He speaks with such a perfect mixture of clarity and humility. There is zero arrogance in his voice. Not in his tone, content, or word usage. I absolutely love listening to him. I wish I could have been an adult when he was around.

@pathtoknowledge6847

4 жыл бұрын

Same here I wasn't even born ! 😭 8 years later in 1998 I was born

@kbanghart

4 жыл бұрын

That's one reason I love Sagan over NDT for example, taking nothing away from Neil, but Sagan was my generation and I just prefer the way he spoke.

@DarylDawkins

4 жыл бұрын

@@kbanghart I agree man. NDT seems to be getting caught up in the celebrity. After listening to Sagan I can see how both NDT and Obama try to emulate his skills as an orator.

@tgranny3547

4 жыл бұрын

Soothing isn't it I don't even care what he says I like to listen

@rezathenightfly

3 жыл бұрын

@@DarylDawkins You are correct in saying NDT has definitely been bitten, and bitten severely by the dreadful celebrity bug. More is the pity.

I really can't believe this was 30 years ago. His solutions are the same ones were still debating. You could give this speech today without changing anything

@MarkMc03

2 жыл бұрын

There's no debate ... just denial.

@collinsmakholi7143

2 жыл бұрын

He is like Noah in the bible..he told people to build an ark but they laugh at him some where too busy to help him build ark...Today scientists and astronomers are warning us about climate change but people don't listen

@ThomasHaberkorn

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much. except the U.S. has spent trillions more in main building wars.

@ThomasHaberkorn

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkMc03 which isn't just a river in Egypt

@primus699

Жыл бұрын

He is WARNING US, and most are turning a blind eye, we are the cause of this, and why, fucking currency and most people have this arrogant notion of fucking self importance.. guess what, your not important fuck faces.

I miss this gentleman. He acted like a reasonable father that would like to protect the world. Now that dad is gone, the burden is ours, ladies and gentleman.

@aerobique

2 жыл бұрын

✊

@theninjamaster67

2 жыл бұрын

✊

@KrzysiuNet

2 жыл бұрын

I can't agree. It was always our burden. He couldn't protect the world alone and he was never aspiring to do it. But he taught us how to do it. He prepared us. It's the same as with me and my fiance. All people around thought she's making me happy and they were sure it will go away if she would be gone one day. They all couldn't grasp an idea that what she did was showing me how to be happy, so I could be happy anywhere - not as a conditional, temporary deal. They gave me an idea of how to do it myself. They weren't a fire, but they lighted it - and that's what makes them differ from a lot of protectors or people we enjoy. They are both gone, but it was always up to me (or us, in case of Sagan) to keep that fire. What we can do now is not just protect the world. We should light that fire in others. We will be gone in a moment - years or decades. But the struggle must continue. They gave us something wonderful - and let's not trivialize it.

Prof. Carl Sagan was truly an intellectual giant among us mortals... He inspired a generation of thinkers. Thank you Sir🙏🏼

Carl Sagan was a visionary ..... The world is a poorer place without him.

@maryhope6308

2 жыл бұрын

There's a reason for everything. Walk by faith, not by sight.

@lowbeeman

2 жыл бұрын

@@maryhope6308 🙄

@adamplentl5588

Жыл бұрын

@@maryhope6308 go faith your way across a busy highway.

@scottblack7182

Жыл бұрын

Thats exactly what i was just saying 😂. He was so cool calm and collected not a single christian apologist will dare try to defame him because they know they would lose more sheep if they tried. Even in death , words of truth ring louder and clearer than any falsehood. He will be missed ❤

@dickmcwienersonIII

Жыл бұрын

Neil degrasse is pretty cool these days carrying on the legacy

I love that he gets his point across without a single powerpoint slide

@justinwalker4475

Жыл бұрын

well said

@justinwalker4475

Жыл бұрын

we are fcked

It is both calming and angrying. On one hand that guy radiates intelligence on the other hand the fact is that we haven't moved an inch since this speach. We are exactly in the same state, minus the physical uncertainties. We're headed towards an unmitigated catastrophy at full speed, and some people made sure we won't hit the breaks. Brace for impact.

@Silentsister

Жыл бұрын

Well that's what Geoengineering is all about. Research Dr. David Keith. Also, everywhere I turn I see the abuse of sexual power. They are pregnant women everywhere. There are cars everywhere and growing, and all of this is coming down the pike because each one of us refuses to give up our me, myself, and mine. Yeah buckle up for sure!

@johnmartin9321

Жыл бұрын

Sadly you are so right. Governments are blindly looking for year on year "growth and are all ignoring the elephant in the room......we need to control population on this finite size planet.

