Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated.
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Climate Change is just too much. There is never any good news. Only graphs that get more and more red and angry. Almost every year breaks some horrible record, from the harshest heat waves to the most rapid Glacier melt. It’s endless and relentless.
We have known for decades that rapid Climate Change is being caused by the release of Greenhouse Gases. But instead of reducing them, in 2019 the world was emitting 50% more CO2 than in the year 2000. And emissions are still rising. Why is that? Why is it so hard to just stop emitting these gases?
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Daily remainder that 100 companies are responsable for 71% of all carbon emission, and as long as those companies can buy their way into congress, nothing will change
Most of them are from China and India who don’t have a similar government system to America and can’t really be bought into, especially in China.
These companies serve people, with necessities. Stop them and you'll just have now 71% of the people without energy - in other words, people in Middle Ages. Simple to understand, not to solve.
Ok so I'm going to guess that they're a few oil companies in that top 100. You can't run a modern economy without oil, including the feeding the population part. Without oil you have one modern agriculture and the vast majority of people starves. Is that a viable solution? Saying things like "but the top 100 companies" is counter productive because it's too big, ill-defined and you can't disentangle the parts we could make positive change from the parts we need to live.
*reminder and *responsible
ok commie
Kurzgesagt in a Nutshell in a nutshell: 1. Add science 2. Add world ending possiblities 3. Add ducks 4. Kill most of the ducks
Yep that’s about it
Birds*
Kurzgesagt in a nutshell in a nutshell in a nutshell: 1: basically correct
5. Be very casual about possibility of world ending
*REPEAT*
POV: You are a teen witnessing mass extinction, wishing you could lead a peaceful life where the biggest stressor is whether your crush likes you back or not. With every temporary side stressor in your life, one remains permanent and keeps getting worse; and it is a stressor for which you are not to blame.
Yeah we're currently in the midst of the 6th mass extinction.
This is true facts… I’m not the one to blame, I’m put into it, I already got over crush thing, and peaceful life? Nah how bout some good ol climate change and desert weather all across where I live :D
Yeah pretty much.. and then you have the factor that none of the adults will do anything (atleast most of them) so we have to do something.. but oh wait they won't listen to us.. soooo we will make jokes about it because we are terrified but no ones still doing anything
I hate this mindset. Sure youre not the direct cause, but you cant complain when you are giving money to the people causing it. If all the sane people took a stand and protested, by not giving these rich assholes anymore money, then we would be on our way to solve the problem. But all everyone wants to do is shove the blame on someone else, and then forget about the issue entirely because "thats how it is". Its not too late if all of us act now
@@bohdankim381 uhhh, it's not as simple as just boycotting buddy. Whole systems are based on infrastructures with enormous carbon emissions, and boycotting (putting aside how unrealistic a goal that is) sadly won't help with that.
"more people, more CO² emissions" Guess I'll die
it may sound morbid, but the covid-19 crisis... kinda (numbers not very much not so clear) helped the number to stop growing for a while.. The shit still rising up and the effects the constant pumping of co2 have started to show, (which in effect, it also gave some motivation to some companies, not great but better late than ever i guess.) but yes, as morbid as it sound, the pandemic gave us just a bit of time. . Two new variants called "lambda" and the stupid but cleverly named "Delta plus" just showed up in the world, which that it still could help us in some way despite still being a tragedy.. But that doesn't mean that we need to depend on these virus to take the people out, we still need to act out before the population starts rising up again (which, yeah it will rise up sooner or later.) and pressure the companies to act faster..
@@Opossum_queenSo we get a bad thing like the pandemic, and we get more time to solve a bigger problem, climate change, cool I’m up for that if it means I don’t have to be in constant 90 degree weather in California’s desert like areas.
@@JonathanB139 I mean, yeah? But even if a bad thing helps offset or helps buy time against the other more bigger bad thing, they both still bad things in the end. The pandemic helped us a bit against climate change, yes of course. but it took the life’s of a lot of people as well, i do hope that the variants help us to stay in contingency, the moment during the pandemic where it helped the most, but yes, even if it helps us for a while.. they both still bad things
@@Opossum_queenYes, if we can keep the pandemic at bay and prevent contagion/deaths, it could be seen as a good thing or at least a delay when climate change is brought in.
@@CSR_mufc Exactly. But its not really the amount of kids that are being born. Birth rates are actually declining. The problem is that people are living longer lives because of the new and improved health care systems. People are living (and wanting to live) longer. And, I'm sorry, but this is greedy. Taking resources away from the younger generation so older ones can live is crude and stupid.
Absolutely incredible that KZhead slapped a Shell ad on this video.
What is a shell ad ?
@@shybanoo7110 An advertisement for the oil company Shell
@@alecbowman4873 noice
KZhead's ad choice is strange. Their ads are contradictory to the content in the video. For example, on debunking videos I get ads about 5G conspiracies and I get ads from fossil fuel companies on videos about climate change. I don't know why KZhead's choice of ads are so contradictory.
@@northernskies86 It’s the algorithm that selects the ads is pooling all related terms to the video title (I.e climate change, oil, global warming, petrol / 5G, radio towers, radiation, conspiracy theory) and is failing to filter out the good ads from all the shit. Or it’s actually completely pre determined by KZhead and the powers that be behind the corporate behemoth that is Google. With how the world is right now, I don’t know which one is true anymore
Who would have thought me being poor and single is saving the earth.
