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What if this is Hank commenting and pretending it's John

I didn't go to high school so I got a GED and joined the Marines 2001 and then the Army, after eight years I got out and started taking college classes. I had NEVER studied anything about science, and I took an Environmental Biology class at City College of San Francisco taught by Peggy Lopipero-Langmo, at first I was distracted because I thought she was beautiful, lol, but she was so passionate about her subject it was contagious and I really got into it, and since then I've been obsessed with ecology, geology, paleontology and all aspects of biology and science. A good teacher that is in love with their subject and field goes a long long way.

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well i suppose right now is as good a time as any to cry :')

Sorry, but high school biology teachers of today are largely idiots and know nothing about climate.

I didn’t expect to find myself crying in the comments but hsnxksks ;-; we can do, we have to for us to actually exist as a species

this! we have to do what we can while we still can do it, and if this is the best we have then we better go for it

If there is one thing I've learned from life is that it's not over till it's over and you don't always know how it will end so keep trying

@@winwinnie4905 No we don't. We can do nothing and we will be fine. The sort of climate change that will result from burning ALL fossil fuels is not an existential threat. All life will still prosper, probably even flourish as we unlock new continents and have warmer weather across the globe. The earth will be closer to the temperature it's been during the VAST majority of its existence.

Meliorism is just better than optimism and pessimism.

Ok, too bad your president is near death

This was such a delight to stumble across. I'm watching all their videos in order and there had been a big pause since around 2015 on climate related videos. For obvious reasons, yes, and I respect and am grateful for their videos on international conflict or other topics, but what a delight to see this flavor of science journalism come back around in their repertoire. They both seem a lot happier, perhaps more optimistic in this season of their videos. As you said, that does so much more for engagement than mainstream media can offer.

Hank Green is the definition of a sheep who thinks promoting political propaganda counts as "journalism"

I always look up who owns the news company, or who owns the company that owns the news company. What I've found is most mainstream news companies are owned by older evangelicals, or their family.

It was a good transition, even if not the one we expected.

Lmfaaoo

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THE ACTUAL BEGINNING!! HOLY SHIT

Lol. I'm just a bill , up here on Capitol hill

Also the Donald. Without him boycotting his own party, they would never have been elected.

Should have thanked them by following through on that promise for 2k stimulus. That failure is going to come back to bite dems in the ass. When Republicans win back those seats they'll just blame voters instead of taking any responsibility.

Seriously. That had a huge impact on our political reality today

Stacie Abrams deserves a shout out here for registering so many people in GA to vote since 2018.

Dominion Voting Systems Rock....

Make sure you have a plan to vote this midterm and take as many people with you as you can. If democrats hold the house and senate that will be able to pass another reconciliation bill next year. This is important because we wont get a single republican vote

It's been quite a week!!!

@@vlogbrothers Having made it to the end of the video, now I too feel more optimistic than I ever have before. And a bit teary. So one more thank you: thank you for helping us hope again.

@@_maxgray I still have no optimism about this corporate lobbyist pocket-lining bill that's masquerading as inflation reduction and environmentalism. If half these funds went to direct carbon capture and sequestration the problem would be solved in half a decade. PLEASE, don't believe this has anything to do with what they say it does.

I have never agreed with a KZfaq comment more

@@vlogbrothers it seems a lot of discussions you have about climate change are incredibly biased, anti-scientific, based on collective consensus rather than objective falsifiable evidence and are undoubtedly most likely "paid for". This is very sad because it's hard to take your content seriously when your political views overshadow your claims about being scientific and objective.

Wow!! That’s awesome! I’ve been doing some extremely light research into the field and came across something called SEAMS that looked really cool, do you know anything about it?

@@eos_aurora I don't work with SEAMS, I work with DERMS (Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems), the idea is giving electric utilities the ability to manage all of the rooftop solar, electric cars, small and large batteries, distributed wind, etc in ways that not only lets the grid bring in more of them, but makes the grid work more reliably then ever before. It's just one piece in the large puzzle but it's important and we're seeing real results. With this bill, it will enable more research into better management and make more of these distributed systems available.

Tell us why the sky is blue again since the late 60's early 70's, there has been at least 3 ice ages and democrat politicians like Obummer buying beachfront property!!!

