Noam Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP’s Climate Change Denial
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2018
- democracynow.org - Just weeks after the United Nations warned that humanity has only a dozen years to mitigate global warming and limit the scope of global catastrophe, we speak with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky. He says, “We have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized human life can survive in any decent form.”
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One of few who tell us a truth and not motivated by profits. What the corporations are going to do with massive profits without a planet to live on...
Live in space... of course.
The end game is to do just that. Once the elite is up in space... safe and sound and no need for lower humans as their robots will do the labor, the Earth will be left to die and reborn a new, and that is when they will return..... then repeat and repeat and repeat. ;-)
They think jesus will let them ride their profits to heaven!
@@mtumeumrani376 The elite do not believe in Jesus silly.... otherwise, they would not be THE ELITE O_o
@@mtumeumrani376 its a gang.. The jesus thing isnto keep education on shit.. People dumb. Eat their own. Etc
Once they start building their robots, we stand no chance.
Robots can't go on strike or turn on their masters.
VOTE!
I quit driving and cut my consumption years ago. I'm one of the few and it pains me to see where we're headed.
I / We applaud your efforts, but we NEED systemic scale changes to have any effect and there is not much time left...... Thanks Obama....
@@db9607 aka global despotism
I'm nearly at retirement age and I've never owned or driven a car. It's not a problem. Also I buy the minimum that I need, no impulse buying. I grow what I can. I live in a cave house which doesn't need heating or cooling and I use solar for some of my electricity and cooking. I recycle and even learned to sow my old clothes back together. None of these things are hard or rocket science once you learn to make them habits. Good for you, Mike.
except, i study climate. im smarter than you. you know why? CO2 is not the driver of climate. humans are dicks and are killing the environment yet focusing on CO2 is a scam, plain and simple. that ball of plasma in the center of our otherwise dark solar system is the driver of climate change.
@@thehare843 You're a fucking idiot.
Thank you Noam Chomsky and Amy. (Don't feed the tribal primitive trolls).
Rick Bishop, my concern is that 'climate change' has become an excuse, a distraction from the other horrors perpetrated on our planet today. Dig more deeply to find out how vast is the atmosphere of our planet, the history of high levels of CO2 during the time of the dinosaurs. Without C02 there would be no life on this or any planet.
Is CO2 a distraction from fracking and other horrors? Fracking destroys vast areas of land; possibly irreversible damage. When do we hear this being discussed? I rarely see such mentioned.
Rick Bishop do you see how I predicted kilawaia activity when the underwater volcano meets the kilawaia volcano!! It will equal natural c.o.2. But paintball guns are really bad admissions!! All natural c.o.2. Is what made the w arter explode!! And that actually helps the earth it is what clouds are made of natural c.o.2. # learn your world before you think you know anaything. Stupid ass people.
Rick Bishop just research how clouds are formed on the macular level & the chemical make up of earth's clouds!! You will see what the he'll I mean!! # evaporation from the ocean's make our clouds!! Do you want hot rain? Of next to frozen heavy rain? Instead of normal rain that only makes you cold after it soaks your clothes.
@@mhikl4484 Of course there were high levels of C02 in our planet's past...and each warming period we had was preceded by an increase in CO2. The difference is those geologic warming and cooling periods were gradual, occurring over tens of thousands of years, giving species time to evolve and adapt. Life can co-exist with gradual changes....not the radical changes man has made in a few hundred years!!
@Joe Duke are you David Duke's brother?
I hate to sound dark but i constantly worry that there won't be another unbiased unbought voice of reason after Noam departs this world..
there are millions of them (just not in politics)... none quite so distinguished of course
@@davidcupples278any examples?
Watching and learning. Not ignoring.
Good. Now go vegan. It is our only practical and logical solution. Animal agriculture outpaces all travel in all modes combined. Don't wait for your governments to do something; nor the scientists to find a solution, just go vegan (soon).
