interesting to see how many plants it would take to keep the CO2 normal for one human.

Intereesting to see how quickly earth can recuperate if we'd vanish over night…

He travelled from Vancouver to Comox, without causing any harm to anyone. We're buds.

Absolutely. In our capitalist society, our purchases are our votes. And also, we need to VOTE for these sorts of industry changes. Thank you :)

​@Rory Forbes"The US is the only industrialized country that is actually reducing its CO2 output" America, Nicaragua, and Syria, are the only countries NOT in the Paris Climate Agreement. "If humans stopped emitting ALL CO2 they would, of course, all die"... Are you saying that without human production of CO2 the plants would die, and then we would die? Soil microbes alone could produce enough CO2 to keep plants healthy. Take that jar on my desk, its been sealed for 2 years with only plants and microbes, and its doing great.

That's an easy way to trick yourself into shifting the blame. Those companies would not emit anything if people didn't pay them to.

@@magnusdagbro8226 I was going to make a similar comment. Companies are out to make money. If we keep buying what they're putting out, then it's not their fault, it's ours. Don't blame the meat company for providing me with meat, blame me for eating so much damn meat. Saying it's the company is reducing my agency in this mess. It's because I'm aware that it's my fault that I make different choices.

companies have been producing less waste and greenhouse gasses over time. air pollution is actually lower now than it was 100 years ago thanks to companies and households switching from wood/coal burning to electricity. simply changing the way we heat homes did that much. i say we keep with that trend and let the economy solve the problem. cheaper almost always equals less waste.

Ez win low class ftw

@@upshiftgo he ain't poor just not wealthy

More bacon for me 😊

@@hotnips1495 In my case I actually am poor, which is still a part of the lower class, but it applies to non-poor people aswell.

@@upshiftgo Organic is worse for the environment. Not better.

Hilarious. He's a really good friend of mine, and I feel so fortunate that I can say that. :)

Scientists it's true. The problem is political buffoons of the Chinese hoax variety.

not including people in the debate because they disagree with you will lead to stonewalling efforts because they feel like they won't be listened to otherwise. just look at the paris accords. they said "this is how it's GOING to be and you have NO CHOICE in the matter." and trump rejected them outright. aggression doesn't change minds. a good opening to debate is always to hear out your opponents argument and let them hear yours. keep asking followup questions and if they're wrong they'll change their own minds. the time for inclusiveness should never pass because the end of inclusion is the beginning of conflict.

Sadly when stupidity is on the rise you do need to put your foot down and demand people listen, it is best to let them come to their own conclusions but sometimes you run out of options.

@@MsSomeonenew no. you never "run out of options." if people are not coming to their own conclusions they are, BY NECESSITY, having a worldview forced upon them. no free country or fair individual can force a worldview upon somebody. if people don't accept your worldview unless you hold the metaphorical gun to their head, maybe it's your worldview that's the problem.

@@ClashBluelight Ah, it's the old authoritarian vs libertarian scenario. The cynic in me says people are dumb and must be forced, the optimist trust's the marketplace of ideas. I still to this day cannot decide what side to land on, on any issue, let alone one as important as this.

p0358 because if I open the windows I’ll have to turn off my air conditioner and sit in 40 degreees Celsius heat all day

@@lytheus69 Right, that's some valid and understandable point. But here with moderate client, fine temperature outside and no air conditioning at all usually, people still close these windows :/

Because we live next to a highway, neighbors are burning wood in their stoves and i'd rather have the co2 than the stinking wood particles irritating my eyes and throat. Also some air purifiers emit ozone so rip me

The issue is that sometimes having the windows open has just as many bad effects as having them shut.

Or he could just be smart and use a few UV lamps.

@@nathanielc.186 thing is that the plants on our planet are not made for working 24/7 so it would work for some time but long term they wouldnt live their "full possible lifetime" and dead plants are not useful for him :p

@@eliaspolitis Why do you think the lights would have to be on 24/7?

@@mattjohnston2 they don't. I just thought that's how he wanted to use them :D

@@nathanielc.186 UV lights would be useless. Check "grow lights", it's either mimicking sun spectrum with less green or just straight away HPS lamps with orange light (old street lights, basically). UV don't take part in photosynthesis.

How did u do this? I've been wanting to move to Europe from America. But it seems like moving to another continent is a hard thing to do. I want to walk and ride bicycles, I want to have an European lifestyle. The way we live in America (at least in my town) is making me sad. I need a better lifestyle.

@@ianviviTV You ride a plane atleast thats how I go to South America from North America every year to visit my family.