How do you reconcile the fact that renewable clean energy sources lack the grid inertia to keep steady power flowing during a sudden increase in demand? Solar and Wind can't simply be dialed up during increased demand. I guess some of you may have to suffer or die, but as a sacrifice I'm willing to make lol

@@Anonymous______________ Just how much are we using fossil fuels for this clean energy? we don't have enough electricity to power more than about 2 electric cars per block so far! the sky is the same color as before Biden stole office.

lol lazy sheep

@@marklapar4804 What makes this a sheep comment? And what are the best resources to stop laziness? It can be easy to call a name out of thin air, but if you give more detailed feedback, there can be a discussion.

@@corynanni1461 i think what he's trying to get at is you could do your own research, or maybe he's trying to say if you think its a good idea you should make the video? either way, who cares? You're right about it being easy to call names instead of giving feedback so who's really the "lazy sheep"?

@@marklapar4804 I've never met an intelligent human being that goes around calling other people 'sheep'. . . Not one. They're always meatheads.

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If this bill were to pass, exactly what amount of temperate change do you expect to arise?

It's worth noting that since 2005 US carbon emissions have already decreased by 1 billion tons annually WITHOUT significant legislative action. This bill will help a lot but there was always progress being made!

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It absolutely made my day better! Good to see something actually happening 💜

I agree! Here's hoping that the Australian Government sees this in action, finally cuts the crap, and follows the U.S lead. 🤞🤞🤞

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I find this to be true about a lot of Hank’s stuff. Like, the man is here to teach and inform as best he can, not fill time between ad breaks!!!

Comments like this always tell me one thing: Not enough people watch PBS, BBC, or Al Jazeera. CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and all the other privately owned news networks share various levels of suck. Stop watching them lol

@redxpen lol this tired line. The net gain in agents will be about 20-30k, when you account for retirements in the next 5 years. Also, that +20-30k only restored the agency to full staffing prior to budget cuts. Finally, the very rich are the ones pushing this 87k narrative. Perhaps ask yourself why the ultra rich are trying to convince you to be afraid of your own government being well staffed

Amen! I've been struggling to figure out what's going on here, and didn't have the time to do the level of work Hank did for this, which was apparently the only way to figure it out. Don't know how Hank found the time, but incredibly grateful!

Don't get me started on corporate media. But, yeah, thanks, Hank!

That is fantastic, I really hope it all goes well for you! I am a high school student and see a huge future in green energy installation/production, and so, plan to go into the green energy workforce when I graduate from high school. This is the first time in a while I have been actually motivated and hopeful for the future.

Those wind and solar energy will do you absolutely no good during a situation like what Texas experienced. The windmills froze solid and the solar panels were covered by snow Plus there is no sunlight. So how exactly is when and solar going to save you from that? I love my solar panels but your statement is oxymoron.

@@bryanshoemaker6120 "plus there is no sunlight" This shows your absolute ignorance on the situation, you moron. Does the sun just go away during the winter? No. They absorb the light and convert it to energy just the same.

Thank you for this comment, Mary! I just took a screenshot to refer back to when I’m feeling really depressed about climate change, ha!

Major agribusiness? So a big company that has destroyed many, many small family farms, and is probably doing things like planting patented seeds and suing neighbors, pushing for expensive regulations that smaller competitors cannot afford to comply with. There's probably little your company does that isn't truly evil.

@@stuffbenlikes You are missing the point: They are employing a sustainability analyst now.

@@Schmidtelpunkt Gotta sustain their ill gotten gains!

@@stuffbenlikes Ironically that is indeed one of the positive points: They see that they need to get proactive about things and make their own decisions before they are made for them. This is not about good or bad, it is about opportunism.

What about your mission to India made you change your mind?

@@TheCliffjoseph The most obvious factor was life in cities without strong environmental protection. After living for 4 months in Visakhapatnam and Rajahmundry, I had honestly forgotten the sky was blue. I didn't fear sunburns because the smog was thick enough to block UV rays. The streets were covered in trash and other types of waste. While a lot of it wasn't a direct result of climate change, it forever made the connection in my mind that we humans have an extremely powerful effect on the environment. The other factor was a change in perspective. I had grown up in semi-rural, conservative Idaho. My whole life I was surrounded by people with my same worldviews, and indeed, I was shaped by those views. Going to somewhere so distinctly different changed all of that. I saw what life in a varied, multicultural, and much less wealthy setting was like, and although it was extremely difficult at first, I grew to love both the land and the people there. I learned that so many things I had taken for granted were incorrect, and eventually that led to me questioning my views on the climate. The people of South India are some of the greatest I've associated with, and I don't want to participate in a lifestyle that will directly harm them. Millions of lives ride on our actions, from the local (Fight for walkable cities!) to the national level.