Anthony Davis how many people have commies like you killed? how does solar flaring, electro manetic core fluctuation, volcanic activity affect your brain? you are an evil imbecile.
Some one should do a story about Fukushima and the effects of 8 years of radioactive waste going into the pacfic ocean.
fukushima updates ua-cam.com/users/kevindblanch
@Bblue Jay: Thanks for your post. I've been saying the same things for years. This is eco-terrorism
Nope. Fukushima's its own horror but not in terms of total temp increase
This will make your head spin, Fukushima update ua-cam.com/video/by-1a-9czOs/v-deo.html
I heard that... 👍
Because of US denial of CChange smaller countries like Australia feel they can ignore or deny it too. They use US as an excuse.
God bless America
Rupert Murdoch has a lot to answer for.
Humans are terrible... We have all the needed resources to go 100% green energy in the U.S. However,,, some humans are full of greed.
no not all humans are terrible, most are ignorant of consequences but some in power are evil.
Humans are having too many babies, that's part of the problem.
Every issue we face today would be helped by there being fewer people on this earth.
@@PhantomAlucard It's interesting how very few discuss the issues of over population. The earth can only provide so much.
@@PhantomAlucard BS, but if you think so. Offer yourself up first to save the planet.
Your an idiot. Just like all the other people that say there are too many people on earth. All 7 billion people would fit inside New York city. Do the research. Earth has plenty of space. Stop all the fear mongering.
Everybody please go Vote!!! This is the most important election of our lifetimes!!! 🗳🗳🗳🗳
Please throw your crooked left/right polarizing ideas in the garbage and think clearly about the future of our planet and its vulnerable ecosystems ! In politics, environmental issues should really be treated apart from social and economical cases, by an independent group of knowledgeable people without mixed interests
@@appelflapdrol the left right divide is accurate. The left is the good side, the right is bad.
Doesn't matter when the politicians of the strongest Government in the world are in the pockets of psychopathic Big Business.
I read every Chomsky book and followed him incredibly close. I cant help but think that the first person who trashed main stream media and the NY times was him.
Google, "Plato's allegory of the cave".
@@movienerd202 Better yet he should read the entire Republic. No sense being lazy. Life's too short and with climate change the same might be said of human existence.
If Noam Chomsky says there's been nothing like this in human history, you better believe it. In fact I've never heard him utter a word that wasn't 100% correct and provable.
Oh, you poor, poor, deluded fool. If you buy into this anarchist you're a very lost soul.
We are toast....and we should be.
Greed is destroying our 🌎
Noam Chomsky Love to hear his words.
I'm 61, all my life I have been among the last to see clean rivers, clean air, good wages, cheap housing,
The fish have all but vanished, bees and butterfly's are on the way out, growing food will become the next big problem
I guess I'll be around another 25 years. Yet again among the last to depart before the end game.
Right there with you. I remember the days of fresh forest air, sunny skies bathed in yellow-orange, birds chirping en mass at day break, the sea free of plastic, insects buzzing.... Enjoy what little time is left and be thankful you experienced those moments in life and pity the younger folks who never will.
i remember driving in my parent's car and the windshield being full of squashed insects. lol
Now the windshield remains clean.
Insects are dying out worldwide.
in china they employ people to fertilize fruit treees by hand, because there aren't enough bees anymore to do the job.
In Finland they just made a vaccine to help save the bees. It's important to remember that we are capable of understanding what's happening and even avoiding (or well, postponing) our own demise. Some argue that the dinosaurs also wish they would still be here, but it's not really comparable.
www.helsinki.fi/en/news/sustainability-news/the-first-ever-insect-vaccine-primebee-helps-bees-stay-healthy
The answer: fewer people. Stop having babies. Adopt instead.
Also, question capitalism. It isn't helping.
Cutting meat out of one's diet is 50% more effective in reducing
greenhouse emissions than switching to a hybrid car {University of
Chicago}. 1/2 of a pound in ground beef has the same impact on the
greenhouse effect as driving and SUV 10 miles{UN Food and Agriculture
Organization}
Let's turn our attention to these issues, invest our energies here and ignore those who are trying to use and abuse us!
