The best break down yet! Thanks for making it abundantly clear that we are walking towards a cliff looking at our phones...good luck everybody!

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I’ve noticed that also. Things are getting very serious. Even within the lifetime of boomers… We were called in the 60s to change and they gave US GW petro f*cking baby Bush Cheney instead. Never Ever GOP Again!

@radman1136

2 жыл бұрын

@@mtn1793 Both parties are equally corrupted. We live at the center of an Empire run by oligarchs. Wake up. We are going extinct ... and Biden is dithering about a bipartisan infrastructure bill. The elites are morons, they actually believe they are going to survive the destruction of human habitat.

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

@@radman1136 True. The system has devoured any intelligence they might have had when first elected. The free market electoral bribery system rules this land.

@lorenzoblum868

2 жыл бұрын

The carbon footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorenzoblum868 Not to mention their hazardous waste storage record. The bases are a chemical cess pool I’ve heard

A good idea can carry itself. This was the best presentation on Climate Change that I have watched. The Scientific Community has a firm footing on this one.

@kirstinstrand6292

2 жыл бұрын

This clearly shows human contribution to Climate Changes. Often HUMAN created heat is denied; instead believed to be only nature created. New Reports will follow, soon.

@charlesbrowne9590

2 жыл бұрын

We know climate change is not happening because the TV preachers have convincingly argued that it is a liberal hoax to make war on Christmas. The religious community has a firm footing on this one.

@AwakenProtocol

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesbrowne9590 everlasting do is upon us.

@lorenzoblum868

2 жыл бұрын

The carbon footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?

@AwakenProtocol

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorenzoblum868 Fossil fuels and gun powder go hand in hand in upholding the Law.

Why does this horrifying yet rational analysis have only 601 views??? We should all stop doing whatever we're doing and start shouting these facts from rooftops - for starters!!

@pismopleasure

3 жыл бұрын

The answer is the same reason why we are beyond all hope. Humans are not up to the task of managing a planetary ecosystem. We remain focused on growth as a solution to all problems. Which is another way of saying we're focused on the comfortable lifestyles of the first world. We have been living on the backs of the third world. We've been living on borrowed time and time is just about up. No one wants to leave the matrix when the fake steak tastes just fine.

@folkeholmberg3519

2 жыл бұрын

One reason is that it is in English, this should be translated to at least ten more languages. Greetings from Sweden

@robertpoen5383

2 жыл бұрын

Denial. Most people, when handed a death sentence, prefer to think about something else.

@Thorny_Misanthrope

2 жыл бұрын

I think our existential doom is like wallpaper. We all know it’s there, and we don’t spend much time thinking about it. But it’s also like talking in front of family about death at the dinner table. Nobody wants to hear it. If the story doesn’t have a satisfying denouement, it’s not going to go far.

@lorenzoblum868

2 жыл бұрын

The carbon footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?

I am a Canadian who has lived in Vietnam since 2015. I have been driving a motorbike beside the south China Sea daily. There used to be a large beach next to the sea. Now the sea has flooded the hiway. Rising sea levels are for real.

@grindupBaker

2 жыл бұрын

West Pacific is one of the high spots. Likely to do with the Trade Winds.

@kelliecanscan3364

2 жыл бұрын

Stay safe x

@davidramsay6142

2 жыл бұрын

Probably sinking land if the relative level has risen so fast.

Two points: (you can look them up in science papers) 1- The Amazon forest has been a net carbon emitter for the last decade 2- West Antarctic ice sheet passed it's tipping point 7 years ago I will stop here. I watch/listen/read this kind of stuff daily since 2012. Astrophysics was a much more serene realm... I used to do that prior to 2012. I still follow it... some. P.S. Tank you!