For me it was 13 years ago, but I was also a climate change denier. Luckily I had a chemistry professor who was kind and patient enough to show me the science behind it and challenged me to more critically examine the evidence I had believed up to that point. I realized that I had been duped by people who were using motivated reasoning and questionable data to come to the conclusion they wanted.

You're fabulous!

@@crazycolbster thank you for sharing your story, I got goosebumps reading this!!

@@DS-lk3tx wtf is wrong with you

@@DS-lk3tx You are a horrible person.

L Y, please do not listen to this person. There is hope and you are worthy and should not k1ll yourself. Whoever wrote this reply to you clearly is in deep pain and struggle and please do not let their outlook affect how you see life. I'm so sorry that as soon as you saw a glismpe of hope this disgusting person tried to downplay it, but please know there is another person who validates your hope and shares this feeling with you.

I feel that, terrified to bring a child into a dying world. Let's all try to go recover our lost hopes about the future and make this a victorious battle to save our planet. what a time to be alive, when it feels like its up to us to do it, and we all get the chance to try to save planet Earth.

Sorry you're having g suicidal thoughts. I know what that's like and if you're patient enough, I'm sure they will pass.

I almost did not have time for those more squares. I cranked them out as the last piece of the video I finished!!

@@vlogbrothers the squares were absolutely essential

@@ptrkmr absolutely essential

I happened upon this comment EXACTLY AS THE WORDS CAME OUT OF HANK'S FACE and it was magical. Also, yes. @vlogbrothers Hank, the squares were very, very, very appreciated by my very visual brain. Thank you!

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Same for the utility company I work at in my state as well. They can definitely see that it's coming over the horizon really soon.

Same again for the utility i'm at. They want to be around for a while, and regardless of the politics, the stakeholders are demanding sustainability, certified emissions, and a plan for the future.

This feels nice to hear. One of the things I’ve been most worried about is that most companies and corporations were just using this legislature/the concept of sustainability to get by without having to make any actual shifts or commit to any actual change, but to know that there’s real action behind this is great.

Or they think they're selling horse carriages and its only a matter of time till w run out of fossil fuels or they're not profitable.

"impossible to ignore" = corporations can not make as much profit from ignoring it anymore. It's almost like the rules and restrictions are completely made up and we have the power to change them as we see fit. But instead we continue to act like this distribution of power and wealth is not only justified but a requirement.

This. This has to be reminded of again and again.

almost every single bill that doesnt involve drone striking more brown children or giving more money to israel is split across these lines it's just a show lmao

@A B I've come to a conclusion that the Republicans don't care about the environment for future generations very sad and they don't believe in cutting edge science.

Kinda creepy our country has no middle ground anymore in politics. Just 2 radical sides that constantly switch between who is slightly less bad than the other.

Yeah because it's a bunch of pork barrel spending. This bill is literally not going to change anything for anyone.

U are now dumber than you were 10 years ago. Wind and Solar will never work no matter how much of the tax payers money you throw at it.

You are exceptional and are really helping. Thank you for sharing

Honestly this is also my story. I was convinced climate change was not real or at least not the fault of humans and it was through scishow and hank (as well as some very understanding teachers) that I learned how wrong I was and became a climate advocate

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Don't call Hank an "Ecogeek", he's a fucking hack who's pumping people full of hopium about an insanely watered-down piece of legislation. Why is anyone's guess, but overall this video is a joke

Power-Grids and the massive problems with it got just covered by KZfaqr 'Some More News':

Make sure to VOTE this November for a democrat. Republicans have pledged to shut down the government to force the repeal of the IRA if they win in November. This is on all of us to keep the House and Senate.

Cleaner air means sun's heat isn't reflected as much which leads to warmer temperatures

@@Avner123 Thanks, Castro, leading climate scientist, famed by all, for your astounding input. /s

@@redactedredacted2621 lol it's literally a recent study around how the pandemic lockdowns effected the climate. I'm grateful for you platitudes though ❤️

@@Avner123 where is that from? Does that have any real effect? There are other bad effects of pollution, so I seriously doubt whatever article you read said it was a net positive to pollute.

