#EarthStrike Free speech suggestion guide: www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php

@themoustachelady2937

5 жыл бұрын

hi, mom. i'm top comment. i feel very proud of myself. I only hope that climate change deniers are willing to take in the refugees that come with the problems

@owenmaitzen339

5 жыл бұрын

Hi! With regards to a massive general strike, I noticed you were in contact with the #EarthStrike movement in preparation for this video. It's a promising new organization that has been endorsed by many prominent leftists including Noam Chomsky and David Graeber. We're only a few weeks old right now, and we're still trying to get off the ground and spread our reach. To this end, you've built up an impressive following among our primary target demographic - young, leftist, and online - and an official shoutout from you, maybe in the video description, would mean a great deal. We're organizing three global protests for 2019, culminating in a general strike on September 27. Our mission statement, list of demands, and information about national and local campaigns can be found on our official website at earth-strike.com.

@Sunbirdinthesky

5 жыл бұрын

I have seen your title, and I thought for a moment you were going to talk about the riots in Paris today. I live not far from there, and it is been quite HOT (burning cars, looting, fighting with the police…). Strange synchronicities… By the way, I loved your videos about capitalism. Did you hear about Silvio Gesell and his ideas about money?

@nicanornunez9787

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. Thanks fuck the 100.

@georgecorrin6054

5 жыл бұрын

Another great resource for communicating with climate change deniers: grist.org/series/skeptics/ It organizes topics by stages of denial, scientific topics, types of arguments, and levels of sophistication, and it's written with a fun snarky voice.

"It's cold outside, where's global warming?" *I had breakfast, lunch, and dinner yesterday, where's world hunger?*

@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342

5 жыл бұрын

right? lol Why is everyone so hungry?!?!?! I just ate!

@yunglynda1326

5 жыл бұрын

I Kill Everything I Fuck best fucking comment

@kesorangutan6170

5 жыл бұрын

So you killed noone and nothing. I OWNED THIS LIBTARD BEN SANSPIRO STYLE 😂😂😂

@MyuFoxable

5 жыл бұрын

@Abu Hajazi Would you agree for both issue the individual's direct experience is not big enough in scope to detect ether issue accurately? From that point of view the comparison seems to hold up just fine.

@iliketurtles6777

5 жыл бұрын

I Kill Everything I Fuck so very well put.

2006: "It doesn't exist." 2018: "It isn't our fault." 2038: "We can't do anything about it now." 2100: "Welcome to the 1st annual Hunger Games!"

@yonatanbeer3475

5 жыл бұрын

@Mac Mcskullface 2500: *silence*

@unrulysimian3897

5 жыл бұрын

Best thread EVER.

@eatsandwichesonthursdays420

5 жыл бұрын

more like 2100: Literal crickets, because that's all that's left

@juanjuri6127

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure they're already at "we can't do anything about it now". Soon we'll be at "Well why didn't you WARN me, genius???"

@rebeccabeard4759

5 жыл бұрын

3300: A mole man invents the wheel... But it's creaks sound like millions of voices crying out in terror, and then it goes suddenly silent....

As a Floridian my state will be gone and that's the one benefit to climate change

@scoutpark5230

4 жыл бұрын

(thunderous applause)

@monstermoo4191

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@searchingfororion

3 жыл бұрын

Hearing about coastal walls: "Well if those don't get approved it's may be the ONE way we could finally get rid of Cruz and Cornyn. 😑"

@jimjones775

3 жыл бұрын

Based

@rachelmayhem8679

3 жыл бұрын

Why couldn’t it be California

I feel like I'm trapped inside of the dumbest disaster movie ever.

@demilembias2527

4 жыл бұрын

its not as dumb as the Roland Emmerich movie about global warming somehow causing another ice age literally overnight. If it makes you feel any better, global warming irl is at least less stupid than that.

@pheonixrises11

4 жыл бұрын

such a boring movie damage so slow and undramatic for most of it characters too frustrating to be likeable, aka dumb protagonists hard to sympathize with

@demilembias2527

4 жыл бұрын

@@pheonixrises11 I think the point was to show that there are no real protagonists, and that all of humanity is inherently flawed. quite pessimistic, even misanthropic, but its certainly something to think about.

@janparadowski4894

4 жыл бұрын

And now the coronavirus

@dm-ny4ed

4 жыл бұрын

@@pheonixrises11 well then it's a bit like real life

I swear, if we all die because of a South Park episode...

@cgtaurus

5 жыл бұрын

I doubt it was because of a South Park episode picking on Al Gore that people ignored global warming. It was being ignored already and would have continued being ignored because immediacy of corporate greed won out for decades.

@meghan______669

5 жыл бұрын

SeekerSean honestly knowing humanity? Not a surprise

@vincentdawn9689

5 жыл бұрын

They actually apologized for it in an episode from a few years ago.

@jimmyeriksson936

5 жыл бұрын

Last sesone they had episode that the man bear pig is real, and al gore was right so..

@unslaadkrosis3489

5 жыл бұрын

I love South Park but I hate that episode. I’m glad they finally admitted they were wrong. That takes courage.

poor al. imagine spending your entire career on something (that is provably true) and still having your government and a good portion of your country dismiss it

@rotciv1486

5 жыл бұрын

in biology we have something similar, but somewhat more stupid. Anti motherfucking vaxxers. So seriously they will cause me a stroke.

@itamarolmert3549

5 жыл бұрын

*that is definitely true

@IHSchwingo

5 жыл бұрын

It is the *dum dum duuuuuuuum* ~Cassandra Effect~.

@slaughterround643

5 жыл бұрын

It doesn't help he actually would have won if it weren't for some fuckery with voting - hell we might not only have been in a greener country but not have went to war in the first place...

@GayDracula_

5 жыл бұрын

In a way it's pretty depressing. What's worse, is not only did the government/a lot of his country dismiss it, but he was practically ridiculed for it. Made fun of for years. Then when it might turn out he was probably right, he either only got a quiet "sorry", or nothing at all.

"We're talking about the future of the planet." "Well, I don't care about the planet. I care about me." "Well, don't you live on the planet?" "Mm-hm." "And don't you care about what happens to the planet you live on?" "No." "Goddammit." I think this exchange pretty much sums up the entire problem.

@Sotryn_Fox

3 жыл бұрын

Started reading this as soon as the clip started playing. I was shook.

@milesdavila5363

3 жыл бұрын

Big "that's not my wallet" Patrick vibes from that bit.

@jeffreydenenberg7101

2 жыл бұрын

"What has the galaxy ever done for you? Why would you want to save it?" "Because I'm one of the idiots who lives in it!" - Guardians of the Galaxy

@shiningnightmare5616

2 жыл бұрын

@@milesdavila5363 Well, I guess every episode of Spongebob is probably have it's own metaphorical meaning now that we live longer

@slevinchannel7589

Жыл бұрын

@@shiningnightmare5616 If ANYTHING is worth spamming, its climate-change-coverage; for obvious reasons; so here we go: Hbomberguy, UpisNotJump, Our Changing Climate, Some More News, Climate-Town.

16:20 "Look Doc, people die all the time. What am I suppose to do, cry about it?" Holy fucking shit. This is what the public response to this goddamn pandemic was. I have NO IDEA how to get people to care anymore

@juniperrodley9843

2 жыл бұрын

There's no point in trying to convince those who've gone that far. They've thoroughly failed as humans. When presented with the choice to work hard and solve a problem, they instead decided to give up, pretend the problem wasn't real, and fight the solution just to prove it to themselves. All because that made them feel warm and fuzzy about how great they were.

@eneyavorodecky

2 жыл бұрын

Good question.

@KD-ou2np

2 жыл бұрын

The truth is our brains weren't built to really comphrehend or care about much more than the place we live and a few hundred people directly in our vicinity. Its impossible to wrap our brains around the sheer amount of violence constantly committed on a global scale, so we selectively care about certain incidents, and about things that happen to those we know personally but we have to kind of filter out the rest just to function.

@margaretgibbs6673

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. No wonder people burn out. There's no way to get so many people who are that willfully, maliciously selfish to care and THAT is what makes me despair way more than even the most depressing pictures of the planet's possible future.

@very7962

Жыл бұрын

We don’t. Go cry about it

"what freedom, are you an oil company?" is one of the best arguments I've heard on this matter yet.

@kimik-sb1bc

5 жыл бұрын

@@alphen9487 I mean, we're kind of responsible for China too, since we tend to use their products quite a lot. Definitely agree in case of, say, India though.

@sharp7j

4 жыл бұрын

The one weakness of the video is this. Miami going under pales in comparison to the economic loss we will all suffer if we suddenly stopped using fossil fuels. Would you take a 10% purchasing power cut for it? 20? Fuck could be even higher. A lot more people will be fucked if for example India and China stopped using fossil fuels with nothing to replace it. Building a wall in Miami pales in comparison. Now there are still solutions worth doing but simply saying "cut emissions" without any empathy for the people who will be affected is dumb. Humans are pretty cool though I think they will figure something out whether its CO2 eating bacteria or plants, solar technology, nuclear power etc. Also Inconvenient truth did a lot of harm, it claimed NYC would be underwater by now and adds fuel to deniers. Be honest, not alarmist.

@httohot

4 жыл бұрын

@@sharp7j That is a moot point compared to the loss of profit that global warming creates in teh long term. Not to mention the political instability, scarcity, etc.

@antediluvianatheist5262

4 жыл бұрын

@@sharp7j Too bad. Economic loos? So what? The alternative is mass death. So fuck the economy.

@wschippr1

4 жыл бұрын

Sharp Except Al Gore didn’t say that did he? He said if half of greenland and Antarctica melted that would happen, which is true btw, that would happen. This lie that he claimed that come from him saying if the ice sheets melted it flood various areas with him in another part saying that predictions of the ice caps melting could happen as quickly as whatever year he said. Which once again, was a real prediction, he wasn’t making it up. Luckily, we had more time (due to other factors coming into play that we hadn’t taken into account), but overall, an inconvenient truth was accurate and was not “alarmist”... sorry.