@MICKEYISLOWD

2 жыл бұрын

Arctic sea Ice is will have it's first Blue Ocean Event (BOE) in just 3-5 yrs from ow. Not 10-30 yrs ffs! They down play the timescales always. Peter Wadham's professor emeritus from Cambridge knows more about the Arctic sea ice than anyone else on Earth with over 50 expeditions spanning over 50 yrs. He has written a new book 'A farewell to ice' which is brilliant but terrifying.

@kirstinstrand6292

2 жыл бұрын

@@MICKEYISLOWD wonderful comments - much appreciated.

@lorenzoblum868

2 жыл бұрын

The carbon footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?

@a.randomjack6661

2 жыл бұрын

@@MICKEYISLOWD You think? Blue ocean event, according to Prof. Jennifer Francis should happen at, or very close to, 1,7°C of average global warming, which puts it around 2040. She is an Arctic an Jet Stream specialist at Woodwall Climate Centre. I saw that one recently, near July st 2021.on You Tube. I search her name once in a while. Stay safe.

@a.randomjack6661

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorenzoblum868 Yep yep. But talking publicly about it, not so much. I hears Lee Camp mention it and that's about it.

Fascinating. Depressing, but fascinating.

@ESTRID_lol

2 жыл бұрын

Did he predict any timeframe for global collapse?

@aegaeon117

2 жыл бұрын

@@ESTRID_lol by 2050 but, you can tell he's one of the optimistic ones that's in denial.

@georgehagstrom1461

2 жыл бұрын

I have had to come to grips with the earth does not need a fire using primate. It is not about us. We are but observers. Marvel at conscious time and enjoy simple comfort.

Important Graphs 7:02 - Global temperature 14:03 - Holocene-Anthropocene boundary 18:07 - Climate model projections 20:25 - Tipping cascades 21:41 - Global tipping cascade 23:38 - Earth system trajectories 29:06 - CO2 emissions 30:09 - The earth system

A big thank you Will Steffen for this at at once straightforward and compelling talk. Yet another (talk) that should be compulsory in schools, tertiary institutions, in the main stream media, and in workplaces. Nga mihi, Haere pai

@radman1136

2 жыл бұрын

Too late for talk.

@radman1136

2 жыл бұрын

Too late for talk.

@lorenzoblum868

2 жыл бұрын

The carbon footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?

Bravo Mike Flattley , Will Steffen . One of the best and clearest info sessions on the topic. Thanks

Many thanks for a clear and 'evidence-rich' presentation. The fact that possible tipping points are likely before 'net-zero' is achieved, is a crucial one. 'Net zero' itself is so vague and full of cunningly engineered loopholes, that it's a highly unreliable basis for systematic and continuing change in our habits of production and consumption. In purely technical terms could we avert the worst - and maybe even do better? Yes. Will we? Not given the present political and economic arrangements. Period.

@ferrugoog

2 жыл бұрын

We will achieve net zero once our civilization collapses, but not until then.

One problem is that we have never successfully engineered a society or an economy. We have tweaked systems that were already in place from natural growth, but building a different system from scratch may be beyond us.

@jochenzimmermann5774

3 жыл бұрын

it's not just beyond us, it's probably impossible. societies evolve, just like organisms, from societies that exist before them. just like an animal can not evolve from scratch, a society can't either. but just like we can transform organisms through forms of guided evolution (like breeding), we can transform our societies. so, the question is, how can we transform our societies fast enough, and precise enough to respond to our current problems, and how can we make sure that this new way of doing society stays agile, and can be transformed again and again and again. the only hope i've got there are citizen assemblies. classic politics have shown us that their process isn't agile, for a big part because the players get stuck, and have to play the system to get re-elected. look at ireland - abortion was a toxic topic there since basically forever. politicians couldn't touch it, because that would mean they would hinder their chances of re-election. so they tried CAs - and guess what - even in a country where the majority of people is against abortion, those randomly appointed "normal" humans did the unthinkable...

@lorenzoblum868

2 жыл бұрын

The carbon footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?