Preach!
Damn....
We all should don Guy Fawkes masks and surround the rich areas until they decide to do what is right! No violence, they will be scared enough to have their rich getaways surround. The Hampton's, Martha's vineyard, many places in Florida, Aspen, most big cities now, etc.
"Remember, Remember the 6th of November!" and vote GREEN.
The planet will survive. Humans will not.
I have a word to describe it: psychopaths.
humans
@@originalzebruh No Big Business positions that tend to influence the world on a macro-level scale attracts psychopaths. It's a known fact that a majority of people in business test positively for psychopathy. They're literally incapable of feeling compassion or concern about their actions.
We all need water today to
Genius.
Amy and Noam. Credibility, qualifications and access to the Internet BUT NEITHER HAVE HEARD OF THE CLUB OF ROME. Weird that.
Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh Said in an Interview when he was Asked What does he think is the Greatest Challenge in Conservation he Said the Growing Human Population! He said that we were Reaching Plague Proportions!
Corporate oil needs to be drastically reduced. NOW!
Things are looking horrible
We have met the enemy, and it is us.
If the rational cannot wrest control from the greedy, corrupt, and irrational, we ALL continue over the cliff. And probably in our lifetime.
We used to hear "bomb them into the stone age" as a military mindset. At our current trend, the "stone age" would be the best possible scenario.
Noam Chomsky 2020
It remembers me that game "plague" when you are almost gaining the game and the governments start doing some bizarre things
Someone should do a report on animal agriculture and it's effects on the planet that out weigh fossil fuels.
Appalling that we have done nothing to stop this.
Very depressing.
At 2:49 water vapor (aka steam) then India which like the Chinese couldn't care less about polluting! The cleanest cars are in Europe and USA. I don't know why Noam won't go tell the third world countries to stop polluting.
We don't know the optimal best temperature for the earth. A 2 degree drop could plunge us into a new glacial age where most of the northern hemisphere would be under 3 km thick ice. We also don't know the optimal level of CO2, however we do know that when CO2 levels are tripled in greenhouses plant growth increases dramatically. We also know that if CO2 levels are too low plants die. CO2 levels are historically low.
There are plans to remove CO2 from the atmosphere which may mean the end of plant life on the earth. Will governments then sell the CO2 to farmers?
Many species have disappeared, not because of CO2 or climate change, but because of loss of habitat, environmental degradation and other factors.
I am fed up with alarmists who told us in the 1980s to prepare for a new ice age, who told us in the 1990s that we would be extinct in 10 years because of global warming, and who are now telling us that climate change has to be stopped.
Climate has been changing without any help from us for millennium and I think paying for that change is a scam.
@Bestoink Dooley
My brother is an environmentalist and so is my son in law and they both don't believe the alarmist version. I only have a B.SC. with majors in physics, mathematics and geophysics, with a minor in geology, and a B.Ed. so I am not quite qualified to comment on the issue.
I know some species will have trouble adapting but the monarch butterfly will do just fine since it flies from Canada to Mexico in a matter of weeks so I am sure the butterfly will be ok. I have no idea what species you are talking about since we now plant trees which is a great way to renew a fantastic renewable resource, I grow plants indoors in Canada that are native to tropical areas , there are zebra mussels native to Russia in Canada, and asian carp in central USA. Those mussels and carp have adapted quite well thank you. We can now grow plants from virtually everywhere in the world. Animals have been successfully reintroduced to areas where they have been overfished or overhunted. There is still work to be done in this area and we have much to learn, however climate change has nothing to do with the decline of blue whales and numerous other species. Blue whales are coming back, slowly, however we continue to destroy their habitat, not global warming. Other whales have not done as well, but again not because of global warming cooling change.
I can walk away from an ocean rising because of global warming but I can't run from an atmosphere I can't breath because of environmental degradation.