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Steve - Thank you for being an open-minded human being.

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Steve, thank you for your open mind and your honesty! You’re awesome

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Yes!! I thought the same thing!! And then we could increase the price of gas to make it a better incentive to use public transport and finance it from the profits!

Agreed, I wish we'd take a better look at more public transit infrastructure, but America really is car-centric (thanks Ford!) and that won't change likely in our lifetime.

While I agree that public transportation would be more effective, one of the big aims for this bill is to make people feel that they are benefiting from it and I believe to, consequently, keep people from being caught up in change. For Americans who pride themselves in *owning* their own forms of transportation and are used to having it as a piece of property, it may be harder to convince them to use public transportation more frequently than to have an electric car. It may have also been harder to pass a bill that heavily focused on public transportation with "traditional values" focused individuals in power.

One of the issues with public transpotation in america is how local policies, topographies, and infrustructor make that a unwiedly and probably unrealstic task. Not to mention incredibly freakinng expensive and logictisal nightmare. Oh and it would super easy to derail if some ass has chooses to do so and there will be plenty. Electic cars and electric vehicles however are proven effective modes of transportation that should be seen as optional and thus more likely to be widely adopted. You can go from one end to the country to the other with an elctiric vehicle. Next step is to make them widely available and to put up more charging ports. What will you see happen is because it take longer to fill up you may even see small industires pop up around them as a result. Might as well watch a movie while your car is charging. Your more likely to choose a hotel with a charging station than one that doesn't have one. Alternative energy and electic cars need to be sold as alternatives and a smart way to diversfy our way of life. Microsoft isn't just windows for example- they are also a subcrption company, a cloud company, they make devices, they make games etc. Good investors don't invest in just one thing but have a wide ranging portfolio. America needs this mindset. Instead of being compatitve I think we should be encouraging. You don't want to buy an electric car cool whatever. But as you notice more and more electric cars out performing traditional cars you will eventually feel like a relic and make the choice yourself on your own terms.

Public transport is in almost every scenario cheaper than owning a car, while i don't think that all people will give up their cars, people tend to lean towards the cheaper option. Let me tell you from personal experience, with all the fuel price spikes in recent months, the cost of public transport in my country hasnt changed a dime. Rail and busses are better not only for the enviroment, but also the consumer. If america would just invest in it americans would come around to it.

Yeah it sucks that we caused the dinosaurs, and countless other forms of life ove the past billion years to go extinct. It was us. It was always us, and it will always be us. The great alien gods say so.

@@roadkillavenger1325 what are you talking about, they didn’t say anything about that? They’re talking about all the species which have become extinct in recent history due to climate change.

Nothing ever changes

@@olivernell4283 The alien gods don't care that you THINK you have all the answers. They laugh at you!

Coral is one of the most destructive lifeless systems on earth. Figures you beauty worshippers love coral when coral should be removed and wiped out. It’s terrible for the eco system but please you’re a genius obviously. You think all nature is pro nature when you don’t know anything about how coral is destroying fish life and creating toxic seas. But sure. You seem to love ignoring how coral reefs kill fish life. Go on clown.

I mean the beginning of life on Earth is the beginning for this bill in a sense, but the sudden leap backwards caught me off guard lol

It felt like the right place to start.

@@vlogbrothers In the words of Julie Andrews, "let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start" 😊 Thank you for this video and all the work you do!

@@vlogbrothers It was the right place.

That was then, this is now Here we go, starting over You decide, change your mind Miracles happen every day

Ya, I enjoyed the deeeeeep cut. “Oh wow, so we’re going back THAT FAR with this.” And it all tied in beautifully at the end. He’s an excellent storyteller.

More tax breaks for the rich. The poor will pay the inflation.

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Lmao it’s going to be struck down by the Supreme Court

What an incredibly inane comment.

@@johnp7739 likewise

Power-Grids are Broken, as the KZfaqr Some More News just recently covered

So here for this

Sign me up!

Thank you for your enthusiasm.

Love their videos!