@ferrugoog

2 жыл бұрын

@@jochenzimmermann5774 You are much more optimistic than I

“We live on a finite planet,” that’s one concept that very few people seem able to comprehend

Thank you, I have posted on Twitter. This needs to be reposted on all social media sites

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

Needs to be force fed to Congress!

@cypress1337

2 жыл бұрын

People are to busy watching cat-video's and meme's. This civilization is over.

@cypress1337

2 жыл бұрын

We need to change so fast. We will go over 2 degree's C. Coral WILL ago, maybe even other tipping points are already reached.

@chrisczyzewski7927

2 жыл бұрын

@@cypress1337 I've been following this for the past 9 years. The rabbit hole is deep, very deep. Blue Ocean Event on the horizon, with huge releases of methane. If you believe and understand this gentleman, then watch Paul Beckwith and Guy MePherson.

@lorenzoblum868

2 жыл бұрын

The carbon footprint of the military industrial complex anybody?

So much for “we are stardust,” (apologies to Joni Mitchell); ...... we are more like the asteroid.

@canchero724

2 жыл бұрын

I find the stradust analogy to be accurate too if we include the fact that all stardust eventually dissapears into nothingness. The whole thing has been needlessly romanticised, it's just the old biblical idea of us being god's chosen creation repackaged. Now we're the "special" bits of stardust ignoring our eventual fate.

@EvolutionWendy

Жыл бұрын

🤣OMG so funny @patrickgleason !!! 😹

@KateFrancis-eo2rp

Ай бұрын

Ha ha

Rest in peace, Will. We are forever grateful for your contributions to science and humanity.

Share, share, share!! A very clear presentation, and nobody can call this alarmist.

This is a brilliant and enjoyable lecture! I wish I were back in college studying with Will Steffen. I think that permaculture ideals and ethics come close to the goals that humans should strive toward. Australia has the amazing Geoff Lawton as a teacher!

I think it is fascinating that you are understating the current impacts (1.1 degrees LOL). You also pay NO mind to what is happening to climate/food connection. So much you gloss over but so so happy about supporting your term Anthropocene. Hey, so glad you all got together and decided that a house is now on fire. Let's talk more about this house on fire. Don't do anything about it. Just talk about it. Thanks.

Excellent presentation. The presenter, Will Stephen (name ?), did a great job sharing complex information in a simple, easy to understand format. I certainly feel like I understand climate change and the coming of the anthropocene era better. And, I am even more convinced that we must take collective action to change out societies, especially English-speaking ones, to acknowledge environmental limits, make changes to our consumption patterns, and make our societies more equitable.

excellent lecture. We will know the exact temperature of all tipping Point's, because we will tipp them.

Spectacular research and presentation , thank you very much

This video was staggeringly informative and discouragingly eye opening to the fact that the human species is so destructive. I am afraid to say that the top percent directing the world will never be will to give up their ways if it affects their bottom dollar. Exactly why the growth of inequality and over consumption has increased tremendously in such a short period of time. I have been hearing warnings of global warming since the 90’s, and nothing has changed.

Thank you for this video and for all your good work!

A thoughtful and well done talk. I wish more people would check it out. Thank you so much.

The best summary I have seen for a long time-recommend share widely.

How about the 10 to 20 year time lag between emission and effect? The enormous amounts of CO² produced in that period will lead us way past 2C no matter what we do. And if that wasn’t enough, we already crossed the line of dozens of tipping points.

@groovy_bear

3 жыл бұрын

The so called 10-20 years time lag between emissions and effects actually bundles physical and societal characteristic feedback loops. When considering only physical feedback loops (that is climate only), if societies were to drop GHG emissions down to zero tomorrow morning, the combined effects of GHG natural sinks and thermal inertia (mostly oceans and ice sheets) would result in an actually fairly constant global temperature for years, slowly starting to decrease after a few decades. However reassuring, we know this cannot happen in a world with human societies. Social inertia means that when you emit a given quantity of GHG a given year, even if you commit to drastic reductions in emissions, you are bound to emit at least a noticeable multiple of that quantity in the forthcoming years and decades. Hence the 10-20 years time lag that is usually and righteously mentioned to have people realize that the global and tied up system in which we are (society + climate) has some irreducible inertia and that commitment today can only produce sensible effects if a decade or two. This is why it is of the uttermost urgency to take action now if zero net carbon emissions are to be achieved in 2050 !

