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We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective.” - Kurt Vonnegut

who could have thought that infinite growth on a finite planet is not sustainable!

Literally every hundredth of a degree of warming matters. Every human life taken by disease, or conflict, or famine, or suicide… those are all people, no different than us.

If we haven't cared so far - we are going to be forced to care with regret. Because then it will be beyond "too late".

Worst part is that many popular climate prediction models have been compared to how extreme the weather actually ended up being and literally all of them severely undershot

ĘⒶt thė rǐçh.

"It's only on the brink that people find the will to change."

And the thing I hate the most about climate change is that, the ones suffering the most are the ones who didn't contribute as much to climate change 😞

South India is facing one of worst droughts, the heat is unbearable. I have been buying tankers of water to keep my Mango trees alive in my Farm. One more year of low rain fall like 2023 we would not even have water to drink

I'm a modern farmer and we struggle growing vegetables at 35c already. Vegetables in the tropics like 28c temps.

Personally, I am doing everything I can to reduce my climate impact. I currently use 0.6tons CO2 per year according to the WWFs climate calculator. But then there are systematic issues I cannot control (outside of trying to influence people and political discourse). Swedish society -where I live, uses 3.2tons per person. Which takes me to 3.8tons, 0.3tons above the Paris Agreement target. The amount of compromises is something that very few are willing to do... But to me, it's actually enjoyable Things I do: - I don't purchase... anything, really... except food - I use my clothes for 20+ years and I repair them. I see every purchase as a "lifetime purchase" - I'm vegan, I eat after season - I bicycle everywhere - I don't own a car, I rarely use public transit even, except the really cold months. - I avoid purchasing products with unnecessary plastic packaging, and if I do, I often re-use them, like bread bags and such. - I live in a small studio apartment that has an exceptionally efficient heating solution. - The only thing I purchase is new computer parts every 10 years or so. (which is also required of my job as a developer). These days I tend to salvage used parts instead. - I also ghetto-mod furniture that are being thrown away. I actually don't feel like I can do much more individually. I really love living like this, living in accordance to my morals. I just wished more people wanted to do the same. You kind of feel like an alien on your own planet not understanding how other people think, especially considering the long-term effects of our inaction. When I have more time on my hands I will try to engage more in volunteer work, and try to inspire people. Currently I am volunteering for a group called "Repair Café" where we support people to repair their the things they own (instead of buying new), while talking about topics such as "reduce, reuse and repair". :) It has become highly popular in my hometown.

People, we need to organize! The feeling hopelessness is because of our lack of organizational bodies. Get organized! Join socialist or ecological party or group, fight the system! ORGANIZE WE GOT THIS!

It's up to the corporations. The corporations will let us go, help us go, if it increases their profit margins. The end.

"Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair." --Mariame Kaba

Every dollar we spend increases CO2. Buy used clothing, turn down the heat, eat locally grown veggies, stop driving a 2 ton vehicle to pick up a one pound loaf of bread. Corporations make money from our consumer habits. Stop it!

How this has been handled is proof that capitalism is illogical and cannot sustain itself long-term.

Dr Phillip Mason, "historically mankind has never been able to act until it was time to start digging mass graves of one sort or another." (Our Legacy, your future!)

William Catton wrote "Overshoot" in 1982. We have learned nothing since then.

That first chapter....was so brutal and intense. Like i never knew what a wetbulb event even was snd now its a new nightmare scenario

It doesn't matter how much the individual does if we don't set regulations for corporations and ban fossil fuels.

i live in malaysia. we're dealing with droughts now and floods during the end of the year, every year. pretty sure my country will suffer greater and greater climate extremes, and we;re not the only one in the global south. personally, i have very little hope.

Is it sad that at the beginning when describing the conditions in Uttar Pradesh I thought this was a real event until the “millions” death count was mentioned and I was like “wait… I didn’t hear about this on the news”. I just assumed that such horrible weather was already present because it’s already so bad in reality.

The majority doesn't want change. Only look at the continuous growth of animal agriculture because of growing demand.

I don’t know how much longer I can live like this. Everything we do, everything we work and struggle so hard to support, is so wrong on a fundamental level. We have to drop everything and take the reins. Look at the regreening project in the Sahara. You think those people are looking to make money? No. They’re looking to secure their future, and they’re cooperating to do so. Even though regreening isn’t some magic bullet, those people consume almost nothing and their efforts are doing SOMETHING. We have to escape this.

Individual consumers don't decide how supply chains work. Everyone choosing to live ascetically would be nice, but... we need systemic change.

I lost my trust in the human effort some time ago. and when I say lost I mean lost.

