Thank you so much for having me on to discuss this anxiety Kurtis - it's always so reassuring to realise the feeling is shared. To watch our (slightly more silly!) video about climate action, head on over to kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWZqx6yRZ73dftY.html

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

It was such a pleasure to work on these with you Adam. Thanks so much!

@Yahwehussy

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience what is climate change like is it just the hole in the ozone?

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

It goes like this: when we burn fossil fuels like gasoline, the smoke/gases from it sticks around in the atmosphere, and those gases trap heat from the sun. We burn so much fuel, that its heating the planet and changing the entire climate, causing floods and forest fires that are worse than in all of human history, and it keeps getting worse.

@laurenglaze2571

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, I am interested in helping to moderate!

@0cs025

4 жыл бұрын

I would gladly moderate, if it's okay for you of course.

I really believed in human-induced climate changed and I _try_ to be eco friendly but in reality, I just put it in the back of my head. Your videos are really making me realize how little I actually pay attention to this urgent situation. We need to take action now.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Thank you.

Last time I was this early oil prices were still positive

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

lolz

@aenorist2431

4 жыл бұрын

And how much money do you want to loose to me in a bet that nations will again save the industry thats already subsidized beyond all reason?

@laMoria

3 жыл бұрын

@@aenorist2431 the amount of Co2 put every year in the atmosphere in dollars.

This anxiety hits me hard and sometimes left me sleepless... I'm 42, I try my best to make a difference on daily basis in my family and community(organic food, vegan, little waste for instance) and it feels like it does nothing. I feel powerless and depressed.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

You are not powerless. Your actions matter, and I thank you. We can all only do our best. 💚

@LilAdoris

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Thanks for your kind words. I wish I can do more. I'm trying to create a tool to help people connect easily for local actions. I dunno if it's gonna work but I have to try. Stay safe.

@annakeye

4 жыл бұрын

*+Lulu HQ* After watching Michael Moore's *Planet of the Humans* I couldn't agree more. The renewables industry is bullshit. I knew that concrete was a massive problem but massive amounts are used in making so called renewable energies such as wind. Solar panels are a massive problem. They're not made of sand. They're made of coal and quartz and we all know how those things are mined. I could go on.

Thank you. Also called "Pre-traumatic stress disorder". I saw videos on that topic 5+ years ago. It mostly affected scientists back then and some awaken environmentalist and communicators for instance. Since Capitalist economy/societies can't stand stress without crashing, I suspect it's why climate change has been so vastly ignored, when not denied, on mass medias as well as by most our politicians.

This really came at the right time. Yesterday I had a "crack" in staying positive and could only cry due to climate grief. This video helped me realise that this is normal and that all my attempts, although they seem too small, really can contribute. I'm working on becoming a researcher in the field! Now finishing my Masters

"To make this possible, we need to transform our world into one that is more equitable for people of all races, classes, and backgrounds." That is truly inspiring!

Everyone says wow this is terrible and just two minutes later they forget about it...

I appreciate what you do for everyone. As I live in Alaska I am seeing the effects of climate change on a pretty major level. Every day trees are being cut down and temperatures are rising, and we are seeing more and more invasive species it didn't even snow until December here. We need to do something, and I appreciate the way you spread facts and information and help people understand this problem that we are facing.

My grief is not just about the climate. It’s a realization that facts and reason can’t compete with the entrenched wealth which controls strategic decisions.

@ElephantsRock943

3 жыл бұрын

Things can change. Look at the Black Lives Matter protests. People are finally taking notice and taking action. It may be just a start, but it's a start. Change can happen.

Awesome content! It is great to hear that this feeling is shared. I often find myself ignoring climate news because I know that it will almost always be depressing. I know that we need to focus on climate change more than anything else, but it can be hard to deal with the stress that it imposes. Also, I loved the collaboration with @ClimateAdam ! I have been watching his stuff for a few months now too!

Thank you so much for doing this. I'm (hopefully) heading into Biology as my field and I'm already terrified of everything about climate, while knowing how vital it is that I know about it and do what I can to help. I know I'm going to become more and more aware of the issues facing our planet and it's nice to see someone being constructive on the other side.

Oh my, I have climate grief I've finally put a term on my anxiety

Reminds me of how after the Northridge Earthquake, with no electricity in the whole city, suddenly we could see not 32 stars above LA, but more like 32 million... The air is cleaner, Mother Nature is taking a breath of fresh air...

