The Supreme Court Declares War On The Environment | Climate Town
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The need for an EPA at all is the perfect example why companies cannot be trusted to do the right thing on their own. All the talk about how companies can/should be trusted to "self-regulate" without "interference" from the government is delusional.
Same reasoning for why minimum wage is a law
I mean yeah America is literally an institution designed to profit the wealthy. Are we allowed to eat them yet? Though I'm veganish, so maybe they'd be better served as fertilizer.
my energy company is so clogged in work they cant even look past two weeks of work yet alone thinking about all the waste we have to discard or all the lab equipment we have to order thar gets wasted
exactly - if companies could be trusted to self regulate, they wouldnt lobby so hard for deregulation
you dont try really hard to abolish a rule just to then follow the rule... they clearly want to break those rules.
PS: in fact any company that self regulates in that way would lobby for making those regulations part of law, so all their competitors have to follow those rules as well
Thats why governments exist in the first place, to provide incentives/ disincentives for individuals acting in their own best interests when those interest in conflict with the greater good.
I'm not even American, but I really appreciate what you do for the US and all of us.
Yeah, well I am American and I don't like how he's trying to make my national bird so dizzy it might barf.
We need more climate town channels for other large countries or groups like the EU
Same here. Appreciate the non-US shoutout. 😊 Keep up the great work 🙏🌎🌱
Australian here, and I agree totall. I love Climate Town!!
Same
Man you're like the perfect activist. You point out the issues, in a humurous manner, put up convincing arguments as to why the issues are actually issues, and actually bloody give a course for action. Actually legendary man, keep up the amazing work.
the problem is that the only people who watch this content are the people that already agree with his ideals. you think some dipshit right winger who rolls coal in his lifted dodge ram to compensate for his undersized wang is watching something like this and changing his views?
@@gustavodutra2817 Well... according to the articles, the hole always has fluctuations over the span of a year. So the changes of the hole are nothing new. The new thing is, the hole didnt get much smaller after the periodical fluctuations. Looking at the trend since damaging chemicals in frdiges etc are banned, one can see a very clear picture = the hole gets overall smaller.
Right now scientists only have hypthesis why there was a particular different picture the last 2 years.
"Just google it" is, as always, bs ;)
You can tell he has a graduate degree and has had to write tons of research papers.
On the contrary he is everything that is wrong with activists. What the court held was that the executive needed a law passed by congress to forbid something. That is this is a video indorsing arbitrary and capricious government power.
@@stephenhoughton632 Hey can you rephrase your statement and elaborate, please? I am sorry if English isn't your first language, I am not trying to be mean.
Speaking of Single Family Zoning 🤢... My home city Spokane just unanimously passed one of the most progressive zoning amendments in the West to allow for duplexes, triplexes, & quad(?)plexes in all single family zoned areas. We also just passed an ambitious Sustainable Action Plan that I helped write with dozens of other volunteers. Local change is real folks!
Hell yeah, my man. You have done more for your community than most politicians in their lifetime.
That's awesome.
Thank you for your activism!
Cool! I just wrote to my local District representative to ask if we could do that, and her assistant replied something like, Well...most of people like SFZ. I responded, Have you asked? How do we get this on the ballot?
Thank you for your work on that! I'm hoping Seattle will manage to do the same soon... Not sure what our hold-up is.
As a not-US person: that apology seemed heartfelt and is appreciated, for what that's worth.
People like Rollie don't really owe anyone an apology though, which is the sad thing.
It's the people who are the most shameless that are least likely to ever apologise for anything. The types he describes so eloquently at 17:22
As a non-US person I found the "if you're not in the us, i'm sorry, we're working on it" a bit manacing
We're trying really hard to fix things without having to burn shit to the ground first, unlike how the US fixes things around the world.
THIS GUY IS A LIAR !!!! USA didn't fix a single sh8t !!! it was the methane to fix the ozone layer.
yea, the apology was much much much appreciated.
Please don't tease or feed the trolls, keep your arms inside the ride at all times and, as always, enjoy your stay with us here at Climate Town.
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Don’t really know who exactly you mean with trolls, yes there are some here as I’ve experienced everywhere but they don’t seem like a special or big problem on this channel. Just to make sure, I want to point out that we can allow everyone to have a say in the comments, the arguments are on our side and Climate Town need not become a cult.
But I'm hungry 🥺
@@SchgurmTewehr Definitely a lot of trolls in the comments though
This is a great video to combat doomerism tbh. Remembering what the US has already done to combat air pollution, and what the world has done to save the ozone layer, is a great reminder that we can get these things done. It’s not too late. I’m also happy to see in recent times more local jurisdictions making their towns more friendly towards people and the climate.
I think a lot of people who say there's nothing we can do are paid trolls trying to keep morale down.
Definitely. I fell into the doomerism trap with climate change not too long ago, it's so easy to feel helpless and submit to your frustrations through blaming your surroundings and acting selfishly because "It's not my fault and there isn't anything I can do about it, so why bother?" Withdrawing into a hateful hopelessness is so easy to do, and I'm glad that chapter of my life is over. Channels like this one remind me of how easily me and other people can be influenced, and how much we can influence by ourselves. I hadn't ever considered participating in town meetings and elections up until very recently, it makes me so happy that others are taking inspiration as well. It's never too late to make a difference!