Hey Max! Thats so excellent to hear. Vegan once a week is such a great goal. Set a calendar reminder, and plan a bit ahead (theres a lot of great recipes if you take a look for them). I believe in you!

thats called suffocation? dont do it? XD

@@iiSkr1ll3x oh nice i didnt knew that, thanks

I always do it to protect myself against Ghosts, Demons etc. and also little creatures like mosquitos. I have managed to survive 20 Minutes under my blanket before I had to get new Air.

@@ModernFreak123 😂🤣me too somethings

@pixelside soo true

Woah, where do you live?

That is a luxury I don't have. I live right by a highway that has no Public transportation and not even Uber comes out to my town. So driving is a must. Now when I am at my school's main campus which I live now away from home I take the bus but I still need to drive to places like the grocery store.

Ok but like why didn't your ride a bike?

@@thegoatishere5131 lol I assume you were responding to me. First off it is illegal to go on to major highways when not in a vehicle in my state, second even if it was legal its not safe, and third I would need to cover 27 miles on bike which is just nonsensical for the "environment" when I have a car that is much faster and convenient.

Dennis Pietrandrea XD he was just saying he doesn’t know your location or situation but the environment is still dying you could download an extension for google called ecosia they plant tress with the revenue they get when you search stuff

You are amazing. Seriously, power to you! I think incremental change is the way to change habits. You got this!!! Good luck.

I did find that, in general, the more I did/spoke the higher my heart rate was, and since that is linked to my metabolism I'm pretty sure it would have a direct impact on the amount of CO2 I exhaled... Would have loved to run that control, but I designed the experiment to have the thing seal from the inside :/ Definitely agree that the soil has a big impact. Originally wrote a script titled "Its Complicated" which went into all of the other variables like that... but I didn't want to complicate it too much for viewers... Anyway, thanks!!

Yep, this should definitely have been done.

it seemed to me he was less implying that talking wasted more air, but that talking was difficult because. yknow. carbon dioxide causes literal brain fog

Needing more energy results in more CO2 being exhaled. It's like a fire that burns stronger.

Thanks pal! Will do my best :)

Thanks!!

Luke Donkersgoed It was animal rights for me as well:)

No, you're seeing it right. This project may have been on BBC, and trended on twitter... but KZfaq didn't recommend/suggest it to people and my channel is small... BUT its growing now thanks to Tom! :)

I'm not normally in the business of selling things here, but if you're going to anyway... here is an affiliate link to the monitor I bought, but honestly most of the desktop ones are basically the same: amzn.to/2RYQwYP

Small steps. even if its under 30%, thats still quite a lot overall. olus, its not like its mutually exclusive. you can do both

It's REALLY easy to not do anything at all when you stop focusing on yourself as an individual and just say "IT'S THEIR FAULT!!!" Corporations are just vehicles for making and bringing goods and services that individuals pay for. It's up to individuals to change their habits and spending, and corporations will follow the trend.

@@Meton2526 It's absolutely absurd to look at a situation where a small group is causing 70% of the problem, and then look at the enormously larger group only contributing 30% and tell them that THEY have to change for things to get better. It's a false narrative. The corporations are the ones causing the vast majority of the problems, and if you *really* want to see that change, they need to be regulated.

@@o0Theresa0o True, it's not much compared to the corpoations, but if environmentally friendly lifestyles become more popular it changes the society, overall attitudes, etc. and could make large change easier to achieve. More people will be aware and even passionate about it and the corporations and governments will feel more pressure to act. I think both groups are important. And I agree people need to actively put pressure on them too.

For your health, and for your wallet, too!

Well actually walking puts out co2 as well so if everyone on earth just became vegetarian couch potatoes it would go quicker

@@dontrocktheboatrocktheboat172 in extremely tiny amounts that are not really that significant, if walking was an significant co2 emitter this whole nonsense would have started way before as various animals

VEGAN POWER :) I'd do the secret handshake with you, but can't risk people seeing it here...

I think he kept and used it as some kind of greenhouse

The problem wasn’t really the size although it certainly would need to be stronger long term, the main problem was the quantity of plants and the type of plants as there wasn’t any plants that worked at night and also most of the plants there weren’t particularly good at absorbing co2

He live recorded it on Twitter, pretty sure you can still find the tweets Also you can’t tamper with those scientific instruments, or at least I significantly doubt he could without breaking them

Those tv cameras at the end werent mine, they were actual TV news crews that were reporting on it. I was live tweeting it and it made international news. Why is my channel small?... that I wish I knew.

This is a great suggestion that no one has ever mentioned. I actually had a small dehumidifier in there, but it was still too dark (and probably still too humid)