@pillaladr

Жыл бұрын

U

@donnavorce8856

Жыл бұрын

You're probably correct. And damn it, if homo sapiens were proactive rather than reactive we could have not gone where we're going. Maybe an asteroid will negate all the worries anyway. Send us back to an immediate stone age. If this happens maybe they'll get it right. All our neato electronic messages will be wiped out. Oh well. lol

@willemlouwjig

Жыл бұрын

Hi Bill leave man kind has a one turf fool few sure.

As a non-native English speaker, I love the way Mr. Sagan speaks and says words such as "exquisite". It is such a joy just to hear him speak. I miss him so much :-(

I am a Fan off Sagan for the last 50 years....RIP. From India.

Inadvertently I came upon “the pale blue dot” video by Carl Sagan. It changed my whole way of thinking about our place in this universe. Ever since I’ve listened to everything I can find by this man. I wish he was alive today to experience the James Webb telescope and what it will reveal to us.

@user-rp5ye7uc6d

Жыл бұрын

‏Anthony Flew is considered one of the most prominent atheists, so he retracted his atheism and ،told us that the universe has a deity with modern scientific evidence, not with thought or dreams and feeling, but after science and modern discoveries about the existence of a Creator. He fell into another problem that the Creator wanted according to his mood ‏ He wanted the Creator to be neither speaking nor hearing, and creating creation in vain ‏But it is logical that this Creator sends a messenger to teach us who he is. And we have to verify the authenticity of the Messenger and what this Messenger calls to? ‏ It transports sperm from the liquid state to the eyes, heart, blood, arteries, and bones. Unconscious nature creates a conscious human being. Then this nature teaches about the importance of the heart and lung, then puts the rib cage, then oxygen, then water, there is sexual desire, and there are the genitals to complete the male and female sexual process. , What coincidence are you talking about, a coincidence that creates the male and the female. All of these are called verses and there are things that complement each other, there is a lung and there is air and there are teeth and stomach and in food and other things and we say that it has no creator!!! ‏ The only question God will ask you is ‏ focus on it ‏ ((He said: Did you deny My verses and did not encompass them in knowledge, or what did you do?)) ‏ I mean, God Almighty tells you what I told you is a lie and you cannot realize it or understand it ‏ And what in the world have you been doing? ‏ Do you know what your answer is? ‏ ((The decree will befall them for what they did wrong, and they will not be able to speak. ‏ If you find yourself in the world without a choice in a great reality we live in, and you go without a choice and a question is the most important ‏ If your destiny is fire, has God wronged you???ًً ‏Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, is a prophet from the Creator, and before him many prophets did not lie or deceive, and he is the only religion that commands you to worship one Creator who created everything. ‏First of all, you should know that the religion of all prophets is the worship of one Creator who created everything. Islam today is the only religion that commands you to worship one Creator and not idols, illusions, conjecture or a number of gods. But how do we know that the speech is from God and not from Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace? . These are some of the things that comfort your heart and believe that this is a prophet and many of the prophets before him ‏ The Almighty said: (Moreover He comprehended in His design the sky, and it had been (as) smoke) ‏ The smoke confirms that the origin of this universe is inflamed. It is not a lake of water, as was the perception of all philosophies and religions that are based on illusion. This is one of the postulates of modern science today that the sky is condensation of smoke. This fact converted the French scientist Maurice to Islam and wrote a book entitled the Holy Qur’an on the scale of modern science ‏How did Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, know this fact before? ‏ The Almighty says: ((And the heaven We constructed)) ‏ The sky is a building, not a vacuum as it was thought, and this was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 that proved it ‏How did Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, know this fact before? ‏The Almighty’s saying: ((And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander. )). ‏ That is, the sky expands with time. This fact, even in the time of Einstein, was not imagined by anyone and it was proven. And Einstein admitted it and admitted that it was the biggest scientific mistake he made in his life if he believed that the sky was fixed. The Qur’an before Einstein says that the sky expands ‏fact ‏ Almighty’s saying: :((And We have made the night and day two signs, and We erased the sign of the night and made the sign of the day visible that you may seek bounty from your Lord and may know the number of years and the account [of time]. And everything We have set out in detail. )) ‏ The verse of the night is the moon and the verse of the day is the sun. The Qur'an tells that the sun and the moon were fiery masses. That is, the moon was a fiery mass and was erased, and the verse of the day remained visible to the eyes. Was the moon a fiery mass and extinguished? This is one of the biggest scientific issues discovered about the moon. The moon was already a fiery mass, and NASA issued on its official website a conceptual clip entitled The Evolution of the Moon in the video. In fact, the moon was a fiery mass like the sun, and this is what the Qur’an told about and the truth of modern science. ‏How did Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, know this fact before? ‏Almighty’s saying ‏And you see the mountains thinking that they are rigid, while you will cross as the passage of clouds. [It is] the work of God who has perfected everything. In fact, he knows what you're doing.)) ‏ And the verse clearly spoke of a strange phenomenon, which is that the viewer of the mountains appears to him still, that is, they are still, but in fact they are not like that, rather they are in a state of constant movement. And the infidels of Quraish had previously accused our master Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, of madness, and it is likely that their joy was overwhelming when this verse was revealed. ‏ They also found in it, according to their claim, evidence of this madness, and they told the people: How can you believe this man who says that these fixed mountains move like clouds moving in the sky! ‏ And today it is proven that the earth rotates, and with it the mountains, how did Muhammad know that and why is he telling you instead of the matter that makes people consider him crazy? The matter was not from him, but from God. Almighty’s saying ‏Those whom Allah (in His plan) willeth to guide,- He openeth their breast to Islam; those whom He willeth to leave straying,- He maketh their breast close and constricted, as if they had to climb up to the skies: thus doth Allah (heap) the penalty on those who refuse to believe)). ‏After man was able to reach the sky by flying by modern means of transportation, he knew that the higher up in the air, the less oxygen and atmospheric pressure, which causes severe tightness in the chests and the process of breathing. : ‏How did Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, know this fact before? It was not from him, but from God Almighty’s saying ‏Or (the Unbelievers' state) is like the depths of darkness in a vast deep ocean, overwhelmed with billow topped by billow, topped by (dark) clouds: depths of darkness, one above another: if a man stretches out his hands, he can hardly see it! for any to whom Allah giveth not light, there is no light! ‏Modern sciences have revealed that in the bottom of the deep seas with abundant water - the deep sea - there is great darkness, to the extent that living creatures live in this darkness without visual tools, but live using their other senses such as hearing. ‏These dark darknesses are not found in the sea water that surrounds the Arabian Peninsula, but rather they have been discovered in the oceans far from it ‏This verse shows another aspect of the Qur’anic miracle, which is that the sea wave that all people only knew was one wave in the seas ‏The verse says there is another wave in the depths of the sea, and divers discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century a fact that was hidden in the depths of the sea, that fact that shows another wave that throws divers into it as it is thrown at swimmers, and this wave was discovered by Scandinavian divers. I will tell you what the Prophet said. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: One day the Bedouins who live in the desert will build tall towers, and this is my duty. Go and see where the tallest buildings are and who owns them. ‏God Almighty: ((We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?) And God informed the Qur’an of this by saying: “Did you think that we created you without a purpose and that you would never return to us?” ‏All these and other matters that I have not mentioned indicate that this is a prophet from God..More important than that, as I told you, is the only religion that commands you to worship one Creator, who created everything and before him many prophets. ‏Say, if you wish, there is no god but God, and that Muhammad is the Messenger of God ‏ speak from the heart ًًًً