@cristinataliani5619

2 жыл бұрын

The Anthropocene Epoch will be short and will be marked by the end of the current global industrialized civilization and the decimation of Homo sapiens!!! Hot House Earth will be a new epoch with a transformation of the planets climate and biosphere--enjoy the good times while you still can!!!!!

@groovy_bear

2 жыл бұрын

@@cristinataliani5619 Unfortunately it is likely you are right 😖

@NoWay1969

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, the only thing that I would add is that we can still reduce the impact if we were to act decisively. That'll be the case right up to almost our point of extinction.

@jean-pierredevent970

2 жыл бұрын

@@groovy_bear Interesting. So it's not like the heatwaves would continue to get worse and ice loss would even speed up if all CO2 emissions stopped today. That was my fear because "the system" reacts perhaps slowly I imagined. There could be some negative effect from disappearing aerosols though but on the other hand there would be less soot particles.

very clear and informative, i like your honesty about the aboriginal

These growth charts look just like the stock market. Glad everyone has that “growth mindset.” Perhaps one day humans will comprehend that you can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet. Until then the Beast will feed.

@ferrugoog

2 жыл бұрын

On its (our) own children.

Fantastic information thank you.

So much gratitude for this! I would love to pursue research on modeling and quantifying these proceses.

@ferrugoog

2 жыл бұрын

Better do it quick!

Not Athropocene. Capitalocene.

I really love this break down it really makes it easy for one to understand the concept of Anthropocene and make related examples.... Thank you very much. I have been struggling to define this concept but now I am able.😊🤞🙏👍

Absolutely Fantastic!! Watching gave my Mental Appetit a satisfaction as if a visit to the finest restaurant, with the finest Chefs and the finest ambience had just occurred... Always your Friend... ... L' air.

Clarion call. Thank you, Dr. Steffen

very good presentation . very concise and informative , should be on mainstream media .

I'd say we're going extinct in regards to the question proffered. The lag effects of emissions guarantees 3°C and that's it for all.

Great lecture Will. I think that the term anthropocene was first coined by Tim Flannery in his book ‘future eaters’. Or something very like it. The concept is certainly outlined in this text. Considering it was written in the early nineties, the ideas in the book have proven surprisingly robust and accurate, particularly in regards to predictions of future weather events.

Thank you. Excellent explanation of the topic. The 50's also dusted the Earth with man-made nuclear materials. I wonder what the Anthropocene will look like in 60 million years? A bit like the K-T boundary, I imagine.

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

While we stumbled into the anthropogenic era we also transformed into homo Chemicus irresponsabus.

Every day should be a learning day, even when the lesson is horrifying. Thanks for the education.

Wonderful informed talk. One of the very best I've listened to. Thank you Will.

Fantastic explanation, thank you very much!!!

There was the clearest and most comprehensive assessment of our current world and what we have to look forward to. The future is of course quite uncertain. There is an increasing momentum in renewable energy as well a greater overall consciousness about the problem we face. This decade is the turning point for humanity as many learned researchers have stated in no uncertain terms.

Thank you for your speech ❤️

one of the most respectable videos I’ve ever seen. Thanks. 🙏

I didn't see any ambiguity, or wiggle room for deniers. That's a good thing. Thank you for the frank and well laid out info.

Stewardship, care taker, protector of our home world EARTH; it's the role we humans were designed to perform, we could all experience deep gratitude for the beauty of the earth and all living beings and revel in balanced cycles. Thank-you for speaking up for our future.