Sadly not all are like that. I'm gonna stay single I guess for as long as possible
@@pauloazuela8488 what if you could find a mate that makes you happy AND lived as sustainably as they could like you portend (not prentend, portend is a real word) to? Radicalism will get us nowhere as a species btw because it's just not practical.
Being single is worse for the environment as you and someone else have to duplicate effort for cooking etc So get out there, find a partner, and do your bit to save the world
@@club2772 It kinda is for me. Since we're way tol many people right now and we have alot of environmental issues until then I might postpone it.
@@dmt472 how can repopulation could save the world whereas we are near at population threshold
Fox News: "And they're trying to shut down our power plants, stop our economic growth, cause disruption!!" The scientist who just suggested that we stop building new fossil fuel plants: "Wha-"
Fox News should be shut down.
if America goes this route with China sticking to carbon emissions America is screwed and communism influences North America, the reasoning for this is simple, China’s economy will see a significant amount of growth while the us economy stagnates. There will be a whole new Great Depression from the change and China will take advantage
@@charwalker157 THIS CAN'T BE ABOUT POLITICS ANYMORE!! The UN report yesterday says that we have 20 YEARS to change something. Yet here we are, fighting about whether communism or capitalism or democrat or republic is better. In the end, it doesn't matter; this affects everyone. We have to set aside politics to stop climate change.
Nauman. If China does not get on board and we do the economy is screwed. The stagnation will be 100 time worse than the covid depression. And there is no doubt that China will take advantage of that and expand communist ideals to the west
@@burgerfanman also about the “20 years” thing, in 2000 the un said we had 12 yeas left, are we gone? No it was a false warning as is this one
If Covid taught us one thing, it’s that when the world directs its focus and resources to a solution, you can come up with an amazing solution like the vaccine in a short amount of time. Imagine what we could do if we put the same energy into other issues. We can do this! We just have to care enough and pour our hearts into it and we will shock ourselves at our own potential
The vaccine is a joke
@@BakaryD Just go
@@BakaryD Yeah and you have a better solution?
@@BakaryD You're a joke with no solution to the problem
Since covid, there have been more conflicts whether geopolitical, political or social rather than cooperation. It was because of the motivation of profit that the vaccine appeared so fast and so far fighting climate change has been the opposite of being profitable.
meanwhile in Australia: current prime minister holds lump of coal in parliament shouting "It's coal! it can't hurt ya!" recently followed up with "gas will be the transition fuel!" yeah.. we're didgeridoomed.
...I know this is terrible and all, but didgeridoomed is hilarious. One of our USA senators brought snow into congress once in 2015 as proof there's no climate change. Even so, there are some changes happening, and while they are slow, I think we still have some kind of a chance. Hope you're doing good.
Australia is didgeridoomed and America is Amerifucked
Didgeridoomed - the best Aussie quote I’ve heard!
don't worry, your government has locked you peons down so you can't hurt yourselves.
Yes and lots of Australian watch Sky News Australia and have their heads filled with climate change denial bullshit.
Basiclly the whole world is delaying their "homework" to tommorow
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More like not preparing for the final exams, when the final exams come, we will be like "oh shit..". I guess we will just get wiped out in horrifying ways.
the problem is that it was actually due yesterday. our teacher doesn't punish us immedeately though, so we don't have a good reason to submit it in time.
Until the assignment was due yesterday and we all fail because of it... by fail I mean die.
More like, delaying for someone else. The greed is killing our lives. Enough said. Greed seemed like the answer.. turned out, it was DEATH.
"Who wants change?" [Everybody raises their hand] "Who wants to change?" [Nobody raises their hand]
shutup KAREN !
@@thethinkingman- wtf
@@thethinkingman- bruh?
true
Watch their new video "can you fix climate change?"
As soon as the permafrost in Alaska and Siberia started melting, it was too late. At that point, even if we stopped all CO2 emissions. Stopped all the cars, trains, ships, non-renewable power plants, it was too late. From that point on, we had to start pulling more CO2 from the air than we add to it. That was 5 years ago and we have done nothing to reduce the amount of C02 added to the atmosphere to negative values. Is it too late? It's many years too late and politicians have no desire to upset their pay masters.
Is it too late to stop climate change? Kurzgesagt: Yesn’t
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@@DarrensGeneralInfo spamer
Yes, but you're not allowed to look at any solutions outside of capitalism because it would make Bill Gates sad.
@@rempuia69 there goes my life
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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.” -the Lorax
Yeah
you got 54likes in4 minutes
Not enough unfortunately. Today it's “Unless all of you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
Ok guys
Fun fact: Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest I have made a video dedicated to fun facts
As a human living in tropical country, i can say that it gets hotter and hotter every year. (I'm an Indonesian citizen, so it's obvious)
I’m lucky I live inland and by lakes, but I’ve noticed the amount of snowfall is decreasing, there’s more flash storms, and of course, it’s getting hotter.
It's also pretty obvious in the Pacific Northwest.
@Lion Pro ur country is gonna be underwater soon also lol
As a human living slightly north of you (Singapore but Malaysia gets it even worse), we’d appreciate it if you (or rather farmers in your country) would stop burning forests every other year, because then the heat isn’t the biggest problem.
We are having too many citizen (im indonesian too) 270 million people living in Indonesia, and too many of them is using cars and motorbikes.
