Climate change: Are there too many people? - 6 Minute English
What do you think is the biggest cause of climate change? Improve your English vocabulary and listening as we discuss the controversial link between overpopulation and climate change - and whether the size of your carbon footprint depends on where in the world you were born.
This week's question
How many people are there in the world today?
a) seven billion
b) eight billion
c) nine billion
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
✔️carbon footprint - measurement of how much carbon dioxide is produced by someone's everyday activities
✔️crunch (the) numbers - perform many mathematical calculations involving large amounts of data and numbers
✔️mod cons (= modern conveniences) - technology and machines like cars, washing-machines, air-conditioning and fridges which make life easier and more pleasant
✔️affluence - having lots of money or owning many material possessions
✔️apologetic - showing that you feel sorry for something harmful you have said or done
✔️let your heart rule your head - (idiom) do something based on emotion or personal desires rather than for logical or practical reasons
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VOCABULARY IN THIS VIDEO “Climate change: Are there too many people?” 1. Judgmental: too quick to criticize people 2. Carbon footprint: measurement of how much carbon dioxide is produced by someone's everyday activities 3. Crunch (the) numbers: perform many mathematical calculations involving large amounts of data and numbers 4. Mod cons (= modern conveniences): technology and machines like cars, washing-machines, air-conditioning and fridges which make life easier and more pleasant 5. Affluence: having lots of money or owning many material possessions 6. Apologetic: showing that you feel sorry for something harmful you have said or done 7. Let your heart rule your head: (idiom) do something based on emotion or personal desires rather than for logical or practical reasons. 8. All the mod cons: all the things that are fitted in modern houses to make life easy and comfortable ALL THE BEST FOR YOU. 19/01/2023
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9 ай бұрын
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10 ай бұрын
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Being responsible is the first step. We all have seen where the disrespectful and ruthless companies policy are leading us. Soil and water contamination must not be underestimated. What we do will come back to us whether we like it or not. We are not the problem, but the solution if we change our way to do things and adopt a better waste management.
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VOCABULARY IN “climate change: are there too many people” 1. Carbon footprint: measurement of how much carbon dioxide is produced by someone's everyday activities 2. Controversial: causing disagreement or discussion: 3. Soared: to rise very quickly to a high level 4. Astonishing: very surprising 5. Crunch number: perform many mathematical calculations involving large amounts of data and numbers 6. Mod cons: technology and machines like cars, washing machines, air-conditioning, and fridges which make life easier and more pleasant 7. Reckon: to calculate an amount 8. Affluence: having lots of money or owning many material possessions 9. Derive: to get something from something else 10. let your heart rule your head (idiom) do something based on emotion or personal desires rather than for logical or practical reasons
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Thanks for this video to BBC team, I hope that we'll fix these problems which are crucial to us in 10 years and when we come positive sides. Nowadays majority of teenager are worried about climate change as individuals
@supermansuperman9066
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MUSTAFA ISILAR------Much of the plastic that people believe will be recycled isn't. We don't have the chemical ability to breakdown the molecular structure of a high percentage of the plastic. It's buried in American landfills and the same goes for foreign counties. Lately some of these countries have had large floods bringing landslides and the landfills are unearthed and run into the rivers creating masses of dangerous plastic in huge areas that may get stopped at a dam or other wall like structure where it may be collected again, or it makes itself to the oceans where animals are found to have these plastic molecules in their body cells. I don't believe in so called climate change; it's a political lie. The earth has had much more happen in terms of CO2 and other gases long before man was around, from thousands of volcanos and huge meteors. Humans couldn't change the weather if we all set out to do it. CO2 isn't our enemy. If we go back to 1970 and study all the fake reports that the sky is falling and continue it forward to the present , we would all see how it's all political propaganda.
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7 ай бұрын
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@onlyone2948
11 ай бұрын
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Hi thanks for your useful info it really help us if we listen to these kind of video I really like it and I think the main problem of climate change and air pollution is human activity so we should avoid from burning of house hold item material because its harmful for environment
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Agree that there are too many people, but I guess its more of a problem that there are too many people in one place, making it congested and so. That's why the government and businesses needs to branch-out their services to rural areas so people wouldn't flock the cities
@Acccountable
10 ай бұрын
Bingo, we only take up 4% of all the land. Why not branch out and create new SMART GRIDDED cities. Oh, that's right the elites won't have as much money.
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A cornerstone of effective climate action lies in education and awareness, enlightening the public about the far-reaching consequences of their choices.
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We really are too many people
nice video
Of course, We need to solve that. People don't really see how hard it is to have more people. They are just indeed happy with baring more and more kids.
@shaungrundle3236
Жыл бұрын
Its a taboo topic. But economics will solve the issue eventually.
@Truthseeker371
9 ай бұрын
Growing old age group is also a concern to the pension and taxation system, not to talk about burden on medical expenses.
Thanks BBC My summary while listening This program's topic is related to the environment, climate change specifically. The main question here is what is the biggest cause of climate change? The obvious answer would be carbon emissions caused by humans. However, recently scientists in the West have focused on another issue which is overpopulation, the ever-increasing number of people globally. Arvind Ravikumar, a professor of climate policy, has findings that are quite astonishing after crunching the numbers. He concluded that two billion low-income people would produce very little carbon emissions while two billion high-income people would increase the carbon levels a lot. This is due to the fact that those with a high living have mod cons including machines and technology to make their lives more pleasant and easier. Therefore, the real problems are actually overconsumption and affluence, but not overpopulation. In an interview, Priti Dhagan, a rich Indian housewife, shared that you could not be judgmental about anybody's needs. In fact, people are drawn by consumer goods which increase their levels of happiness. Generally speaking, her heart wins over her brain so she doesn't feel apologetic about her habit of shopping regularly.
