Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do
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By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year. In the tropical zones, millions suffer from famine and resource wars have made millions more flee to the north. As things quickly get worse, in an act of desperation, the world's governments decide to enact an emergency plan...
It is far from certain that a grim scenario like this will play out. But the failure of world leaders to effectively address climate change, makes it far from impossible.
So in the near future it might become necessary to try something radical to slow down rapid climate change: Geoengineering. Interventions so massive in scale that they might undo centuries of human behavior. Or make everything much worse.
What is geoengineering, is it really an option and what if it goes wrong?
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Lol
6 hours ago pretty nice
How was this 7 hours ago
WE LOVE YOUR CHANNEL
how is this 7 hours ago
"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"
Who said this? Wonderful quote, especially in context.
Quantum realm
@@nishit7147 I think it's a slight variation of a milton Friedman quote
Simply don't do anything 😆 no problem no solution
CGP Grey, in a video about Brexit
"The sun is a deadly laser." "Not anymore, there's a blanket."
🤣🤣🤣
omg i remember bill wurtz
i could hear this comment
Scp 001 but u will survive
“We could make a religion out of this”
It’s sad that such a interesting possible solution is actually portrayed as scary (mostly) because politicians might just use it as an excuse to be idiots for another 10 years and screw everything up again.
Fucking politics
If currency and borders didnt exist this wouldnt be an issue but people love being over valued more than others so that's the world and just how itl b till it ends no way would ppl give up borders now
It seems like every country has more than 1 crappy politicians
@@nydeatha9220 "Well guys, if we just decided to go back to being tribal, life would be so good!!" Average anarchist logic lmao
@@JoeJoeOfficial sez u
Imagine messing up so much, that one of the solutions is to possibly make things worse.
I love how they have a playlist called "The existential crisis playlist"
😳
It’s nothing compared to Exurb1a
@@asuhdude3510 it does not
@Ardi Sugiarto whats 9+10? 21 you stupid
Wait wha-
"Do you like to gamble?" "Why you ask?" "Would you like to gamble on a planetary scale?"
Our governments: I trust you with every cell of my body
I raise the every living beings soul. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraise?
We're already doing that. Reminder that your great grandparents were born into a mass extinction event. This is just a counter-gamble.
@@NotOneToFly this guy perceives. Capitalism is literally gambling incarnate and for some reason a stack of money can be more successful making an income than a human being. Its a gamble staying the fuck alive is what it is, who knows when they'll test the next mustard gas
to people who disliked: ur a poopyhead
I feel the biggest problem is none of these changes that are a tad annoying, but a really big one: sulfuric acid droplets raining from the sky.
Yep and "Making Sunsets" are releasing it right now. They have a channel on here. It wont end well...
FRY: This snow is great, thank god global warming never happened LEELA: Actually it did, but luckily nuclear winter canceled it out
"Humanity might press the self-desctruct button" Dammit, I always knew putting the "Fix the planet" and "Bring the sun to Paris" buttons next to each other was a bad idea!
Oh, I have a button for a giant gamma ray burst... don’t ask how I am keeping it stasis I just am
Well done comrade
Just wait till October 23 2077 and see who is launching now...
Fun Fact : Neptune orbits the Sun once every 165 years. Hence, it has orbited the Sun only once since it was discovered. ― Edu ASTRONOMY
Reference to a video lol
“Geoengineering a stupid idea we might do” Me: yeah that sounds like humans to me
*Fossil Fuels have entered the chat*
I mean the entire humanity progress is based on doing stupid things and learning from them
"Geoengineering, a practice that's already done daily". Wake up.
Aww, now they are threating whole planets with their ignorance! They grow up so quickly!
@@youneskasdi except we never actually learned from them
I saw this an year ago. And watching it again now. The quality of videos you made are actually so good that pass the test of the time easily and stay relevant.
We really need to have countries around the world get much stricter about protecting the wellbeing of Earth from greedy and careless company figures.
How is this so low in the comments?
Yes
We just need to drop a giant ice cube in the ocean every now and then.
How will that fix it?
@@Ziad3195 that's a joke.
What if the ice cube melts and then we have rise in sea levels
@@duk8227 uh what?
Was that a futureama reference?
"Ever since 2063 we simply drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then"
Futurama?
@@alex9920iasi Yep
Nice reference.