Thank you. For the last couple years my country has made me cry and get upset with everything going on and how my country isn’t taking care of the environment.

If I'm quite honest, I was very very interested and ready to tackle climate change, then I lost hope and I think I've realised from this video that I had major anxiety about it all, so I gave up with thinking so much about the environment. I do often feel like I could do nothing to help, but this video has been very helpful to show that doing nothing won't help and that the whole conversation of climate change isn't a bad and scary thing, but something to behold, loads of people working together from across the world, trying to preserve nature and beauty, so we can live in a future where we have free energy and clean air. So thank you, Kurtis.

WOW! for my first time in my blessed 63 yrs of life and my one marriage and my magnificent 5 children i am left speechless. peace out people .

It is crazy how the climate constantly shifts and becomes more and more unstable right in front of our eyes, and yet there is little to nothing done about it. Compare the weather graphs from 10 years ago with the current ones. The difference is immense, it is hard to imagine, what it will be like in tens of years to come. Thank you Kurtis for creating these videos. They really make a difference. Cheers!

Yes to Action, Yes to Getting Help... Well Said Gents !

Thanks for this video. Sharing feelings is hard, period. Coupled with doubt and a climate crisis and helplessness? Compounded tenfold. Thanks for the support. And thanks for providing some direction for me to make a difference. Been vegetarian for 5 years; it was hard at first, but now I don't even think about being vegetarian, so it's funny to think that my actions are making a difference every day. I'm going to look at getting some plants to grow. :)

I can't thank you enough for doing this work, Kurtis. You are making people wake up to this issue, including myself. You are making a difference. 🌍💚

I think these kinds of anxiety happen all the time, especially if you're an activist. I've had worries about climate like most others. And I've worried about other things as well. I worry about a friend in Venezuela and about their refugee crisis: the sheer scale of it and how little it's being funded... that's made me feel hopeless before. I'm a huge privacy advocate, and knowing all the ways data is being underhandedly collected, traded, etc. by governments and corporations... that's made me feel hopeless before. I'm luckily not the type of person where hopelessness can easily overwhelm me, but my mind has dipped into the surface of that downwards spiral before I realized what was going on.

I really appreciate your videos. Thank you!

How did you find your climate emotions support group? I'm interested in joining something like that as well.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

I found mine through facebook. I regularly search for 'climate change' events near me. I think it is a pretty new/rare thing, but I hope you'll find one! If I find an online one I'll let you know

I've definitely been grieving for the planet. It's very upsetting. I think more than anything, I'm angry at the lack of organization and action. Then there's the feeling of helplessness. I sure as hell vote. I put my wallet where my mouth is. I volunteer time, money and energy to organizations that help fight climate change. It's not enough, though. I talk to my friends and a therapist. I think the only way to feel better is to DO something. So, I'll watch the other vid and see if there's more I can do.

Honestly, just the fact its been hot and blue skies in the netherlands the past weeks already makes me a little nervous. Everyday I go outside hoping at least once that it would rain instead of the endless heat and dryness. It is good to know that I and others are not alone in our nervosity and fear.

@lilcrowlet1802

4 жыл бұрын

Of course weather =/= climate, but the fact that the drought here from 2018 may just happen again this year is no coincidence. But thx for the vid man, you and dr Adam.

This is really helpful, thank you!!!

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome :)

Thank you for helping me reframe this in my mind in a positive light from someone who already dealt with mental health challenges before learning much about how humanity, if the course does not change, is slowly bringing the world to its end. One person can make a difference, I just need to do what I can. We will change things. It will lead to a better world. And I'm not the only one who is overwhelmed and stressed by this which means we can all share the burden of anxiety and depression and of changing the way humanity operates.

Thank you so much for all of your videos, they are so honest and informative and exactly what we need at this time. But thank you especially for this one, you have no idea how much I needed and the amount of comfort that it brought to me despite how hopeless and powerless I often feel about our situation.