What bothers me is that so much money was spent to deny climate change, when that money could have been spent dealing with it!!

@sulimanthemagnificent4893

5 жыл бұрын

and what is the point in dealing with it if the whole planet is inevitably fucked anyway? if not by climate change then by the sun dying (fyi i believe in climate change)

@OliverHeikkinen

5 жыл бұрын

Suliman The Magnificent Because the sun is gonna die in five billion years... that's like asking "why waste energy on saving this infant you poisoned even tho you could easily do it. They'd die at some point anyway". The reason is that I kinda wanna live on this planet. And I don't want a lot of people dying or being miserable.

@apologia4422

5 жыл бұрын

Luckily it's not too late. But I agree wholeheartedly.

@sulimanthemagnificent4893

5 жыл бұрын

@@OliverHeikkinen fair enough

@tahj420

5 жыл бұрын

@@OliverHeikkinen If we can't live forever, then let's live long. I mean it's not like we can't eventually outlive the heat death. With some weird as technology. I mean we predicted all that in a few thousand years of civilization so... idk. Then again global warming threatens to destroy everything so...yea.

Capitalism: the idea that everything is less important than money. Even the viability of the earth to support life.

@grace-fx4cf

3 жыл бұрын

this is why I'm cottagecore

@JKjr328

3 жыл бұрын

I mean it is literally in the name to be fair. Not like we weren't warned.

@psychepeteschannel5500

3 жыл бұрын

​@Rodrigo Bozzolo True - this is not really about the system of economy, but the system of government. Just imagine the US as a centrally controled economy... with Trump and his party at the helm... It would be even worse. This is more about the current kind of democracy being ill equipped to handle these kinds of issues. You either need a strong democratic principle and well-informed inteligent public (lol)... or a well-informed and inteligent leader/party in an authoritarian system (but the authoritarian system itself does not gurantee that either). The specifics of cash flow are not the real issue... its about people being stupid - either the people "in power" (for authoritarianism), or the people "the people" (for free democracy)...

@Josh-oj9mm

3 жыл бұрын

It's more about humanity tbh. The environment will relatively quickly go back to normal for nature, but human civilisation is *way* more fragile

@psychepeteschannel5500

3 жыл бұрын

The core idea of capitalism does not really depend on money at all though. Its just the natural order of things if individuals can own property. No other rules are necessary realy. If you can own something, it can become capital. Money is nothing, its just a virtual quantification of value of stuff. If you have money, you have the potential of owning other things. Money itself is litterally nothing. Funny thing is that the actual succesful capitalists understand that very well. Its the poor that place real "value" on having money, which is just not good - money is not supposed to be hoarded, you want to get rid of it (profitably) ASAP. Its like in strategy games, noobs think its good if they have a large stockpile of materials. In a pro game, this is seen as a complete blunder - if you have a stockpile, its just a useless number and you f*cked up - that stockpile should already have become something usefull.

"The world is not ending, its just getting shitter" I feel that is such an important line

@slevinchannel7589

Жыл бұрын

If ANYTHING is worth spamming, its climate-change-coverage; for obvious reasons; so here we go: Hbomberguy, UpisnotJump, OCC Some More News, Climate-Town.

"You live on the planet right?" "Yes" "Don't you care what happens to the planet you live on?" "No" This right here is why we are still having this debate

@fts_space_shark

5 жыл бұрын

Sad truth, yes.

@hustler3of4culture3

5 жыл бұрын

It's actually Dominionists who think Jesus will remake the Earth when he comes back that are killing us.

@mrbadguysan

5 жыл бұрын

@Another Millennial I wouldn't call it a parody, it's more of a deconstruction.

@hustler3of4culture3

5 жыл бұрын

@Another Millennial you give people too much credit

@LeviathanLP

5 жыл бұрын

me tbh sorry everyone

It blows my mind that average people think they know better than scientists who are literally experts in their fields.

@bluester7177

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think we should believe something just because scientists said, they can be wrong. Whats it's actually frustrating to me is people who do no research and just believe any conspiracy or shitty argument they can find so that it won't be true and they can feel good again. I live in a hellhole of hotness that is approaching it's peak known as summer called Rio de Janeiro and it's irritating as fuck to see people saying that Climate Change is a hoax because in Canada is snowing.

@ComicDrake

5 жыл бұрын

@@bluester7177, Who said anything about A scientist? The majority of climate scientists agree and have a shit ton of data.

@alecnava5465

5 жыл бұрын

Well you see im not an expert, but i have LOGIC AND FACTS

@GayDracula_

5 жыл бұрын

@@ComicDrake Pft. I, a regular nobody who knows nothing at all, obviously have the credentials to one up a group of scientists globally. *maximum intelligence*

@stanconnorstan4266

5 жыл бұрын

There's no denying that the world is getting hotter and the weather is getting fucked up. We really shouldn't be having 5 hurricanes in the US each year or ridiculously hot and dry summers. I mean, California has been having water issues for years that they didn't have 5 years ago. I mean, in my short 16 year long life summers have been getting warmer on average and snow storms have been really early or late in the year. That's not normal.

Dutch person here: I refuse to drown because orange man bad thinks the earth isn't warming.

@fardareismai4495

4 жыл бұрын

Same! The Netherlands would simply collapse if this I allowed to continue.

@demilembias2527

4 жыл бұрын

@@fardareismai4495 doesn't the netherlands just occasionally gain and lose land to the ocean even without global warming?

@Timbo5000

4 жыл бұрын

@@demilembias2527 Because we allow it to, yes. We've let areas flood or dried areas based on the amount of land we wanted in the past. Last big one was us turning a sea into a lake and creating an entirely new province in the 1950s and now there is talk of perhaps building a big airport somewhere out at sea (unsure whether that will be done). And there is the Waddenzee, which is an area in the north that periodically totally floods. But if the climate change predictions are correct, pretty much all of our biggest city area (including Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and more) will turn into the lost city of Atlantis unless we seriously step up our water management game. There is only so much we can do against the sea, even if we are great at battling the flooding. Guess we'll go live in Germany or something

@Nautules83

4 жыл бұрын

talk to China about that

@SaraWolffs

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Nautules83 China's per-capita emissions are way below the US's, and just about on par with the European average. It's just a massive country. They've also only recently become prosperous, and so are not yet in quite as luxurious a position as we are regarding accumulated wealth and capacity to fund rapid change.

"When I was a little girl I used to sit on the porch eating watermelon and I'd stare up at the stars and wonder: Where did they all come from, you known, what does it all mean? The cosmos, humanity, our little time here on earth... And that's why I became a scientist: So I could spend my life studying... toposhperic trace gases.... *sad violins start playing*" As someone finishing up their PhD (Solid State Physics) while being on unemployment benefits (which are rather generous over here in Germany) and being just completely disillusioned with the whole system of science, this was just tooo real, Natalie ^^

@soencoda754

4 жыл бұрын

Fellow French science student here, I'm getting quite depressed about the whole scientific system too. And I'm actually quite terrified that not a lot of my fellow students/teachers seems to give a shit anymore. They don't care much about the political inaction regarding climate change (ok, except my zoology/botanic/ecology professors) and they don't seem to care a lot about the "publish or perish" issue, the whole publishing system, exploitation of PhD students, economical precarity for most of the professors (France is terrible, it might be better elsewhere I don't know), private organizations taking over the scientific system and rigging the publication game, and hundreds of other really serious problems in both hard sciences and humanities... I feel like I'm condemned to study some weirdly defined topics in a shitty educational system, be a sort of slave half of my life, fear to starve most of the time because who cares about "ethology" or something, and be a submissive little boy to the capitalists criminals we call the "big journals"... Ah and yes, the world's "getting shittier" and my field of study might go extinct soon. What the hell. Of course I've advocating for radical political change and direct action, what fucking nightmare did I wake up to after high-school ?! Why is nobody REALLY carrying in academia around me? What is wrong with us scientists?! I don't even know why I'm ranting about this, I guess I need some confort from other science students/researchers/teachers. Anyone here feeling depressed and angry about all this?

@baguettegott3409

4 жыл бұрын

That. That just fucked me up a little. And by a little I mean a lot. I'm a second semester physics student, also in Germany, so you can probably guess why this hit too close to home, but just.... I'm SO scared, about everything, ALL the time. And this just feels like... even if all of my dreams come true and I am actually good enough to even get a PhD at some point, there's still no point because I'll be unemployed and lonely anyway. I realize this is not about you writing a bad comment, but about me having *issues*. And maybe everything is bad and me having any kind of hope is just an "illusion", and I should thank you for busting my bubble, but I can't. This was supposed to be the safe option, I gave up writing for this.

@lucasfernandesgrotto6279

4 жыл бұрын

My god guys, you are just me, I'm seriously considering quit university!

@soencoda754

4 жыл бұрын

@@baguettegott3409 maybe we can change the system? We need scientists like you to challenge the current publishing system, and the structure of public and private scientific research in general. Follow your dreams, don't let them take your passion away from you ! At least let's learn everything we want to learn, and then we'll find a way to both survive in a capitalist system and do science. There's some associative open access journals out there, and some of the posts offered by the State in science are actually not that bad! There's some ways to make it work, don't worry too much yet. And one day, maybe we'll collectively own a scientific lab and freely teach, research and publish scientific knowledge. We can do this! We dreamers (scientists, philosopher, militants and artists alike) must not give up, we could make a difference. If you ever need support psychological support in any of this, just comment here and I'll gladly help. You're not alone in this mate, it's gonna be ok 🙂 Take care

@ams906

3 жыл бұрын

Tears fall down my cheeks

SHOUTOUT TO ZOË BLADE FOR ALWAYS MAKING GREAT MUSIC FOR THESE VIDEOS

@marlabeard5352

5 жыл бұрын

It's a bummer that Contra has to use music so that someone won't take her clips out of context.

@stinew358

5 жыл бұрын

I didnt know she composed the Grieg

You know climate change is disastrous when it makes South Park correct it's self.

@WangleLine

5 жыл бұрын

Holy snap

@TheGoncas2

5 жыл бұрын

Took them long enough...

