Why your 'Carbon Footprint' Is A Lie | Climate Town
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- Your Carbon Footprint is an actual scam.
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We've got a big ol' task ahead of us and it's important to start our collective engines (figurative, not literal) on reducing our government's fossil fuel use. It's going to take an effort on the scale of the new deal (but like a ... I dunno, green one or something) and we'll need to keep climate change front of mind for the foreseeable future if we want to have a shot of pressuring corporations and government into doing the right thing.
Here is a commentable google doc of the sources. Please check it out: docs.google.com/document/d/1A...
Some reading to do:
The Merchants of Doubt: www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
All We Can Save: www.allwecansave.earth/
The Uninhabitable Earth: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate: thischangeseverything.org/book/
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As a completely objective observer, this video really works.
hahahaha
Duuuude, your edit style is GREAT. Razor sharp timing!
Peter Carlone thank youuuu
Only because of the shower scene
I love that your channel is all Pool, such a different channel than i expected lol but i love the vids!
Homeboy taped his microphone to his chest hair. I call that commitment.
If this channel gets to 100,000 subs, I'll use duct tape.
@@ClimateTown Don't think we are going to forget this commitment, it's happening.
@@ClimateTown better buy some duct tape at this rate
May be, but shaving the chest and leaving the nipples hairy, now THAT is commitment
@@ClimateTown Approaching 90K, get that duct tape in the oven!
(Also, top shelf and super important content, really glad I found you and that you do what you do!)
"Corporations Gotta Corporate "
-Socrates
I believe you
I was in a town hall at BP, sitting next to an intern while management was banging on about our corporate social responsibility, and the intern turned to me and was impressed. I responded "we are destroying our world one barrel at a time, don't believe this shit, it's a pay check".
I am embarrassed I had this mentality, and I am happy I got out that industry.
whats stopping these companies from being held accountable? besides the govt and greed ofc, but like are people afraid to speak up or something?
@@elvisvallejo5715 yes, they are afraid
It’s not hard to ruin someone financially when you have near infinite money and dragging someone through bullshit legal cases that can and will cause people who lack the budget to go broke is pretty standard practice
@@elvisvallejo5715 military might and public opinion
They got a bit more control of the army than congress (by virtue of basically owning congress and other govt. Officials)
And as carbon footprint illustrates, they have the public opinion on their side.
as you type on you computer that is impossible to make without fossil fuel, using electricity affordable because of fossil fuel, and today you will drive you car, when sick you will take advantage of modern medicine only possible with fossil fuel, and on and on and on.
I once went to a “calculate my carbon footprint” website, and it gave me an alarming number. Something that I would have expected if I were a CEO with my own coal burning company and a private jet. I was shocked and utterly despaired in that moment. Then thought, “hang on a sec, what if I did everything right?” And it still came up with this ridiculous number, with a blurb about how my carbon footprint is big just because I live in a developed nation. So now I’m like “oh, it’s not really on me, is it?” I mean, I’ll still try my best to buy local, reduce meat intake, and vote for political platforms that endorse the good of the environment. But I’m not wallowing in guilt like I used to be.
Yeah but now you have the burden of knowledge of knowing it takes more action than just lowering your footprint in the small ways you have available. It takes thankless activism and applying yourself to change the current system.
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“There is rightly a growing awareness that our diet and food choices have a significant impact on our carbon ‘footprint’. What can you do to really reduce the carbon footprint of your breakfast, lunches, and dinner?
‘Eating local’ is a recommendation you hear often - even from prominent sources, including the United Nations. While it might make sense intuitively - after all, transport does lead to emissions - it is one of the most misguided pieces of advice.
Eating locally would only have a significant impact if transport was responsible for a large share of food’s final carbon footprint. For most foods, this is not the case.
GHG emissions from transportation make up a very small amount of the emissions from food and what you eat is far more important than where your food traveled from.
Where do the emissions from our food come from?
In the visualization we see GHG emissions from 29 different food products - from beef at the top to nuts at the bottom.
For each product you can see from which stage in the supply chain its emissions originate. This extends from land use changes on the left, through to transport and packaging on the right.
This is data from the largest meta-analysis of global food systems to date, published in Science by Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek (2018).
In this study, the authors looked at data across more than 38,000 commercial farms in 119 countries.2
In this comparison we look at the total GHG emissions per kilogram of food product. CO2 is the most important GHG, but not the only one - agriculture is a large source of the greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide. To capture all GHG emissions from food production researchers therefore express them in kilograms of ‘carbon dioxide equivalents’. This metric takes account not just CO2 but all greenhouse gases.3
The most important insight from this study: there are massive differences in the GHG emissions of different foods: producing a kilogram of beef emits 60 kilograms of greenhouse gases (CO2-equivalents). While peas emits just 1 kilogram per kg.