Here are some other variables that you should put on a graph to describe the Anthropocene: food production, infant mortality, mother's mortality at childbirth, starvation deaths, deaths from natural catastrophes, lifespan and percentage of population with good water.

This is probably the best talk on climate change I’ve ever seen.

Excellent! I'd like to have this video and others like it, compulsory viewing by CEO, Senators and MPs, around the world. Osmosis! Symbiosis! better that predation, parasitism, sycophancy, boom & bust, aka crenation & lysis.

Absolutely superb

I'm going share and share this talk.

What I was trying to say was this video is one of the best..

@AudioPervert1

2 жыл бұрын

These institutional geezers cannot speak of nor can deal with COLLAPSE 🕳️☠️ Hence they continue to live with COLLAPSE DENIAL everyday. Fxxk this verbiage ... Time up civilisation 🕳️☠️ 10'000 years of infinite growth on a FINITE LITTLE PLANET

@simonmasters3295

2 жыл бұрын

@@AudioPervert1 ranting as the ship goes down won't solve it either

so clearly presented, very interesting and we have to work together globally.

Great message condense and simplify!

I coined a new word for where we find ourselves... The ANTHROPLASTICENE

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

Also: Homo-Chemicus…

@e75short14

2 жыл бұрын

Anthroplastic-last-scene

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

@D R Petri dish way over half full.

@whatabouttheearth

2 жыл бұрын

@D R The technology essentially grew billions in one century, about 6 billion thus far within 100 to 120 years. So the technological development was part of all of this, for both good and bad reasons, another major factor is a stubborn form of corporatism which refuses to change for the betterment of life on earth and a system that allows that.

@robertpoen5383

2 жыл бұрын

also knows as the "Hell-O-Scene".

Brillant presentation.

Thank you. May this become common knowledge and drive us to balancing change.

Thank god we have science to provide an accurate study of the impact of human stupidity on the only known life sustaining planet in the Universe.

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

Since so called Leadership obviously fails at the task!

I completely agree with the thinking of the Australian aborigines, but I’ve understood all this for decades, and I’ve been advocating exactly what this documentary has so excellently put…thank you!

I agree with Bravo Mike..

Is there an open access link to the article - The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration, 16 January 2015, Anthropocene Review. Seems to be a paywall at the moment with Sage Publications.

Is the great acceleration like traveling down a high way & the road being pulled the opposite direction?

Absolutely shocking - and convincing (to me anyway; most won't even take heed). Thanks for presenting, and warning, so well...

A fantastic video Professor Steffen, both informative wise and communicative wise. If I get my governmental manifesto finished I will be approaching you to be a key advisor or minister for a new political party here in Australia. I believe we as a species have the ability to save this planet, and possibly the will to get it done. Speed of roll-out and consensus are the limiting factors presently I feel. Thank you for this presentation. Michael Barrett

one can argue that the holocene 10 000 years ago is a first stage "anthropocene", we started farming, burning land, cutting Forrests for metallurgy, all on a mass scale. interesting that the climate plateaued during that time endowing us with 10 000 years of stable balmy climate stretching the interglacial period. Anthropocene act II, we hit the jackpot when we discovered how to tap the energy from fossil fuel so now we're doing the same thing but on steroids and the climate and biosphere respond accordingly.

very nice exposition!

Wonderful really. Well explained, easy to understand, from a scientist angle. A must watch.

"They already knew about cycles." Cyclic thinking is the original and natural mindset of humans and nearly all indigenous or pre/non-industrial societies think this way. Linear thinking is an "innovation" that is fairly recent.

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

The tribal cyclic thinkers Are the children of the rapture, called back to our one true god, the Gaia…

@Rnankn

2 жыл бұрын

And from linear we moved onto the exponential function. Otherwise known as compound growth, it is the latest and more destructive mode of thought. And our civilization is a slave to it.