Hearing this (and learning there is a term for what I’m feeling because it’s common enough) has been extremely helpful. I know what it’s like to have depression that is driven by personal experiences and personal biology, but in the last 5 years or so that has shifted to something that isn’t really personal at all and I wasn’t really able to put words to it. “Existential” and “large scale” anxiety was the closest label I could give it but it wasn’t entirely accurate. And these feelings are constantly exasperated because I can’t anyone I know to be as concerned about it as be, I can sense that I just irritate people with my preoccupation with the broken politics that are driving climate change, and I just make all of my friends feel tired. Anyway, thank you for helping me to feel sane for 12 minutes

If not for this video, I would never have known that others were going through this as well. It feels good to know you aren't alone 😊 thank you❤️

Great Video! It’s nice to know I’m not the only one with anxiety about climate change etc. ... Love your videos, keep on doing what you’re doing! Really excited about your documentary:)

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lauren! You're definitely not alone. As for the documentary, I'm glad to hear that - but I hope you're patient. Its gonna be a while (especially given the pandemic).

This came at literally the perfect time thank you

@ClimateAdam

4 жыл бұрын

so glad to hear that!

our world without climate change sounds like an utopia

if we can solve climate change we can solve anything. I dont think it will be with renewables though. Not that we wont try to do it with renewables. If we manage to solve this monumental challenge it will be with a combination of geoengineering (sadly), nuclear and a side portion of renewables. Nuclear being the most important thing in terms of displacing fossil fuels and geoengineering just to buy us time to get to carbon negative.

Literally a few hours ago I went and posted an angry post about how I feel about this. Of course a lot of people didn't take me seriously and told me to be more positive and I'm overreacting. How can I be not sad about the future? People just ignore the fact.

I battle with this in my mind all the time. Major Companies and countries need to do something because individuals are just a drop in the ocean, but what is the ocean if not a multitude of drops.

It's just... I failed so much at doing the bare minimum, that I think the world would truly be better of without me.

I dont want ot be insensitive, but earth doesnt care about how we feel, how are we going to stop this climate change is what we need to discuss!

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Literally made a video about climate action solutions today, with Climate Adam. Its out on his channel here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qWZqx6yRZ73dftY.html

@vdwhite687

4 жыл бұрын

Shlomi Vinny exactly

@VinnyXL420

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Going to watch it rn! :)

ok ok. there was one girl in youtube who said "ask yourself how experiencing this anxiety helps you to achieve your goals in fighting climate change". basically all you need to do is constantly search ways to improve situation + doing something real.

Im not anxious. I'm flabbergasted. Dumbfounded. Astonished. But I understand whats happening. Encouraged by progress, even tho its too slow.

@johnnyboy2065

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah whatever you say dummy.

I'm glad I'm not alone. Thank you so much for this. But this is only a part of my thoughts. I try to share to as many people that know the kind of person I am of my thoughts and have fun. At times it will feel like theres a massive hole or I'm locked in a dark room alone with billions of walls but I feel contempt. I embrace it and use the people around me and love to keep moving forward because death is too easy and I know I would do anything to be alive again. It just means I am strong to get through whatever tries to bring me down because it cant get worse than what I already feel. I just love it when people who dont know me will eventually get to know me and finds out that there is way more to find. To some people I come across may think I am happy, good, joyful etc. While there are others who think I am dumb, idiot, creepy etc. In reality I just care in general with no ill intent. The way I see it now is as long as the population grows for entertainment, more money is needed. Clout dictates the world and it's getting worse. Not enough people to care where as everyone needs to be involved not just the few that are trying otherwise it's an up hill battle. Not saying to stop trying but the fact is sex, weapons and media controls everything. Or atleast plays a part in the direction we are heading.

could you make a video about the change in the world axis and the impact this has on weather?

how do you find these climate support groups

I love your videos, man! If you posted more, I’d absolutely watch all of them 😉😘

Im so used to extra adds that when i get to an video more than 10 mins and the red bar dosent have any yellow dots it feels weird to me and half the time i get out of the video 😂 😂 😂

I feel the same for farm animals.

how can i help you moderate?

Hopefully one day we’ll get world leaders who give a damn about climate change. All I can do for now is hope, I can’t vote yet

@ClimateAdam

4 жыл бұрын

just by talking about climate change - with your friends and family - you can have a huge impact, even if you personally can't vote yet. and hopefully that'll help us get the leaders we need!