Overall, animal-based foods tend to have a higher footprint than plant-based. Lamb and cheese both emit more than 20 kilograms CO2-equivalents per kilogram. Poultry and pork have lower footprints but are still higher than most plant-based foods, at 6 and 7 kg CO2-equivalents, respectively.
For most foods - and particularly the largest emitters - most GHG emissions result from land use change (shown in green), and from processes at the farm stage (brown). Farm-stage emissions include processes such as the application of fertilizers - both organic (“manure management”) and synthetic; and enteric fermentation (the production of methane in the stomachs of cattle). Combined, land use and farm-stage emissions account for more than 80% of the footprint for most foods.
Transport is a small contributor to emissions. For most food products, it accounts for less than 10%, and it’s much smaller for the largest GHG emitters. In beef from beef herds, it’s 0.5%.
Not just transport, but all processes in the supply chain after the food left the farm - processing, transport, retail and packaging - mostly account for a small share of emissions.
This data shows that this is the case when we look at individual food products. But studies also shows that this holds true for actual diets; here we show the results of a study which looked at the footprint of diets across the EU. Food transport was responsible for only 6% of emissions, whilst dairy, meat and eggs accounted for 83%.4”
SOURCE: “You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local” - “Our World in Data”
@HackShock "The same Left who believes in climate change also encourages couples or women to ABORT their babies" So this is an outright lie. I'd suggest you go outside, touch some grass, breathe in and stop reeing fox news talking points.
Dont stop eating meat though. Thats some bs.
Edit:NO! I was wrong.
What I really hate is how big organisations are only just starting to do something. I knew about this problem in 1990, and as a 7 year old, assumed the world was working on it, while I dilligently sorted the recycling at school. 30 years later, and they're asking me to turn my lights off while still pouring oil into the seas? Excuse me if I don't hold much hope for the planet...
Same!! I had a similar experience when I learned about the Amazon forest in the 90s and thought “Oh, well at least they now know deforestation is bad. They’ll stop. They’ll find other means of production.” Nope. Just read an article last week saying the Amazon was damn near on the brink of being wiped out completely. I, too, am a member of my pessimistic millennial generation. The world has only gotten more rotten smh
There is probably done a lot, but you also need to remember that the population and the economics, and the amount of consumed energy is probably 1/2 more than it was in he 1990s. We are 8 billions right now.
We were 5 billions in 1990.
@@empresssk Also being born in the 80's. WTF happened?! Climate and forest issues were known, it was being fixed. Nope, all smoke and mirrors. You watch this channel. Carbon credits (which is just money moving from the Haves to other Haves) I thought, and now know is BS. The video on indigenous people in Brazil selling carbon credits to protect their land, then diamonds being discovered, then they get removed so the land which should be protected is then deforested and mined. I mean, I seriously have ground my teeth down to almost nothing in frustration. I write my rep, I vote, I recycle. I do my small drops, and try to educate deaf ears to the point where few people actually want to talk to me if they know me. If they don't know me, they think, hey that guy is cute, then I open my mouth. I am pessimistic and cynical. I remember being happy, not because I had no responsibility, but because there was a future.
Scientists knew about carbon in the 50s and even earlier
@@Paulpoission They sure did!
Honestly, I’ve felt bad for years about not “recycling” every last wrapper or walking/biking any trip I could, but these videos balance the blame and help let go of that. Enough actually that I’m more likely to do those things as I don’t feel the pressure of HAVING to do them, brains are stupid. This content isn’t.
Many municipalities don't invest enough resources to recycle all of the potential waste anyway. So you could put every piece of plastic, metal and paper out for recycling and on average 70% will end up in a landfill anyway.
@@Korandon where I live I take my garbage to a waste center run by the county. They have recycle bins for glass, aluminum cans, plastics. I know the man that works there personally,he said it all goes to the landfill the county does separate anything. I guess they just have the bins to make people think they are recycling and they will fill better about themselves!
Recycle #1 PET. We use it commonly when making things like medical equipment, car parts etc... We make them with 80% virgin resin and 20% recycled bottles usually and even then when a customer wants it for their parts we can't find enough of it to do it because everybody wants it (because it is cheap). Besides that not much gets recycled besides metals lol
@@paladain55 Yeah I'll always recycle #1+2, if it's not inconvenient then 3 usually. The rest.. whatever.