I remember Elon musk said something on the Joe Rogan podcast that stuck with me. Somewhere along the lines of "We'll be able to slow climate change, but we can't have that mindset otherwise we won't try"
I remember this too thanks for reminding
Elon musk is a con artist
Elon Musk is part of the problem lol
We need 7 billion views on this.
Sadly the KZhead algorithm is big on spreading conspiracy theories
@Grant Stevenson it’s true
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI I feel down that pipeline before, and it took a long time of self reflection to realize I was tricked by the recommendations algorithm
0.06% of 7 billion have
perhaps 8 and counting
As a biomedical researcher I have recently read about research which tries to combat plastic waste pollution through directed evolution. Directed evolution is a process where proteins are changed in the laboratory over and over again to become much more efficient to do certain things. In this case, scientists are trying to make PET-digesting enzymes more effective in digesting plastic waste and they are actually quite successful (I'm planning a video about that if you are interested). Although this is only a tiny part of the overall solution, I think that innovative research might save us from the current climate change crisis!
Yeah i read that too. This might be more of a curse than a blessing however. Plastics are used extremely commonly exactly because it does not get degraded by bacteria. If this would not be the case plastic might become far less useful, imagine your computer or telephone falling apart and those are just small things. It might not be smart playing god with evolution.
Maybe the first thing is to innovate and change our ways we get and spend energy , then we can proceed to other ones or both but you know even making people aware of it is already hard enough what more if we talk about these?
one of the coolest things I've read in this comment section! I'm interested in that video
Oh damn thats cool!
Doesn’t that mean plastic will rot?
I think when people ask if it's too late they are wondering if it really matters what we still could do, or if tipping points (permafrost, fires, amount of clouds reflecting heat back to earth...) are already beyond the point of no return and catastrophe is unavoidable. I hope that gets answered in the coming episodes.
The problem is that if we decide to make "little" changes that's nothing in comparison with the big factories contamination :((
My headcannon: the voice of kurzgesagt is a bird watcher from the future who has traveled to the past to try to save his favorite species
Wind turbines (supposedly good for the environment) kill millions of birds every year.
@@serenityssolace I believe fossil fuel power plants kill even more, though, so it's still a net benefit.
@@serenityssolace Actually they kill far less birds than windows do. If you want to save birds, cover up all your windows and vote for banning windows from houses.
Steve Taylor is a Bird?
@@Fuffzehn If that's true, then we should just do that
"The best time to stop and fix climate change was 15 years ago, the second best is now" - steph kombucher
kiddo ryandee what’s third best?
Tell all the best
Amazing quote
That’s not the quote, he says the best time to cut down a tree was 15 years ago
@@kazikian There is no third Chance
4:25 I love how they start jumping happy about the co2 reduction 😄
Even though I’m still in highschool and am stressed out about other things I’m gonna start researching what I can do at home to help the earth and especially the animals that are suffering on a daily basis 🥺I can’t even physically help the polar bears and penguins who are probably suffering the worst rn just walking to work I feel bad knowing they’re probably struggling to not drown
Bees and butterflies are in a lot of trouble. If you dig up some lawn in a sunny area and replace with flowers that would help them a lot. I recommend butterfly bush, butterfly weed, swamp milkweed, coneflower, black eyed Susan, zinnias, yarrow, sedum, spirea, fennel, dill, and parsley. A year ago, I put in a 50 gallon preformed pond ($50 at Menards) and put in a few pond plants (water lily, water iris, and water lettuce). It has attracted birds, frogs, lizards, and dragonflies. No pump or filter is needed. I do have to bail out mosquitoes larva, but that is quick and easy. If you buy seeds for birdhouse gourds you can grow and make your own birdhouses. Just punch a hole for the birds to get in and shake out the seeds, punch some small drainage holes at the bottom, and punch holes at the top to run wire or string through to hang. If you have a chain link fence in a sunny area, I recommend growing trailing blackberries. You can buy one plant and the root system will spread and you will have several more plants in two years. The bees love the flowers.
@War-Thog Intelligent people go straight to the scientists to learn about CO2 and what is happening rather than trolling and spouting off nonsense about things they clearly don't understand.
I find the penguins part funny because penguins get some of their food by eating fish UNDERWATER
I don’t care how much their animator is getting paid Give them a raise
They have a whole team of animators
so true
Ok we will raise their commission by 1%
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@@rempuia69 i hate you
It has been a pleasure everyone. I'll see you at the resource wars.
Are we going full Road Warrior style now?
War... war never changes...
I'll make sure to bring enough lube, that's what a certain white haired, blue eyed, sarcastic douchebag, sans-bootleg version dude adviced us.
Bet, we need to team up.
No, you won't. I'm going to Mars.
Would love to hear more about shipping industry emissions, IMO goals and hydrogen fuel cells for ships!
Thanks Kurzgesagt for presenting nothing but facts and exactly like they should be. Your channel is a blessing. 🙏
When Kurzgesagt videos Are getting More and more visually pleasing with every upload
Its like a aMERICAN election but other way around
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I've seen this animation somewhere else too.
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Go on
He manages to snatch all hope away from you during the video and manages to give it all back at the end of the video.
hi again!
Ahh its been a while
no there is no hope
Hi
it is morality trying to teach us a lesson
Some idiot:ClImAtE cHaNgE iSn'T ReAl Canadians going outside to 50 fking°C:You serious?!