I'm not even gonna watch this video, I no longer can. 2022 was the worst year of my life due to the anxiety I felt for climate change and war. I've pretty much given up on the idea I can do anything. It breaks my heart to admit it but I'm seriously considering just living as best as I can for a while and the put an end to everything. Can't go back to that suffering.

The rise and influence of asphalt and automobiles can’t be understated when it comes to our climate, pollution, and natural disasters.

It is so, so important that we get moving on this issue. People need to get their priorities straight. If climate change and democracy aren't your top two issues on the ballot, especially in the USA, I think you likely need to reprioritize what's important to you.

People just don't care, and it's sad, cause it's our future that is on the line. I really believe if we were more united to earth our physical and mental capacity would be far greater, even this planet could grow. Society just don't think about that, if our bodys and this planet adapts from the day to day actions, I'm very curious on how we could've changed so much in terms of evolution if we all adopted simple and more natural ways.

Most people look at climate in the short term and how it will affect them now, such as making environmental changes ,switching EVs and hydrogen cars ,etc). They don't want to make changes that could inconvenience them and want the status quo. They also think that their governments and the businesses will bail them out and that they have no control. These acts of indifference will be our down fall.

It is sad & scary to think that most of society has access to this education & yet so many will choose not to care

We had a temperate winter here in SoCal and I am fearful for this summer. Global warming crept up on us. Now like a train going over a hill we are going downhill fast.

Our food choices as a species is causing more harm than people realize

The Syrian civil war was possibly the first war to be a victim of climate change.. The extraordinary droughts that preceded the Arab spring were a key reason that gained support for the idea of rebellion against the government

Let's not be that species that litterally caused it's own extinction okay? That would be so embarrassing man!

Thanks!

So I've been working on a little writeup project involving the likelihood of a US collapse and the term "Rotted through" comes to mind. As for the why - 1.) Agricultural monocultures & factory farming and the environmental devastation necessary to support their current forms (Contaminated ground water, eradication of top soil, insecticides as toxic as DDT, runoff red tides, and the profit incentive and behaviors around "Cash crops. This doesn't touch on the lunacy that is lawn grass) 2.) Infrastructure decay caused by privatization. (According to a DOE & NERC assessment in 2010, the national energy grid have been getting 3% to 5% less stable annually, not better.) This doesn't even touch on how decayed the mass transport networks are. Rail accounts for 40% of all shipped goods and 50% of all bulk goods transport in the USA (Association of American Railroads, an industry trade group) and are also increasingly prone to catastrophic failures. This trend continues throughout other essential infrastructure such as the interstate system & just general fking housing since the opening of the floodgates to extractive investment entities like blackrock in 2008. Can add cost cutting onto that for air travel too with the ongoing Boeing debacle. 3.) The destruction of communities, isolation, and alienation. The vast majority of "modern" places of coexistence/congregation are extractive in nature (Work sites, bars, clubs, restaurants, even churches.) and the interactions taken with society outside of those locations are often rage inducing (see - cars/traffic) then only having "individual responsibility" peddled as a viable solution creates crushing levels of isolation. There is a reason the US's self-termination rate is nearing that of japan....

While I feel jaded, I will applaud for people who still want to reach better future. I will support you, even I if don't see how we can change humanity for better.

Oh man. In less than a decade we went from "we MUST limit warming to 1.5C or suffer catastrophic consequences!" to "2.7C is happening, maybe if capitalism as we know it ends we can avoid 6C?".

I study environmental science, and this video is pretty much spot on. The Earth's average temperature is 15C so 2C higher is huge, but its not 2C higher equally across the planet for example 1.5C warmer is equal to 3-4 degree's higher in the Arctic and northern Europe. The IPCC reports is an invaluable resource in understanding whats going on across the globe, but it is the conservative model the numbers are on the low end of predictions for example the 1.5C warming limit was suppose to be that in 2100 the Earth will be 1.5C warmer but last year we already hit that threshold. But its only at that warming if each year for the next 4-10 years its consistently above 1.5C. So whatever is happening its accelerating and breaking scientists predictions into the worse case scenario. Also with crops, about 60% of crops grown is not for human use but this number changes depending on the crop, like soy only a few % (like 2%) is for human food the rest is for animal feed for beef production. Out of 6000 calories of food produced only 2500 of that is for human consumption. Also crops are already failing around the world, especially in Europe, droughts in the summer is killing crops but also very wet winters is doing the same and also pushing the sowing of crops back by several months.

If anything should be able to bring humanity together it’s this. Time to abolish countries and religious superstition. The cruel rock we call home must be tended correctly!

Kim Stanley Robinson was very clever in writing Ministry for the Future. He knew if it was written as a kind of predictive non-fiction book that people would question all the scenarios - however by incorporating the bad scenarios into a dramatized story with believable characters to identify with, his message is much easier to take note of - and for some skeptics to swallow !