I do respect Noam Chomsky's opinions and have been listening to him since the 1960s, however in this case I think he is exaggerating.
You say it will be ghastly. Will it be worse than all the villages under 300 feet of water off the coast of India? Mankind moved on. The record of ocean rise is quite interesting and has been slow for the past few thousand years but has been much greater in the past, especially right after the last glacial melt.
The Holocene, our current geological epoch, is not the best in the earth's history in terms of diversity of species and biomass, so to say it is the best is not true. Maybe living things would be better off with a higher CO2 level, they were in the past.
Telling me my comment was stupid and telling me you are fed the F**k up with me did not change my mind, however I do listen to fact and reason.
I still believe our largest environmental threat is not CO2 or climate change but environmental degredation. I include over fishing of the oceans, destruction of habitat, monoculture, and other things like this since they are destruction of the environment. CO2 is a joke and a scam.
@Bestoink Dooley
I do know about monarch butterflies and CO2 is not what is killing them. I did a quick search and climate change rates number 9 on the threats to monarch butterflies. You should read what I said because environmental degradation/habitat loss was high on the list. I was surprised ozone loss was so high on the list. We still may be headed towards high sunburn action which is also devastating.
You list many numbers and then say that is a disaster, however there is no proof that higher CO2 will kill us.
I did hear CO2 levels went as low as 180ppm and many scientists said there was a real crisis of all plants dying on the earth. From what I heard if it had gone to 150ppm, about 20% lower, we would not be here. Maybe Amy should do a program about that. CO2 is to plants as O2 is to us and I can't imagine what would happen if governments started to get huge amounts of money and started geoengineering and massive removal of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Money would be better spent developing geoengineering on mars, but do you believe in a flat earth? Just kidding.
You seems knowledgeable, we just don't see the same urgency.
@Bestoink Dooley
Thanks for the articles and I read the first one which supports many of my claims that environmental degradation is a larger problem than climate change.
The writer says many extinctions were due to climate change but the ones I know of are due to cooling or asteroid strikes. I don't know of any warming periods that caused mass extinctions. I could research it but I am not going to since I want to visit my daughter who gets little time off from her pursuit of a masters in mathematics.
The author goes on to talk about the threats we face, transforming environments, loss of trees, species invasions, over fishing, loss of habitat, increase of nitrogen... and then says climate change will make these worse, which I discount as the lesser threat of the two. He then goes on to say 60% of ecosystems are degraded, which is my point.
As stated by the author, "Also, although climate change is a concern for conservation biologists, it is not the focus for most researchers (at present), largely I think because of the severity and immediacy of the damage caused by other threats."
Yesterday on CBC Canada a man was talking about Bolsonaro, climate change, the new president of Brazil, climate change, cutting down the Amazon rain forest, climate change, loss of animals, climate change, loss of habitat, climate change... and all I could think of is if climate change, which may be good, or not, was left out of the discussion then what is happening is terrible and these are things we can deal with. He was so stuck on climate change he did not even mention nitrogen from the proposed farms going into the oceans, causing algae blooms and destroying another ecosystem. He seemed more concerned about burning trees to clear the land and putting more CO2 in the air than the loss of 2 more habitats and ecosystems.
Again, thanks for the articles, however I still think environmental degradation is a much bigger problem than CO2 in the atmosphere and climate change.
@Bestoink Dooley
"idiot" ha ha run out of arguments?
People used to stand on the streets with sandwich boards saying the earth will end in a week. The earth will be here long after we are gone.
I guess I am not as smart as you because I can't predict the future.
4C, and we are done? wow
4C colder and we are in an ice age, which has accured. The earth has been 10C higher with more diversity of species.
Yeah, environmental degradation is a worse problem.
@Bestoink Dooley
Haven't talked for a week but I like to have the last word. I like to talk to people that talk facts.