You even have to be careful with recycling too. Like my university had all these separate bins labeled recycling, but then I found out that everything went to the same place. (I think they started with real recycling at the beginning but it became too costly and they just kept the bins.)
One of my favorite channels because you actually talk about climate solutions and holding corporations accountable, rather than just being a climate doomer. A++
Recognizing that we need to hold corporations accountable is the same as being a doomer. Corporations have blocked progress at every turn and their hold over government and public opinion has only become more powerful. There is no path to the end of corporate control of the US government other than a collapse of the current political system. Ironically, the only thing that would probably bring about the needed changes is a Trumpist dictatorship that destroys any illusion that the Constitution can restrain any excess of government, and then collapses, and is replaced by a new government that writes a new, anti-corporate constitution that also is intended to fix many other problems. By then it will be so late though...
Accurately stating that corporations make up the majority of the problem while emphasizing several times that you can and should reflect on your own consumer choices. 10/10
solutions to a non existent problem
That cat was an assassin from big oil. You're lucky it let you go. That was scary for a bit there.
That's what happens when you spend all of your money on ad campaigns and have to skimp on assassin budget.
Imagine if BP had spent $250,000,000 on researching and/or implementing carbon capture or something else that might actually do some good.
Right. But their objective on ROI over time span, and their way of risk management (meaning: preferring doing business in their comfort zone) would never let that happen. And, of course, their risk management approach if fatally broken, as they simply do not account for the immerse geopolitical and societal impacts of the climate change spinning out of control. Mostly I guess because those impacts are still to be expected beyond the presumed time their board members spend in the company leadership...
@@oumarh.gassama8063 yup
They are though. Fossil fuel companies are spending billions on renewable energy, and various technologies to reduce carbon. Most of the renewable energy plants are run by fossil fuel companies.
Blackpink?
Capitalism 🌈
Yep, it's like California telling it's citizens to cut back on their water use(in some cases they should) rather than have farmers who use 80% of the water switch to water efficient methods(only 30-40% of farmers have switched over to drip and automated irrigation out of sheer necessity during years of drought).
Like almond farming which consumes shit tons of water.
Also while continuing to build more wineries that the citizens don't want
Unfortunately the farmers have ironclad grandfather rights on their water and its difficult af to reduce their use from outside
@@theworkethic the majority of water usage in California goes not to almonds but to alfalfa to feed dairy cows.
@@alexanderreynolds6018 that should be advertised to educate oeople
I looked this up recently and I realized that despite everything I do personally, I indeed cut my carbon footprint by almost 40% just by leaving the United States and paying my taxes to a foreign government.
😂
Lol. Remember to still file your taxes to Uncle Sam, though, if you're an American.
Such a privilege, right?
I'm a fellow defector too. Makes me full of anxiety every time I go back to the US. So much constant waste and hyper everything. Maybe that's just my family, lol.
@@tammyd.970what did you mean by “hyper everything”?
@@SamRMoyer Things to the extreme, i.e., hyperinflation. Hyper, as in "hypermarket". They are so large, they surpass supermarkets. Hyper commercialism, hyper consumerism, hyper capitalism.
Thanks for keeping the "Whatdoyoumean" and cat in. It helps balance out the "we're so fucked" anxiety I get when I think about the path we're on.
What do you mean the comment section isnt filled with more what so you mean jokes.
@@digi3218 what do you mean, you’re the only one who replied to this?
@@celiwhaaat6285 - Whatdoyoumean this thread is still alive somehow?
Honestly being an adult and discovering how fucked the world is still gives me existencial dread
I am here for the cat. :P
Holy shit, your delivery and humor is absolutely perfect. It's so easy to overdo the acting or bits but you manage to balance perfectly between being educational and fun. Keep up the amazing work!
"What do you mean who am I t.."
I'm amazed at the cat bit turning into a reoccurring thing. So you just followed this cat around and chose your shots based on that? Incredible.
Or the cat followed him?
cat = instant production value
At first I was worried you would go the route of many others and swear off any personal responsibility, blaming everything on corporations. But this was an awesome well-rounded take. Personal or systematic change? Por que no los dos?
Do you watch the UA-cam channel CGP Grey?
@@liberty.b.r I do, so after thinking about why you asked the question I did remember Grey using this phrase in a video, but I get it from the meme, which comes from a taco ad.