@publiozinj4882

Жыл бұрын

@@user-rp5ye7uc6d tldr

@justinwalker4475

Жыл бұрын

more mysteries o0

@justinwalker4475

Жыл бұрын

@@user-rp5ye7uc6d 🤔

@justinwalker4475

Жыл бұрын

your not well

Carl Sagan, when humility meets clarity. This Man was a prophet. Spot on everything 30 years later. Just incredible.

@jamesmetalpsi6874

2 жыл бұрын

He was never a prophet, just someone with critical thinking skills and common sense. He was and is the standard of what a scientist should be. The Kardashians shouldn't be popular, scientific programs should be. Start voting for more money in education

@JiggsTheMonk02

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmetalpsi6874 yeah,right,throw money into a system that teaches critical race theory by activist radical leftists while the educational standards are in a steady decline,reminds me of the verse in Romans 1:22”Professing themselves to be wise,they became fools”

@jamesmetalpsi6874

2 жыл бұрын

@@JiggsTheMonk02 See, lacking critical thinking skills because of the inability to understand the voting system for free education. Why is everything fucking political to you Americans

@SaintsPurgatory

2 жыл бұрын

@@JiggsTheMonk02 You are an excellent example of why nothing useful or worthwhile will ever come out of the religious, conservative, republican, extremist ideologues. You would rather hate than educate yourself even when it's for the survival of your own species. You cannot stop the progression of the changes that are taking place. Open a book and I'm not talking about the NRA, KKK, NeoNazi fanzines.