That's how you get sea level rise lana
@@appa609 nah cause were do you think they got the water to freeze from
Cities should also be considered reflective surfaces. We need trees and grass to absorb heat which gets to put into making the earth richer and atmosphere cooler. The real solution would be to get back to natural living instead of these natural balance hindering "solutions".
The smartest comment in this comment section and only 8 seem to have acknowledged it.
what do you mean by "natural living" are we supposed to go back into caves, work on crop fields manually, and ditch modern medicine so people can die at the age of 40 again?
@@faustinpippin9208 Our grandparents lived well over 100 years without modern medicine and they were not exceptional in that regard. That life span has been in relatively some regions like the wild west, etc but that was not the global experience for a long, long time. I did not mean going back to caves but we should prioritize natural methods for various sectors like agriculture. If you don't know what that means, you can check out the daisy creek farms channel. I ate rural, proper rural grown foods 30 years ago and modern foods are tasteless in comparison. We don't live in the utopia some of like to think and many of the solutions lie in long overlooked old methods.
@@SplendidTruth you see all these grandparents who lived 100 years but you dont see all their friends who died 60 year earlier from stupid diseases that today are bearly an inconvince , moder medicine is a must be. Some stupid guy in Sir Lanka also had a great idea to make agriculture more natural and now see how they ended up.
@@faustinpippin9208 They ended up that way because of corrupt politicians. Anyway, you don't get the point. Bye.
This is probably the most scary and disturbing episode yet. Just the idea that we can potentially create a time-bomb that can either save our planet or doom it beyond repair
Well we already created the time bomb. It's just a question of whether we turn that (oil/coal) time bomb off or make a different time bomb to try to defuse the first one.
I wouldn’t mind birds taking over our government
Heck they're even doing better than we are lol
KURZGESAGT DUCK 2020
Second I’m a fan
Only way left to save our planet 🌍
Totally
Kurzgesagt: an adorable way to tell you something terrifying.
Always
Honestly this comment is just Kurzgesagt in a nutshell
@@tovahnvitols7614 that is a perfect response my man
ACCURATE .
At least they're not lying 🤔 I like brutal honesty 😂
After watching one video I have a playlist with them and I'm subscribed with notifications. The only thing that I'm sad about is that I didn't watch one of those videos a year ago, when they popped up in my suggestions. Should have. One love ❤️
I see a beautiful blue sky about every week to ten days and can’t spot but a few planes on those days.The rest of the days are filled with magic ice crystals from planes crossing the sky in criss cross patterns.
As everyone knows: If you turn cheats on, achievements remain off
only on bedrock edition but then again, java doesn't have achievements
@Keshav Tekkalur cheap rip-off
Well Doom Eternal says otherwise
In Java you can just /advancement grant @s everything XD
@@oliverm1255 you know what is also a cheap ripoff? Bedrock edition
The sun is a deadly lazer Not anymore there’s a blanket
We miss you Bill Wurst!
I get that
Genius
Geo engineering is just adding additional blankets to prevent the deadly laser becoming deadly again
Bruh the Death Star is jealous of the sun
This video was a rollercoaster.. The whole time I was like "Then do it!" To "No wait, don't do it, don't do it.."
Oh they're already doing it, its why we have droughts, earthquakes, etc... They aren't trying to help, its a hoax.
I love how Kurzgesagt started the video by showing Interstellar Cooper’s home and his corn field :)
Scientist: "There's too much CO2 and it's heating up the planet." Engineer: "Well then gentlemen it's settled..." Scientist: "Yes, we need to switch our energy production over to-" Engineer: "We have to get rid of the sun!"
XD
BLOW IT UP!
I love this comment so much!
Well the Engineers job is to make the scientists invention work. Sometimes stuff irl doesn't go as was planned in the lab. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@csfelfoldi what.... Like blowing up the sun?
Anyone else thinking: “huh, so THIS is how we get all those post apocalyptic wastelands.”
Mad max wasteland (or any post-apocaliptic universe) intensifies
Yeah, pretty much.
That's the plot of snowpiercer
@@carchagassky actually mad max really seems like it but everyone says it's a nuclear war
Exactly my thoughts.
This reminds me of the movie "Stormpiercer" where governments try to stop climate change by dumping chemicals in the atmosphere and accidentally freeze the whole planet.