Yeah, it's not good when the conclusion is one that fails to connect production and consumption. I feel like sometimes people talk about GHG emissions as if it's all due to pollution factories that are disconnected from our way of life. Reversing climate change will require decarbonizing the mode of production, but as of now, some of the worst offenses are driven by consumer preference (gas guzzlers driven by suburbanites for their daily commute), and not all industries can be decarbonized (animal agriculture). Reversing climate change will inevitably require personal lifestyle changes.
When it comes to plastic, I have no problem blaming corporations. We used to function without plastic and we can do it again.
Why do I still get surprised about how much influence these companies have to change whole world views. I mean we learned and had to calculate our footprints in school!
And that is just one way they're hacking opinion, there are thousands of others. Suppressing the demos is a full time job.
Honestly we should be glad that we live in a time that we can get all this information so easy, like my dad still believes electric cars are gay and oil is the way to go
@@SieMiezekatze Yes, this technology is proving us with an antidote to corporate and government propaganda and the opportunity to spontaneously collectivise. We're all beginning to see through the BS and get real again.
An old fella once told me that you can follow the oil propoganda right the way back to the point that they saw what was posibble with hemp.
Hemp was slandered by oil so hard that the people just associated it with getting high.. so much so that in the 30s they passed an act banning the industrial growth/production of it.(i forget its name)
Hendry Ford himself is a quick reference. For example hemp was used as a material for overalls for the workers on the production line and some of those very overalls still exist 100+ years later(talk about getting your moneys worth)
Also have a look into his hemp car. A true forward thinker in the sence that he believed that he could grow a car from soil.
Its not to say that oil dosnt have a place but im sure we could blend the best of both worlds and reduce the overall consumption of oil thus making it last longer.
The things you learn when your waiting in line at the coffee shop
@@jordanwilliamson3902 Why would big oil care about hemp? Big cotton, maybe.
I think the concept of carbon footprint is still useful. I know a lot of people who think they're saving the world by using paper straws but then take flights for vacations multiple times a year and still pat themselves on the back.
Capitalism 🌈
Actually flights compared to other forms of transport is very efficient and carbon clean. The seat/per/mpg is damn low compared to a bus or train ride. For airlines anyway, private planes, uhhh no
@@ccubsfan94 Why do you lie you big corp mouthpiece.
Train virtually always comes out better than plane, often by a lot. A journey from London to Madrid would emit 43kg (95lb) of CO2 per passenger by train, but 118kg by plane (or 265kg if the non-CO2 emissions are included). Just check EcoPassenger data fam.
@@OjoRojo40 Straight to insults I see. My point is saying it's lower than most people think. Variances between the two can determine which comes out on top. Whether it's a diesel train vs electric, how the electricity is made, long haul vs short haul and seat configuration. I'd be curious to see infrastructure amounts as trains seem to have a bigger impact, but airports are practically small cities here in the US.
@@ccubsfan94 Yes, you can't respect liars.
I’m trying to figure out if “CLIMAT CHANGE” was some next- next-level joke or just a real typo
A LOT of typos if you watch carefully... Not sure if intentional though
definitely intentional typos it's part of the humor, like the bad explosion cgi
it's high production value wearing a 'bad editing' trenchcoat
CL-EYE-MAT
Buzz words take on a slightly different pronunciation to indicate that the word was mentioned in the fashion of a fanatic to convey an ironic effect.. this sort of knights the word into the vocabulary of a type of zealot..
But if it is ever supposed to be socially acceptable or 'sane' to be a zealot, it is to be one for the earth..
An absolute masterpiece of videography. It looks so effortless but I know this must have taken many days to create. Well done.
That’s one cool cat. He should write screenplays.
hahaha this is some quality content
Whoa, thanks very much OCC
Haha
hehehehe
And no annoying mid-roll ads.
Except the J. K. Rowling part. She is actually right.
7:52 A 'no-water' shower.....brilliant way to reduce our footprint! 😆
Say's: "the military"
Show's: photo of price Charles in uniform with the word's "stolen valor"
Thank you so much for this.
Please please please, can someone tell me where I can find the source for the graph at 6:25 about our“non-consensual” share of carbon footprint? Or which link among those published in the description?
Commenting to signal boost, I would like to know, too loll
as a phd in climate science related stuff I NEED to know
bump
+1
commenting to signal boost
Managed to crack me up on multiple occasions and still taught me stuff, nice one 👌
Thank youuuuu
The second half of this video about carbon burned on our behalf and the connection between production and consumption is super important. I'm glad you brought it up, because in most conversations I've witnessed on the topic, it tended to be either the corporations or the consumers who were to blame as the rational actor (and the military is almost always left off the hook).