I have to respond to you, because I'm feeling really grateful to you for showing me that a doom-and-gloomer can be flexible. Being open to optimism (when it's called for) is crucial. Otherwise, a person would always be pessimistic no matter what, and then what's the point?If there's no action that a person would accept as an improvement, what could we possibly gain from seeking that person's input? So, thank you!

"And no less resolute" ... this is key, take the win and keep on pushing, let the optimism fuel thoughtful critique and action!

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Bahh... Polly Annish hopium.

thank you

Im also crying. Im so moved by this

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I used this exact argument in class once!! Everyone else in the class stood on the side of 'our actions are most motivated by fear' and I was the only one who agreed with 'our actions are most motivated by hope.' Said pretty much the same thing that you said, when the teacher asked me to explain my opinion: that fear only pushes us away from things, but hope is the only thing that makes you go forwards towards a goal. We can say we fear climate change, but it is hope that we can do something about it that pushes us to work against it. Got a couple of classmates to change their position :) I think it's pretty sad that the almost entire class decided to stand on the other side though.

You can choose to add more good into this world or add more bad as I always say. It's a choice.

_Grounded_ optimism. If its based on lies and deception, that's just pointless.

@@NormandyFoxtrot That has not happened anywhere. Far from it. The opposite it true. We are not afraid enough, people are still talking about how the scientists are lying or how it isn't as bad as we're saying. This bill isn't amazing because hope or optimism or some shit, its good because its practical. Its good because it works. Fear or hope means nothing, folks have survived and thrived on both.

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Celebration? Dude oil companies are going to the bank laughing. They literally gave provisions to build more oil pipelines. Nuclear plants are not sustainable.

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Too little, too late. There is no "solution" except the complete collapse of industrial civilization, and the return to a world population that is south of a billion.

ABSOLUTELY!! ✌🏽♥️😊♿️🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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The thing about reducing car dependent infrastructure is that it's a decision that has to be made at the local level. There's really only one bit of city planning that Congress can do directly and DC already has a metro (and an extra private subway just for Congress). There's also a lot of stuff related to that that isn't really a thing that's done by the legislature, it's administrative. Secretary Buttigieg and the department of transportation can review a lot of freeway construction projects right now without asking Congress for anything. Walkability and active transit are really questions of land use. Converting a traffic lane into a bike path doesn't actually cost very much money it just takes the will to do so, and no bill passed by Congress is going to make city councilman Ford F. Treefitty (R-Trucksburg) suddenly decide that reducing parking minimums and adding protected cycling infrastructure is a good idea even though it's going to end up improving the city's finances and make it easier for him to drive. (And don't get me wrong, cities run by councils full of rich suburbanite Democrats pull the same crap, ignorance about good city planning and its consequences is a shining example of bipartisanship.)

A key change will be zoning rules. Medium density residential is basically banned in most of the US. There needs to be less suburban and more urban. As you say these are local decisions, but at the moment there are federal subsidies for new suburban development. At the very least this needs to stop. Maybe a federal law could require a certain percentage of residential zoning to medium density or something like that?

Realistically, I don’t think expecting people to take the bus or ride a bike over driving is very important to this bill. Maybe you missed the part where he said they’re making buses and garbage trucks run clean energy too. Those are more local things. People will always drive cars here. While I love Northern Europes bike and public transit stuff, that will never happen here nor should we expect it to. What it looks like they ARE doing though, is funding for electric vehicles and that’s wayyy more important given how America works. Yeah, asking Americans to take the bus, ride a bike or carpool is like ancient problem solving compared to what this bill is offering, plus like I said, that stuff is done locally through the towns or states and they usually include it in their budget anyways.

@@ciaomamabella I recommend the channel Not Just Bikes to show you that America NEEDS to reduce car dependency to fight climate change

Believing isn't going to cut it without big strides in cost-efficient energy technology. Get that first, then even I'll believe. "Believing" got us the education morass we're in, the failed War on Poverty, and countless other massive government programs riddled with unintended consequences and unfathomable inefficiency and corruption. You all are "believing" in our elected officials' competency and ethics. Think about that for a moment.

@@spidgeb3292 run for office then. Be the change, be the ethical official

@@Chrishelmuth1978 Thanks for your support! I might do that.