@DrexisEbon

5 жыл бұрын

It's is a contraction of it is. Its is it as a possessive.

@ryanwoodyard4696

5 жыл бұрын

Which episode was this?

@TheRedRaccoonDog

5 жыл бұрын

@@ryanwoodyard4696 Season 22 Episode 6. Time to Get Cereal and it's second part, Nobody Got Cereal?

"There could be muslim mexicans for all I know" me I'm mexican muslim LMAO #AmericasWorstNightmare

@truedarklander

4 жыл бұрын

Let me guess, Lebanese family?

@BrattyCaffy

4 жыл бұрын

Miguel Laurito nope just ethnically Hispanic and converted

@scoutpark5230

4 жыл бұрын

LOLLLL!

@jv-lk7bc

3 жыл бұрын

not America's nightmmare, just Trump's.

@addisonbaker8211

3 жыл бұрын

Yees me and the rest of my ethnically jewish transbian friends stand with you lol

Today is September 9th, 2020. The west coast is on fire. The sky outside my window is a hazy orange. The air quality is literally off the charts hazardous. And it sure feels like the Apocalypse. We are this close to turning into a corn cob.

@samantha.redacted

3 жыл бұрын

February 2021, Texas is freezing over and people are left without water and power during the coldest Texas has been in 100 years, because the oil based power plants weren’t weatherized. We are all indeed close to corn cobbification

@sonorasgirl

2 жыл бұрын

June 2021, Portland just hit 116* F, hottest day on record and beating out the usual temp of Death Valley, and at least 45 people died because it’s not SUPPOSED to be this hot and most houses/apartments don’t have AC

@gtd2712

2 жыл бұрын

August 2021. Worst heat wave in Canada ever, more than 100 people dead. Forest fires are ravaging Greece.

@cookie856

2 жыл бұрын

July 2021 - Following droughts and heatwaves, Belgium and Germany are hit by flooding, in non-food area

@bassyboi581

2 жыл бұрын

September 2021, we Europeans now have bragging rights to a Mediterranean hurricane

Is it hot in here or is Natalie educating me while wearing lingerie again?

@alliephenix

5 жыл бұрын

They're the same thing.

@elizavetapotemkina4861

5 жыл бұрын

It’s uncontrolled climate change

@grmpEqweer

5 жыл бұрын

It's climate change, but Natalie is hot.

@jacobo6652

3 жыл бұрын

Jojo i live in a hot country and i’m burning over here

Al Gore: “It’s suicide, no it’s worse...it’s genocide.” Deniers: “Al be reasonable.” Al Gore: “My friends I’ve never been otherwise. This madness is yours.”

@anleg98

5 жыл бұрын

totally true, fuck this is depressing

@EMSpdx

5 жыл бұрын

So, so apt.

@thespacebat

5 жыл бұрын

Time to load the last son of Earth into a rocket so he can live on a different planet.

@warpigs330

5 жыл бұрын

@@thespacebat Of course it is a son.

@immafriedric3

5 жыл бұрын

@@thespacebat I'd load the rocket with all the owners of companies funding climate change and send it on a collision course to the moon.

Clarification: The history of anthropogenic climate change can be dated back to 1856 to Eunice Foote, a scientist and pioneer who studied the effects of water vapor and carbon dioxide on solar heating. "An atmosphere of that gas would give to our earth a high temperature; and if as some suppose, at one period of its history the air had mixed with it a larger proportion than at present, an increased temperature must have necessarily resulted (Foote, 1856)." She was a pioneer of science and women's rights, she deserves more credit :)

@mithrae4525

Ай бұрын

Thankyou, didn't know that! Sadly, pathetically, it's not uncommon for the deniers & conspiracy theorists to claim that global warming is a recent invention from the 1970s, so the long history of the science is important and Arrhenius' speculation on future, anthropogenic climate effects from burning fossil fuels (beneficial warming, he as a Swede supposed) was a particularly important milestone. Before him Tyndall had identified the physical basis of longwave radiation absorption by some gases such as CO2, and as early as the 1820s Fourier had shown by his calculation that a greenhouse effect of some kind is necessary to explain the Earth's warmth. Apparently Foote's work (a few years earlier than Tyndall's) was essentially unknown, 'discovered' in 2010: "In 2010, retired petroleum geologist Ray Sorensen came across a summary of Foote’s work published in an 1857 volume of The Annual of Scientific Discovery. It detailed the presentation of her short paper, Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun’s Rays, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in 1856." cosmosmagazine.com/history/eunice-newton-footes-long-forgotten-climate-science-discovery/ Fascinating stuff!

And with the current pandemic, we see that even people dying left and right, sometimes literaly on the streets, is not enough for the bougies to stop.

@IizUname

3 жыл бұрын

It's enough to make them want to accelerate the destruction

@TheRevDel

3 жыл бұрын

This is a theory that's quite wild, make of it what you will: What if the "bougies" literally want the poor to die. A lot of us only do jobs that benefit the poor, service jobs, and with automation taking away factory jobs even less of us are going to be doing jobs that benefit the rich. So why not let a few million of them die to a pandemic, saves money in the long run. Why not let even more die from climate change? Thins the herd. The ones in power aren't going to notice a few million less poor people, and would even benefit from that, so why wouldn't they push it?

@ember-brandt

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRevDel It's real-life _Dishonored._

@bbbbbbb51

2 жыл бұрын

@@ember-brandt it's real life Deus Ex.

@KD-ou2np

2 жыл бұрын

You cant make people care about others, you have to make them understand how things will affect them directly, protest politicians, yell at them, boycott businesses, be loud, picket outside the homes of these people, dig up the dirt they don't want to be seen, continue to gather large numbers of people until those in power start to worry they may not be able to operate so unseen anymore, vote in large numbers, organize. This has been shown to work in the past and it is the only way we have right now to challenge those in power. They need to be scared and think that their current plan of action isn't profitable anymore. They don't care if someone else is starving unless they think it means they might be starving.

The netherlands used to hold an annual ice skating race across the province of frysland. This is a dutch tradition. The last of which was like 20 years ago because its not getting nearly as cold enough for the canals and rivers to freeze over. And they actually believe global warming isnt real.

@CrazySexyDutchYessss

5 жыл бұрын

An environmental group sued the Dutch government for not tackling Co2 emissions...and they won. The Dutch government also just passed a (crappy) environmental bill (they should have gone with CO2 taxes, now it is consumers that pay rather than companies). Unfortunately the newer political parties are climate change deniers. I think in part because the costs end up being put to consumers and not to the actual polluters. People are pissed off with the government / that they have to foot the bill, and instead of voting for The Greens the people that are scared of immigrants end up voting for climate change deniers.

@matthewbrandt5053

5 жыл бұрын

In Alaska we have the Iditarod, which is the longest dogsled race in the world and a huge traditional sport to all Alaskans. Growing up, the race started in Anchorage where it normally snowed enough for the dogs to run. For the last few years, Anchorage needed to import snow for the dogs and a local ski lodge called Alyeska has been needing to import its snow too. It feels like things are falling apart up here. For instance, the 2018-2019 winter ended early and had much less snow than even last year. The problem is Alaska relies on the snow for water such as refilling Eklutna lake, which is where Anchorage gets its water. Climate change is happening, but in my honest opinion, its too late. Americans won't do anything to stop it except faf about a bit and the forget about it. The end of the world is going to be caused by people who are ignorant, sending humanity into the darkness of time.

@cgtaurus

5 жыл бұрын

@@matthewbrandt5053 I didn't know Iditerod was having these issues. That sucks. The ignorance has been partially facilitated by the stuff you talk about being suppressed or ignored by our media. Stories like yours should be headlining the evening news but unfortunately all we hear about is some kind of middle school drama involving Trump or how some celebrity publicly embarassed themselves. Our press sources read like TMZ or the National Enquirer while they choose to ignore that the Earth is turning into an ecological quagmire and civilization, as we know it, is in grave peril.

@kristinarain9098

2 жыл бұрын

I thought they live below sea level. By your rationale, they should be drowneded by now. How come they haven't dieded? We are so insignificant to this planet and everything around it that only human arrogance and ego alone could come up with some cockamamie nonsense about how the earth was made for us, and it only exists because we magically spawned on it. Yah ok This planet will storm, drought, /this inflamme="true", get pelted by frozen metal/rock/preserved bacteria encrusted shit balls from space , incinerated by a vast and sudden torrent of massive volcanic eruptions that could devastate this planet with millions of tons of ash and deadly glowing hot smoldering Rock, launching it up and up out of the troposphere and as high as into the ionosphere where the natural cycle of wind/ocean currents , hi/low pressure systems will blanket the planet with darkness and rain for years until it's all cleared away and life starts anew You know the earth has the ability to heal as it's constantly changing and morphing it's surface and ocean sub surfaces thru tectonic drift/subduction / fissures etc and volcanoes, forming mountains and consistently altering it's features Some alterations take centuries others take mere moments from when a volcano emerges from some atoll creating a massive mountain of burnt volcanic rock that could suddenly explode turning a massive island into empty ocean. We don't control this shit, dude. The earth does. We are just lucky enough to be on for the ride. Stop finding faults and enjoy it. Life's to short to stand around brow beating others

@loweh1001

2 жыл бұрын

@@kristinarain9098 it is true that the Netherlands is below sea level and that it shouldn't exist if you assume that the Dutch don't do anything to keep the water out, which is something that we're all pretty obsessed with over here. But that is kind of besides the point. To your point, I do get why you say that it must be our arrogance to say that we are so impactful that all of a sudden climate change is happening and that there must be another reason for it. We are so small, how could we possibly be causing all of this. I'm sure that you're aware of the fact that there are billions of us and that many of us drives a car, owns a phone etc. and that all these things involve emission of CO2 into the atmosphere during production and maybe also during use. On top of that comes the change of land use worldwide etc. All of this comes on top of how natural phenomena lead to increased CO2 in the atmosphere, as well as the reduced capability of the earth to buffer CO2 emissions (natural and human) due to changes in land use (deforestation, desertification, oceanic acidification etc.). You can read all about it if you want to, it is really interesting and what I chose to dedicate my career to. It is true that we are tiny creatures, but there are many of us and we change and mold the landscape around us all the time. Humans are not even the first organisms that walked this earth that had such a profound impact on the atmosphere to begin with. I remember being completely awestruck when I first learned about the great oxygenation event which happened around 2 billion years ago. Before the great oxygenation event, there was practically no Oxygen in the atmosphere and what changes this was the evolution of the first micro photosynthesizers who took advantage of the over abundance of N2 and CO2 in the atmosphere. They became so successful and produced so much Oxygen that it became toxic for the majority of all other microscopic life on earth that didn't know how to handle oxygen the way photosynthesizers did. If something as small as a microscopic alga can change the earth's atmosphere completely, why can't we?