Back in secondary school, in the third year of A levels here in the NL (vwo) we learned about this and it was a major topic in class. I remember having so many questions about this and how it was 'calculated', my teacher and my students were getting really annoyed by me. At some point I lost my cool and went on full debating mode. They were saying how dare you (me) DOUBTING real science and the curucilum.... It is something I think about a lot because it gives the feeling I cannot think and question for myself in an educational setting. No, I have to accept everything blindly whatever they are teaching us. I am 100% for science based education, that is not the point, it is more about not supporting the act of scientific scepticism and free-thinking. TY for this video.
As a teenager, I used to be hugely embarrassed of my nipple hair. Good to see my man repp'n it. Good vid :) keep it up
It might be a bit late to set you at rest, but I think nipple hair is cute.
I love this video! Have you considering doing a video about the prevalence of "eco-friendly" consumer products? I find it really difficult to talk to folks about how consumerist "solutions" arent always better (and can sometimes be worse), and how that mentality often outshines systematic approaches to dealing with climate change.
I got this reality check earlier this year as I started looking deeper into a lot of the household “eco-friendly” brands currently on the shelf. Let’s say out of 10 eco-friendly products, only 1-2 were actually safe for the environment and/or us as humans. It’s yet another gimmick to manipulate us into thinking these companies all of a sudden give a damn. They don’t. Capitalism still rules the day.
It doesn't matter because half the planet will start ww3 over the right to burn fossil fuels until there's non left
I guess this depends on how you define the carbon footprint. Some calculations leave out the circumstantial / far removed emissions such as those arising from infrastructure construction.
I think it's very important to explain to the user of a footprint estimation tool what is included and what is not. Especially things that you have very little power over, such as infrastructure as well as upstream manufacturing and resource extraction processes. Ideally this would be divided into categories or laid out on a spectrum based on actionability.
THANK YOU for this. SUBBED.
I have spent the last month trying to seal every draught in my flat, and reduce every last kw/h of electricity I use, because its freezing here and the bills are huge..... now I get messages about "carbon footprint credit cards" that will limit my "environmental impact". WTAF. Thank you for what you do.
Wonderful work. It's so crucial to share this. So many people who have their hearts in the right place live with constant guilt and trying to limit every single little micro thing they do without realizing the carbon volume from industry means their efforts don't really have any impact. Sharing information, advocating, and being politically active makes a much bigger impact and is better for your mental health.
I kind of think the opposite. I'd say the carbon footprint concept allows you to look at where you get the most bang for your buck.
Car travel. Air travel, domestic energy usage, meat consumption, consumerism. Everything else is basically a rounding error. Find a balance you find acceptable on those, no need to stress about micromanaging everything else.
@@glycyldi Did you watch the video?
You are my new favorite youtuber. Keep this up and I believe you can really reach some people. Also, make a Patreon because you are the first youtuber I've ever even considered the notion of giving money to.
I should probably put this on your newest video.
“Corporations gotta corporate.”
- Socrates
I can't argue with what's depicted in the video. Except the title. The carbon footprint, despite why it has been created for, is still the best tool to help mitigate the part we, as individuals, are responsible for. We must be nagging the governments and oil companies, but we ALSO need to change our habit. We need both.
Great video - this presenter rocks! Many brilliant and hilarious moments. But there’s a big problem IMO. The vid highlights a very important point - ie. people with already pretty small carbon footprints should not stress over teeny further reductions, and rather focus on campaigning to break the structural, corporate and political barriers to climate action. But... the "BP invented it, so it must be bad" argument conveniently gets *everybody* off the hook - including those with huge carbon footprints - the very people with most influence and power to make significant societal change. I think maybe it's why the "don't focus on individual footprints" line is pushed hardest in the US, where people have the biggest carbon footprints on average. The argument relies on the idea that consumers are all equal in their consumption, which is clearly not the case, but the "all consumers are the same" idea is essential to elites who don't want to change their lavish lifestyles to reduce their colossal carbon footprints. Pick your politician, celeb or CEO. For me "the big lie" is that individuals are all equally responsible for climate change, and this (excellent) video omits this crucial point. As such, the title of the video and its main thrust serves elites while purporting to serve ordinary folk. I’m not saying this is deliberate, but it’s part of the structural problem.