@SaintsPurgatory

2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Sagan was a Scientist, not a prophet. Big difference.

This video deserves billions and billions of views.

@Xiaborok

2 жыл бұрын

Carl would have surely laughed at this coment :D good one

@pennycaldwell8141

2 жыл бұрын

Causes Effects, There's only 7.753 billion people on the planet as of 2020. How many billion did you mean? 🤔

@TheSteinbitt

2 жыл бұрын

He never said that.

@r3fre5h_iwnl

2 жыл бұрын

standard distribution intelligence, it's not for the masses i guess

@Jay-ft3xh

Жыл бұрын

@@pennycaldwell8141 four would satisfy the request.

32 years ago he told us what was happening and he was right on. I'm so sad.

@2fast2block

Жыл бұрын

He was wrong on so many things. He had no issue lying. The 1LofT states that energy can't be created or destroyed, it can't happen naturally. One aspect of the 2LoT shows that the universe is winding down, usable energy is becoming less usable. It is clear creation had to be done supernaturally yet it is still denied because people are just too proud to accept that, among other things.

For those pro or con on AGW, this speech was referenced on a student radio project in 1990 that included a face-to-face interview with the conservative Dr. George A. (Jay) Keyworth II, former Reagan Science Advisor and former Director of the Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Keyworth was Reagan's SDI defender, a concept that helped end the Cold War. The project was on the subject of space solar power (SSP), more commonly known today as space-based solar power (SBSP), an industry that we now know can grow the global GDP tenfold while solving the energy/climate problem on the ground permanently. The descriptive notes on this video post lay it out. Thanks to Keyworth, who was a friend of Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill of Princeton physics and the Space Studies Institute, Reagan and GHW Bush became fans of SBSP and O'Neill's ideas on space manufacturing & settlement, which he proposed as an outgrowth of the SBSP industry. O'Neill served on Reagan's National Commission on Space, whose report "Pioneering the Space Frontier", was released in July, 1986. The noted liberal Carl Sagan backed O'Neill in 1975 congressional testimony. Every problem generates a solution, if we admit the problem. If policymakers continue to deny the AGW problem, and misdirect investments, we will shortchange history and species.

26 years old and still relevant....

@RealHexJoker

6 жыл бұрын

we are so fucked we should have started switching off fossil fuels then once the permafrost melts and enough methane is released into the atmosphere we will all suffocate to death

@VeganSemihCyprus33

6 жыл бұрын

Obviously our species will not mature, or even it is suicidal...

@yourhandlehere1

6 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily suicidal but inherently lazy. All of our inventions have been to make something, easier. We can dig with our hands, but a stick makes it easier. A sharp rock on a stick, a shovel, a plow, train a horse to pull a plow, a tractor, a steam shovel, earth movers. All to make digging in the dirt easier. Right now, the easiest thing to do is go about their business of making money while they can from the sale of fossil fuels. Plus they have to figure out how to charge exorbitant amounts and keep us on the grid when we could all have our own solar..

@scholarlyanalyst7700

6 жыл бұрын

Correction! 27 years old and still relevant

@fromnorway643

5 жыл бұрын

@@scholarlyanalyst7700 Correction! 28 years old and more relevant than ever.

A real genius, and if more people listened; a real hero.

@krishna-dq4cm

5 жыл бұрын

Real human being and

@user-di1tf4lm2j

3 жыл бұрын

@Helen Harvey Carl Sagan once in a life time discovery The Cosmos. A true humanitarian such a loss.

@tonydon7441

3 жыл бұрын

He was extremely smart i dont know about genius..to really understand if someone is a genius you not only have to look at his work which was outstanding but you have to look at his personal life. In that area I do not see any evidence of genius especially when you consider all his failed marriages. A true genius wouldnt have a failed marriage or wouldnt have gotten married at all.

@brucewhite7260

3 жыл бұрын

@Tony Don your point makes absolutely no logical sense at all. By this measure one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century and undisputed genius would fall short of genius in your estimation of him, and I am referring to Richard Feynman who also had a failed marriage. Marriages break up for various reasons. Maybe his partner changed her personality, was deceitful, maybe they grew apart because of changes in their situation. Many geniuses are very difficult to live with. They are obsessed with their work. They don’t interact well with others.

@tonydon7441

3 жыл бұрын

@@brucewhite7260 A genius would of foresaw all that nonsense and would of never gotten married in the first place. Richard shows no signs of being a GENIUS but was one of the SMARTEST people to ever live. Big difference.

The world needs desperately of people like him!