@@spidgeb3292 But if you don't believe that the problem is solvable, why even try? Belief is not the only step, but it is the first step. Because only people who believe it can be done and don't take no for an answer actually get things done. People who don't believe it can be done just get depressed and nothing changes. At a minimum, believing that it's not all hopeless and that something can be done is miles better for your mental health than giving into the fatalism.

@@spidgeb3292 and it's not about believing in elected officials necessarily. It's just about believing that there are good people in the world, period. That there are people out there fighting the good fight - that there's something you can do to be a part of that fight, and not giving up your own power. That's all.

You're teaching these children garbage. There's no evidence that climate change is caused primarily by CO2 and there's no evidence that slight warming of the planet is all that bad. I dare you to take a look at the ACRIM2 controversy, investigate the real cause of forest fires, and actually read the IPCC confidence level on the broad claims that warmer climates causing bad climate events

Great for you to have more fodder to indoctrinate more impressionable minds!

@@dannyarcher6370 This KZfaqr should tell the EPA-Boss: "UpisNotJump made a Schoolfriendly Version of his Climate-VIdeo; WHY NOT show this on Schools, spread it around??'

They're trying to get the ebike subsidy into some future legislation because of how it iS A TINY AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS!!

That is very unfortunate, but a lot of our woes with transit can be solved by making our society less car-dependent. Electric cars are better yes, but they are not the best. There are much more articulate videos on this but.

I'd say the expensive part of ebike adoption is just making cycling infrastructure safe enough to actually use.

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@@AlRoderick Seriously this. In my state parking protected bike lanes are illegal, the city wants them but the state gov says no. Just one of the ways going green is made hard. We desperately need more focus on non-car infrastructure.

Same! So motivating

Great Video but WHAT A MISSED OPPORTUNITY to make a Pinned Comment to direct curious People to more high-quality Climate-Coverage. I mean, its the natural Reaction to finish such a video and want more, so why doesnt he help his Fans by endorsing the Climate-Coverage of Hbomberguy, UpisNotJump, Some More News, Second Thought, Climate-Town and OCC? Why dont we, old or young, inside Schools or wherever we are, not show people these videos when people put so much effort into even making them fun and accesable?

Hope is the Ultimate Form of Resistance - Annie Leonard People who are profiting off of killing our planet want us to feel hopeless, powerless, and like nothing can be done to improve things. They want us to give up and crawl into a cave of despair so that we give up fighting and advocating for change. The only way we lose, is if we lose hope. Hope is a protest.

The naysayers of the greedy often institutionalized corporate entities do not get to drive people into the ground just yet! Keep going we’re with you 💗 and right behind you

I visit my family in Detroit, Michigan (I’ve actually crossed the bridge into Canada before!) and the amount of pollution, smog, and and heat is so disheartening to see, so I’m extremely happy with this bill being passed. Luckily, this bill could have huge effects globally and maybe encourage other countries to do the same! I don’t think this is a video “for Americans”; I think we all have a lot to learn. Love from Texas ❤

Nothing ever changes

It won't really matter, unless the rest of the world starts to care.

@@rinleez That's depressingly real. Luckily the world won't end if it's a little warmer, it will just be different. It's easy to forget that.

Haha you are raising a weak loser. Have fun having late night convos about bullies and his sexuality. HahahahahHahahahah man you people are the problem.

@@iananderson5972 The world will be different but its those differences which really matter for human habitability. In particular the changes in ambient humidity are quite concerning as that will continue to push the wet bulb temperatures further into the danger zone for longer period of time rendering parts of the world unsurvivable to humans. As humans our thermoregulatory solution of sweating is a pretty rare innovation and that appears to be partly because in a hot house Earth climate it doesn't work as hot air often contains to much water vapor for evaporative cooling to work as a scalable solution for an organism with our high metabolic rates. Another really concerning aspect has to do with the consequences of increased availability of carbon dioxide on plants as while this can lead to "increased plant growth" in a naive sense research has shown that vital mineral nutrients don't respond in the same way meaning the plants ability to structurally support themselves and produce essential vitamins and sequestered minerals remains more or less the same. Ultimately the alarming observation is that this results in plants becoming increasingly less nutrient dense and thus less able to sustain us and other complex life without proportionally scaling the amount of food we need to be able to consume. Its also been warned by scientists that much of the hoped reduction of greenhouse gas emissions depend son technology that doesn't yet exist and which there are no guarantees said technologies will ever be able to work as advertised on scale. Its because of these and other impacts that we can't afford to settle for just dealing with the changes we will need to take action to dismantle the systems which stifle our ability to respond and adapt due to the short term financial interests of the top less than 1%. Research does seem to show that most people are at least somewhat concerned the problem stifling our ability to respond is institutional as the political economic systems we have today are built around the fossil fuel industry.

