Why have I watched this one three (3) times? Cuz I can't wait to go, either. Roger is a good speaker BC he is REAL LIFE. NO B.S.

I am genuinely amazed at how many people really don't care. It makes me wonder why people are having children.

The most passionate lecture about the Crises I've seen as of yet.

We Love A Brother Who Knows His History. Wish We All Did. Thank You Master Hallam. All In All... We're Just Another.. Brother Hallam. Educator's 👏

If eating less meat is important to slowing climate change and we are in a climate crisis, then eat no meat at all. We can't be risking it this impending disaster with just a little bit of action.

19 minutes of this talk, from 10:56 to 30:00 should be being broadcast on every major TV channel every day at prime time. If that happened, we wouldn't have a few million protesters coming out on a Friday to march. Instead, we'd have the global revolution we need.

This is a hell of a talk Roger... pays to listen to it every few months to remind ourselves we aren't dreaming. To remind ourselves this is real, absolutely real. We New Zealanders think or believe we live on Planet B. It's a mixture of deliberate social policy to keep the population ignorant of the facts and articles in the Guardian that say NZ is the safest country on the planet. We are living in a dream. Action is all that is left to us in the extreme short term to change the system, change our thinking and attitudes, and get busy on a WW2 footing to save something of the living world, and some of our kids and grandkids.

If I had had this talk as my intro to XR, I could have circumvented all the petty attitudes of local do-gooders who took up 'leadership' roles in local XR groups. This talk by Roger is probably ranking in on e of the most influencial and important talks in the history of humanity. It inspires me.

Great talk once again roger, I like the summary of the facts of climate crisis-TRUTH, your Audience is absolutely silent from shock

He says at 51:38: When the fear goes, radical political change happens. True words.

I`m english but lived out my life in Australia in the tropics , yes we have winter but always more like your summer , we used to have maybe 0 or - 0 a couple of days or broken up over a week or two . But this has receded over the last 10 years to the point of last year and this winter just gone , We Didn't Have A Winter . Today is the 6th day of spring and it`s 36deg , this is normally a mid summer temp . I`m a firm believer that it may be too late over here .

There's people who really care about this but there's so many people who won't do anything.

The most comprehensive and knowledgeable speeches I’ve ever heard on the subject....should be required listening at all universities, to start! Thank you Roger !

watching and listening to this now. it’s really good. those outtakes to the audience too make my heart plummet.

this is one of the most important speech,s that i have ever listened to !

Late evening before last, I walked my dog to the top of a hill partially overlooking the Pennines and North West of England, including the Wirral and Cheshire as far as the Welsh mountains. While ascending, I was struck by the most unusual intermittent waves of heat that moved across the land, and through us. I felt the energy of the world forests and felled trees of recent time dissipating, and a strong sense of what is to come. People of society everywhere have no real idea of what is to come, of what the lies have done to their children let alone grandchildren, especially those who choose not yet to feel these things, but to think money, medicine, modern chemical and machine is going to save any of us is a wishful and non practical delusion; those things, actions and attitudes are what have brought us to this BRINK. I've been ignored and laughed at while warning at least everyone in my home town, since I awoke to truth that we are on the brink of no return for the past 28 years. The suffering of the many have not yet begun, but it will, while I witness with regrettable disappointment as so many continue to cause the 'ship' to sink; it will be slow and increasingly disturbing. 26/08/2019

Trying to find a technological "solution", as in geoengineering, will only deter from the real problem, exponentially rising greenhouse gases. The painful truth is that there is no solution other than reducing our emissions drastically and now.

When I lived in PZ we dumped tons of waste from the beaches in front of the council offices to highlight dirty beaches and eventually they listened but it took time.....but it worked......disruption and attention works

Mr. Hallam's sentiment is pretty much true. I support this movement based on the analysis of one of these founder. People will not see things until the moment it happened to them. What we have is a "run-away train" with regards to CO2 emmission. The north pole Arctic and southpole Antarctica is shedding its ice faster than what is recorded in history. Desertification is growing fast despite the effort of Kyoto protocol in merchandising carbon footprints through reforestation. The problem lies in growing population in search of pastures and farms, like in Brazil where a third of the rain forest had already disappeared for farms, and offsetting that lost is pretty much impossible. There is a glimpse of hope - the massive reforestation along the Sahara dessert in Africa to combat famine, poverty, and mass migration had already began 10 years ago, the only problem is that the world had turn off the tap in these mega-project due to unknown reason.

This is one of those talks you need to watch a couple of times while repeatedly picking your jaw up off the table.

Thanks for this great, inspiring and entertaining speech, said it all! I happen live in "the tropics" you mentioned. As a close spectator of the massive looting of natural resources, destruction of primary forests and its biodiversity can only back you that true, real and determined action will stop this utter madness!