@denisdaly1708

2 жыл бұрын

True. It comes from the ancient Greeks

@kimwelch4652

2 жыл бұрын

@@denisdaly1708 Cyclic thinking predates the Greeks by quite a bit--say by about 2 to 2.5 million years. The Greeks learned most of their stuff from the Egyptians and the Persians with a little invention of their own added on top. However, more of their writing survived till the Renaissance.

Thankyou 🙌

Thanks!

TECHNOLOGY! Solving today's problems by creating tomorrow's

@em945

2 жыл бұрын

Well said

@stephentrueman4843

2 жыл бұрын

There's a recent book called 'under a white sky' which talks about this techo-solutionism lol

Excellent clear and concise presentation. It clearly demonstrates the where we are and where we're going. However, business as usual will be slow to change. What if we add in all the methane from terrestrial permafrost and ocean clathrates presently being released, how many more degrees does that add to warming scenario and how does it advance the warming timescale? Let's not forget the B.O.E.... Why do soooo many people fail to include these seemingly consistently overlooked elements. People need to hear it!!! Only then, will they wake up...to the biggest TITANIC story ever. Good luck and thank you for your work.

If there actually is a creator, then humans was a major, idiotic mistake.

@ChiGirl43

2 жыл бұрын

All a big LIE!

@Rnankn

2 жыл бұрын

We created ourselves. Externalizing responsibility is an obvious defence mechanism for the feeling of losing control.

@whatabouttheearth

2 жыл бұрын

So were mouths that have a second function as anus in certain other beings! 😳

@KateFrancis-eo2rp

Ай бұрын

Ha ha ha

@KateFrancis-eo2rp

Ай бұрын

Ha ha ha

In a word, or two, Utterly, Sobering. 😬😳🤯

He's in a country that doesn't believe in climate change. I don't envy him! But it just shows that humans are the only animal on Earth that can talk about, debate and inform about its decline!

@TheBruces56

2 жыл бұрын

Oddly, this post was sponsored by a government agency.

What a beautiful human being 💓 Rest in peace 😔

Im here 2 years later and it raining in buffalo ny in late december. It’s been raining for weeks.

Great and interesting presentation, and solid data! Just one comment: it might be informative to say that Smill 2011 did not take into account the arthropods’ biomass, which is huge.

What a brilliant summary. Upvote 888 lucky or what?

At 27:58 West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) "perhaps 10 years ... tipping". Eric Rignot 30-years glaciologist says in response to question "Well, I don't know what a "tipping point" means but we think that likely the West Antarctic ice sheet is now in a state of irreversible retreat". No time line line provided per se for that but Eric says if all floating ice shelves disintegrated for Greenland, West Antarctica & East Antarctica then the glaciers speed to 6x - 7x present and sea level rise from that is estimated 4.6 metes over maybe 200 years.

There's a group of 35 people working for over 12 years deciding if we're in the Anthropocene era?

I have been calling this era Late Classic Indusstrial long before I heard of 'anthropocene' ,( a play on the archeological term Late Classic Maya collapse but that was driven by agricultural collapse before we began mining the elements of life particularly phosphates and potassium and the industrial natural gas driven Haber-Bosch process for atmospheric nitrogen fixation that our population before would never have reached its' present billions of humans and cows and dogs and cats without soil collapse).And of course the English invention of the pump around 1750 that was a precursor to the steam engine for ships and railroads. The soil collapse that occured around the world historically not only by the Maya but the Tigris Euphates and Indus Valley etc., is what the Reverend Malthus could not predict in our time because the atoms of life were discovered only decades after his writing and the reason his prediction of soil collapse was postponed.and instead of pumping water from coal mines the English pump is now being used to deplete ground water around the world to irrigate agriculture and flush our excement to the rivers and oceans. The U.S. TRANSFER OF ITS INDUSTRIALINFASTRUCTURE BY HENRY KISSINGER AND HIS GLOBALIST PALS TO CHINA HAS ONLY MADE OUR SITUATION WORSE INCLUDING FOR cHINA IN THE END.And of course we now use fossil fuels to make synthetic organics such as pesticides,herbicides and plastics that no genetic code had ever made before and are a product instead of the university educated brain.The human brain and what I call its' psycho-molecular code is out of synchrony with the needs of the gene code which made it and the bill is now coming due everyday.