Me: So, how does the world end? K: Too many people, too much CO2. Me: So how do we fix that? K: Fewer people. Better energy solutions. Me: Right, so fewer people. Time to build that death ray.
Pandemic comes with some benefit too
we're gonna run out of breathable air...
@@pauls5745 That is absolutely terrifying. Imagine just doing your everyday task, going to school, to work, whatever. Then out of nowhere you can't breathe, you try as hard as you can to breathe but you just can't. Your enitre immune system collapses, you go on the floor gasping for air, but there is none. You witness everything around you die, then you witness every memory you have ever had go right in front of your eyes. You die, and there is nothing that anyone can do. Whatever Co2 was saved will not be enough. The human race has gone extinct. That thought scares the fuck out of me. And this will be reality in a couple decades.
@@crazybabuskaman3923 cringe
If I could ever choose something to be #1 on trending I would choose this video.
Yup this channel is amazing
Imagine thinking climate change matters
Yup
+ pin it on trending
Shallow Bay does it not?
The government: im just gonna pretend i didn't see that
UAE: *👁👄👁.*
Yeah yeah so we sacrifice a bunch of poor people by increasing energy costs.
@@MrScarduelli In the long run poor people will be even worse of if we continue this way, it is also very possible to have more of the expenses of the transition fall onto the rich and companies by adding co2 taxes for example
They are NOT. The government (more-so the controlling corporations) see this and make 5k accounts downvote this
@@EternamDoov you do have a point but also the government isnt exactly doing anything to stop them
3. I would like to know which countries have reduced their C02 emissions and how. Thanks for the content.
In conclusion: stop using all the dark elixir ‼️
Clash wibes
Clash of clans
It's just diet coke from underground
It's weird how most of us living on Earth will never meet or even acknowledge each other's existence. For example, if you're reading my comment; this is probably the first and last time you'll ever see me.
No way I'll sub you pug!
Damn you got me thinking right there
*EXISTENTIAL FEELINGS*
that's deep
Damn got an existential crysis again
It’s sad to think that most people who watched this video, already understand and agree with the facts here. Unfortunately, the people who don’t understand will never find this video or simply disregard it.
Most people in power understand this to be true, but simply don’t care. China has a totalitarian government and could easily switch to a carbon neutral economy in a decade if they so desired. But their attitude is basically “it’s our turn to pollute the earth because you did it first.”
It's not that people do not agree, it's that people who actually have a say in what happens don't watch these videos.
They are also the ones in power
@@pedromeneses5661 it's also a lot of complacent choice making of the people from all over the world.
I disagree. These guys present things in a pretty non-biased and neutral way, so those who are willing at ALL to think about issues may very well change their minds. It's what happened to me. I initially disagreed with the points in the UBI video and Meat videos, but those videos made me want to do a bit more research, and I have since changed my mind. If there's ANY channel out there to change minds, it'd be this one.
Every time I watch this, it gets more and more real
My favorite fact about car carbon emissions is that a car back in the 70s standing perfectly still produced more carbon emissions than a modern car moving at max speed.
Remember, this is a science channel, and scientists provide references for their facts.
I cant even imagine the work those 20 crew members have to put in for such crispy and painstakingly perfect animations every time. Cheers you grinders.
They really deserve the recognition! I also make videos and put a lot of effort into it. Could you check it out and tell me your thoughts? Thank you.
“A society grows great when old people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Do you know who said this?
@@j_viking3268 It's an ancient greek proverb.
I've always loved this saying. I tell it to all my friends and family whenever I find it applicable.
Old people are too senile to see that far into the future. They can only see death in the near future and do their best to live in luxury in the time they have right now. Old people in positions of power are mostly like this.
Unfortunately the young get envious of the trees and cut it down or force them to burn
I went to Ecolint and Cornell. Great video with helpful visuals. I learned a lot. Thanks.
I think it's safe to say it's too late. God be with you folks.
Big true
Kurzgesagt asking a question: "it depends" "It's complicated"
Rempuia the Rick Roller who is also in dreams comment replies. You’re our new KZhead legend?
@@rempuia69 WHY
@@rempuia69 why
@@rempuia69 shut up
And Kurzgesagt is right. Politics are complicated and there's not an easy answer to tough questions even though some people want you to believe that.
Nuclear energy is quite safe and clean now adays. It’s definitely the future of cleaner energy as we transition to fully renewable energy.
Then what about solar?
And even still the more energy we produce, regardless of clean or not, the temp will still go up. Energy=heat, so as long as we produce energy and more of it the temp will still go up
yeah nuclear energy is the future. Our technological advancement has basically reduced the risks down to none and its more space efficient than other sources like solar panels or wind turbines.
1 it’s the only realistic way to move off of coal
Thing is it takes like 10 years to build a reactor so it’s too late to beat climate change
SO well summarised! Thank you.
Made very well, I am just missing the two maybe most important factors here: 1) Reduced Consumption would especially lead to less emmissions, as long as we won't find ourselfes be satisfied with lass than with more and more we will have a porblem. So we need to find new ways of enjoying live without consuming new things all the time. 2) There are real people suffering from climate change. It's not a concept but a real problem, leaving small farmers families hungry because they can harvest less food and so on. As long as we see the climate change as a theoretical problem and not something that actually causes harm to people that are worth as much as we are there won't be a lot of changes made. That's at least what I believe :)
People don't want to fight climate change. In my small village (150 residents) a solar farm was planned. It should have been located on an unused strip of land directly at the highway. It was expected to tripple the villages budget due to taxes. But as soon as these plans were revealed a group of people brought the whole village to fight against it. Now we still have a huge strip of land directly at the highway that nobody will ever use or look at, the small school will be closed and the 40 year old fire engine won't be replaced any time soon.