Could you please give us the sources/papers about the 2 topics: CO2-lag (+0.7°C) and stop of Pollution (+0.7°C)? Thank you

It’s time to write the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS.

Roger is a great thinker and talker.

Roger - excellent talk. I’m in. You’ve made the case for disruption. I’m ready to disrupt. Now where I live in Golden, Colorado, USA, I need to gather a group and figure out how to get started....

I'm not convinced that there's enough prison spaces to put us all in prison!! Danny

He's a good man. Let's all go and stop roads. Fuck up the system that's caused this mess.

Great info. Great voice. The closet you can look like your audiences, the more they will believe you. Crazy, but true.

comprehensive, chronological, and inescapable. Thanks for the Face Punch, i thought this was non-violent. I think i shall complain Unfortunatly i am now labelled a threat so i will probably get arrested

This estimate of 0.7 degrees of global cooling due to effects on solar radiation of industrial emissions - the so-called global dimming - is wildly uncertain - a fact that has been highlighted by the IPPC reports for decades. Switching off the cooling could amount to half as much global warming again as already seen (half a degree) or it could result in very little global average temperature increase at all. In the absence of more certainty, the precautionary principle applies - assume it could be the worse case.

Great speech!

Such an objectionable 'man'.

Thanks Roger you are a champion, a truth teller. Keep up the good work.

The billions spent on Space exploration, searching for planets capable of sustaining human life, would be better spent on healing our sickly planet Earth which is yearning for our support.

in the late 90s i painted a poster in school with an astronaut watching the burning earth from space and the caption was 2050.

I find some people's responses to ER quite bizarre. I'm talking about those folk that complain about the methodology; it's almost as though they are living in a parallel world, whereby they are trying to 'get on with their lives' whilst Extinction Rebellion is doing its best to make their lives difficult. We are all living on the same planet. A planet which is being put under intolerable pressure by our activity; if we don't act now, ER's actions will be entirely insignificant in comparison to what we'll face as a species.

To help those that are still confused. Earth climate has changed many times from extreme hot to cold. Remember it's not the climate change. it's the speed at which the conditions change. Natural climate changes have taken hundreds of thousands the years to change from hot to cool and back again. The problem with man made climate change is the rate of change a ratio of 100,000 to 1 that means we're producing change 100,000 times faster than natural. life cannot adjust so rapidly, That is what the problem is and it can be extensional event

Could someone please link the paper regarding food shortage thankyou

lets do this

Perhaps someone can enlighten me, if we already have 3.5°C warming locked in, then what the hell are we fighting for? Our children not having a horrible death is unavoidable at this level. What is the best case scenario the movement is trying to achieve?

This talk is one that counts. (The quote attributed to Mandela I believe is Marianne Williamson's.)

Joining extinction Rebellion seems like a fantastick new years resolution for me.

Roger you are good at organising and fighting causes. A real cause that is being overlooked is the plight of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Do you have what it takes to take on Iran and help this poor woman out. What Iran needs to see is that the people of the UK are concerned for her and supporting her. Looking forward to the action and I will definitely join in.

I can't believe this hasn't had more views. I don't know how to do this, but could it (or parts of it) be made into an audio podcast? That way it might be something that helps get the message out?... Especially to counter the inevitable mainstream media backlash in Sept 2020.

Every protest in history has an element of #TellTheTruth as a tenet ........

When I was a kid here in Adelaide (70s & 80s), it got to 40ºC once every few years. Now it gets to 40º EVERY SINGLE year, usually many times, and the peak we've hit is 46ºC.

I agree with far more of what he says than I disagree with to the point that my disagreements are not even worth mentioning !

"Martin Luther King was on the phone, 'don't do it' ". Lol

Thank you Roger and everybody involved

pure silliness

Clearly, police and prisons are very different in UK than US.

Great work Roger and gang! This is one of the best talks I've heard on the subject, maybe the best! I will share as much as I can and try to help from Pa. (US).

Thank you Roger, it was amazing having you speak at the U of T in Toronto this past week! The planet is screaming , but no one is listening!! :(

It will happen like this... One day, after another warm winter and another unbeatable hot humid summer, utility failures and food shortages will become the norm. Persisting without end, way past the three years of failed harvests. Shops become steadily emptied of the basics, then the luxuries, people become irrational, then violent, then killers. Food, electricity, gas, will just stop, then the fuel will run out. Those with renewable energy, stored food, drink will become targets, Then you realize there is no more police, no government, no healthcare, no TV broadcasts, no trustworthy news. In the apocalypse, it’s recorded propaganda 24/7. Without pay, people will go rogue on mass. Disperse into the countryside. Famine, flood, fire, heat, drought, disease, storms, surges, resource wars & civil breakdown will together wreak havoc on all aspect of civil society. The ‘mad scramble’ of carbon capture & renewable energy monopoly is too little, too late to retain civilization as you recognize it now, Man will survive in isolated pockets of survivable, defendable enclaves. I used to believe 2B (billion) might survive, leaving 8B dead. Now I believe barely a few hundred million might survive worldwide a hundred years from now. To be clear- that’s 10B early painful, distressing human deaths. Within a human lifetime into the next century.