The production value is so high on this channel, it amazes me every time

@einfachConny

5 жыл бұрын

and it still is an one women operation

@MeganMcIntosh

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! A feast for the eyes, ears, brain and soul

@wannucciicrescent6526

5 жыл бұрын

Your aesthetics are so elevated sis, I GAG!!!!!!!!!!

@tatehildyard5332

5 жыл бұрын

I actually do REALLY want to see a behind the scenes video where we see her do the light setup.

@fts_space_shark

5 жыл бұрын

JedDraws, right? I know I won’t ever have her talent or artistry, but I would love to know what video editing software she uses.

The answer to the last question of why racist ideology is so appealing when all the world's science doesn't convince them is simple. A general lack of empathy towards anyone outside of your immediate circle combined with the to urge maintain your current lifestyle.

@vilagistene2939

6 ай бұрын

You are the racist! American Democrats are racist!!

Just my 2 cents here. I know it was said sarcastically by your 'mother nature' character, but I'm really sick of hearing this 'Climate change might kill humans but _the Earth_ is going to be fine' argument. Like yeah, the actual ball of rock that comprises most of Earths mass? That's going to be fine. That's not really the important part though. It's the thin film of life that's spread across the surface of this ball of rock that should be the focus here, and if you think that somehow this 4-billion-years-in-the-making cosmic chemical miracle is magically immune from utter destruction, you're kidding yourself. There's no pre-destined plan here. This isn't a dress rehearsal. What's to say we can't kick off some positive feedback loop that turns Earth into Venus? The planet itself surviving isn't really a consolation prize if it just ends up like all the other countless number of lifeless planets in the universe, is it?

@richardsilva5110

4 жыл бұрын

Gee, that's a scary thought.

@el_kks_4361

4 жыл бұрын

Mister that comment is a million dollars xd

@HaHaHannah1369

4 жыл бұрын

Jiminy Lummox you know the saying “life finds a way” there are bacteria that live deep in the frozen ice caps and bacteria that thrive off of volcanic vents in the ocean. It may not be life as we know it but life finds a way. It will repopulate and begin again the same way it did with us and the dinosaurs. Us dying opens up a new slot for diversification and advantageous evolutionary traits. We aren’t killing the earth. We’re killing ourselves. You underestimate life’s ability to thrive.

@christianknuchel

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not concerned about the simpler life forms, chances are they'll do just fine, even if we manage to destroy our civilization. Chances are even some humans would survive that period, as we'd probably decrease our CO2 production just as a result of our civilization falling apart long before anything Venus-like 'd get much of a chance of happening. The downfall of our civilization, however, would inevitably take billions of people with it. That alone is worth preventing at virtually any cost.

@PopeBarley

4 жыл бұрын

I think the point is that the ecosystem has suffered worse than what we can throw at it and will (eventually) bounce back. I doubt anthropogenic climate change can render the planet completely uninhabitable.

I'm sad that the amount of water in the tub wasn't slowly rising throughout the video. :c

@MonMalthias

5 жыл бұрын

The rising water level was being offset by the increased evaporation from Natalie's _piping hot_ bod.

@anna-liseetlegenre7922

5 жыл бұрын

What a good visual representation it would have been !

@MonMalthias

5 жыл бұрын

@@neila6340 It's the apocalypse. Can no longer afford to be picky.

@friendstastegood

5 жыл бұрын

@@neila6340 not she's not. Go away.

@dylanhall6355

5 жыл бұрын

Neil A fuck off asshole!

"Climate change denial is considered an oddity in Europe" *Laughs and then cries in Russian*

@-ring-a-ding-my-dingaling

5 жыл бұрын

The trajectory of Russia becoming the most economically successful and progressive country on earth and then an economically depressed seat for the Orthodoxy in less than 100 years is a fucking roller coaster.

@Olivman7

5 жыл бұрын

What? When was Russia ever economically successful in the 20th century? Even during the best periods, you had to buy everything on the black market or wait six months to get it at a minimum.

@-ring-a-ding-my-dingaling

5 жыл бұрын

@@Olivman7 >When was Russia ever economically successful in the 20th century >fastest growing economy in human history >production outpaced established countries with hundreds of years of infrastructure in less than 100

@user-mq7xj8pg8u

5 жыл бұрын

@Abu Hajazi Yes, yes I am!

@disan605

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-mq7xj8pg8u Вахалва)) (прости меня я плохо говорю на ингушском)

I love you for making this video. I used to be a marine biologist. It was very depressing. I am a nature lover, who will get to watch one by one as creatures of the Earth go extinct during my life time. I'm tired of trying to stop it. I embrace mothers wrath.

@arnonuhm4022

3 жыл бұрын

Where are you from and what are you doing now?

@karlabiederbeck3082

3 жыл бұрын

Oregon. I'm training to be a plumber. Plumbers will be very in demand when the water wars start, so at least I'll be able to live comfortably.

@karlabiederbeck3082

3 жыл бұрын

@@marmarthekat3326 Going into hard sciences is very competitive. You should study whatever it is that you are so interested in that you will study it harder than any other person. Besides that I think that because of climate change, it will be very important to have atmospheric and oceanic scientists.

@Sol_eri

2 жыл бұрын

For some reason this small comment thread is comforting to me lol I'm very young so to see others still look for ways to be happy when the world is falling apart is nice. Calms my anxiety :D

@eveninglyric687

2 жыл бұрын

so...there aren't actually many benefits to being a marine biologist?

To be fair to the South Park Guys, they admitted defeat and made a trilogy apologizing to Al Gore (by confirming the ManBearPig exists and making it eat everyone)

Me and approximately 15K other Aussie school kids walked out on Friday. It's past time to act.

@joeybaseballs3239

5 жыл бұрын

copycats world keep fighting for your future!

@katherinemorelle7115

5 жыл бұрын

I think that was just the number that showed up at the demonstrations- and doesn’t count the other demos on Wednesday and Thursday. Also doesn’t count the kids that strikes, but couldn’t get in to the city to protest- like my kid. She wanted to, but I’m disabled and just couldn’t get her in there. I’m sure there were other kids that also walked out/didn’t go to school, but couldn’t get themselves to a protest.

@brianblades6177

5 жыл бұрын

I just looked up an article on the protest and it seems like the general sentiment is to try to tell you kids to stop participating in politics. insane!

@MegaLozenge

5 жыл бұрын

In London we also blocked 5 London Bridges for most of a Saturday afternoon with 5000 people - 80 arrests. It is urgent to take mass, non violent direct action to stop this insanity, while we aren't in the realms of the unrest and terrorism that Natalie was talking about #extinctionrebellion

@watermelondreasymone7144

5 жыл бұрын

Cool, now what are you guys gonna do to actually change things besides going on strike?

My state (California) basically burns to ash every summer because of Climate Change. Thanks Republicans.

@bonthebunnycat667

4 жыл бұрын

Here we live with 100F :(

@slug7080

4 жыл бұрын

Turquoise Cheetah You’re mad because it isn’t easy (or getting harder) for the average person to own a deadly weapon. Do you have brain worms or something??

@rogermwilcox

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the severity of California's wildfires is primarily due to the century of "total fire suppression" that came before. It's left a hell of a lot of fuel on the forest floors, so a fire that would otherwise burned at a low level instead becomes a raging inferno. Sure, global warming isn't HELPING Cali's forest fire situation, but it's not the primary driver.

@CycleGirl-77

4 жыл бұрын

The carbon built up over 100 years. Democrats were in control at least as much as Republicans in the USA. And don't forget, it's worldwide, right now, the USA contributes about 12% to the world total.

@AZ-qw1kz

4 жыл бұрын

@Turquoise Cheetah You're statistically less safe with a gun in your house, so you and your children are less likely to die. Also, if you're a mentally and, law abiding citizen, the you should have no objection to having checks. Would you want any random person driving a car who doesn't know how? How about flying your plane? But it's not actually about protecting yourself, it's about that feeling of power. Just like wearing a healing bracelet makes you feel healthy. It's not about the data, it's about the feeling.

Watching during the Global Pandemic of 2020 who else?

@michelemorselli7047

4 жыл бұрын

2020 feels like the apocalypse is really here, and it's actually doing good for the environment, truly ironic

@sycastells1212

4 жыл бұрын

@@michelemorselli7047 Well, unless you count the Russian oil spill.

@sycastells1212

3 жыл бұрын

Accost them in their bathtubs and hold their smelling salts hostage?

@margotp8038

3 жыл бұрын

and now the huge wildfires...

@carabiner7999

3 жыл бұрын

15 days to Presidential Election....

16:17 "People die all the time. So what?" Brazil's president about covid-19 🤷‍♀️

I had never closed my Bible so fast

@molinj.710

5 жыл бұрын

Juventud Cristiana Anti-Sectas not very christian of you 😒

@josefuentes4198

5 жыл бұрын

Juventud Cristiana Anti-Sectas Hostia, vosotros por aquí!

@wdarkfenix

5 жыл бұрын

Alabado sea el señor!

@Fireclaws10

5 жыл бұрын

moon haze e

@thatdutchguy2882

5 жыл бұрын

You are still reading fiction?

As someone who loves fashion and clothing, I advise strongly toward watching what brands you buy from as the fashion industry is one of the worst when it comes to environmental impact.