@richardg5301

Жыл бұрын

There are, except now they get ridiculed by some airhead politician trying to discredit them before even getting to speak.

One of my personal heros. What he said here (1990) is what we are talking about now (32 years later!!)

@donnavorce8856

Жыл бұрын

The environmental movement start in the late 60s and early 70s. People knew where we are headed. The rich and powerful would rather keep getting more rich and powerful than do what's necessary to save a lot of earth's life from some shitty scenarios. They didn't listen in the 70s, nor to Carl in the 90s. They're not listening now.

@rsr789

Жыл бұрын

Because humans are greedy idiots who don't deserve to live.

Even though I am not religious, but Carl Sagan was a truly blessed man. I am very thankful that we are able to hear and watch his speeches. Truly inspiring and intelligent person he was 👍

Thank goodness that we have videos of this brilliant man.

@jameslorman4715

Жыл бұрын

True true true!!!! Now if we could only get people to listen and actually do something!!!!

Carl sagan is a brilliant man who’s life was cut short

I really enjoy Carl Sagan’s speeches. I also enjoy the non-political approach of this subject. This is the kind of dialogue needed to advance humanity.

@shaneshaffer7972

2 жыл бұрын

he's literally blaming the MID, automobiles, antiscience religion -- which would be construed as political today...

What a great communicator of science and how ahead of his time he was!!

We need him today more than any other time. Looks like human beings and are always on denial.

I was lucky to get to grow up with this man in the world. He is sorely missed.

I did not know Jimmy Carter had solar energy installed on the White House or that it was promptly uninstalled by Reagan. I am also reminded of why I became interested in saving our environment. I wonder if Carl had a similar affect on Elon Musk as he was growing up. The younger generation need to hear this

I hope this video would've been on every nations basic lecture in schools.

What an engaging and thought provoking conversation, almost 30 years later Carl Sagan is still alive, still inspiring future generations to embrace our world with open eyes and genuine curiosity.

Carl is the rarest of rare Visionaries , brilliant mind.

This speech gives me goosebumps. I'm reading the headlines today about climate change and basically everything was predicted by Carl Sagan. It is ironic that Carl tells the story of Cassandra who had the power of foresight but nobody believed her. It seems that he was also a prophet who was ignored.

@eduardocrisostomo3288

3 жыл бұрын

This should be watch by china russia n u.s.a..learn from this genius.

@souravsahoo1582

3 жыл бұрын

@@eduardocrisostomo3288 china is a shit for the world

@taylorc2542

2 жыл бұрын

Meh, I think the climate alarmists are the Cassandra's. They are the entrenched power censoring any skepticism.

@urmeli0815

2 жыл бұрын

@@taylorc2542 You understand that Cassandra was the one who always told the truth but nobody believed her? So you're basically supporting my argument :) You can freely express your scepticism but you should expect to be asked serious questions by scientists. Because you won't be able to say later "well, fine, I was wrong and you were right, who cares?" ... then it's too late.

@AD-kv9kj

2 жыл бұрын

@@taylorc2542 "Meh", the response of a petulant and ignorant child. Your thinking on this has been royally manipulated. Those in power are doing F all about climate change, but they're businessmen, so they're abusing the problem to profiteer. It IS a real problem and it IS being massively accelerated by human pollution - just look around you, literally anywhere on the planet. It's not possible that this endless and vast scale pumping of CO2 into the atmosphere is not affecting the normal cycles and balances of the Earth's ecosystem. It's like a house full of people constantly smoking and claiming it's not going to cause a problem - that smoke occurs in nature anyway, so this is natural and normal and not detrimental to everyone's wellbeing. Just an utterly bizarre twisted and dismissive way of thinking, because ultimately it means snapping out of your now heavily conditioned opinions and realising we've all got a big problem on our hands. Burying your head in the sand and only believing ignorant fools because it makes you feel better is probably THE single biggest problem with human beings. Stop adding to it ffs.

If someone told me that this lecture was yesterday, I believe him.

A gifted communicator who engages those of is without a science background ..i dont think there has ever been in broadcasting anyone to match his ability to express with thoughtfulness and sometimes wisdom ...A great man of astronomy

At 40:12 he talked about Bangladesh. Now we are facing these issues that he talked almost 28 years ago! What a visionary man! He was ahead of his time.

@merijn0301

5 жыл бұрын

Point is : Scientists warned us for global warming and greenhouse-effects over 40 years ago. It's been an issue for over 40 years, only not the first point on the agenda. Acid rain was tackled by extracting sulfur out of crude-oil and its derivates an by catalytic convertors. CFC were banned and alternatives were found. However, those solutions did not (really) affect our daily lives. The issues we're facing now force us to change our daily routines. And that's something humans are inherently bad at. I'm certainly not saying that I'm good at it, only human after all. But it all starts by acknowledging there IS a problem.