Yes, BP and the oil majors are completely culpable and are pedlars of disgusting climate delay by any means. But as soon as "carbon footprints" and individual responsibility had a chance of denting their business model they would do all they could to block that too. I think they just knew in 2005 that only a few people were going to take carbon footprints seriously in the face of wall-to-wall consumerist culture, advertising and structural lock-in. For me, part of the power of individuals taking low-carbon action, and talking about it, is that it challenges the culture of consumerism and excessive elite consumption, which is a big driver of climate change. The vid would be pretty much perfect IMO if he'd mentioned the vast differences in per-capita emissions and said it's the people at the top (who enact the decisions on policy, laws and societal direction) who need to get their low-carbon act together, personally and structurally. For me those two things go hand in hand.
Exactly . This is an underrated comment.
he literally addressed this exact point in the video (5:55)
This story is exactly the same as the phrase “litter bug”. It was one of the one Adam Conover episodes.
Oh yeah! I heard about that one. I should have added that to the plastic video.
The carbon footprint concept is related to and grew out of the older idea of ecological footprint, a concept invented in the early 1990s by Canadian ecologist William Rees and Swiss-born regional planner Mathis Wackernagel at the University of British Columbia.
i appreciate this argument and partly agree BUT I also think carbom footprint can people make aware in the first place about the notion of their lifestyle impact to the environment. I think they will realise soon enough if they want a footprint to sustain us all, what sort of lifrstyle is required (its a simple equation, actually). almost no cars, local grown good, plenty of outdoor exercise (jobs), cut the bullshit jobs and spend time on education, meaningfull hobbies/jobs and social interaction. Like, the average middle class life style of the 50s but without cars and tons of consumption goods. (and with equal rights ofcourse). future is not ciseled in stone, nor need it be going backwards completely. We take the best elements of our society in past and present and ditch the bad ones
Conservatives love to privatize responsibility for systemic problems. While private action helps, systemic problems require systemic solutions.
Saw this and immediately thought - wait, isn't that the guy who remade famous pool shots?
Curse that handsome devil!
@@ClimateTown You helped me beat my coworkers at our Friday lunch sessions!
Grant Girouard for real?! I’m honored. Keep it up.
I love the cats parts, dude was chill and cute by just being himself
Love the Climate Town breakdowns - I've seen this one and the plastic recycling one. Have to subscribe now.
God I'd love to put together a peice on the "activism" of companies like standard oil/Esso and BP lol, then count the number of oil spills and stuff they had after, maybe to "thank you BP" by paint
Also is it really impossible for the average American to half their carbon footprint, wow, Imma watch this video again
Capitalism 🌈
No words can really describe how much I enjoy this. You are extremely charismatic and entertaining, AND you deliver so many facts and truths. I'm so glad you are doing this work, it makes me feel like I have found another ally in this fight against Climate Change.
Love the typos you always sneak into your videos!
the funniest one is choosing the flight based on the amount of carbon footprint of the plane 😂 as if it weren't going to fly without your consent 😂😂😂 🤦
3:51 - Well they did keep addressing climate change a little. I mean they kept a solar power wing open until 2011. When I guess they decided they needed money to deal with DH. To make sure that they used that money well, they also dumped their biofuels division. Then in 2017 they reentered solar power. It's like they're opportunists.
I also wear a microphone taped to my chest when I sleep.
I am glad I am not alone in this
I come back and watch this regularly not because I need a refresher on the information but because it is so entertaining.
Great content
Climate Town is like if Joel Haver and a climate scientist fused together
You have described the exact reason this guy’s videos have shown up in my feed!
Climate Town? I'm sure that bed is more like Climax Town, amirite guys?
Recently discovered your channel and it’s A* quality, top drawer content. The effort you put into editing is sublime
The problem is that having a high standard of living automatically means you have an unsustainable carbon footprint. Nobody wants to stop buying stuff, nobody wants to go back to the time when we didn't artificially light/heat/cool our houses. Even the people who pat themselves on the back for going vegetarian and taking public transportation seem to often blow all of that good on taking several flights a year. Like, it's easier for you to stop eating food that we evolved over millions of years to eat than it is to stop burning fking jet fuel? We are so screwed.
"The problem is that having a high standard of living automatically means you have an unsustainable carbon footprint." could you site a source for any off those claims? Europe has lower carbon footprint than the US but higher living standards so that is immediately debunked since carbon emissions aren't correlated to living standards. Also I know GDP is correlated but that isn't correlated to living standards.
"Nobody wants to stop buying stuff, nobody wants to go back to the time when we didn't artificially light/heat/cool our houses." could you link a single climate scientist who is pushing this or are you just going to use straw mans? Also why could we not use electricity?