@Depressio333

5 жыл бұрын

And support thrift stores!

@modkip25

5 жыл бұрын

@Abbie what do you mean?

@Asummersdaydreamer14

5 жыл бұрын

@@modkip25 Google "fast fashion" and explore the variety of news articles, videos, and web pages dedicated to ugly industry practices. It creates a lot of unnecessary waste and poor working conditions on the production side of things.

@cutienerdgirl

5 жыл бұрын

@@modkip25 Fast fashion has many ethical and moral disadvantages. The negatives are environmental damage, exploitative work, and the non-welfare of animals. Environmental damage caused by the fashion industry can come in the form of resource depletion, pollution, and the overuse of pesticides

@jaspershepherdsmith9047

5 жыл бұрын

Personal action does not equal political action tho

"What if I sexually identify as an oil company?" 🤣🤣🤣

@dandygardner9404

4 жыл бұрын

Haha IKR 😑

@juniperrodley9843

2 жыл бұрын

The one joke™

What if like, for the lols, we all stood outside these mega corps at the same time and set them ablaze? Like, this is a joke for legal reasons but like, What if? hahahahahahahahaha

@squashfei8907

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah hahahah! Most of those places are oil companies so we could douse the buildings in their own oil and then light them on fire for extra ironic lols!

@davidlovesyeshua

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that would totally lead to society taking climate change more seriously, the deployment of sustainable agricultural/energy technology systems capable of feeding the likely ~10 billion human population of the coming decades, and fill us all with warm glows of satisfaction that are a result of the pure and virtuous knowledge that true justice has prevailed. ... Slash-f***ing-S Jesus Christ

@marswaters

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidlovesyeshua it's joke a chill out

@katefriend4085

3 жыл бұрын

Lol count me in hahaha!

@dipdop9734

3 жыл бұрын

@@marswaters Ha ha! Yes...a joke *slowly puts lighter away

PSA: Hey, kids. Don’t use smelling salts recreationally. You’ll just end up giving your sinuses and trachea chemical burns. I speak from experience.

@tressmith8842

5 жыл бұрын

PrettyNeckslashes People die from that shit

@strawberrymilk1683

5 жыл бұрын

@@tressmith8842 people will also die from climate change -

Remember science is only valid as long as it doesn’t make conservatives mad😉

@thedarkmaster4747

5 жыл бұрын

As so for liberals also. The polictical spectrum has four dimensions. Left vs right, AND libertarian vs authoritarian.

@mr.lalnon5455

5 жыл бұрын

@@thedarkmaster4747 That's two dimensions but ok

@TeknoSquirrel

5 жыл бұрын

@@mr.lalnon5455 The third dimension is how you feel in the moment, like when you read the comments on a Ben Shapiro video and suddenly everyone deserves the gulag, and the fourth is your level of internalized irony.

@mr.lalnon5455

5 жыл бұрын

@@TeknoSquirrel I meant like the political compass is two dimensional but fine.

@mr.lalnon5455

5 жыл бұрын

@Dexter Gesternॐ wtf is genderscience

I like how when I first heard of Cantrapoints they introduced her as "A conservative leaning transwoman." I really wish conservatives actually thought this way.

@sadnessofwildgoats

2 жыл бұрын

They may hav gotten her confused with blaire white

@airplanes_aren.t_real

2 жыл бұрын

Conservative leaning trans women sounds like an oxymoron

@bananewane1402

Жыл бұрын

@@airplanes_aren.t_real You haven't watched Blaire White

@vilagistene2939

6 ай бұрын

​@@bananewane1402She's not conservative just anti-Woke.

@bananewane1402

6 ай бұрын

@@vilagistene2939 Define “woke”

I've been having severe anxiety about climate change for weeks now, and this video was the first step for me reconciling with it. When you're too scared of something to learn about it, you superimpose your own worst fears onto it, and it actually ends up being much scarier than it is. This is compounded on by the fact that most of what I knew, I knew from social media and mainstream news sources, which presents the crisis more as a series of hard-hitting soundbytes than a cohesive narrative. The facts are consistent, but the presentation isn't, and this creates an atmosphere of uncertainty. I'm not saying climate change isn't frightening. But you present the issue comprehensively -- as you do in all of your videos -- and that helps me feel a little less world-weary and a little more in control.

@andeggbreaks

3 жыл бұрын

I experienced the same thing recently, well put. Climate change still causes me intense anxiety and hopelessness but not as much blind panic as when I understood it less.

@Thytos

Жыл бұрын

I know this comment is 3 years old already, but I recommend ClimateTown - it's a KZread channel which has very thorough takes on the climate crisis and at the same time he manages to somehow keep it entertaining and actionable

"it's soy milk anyway, how do you think I got so feminine?" y'all can fight me if you disagree this is some peak lgbt+ humour right here

@maxkordon

5 жыл бұрын

maria I mean, the joke is that the alt-right and body builders incorrectly think that soy causes an increase in estrogen levels (it doesn't) because one lady wrote an inaccurate book about it and they're afraid of emasculation

@asocksual4910

5 жыл бұрын

I know, absolute perfection!

@DrTssha

5 жыл бұрын

And I know plenty of trans women who are on waiting lists to even SEE an endocrinologist. If it really did act like estrogen, they'd be downing soy milk like it's going out of style. Granted, you'd need to block the testosterone too, since it aggressively overrides estrogen...yet another hole in that ridiculous idea...

@OmegaSoypreme

5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, is that what the "soy boy" thing is about?? I finally understand! Well kind of. In so far as one can understand complete nonsense.

@bonhll8070

5 жыл бұрын

maria I 100% agree I had to pause for ten minutes I was laughing so hard

It has happened. Natalie is finally The Sea.

@Matizicov

5 жыл бұрын

Swallow me ffs mom

@Max-nk9xg

5 жыл бұрын

dark mother, cold mother, CRUEL mother

@harrybacchus6603

5 жыл бұрын

The first signs were at the end of the incel video. She’s gone from loving the sea to becoming it. From autogynephilia to autohydrophilia 😂😂. Love it

@leiram8833

5 жыл бұрын

@@harrybacchus6603 Autohydrophilia is my new favorite word, thanks

@robertwilliams8563

5 жыл бұрын

@@harrybacchus6603 I think it started earlier than that. There's a whole lot of ocean commotion going on in Alpha Males that starts with the same sea scene as the one at the end of Incels.

Well, at least South Park made a sequel in which ManBearPIG was real, implicitly admitting that climate change is real and mocking those who still deny it. A little late, but still.

@cracktoon_powerscaling

3 жыл бұрын

South Park sucks

Watching this during a heatwave that cause fucking CANADA to hit 121 degrees and killed 500 people is sobering.

@joshjams1978

2 жыл бұрын

And we’re in the second and it’s even worse…. (In Québec anyway)

"Maybe you should stop supporting the clothes industry" is my new pickup line.

@snek9353

5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant.

@ohd00bley

5 жыл бұрын

Wade Spencer - ...but it's true; "the textile industry alone produces more greenhouse gas emissions than the aviation and shipping industry combined." here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/d3efrsmqYrqfgrg.html

@WeiYinChan

5 жыл бұрын

The fashion industry is the second largest polluter after the oil industry

@iris-mariavaltmann-valdson4958

5 жыл бұрын

I wish we could go back to how clothing was thought of about a century ago - people would have much fewer outfits but they'd be tailored to their body and the materials would be higher quality. Investment in quality rather than quantity.

As a vegan I have had the "Animals were killed farming the vegetables you eat" card played on me so many times....

@matthewbrandt5053

5 жыл бұрын

Quick question. Up here in Alaska we do a lot of subsistance hunting and fiahing, so would this be considerd ethical. Don't get me wrong, the towns and cities can get fresh produce but the problem is cost. I was simply wondering if this style could be an option for people who like meat, occasionaly getting wild game.

@shimpey2410

5 жыл бұрын

Matthew Brandt I’m vegan, and I honestly have no problem with people who hunt and use every bit of the animal, or it’s the only option for food where you are. It’s not like ur purposely hunting animals to take a photo with and then just...leaving them there.

@TheSuperRatt

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewbrandt5053 Yeah, so long as y'all aren't decimating the environment it's fine. It'd be a problem if the hunting and fishing was deteriorating the local ecosystems.

@matthewbrandt5053

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSuperRatt Fair enough. Commercial fishing honestly sucks, it kills too many fish and thanks to climate change, we have fewer salmon to begin with.

@SlighlyMacs

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewbrandt5053 I’m vegan and I think hunting and fishing for survival is 100000x more ethical than the factory farm industry! Plus u earn what ur eating!

"How am I supposed to care about rising sea levels when there's Muslims out there?" I can't even 😂

It's very frightening, my sister is a very intelligent young woman studying to be a chemical engineer, however, she is a climate change denier largely because her professors preach this. These kids are being told if this is true they will loose their jobs, and react with anger at what is realistically the more correct conclusion. It's very frightening.

@IizUname

3 жыл бұрын

Which university is preaching this?

@brijmsn

3 жыл бұрын

I had a professor in community college go off against climate change because she said a volcanic eruption emits more co2 or something. To this day I dont understand why they made such a point to belittle environmentalism

@juniperrodley9843

2 жыл бұрын

@@brijmsn Angry Jack Effect in action. Some people will fight the armies of hell to keep from changing even the slightest bit.

@KD-ou2np

2 жыл бұрын

Lose their jobs why exactly?

@theangryholmesian4556

4 ай бұрын

​@@KD-ou2npBecause capitalism cares more about the bottom line then the planet.

Wow. Preceded by a Prager U ad. Today's word is juxtaposition.

@madeline7272

4 жыл бұрын

Brett Orlob lol

@mothiieeo

4 жыл бұрын

Tomorrow's word is motley.

@aadityaphadnis8399

4 жыл бұрын

They specifically target leftist channels.

@Egiyt

4 жыл бұрын

@@aadityaphadnis8399 that seams incredibly counter intuitive of them

@aadityaphadnis8399

4 жыл бұрын

@@Egiyt May be their target audience are people on the fence watching some reasonable discourse.