I researched species extinct from climate change and I found nothing, but they did say that climate change would be much worse. Finally, yesterday, something I have known for 10 years, CBC Canada admitted that polar bears were more numerous than 20 years ago. They also admitted that scientists did not want to disclose that fact, but it was in one episode of one news cycle. Once in 12 hours. Media is biased.
My argument was loss of habitat, pollution, over fishing, over hunting and many other things are perils to us, however you say climate change is apocalyptic. I still disagree. I can name many species that humans have extinguished , however I can't name a single one that has been ended by climate change, not in recent history.
I can't predict the future, climate change people say they can, but I disagree.
I grew up to think that most humans are decent people. Seeing fairness as a basic mathematical equation of balance. But after a number of experiences with those in power, courts, lawyers, I have revised that thinking. Many people can be so absolutely self serving to the point of being evil.
sign climate actions you come across.. if on FB, like, comment, share and of course sign... turn individual signings into collective action... follow up with phone calls a nd written, posted letters
This type of global climate warning falls on deaf ears because its been regurgitated ad nauseam for the last 40+ years, the lemmings metaphor is spot on.
I think the golf course is in Scotland.
what was the fracking documentary he was talking about ? kindly help :)
We'll be killed by our own greed, overbreeding, and our willingness to make excuses.
Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money. - Cree Proverb
Im sorry but at this point humanity has got to go. We had ONE job: Dont torch the whole entire place. ONE job, and we fucking blew it.
As long as the economy grows and not shrinks, as long as population grows and not shrinks..it's hopeless.
Need alternative energies, but the energy markets should be deregulated, unsubsidized and consumer driven
The IPCC reports are derived by a consensus review of existing scientific papers, conclusions are authored by government, industry and scientists from international sources.
For that reason, they have always been regarded as conservative and bright-sided optimistic.
We are so fucked...
Meanwhile, the human population continues to multiply like gerbils. There are too many of us. No one ever talks about that.
Because you can't really do anything about it without becoming oppressive. It's Idiocracy.
After me, let the deluge come
Is the black hole in space called ignorance (greed) going to suck the joy out of life and destroy the planet?
Or can the light and warmth of humanity (lovers) fill the black hole in space so that it's darkness (ugliness) goes away and it's heavy gravitational pull stops sucking the joy out of life.
This battle is beyond physical. It is metaphysical.
It is darkness, ignorance and greed against light, truth and love.
'Nero fiddled as Rome burned'.
Donald McCarthy Delighted to see you have time to fiddle with such things.
Short term profits long term catastrophe
Greed is not good. I said it once I'll say it again solar wind renewables
We can't do anything without clean food clean energy clean water the FEW
not just for the few for all that respect the earth our home.
we really need to work together
We failed. We did nothing. We will all die.
Tony Heller brought me here.
Trump applied for WHAT in Ireland?! First ive heard a wall in beautiful county Clare? No way! Not happening
The IPCC are a bunch of doddering old fools and are severely underestimating the problem. When is Amy going to have Professor Guy McPherson on to tell it like it really is.
It is far too late to do anything about abrupt climate change leading to near term human extinction and I’m severely disappointed with Chomsky whom I once admired for losing touch with what’s really going on.
I am sure both of them rode a bicycle to work today.
Good thing I never had kids, they will never have to suffer a poor quality of life like everyone's children.
Egypt again
The sea can become ravaged by the oil slicks
And that is why we never came to invent timetraveling, cause we're more or less doomed before tec will reach that level
We are fucked
At least all the i-phone zombies will wake up when mass cannibalism will become the norm in roughly 5 to 6 years!
The Holocene Extinction Event marches on! Large complex life forms don't do well during these things.
Time to research the Venus project.
#AllReligionIsInsanity
we are the only species on this planet with the cognitive ability and means to protect the planet, yet almost everyone wonders , what is the meaning of life ? why are we here?
"Ignorance is a evil free from pain," unless we live in a closed circuit. I like milk.
30 years of Limbaugh Hannity frying brain cells via A.m. radio
This is ridiculous.