Fyi, it's "Snowpiercer" lol
Stormpiercer sounds like a Chinese knockoff
Climate Engineering is intimately connected to The Manhattan Project. Lowell Wood who a top cheerleader for Geoengineering is the US's top weapons expert, owner of the most Patents in the US, former employee of Livermore Labs, Current Employee of Epstein connected Gates Owned Intellectual Ventures along side Caldera is a protege of Teller.
Also _The Matrix_
0:28 Venice citizens be like: Look, that’s me over there!
"And it would be quite cheap to do" Every country: "I aint paying, u pay"
While every other country: "just let Trump pay for it!"
Fr
The opposite is actually what experts are worried about! It's so cheap just about any nation (or individual multi-billionaire) can afford to do it unilaterally!
no u pay
it would be dirt cheapt for country level bugets. We are talking millions
Right so I know it's about the extinction event and all but I can't help but crack up when I see adorable birds talking about the apocalypse
Why are you here?
Why aren’t you verified?
Me: I keep seeing wifies commenting on every new mumbo and grian video. Me: *sees wifies comment* seems normal... Me: realises this is kurzgesagt Me: wait WHAT
true
True 2020 has put this in the basket but only the bad parts
The person searching "get smart fast" on the computer and then "BRILLIANT" popping up is a pretty great way to explain what it does. I love these videos.
Something we might have to admit to doing for decades.
“Oh no zone” That got me
Oh Zone layer
OH YEAH!! *Kool aid guy comes out of laptop*
PUN CITY!!!!
Sooooo funy
~Oh no, Zone-kun!
"This experiment is about to get really exciting" such a casual yet threatening sentence in this context
German channel
That’s true and funny
The one that cause the weather in my place would be trails. Whenever it showed up, the rain pattern will be messy. long drought with very intense rain. Good thing cemenite can reduce it so I get more rain with less intensity.
5:07 I can't be the only one who saw that
Careful, if we overdo it we might have to end up packing all the remaining survivors on earth including Chris Evans onto a giant train that goes around the world once a year
And/or Jennifer Connelly.
Then all the poor people will be forced to live in the slums of the caboose and eat cockroach bars all day
You dirty tailies
ohno.
Is this a movie?
So basically: "I used the climate change to destroy the climate change."
or, if it goes wrong, "if you cant beat 'em, join 'em" this is morbid
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be
You know, I'm something of a climate change myself.
Win - Win situation.
Bruh
It stuns me when people freak out about planes potentially spraying things into the sky, yet if you add up the number of vehicles running day by day, is how much itself being blown into the air. Or freaking out about birds running into windmills, when how many things are hit by vehicles? Near anything that migrates and water to boot. Or that you have to literally destroy everything in the path to make a road amount to how many more things than a few birds? How an people be so short-sighted or inconsiderate.
Why are the solutions always worse than the problem?
this video was like 📈📉📈📉📈📉
STONKS
@@7OwlsWithALaptop super
More like 📈📉📉📉📉📉📉📈📉📉📉📉📉📉
Kurzgesagt At This Point Is Like A News Channel To Me, Reminding That Both My Daily Actions Are Useful(Switching Off Electronics When Not In Use, Use Air Conditioner As Less As Possible, Categorize And Sort My Trash For Recycling, Using Recycling Bags To Prevent Use Of Plastic Bags, Using Public Transportation And Etc.) And Useless(Because Not Everyone Is Doing The Same As Me, Especially The Governments).
Stop the spoilers dude
"And this experiment is about to get really exciting" Us: *Nervous laughter* that's uh, one way to put it.
if 'exciting' means witnessing something we have never seen before, then yeah, it is about to get as exciting as it can.
No es bueno la politica
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The global climate is such a ridiculously complex system that any attempt to modify without a complete understanding of how it works would result in an even greater climate catastrophe than what we are currently experiencing.
Climate change is a hoax. Wake up.
Watch some other Kurz videos. We're modifying the climate either way. Need to choose when to stop doing that.
Climate change is hoax
7:02 I wonder why we dont understand it enough yet
Kurzgesagt trying to not make people anxious: impossible
"Patrolling the mojave really makes you wish for a nuclear winter" never felt so.... relatable.