@Jay-ft3xh

Жыл бұрын

If Sagan was ahead of his time, what does that make of Roger Revelle...

Brilliant!! Wisdom + Humility. RIP prof Sagan.

we need more people like him.

@donnavorce8856

Жыл бұрын

About 400 in congress for a start.

Fascinating speech. The man had focus. Thanks for posting.

@stars6702

3 жыл бұрын

How does one focus? I mean i just cant focus on one thing for too long

@aerobique

2 жыл бұрын

@@stars6702 you too can learn to focus, just keep what you want in mind. The "learning" goes automatically, just takes a while. x x

33 years later and EVERYTHING Carls said is coming to pass.

@BrianSweda

8 ай бұрын

He's no prophet. If you think deeply about what this means it's not hard to come to these conclusions. And the republican party does not give a shit about the future of life on this planet. They will cause doomsday because of greed and arrogance and claim it's bible prophecy

JUST FINISHED WATCHING A SPEECH BY A MOST INTELLIGENT, ENLIGHTENED AND ELOQUENT MAN ! A MAN WITH INSIGHT, FORESIGHT, IMAGINATION, VISION AND CLASS ! EVERYONE SHOULD AVAIL THEMSELVES TO VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES OF THIS MOST REMARKABLE HUMAN BEING ! IT IS THIS SORT OF LEADER WITH HIS IMPECCABLE CHARACTER AND PERSONALITY THAT OUGHT TO BE A MODEL FOR NATIONAL AND WORLD LEADERS NOW AND IN THE FUTURE !

The more I get to know Carl Sagan, the more I'm impressed. Who are the 94 people who gave this a thumbs down? What is going on in their minds?

@toobad55

3 жыл бұрын

Those are republicans. Selfishness.

@derreckwalls7508

2 жыл бұрын

@@toobad55 That was going to be my answer. Republican legislators have put the US behind every other Western country in nearly every regard considered a worldwide or humanitarian issue. I was appalled when they adopted the slogan, "America First". It is so pathetically narrow minded in a global economy, and proves the senselessly selfish ideals of their party. And their support of extreme literalist theocratic Christian's is even more frightening.

@TheMilhouseExperience

2 жыл бұрын

Just know that republicans have done more to reduce emissions by being smarter about them, than any democrat that just takes money to fly around the world in their own personal airplane, telling everybody to stop owning things, having sex, and eating meat. Personal congratulations to Gore and Obama on their beachfront properties.

@MyNameGoesRightHere

Жыл бұрын

What minds?

@joesikic6531

Жыл бұрын

Probably greed, lack or disbelief of facts, or nothing at all ✌️

A real scientist is always simple and clear. He speaks humbles and show his ideas withouth any arrogance. Real scientist!

If only scientists and people in power listen to him, world would have been a better place

@johngage5391

5 жыл бұрын

Elected officials will listen to us if we all speak up for change. Write Congress today: cclusa.org/energy-innovation-act

i love this man 😸🔥 & don’t forget to read your books kids 📚♥️

How desperately we need Carl Sagan now more than ever....we're living in a time where ignorance and misinformation are running absolutely *rampant* and the people making the most consequential decisions are backward-minded politicians and smug nihilistic billionaires. He truly was the shining example of combining education with compassion, humility, and a love for the human race.

Carl Sagan at his best! Logical, intelligent, creative, and humorous!

This great man is one of my very favorite personalities. He is immensely inspiring to leading us towards the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

profound and smart. its unbelievable no action has been taken 30 years later

I feel like he would be so disappointed of the fact in the near 30 years this has been we've only gotten worse.

@MMaRsu

2 жыл бұрын

He was right in so many ways. A visionary and humans were too stupid to listen.

@charlesgallagher1376

2 жыл бұрын

Sagan warned us about anti science morons getting power. He was right.

@jandrews6254

2 жыл бұрын

If you thought that was bad, what do you think of it now?

Only 62k views for such an important and compassionate speech. Carl gave the world so much. He had a gift to reach out to people and communicate with people from all kinds of backgrounds. The topics he is discussing here are on the agenda more so than two decades ago, but it's still a side story on most media outlets.