M8 millions of people want to stop it but stupid people who don't believe in it or believe its not doing anything won't allow it. And the government knows that but they side with the stupid people.
Were they worried about cows stopping giving milk? I’ve heard it’s true.........................
You should fight unnecessary legislation, so a private person can buy that "useless" patch of land and build a solar plant, or whatever he likes. He would, of course, more likely build a nuclear plant. But then, people would protest.
Bro you live in Switzerland? The scenario sounds kinda familiar XD
Democracy works only with informed citizens
Infographics show: Rtx off. Kurzgesagt: rtx on
GucciBanana09 lol
Your speaking fax
Is this a joke im too stupid to understand?
lmao quantity vs quality for me
Popyax Playz yeah even my reply was a joke
2021 - The UN released their 10 year research. We are already beyond prevention, right now we are on working to delay it and maybe survive it.
It’s weird to me that we were born right on the cusp on our planets death. Right on the exact century. It’s euphoric
@@lifeuncovered6188 Species* death, the planet doesn't care much about us, it'll recover.
@@XCyberxWolfX Our entire species won’t die. Many will, most won’t.
Some people don't seem to understand that we aren't like other species. We are not depending on the food chain in the same way as other species are because we have the ability to grow our own food. Sure , people will die if we don't stop this but it will not be the end of mankind or anything like that.
@@bluesbr0ther588 most people in developed nations will die, I honestly doubt all would though, I do agree on that.
Great. Please make more videos on such topics!
The sad part is, most of those in power who actually CAN make critical steps towards stopping climate change, aren’t doing that. Instead, they’re looking for more ways to make themselves richer
They would rather spend time finding ways to debunk/argue with us instead of trying to help themselves and others do it. That is the definition of procrastination.
You can invest YOUR money into clean energy investments
Flying Llama what of ur broke
and theyre the ones were gonna see hanging from lamp post if our society ever grows a brain and doesnt let that happen but hey Trumps here so we dont gotta fuckin worry about a thing
i'd love to see someone who could stop natural earth cycles while they're at it too
Three things I'd like to hear more about: Electric car batteries: Any signs of drastic improvement upcoming? And their total impact on the environment compared to gas/diesel (I know it's hard to compare). Potential new fission reactor designs, like thorium reactors. (I know you did a 3-video series on fission reactors, but it was 5 years ago; has anything new developed?) Carbon taxes; how would they work, and how could we keep the system from being abused?
Yes. The guy who invented the lithium-ion battery has invented the solid state battery at an old age. Their life time is like 10x longer than current rechargeable batteries, and can hold more charge.
Tesla just announced some battery improvements, dunno if you heard about it ?
Watch Tesla’s newest battery presentation from last week.
Tesla announced new battery manufacturing that makes them cheaper to produce and more energy dense. I think its roughly a 25% upgrade so quite significant.
there is this machine called iter that is being build by various nations, but it is not fission but fusion, they say it is going to be done in the 30s but i think it will take longer...
This will drastically effect fishing season
and be very bad for the stock market
Kurzgesagt has not lost hope yet so neither will I and climate change is effecting all of us. We have to do something I’m going to try my best to help have a zero co2 world, I’m still 10 years old but I’m going to do my best
We are doing our best. The world is doing it's best and lots of companies have realized and now they're helping little by little. there still hope.. but we still need to act now.
The Earth is flat so if we just flip it over it will be like the cool side of the pillow and boom no more global warming.
Prabahan Dutta Bordoloi was this a joke?
@@vitriol9995 I think he's mocking flearthers.
The other side is too cool to live. We can put another small disk between the sun and Earth to reduce heating.
@@vitriol9995 Sarcasm bro
@@vitriol9995 you missed the joke.. or you are pretending that you missed the joke i don't really know
kurzgesagt - in a nutshell in a nutshell: 1. add science 2. add world ending possibilities 3. add birds 4. kill most of the birds
@Ferazhin Lexico Mate, they're birds. They're for comic relief, not a signal of political leaning.
@Ferazhin Lexico 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Ferazhin Lexico bro what tf you taking about
At this point i don't know if he likes birds or hate them.
When u watch this video u are produced emission
9:21 Windmills on water? Might think about a Windmill and Water Wheel Hybrids. The possibilities are indeed endless.
YES, IT IS TOO LATE But we MUST minimize the damage
Good luck convincing half the people commenting that, they don’t got any brain cells
I want to point out that when people find ways to use energy more efficiently it often leads to throwing out older, less energy-efficient products. Both the manufacture of the new products and the transportation of the older products are carbon-intensive. A huge carbon expense that needs to be addressed is that of product processing. If I went to the store and bought canned fruit, they often say that they're grown in a South American country, but packaged in an East Asian country (usually China). Let's say they're from Venezuela - they go over 25000 miles, and over 3 months on the ship. It'd be FAR more efficient in terms of fuel and carbon to pack them in a nearby area.