nobody has told you anything, but thanks for pushing the change you believe in. never change

Just in case it doesn't get said enough, very proud of you and your classmates for doing this. Stuff like this is how we make the world better from the ground up, so big thank you from this random internet stranger ♥

Thank you for making a difference!! When people say that every little bit doesn't count, then everyone stops trying and those "little bits" stop adding up to big change.

This is awesome!!! Sucks they didn’t let you know lmao but I’m glad your push did something!

Thats really cool:) in high school i collected the school's recycling when they weren't doing it and put it all in the trash, and after i left they started doing it. Not to discredit them but that was to comply with ca state though

Sad part is it helps hybrids just as much. And that will probably slow down true electric vehicle development and sales, because old manufacturers can still just put small and cheap batteries in their combustion engine cars and get the full reward.

THIS. I used to say I really wanted a self-driving car, but what I really want (and most everyone I've spoken to about it) is a clean, safe, reliable, and accessible public transit system. What little public transit this country has is usually under-funded and overcapacity, which means it isn't particularly clean or safe, who knows how much longer it will work, and it tends to be either inconvenient to use or straight up inaccessible to disabled people. Cheonggyecheon in Seoul turned a major highway into a public park and overhauled their transit system, and it's resulted in a cooler city with cleaner air, fewer cars and so LESS traffic, and brought it millions in tourism dollars. We need to rethink everything about our country.

And not just commuter rail, but deprivitize rail so that it can run at all hours not just peaks.

I can't stop thinking about this, and about how Musk's Hyperloop ploy (which is stalling and going nowhere) was designed to halt California's highspeed rail development. It's no mistake that efficient (and therefore more ecologically and energy friendly) public transportation is seen as threat to the auto industry, both traditional petrol and electronic, a very much private for-profit system integrated with our decaying road infrastructure (all the new and good roads are tolled). This country is overrun by corporate interest and the climate bill isn't escaping that.

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Yeah, on the list of videos that I expect to make me tear up.... this wasn't one of them.

A very informative video about this Climate Bill: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7x0f7Woy7-veYk.html (The WORST Climate Bill That Has Ever Passed? (w/ David Sirota))

i think we're doing just fine.

I went back to watch that part again and laugh at it, and Hank actually says "we are smarter than them" without qualifiers. It's "passing broad-based industrial policy with a focus on clean energy" where we're only **barely** better than cyanobacteria. (2:18) Which. Yeah. That significant increase in intelligence is only weakly correlated to effective long-term decision making in our governments. (but there **is** a positive correllation! we are intelligent and we can use that to make the world more awesome. it's just a matter of putting in the work)

@@polyanima Given that the cyanobacteria never passed a bill like this, and we just barely managed to do so, yeah, I'd say that holds up. But to any Congress-people thinking of running on a slogan of "more effective at legislating than a bacterium", well, you might want to workshop that a bit more.

@@Tim3.14 - "Given that the cyanobacteria never passed a bill like this" Counterpoint - the cyanobacteria didn't _need_ to pass a bill like this, and still managed to make it through just fine. If we _are_ past the tipping point and this is too-little-too-late, we may still actually fail because we're dumber than cyanobacteria. Would we truly be "smarter" just because we've developed the mental capacity to realize we're screwing ourselves over, but then do it anyway?

I think it's a compliment to cyanobacteria!

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what country, if you don't mind me asking? i'm curious and want to know more!

These are such good questions, commenting to bump this

Yes, the bill will actually drive down US emissions by a good amount. It’s not only going to produce a lot of cheaper green energy, but it involves investments in clean manufacturing. It’s also about making electric vehicles, solar panels, and heat pumps more affordable.

commenting to boost this bc it's a very good point

You are raining on the self congratulatory parade - I think you won’t get an answer because there isn’t one. Nothing we are going to do is going to stop China and India from developing and polluting further.