Everyone should consider this video, absorb it, google it.

My hero!

The time to act was over 30 years ago......

Watching this legit changed my life. I'd be happy to get arrested for this cause. May the civil disobedience ensue.

Does anyone have a link or info about the paper Roger references that came out last week about Carbon in the soil?

What the paper called? ( 22:25 ) I googled around a bit and found one called Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy by Jem Bendell. Is that the one?

Kudos to Roger Hallam.

We need to stop GEOENGINEERING!

Funnily enough it was in PZ where I started campaigning on the climate...about 1988, and then apart from doing aid work in Africa took no more planes since then.I went to China in 1989 by train ..great trip. We have moved an inch since the 80's and whether or not we have time to stop the rot is debatable. XR is the last throw of the dice in my opinion.

thank you for sharing and thank you for your courage!

Does anyone know the Harvard scientist Roger references who discovered the hole in the ozone? My google search came up with 3 British scientists; Joe Farman, Brian Gardiner and Jonathan Shanklin. Could not find one from Harvard.

You dont name the sustainability professor: Jem Bendell.

Roger Hallam bases his non-violence theory on a study which showed that non paramilitary or guerilla mass movements were more effective. However these 'peaceful' movements were not passive in the way XR strives to be, they involved plenty of confrontation, rioting and fighting back, they just didn't involve organised armed struggle to any large extent. You don't have to take up arms to have a spiky street presence with the ability to defend itself and slow down or hamper the actions of the state in stopping it - in fact it's exactly what you need if you are going to genuinely disrupt capital and move beyond the kind of spectacle that XR are very good at, but which is clearly not really troubling the state.

Here in Victoria Australia, we are in summer, yet we have snow in the highlands

Thanks Roger... for this video and explanation.. greatttt.. thankss.from the netherlands

Great seminar! It takes a while to get to the real premise. But the first half hour's setting up? Is seriously necessary - too few people talk about the depth of damage we're doing.

Who, me? Get arrested? Perhaps get beat up? Go to prison? You know? I really hate going around trying to get signatures on the Clean the Darn Air petition (have you signed yet?), but hey; at least I'm not getting arrested. Who knows though. It might come to that. It might come to that when I realize that everything I cherish is going out the window anyway.

Where are all the references to papers and the scientists who wrote them in your comments section. To be taken seriously you have to have proper references !

Nice to hear people talking about global dimming

Thank you for doing what you do!!

Roger Hallam is my hero, I want to be like him when I grow up.

Hello Roger.

I didn't listen to the social science because WG1 climate science is what I've studied for a decade. Roger is correct on his global temperatures (I do the actual detailed study/calculation intensively) and Roger is incorrect only on his Arctic Ocean sea ice latent heat effect at 12:40. I had also assumed latent heat effect causes ocean warming (I calculated 10 w/m**2 annual average) but it turns out only Arctic Ocean albedo reduction causes ocean warming (a paper came out ~3 weeks ago) and when I pondered it properly I realized that the summer warming effect of no ice to melt is balanced exactly by the winter cooling effect of no ice being formed (ice releases heat as it forms) so over the full year it's a wash (no change). Arctic Ocean albedo reduction causes +0.82 degrees of extra global warming when there's no sea ice at all on the Arctic Ocean. However, +0.19 degrees of extra global warming when there's no sea ice at all on the Arctic Ocean has already happened since the 1970s (it's been a +ve feedback for 40 years) so there's +0.63 degrees of extra global warming from Arctic Ocean sea ice loss still to come before that's all finished (which Roger did not mention along with his correct +0.7 plus +0.7 for climate lag and the net loss of global dimming - soot on snow). The Chinese will decide on this matter of how much future global warming because the U.S. Americans are a totally fucking useless navel-gazing bunch of greedy arse holes, as you've all had clearly shown to you if you haven't been asleep for the last 12 years.

The hottest it got in France was 51C in one place which was an all time record since meteorological recordings have begun there.

All 3 situations, i.e., the Salt March in India, Civil Rights march in Alabama and the women's suffragettes in the UK and US have not resulted in a significant ecological, dare I utter, spiritual change. Yet we still have and support the rejigged neoliberal capitalist system. Nothing short of a full collapse will ever give the citizenry the space needed to tackle these enormous structural polices. Ou lot as both human & Being.