Fallout New Vegas ❤️
oh those ncr
Mojave
I mean, a few H nukes in an active volcano will instantly stop climate change. The aftermath in a few years is another thing XD
😂 I miss fallout NV
When the scientist bird sprayed his work off the board I actually felt really sad lol
Same lol
Same 😢
Same :(
Being called a nerd hurts
lolz, it's because of how Geo-engineering is only a temporary measure. We would never do it unless things start to look desperate.. because if we were to use it for anything other than to quickly take proper climate change measures seriously, it would be a waste of time and kill us all in the long run.
Has anyone ever pointed out all the different things the monkey does/eats in the intro? I Love that!
I remember the blizzard of '93 vividly. I never made the connection before, but I suspect we had Pinatubo to thank for that!
imagine if this is the actual reason venus has a sulfur atmosphere, a failed attempt to save their own dying world?
Stop you're giving me an existential crisis
@@cylnder you came to watch a kurtzgasagt video..
What if the aliens people claim to see are actually the people that used to inhabit venus before destroying it with greenhouse gases? It's absurd, I know, but it would still be a very fascinating concept.
@@atlasmailbot4633 if they have been around as long as venus has been a hellhole and capable of space travel why haven't they just moved in to earth or colonized mars, or built cloud cities, or rotating space habitats. it's a fun idea but highly unrealistic.
@@atashgallagher5139 well if you take us humans as an example, we are capable of space travel but still haven't done any planet hopping but are well on the way to destroying the planet.
Kurzgesagt's animation just went to a whole other level. That shot from surface to underwater was superbly done and just...wow. Never ceases to amaze me
timestamp?
@@Ayframes 5:33
@@Ayframes 5:19
@Fan Dara Thai No 🥰
Yeah I agree - it even had the parallaxing and correct 3D horizonline. Fucking masterful animators.
good video to revisit with the recent ocean temps *maybe* being cause due to cargo ships not releasing sulfur dioxide in the air
Pls do a video on the other thing you mentioned at the start, the fertilizing the oceans part. Would there be any downsides etc?
Someone: Let's put SO2 in to the atmosphere to cool it down Every chemist: PLZ DONT
Yeah that might lead to sulfuric acid rain... not a fun situation...
Well it kinda worked before, millions of tons of sulphur dioxide were released due to the devastation and fires caused by WW2 and it caused a global cooling effect for about 20yrs afterwards. Obviously I'm not saying this is the ideal solution but it is a solution of sorts
@@DjDolHaus86 when you consider the trade off of having acid rain that kills crops(agriculture) and the subsequent famine, I doubt you would even consider it a solution
@@chronyx685 They literally mention scientists wanted to explore other options first
Every calcium carbonate structure in the world: PLZ DONT
Boy, the chemtrails people are going to loooove this.
pf
I was just thinking this. Word. For. Word.
We told you they were real. Now just think what other "conspiracy theories" are in fact real
@@0Tony1 but if the govt already did it, why is the environment still getting worser? Maybe because they still havent done it. I know the shit of conspiracy theorists.
@@leastbloodthirstyneocon2776 they're not doing it for the right reasons obviously. They've been doing this since the 60s. Experimenting with it. They mostly use it to cause rain but that's all I know from that. Who knows what else HAARP is doing.
What if every home in the world put a mirror in their backyard and reflected sunlight back into space? Yes it would be a small % of surface area, but it would help jn 2 ways. 1. It would reflect a small amount sunlight back into space 2. If placed near your house, it could reduce your power bill by a small %. Reducing our overall power consumption and reducing the amount of co2 we create. The problem im seeing is: A. co2 would still trap a good amount of sunlight in the atmosphere even if reflected. B. The manufacturing of so many mirrors would producing waste and add to co2 initially C. Airplanes would be effected by all the bright reflected lights coming off the ground. So overall, good idea? Or impractical?
I think it is a good concept, but the implementation of solar panels in place of all those mirrors would probably have a better knock on effect in terms of green energy generation than reflecting light!
A more practical option would be white paint. Any roof surface not covered in solar panels should be white.
What my immediate thought is that while redirecting sunlight away from Earth will cool it down, that's still less sunlight getting to Earth, which means less photosynthesis for the plants.
Good point.
I suppose the orbit would have to be controlled so that it cools down key areas? Places with minimal plant life that would still reduce global temps overall?
Could you imagine the conspiracy theories that would arise because of a global air fleet annually spraying something in the sky?
Unfortunately you don't have to imagine, as chemtrailers are already utterly convinced that this is happening.
Sounds like a worldwide concentration camp 🤣
@@lukewalsh5927 ?