Since I'm here so early, can I just say how thrilled I am to see you so skillfully transform the tradition of philosophical "dialogues" into a modern and accessible medium?

@fts_space_shark

5 жыл бұрын

Madeline, yes yes yes yes yes. When I evangelize ContraPoints, that is one of the things that I point out while duct taping my friends to chairs to make them watch her videos. (Ok, not really about the duct tape, but I do evangelize.) 💙💜💙💜💙💜

@whotoldyouthisurl

5 жыл бұрын

@@solaria5513 I do believe you've quite hit the nail on the head with that one, seeing as she is a philosophy graduate, this wonderful genre of youtube dialectics is unequivocally adapted from Plato's works.

I have been coming back to this video for 3 years, it gets only better and more relevant

I wish I could look back on Contra's videos and think 'I remember when that was a thing...'

Not on topic, but I want to take a moment to thank you for the top-notch captions. Without that, as a Deaf person I would have never started following your channel like I have to decline so many others that I know otherwise would be interesting to me! You’re doing great work AND keeping it accessible. Thank you!

@Blunderbussy

5 жыл бұрын

I hope we can get you some cyborg ears in the future!

@the_invisible_practice

5 жыл бұрын

Lusty Argonian Maid Gesture appreciated, but I’d rather keep my language and culture! ;) Also, cyborg ears already exist - they’re called cochlear implants and they’re mostly unreliable and go against child consent. That may sound like a judgement and it is, so I recommend you do your own research as well.

@JeremyAndersonBoise

5 жыл бұрын

Connor Yuzwenko-Martin your comment seems precisely on-topic. The quality of production is a perfectly valid thing to comment on.

@ruedelta

5 жыл бұрын

@@the_invisible_practice How are they unreliable? Curious since I've studied them a bit in college. Thought the audio resolution on them was already getting pretty nice.

@the_invisible_practice

5 жыл бұрын

Rufei Happy to clarify. The reliability is less about the tech itself and more about the unseen impact on quality of life. Some people do succeed very well using CI to hear speech and sounds, but many still spend years of their life training their brain to understand sound with very limited success. And medical professionals often discourage any form of sign language while learning to hear/speak, so if this doesn’t pan out, a young teen or adult is potentially left with no full language to fall back on. Finally, even with considerable training success with a CI, many still struggle on the same level as an excluded Deaf person in situations that hearing people tend to manage well, such as loud spaces, auditorium classrooms, fast-paced workplaces, and end up using the same accommodations that I would such as an interpreter or CART. So the medical expense of this often ends up being an additional cost on society rather than just going straight to natural language learning and later accommodations. I’m by no means an expert but my life in the community does inform me.

It's so true what she said about climate change denial being an oddity in Europe. You're basically in the same corner as conspiracy theorists if you're a climate change denier here. I think it's one of those things that make people think that Americans are stupid, like not teaching evolution in school, and Trump...

@Avrysatos

5 жыл бұрын

Yer Bum many schools do teach evolution in the us. It's why you hear about the ones that don't.

@frida507

5 жыл бұрын

@TINA Europe is not perfect but government policies ARE different here. To not commit to the UN goals would be unthinkable here. EDIT: That said, the fact that the US is a bit after is not a reason to relax or be satisfied. All of us still have got most of the things that need to be done ahead of us. Rather, if a leading nation like the US is lagging behind, it put's more pressure on the rest of the world to take action. Bc the consequences are global.

@nyar2352

5 жыл бұрын

Yer Bum Not really. Our government's (right in the middle of Europe) official position is that climate change does not happen, and if it does, it is unimportant when compared to the evil refugees and foreigners on the dole stealing jobs. 'Muricans are the loudest and most obnoxious deniers, but not the only ones. (...our government also believes 50% in chemtrails, so yeah, not the brightest figures in charge...)

@beatoriche7301

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Corporations resort to different tactics here in order to defend their profits in the wake of global catastrophe. Most notably, there’s basically not a single company that doesn’t tell you about some great thing they do for the environment and about how green their products are, ignoring the larger picture, which is that they are responsible for the situation. Greenwashing is far more prevalent here than it is in the US. Another problem is that - at least over here in Austria - people who care about the environment are usually just those who can afford to, and they tend to look down on those who cannot. It’s this horrible mentality that blames individual people for climate change instead of blaming a profit-oriented economic order. I kind of really hate those people. Recent years have seen some notable developments, though. In particular, an initiative called “System Change, not Climate Change” has emerged. Without direct action, we won’t be able to change the world. We’ll have to tie environmentalism to other forms of social struggle and take action - through general strikes, for example.

@frida507

5 жыл бұрын

@@nyar2352 it's too bad that the nationalist movements in Europe (supported by American and Russian alt-right propaganda/professional trolls) has been growing lately*. the USA and Russia are worse. Which does not mean we should be pleased with ourselves. Accordning to climateactiontracker.org/countries/# Europe's level of action is insufficient Canada's highly insufficient USA and Russia critically insufficient *The Sweden Democrats have grown in Sweden as well but until now the center-right parties have refused cooperate with them while the Conservative party and the Christian Democrats have opened a door. This has created a situation where the negotiations to form a new government after the election in september are still not completed.

How to get American conservatives to stop denying climate change and actually do something about it: Try to prove it is climate change that is actually causing the "gay crisis", not degeneracy Nothing gets those people more motivated than halting social progression!

@nunyabizniss570

4 жыл бұрын

Or even just the reality that it's causing increased immigration and refugees. You know how much conservatives hate them

@she7061

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing In Particular then we should be even better than those dirty third worlders, right? win the contest for how environmentally friendly we can be. America loves the idea of winning

@jv-lk7bc

3 жыл бұрын

@@she7061 thats closer. We need a big oil tycoon to explain how a big idea, moon-shot-like, will make US wiorld industry leaders, everybody gets rich and lives happily ever after, just like the hollywood movies. doesnt even matter if its true (look at how many votes Trump got!). just has to have Clint Eastwood playing the part in the movie.. or Sly Stallone.

@sadnessofwildgoats

3 жыл бұрын

Your channel icon is the ace colors

@paolima1448

3 жыл бұрын

"Global warming is making the freaking frogs gay" pass it on.

I think the point of the South Park episode was that all of the characters were arguing about what man-bear-pig was (a man, a bear, or a pig) rather than doing anything about it, and as a result, people died. People would argue about what man-bear-pig was right up until the last moment, before he killed them. It was a metaphor for global warming.

+ContraPoints Hey y'all, hi Natalie. I'm one of the people over at EarthStrike, I was hoping to add a little bit to this video. So first of all there is one bit of crucial misinformation in this video concerning the emissions of companies. In reality it's 71% of global INDUSTRIAL emissions that stem from 100 producers, not companies but also for example government it self. Now those direct emissions are a smaller fragment of the global total one has to consider the part companies like Exxon play in this by not only adding directly into the pool of emissions but also fueling factors like transportation, other industry and energy production. Which is why it is important to both understand that we need to change our own behavior but also act politically in order to quickly change not just the landscape on and individual level but also on an industrial level. Attacking the problem on both sides. Contra already makes some good points on what you can do *individually* to help change the world, I'm here to tell you a bit about 3 things you can do politically. 3 Things that are not even that hard. First, take a look at platforms like ours over at earth-strike.com, our friends over at Extinction Rebellion or any other local organizations. Spread awareness by tweeting and sharing, make a meme if that's what you feel like, i mean political memes are lame as hell but if this is gonna go down we might as well laugh a bit right? Talk to your friends, your union or fellow students and workers. Word of mouth is always appreciated! Second, go to a protest. The folks over at Extinctions Rebellion specialize at that and we can highly recommend them. I get it, ugh going out, ugh peope. But just being there helps build up a presence, it shows politicians that we will not sit idly and let our planet die. And finally, Strike! This is where we at #EarthStrike come in, we're organizing a global general strike on the 27th of September to push for stricter government action to *not have our planet die*. You'd think it'd be less controversial but here we are. Yes this is the hardest part but come on, isn't it a bit exciting too?~ Anyway, thanks for the nod and wink, I really hope this video gets us somewhere. :)

@deadlydimitarr

5 жыл бұрын

and the go vegan bit x

@Bdognintendo777

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info

@DrTssha

5 жыл бұрын

"we're organizing a global general strike on the 27th of September" Is that this year, or next year? Or did you mean the 27th of December?

@DrTssha

5 жыл бұрын

@@jamesreilly3679 Thanks. It kinda seemed weird that they were saying it was a few months ago, so I figured it was either an error of insufficient specificity (forgetting to put a year in the date), or a typo of some sort. December and September do rhyme, so it's not impossible someone would write the wrong month. Also, having it be 9-10 months from now seemed like it was awfully far in the future.

@Artemis526

5 жыл бұрын

Just wondering, but, doesn't climate change cause warming and acidification of the ocean and therefore kill plancton? You know plancton; those little organisms that live in the sea that pretty much supply us with most of our oxygen... If this is infact a problem, then why don't we just appeal to the resistant, apathetic people's sense of needing to breath? Instead of reporting increasing temperature levels and why don't we report decreasing oxygen levels.... That should wake a few people up!

What is sad is that South Park made another episode apologising and realizing that AI Gore was right

@johnjohnson-os5gw

5 жыл бұрын

Those episodes were fucking amazing. RIP Satan

@bluehornet632

5 жыл бұрын

Now if they could apologize for just about every other episode that equates caring about social issues as "being crazy" they might change the generation of alt righters they helped create.

@justametalhead625

5 жыл бұрын

Which episode was that? I actually want to watch it now.

@mchevre

5 жыл бұрын

@@justametalhead625 It was two of the most recent episodes from this past month. Titled "Time to Get Cereal" and "No one got Cereal?"

@VClarity

5 жыл бұрын

Mechanic 93 No, Al Gore was not right. He made a lot of false claims.