Part of why I love science is that I can approach things stoicly and analytically. That being said though I start to feel very out of place when I hear about how installing infrastructure will provide "free energy forever" or about how '...to make this transition possible we need to transform this world into one that is a whole lot more equitable' or even the support groups people are forming to cope with their feelings of climate grief. Whislt climate change is not going to be solved by ignoring it, adopting a heuristic laiden with guilt, unrealistic solutions and a whole lot of extra baggage that should have an appointment with occams razor, doesn't inspire much confience either.

Thank you for your videos! Theyare giving me energy :) Sry my english is not the best ^^

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Your english seems fine to me, Gustav. Thank you! Stay safe

Oh this is so important. Thank you!

This helps a lot! Thank you ☺️

Nice Kandinsky there in the background)

Thanks sir for this videos . edit: I love your videos.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@saikesav4992

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Kurtis batis replied to my comment ,I am the luckiest person, thanks you sir ,keep making videos like this we support you ,love from India.

All we can do is make the best of things, live our lives according to the values we value, initiate change for example. But we also have to accept things as they are, even if things are not the way we like we still make the best of it:)

Are you able to reach out to local MP's?

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

Here in Canada, like a lot of democracies, I can simply google "contact [name of the person] MP" and find their info on the first result. By law they have a phone number and email that are publicly available to you. If you don't know their name you can google it by your postal code or zip code. Edit: Read this as "How are you..." woops! Yes. Yes I'm able to. I've actually personally met most of them in my city.

@watersoluble1903

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Hello thank you for replying, I find that local MP's do listen but the higher ups don't. In the meantime were recycling all we can and reducing single use plastics.

One thing we should all recognize is that moving completely away from cheap, dirty energy will lower our quality of life in the short-to-mid term. Also, even if we bite the bullet and move away from dirty energy the largest polluter (China) refuses to budge on this and the Western world cannot force them to change without war. If it's all going to suck later on why not pollute now so we can be better prepared for the inevitable terrible future climate?

I too have this feelings for years now and always wondered why it seemed to affect only a so little percentage of the population, at least where i live, in Austria. Yes of course there is FridaysFor Future here too, but compared to how many people there are, the ones who really care seem to be wastly outnumbered by those who rather believe in far fetched conspiracy theories, which helps nobody but diverts attention from things which matter for us all. Sometimes i asked myself if i already had gone crazy, because i could'nt believe anymore that mankind can be so... irrational. It still seems somewhat unreal to me, not that climate change is happening but that seemlingly so few feel this climate grief.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

You are not alone. 💚

Climate adam is so pretty, I love his nails

This topic just makes me say; god damnit.

Hey there!

Want to know part of the solution? Nuclear power! When it comes to electricity production, nuclear is one of the cleanest and most efficient power sources we have available! All we'd have to do before building nuclear plants again is to somehow get people over the irrational fear meltdowns.

Hi Kurtis

11:20 to 11:27 this is quite incorrect Kurtis! Wind turbines, nuclear power plants, solar panels and batteries need continous replacing, maintenance, recycling, etc. For example, we'd have to replace a few million solar panels every day if they are going to make up a significant portion of our needs forever

To be honest, I care less about the humans who will die from this than the animals and other life that will suffer. If we can get our shit together I want us to, as a species, aim to be interplanetary. If we can't manage this, we won't be interplanetary and then natural selection will do the rest.

What about the sun?

@annakeye

4 жыл бұрын

*+Erik André Rognaldsen* Yes! Dyson swarms would be an obvious answer. Do we have the ability to do this? I suppose we could mine our moon for some of the raw materials.

Dude this is not fair, the science in all of videos and his views and subscribers do not match

it is concerning but many climate activist don't even consider nuclear a viable option, renewable make grids unstable, battery tech hasn't yet matured, there are not enough hydro pump storage, and the only thing which can provide base load continuously "nuclear" is hated so much. I wonder if first few steam engines would have failed, and banned then where we would have reached. there are gen iv reactors which have passive saftey features, and thorium which is way more abundent can also be used. fast neutron reactor can recycle nuclear waste, there is so much. I feel so bad a wonderful option is being neglected.

I decided in 1968 to not have kids.

how are people going to die i dont understand?

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

People are* dying because of extreme weather events (for example, California has had several of the most extreme forest fires in history, all in the last 5 years). As glaciers melt, so does the water supply they provide for millions of people. Floods, super-hurricanes, agricultural droughts, and on and on.