*"There is no way for you to make it on your own. Either we think Globally, or we perish individually."* Jacque Fresco, 1916 - 2017, Founder of The Resource Based Economy aka _The Venus Project_

"Why won't someone DO something about climate change??? Well, guess I'll hop in my car and drive to everywhere." - Lots of people

Our leaders know what is coming. They know it will lead to people being scared and angry and easier to convince to hate and to react. That means power for the powerful. We're being led by arsonists.

our recycling isn't even being recycled anymore, I'm so close to giving up :{

You know it’s bad when we’re not even dancing around the sabotage thing anymore

Thank you so much for all the work you do!

Thank you endlessly for the great content!

In austria we now have the warmest weather recorded in that time of season (and reagion).

Your content is invaluable and important, thank you, Charlie!

Thank you for these articulations

The wisdom of 65 years on the planet makes me want to wish to the younger generations good luck,just be prepared for the worst bcs it will happen. My generation has destroyed any chances you might have had. Sorry on behalf of all of us. We f 'd your future.

I wish I could contribute financially to your channel, but all I can give is engagement right now. I just wanted to say thank you for making climate content accessible

“I accepted to come to this meeting to have a sober and mature conversation. I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist. There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.” - Sultan Al Jaber, President of COP 28, also CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Mukhtar Babayev will be the president for COP 29; he is also a former executive of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijian Republic. Seems more and more likely, scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment may come to fruition (or at least the higher end of the spectrum). I say enjoy what you can, while you still can; pity the generations to come.

Our grandkids shall curse our names... Rightly so.

Let’s be honest. The 3 to 5% is based on the promise that we reduce emissions. Thats not happening. It’s not 3 to 5% if we just continue as normal.

I still do not understand why three trillion tons of C02 equivalent industrial pollution has led to a fixation on trying to make the climate system livable. Pollution is produced by the economic system, so it is not climate models that matter most, but economic models. If an economic system is terminal to humans and life, I think it can be understood to have reached the sufficient threshold of failure, and should be discarded. Or we can try to change nature to suit the economy - because the 20% of humanity that benefits from overconsumption feel they are very special.

It's April and already 37-38°C and feels like 46-49°C in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. And we have to work in offices most of which doesn't have AC. It's simply unbearable. Sunderban, the largest mangrove forest in the World which West Bengal and Bangladesh shares, is already sinking and many villages have gone underwater.

Underground. Temperature is constant there. Start building underground shelters for heatwave management. Make them very large with vertical ventilation shafts so they don't heat up due to body heat. Add water tanks to ensure water stays cool without needing power for refrigeration, cos we're going to need the power and water for light and emergency hydroponic supplies. We can do that. We can. We *aren't* because we're not waking up to what we'll need to do for summers going forward. But we could.

Anyone remember the gremlins from the Bugs Bunny cartoons? The ones that destroyed the military equipment? I’m ready to channel my inner gremlin. ::smacks wrench into palm::

One thing I would like to get more clarity on; The IPCC likes to talk about „average temperature rise“ but what I’ve learned that if the average temperature rises 2°C, the temperature on land more likely rises 4-6°C, depending on continent/location, whereas bodies of large water heat up more slowly.

Remember people we cant just wait for powerful people to do stuff for us, but direct action isnt just about revolting against the system, we need not only disruptions but also prefigurative politics if we dont wanna just end up becoming technocrats, eco-fascists or eco-terrorists. We need alternatives and we need to build them ourselves, like permaculture, mutual aid networks and practicing direct democracy in our communities for example

Well that was depressing. Here's a bit of positivity to hang onto: if humanity loses, Earth wins. And that's fine.

For those who are collapse-aware, this video still feels like it's painfully laced with hopium...

The reason we are not in a fire alarm mode as a species is simple, most people do not understand 3 degree warming, they think that 3 degrees warmer would be wonderful not knowing how ecosystems work. Education is key if we want people to care about our environment. In Canada where I live we are now going to elect a Conservative gov just on the basis of a carbon tax that is actually beneficial to most people since we get a trimester rebate in the mail, if you are not a high energy user you are simply making money but the far right has hijacked the issue to the point where the present gov no longer is viable. I have very little hope that we will do what is needed since most people are clueless on climate.

Every day brings us a little closer

You really should talk more about what steps an individual can take if you truly care. Let's face it: a plant based diet is the best and easiest way of fighting climate change, deforestation, habitat loss, ocean deadzones, and pollution. We are all in this together. Avoiding responsibilities does not serve anyone except the corrupted governments and corporations exploiting the system and people like you and me. We have to work together.. even if the truth hurts!

Yes I've been talking about it on my channel for years.

Thanks for always ending the videos with actionable items!!