It's 4 years later, 2023, and the North Island of New Zealand just had one of the worst, if not the worst, summers on record in terms of weather. It rained so much that entire communities were cut off for weeks on end, roads were destroyed, houses flooded or washed away in slips, and it was almost entirely unprecedented. We had an entire summer's worth of rain in one month, and then, on January 27th, another summer's worth in *one day.* Then a few days later we had another, smaller (but still damaging) flooding event. And a week after that, we were hit by a cyclone which did major damage to infrastructure and cut off communities. January 27th was the wettest day on record in Auckland, and the month of January was the wettest month. The effects of climate change are already taking hold. But we still have Brian Tamaki, leader of the destiny church, blaming these events on "pornography, abortion, and gay rights"

@pezvonpez

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think it's safe to say we're doomed

@kittykittybangbang9367

10 ай бұрын

4 months later, we've now reached record highs temperature with this heat wave.

Had the ad that said "You can skip this video in 5 seconds, but you can't skip climate change" right before this lmao

Whoever made the Vietnamese subtitle for this video, I salute to you. Our people need more of this type of content.

@sammienope9272

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck now I have to go back and watch this in Vietnamese

@demilembias2527

4 жыл бұрын

*vietnamese people realizing that most of their country only goes like 50 miles away from the coast* "I'm in danger"

@Mai-zy4vw

4 жыл бұрын

awww, thank you so much. I tried my best but to anyone who feels the need to, please feel free to improve it.

This environmental scientist salutes you, Natalie, on producing a more compelling and informative explanation of climate change than any of us have managed so far. I will be sharing this with my colleagues!

@XenaBe25

5 жыл бұрын

lol *> this watermelon is the earth and the earth is a vagina* Very compelling xD

@roseanderson4618

5 жыл бұрын

@@XenaBe25 You have to admit that "vagina" sparks curiosity and thus attracts focus on the talk being held tho, so yes,very compelling! XD

@XenaBe25

5 жыл бұрын

@@roseanderson4618 Vaginas are great :) I like the Gaea Hypothesis, actually. The Earth is our Mother and we should protect her Sacred Womb to the best of our ability.

@MyuFoxable

5 жыл бұрын

@@XenaBe25 Yeah, I do wish my gas guzzling parents did something to prevent that image from happening.... XD

@jsveterans6949

5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear this response from someone in the scientific community... Ya'll need all the help you can get seemingly.

Thinking of sending this to my brother who says things like "it was warmer in the middle ages"

Those South Park guys low key did a lot of damage

I have nothing intelligent to contribute to the discussion on this topic, I just want to say as a trans woman who is so overwhelmed by depression and can't really even leave the house, it's really amazing to watch your videos and be able to laugh and smile and feel a little happier. You give me a little bit of hope that I can work through stuff and be wonderful and gorgeous like you. Thank you.

@signin6233

5 жыл бұрын

I truly wish that you´ll overcome your struggles. Have a nice day!

@stpy7027

5 жыл бұрын

I believe in you! Sending some strength and positivity. Depression is hard.

@haroldvazquez2614

5 жыл бұрын

It might not feel intelligent, but it's emotionally intelligent. Our struggles our different, but thank for letting others know they find some relief some similar things.

@iliketurtles6777

5 жыл бұрын

Be well. Know that your life is yours and who you are too. Shine yourself. This world is full of diversity and it’s what makes it great.

@jsveterans6949

5 жыл бұрын

:( Sorry... From us, the world: It's not you, it's me... (no really, it is,we suck, and I'm sorry)

I love the fact that you addressed why the average person can’t grasp/care about this- it’s so big and huge of an issue that feels too far removed from the concerns of our daily life, and there’s no one thing or person to vilify. I often wonder if our general inability to grasp long term consequences of our actions is innate or taught, or a little bit of both. I believe our generation and our progeny are learning how to balance living in the moment while understanding that all decisions have an impact outside of ourselves, both communally and for the future that need to be considered. Also your representation of the sea reminded me of the ancient goddess Tiamat. I loved it.

@goldfishsnake

5 жыл бұрын

I think videos like this prove that these issues are often a lot simpler than we believe, because we've been purposefully misdirected and fake information has been put out there to confuse us, muddy the waters, and convince us to give up and move on.

That's it -- that's the line. "The world isn't ending, it's just getting shittier."

Watching this as an apocalypse unfolds.

@para7622

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah 😃

Electric cars: If you are buying a car, look at electric and hybrid options. BUT if you already have a decent car with ok emissions ratings, keep it. Buying a new car when you don't need one is harmful to the environment - there's lots of emissions released in making one.

@korianderbadger

5 жыл бұрын

PREACH!!! In general, just stop buying new shit you dont need!!! REDUCE AND REUSE before you RECYCLE

@gorillaguerillaDK

5 жыл бұрын

PavarottiAardvark If you can afford it, buy an electric/hybrid car - sell your fairly new low emission car to someone who drives an old high emissions car....

@DKdoman

5 жыл бұрын

actually most of the emissions comes from operating the vehicle, so really, buy that electric car and scrap the old one also buy solar pannels

@Kaleysia

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, electric cars may not be the best emission wise after all, when taking into account the emissions caused by the production of the lithiumbatteries they use for storing the energy. Soouuu.... yeah. Maybe rather go for a hydrogen fueled car (only if it's available of course). Or buy a used electric car, not a new one.

@antediluvianatheist5262

5 жыл бұрын

Check where the power comes from in your area. Switching to electric, driven by coal, is not a whole lot better. But generally, it's better.

"It's soy milk anyway, science nerd. How do you think I got so feminine?" LOL!!!

@MyuFoxable

5 жыл бұрын

There is nothing in science to support that...XD

@mohammedsarker5756

5 жыл бұрын

HBOMBERGUY

@eowynsalvador6664

5 жыл бұрын

Maya Parisan completely off topic, your profile pic is everything

@simonfein3095

5 жыл бұрын

MyuFoxable soy don’t even have titties

@stephss

5 жыл бұрын

Go to Nutritionfacts.org and look up phytoestrogen, and learn the facts

Hi it's 2019 and the Amazons are burning down...

@averytrashmouth

4 жыл бұрын

*being burned by big industry

@dpax2195

4 жыл бұрын

Ben W And I’ll raise YOU an entire everywhere as of March 14, 2020😔

i can't believe that some people just don't care about the future. not the far, far away future, but our future

Perfectly timed after the Australian students strike due to inaction on climate change

@sunnybubbleday

5 жыл бұрын

If you didn't participate you're a nerd

@lachlancampbell6328

5 жыл бұрын

@@sunnybubbleday I'm in rural Victoria where there wasn't a strike. Sadly I couldn't support the kids

@sunnybubbleday

5 жыл бұрын

Lachlan Campbell Oh that's fair dude, I sort of meant as a more general message to people who could have but didn't (tempted to ask where you are tbh but you're probably no where hear me)

@hecatere6530

5 жыл бұрын

In Quebec, Canada student are going to court against Quebec and Canada because of the climate change issue. They say their inaction goes against the "Charte des valeurs" that says that everyone has the right to live. The student movement are moving worldwide a bit more against their own governement.

I CAME AS SOON AS I HEARD

@user-xk1rm5di2t

5 жыл бұрын

Angelica.....

@deadmeme8011

5 жыл бұрын

I just came, too.

@SarahZ

5 жыл бұрын

All the way from London? Damn!

@EU-op3db

5 жыл бұрын

All the way from london?

@thatdutchguy2882

5 жыл бұрын

And then started watching Natalie.

To south parks credit, they basically apologized in the best possible way, with in-universe writing. They had an episode showing that actually, manbearpig WAS real all along, and the 2 main kids (largely thought to represent Matt and Trey) explicitly told Gore that he was right all along after he guilted them into saying the words. They also had a hilarious scene making fun of people who still, in the 2020s, deny climate change, where manbearpig is literally going on a destructive rampage in a cafe, ripping people apart, and one guy sits there with his back to the chaos, smugly communicating his skepticism with a glass of wine in his hand while people are being murdered by mbp 10 feet behind him. The real Al Gore also said he was proud of them for coming around and he seemed to find the new episode funny.

Contra is so pretty I wanna cry 😭

The child scientist dream hit me too hard

Great video but i resent the fact that i had to see and hear ted cruz

@leiram8833

5 жыл бұрын

And also Donald Trump

@demonjaws6869

5 жыл бұрын

He’s my senator now and I want to cry

@q345ify

5 жыл бұрын

@@demonjaws6869 I live in Texas too but as far as i'm concerned we haven't had a senator since Lloyd Bentson Cornyn and Cruz are oil execs with a government job

@NinjaCrazy87

5 жыл бұрын

@@demonjaws6869 Fucking same man just end me lmao

@JackieBurkhart924

5 жыл бұрын

Even worse for me, I live in Oklahoma and fucking Inhofe is my senator. The political climate in this state is the worst. The oil companies are basically running our entire state government.

Filthy Rich Woman: I guess I just need a villain. Grimes: I got you fam.

I swear, Americans eat soooo much red meat. In Spain, or at least in my family, we do eat meat, just not that much. It's incredible

@theangryholmesian4556

4 ай бұрын

I thought pork was big in Spain?

"I SEXUALLY IDENTIFY AS AN OIL COMPANY" OH GODNESS.

@markganus1085

5 жыл бұрын

allahu akbar

@francescacourtin7870

5 жыл бұрын

@@markganus1085 Alhamduli Allah

@stilltoomanyhats

5 жыл бұрын

You think that's weird? I hear there are oil companies that sexually identify as persons...

The fashion industry actually IS a big environmental problem, with fast fashion culture creating absurd amounts of waste every day. Among other problems, farming the materials creates unhealthy soils and harms workers and surrounding communities; treating and dying fabrics pollutes waterways and again harms communities; and synthetic fabrics requires oil for production. Unfortunately, buying environmentally and socially ethical/sustainable clothes is also often prohibitively expensive. However, I am optimistic that there is change happening in the fashion industry and its culture from the inside. It is hard to be so optimistic about climate change when we see world leaders being purposely ignorant and misleading. Never have I felt such a sense of doom as watching 12:15-14:21 as though it were a history documentary called When It All Went Wrong.