@@Ronald98 ?
Oh no! It’s a sky swooper flying through the air spreading weird clouds I’ve never seen before! Quick!! It’s the government trying to kill us- Oh that gosh darn government!! Lol
We should use nuclear testing: 1: its going to remove our dangerous stockpile 2: nuclear winter can balance out global warming 3: this is a joke
As a posadist, I support this 100%
4. I just lied
thanks duo very cool
@@mrducky179 5 Maybe......
@@DaytonAnimates l e l
coming here after hearing the startup "make sunsets" decided to release a bunch of sulfur particles into the atmosphere despite everyone saying they shouldn't, gotta love the world we live in right?
Just stumbled upon your videos; wow, the animation is very well done! Great stuff; keep these videos coming!
"But passive agressive Kurzgesagt dosen't exists, it can't hurt you." Passive agressive Kurzgesagt: 7:20
That’s not passive aggressive, it’s just fact.
@@zephyr5802 definitely has a bit of shade thrown into it against humanity tho lol
Passive aggression is what happens when you're nice for too long and still go unheard. It's very VERY soon going to end up just being regular aggression if thing's don't start changing. I live on this planet, and the fossil fuel industry is trying to kill it, and by extension me. That makes it self defense in my eyes.
"...this experiment is about to get really exciting."
@@Saplingbat The problem with humanity is seeded in our hypocrisy. Take yourself for instance... You likely get all of your food from a grocery store. Probably quite a bit of it is highly processed in big factory's to make it taste better. All that food is delivered on trucks and harvested by tractors. Then you still need to drive to go pick it up from the store! Between growing, processing and getting it to your house its a pretty huge mark up on emissions over say growing your own food on your own property. You likely have a yard in front of your house where you grow a large useless patch of grass. See where I am going here? Instead of buying food from the grocery store we could very easily put in some extra physical effort ourselves to convert our useless lawns into a garden/farmland and make real personal impact on how much emissions you contribute to. Can you imagine how much positive change there would be if every lawn in the world was converted into farm land and gardens? Now, knowing all this, will you go out tomorrow and start converting your lawn into a garden? Nope. Instead you will tell yourself some kind of an excuse to make yourself feel better - some kind of mental gymnastic to assure yourself that its okay for you not to put in that extra effort or sacrifice those extra luxury's. Then its back to buisness as usual. Like water off a ducks back. And pretty much everyone is that way. I am no different. That is why we are fucked.
This video reminds me of a quote “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” I’m wondering why...like really
the same knowledge for nuclear energy(which could help a lot with climate change) is the same knowledge that led us to nuclear weapons. tech is a key but who knows which door it may open
wow ur here
If it's not nuclear war its gonna be a divine intervention
@@Lorachzwan it almost always opens both doors
Woahh didn't know my favourite youtube artist was into geoengineering too! Pleasantly surprised. The awesome art style of kurzgesagt might have something to do with it too. ;)
I like that at 4:46 the bird on the left just puts his head in a big jar.
From someone who is living in the Philippines I didn't know Mt Pinatubo eruption was this destructive on a global scale
I like how cheerfully Kurzgesagt explains that politicians and oil billionaires are killing our planet and literally don’t care. Please don’t change, Kurzgesagt
Hold China accountable for causing a majority of the carbon emissions.
@@SerenityScratch And the US.
@@northwind6199 and India
erm no one cares. i live near quite a big town just 2 and a half miles away. a short distance away really on a bicycle. i would bet my left bollock that at least 3000 people work in the next town. but on a morning you dont see many cyclists. not even in the summer. plus its all bollox anyway. its an excuse to tax us
@@jimmyzoom1143 TF are you talking about? How does cycling relate to the billions of of CO2 particle pumped into the air by corporations due to the apathy of national governments?
You know the video is going to be good when they start on such a depressing tone
Gives it a bit of spice you know?
Yep
@@frames100k2 Auntie huh? If it was your mom i could've done something but since it's your aunt..... Sorry
Intro looked like interstellar
The cat flops in the water glu glu, no more miau miau
All we really need to do is leave a cartoon fridge open-
Government: what do you suggest we do ? Kurgezagt: well you see…
When Kurzgesagt calls something "exciting" it means it's about to get really bad 😅 7:28
😂
I caught myself laughing when they said that. 😂 Oh, doom.
"May you live in interesting times."