Great production. Also, that cat is a spy. If he reports back to headquarters, your life won't be worth a plug nickel.
I'm literally laughing out loud. "Whatd'ya mean, who am I talkin' to?" LOL
Novelty concept: Our carbon footprint is determined at the ballot box.
Damn hurts my soul to see this hasn't blown up yet.
Keep doing your thing bro, there's no way things like this won't resonate with people when it finally gets to them
@2:23 soul tries to escape body after pretending "dilly dilly" was ever clever
Came via OCC. Subscribed. Dude, you are good at this. Quality. Keep it up! :)
Your videos have me entertained as well as informed, love the energy and presentation style you bring!
That quote from Socrates was completely untrue! The real quote was "Corporations necessarily must corporate" (translated from Greek). Thank you for coming to to my TED talk.
That "what do you mean" bit really gave me life
Thank you for turning a tiny portion of my existential dread from climate change into laughter!
Found you through our changing climate, great video! You earned my subscription
awesome and i totally agree. the main question is: how can we make individuals in large companies accountable for the decisions they make.
You need to declare war against China and Saudi Arabia then systematically execute the entire population to do anything about Saudi Aramco and Chinese National Petroleum
We can't. Corporations own most of the politicians. Those politicians are elected by people who think climate change isn't real. Those same politicians are bank-rolled by billionaires and given lavish trips disguised as "training sessions" as well as giving the spouses of those politicians $150,000 "jobs" as consultants where they don't have to do anything except be thankful for the free paycheck from the made up position. Just look at ultra-corrupt Clarence Thomas and all the gifts he gets from his billionaire pal, Harlan Crow sent Justice Thomas on lavish trips to Indonesia, New Zealand, California, Texas and Georgia. Some of these trips included travel on Crow's super yacht as well as stays at properties owned by Crow. Thomas said he didn't need to disclose those freebies at the time. Harland Crow also donated much of the budget of a political group founded by Thomas’ wife, which paid her a $120,000 salary. Just another corrupt politician owned by a billionaire.
Can we all just appreciate how adorable that Kitty is?
Did you have to go there with the snark about Rowling? You might also want to do a video on how Bitcoin mining is as as bad as or worse than mining
The prince Charles photo with "stolen valor" is priceless,,,
A Canadian emits on average 18 tons of carbon a year (Americans slightly more). The largest contributions are transportation, buildings (home, work and shopping HVAC) and food. An ICE car emits about 5 tons of GHG a year, a 2,000 SF house heated with natural gas emits 6 tons of GHG a year for most Canadians, the tar sands contribution for the average Canadian is about 4 tons/yr (almost all tar sands oil goes to the USA) and food is about 2 to 3 tons per year. The solutions are for you (Canadians, Americans, everyone) to switch to electric vehicles, move your house of NG and electrify with heat pumps powered by clean electricity (off clean grids or use solar panels) and to eat less meat. If each of us did those things we'd be talking a lot less about the gas and oil companies because they wouldn't exist as gas and oil companies.
Our boy shaved his chest, then left a patch for the mic tape, ouch! Sacrificing for his viewers very noble, subbed.
You're so painfully funny that I full on forget I'm learning! I'm in full on binge mode here
I am so impressed that I just might show you and your team the greatest form of flattery and start imitating you. Hilarious and educational. This channel will explode soon. I am sure of it.
I've seen this couple of times now in the past months and I really think it is one of the best climate communication videos out there. Keep it going!
If it was no demand for oil, will be no big oil. So clima change is in your hands or better said, in your pocket
I feel like the conclusion of this video didn't really match the title/thumbnail.
High praise to your comedic skills, the "who am I talking" actually made me laugh.
Also great content, discovered the channel few days ago and I've watched several videos already, all great.
I read your "high praise" in a Andy Samberg playing Nicolas Cage voice lol
This guy is pretty awesome, he's extremely watchable!
really liking your videos and humor - something though for all of us to learn more about is how to make our modern work without all of this oil. Most people who call for "no more fossil fuels" are unaware of how integral they are every day items in industry, education, entertainment, agriculture, your home life, etc. go a full day taking notice of every form of plastics, composite material, grease, lubrication, cleaning chemicals, even things like makeup and medical supplies rely on petroleum. If all we do is switch to electric cars and battery powered equipment in industries, we'd still need to extract oil for the parts of each barrel not turned into gas and diesel.