I don't know why you use the modifiers "organized" and "human" in the video title. It will mean the end of all life, human or otherwise.
Tulsi Gabbard 2020 ❤️
PERMACULURE NOW!
However the climate faithful have a moral right to go on using fossil fuels, business as usual.
How do you rank Climate Change as being the #1 issue to be concerned about? Do Palestinians care about global warming, they can't even leave Gaza. In America, their citizens are fleeced by in international elites who own the Federal Reserve. What is to be done about global warming other than show videos of emission pollutions?
Why do you pit climate change against other issues? That is a false competition. It is not the fault of climate change campaigners that Israel oppresses Palestine or that capitalists are plundering our societies. Indeed these issues are all linked (there is much overlap in their causes and solutions).
As for why climate change is at the highest tier or priority. Because it affects the entire planet. Because 1/3 of land will become uninhabitable by desertification, heat, and flooding. Hundreds of millions will flee their homes due to climate change. The world food system will be majorly disrupted. Water supplies will dry up. Etc. This is not scaremongering, it is mainstream science and it's already beginning to happen.
The physical environment is the most basic substrate on which human society depends. Without it, there is nothing. It is not some airy fairy thing about 'loving the environment' or doing recycling rituals.
EclecticSceptic Noam thinks he will live forever. Talk climate change to the millions of babies aborted in America.
I hope the ignorant can redeem themselves this midterm.
The future of organized human life AKA do what we say when we say it dictatorial little twat I get so sick and tired of people who want to make us jump through socio-political hoops when we should be just left alone that's all what Humanity should want not to be ordered around like robots
What a bunch of sociopaths.
time for humans to get their comeuppance from Mother Nature
Noam Chomsky is a self-serving preacher.
According to multiple probability models, humanity is expected to be extinct as early as 10000 years from now anyway
Smoke'm if you got'm.
It's not us...it's the sun Sol local star...... Jesus
Stop burning up the fuel people. Ban cars for yourself.
So?
*bevilhive* - Your comment simply indicates why homo sapiens-sapiens are doomed to become extinct, long before the close of this century.
bevihive - You must be really smart.
Lol
www.scientistswarning.org
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Mr. Chomsky You had a chance, maybe even a duty, to endorse Bernie in 2016 and to help people find their way past their fear of being bold and their tendencies to play it safe. You chose, instead, to say, with supreme confidence in your opinion, that even though Bernie was the best candidate it was set in stone HRC was going to win.🤦🏼♀️ You are personally responsible for untold numbers of nervous voters falling with relief behind corporate Democrats' rallying cry: "Don't expect too much!!" What if you had used your influence for good, instead of cowardice? What if we were working with a president who named climate change as humanity's #1 threat? We'll never know, now, but I certainly think our odds of survival might be out of the single digits at least.
You aren't alone as far as blame goes; Robert Reich, Elizabeth Warren, even our late night jesters and bards, those same comedians who have kept us sane the last two-ish years- a lack of vision from some of our most-heard voices and influential minds, led to Bernie and Progressives being dismissed as unicorn- and fairy-hunters, and now we have a white nationalist in the People's House.
Hey there pals.... Just because i saw this, i will be spraying 2 full cans of hairspray into the sky tonight. I think they took out some of the more damaging ingredients but hopefully it still gets the job done!! So be glad your posts made an impact guys !! Changing the world 1 step at a time !!
GOP $
i love the way left fascists spin narratives. chomsky is at his operative best here. highly recommended for collectors of modern propaganda.
I don't know the nsme of the second woman who pops up in this clip. She puts me to sleep with her robot-like voice.
If anyone is still eating meat fish eggs diary etc - and hunting and using pesticides- you're a hypocrite.
FEAR MONGERING AT ITS WORST😭🌈❄😝
Trump should listen to Noam Chomsky and should follow his words
@Donald McCarthy I agree with you.Sorry for the comment which I did because of misinformation.
Fukushima. oceans first. trees next. humans become rats in blade runner type future.