@christopherross8358

5 жыл бұрын

If it were a gun video it would have 6 million views

Thank you so much for this. I'm 22 years old and look up to Carl very much... has made a huge impact on my life. Coming from the USA. We will always remember you. RIP to STAR MAN

Thier will never be another quite like him. Thank you Mr.Sagan for filling a young Midwestern boy with a zest to learn about the Cosmos and our place in it. That zest has never left me all these years later. Indeed it has been strengthened. And it is because of you. " We began as wanderers..and are wanderers still".

@daltanda3908

4 жыл бұрын

*There (since you have a "zest" for learning ;) ).

I wish our Senators and Representatives were required to watch this.

What the world needs now is an Equitorial Green Belt Initiative, where we plant as many trees as have been removed over the last few centuries.

We owe it to Sagan to each do one thing in our life carrying his message.

I can watch him for hours

A delight to listen to him :)

27 years old now and very relevant.

Why can we not get a person of his intelligence to be president of the USA

@mrDeath1970

5 жыл бұрын

because we are little people..and the establishment don't want us to have a voice.they don't want to upset the apple cart.

@mrDeath1970

5 жыл бұрын

The money people are so absorbed in their arrogance, they will do whatever they can to stop the truth.

@JosephNordenbrockartistraction

4 жыл бұрын

It takes many words to explain. Greedy politicians in elected office spend most their time whoring for more dark money just to keep their own chair warm with their lazy ass every election and of course their bank account fat.

@TravisLP27

4 жыл бұрын

No. They refuse to participate, for good reason. It’s very sad but the only option now is to wait until they fail and the world is collapsing then take it back and make it right. I believe the current world leaders in politics and business know absolutely for a fact that the world is heading for disaster, they’re going to take as much as they can until it does because they’re extremely afraid of what will happen to them once the truth is extremely obvious to the general population. They want to have all the wealth and power when that happens. It will happen. The question is when. CO2 levels have not even slowed down btw they’re only increasing, which is why they say now that it’s a “natural process” that humans don’t impact when we knew for a fact at the time of this speech that humanity contributed immensely to the rise in greenhouse gases. They are only protecting themselves for the impending catastrophe that they know is now inevitable and they’re not willing to risk their wealth and power to try to fix it because the efforts made so far have done nothing significant so it seems hopeless to them, might as well consolidate power and wealth until it happens. Both of which are very evident, as the rich continue to get richer and the world continues to warm. They’re also steadily working towards disarming the public for the same reasons. Many millions will die once harvests begin to fail, they don’t want to be one of them, do you? What are you gonna do about it? They’re preparing, why aren’t we?

@HarryNicNicholas

4 жыл бұрын

cos sagan, and most scientists, aren't interested in screwing their fellows.

Great speaker. To say for an hour what could be delivered in 10 minutes - and without repetitions - is rare skill.

@Jay-ft3xh

Жыл бұрын

Some kids require visualizations and metaphors. Others prefer backhanded compliments while pretending to be intelligent. Good luck?

Everything Carl Sagan said is full of truth and wisdom. Cosmos is the greatest show about science about humanity and the universe. Carl was also a very accomplished speaker.

I am most inspired by his wisdom, insights and foresights on what's happening today elaborated over 30 years ago!. I shared with my network today this amazing lecture. I hope everyone could share this and spread his wisdom!

What an incredible talk. How far backwards we’ve gone.

One of the most brilliant & somewhat heartwarming speeches I have ever heard! There will never be another Carl Sagan & that is truly sad. Shame on us...!

@ironhazes

4 жыл бұрын

There are lots of smart scientists and independent thinkers who tell all of us what the real problems are. Carl Sagan surely was one of (if not THE) finest. We are not asked to sit back and wait for a new Carl Sagan. We need to act. It is that simple. Did you plant a tree today?

My life began in the year that this talk was recorded. How I long to see policy and large-scale decision makers embody the lessons it contains.

@singularity-

4 жыл бұрын

It won't happen until enough of us embody, serve as example, and promote it in everything we do.