Pack them at source
weren't u killed by Bruce wayne ?🙄
@@The360MlgNoscoper Or grow food locally
There are too many loopholes, all the woke ways of stopping CO2 are plain bullshit.
It's complicated, when someone specialises in say, canning food, they might get very efficient and even with transportation, their carbon print is still smaller.
I try hard to stay as eco friendly as possible. But then I see a big ass company destroying all the eco friendly shit I do in a few seconds. So god damn annoying and demoralizing..
often, those big companies act only because consumers allow them to. The meat industry giant companies cannot do harm when no one buys their meat. So being eco-friendly and boycotting the bad companies actually works (a bit)
Go vegan it's the single biggest way to reduce your carbon footprint on the planet
same here. trying to reduce paper usage as long as i have electronic way to do it.
personally I'd go about it by having plants in the backyard and cleaning up around the place with over 7 billion people one person isn't going to make noticable impact on a global scale, but can make a change to their local area
@@arielsproul8811 "it's just one straw" said a million people. YES YOU ALONE DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
I feel like the main thing holding us back from fixing this is the hard pill to swallow that is this: saving the world won't be profitable or fun
I just hope to not live to see the day the Earth dies. It's one of my nightmares. Imagine the Earth being so abused that we go from plants growing between concrete cracks to nothing growing at all. Scary idea.
Earth is not going to die, we do, if we make it unlivable for ourselves. Earth already went through a lot of mass extinction events without humans.
I'm from Alberta and let me let you know, it's not a lack of technology or innovation... It's a lack of political will.
Yeah I can't make my money or get political power if I do shit to try save the planet It's a literal game theory: if you move, you loose If no one moves, everyone loses If enough people move, you win so for every player the logical move is waiting for someone else to go first, this someone else also wants someone else to go first No one moves
Alberta=hick town with rolling grass.
Even if governments could get the people to accept energy at a price of four times it is today without a pay rise, how can that possibly make any noticeable difference to climates around the world?
Water for example, replace water bootles by the drink refillers you get on your mcdonalds but with bigger tanks, just that change alone would save soo much. The only thing people had to do is bring glass bootles.
@@spillarge at least in Arizona, there is an incentive to use solar power. You’re able to install them for free for outdated meters and your energy bill goes way down. As far as electric cars, you don’t have to pay for gas or anything like that. Govts. have to incentivize vehicles by say, trading in your vehicle for scrap for a buyout of its net worth so you could be incentivized to trade it in for an electric car. It’s also a sociological problem, but people don’t like nuclear power just because of things like Chernobyl, 3 mile island and Fukushima. More stable nuclear power is available in the form of isotopes like thorium, and the move away from uranium and plutonium is possible. It’s all cheaper than the alternative with fossil fuels, just not incentivized.
Governments: we must stop climate change! Also governments: haha pollution goes brr
Well stop voting in politicians like Donald Trump who try to convince you that climate change is a myth just so they don't have to bother doing anything about it.....
@@footballnerd277 Isn't the reason he left the climate change pact was because he didn't want America to be the only one funding everything?
@@ezeola6348 Not even remotely. There is no binding amount that has to be donated to be part of the Paris climate agreement. All it was is a commitment to keep climate change below a certain level. And a communication framework and how to do that. Not to mention, no -one was expecting the US to fund everything. That's just some BS Donald comes out with to justify whatever treaty he's pulled out of. Not to mention, climate change is not just an issue of environmental damage. It's an economic issue which will cost the world trillions of dollars if we let it get out of hand. Kind of like covid, the more it gets out of hand, the most it was cost to get it under control. The best thing (from both a financial and human perspective) is to go hard on dealing with it now before it gets out of control. But just like covid, idiotic, populist leaders like Donald fucking Trump will ignore and deny the problem. Until major, damaging, expensive policies will be required to bring us back from the brink of disaster. if you care about money (or the people of this planet) deal with it now!
It's sad how accurate this is
@@footballnerd277 believe me I wish donald trump was never president and there are a lot of americans who agree
Am I wrong to think the Corona outbreak was a blessing in cutting CO2 emissions for at least a year?
Yes. It killed thousands.
@@richarda29 hey less energy used
@@stylinsandwich, and if global warming OR CoViD-19 kills everyone, the energy saved won’t matter.
@@richarda29 hey atleast the planet thrives much better without us humans!
@@stylinsandwich, not everywhere. There are places where we’ve improved the world. Anybody who thinks the world would be better without people tending to it should try clearing a vacant lot sometime. And we could improve the world everywhere. But we can’t improve it anywhere if we’re dead!
As a suggestion of possible issues to look deeper into: - positional/conspicuous consumption - international cooperation mechanisms - economic inequality as a driver and result of climate change - steady state economics/degrowth
The fact everyone is so hopeless actually gives me hope because it shows people actually care Is good to know so many people haven't given up yet, we can still make a change
Most people absolutely do not care. Like, not at all. This comment section is heavily biased by self-selection, those who decided to watch the video and to comment are far more likely to care than the average person.
@@leobat7007 that's because fortunately wealth will overcome climate change
@@leobat7007 totally agree. Like no more than 5-7% of population. And those, who are ready to disturb the status quo are even less.
Wrong the only people who care are the ones who are more involved with things, you wouldn't easily find somebody who doesn't care because they don't show it and they aren't too involved with this stuff
i am some1 that doesnt believe all the hype. Think the measures taken to "combat" GLOBAL warming (o wait) climate change, are insane and completely out of proportions in my country. Politicians like this whole fearmongering more than there is an actual cause for this "crisis". Same with covid-19 , acid rain, BSE etc etc..