@Danysian

4 жыл бұрын

As the planet heats up, the climate will change. Some areas will be more impacted than others, as in some areas will have permanent drought and become deserts, some areas will be flooded by rising sea levels (including islands being submerged in water), ecosystems will collapse in various ways (especially thinking of oceans - more CO2 means more acidic oceans which is not healthy for many animals, and some of those animals will not be able to adapt then will die off, others that depended on those animals will die off, and that may end up meaning animals we use for food like tuna will continue to die off, etc), and all of these issues will contribute to resource scarcity that will drive many millions of people to become refugees, start wars over water, food, etc. We simply don't know the full extent of the impact of the rising CO2 but it will almost certainly have knock-on effects on other problems and issues and will likely lead to feedback loops, such as one ecosystem collapses causing another to do so causing coastal regions all over the world to be left with less food, meaning they must take more from inland areas which will have droughts meaning they cannot produce as much food and will lead to refugees that go to other areas of the world that have their own climate issues to deal with, which leads to more food being needed in different areas, etc etc. And we don't really know the timescale of how all this will go down either. It could be that we don't see these impacts for several decades still and we have time to change things from heading that way, it's possible that we will make new innovations in food production meaning droughts will be less severe, etc but it's also possible that the really bad feedback loops like Clathrate Guns happen leading to very very rapid temperature rise (you can read more about Clathrate Guns on wikipedia if you want) or the feedback loop of deforestation triggers and causes rain forests to shrink by themselves (something like if 20% of a rain forest is deforested, it will enter into decline and not grow back without intervention) leading to expanding deserts and more drought-prone areas. But we don't know for *sure* how all this will go down. The climate is very complicated. But it is very likely that it will lead to people dying and lead to millions of refugees fleeing flooded areas, drought areas, expanded deserts, etc. which will likely lead to more deaths because we really aren't the best at helping refugees on the order of millions of people already.

I really respect your making this video. I really hope it reaches the people who need it most. As much as I empathise with your view. I genuinely care more about the planet itself all the many, many different species that inhabit it more than the humans. I care more about nature than the humans. And obviously there is the argument that humans are part of that ecosystem, but humans are evidently a great detriment. Either we need to fix ourselves, or we will kill ourselves. Either way, I’m fine with it. But of course I would prefer to let future humans love to enjoy nature. Probably I’m in a minority opinion, but it’s what I genuinely feel.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

I used to be right there with you in that mindset. I did my masters degree focussing on plants for a reason. I love the natural world. The more I learn about the injustice of climate (that it's predominantly caused by the rich, and has a bigger impact on the poor), the more I cared about the human side... and now even I just feel like I'm fighting for my life.

@guzza5375

4 жыл бұрын

Feel you i would also rather save nature than humans.

Nuclear power could help a lot if people wouldn't freak over it and actualy study the stats.

Hopefully you say stuff about how capitalism (a small amount of people having control over resources and using them for profit) is causing climate change and we can't keep them both.

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

As someone once commented on this channel, "I was about to ask you to look at capitalism while you're making your documentary, but then I looked at your twitter and you're basically a dirty commie already." :)

@Leftistattheparty

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience ill have to check it out. Nice to see science climate comrades.

Dont get me wrong, I am NOT suicidal. But from a purely envoiromental standpoint isnt suicide the most direct matter for carbon emission reduction ? The only argument I could come up with (except the many subjective awesome reasons to be alive^-^) is that you could have an even greater impact convincing as many peps as you can to live a more sustainable life while doing it yourself. Just for the disscussions sake I am looking forward to all answers. Disclaimer:! I dont want to argue for suicide in any way, if you are struggling with suicidal thoughts please seek professional help ! Greetings from Germany

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@OrionMelodyMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Bed Leader, standing, er... lying by.

Bill Gates Nuclear Power for the win

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@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

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the planet isnt dying. there have been life on earth bilions of years.

@aenorist2431

4 жыл бұрын

Sure. Its just humanity, so who cares right?

@ScopeofScience

4 жыл бұрын

The planet isn't dying, just most of the life on it. Yes. This is a mass extinction. It's happened 5 times before, and it's happening again.

@hoffman322

4 жыл бұрын

@@aenorist2431 Humanity as we know it will come to its end one day. maybe we are living the the beginning of the end. who knows???

@mik13ST

4 жыл бұрын

@@hoffman322 Yeah, maybe atmospheric carbon management is the Great Filter of intelligent carbon based life in the universe.