The IPCC report released 3/20/23 found that the target limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temps within a decade is not likely to be met. The National Space Council and ARPA-E should be looking hard at Space-based Solar Power right now to meet terrestrial energy needs and net zero emissions targets by 2050. The DOE should be seated on the National Space Council. Agencies in other nations like China, India, Japan, UK, and the EU are currently investing in SBSP programs. NASA's Artemis program, Starship HLS, Blue Moon HLS, other private systems, and companies who will manufacture (or print) from both Earth-sourced and lunar-sourced materials, will help bring SBSP to a competitive business case. With focus, motivation, and government risk mitigation, timelines can be reduced. The PRC has stated intentions to use their Tiangong space station for power beaming tests and the moon for sunsat construction materials. Resources preserved in shadowed craters at the lunar poles (like water and other useful volatiles) will be game-changing for their SBSP program, they project. The solar power satellite was invented in the U.S. in 1968. The potential market for the industry is $10 trillion per year by 2050. Along with other ground-based measures, it can meet the energy and environmental requirements for our expanding civilization for the duration of the sun. "With so large a potential market, we in the United States must move aggressively to regain a leading role in (SBSP's) development. Above all, we who live in the biosphere cannot afford to let it die." - Prof. Gerard K. O'Neill, Alternative Plan for US National Space Program,1990, Space Studies Institute “The sun doesn’t run out, or at least not for 5 billion years, and I figure that’s good enough.” - Carl Sagan, 2/9/1990 speech before the 5th Emerging Issues Forum, NCSU

This man should never have been taken from us

What a fresh breath of air Carl Sagan is, and shall always be.

Damn, I love this man.

I miss Carl Sagan. He was definitely like a father figure to humanity, that sometimes I feel like we are so lost in our ignorance today. Hay un vacio en este mundo con su ausencia. Que descanse en paz Dr. Sagan.

Yeah, great speech I had never seen before. Amazing wise words from Dr. Sagan that apply more today than ever in this ridiculous political climate. Watching this is like a message from him beyond the grave.

I could listen to every word he has ever said.

This ought to be seen by every human once a year.... mandatory!!!

Thank you for posting this

At least now, (in 2020) we've eliminated most of the CFC's in our atmosphere. And the production of it stopped in 1995.

Just wonderful in every way🙏Thank you very much for sharing, love that man, then and now, from the absolute bottom of my heart💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

True to the last word, even more so today.

Our greatest teacher!

@donewithyourshit7303

2 жыл бұрын

❤️

Please share this brief video with other people: Atheists and Agnostics Need This

Thank you for this posting. Carl Sagan Forever!!

Thank you for posting.

This may be his best speech yet ... Carl has had *a plethora of great speeches* for this to compete with, impressive.

This is my fourth time watching this in the past several months. There is as much to learn from the content as from the construction of the lecture. The steady flow of information and presentation of the argument is captivating and is an excellent case study for persuasive speaking.

So much effort all his life and no one listened nor listens. It’s really sad. We probably deserve what will happens to our planet, if he couldn’t change us - nobody can.

@fanfam

5 жыл бұрын

You still can. Never to old. Forget social pressure. Just follow your dreams and doors start to open everywhere.

@Luzt.

5 жыл бұрын

The planet will be fine. Only humanity will disappear.

@josephlammardo

8 ай бұрын

More are listening now. Change is occurring, just too slowly with respect to the fossil fuel industry

Thank you very much for posting this. 🙏🏼

Thanks for preserving this great mind. Dr. Sagan was also a great student of the Humanities .

@marymargaretblumhorst5359

2 жыл бұрын

That is very obvious!

I loved this guy ... I miss Carl Sagan and wish he was still alive. Sad that this was over 30 years ago now, and not much has been done regarding these global issues.

@justgivemethetruth

2 жыл бұрын

@@a.r.p.management5746 True, but that has been deliberately induced by the elitist plutocrats from the political Right.

Just brilliant, thanks for uploading. Love the concept of the "maturing" of our species. Yet to come...

If only we had leaders like Dr. Sagan, who consider the impact we have on future generations. This earth has plenty to give for all its current and future inhabitants many years from now so long as we take care of it.

Carl Sagan was a visionary! Here we are 30 years later and have taken too little steps to solve greenhouse warming.

He has shaped our current trajectory for the green movement - he continue to impact our future despite not being with us anymore...

4 years later and 2021 and the evidences are clearer that we as humans should come together as citizens of Planet Earth and address this dire Issue of global warming before it’s too late.

Absolutely amazing speech ... unbelievable, that these forecasts from 20 years ago do correspond 1:1 to the observations of our generation. As a guy of science, I believe to be able to distinguisch between people who just talk and those who really have to say something. Thanks Carl, rip, this was inspriring.

Awesome speech, covering a whole range of topics that are all the more relevant today.

How do you not love and miss Carl Sagan? Topic, tempo, tone, delivery and humour.

thanks for posting.

Just watched this again today. What a marvelous man. Thanks for posting.

Thank you.

Incredibly brilliant and foresighted. We all knew by then and yet…

What a great sadness that we should lose a man of such stature at a time we so desperately need men of vision

Great speech. I think, judging by his closing remark, he would be dismayed by what has happened up to now.

This speech is prophetic. I miss Carl very much.