After the sheer amount of information I've studied on this subject , It just blows my mind that so many folks refuse to belive or understand just how bad this problem is ! We are screwed and so many just keep cheering for more and more destruction of thier own life support system !

@markparris3890

Жыл бұрын

When and where do you think we had it right? When was the best time for us and the planet?

So in the scenario where the temperature goes up 6-7 degrees and we don't survive, what does that look like?

i wonder what the next life form will be after we are loooong gone?

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

Algae and bacteria. One cell kind of stuff. It will be a million years minimum for earth to recover from this.

@gerryhouska2859

2 жыл бұрын

Politicians. Or so they believe and count on.

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

@@gerryhouska2859 That’s not a life form. It’s a death form mostly.

The hole in the ozone, is like leaving the fridge & freezer door open?

It all began in the fifties with the phrase "we're going to Disneyland"

We just went through the hottest heat wave that Canada 🇨🇦 has ever experienced. I was visiting Kelowna, BC and experienced 45C. Kelowna is more or less prepared for the heat but Vancouver, Canada is not....hundreds of people died Sudden deaths attributed to the extreme heat. There was a small town, Lytton, BC that experienced the hottest temperature 49.6C that was ever experienced in Canada then abruptly experienced wildfire and burned to the ground. The towns people barely escaped with their lives and an elderly couple died in the fire. The biggest part of the BC cherry crop cooked on the trees so most of it is lost. A lot of apples are now little bags of apple sauce on the trees and out on the coast at least a billion shallow water sea creatures also cooked and now smell to high heaven. How much more of this does the world have to see before serious action is taken?

@Hummmminify

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasmaughan4798 You are quite right...we could do that....but I think we would be better to put our considerable brainpower to work to get everyone to actually acknowledge that our present situation is as a result of humans....the Anthropocene Epoc...humans have caused our World Climate to heat up past several tipping points and towards the 6th mass extinction. I have found it extremely difficult to even convince members of my own family to acknowledge this. I am Old Gloom and Doom. I find that I can actually reach more people over KZread than any other way. I have actually reached some deniers.

@Patrick_Ross

2 жыл бұрын

The cherries and apples on my trees on Puget Sound were also fried in the killer heatwave. I've driven thru Lytton several times, going to or from Alaska and am deeply saddened by the loss of the town. Another town burned down last night...Greenville, California...and there will surely be more towns lost this summer and beyond. We're just seeing the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

@markparris3890

Жыл бұрын

What actions do you think would make a difference to the weather?

@Hummmminify

Жыл бұрын

@@markparris3890 What would make a difference to the weather…..at this point it would take near total cessation of CO2 emissions and even then we would still have what we have now for a very, very long time. This is, obviously impossible. So, I would say it is too late and the only course of action now is to prepare for the worst which is already pretty bad. Try a Community approach..failing that try family and friends approach…failing that prepare yourself…… store dry food with no oil in it. Learn where you can get such things as vitamin C from plants and trees. For example you can get vitamins C from chewing rose hips or making Spruce Needle Tea. Personally, I have had very little success with Community or family and friends. So, I have dried food and some other things so that I don’t suffer too much while I die of malnutrition. My husband of 56 years is just starting to take me seriously now. I told my son yesterday as he was on his way to Vancouver, “try to make it home when it all goes to hell and I will feed you”. He answered, “why would I not be able to make it home”? He will be 2200 kilometers or more from home and I guess he thinks infrastructure will still go on or something. We humans are so clever but so unwise. I wish you and yours all the best.

I wonder if Morrison or Joyce bothers to listen to this vital information, probably not. My experience is LNP don’t have an environmental bone in their bodies, and even less intelligence. It is so embarrassing to hear Morrison or Joyce whinge about how anything Australia contributes is so small and wouldn’t make a difference compared to the “big polluters”. WE ARE one of the big polluters.