@Truthseeker371
9 ай бұрын
Oh, you are referring to materialism and consumerism. Yes, decluttering and not wanting helps reduce the garbage disposal. Shopholic is a metal problem, lack of being loved. Needs a good talk with husband and therapy. So does hoarding, childhood emotional issues.
Excuse me, at around 1:04 there is a phrase "within one lifetime". I don't really understand what it means. Thank you for any help by chance
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This topic leads me to think that at the rate we are going it will be very difficult to rescue the world
Hi, what level is this podcast? I think it's B2-C1
May I suggest some other topics? forgiveness, yoga, pranayam, habit, vipassana etc.
@magesalmanac6424
Жыл бұрын
Bruh you won’t have any yoga when the planet is dead 🤔
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I don't believe one of the contributors to climate change is overpopulation, but there are more other factors which can contribute climate change, including consumption of fossil fuel ⛽️
Yes, we all can see that the difference between the usage of poor and rich people. Only rich person can receive high quality living standards especially western countries. People in developing countries struggle to get basic needs.
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7 ай бұрын
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7 ай бұрын
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What about Gas emissions and exhaust fumes from vehicles
I like this video
emissions - overconsumption - carbon footprint
Yes, there are and not in Europe, in Asia and Africa
YES! YES! and YES! (to the question asked in the title to this video)
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There is no scientific link between CC and CO2 footprint. You might have had some point when you linked GW aka Greenhouse effect with CO2, but dropping GW and replacing it with CC was a fatal move for you. And, yes, there are too many people on Planet Earth: the ones that are saying that there are too many people and they should sacrifice themselves first, in order to save the Planet.
@theultimatereductionist7592
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There is no scientific link to teachers exercising their First Amendment Freedom of Speech to talk about transgender and homosexual experiences in Florida schools and any "illegality" or "crime" being committed. Nobody needs to take a biased judge's ruling or a biased cop's ruling/decision seriously. Only Atheist Antinatalist Animal Rights Vegan judges should be taken seriously.
Climate change is the most crucial issue that people have to overcome even if they will leave their luxury.
@Acccountable
10 ай бұрын
Well the same people were yapping about it back in the 1920's, so what happened??? Nothing, we don't control the climate, never did, never will.
population increase with high demand of developmental projects in the industrial sector is a major reason for climate change, taking Accra as a case study where we do not practice the process of planting trees to absorb harmful emission into the atmosphere The indigenes lacks quality air which posses several health hazards to its environs
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I would say yes. Many people breed when they can never afford
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We can live together nature.
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The summary of climate change is easy. It is the change of humidity in atmosphere, which produce between the (land)and the(seas & oceans) on the other hand... Occurring of rains, snow, storms, and floods at time and in unexpected places, confirm my theory(the change in the directions of winds)which must be balanced... How to reduce the heat of the earth and atmosphere? We must supply the earth with a natural cooling places... Results: ---------- 1- To balance the water vapor which produces between the( ground)and the(seas and oceans )... 2- To balance the pressures of the air in the atmosphere... 3- To balance the directions of winds which caused the climate change... 4- To control upon the storms and harricans... 5- To revive the the first theory of climate change (dynamic horizontal movement). 6- To balance the percentage of gases forming the atmosphere. NOTE :The lack of water vapor is of land not of seas and oceans... These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000... Yousif A Tobiya Forcibly displaced
Yes
Leave only 1 million people on earth is a good idea.
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The BBC are so informative if u listen carefully and believe the complete opposite
The richest produce the most CO2 and do the least work.
Let your heart rule your head(id) do st based on emotion or personal desire rather than logical/practical thought/ reasons Ex: when we fall in love with sb, we usually let our heart rule our head more. Mod cons: is short for modern convieniences such as washing machines, air-conditioning and fridges which made life become easier and more pleasant. Affluence(n) having lots of money or owing many material possessions Ex: The rich often live in affluence/ a life of affluence. Judgmental: quick to criticize people.
Too many people? No, there are too many malthusians. Is the sentence correct?
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In a word, yes :(
Yes . To many people . Bill Gates is working on that as he's stated himself . He liked the idea of a pandemic in his own words .
It's pretty much about a person's carbon footprint.
Huge population.
Done
Short answer yes there is too many people in the world there has been for decades
in japan, there have been massive deforestations for the solar panels construction in this decade. is it the right countermeasure against global warming ?
But I think it's temperature not human activity
it seems natual disasters is a good way to clean global
Do you find your life disabled by sin, by discouragement, or by addiction? Are you hoping someone will help you up? Jesus stands next to you and says, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” Will you stand up on both feet for Him?
At 5:18 they recap the vocabulary
Human beings you're gonna reap what you sow ✌️ & ❤️ 2 everyone what you give out is what you shall receive it's called Karma so have a good day 😊 ❤️ 🌟 🤩
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Also,the math didn’t count into the fact of human nature in poor countries: some peoples will get educated and some want to have small business.some may want to be engineer and some want to be farmers… My point is eventually,in history poor countries will grow towards some industrial global market and foreign investment will come with it. So, stop pretending the world population is not a factor of the CO2 emissions issues, the population numbers are the issues
Lets her heart rule her head :3 the interested idiom
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The Developed Countries and emmissons of gases into atmosphere.
There are too many people. Our ability to mate year round was okay for a while. Now it's going to do us in. Then there's greed.