They also said 2020 has been "exciting" in a previous video😂
It's like when Fredrik Knudsen says "But things wouldn't stay so simple...for *long."*
when kurzgesagt says "unhappy", we all know it means "could end the world or kill everyone"
science man: uh-oh us: is humanity going to be wiped?
Pretty much. Lol!
Yeah, unhappiness lol
There was idea to gravitationaly anchor dust in space to reduce incoming sunlight too. Harder to do tho
Can’t believe that just 2 years ago it seemed that coal would have stayed competitive for years, but now that renewables and new carbon capture technology is on the rise, we may actually have to avoid all this nasty stuff! ( + we are making things so much more efficient and cost effective, starting to develop environment friendly meat and so much more! Look at how far we’ve gone in just a few years!)
0:00-4:08”omg finally there is hope...” 4:09-9:10 “ yeah well we’re doomed”
Doesn't sulphur dioxide create stupid amounts of acid rains too ?
Don’t worry, the upper-middle-class and the owner-class will be fine. Climate change is everything they could ever hope for. Vast swaths of poor people will die. No more angry workers.
@@ihaventshoweredforayearbut247 it does.
@@hellboy6507 The secret to these rich people, is that they NEED poor people to fund them. Its literally the most important thing for them. They need to keep people alive.
@@hellboy6507 And that never means good news for the one in power. Black death birthed the concept of middle class because people were asking higher wage for what they did since there weren't many people left to do the work.
"We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky." - Morpheus.
My first thought exactly, but the good thing is, we don't need to worry about solar-powered rouge AI anymore.
Yeah, right?! I actually thought this is going to be about a project like the black sky in Matrix. Fortunately it wasn't.
I also immediately thought about that. Cutting off our nose to spite our face seems like a really, really, really bad idea. Focus on alternatives.
You just read my mind!!
Thank you. I literally made the same comment when they released the video on their German channel.
Couldn't they just dump more ozone into the upper atmosphere along with the sulphur particles? I'm pretty sure a lot of industries already produce it as a byproduct
First I think most ozone destructive substances work like a catalytic manner , where they convert the ozone into oxygen while not being consumed itself. So you would need to pump out much much more ozone than the sulfur particles you would pump out. Second ozone is incredibly reactive , as far as I am aware , you need to coat containers with Teflon to prevent it from eroding it , making it dangerous and expensive to capture and store. So it would greatly increase the cost , making it dangerous and impractical
I still can't believe that nobody thought of inventing a way to reverse the burn effect & separate oxygen from carbone
Its called photosynthesis, plants do that... 🥴
Kurzgesagt: "What could go wrong?" Me: starts having flashbacks to the finale of Dinosaurs
Man the whole video is like a teaser for a real life version of this series finale.
How old are vou?
@@nulcear5266 1 million years old.
Or the opening of Snowpiercer.
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This is literally the real equivalent to futureama’s “dropping an ice cube in the ocean”
Thus solving global warming, once and for all... ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!
@@leightonSS55" This message was brought to you by the space Lizard Pope"
But .....ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Damn I miss this show. It's not just a random joke, it's an observation of this whole picture, the urgency of preventing this shit before biased, politically controlled science have to press this kind of buttons. Oh my god i just realised this button is on donaldjoe trumpbidens hands
Draining the oceans would work better. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas. There is on average 50 times as much of it in the atmosphere as CO2. Explain how CO2 is dominant?
OMG the Highlander poster. PERFECT. Exactly what I was thinking about! ⚔
Imagine the surprise on all the Chemtrail believers when suddenly they are told they are right and nobody argues with them any more "I tell you, they spray chemicals up in the sky..." "Yeah, we know that" "... and it will... wait, what?" "Was in the news yesterday, tomorrow they will go for another round"
the world government is a: • knock-off ostrich • triangular penguin • banana-head crow • teacup pretending to be a bird • multicolored tumor
Baana corw 🍌
Don't be racist
@@wilma7612 ?
@@wilma7612 Dont be racist i am a building
@@wilma7612 * Racism rates drops to 0% *
Just amazed at how the animations of Kurzgesagt improved over the years... I still remember how I watched their videos during junior high school for assignments, and looking at it now, it's just a whole new level! Kudos!!!