@grittychops6755

2 жыл бұрын

Political parties don’t run policy, the energy industry does, though libs are corrupt as all. At least labour has some sense of equality in their social policies.

The greatest thing in the accelerations & attractions of space. Is the time life has to advance.

Still think we should be growing as much Hemp as we can and using it for building

The official introduction of the term Anthropocene was rejected last week. But not because of a lack of evidence but because nobody agreed with the starting date. 1950 was proposed and not accepted. Because human influence started way earlier. So let's wait for the next proposal.

He graduated University of Missouri in 1970, is he originally from Missouri? He said he's only been in Australia for around 40 years, yet he has a hint of the accent (or something like it).

The sharp rise of the population figure is, to a significant part, the result of the work of organizations like WHO and FAO, which caused a significant rise in life expectancy in countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Oceania, Latin America. Not meant as criticism.

i told them-while we were still in the early phases of the experiment, i told them what would happen if we gave such a primitive being access to that much information. they were impatient. my colleagues were quick to tire of waiting out the bottle-necks to watch how long it took for them to become more like us...

I just don’t see that geoengineering could possibly solve the problem. Firstly, I have grave doubts about our ability to effect changes necessary on such a vast scale. But, an even more intractable problem might be Jevon’s paradox. Even if it were effective people would go right back to business as usual using as much resources as they can get their hands so it’s a self defeating proposition. The only solution-the only one-would be for humans to recognize limits to growth and consumption and live within means that the planet can make available but, that’s a pipe dream and at this point it’s too late anyway

I always wish that the Scientist, which is giving these presentations, be it this one or any others , would just be honest and say, “There is no Hope”, we are never going to stop burning 🔥 Fossil Fuels because quite simply, “We Can’t” We are in a technology/energy trap that has No Way Out. Get Honest Science World 🌎

@EmeraldView

Жыл бұрын

Because nobody wants to hear that and it would even be a bit dangerous. Society is going to break down and chaos will reign. No sense in causing that to start early by telling people the end is coming and it's unavoidable.

@KateFrancis-eo2rp

Ай бұрын

​@@EmeraldViewBut how will the youth be able to get a job if the older employers are expecting perky, chipper young things?

@EmeraldView

Ай бұрын

​@@KateFrancis-eo2rp They increasingly don't want to work anyhow. And well... Why should they? Work for barely above minimum wage while the guy at the top is raking in millions and paying a lower effective tax rate than they are. While society and civilization collapses around them. I say they should live off their parents who brought them into this dying world without their permission anyway.

Seems to me that the Anthropocene began with the adoption of agriculture... it's just taken 12,000 some years for the effects of this move to come into effect.

@redhen2470

2 жыл бұрын

Compare the rate of human population growth from circa 12,000 years ago with the rate of other species extinctions. Coincidence?

@blogintonblakley2708

2 жыл бұрын

@@redhen2470 I think that scientists are still debating whether the extinctions are due to humans and/or the Younger Dryas. But it is certainly possible that humans caused a series of extinctions upon inventing agriculture.

@redhen2470

2 жыл бұрын

@@blogintonblakley2708 Sure, I'm not saying that humans killed off all the mega-fauna by themselves. Still, lions used to roam Greece 2400 years ago. There are a lot of extinctions that can be laid at the feet of homo sapiens sapiens.

@blogintonblakley2708

2 жыл бұрын

@@redhen2470 Oh I agree that humans have caused many extinctions.

Cute cat YT videos get 5 million views, while Hot house earth get 1k. 😔

@KateFrancis-eo2rp

Ай бұрын

Cats are great though.

1st figure: beginning of holocene was preceeded by a tipping point. Figure out what it means to do that 10x faster.

@mtn1793

2 жыл бұрын

It means the greatest challenge that homo- sapien Sapiens has ever faced, bar none.