I greatly appreciate your posts

Right now in America we are still hanging on to our way of life and the rich still prioritize wealth over the planet. Our car dependency resulted in urban sprawl and in many places such as the West Coast, we've run out of land to build and housing has become prohibitively expensive. So even though we have some of the highest incomes and carbon footprint, many are struggling to get by because of our inefficient use of transportation and land resources.

The fact that we just had an earthquake in New York when you posted this 😅

Keep going!! Great content

Amazing videos as always

Doing great job, occ!!!

Thank You!!!

I hope your optimism is right, and Hansen's prediction doesn't come through. I just have my doubts given the current political climate, and the amount of people who don't realize the issue.

Thanks for the video!

Such an interesting topic. Thank you for this perspective. It is very crucial & vital that we do something to stop this. Or face the grim consequences.

The only way forward is degrowth and reduction in total CO2 and other greenhouse production

We may have físhless oceans by 2048🌱🖤

Great stuff as always. Good ending too. I'll help you all I can when I can. Hugs and love.

Thanks for your efforts 😊

When those Nukes fly, the climate seem seem cold...

Still, even with this video, talking as though we are doing something, that we will meet our targets. ALL we are doing is INCREASING co2 emissions year on year. We have cut nothing. Track us on what we are doing, rather than what we could be doing, and we are at the top end of the 'worst case' models. no matter which ones you use. At current rates, we have less than 6 years to COMPLETELY STOP using fossil fuels for energy production and transportation. And that is using the 'best case' scenario for stopping us blasting through 2.5c (which assumed a reduction from 2020 year on year).

Simplicity is as necessary as it is inevitable. Decreased energy to power modern civilization at the present scale is an absolute certainty and no amount of opinion will change this fact. It is important to note that civilization will not give up its level of energy consumption willingly. Only the physical limitations of nature will accomplish a reduction in consumption and pollution.

Its incredibly bad because this is just one silo of the issues we face. Pollution and bio diversity loss are problems as big as climate change. Then there is social inequality which has led to the wealthy clinging to their lifestyles and I count 80% of people living in the western world in this metric while poorer countries develop all the fossil resources they can to improve their lives. Not having enough fossil energy is perhaps the biggest worry for collapse right now as when there is not enough oil the price will spike to $200 a barrel. This will spike the cost of everything so solar panels will double in cost and cripple any possible energy transition as everything goes to stabilize the system. WW3 and Nuclear winter is still the front runner for are collapse today though.

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we had bigger problem than climate change we knew about decades ago, and for some reason the climate is affecting me more. i knew about the system that created climate change but no one wanted to listen back then, hopefully people will not get a narrow focus on Greenhouse gases but see the system that is the cause of the problem.

Thanks buddy I was having a lot of anxiety so I needed to watch this 😂

To be honest, every one of us are complicit in contributing to global warming due to overconsumption either with food waste or even buying too much that we don’t need.

It is the beginning of April and we are expecting for this Sunday temperatures which are more common around July....30°C...30 degrees at the beginning of July...oh and we didn't have any real snow and freezing since the beginning of December...there was no Winter. I am starting to dread summer.....

Pathocracy, or how psychopathy takes over a society More scientifically known as “Political ponerology”

The ministry for the future is such a wonderful book, thanks for recommending it!

Our biggest mistake was not committing to modern nuclear energy options. Molten salt reactors, LFTR's, small modular reactor, Thorium reactors, etc. They can be used in collaboration with other alternative energy sources all over the place. Especially with all our advancements. Our knowledge around safety measures is much more understood. Tons of improvements in engineering, material science, technology, robotics, etc. They are all much more advanced now. This power source is the best option to improve our environment & will really help lower our emissions. The only things holding us back is past trauma that's been instilled into people (which is understandable but we gotta give it a chance to prove it has progressed & addressed past issues) Did they outlaw electricity or oil, coal when things went wrong in the early days of those fields? No! They kept going and understood things usually are bumpy and difficult in the beginning and kept going even tho those sources negatively impacted our environment. A huge issue is our government is BLOCKING any sort of progression from happening. We'd be lucky to see the slightest projects approved or finished with-in the next 100 years.. It's very annoying to see how much we have gotten in our own way when it comes to improving or advancing certain things. Instead we let fear, money, man made "required legal processes" Stop us from doing anything other than wind, solar, oil, natural gas, damming our rivers, mining for minerals... It's very frustrating because we should be able to use all these options in collaboration. If we actually wanted to improve anything. That's what we need to do and stop letting so much potential get blocked from ever occurring in the first place.. It's really irritating. I wish certain people didn't make this so "complicated and difficult" Why would any reasonable person want to block progression?

Economic Revolutions or Climate Apocalypse. Socialism or Barbarism.

Warmer oceans will evaporate more water. That means more clouds, more rain, and our deserts will turn green.