@Jane Smith Traditional animal agriculture never affected the climate. Instead of grazing on natural grass, cows are now being fed massive amounts of soy, corn, and other crops that have to be farmed... and harvested... and processed... and shipped... and then the meat has to be processed, shipped, refrigerated... which all produces CO2 emissions. The point is, MEAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM. The real domino effect was the global population boom that led to the creation of industrial farming and global food distribution networks. Solution? Just eradicate a few billion people and we're gucci. Covid is doing the best it can, but we need something more effective.
they only act when things get really bad and start seeing the consequences :(
We also need the bottomless pit for ocean clean up. Nano particles cleared by gravity.
You've convinced me humanity will destroy itself in one way or another before 2100.
Let's hope so
@@unclebadger597 Let’s not hope so. I kind of don’t us to go extinct.
@@nihilistpenguin7511 I mean think about it,probably even people 100 yrs ago were sure the world was going to end. I mean,when they invented the "nuclear bomb" what did you think what was running through people minds???
Make it 2050-2060 lol.
it will
"Thus solving the problem once and for all" "But" "ONCE AND FOR ALL"
Havent seen a Futurama reference in years, thanks for that
came here for this comment 😂
@MORE_ELZZZ i will subscribe, but i need you to make just one titanfall video, or even mention the game. Because it is Soooooo underrated. If you play apex it is basically an excuse to talk about titanfall, everyone knows thar
Why not simply create net of ballons that would be connected with sheets of light material. It could block the sun or be partially see through. Water could simply go through pariodical holes in the material. The whole thing could be moved when it is nessesery or taken down and if some ballons where to be damage the whole thing would propably only lower itself down as the lower we get the higher density of the air would be. In theory we could even attach big solar panels on this construction and useit to move it or power something else.
i love the little birds they use in their videos!
"We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know it was us who scorched the sky."
The Matrix is such a great movie
The machines wanted peace according to "The Second Renaissance" in The Animatrix. We refused to give them that peace and they kind of did what they had to.
the matrix is a prophecy
@@solidmood2855 everything is a prophecy if someone actually realized it.
@@CastielVII If you replace "realised" with "misinterpreted" I would agree
I don’t even trust our politicians to do this fully.
politicians right now suck
just dont trust them...its that easy!
@@marselo1316 "right now" always have sucked
Blame China, not us.
@@ScienceDrummer Everyone is guilty of this not just China. You can't just blame China for everything
@0:33 "Don't do it Anakin, I have the high ground."
One thing that Sweden has done is that we have stopped digging for coal, gas and oil in Swedish territory, and we also closed down the burning of coal and oil. we only have nuclear, wind and water to get electricity.
This went wrong in so many movies I've watched
Geostorm
The Matrix
Wouldn't have been a very interesting movie if it didn't.
Snowpiercer
snowpiercer
Then a volcano or two erupts throwing off the calculations compounding the problem in the opposite direction sending us into an ice age.
“Hey Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today”
What an overused jokr
@@georgejoseph759 *joke
*no ferb don't*
Candace must stop them this time😂
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I never thought the phrase "this experiment is about to get really exciting" done in a warm fatherly voice would fill me with such existential dread but here we are. May we stop living in such interesting times.
These climate change morons. They think EVERYONE would be against climate change. Oh how woefully naive. Don't they know that some areas of the planet would only stand to BENEFIT from climate change? Get ready for wars over the global thermostat!
@@TarsonTalon But the areas that benefit will likely have to deal with immigration from all the areas that don't.
@@TarsonTalon and the disruption with the ones that don’t will affect the ones that do, like stated before more immigration, trade disruptions, food disruptions, political rivalry, ecological damage, and many other side affects that makes the countries that do benefit from climate change to not want it to happen either.
Yeah it really brings me dread 😂
@@TarsonTalon Who would benefit from climate change?
Or chalk could be put in the atmosphere. It's cheap, reflective, and there's tons of it.
Based on the number of *ahem* perfectly parallel lines of clouds that appear on a weekly basis now, pretty sure this has already begun…
Im almost positive the movie Snowpiercer explored this.
Yeah
It took me to long to find this.
I saw snowpiercer as more of a commentary on human behaviour and the current political climate, but from what ive seen online, alot of the grim predictions for our future are a pretty accurate worst case scenario if we dont get our shit together. Kinda crazy to think it could be more real that we think
Bong Joon-ho is a legend, everyone and everything that comes from Daegu is destined for success.
Finally found someone who know about that movie 😌