What are the books that he mentions? I want to get up to date with the mindset of XR

Great presentation, gathering support in the Netherlands too!

Has anything changed or as Nikola Tesla said "the world is not yet ready for the great and the good".

here here

Man, UK prison sounds nice. Not so sure I'd feel the same in a Los Angeles County prison.

I'm with you but please include all citations to academic papers and sources, that will strengthen and spread.

I am asking myself which fear is greater: The fear of life unsustainable. Vs. The fear of prison. I gotta say, I fear for my child moreso than my fatass every day of the week. It's taken me months to actually listen to this movement. It's painful. There are critics. It's emotional. Somewhat squishy. It feels vulnerable. I was begging to work for the oil fields in my region just to be able to afford painting in my free time. That now feels like a moral crime and an unacceptable course of action.

help start eco villages. 200 + people wanted

still a relatively low number of views considering how important a topic :(.. this should be shown in every school.

Excellent talk

well... i guess we have a lil bit of time left... so enjoy life ✌

Look at the force in that ordinance. In thought fear cathartic. Like ain' t a clue

Looking for the study predicting mass starvation in Europe that he speaks about, can anyone help?

Introduction: Farmer to Rebellion leader 00:00 3:00 Rich guy contacts XR: "Whatever it takes" 4:20 COP organizer wants XR to cause chaos at COP 5:45 BBC journalist phones XR and gives advice on how to effectively blockade parliament 6:25 XR is growing exponentially because people are shitting themselves 7:50 You can know about climate change without REALLY feeling it The climate science 9:50 Climate change has killer facts. It's not complicated 11:00 Killer fact 1: By 2022 there will be no permanent ice left in the arctic = chaos 13:33 Killer fact 2: 2 degrees increase is already locked in due to carbon lag, global dimming, the carbon emitted by the soil, etc. 17:00 Thats 4 degrees in the middle of continents -> cant grow grains reliably -> starvation 17:17 Killer fact 3: CO2 concentrations are going up faster and faster. Now at 415ppm. Gonna be at 450 within 10 years -> 2 degrees locked in 19:55 Social collapse: Starts with no welfare payments, then schools shutdown, then hospitals can't function. No food = starvation 21:50 20% crop yield decrease in North America, Europe and Russia in 2018 22:25 Jem Bendell's Deep Adaptation paper: jembendell.com/2019/05/15/deep-adaptation-versions/ 25:13 Millions of refugees -> War -> Your kids being sent to be slaughtered 27:45 Nonlinear dynamics example: Wet bulb effect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_temperature_and_health Social Science: There's something we can do about it 30:13 32:00 Erica Chenoweth (3.5% rule): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7CDmMuD0buXZKs.html 33:04 Mass participation civil disobedience can radically change the political direction of a society in a short amount of time PERIOD. 36:15 Why civil disobedience works: Disruption and sacrifice Civil Disobedience (Tell the truth and act as if the truth is real) 40:13 42:20 Independent action: Flying drones at Heathrow airport 43:35 First story: Salt march (Gandhi) 46:20 Freedom Riders (Civil rights movement) 49:35 Children's march (Civil rights movement) 52:35 King's College fossil fuel divestment campaign 59:04 XR April 15th rebellion 1:02:12 3 Reasons people choose to get arrested and/or go to prison: 1. People are simply terrified 1:03:00 2. It's an act of conscience 1:04:34 3. It's an adventure! 1:07:34 Going to prison: A closer look 1:10:13 In Egypt: Prison = Torture. Not in Britain.. yet 1:11:30 Going through what it means to get arrested in Britain 1:13:37 Going through what it means to go to prison in Britain 1:19:14 The only people who are going to do something about the climate crisis are ordinary people 1:23:27 "The greatest fear we have is not the fear of the powerful, but the fear of our own power. The fear that we could actually make a difference." *REBEL FOR LIFE!!*

Greenland is currently melting at the level of what the most pessimistic predictions said that it would by 2070.

From a caring citizen, i say that a proposal be written, backed up bye a petition and put to congress that the proposal address climate change and to implement renewable energy and addressing that government subsides solar panels to Australia and beyond.And to but forth ,it is the governments role to take care of the welfare of it's voting citizens, MR RECYCLE

When he adds up predicted temperature increase from lag etc; 3.6 + human activity, it adds up to 6.3 degrees locked in warming? 3.6 + 2.7. Is that right? Is that locked in then?

Beautifully orated Roger ❤️✌🏽

I' ve seen a documentary about climate scientists in Australia that are relocating to areas where they believe they can have some hope of surviving this, it's happening people, the shit is already headed for the fan...

Camarthen in the house!

That audience looks hooked on every single word! Utter silence.