Kurtis Baute & Friends podcast? Yes please!

@nanak3363

3 жыл бұрын

YES

@the_enderslayer

3 жыл бұрын

I tend to add these videos to my Podcasts playlist to listen to later anyway so sounds good to me.

I’m SO glad I voted for them in the last election! Exactly who I’d want as an MP!!

On ages of Prime Ministers, youngest was Joe Clark who was 39 when he was sworn in. Justin Trudeau is the second youngest but Brian Mulroney was only 19 months older than him and three more were less than three years older than him when they were sworn in. In general, the age of Prime Ministers age when taking office is lower than it used to be. Five of the six youngest are from the last 41 years and represent five of the nine prime ministers since 1979. Trudeau senior was also less than five years older than his son was when sworn in. The real lack of diversity comes in ethnic background. Only a single PM has not been of English, Scottish or French ancestry. Only one PM has ever been from the west coast.

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! Good to know about Joe Clark.

"feat. Amita Kuttner" indeed! Well done, Kurtis, and thank you!

Great interview, now I wish I was Canadian so I could vote for them!

I could listen to you two discuss this for much longer. A podcast is a great idea, I listen to a lot of podcasts while I work so I could just add it to my podcast app. Climate change is scary and hard to deal with but you make me feel like we can make a difference, thanks.

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, I plan on this series (and the likely podcast) to be entirely discussions with people who are already taking action - because thats what we need to do, and it definitely does remind us that there are reasons to hope.

Love this new path you are on Kurtis. Time in the tree brought clarity it would seem

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

Had this chat with Amita just a few hours before going up that tree, actually, but yes - I've definitely realized the urgency of changing direction here. We need to act on climate, and much of that work is social.

I wanna call out that Meryam Haddad is an excellent candidate for this Green Party race as well!

good work, Kurtis.

I love how casual you use their pronouns and how natural it is to you! As a non-binary person using they/them it is truly something special to hear people with influence accept us! Thank you very much!

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

You bet! 💚

@seatyourself7082

3 жыл бұрын

@@chickentoot4102 Obviously not, and we have no way to deny that

@scimastory

3 жыл бұрын

@@chickentoot4102 the thing is is that some people are born intersex, which means that you aren't a man or woman genetically. There is no initial gender assignment at birth.

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

Just banned someone from commenting on this channel, but I just want to say I'm so proud of this community - by the time I got to it, there were already three strong voices of reason and compassion.

@minituex1468

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience thank you for making this community a safe space for us

I like the idea of a podcast. Podcasts are blowing up right now and I think it suits this channel.

Podcasts sounds great 👍

@zephaniahbates7283

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Not how dare you! It's How you dare not to. ❤️

This was good. I missed it when it came out.

Thank you for caring, for standing up and acting and for all the awesome video's! ✨ this channel has been very inspiring to me, and has been helping me better & further understand the conversation about climate change in an empathic and responsible way 💚

It is incredibly frustrating that we are still debating over the issue as if to doubt that it is even real.

Go Amita!

COVID-19 has demonstrated the fragility of economies. Other than "universal living wage", what is Amita's plan to support the economy during necessary transition to more sustainable energy sources? I'd also like to hear about plans to ensure that the agricultural sector shifts from CAFOs to regenerative (carbon back into soil) agriculture.

I wish we had a parliamentarian system here in the US.

Hi Kurtis, could you please share your opinion about the following statement? "In the year 10,836 BCE around 9% of the Earth's terrestrial biomass, on an area of some 10,000,000 square kilometres, which as big as the area of the US, burnt within several months."

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

Humans are currently pumping out a similar amount of CO2 roughly every 5-10 years, from fossil fuels that would otherwise be locked beneath the soil. At the same time we're deforesting the planet. Some fires are good for forest ecosystems, but the intensity and rate of increase in severity is unprecedented at any time in history with exceptions only for the other 5 mass extinctions

damn, it’s really a shame your recent content hasn’t been performing well in the, uh, statistics. it’s quite good and probably rather important,,, well, uh, anyway. thanks for this! Amita seems quite cool-

They're a really good speaker! I wish you all the best!!

Love this new series and would love a podcast!

Podcast is a great idea!

Wait, 14 year olds can vote in Canada‽ That's super cool.

@PMfromMB

3 жыл бұрын

they can vote in the leadership contest for the green party... but the general Election voting age is still 18 :( - many people including a senator are currently fighting to change that though!

that series is going to be very interesting and very good

BiG Love from Nagaland (Northeast ___?___) ♥️👍💪

Hey, this video was posted on my birthday!! :>

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

Happy belated birthday!

@monikavalentine1181

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Thank you so much!

Where is the documentary ?

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

In my original plan for the year, I was supposed to start filming this month and have it out next spring. But I was planning on giving talks and filming them, and biking across Canada to make it, all of which is not possible due to Covid, so I've put that project on hold and have been working quietly on something else

Nice

As any series that involves politics this series is bound to turn some people away, however I think it's important to remember this is beyond a partisan issue, just because you might not support this particular candidate it doesn't mean you should oppose the policies, you can still approach your candidate and demand that they adopt some green policies, this issue requires everyone.

Kurtis - I'd like to use your tree sit video Day 5 for a zoom hour "Action Evening", Sept. 9, thro. the Unitarian Church of Vancouver. What kind of permission do I need?

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

Very cool. You absolutely have my permission! ☺️

@catherinehembling5574

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Terrific! I wonder if you want to attend by Zoom, for Q and A? 7 to 8 Pacific time?