Extra stars for the cat and for being so nice to him. He's a natural! Great vid. I read some woman who encouraged the idea of "climate shadow". It's the idea that it's not just the daily action but the knockon effect. For example having children substantially increases your shadow, as those people will then go on to create emissions by their actions, etc. Think more about the consequences and effect of each action, not just what was needed to produce it, sort of thing.
Nice one dude. Saw this on Reddit.
Thank you! I had no idea that BP coined that term... with the help of some Don Draper-esque characters. How insidious.
Your video makes a strong point - the biggest thing we should do is show big companies that we can bully them as much as they try to bully us(and that we can lobby harder, until the government joins us in bullying them). But other than that, I'd argue choosing alternatives still is useful, not to make a dent in the status quo, high carbon option, but to help the alternatives begin to scale and help them show they have a valid business model. The dairy companies won't notice a couple thousand more people choosing milk alternatives, but to the people trying to scale their oat-milk company, those numbers could actually show up on the graphs.
Uh only 12 million times a much as a single person? Doesn't BP service like a billion people? Seems a decent ratio.
Good stuff. Honest on all fronts. My two cents on the subject: to my friends that have read/heard talking points about "wobble", "cycles", or "patterns" are the reason for the heat...or they find an 'appropriate' counter argument by pointing out snow and/or its cold out side...I have found a different avenue that works. It is talking of limit resources, the wide variety of NEEDS fulfilled by limited resources, Consumption the American way, and how other much more populated countries would like to consume like us. Followed by dependency vs. desires, preparedness, future rising prices, and our children. I use simple open ended question like: how many bandaids can be made from the same oil that made a gallon of gas that gets one 20- 30 miles down the road, as in 30 minutes from now how many bandaids went poof and disappeared forever....its some weird magic trick to get people to think of community and others.
Hey Mark, thanks for the watch! That's a very compelling idea.
okay WE love this (we meaning me and my carbon footprint)
OH MY GOD WHAT A COINCIDENCE THAT'S CRAZY BECAUSE WE ALSO LOVE YOU
OMG, I love 4:08, that was freaking hilarious!!!! 😆😆 I'm sorry -South Park!!
I just came across your channel a few days ago and have been binge watching ever since. I'm not sure if you have answered this, but, you mentioned it yourself "..BP may have provided the oil, but we used it" so, how can BP shrink their massive carbon footprint if we are the consumer of the oil that created their massive carbon footprint to begin with? If we stop using fossil fuel, there will be no big demand for it, and BP wouldn't have to supply as much? Then maybe they would redirect their attention to alternative energy research instead? Or use their significant financial capabilities to back and build nuclear red hydrogen power plants, while we still have the fuel to use to build them. For centuries our source of energy (light) changed because better alternatives where discovered (from wood, to plant oils, to whale fat, to coal, to petroleum). I think it is better to start finding newer and better sources now not just to mitigate the rapid climate change, but mainly because our fuel now is running out. At the end of the day, it is everyones' burden to bear.
Am I the only person worried about that cat!? Also, lovely video!
I think it’s a neighborhood cat cause I’ve seen it around since
Love this video, and all its accurate points!
Gotta say though, I vehemently disagree on the point that the public has blame in this. Because that's a little like kidnapping a teenager and forcefully injecting them with heroin, then releasing them into the world, and then said teenager dies of a heroin overdose a few years later.
Are you gonna say it's their fault for "getting addicted to heroin" in the first place? Or maybe, just maybe, the root cause is the fact that said addiction was forcefully created?
Otherwise though, fantastic video!
Couldn’t agree more. If they wanted us to have electric cars 20 years ago (they didn’t), everyone would’ve went with the new “trend” to do so. But they are drug dealers and like to feed the country’s car addiction
the part "if you dont even hve feet" cracked me up
My carbon footprint is huge considering I'm literally made partly from carbon.
Second video featuring you without a shirt. The other was at the beach.
Second of many if they keep letting me make videos
Literally subscribing just for quality. This is so... It's so real and personal n shit. Fucking awesome.
Could you cover the topic of what we are all doing here, that is the importance (or unimportance, you tell me) of using the internet for climate change? Perhaps smth similar to this one but particularly about binge watching yt and netflix? And thanks for the good work!
"Budweiser's dilly dilly thing"...that aged well 😂😂😂😂
I wonder what that cat is doing now?
How much did you pay that cat actor...
Dare I say.... cator
Not sure, is that how the cat identifies? Maybe it's a catress. Maybe it's not a cat at all... How dare you. 😜😅
Until this very moment, I'd never heard of "Dilly, dilly."
BP did make solar panels. Then they sold the division. Then all the panels we recalled - every last one.