"the less fossil fuel we burn over next few years, the more time we give innovation to catch up" - that was actually inspiring
And that's how I think we should view climate change. Not as doom and gloom, but a oppotunity to innovate and improve!
It's just consumerism blaming the people for their byproduct. They emit so much more so let's stop buying from them and just reduce their footprint. Or we can regulate and stop them from being a business all together. Gas powered is just forced on us to keep those in power rich. We wanna have people trade in their car for a replacement that is modern and highly invested in keeping it green. The gov can work with car companies and have them scrap and recycle all those cars for new cars. But that just seems like it's be too much work for them, but if it's for a profit they'll make the sea part and move mountains for that extra penny
Mr. Boomguy I totally agree with you
I'm gonna burn some extra today, just for you.
that's why i sold my car but unfortunately im a few minority, Im a radical...like a vegan lol
i dont care about humans i only care about those birds in kurzgesagt videos
That cheered me up! Thanks!!
I’ve realized that I listen to the voice as if they were a higher being or someone from the future to educate
Exactly it just sounds wise like an alien
He is.
He sounds like the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy guy and i think he might even be
He's probably from a type 3 or 4 civilisation
Exactly, sometimes in the videos related to space, it makes me feel our existence itself is insignificant.
Everyone: We need to stop climate change. Also everyone: So.. who's gonna stop it?
Also everyone: I'm not going to cut on my consumption
also everyone: ELECT TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!
People responsible for creating cheaper electric cars, solar panels, making more efficient batteries and aircrafts running on non fossil fuels.
There is a very limited amount of change individual changes and consumer choices can do, we need political will and goberment action if we want to save the planet
Everyone: We need to clean the oceans. Also everyone: So.. who's gonna clean theirs? 🤔
i need that doormat from 8:13!
I hope kurzgesagt gets a lot more recognition. They're still so underrated.
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"Why is that? Why is it so hard to just stop emiting these gases?" *I'm gonna use this quote but not for science purposes*
Lol
Well can see 3 1) too poor to use alternatives 2) you love in an area where cleaner fuel is more obsolete 3) you're a child and you can't dictate your parents decision .
others, "dude, why do you hate oxygen that much?'
This question sounded stupid coming from guys that i consider well educated and critical thinkers
@@electronresonator8882 cuz oxygen is a disease
Hear me out, a minecraft texture pack in Kurzgesagt art style
I agree
Perfect, but I hope it's free
Need it please
Yes
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Extremely informative video! I strongly believe that raising awareness about the climate change issue may have a huge influence on all our actions and as a result decrease our negative impact on the planet. 💪
Person:*asks kurzgesagt what's not complicated* Kurzgesagt:well,it's complicated....
As a student in engineering making my way to the new generation of engineers, I found this video pretty much inspiring, highlighting the importance of transitioning to sustainable energies quickly. I really hope I could create something that will make our future better and be part of the war against Climate Change. Thank you Kurzgesagt for the incredible job you're doing! I'm supporting your channel 100%! ❤️
Nice man you could all stop cilmate change together
Yes we will all try and stop the climate change. Also great job on getting a heart
I respect you.
I'm also interested in going into engineering, which type of engineering are you interested in?
World economic growth has already almost stopped because the peak of oil production is already there !!
Feels like part of the reason we've been dragging our feet on phasing out fossil fuels and switching to low carbon alternatives is because this topic is SO politicized... how do you get around that? I know so, so many people who scoff at the idea of things like nuclear and solar energy merely because they arent fossil fuels. Its disheartening that a conversation cant even be had because of political dogma
People scoff at Nuclear power mostly because of Fukushima and Chernobyl. But modern nuclear reactors are very safe but countries like Japan are phasing them out due to public disaproval of Nuclear power
Also money
Ironically, fossil fuels contain trace amounts of radioactive particles (because everything does) and when you burn it, these particles go strait up the chimney and out into the atmosphere. A coal/gas plant dumps more radioactive fallout into its surrounding environment in a week that a modern nuclear reactor of comparable output does in its entire commissioned life.
Politicized? I haven't really heard that many opinions from ordinary citizens talking about explicitly _wanting_ fossil fuel power generation. I guess you might mean that stakeholders hold a lot of power politically. But that seems to be a more capitalistic issue. If the issue were any more politicized I have a feeling it would be in the form of holding more politician accountable for hurtful policies that favor the FF industry
It seems like the huge media companies and politicians paid for by oil companies have successfully brain washed them into thinking that this is a political problem rather than an environmental crisis that can easily wipe out humanity and halt their progress.
In a nutshell we learn chemistry, physics, biology and environmental education. This channel helps me a lot in learning
All it takes is 1 person, 1 discovery to change the course of history… I put my faith in the people with passion, because they’ll go against all odds for the goal they so desire, so instead of being pessimistic and all “doom abd gloom” have faith in the scientists and people who are so passionate about their goal they will stop at nothing.
Hell yeah!! I agree with that. But I think there's also room for action that we just aren't doing ya know; we aren't doing what we can do today with the tech we already have. I seriously wish we start charging for carbon footprint. Use that money to fund the development of new technologies, maybe things like scholarships for climate change and such! If we could turn research in just about every core science/engineering field around for COVID (by only funding COVID related projects), why can't we emphasise the climate more with a green tax?