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

I'd love to do that. Sounds great! Could you please send me a note with the zoom link via my website? ( www.kurtisbaute.com/contact ).

I like them.

So the impression I get about the green party from this interview, is that they want to create an inclusive space where we can hope and dream... and boom, society is changed and the climate is on the mend. (Admittedly it's not all too different from all the other political parties. Form a big blob, sell them some platitudes and then nudge the train tracks in a slightly different direction...)

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

No. Go see Amita's campaign platform. Unlike other parties, the Green Party has strong policies on how to move away from carbon, build a renewable economy, and act on this as the emergency that it truly is. Other parties policies on climate are basically "we'll maybe deal with it later".

@themadrobot

3 жыл бұрын

​@@ScopeofScience against nuclear power, your a smart man kurtis, these people don't want real solutions.

@byter75

3 жыл бұрын

​@@ScopeofScience My impression was about what was said in this interview, this interview had plenty about inclusion and diversity but it didn't really touch much on policy or the path forward. I didn't need everything spelt out and explained but I would appreciate it if we heard (more) about how we'll achieve sustainability.

I am curious where Amita thinks the money for the "universal living wage" will come from. My government experience shows that it comes from taxes, so someone like Amita with a PHD can pay 10 people's worth of "Universal Living Wages" back to the government. The same way that when we throw something out, it never goes "away". Aka, you cannot make something disappear and something else appear. The dollars must come from somewhere, and that fact alone means something else must suffer in order for one thing to benefit.

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

The rich should and must bear the brunt of these taxes. It's all in their platform (link below), which includes, for example, putting a cap to how wealthy someone can be. amitakuttner.ca/platform/

The pandemic is a result of climate change, not just a relevant example. Habitat Loss is directly responsible for new zoonotic diseases like HIV and COVID, which happens primarily because of all the animals we eat and ecosystems we bulldoze to build new 'developments'. Green New Deal is not just about cutting emissions, almost the entirety of our current civilization is fundamentally incompatible with natural cycles and needs to be replaced. Even the concept of a house is sort of problematic if you're going to end up doing massive engineering around it to control stuff like mud slides.

I just love how much his voice soothes me idk why

wait you only need to be 14 to vote in Canada???

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

For this election, yes - the Green Party wants to lower the voting age. But not for federal elections, unfortunately.

Wish you would have worn a mask while talking to them. Wearing a mask while social distancing is more helpful and ridiculously easy. TO anyone who argues that 'I can't hear them...' subtitles are a thing, and so are microphones.

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

I wear a mask whenever I might come within 2m of someone, but we were following our local guidelines for social distancing here in Vancouver (where locally transmitted cases are very low).

@Linkolnverse

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience I understand, and I'm glad cases are low. It couldn't have hurt to add additional protection. I'd personally wear a mask and insist the person I was speaking to face to face (even if you are more then 2 meters away, which I'd wager is the Minimum distance) wear one as well if I was having extended conversation, as the more speaking involved the more bits I could potential be in contact from someones breath could come close to my own inhalation range.

It's not the environment you need to save. It's the people you must change

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

Its the people in power we must change.

@difflocktwo

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience People in power have disarmed the rest. Good luck.

Did he just edit this in a tree?

You aren’t on a tree anymore!

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

True fact. Actually filmed this *just* before I went up

Id really like to vote green in the federal elections, but I absolutely need the green party to move beyond the single issue before i can do that. Single issue ecological parties leave the door open for ecofascists and don't address the core cause of the climate crisis which is a mode of production that demands an infinitely expanding profit margin on a finite world. UBI is a good thing for now, but with increased automation it will only tighten the shackles around the working class as consumers. The only acceptable solution to the widespread economic inequality is to demand that we democratize the economy and guve workers the FULL, UNMITIGATED value of their work.

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

If you look at their platform, it is quite far from single issue. It's pretty understanding that we need to basically change everything - basically as far from a single issue as you can get.

democracy is not an inclusive space for everyone. by its nature it is rule by majority. minorities are not part of the majority by definition. that is democracy working as intended. and in its real world application of course it represents the wealthy and powerful and well connected much better than it does the working class or the poor. if she wants to gain a position of higher influence, she'll have a much better time of it as a youtuber, author, journalist, academic, or business owner. and we as the privileged people who care about this stuff will have greater overall influence as consumers than as voters.

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@thror1709

3 жыл бұрын

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Please don't become a global warming channel. Do other science videos too

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

I already became a 100% climate change focused channel at the start of the year, keep up

@muha0644

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience I meant, do more videos about the science of climate change, not the politics of climate change. E.G. about carbon capture technology and why it doesn't work well

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

@@muha0644 Ah I see. I will do more of those videos as well, but I think people need to understand that the science solutions have been here a long time already - the reason we fail to act is purely social and psychological.

I wouldn't only interview people pro climate movement, but also people denying climate change and people against the climate movement.

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

Oil companies paid to get their message out, and their oil-funded denialists dominated the conversation for the last 30 years. When we give them air time we are playing into the hand of oil giants, and delaying serious, science-based discussions about how we actually move forward. We cannot afford to do that any longer. It's passed time to move on without them.

@TallOldOak

3 жыл бұрын

Platforming climate deniers has been one of the greatest failings of media surrounding climate change. It gives the impression that the whole thing is still up for debate rather than showing the reality of the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is a massive threat to humanity and we are the ones causing it. The question now is what should we do to stop it and how do we push forward when powerful industries are dragging their feet.

@mikaxms

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScopeofScience Okay, so your goal is to discuss solutions instead of convincing others.

@ScopeofScience

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikaxms Yes.