@linemonssi4108

5 жыл бұрын

One the one hand you are absolutely right but I feel that its maybe more complicated than that. The fashion industry can be very harmfull for people but it sometimes trumps the alternative and while it does involve big injustices with workers being given only a minimal purcentage of the final value of the product we do see countries where the living conditions have become better with industrialization ( yes, fashion-industry based industrialization). And in some cases, after certain industries left developping countries to produce, fore example, in Europe because the customers pushed for it, local communities were left with a massive unemployment issue, a rise in poverty and in even more precarious jobs like prostitution. Obviously this is not always the case but lets say we realize the fashion industry is beneficial for people, should we accept despite the fact that it harms the envirronement? One problem with sustainability is how complex it is.

@Emiliapocalypse

5 жыл бұрын

Fortunately more and more youtubers seem to be talking about this and rocking the boat a bit for the better. Tiffanyferg did a good video about it kzread.info/dash/bejne/fGWB1dqHhpDIfbA.html

@CrutonSan

5 жыл бұрын

This is why the legalization of industrial hemp needs to happen. Hemp clothing can be expensive, but it is usually very well-made and sturdy enough to last for years without looking horrible, and it’s antibacterial.

@Nocturne22

5 жыл бұрын

A big part of it is definitely culture - we need to learn how to re-purpose instead of just chucking clothes when it gets old and out of style. I understand wanting to look chic and for style to evolve, but there has to be a better less wasteful way. A culture where tailors and garment specialists are prioritized and readily alter existing clothes, rather than clothing manufactures creating new ones from raw materials needs to happen. And speaking of capitalism: "luxury" fashion brands need to go. Paying for a well made, ethically produced, environmentally friendly blouse that's cute should not cost $1000. No wonder people wear fast fashion - what's the alternative if you aren't rich and you want/need a specific type of clothing?

@markganus1085

5 жыл бұрын

fashion industry is for gheys

Getting this in my recommended while we’ve got a sky full of uncontrollable wildfire smoke hits different

I live in Australia, one of very few countries along with the US where whether you 'believe in' anthropogenic climate change is considered political despite Australia being the most susceptible OECD country to the effects of climate change, as devastatingly illustrated by our extreme bushfires last summer

Natalie is posting drop everything and worship!

@benjaminherrera1987

5 жыл бұрын

literally what i'm doing rn

@kaylaklimas6058

5 жыл бұрын

a very thirsty boi

@fts_space_shark

5 жыл бұрын

Genessa, I got the notification on Patreon and literally jumped out of bed to watch it twice. Now on my third viewing.

Forget the chemicals in the water, its contrapoints thats making my frogs gay.

@Syogren

5 жыл бұрын

*My friggen frogs

@samlikesplants4363

5 жыл бұрын

Actually all the frogs are dying because climate change is making an environment perfect for a type of fungus that massacres amphibians

@antoniogureev

5 жыл бұрын

@Mac Mcskullface They should love pizza and fight crime with martial art and biodegradable glitters. Names: Karl, Friedrich, Vlad and Joseph.

@greysquirrel404

4 жыл бұрын

The truth is that homosexual intercourse is actually pretty common among most animals, and the frogs were gay all along.

It's 2020 now. In Madrid, we're currently suffering the aftermath of a huge unprecedented snowstorm the likes we've never seen in 50 years. It rarely ever snows in Madrid. Now the snow has been piling up in the city for more than a week. Supermarkets were closed a couple days, then they were reopen but with very few items. Only now they are finally restocking. Granted, part of it was our local government lack of efficiency and familiarity with snow-related problems. But I wonder what else is going to take for people to connect the dots. I myself have started looking for properties on the countryside. I'm fortunate enough to be able to work remotely (for now) so my plan is to do that while I build the most self-sufficient place I can for my family in the upcoming years.

Every single goddamn video she manages to piss me off with her impeccable acting and scripting of the people she's actively disproving, and I love it

As a random spaniard, I was taught climate change in primary school, early-mid 90's, as a creeping threat that we needed to act on right then and there if we wanted to, at the very least, mitigate it. It's not really a partisan issue whether it exists or not and whether something should be done about it, parties only disagreed on the specifics of what to do. Which renewable energy sources to build towards, the specific trashold of emission caps, that sort of stuff. So when the internet rolled around and I saw that the united states had an entire social and political identity built around covering their ears and going "LALALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU" at the problem... yeah it felt weird.

@Rettequetette

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Here in the Netherlands (you know, the country that would mostly disappear if sea levels get to rise a little higher) the importance of environmental protection has been taught in schools even from the late 70's-early 80's and maybe even earlier than that. Boggles my mind how America managed to stay so ignorant for so long.

@Majubs

5 жыл бұрын

Even here in Brazil, education about climate change was just part of school curriculum, not a partisan thing. At least when I was in school, nowadays it might be different though, which is unfortunate. The way things are now, it's more likely that the elected president is just going to sell the Amazon to the same companies responsible for most of carbon emission, we're going to need a lot of luck for it to survive the next 50 years...

@BlackBinderGames

5 жыл бұрын

Rettequetette Yes, people are allowed freedom of thought in America. Even if those thoughts are backward. What a terrible thing!

@coldDrive

5 жыл бұрын

+Black Binder man I can't even tell whether that statement is supposed to be read straight or not. As in, are you saying that teaching stuff in schools and educating the populace about shit they might use in life is a form of mind control, all with a straight face and all. Or are you mocking the obtrusiveness and immutability of education programs driven by inertia, loyalty to tradition, and vested interest of coprprations with political power to keep teaching kids wrong stuff, flippantly calling all of that "freedom of thought" like one of its defenders might. I'm having a major case of Poe's law here. Help me out.

@sleepingkirby

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, they also think homosexuality is a sign of the devil, the earth is only like 4000 years old, light was shining before stars existed and that "mixing the races" in a species is a bad thing. (because being homogeneous is somehow a good thing despite the fact that the point of different genders is to mix genes.)

I never thought I'd live in a time period with this much evil and selfishness in the world. I'm constantly at a loss for words. The crime the oil companies and their enablers have committed is so monstrous that there's no precedent for it in human history.

@ThingsStuffington

5 жыл бұрын

Eh, the past isn't much better. Human history is basically just a list of atrocities. The future may yet see things change for the better.

@majestycrush

5 жыл бұрын

Took the words out of my mouth

@cuissonbake6917

5 жыл бұрын

Humanity has always been like this. "What is a man?"

@imperishableneet

5 жыл бұрын

@@cuissonbake6917 *glass breaks* A miserable little pile of secrets?! But enough talk, have at you!

@royjon2964

5 жыл бұрын

Ohiska in the future human civilization will cease to exist

**sees title in 2020** Oh dear

@~4:35, to quote the cinematic masterpiece The Tomorrow War, "one degree is the difference between water and ice."

"Climate change denial is considered an oddity in Europe." Weeell... To be honest... Most of American right-wing politics is considered an oddity in Europe...

@HerculeDevantrien

5 жыл бұрын

@CM Beadle Oh, yeah, we have our own right-wing nutjobs, and they're on the rise, but I always thought their bullshit was not quite as outrageous or trivialized as it can be in the US... Maybe that's just an impression tho

@skullz291

5 жыл бұрын

The EU hides it better than the US.. Y'all are heading the exact same direction, I promise you. If your politicians could get away with it, they'd gut your healthcare systems, dismantle your public education, and make you just like us. I even _heard_ people say _exactly this_ during the Euro crisis. That austerity was being imposed not because it was necessary (it is demonstrably the dumbest thing to do in a recession, and they know that), but because, to quote them, "recessions are the only time you can justifiably attack and permanently reduce the public sector." We've done the same thing in the United States, we've just had a head start since we began this process in the 80's and never stopped.

@HerculeDevantrien

5 жыл бұрын

@@skullz291 Oh, sure, most of our politicians are as crooked as those of any other countries -whether they're left or right. I am far from considering Europe as perfect or anything, hell, large-scale protests against the president are taking place in my country right now, basically due to him economically screwing up the lower and middle class. What I meant was that a lot of mainstream talking points of the American right are viewed as strange in Europe, even in right-wing circles. It is still pretty much unthinkable for a mainstream politician to argue that climate change isn't real. People are way less prone to defend candidates with scandals. Conspiracy theories are not as nearly regarded as valid talking points in political discussions as they seem to be in the US. The idea of guns being easily purchased while mass shootings are commonplace has us raising our eyebrows. I could not cite you any European country where the Bible still does have its place in the political discourse. But of course, politicians constantly try to screw up healthcare and support services, and large parts of right-wing rhetorics echo those found in the US (fear of the migrants, etc), and we're still pretty fucked up overall.

@SenorZorros

5 жыл бұрын

I'm dutch and Wilders is actually very much misunderstood. The pvv, as bad as it is, is not the far right bastion people think it is. Of course he is extremely anti-immigration, pro-military and the party is very undemocratic but they also support rent control, social healthcare, low retirement age, indexed pensions and student financing. They are actually low-key climate-sceptic (though you won't see them say that because it's extremely unpopular) but pro-nuclear because it would make us independent from russia and the middle east. doesn't mean it's not a neofascist party though and rest assured. I wouldn't want to be caught dead supporting it.

@blane2472

5 жыл бұрын

@@SenorZorros That's a good point, even our most extreme political fool (Wilders, who oddly enough also has weird hair, guess it's a 'thing' for racists), comes across as more moderate than the American ones. BUT I'd say the only reason for that is because he realises the Dutch political landscape wouldn't let him succeed otherwise. I don't think he gives a shit about any of those social issues, he just knows that his base does. Saying all that, even if he did believe in those (and it isn't just lipservice, I mean even Drumpf promised affordable healthcare), his policies towards immigrants, certain countries, and his violent nationalism would still place him as a far right bastion. (Basically I'm saying, his terrifying nationalism, his outright racism towards marginalised groups makes him far right, no matter how often he says he wants to keeps rents low, as those first ideas should weigh much heavier.)

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The soy milk, popper and wine in the fridge is a nice touch I didn't notice on the first watch.