The time for being optimistic is long gone
Other science shows: **Being serious with their animations** Kurzegasgt: *DUCK*
Ask Texas about CLIMATE CHANGE they do know now! LOL!!!
'Tis the science birb community, very important figures in all understanding of the universe
Just like Duck and Cover BS from the 1960’s
Whahaha, miswriting Kurzgesagt actually produced a rewrite of the problem Short gassed :D
We call it Deutsche Qualität
the issue is economical, so the solution must be too. a country should pay for consuming beyond its carbon budget, and get paid for exporting access reduction of it
please upload more videos on climate change!
But seriously, researching about climate change and its effects is a rabbit hole of depression. Thanks for going over this in a fun but informative way. Keep it up!
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Shadow banned nothing you just said was true stop trying to act cool
@@shadowbanned4606 Whatever you're taking, I could use some for when I write my own lyrics
@@shadowbanned4606 you might as well have said nothing. Do you want people to know? Or do you want to feed your narcissism? Grow up and join the rest of adult society. Or continue to be a troll.
Letting the climate crisis keep getting worse and worse as we keep increasing emissions is a far bigger rabbit hole of depression than researching climate change and it's effects is.
people- GIVE YOUR ANIMATORS A RAISE!!!!! Storyboard artist- .__.
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@That Nerd Albert and another like
Excuse the stupid question, but what are storyboard artists?
How about planting more trees, protecting rainforests and creating sustainable food forests? This solves many problems, provides healthy climate and food and can be done in most countries, by most people :)
@@justinpittman6438interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing. I believe it;s all about balance and clearly our nature (and perhaps many humans as well) are quite out of balance, compared with how it has been for many centuries. What do you suggest, that would be the best for not only us but also next generations and their children?
I wish kurzgesagt were used in schools and stuff
it’s good but sad thing is that people who can do this cannot care less
Don't worry, they'll be the first to die off, once their kind goes extinct, the smart ones can live on and pass on their care for the world to the following generations. Although I would not be surprised if we do all die off.
lion the they do this for a reason they aready control most of our life u think their dumb enough to let them self die they are later slowly gonna have their own evil plan to make huge bucks and we be the users like just rn
We are 100% going to die off within 10 years trust me
@@quetzal4505 they won't though, because they also own all the resources. Once they kill everyone else though, emissions should drop a bit.
As individuals, we could do some simple sacrifices to contribute to a lower green house gases emission such as reducing our meat diet, specially caw meat because of the amount of energy it requieres to keep those animals and trasport their resources, avoiding having pets, not having kids and avoiding buying unecessary things by impulse. Of course some of those alternatives are just too taugh for some people, but we could be getting used to them gradually, I guess.
Fun Fact: The monkey in the Kurzgesagt intro changes what it's holding every episode
Almost every episode, sometimes it just holds a phone
Grr my comment
oh shit
Your just trying to give them more views and I completely agree with that
where
I use cemenite, and the weather is better in my place. Less drought, less flood, less fast wind, compared to place dozens km away.
8:12 the rug with the cat doing a middle finger
"We can leave nuclear power plants online longer." THANK YOU, finally a concise and absolutely correct statement on this topic. Now (german) politicians still need to accept this finally as not an option, but a must-do asap.
How about building newer, better ones also? Current nuclear plants are 50 year old technology and they still outperform any other form of energy production.
What about nuclear waste?
Ixian Technocrat yes and investing in new ones will be a very good choice
Nuclear power plants are the better solution as long as no one explodes. And even if you are lucky and no one explodes you have the toxic waste for million years. Thats incredible. So we have to accept that both technologies are just not sustainable and both have such big disadvantages that they should be abolished.
@@smarty1312 nuclear waste is minuscule compared to the waste generated by all other means of energy production INCLUDING solar and wind which generate a ton of dangerous waste during their manufacturing process. Plus the nuclear waste can be reused. Of-course with diminishing returns but with more funds put into nuclear energy means more research which means more and more of the fuel gets used meaning the nuclear waste becomes less harmful every time. I mean theoretically you could reduce nuclear waste to hydrogen by splitting an atom to the smallest possible thing but of-course every time it gets smaller the more energy it takes to split it and the less energy to get out of it but still.
"Prevent climate change" "Fix climate change" "Coping with climate change"
Surviving the aftermath of climate change
“Staying sane in your new climate bunker”
I hate to rain on your parade, but sadly we can't prevent what's already happened
@@simonjohnson3424 we can slow it at least,giving life more time to adapt,more and more species are doing it,if we can slow it enough to we won't cause a man-made mass extinction we'd be a bit better,we can also delay greater changes til we somehow find solutions in the near future
@@butterskywalker8785 specie's extinction is not so much linked to global warming, it's more about their natural environment beeing replaced by cities/crops and the most competitive species killing the others across the world because of boats transporting them
This video along with the others from here make good points. Too bad though that big companies are doing nothing and basically dooming all of us including themselves.
As a student in the field of Sustainability, I think it’d be interesting if there was a dedicated video on policies to reduce carbon emissions systemically. Carbon taxes, Cap and trade schemes, Renewable portfolio standards, subsidies, banning combustion engine vehicles, etc. A deep dive on the trade offs with these types of approaches would be interesting