There's what's called the learning curve, where the cost of producing something goes down at a steady rate as you double production of it. With solar power it's like 21%. It's why Germany requiring (then expensive) solar power in 2009 caused a lot of solar to get built and deployed, which made new solar now cheaper, for everyone globally. And this bill is going to just push that trend even further, by A LOT. So solar will be more cost competitive in India, and Indonesia, and China, and Vietnam, and Mexico, etc. And the same, at different learning curves, goes for wind and batteries. Which means those places will also speed up decarbonization of their power sectors because it'll just make economic sense for them whether they make their own policies or not.

tbh I hope his name is in textbooks in 20 years.

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Lol crying? Oh geez

Yeah... sorry dude, this is not for climate, AT ALL, still the transition is gonna fome one way or another, well run out of fossils eventually: "For instance, fossil fuel companies that are already posting record profits could benefit massively from the part of the legislation that requires drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Alaska. Another potential boon is the bill's mandate that oil and gas lease sales be held before the federal government can greenlight new solar and wind development Such provisions have drawn the ire of climate organizations that argue the bill's sizable renewable energy spending could be undermined by its promotion of new fossil fuel production and reliance on industry-backed faux solutions." But hey, now you'll definitely vote democrat, no matter Hunter Biden, FBI used as political weapon or Biden Provoked war in you know where.

​ @Juan Pablo Sanchez Aveleyra How can you possibly think that after watching this? Go watch Hank's interviews with Jesse Jenkins. This bill went through a lot of transformations and was cut down, but it's absolutely 100% a climate bill. And as was said repeatedly, the point of the bill is not to de-incentivize oil & gas, but to incentivize clean energy. Yes it's not perfect, but it's also totally short-minded to think we can just stop fossil fuel production, and it has been well explained why it isn't happening in this bill either. It BARELY passed as is, do you really think it would have passed if it was trying to reduce fossil fuel production as well? (I cannot tell you how relieved I am that we're finally putting money back into nuclear energy.) Also, I'm not voting either, I'm Canadian. I just have to painfully watch on as the USA makes stupid decision after stupid decision. Like it or not, your global footprint is huge and if this type of legislation does not pass I kind of do think the world is doomed. This isn't about Republican or Democrat, except for the obvious fact that a climate bill simply would never pass under a Republican government.

@@hawkmore Oh yes, but it's not reducing Fossil fuels production, it is increasing it, and giving it priority over the renewables. More like restricting them over the condition of producing more fossil fuels. And that was exactly the point of this legislation, to appeal to liberals and environmentalists when Bidens popularity was so low. But this was not a political or partisan bill, it benefits both sides and it benefits oil industry. This bill would have passes with Republican or Democrat president, that's why it's not even called environmental or renewable bill, it's inflation reduction bill.

Know Hbomberguys Climate-Coverage?

It’s definitely not all good news in this bill. Hundreds of billions go to things that are just massive wastes of money. And as an “inflation reduction” bill it is estimated to ever so slightly INCREASE inflation overall. So yay clean energy incentives, but boo EV tax credits and doubling the size of the IRS for 6 times its current budget.

@@mynameismatt2010 climate change infrastructure is not a waste of money, and even if it increases inflation in the short term, in the long term the millions of jobs it will create will reduce it. That’s exactly how the Great Depression was solved, and we are in no Great Depression.

@@Natibe_ Right, but there is literally no benefit short or long term to the tax credits from an EV transition standpoint. The fundamental bottleneck on EVs short term is getting enough supply period, putting limits on where the supply comes from only raises costs for the manufacturer as they try to qualify their products for the credit. Beyond just that, there is not enough global supply to provide the battery minerals to meet EV demand in the next 7-10 years, so to mitigate long lead times manufacturers will have to raise prices, so the consumer price for EV's ends up getting artificially inflated over the next 10 years, without accelerating consumer adoption one bit. That may be worthwhile if it leads more car manufacturers to invest more in EV technologies, but the structure of the bill actually incentives continuing to invest in hybrids, which are just slightly more efficient gas cars. Not only that but it provides a massive barrier to entry for new car companies to try to come out with their own EV's. If the point of the tax credit was to hinder the transition the EVs while looking like a good thing, it's structured perfectly, but if it was to actually help advance EVs it fails on every count. This bill basically cements Tesla as the only American car manufacturer that will still be in business in a decade, while the rest will all be Chinese.