@@emilybee6246 if you feel like you have the mental capacity and time, I recommend volunteering with a climate activism group.
That is if you don't take in to account the sheer amount of money that Energy Companies have for lobbyists, and the fact that they LITERALLY had scientists executed for attempting to invent fuel alternatives from the years of 1920 -2015
@@scotthuffman3462 This is why we need strong regulations on these industries. Now we have these industries high up in government and even writing our laws. We need to get money out of politics and stop legal bribery. Break up monopolies.
My favorite part of the Clean Air Act of 1963 is how long it took *after* already knowing how dangerous pollution was, such as the events in Pennsylvania. There were already far greater examples from other developed countries. For example the Great Smog of London in 1952 which killed more than 5000 people in 4 days. England enacted sweeping legislation within about a year of that disaster. America just kept polluting until it was forced to act.
uhh but this video kinda described the opposite thing, like america really had its shit together and figured out until recently when climate denial for some reason got a hold of the average republican voter and suddenly all this shit is getting thrown out
@@red2theelectricboogaloo961 - Yeah, America finally got it's shit together in 1972, 20 years after the London smog disaster and even then the companies continued to fight it until the Tea Party and MAGA crowd got their dream Supreme Court stacked with ringers to kill any climate legislation at the Federal level.
@@WJV9 i don't know, at this point i just want americans to figure this out again. tired of my country being the butt of so many jokes nowadays. we can change and i'm almost positive there's a way to change the people's mind out there but all the clog and retardation about climate change out there gives me serious doubts.
4:44 Its almost like giving a group of people with severe childhood lead poisoning the key to run a nation is a really, really bad idea!
I'm like, "Man, I hate older people, they all seem so dumb and clueless to the point of seeming insane sometimes. Well, I bet this is the same for every younger generation looking back at seemingly awkward older generations." *watches documentary and reads published studies on generational lead poisoning.* "Ohhhhhh......"
A huge part of why modern health care is such a booming business is that an entire generation and a half of wealthier people suddenly find themselves with all sorts of cancers and genetic diseases. Heck, the tendency for unvaccinated covid survivors to have heavy complications is more than likely the result of pre-existing damage from plastics, carcinogens, and radiation they had from early childhood to their thirties catching up to them. Like a house with years of cracked infrastructure finally collapsing after someone backs their truck into it.
Heck, some published theories about other childhood diseases spiking may have been wrong- scientists think heavy asthma and allergies came from children living indoors more than their predecessors, but maybe growing up and spending time at grandpa's old house filled with lead paint, asbestos, and radium plates had a hand in screwing up immune response systems.
The chevron deference undermining has been predicted by Opening Arguments (legal podcast) for at least 4 years… Crazy how experts can predict and give warning signs so early and we dont react in time anyway.
20 years ago I was interning at an agency advising my government (the Netherlands) about renewable energy. The group I interned at wrote a report about the need for investments in the power grid and described quite a few failure cases. Right now the grid operators are whining that the grid isn't stable enough to take up all the renewables and want extra money. Money they could have raised and invested for the past 20 years if only some policy forced them to do so instead of pocketing profits. And our grid isn't even remotely as fragile as the US grid! Crazy stuff.
Andrew Torrez, esq.
React how? 4 years ago one Donald J. Trump was President and going to appoint 3 Justices regardless. The court decision was all but inevitable 4 years ago. Our choices, our reaction, is with what Milk Dude said: we got to go after some local politicians and keep pushing the politicians we can influence.
Doesn't removing the chevron defense also technically repeal the Supreme Court itself in a way? If all powers given to branches that aren't Congress must be very specifically and explicitly stated, the Supreme Court should have essentially no power. The only reason they have "judicial review" is because they gave themselves that power in Marbury v Madison. By their own current dumbass logic though, that should be repealed as well, removing all of their power to review any new bills or executive policies. The only thing the constitution explicitly instructs them to do is exist, so might as well just have them come in and sit around all day doing nothing, we'd be better off for it at this point than we are with a wholly illegitimate court.
well to be completely honest it seems like there are an infinite number of things being predicted by experts, some are accurate but there is an entire sea of them
It's so strange to me that a political party can run on being against protecting the environment and still get wide support. Not just a US thing either, this is happening here in Canada as well.
i dont know it's so weird to me, even if you are thinking that climate change is all made up or whatever bullshit.... uhh, there's also the smog, do you not care about smog? what about that? what about water? what about the ozone layer? that doesn't all go away!!!!!!!
@@red2theelectricboogaloo961 and plastic pollution, habitat loss, accelerating extinctions
Because to own the libs or something
@@Miles26545 "freedum"
They don’t run on being against the environment, even if that’s what they’re doing. They frame it as combatting government overreach and protecting people’s jobs while also spreading misinformation to cast down of the effectiveness of clean energy and the existence of climate change
I always avoid using the word "evil" when discussing politics because its not good for describing political ideas but it is incredible how many US politicians act as they were actually pure evil
I think evil is synonymous with selfish.
the GOP is actually evil though. their followers are also legitimately hateful, evil people.
The same politicians who will control the state that your type believes will solve all your problems and give you everything for free, health, security, education, ending inequalities, solve enviromental issues, etc......hahahahahahaha
@@gustavodutra2817 too much Fox news for you. Stop drinking the Kool Aid chud
You're at 66 upvotes right now, I can't break that!
I honestly been thinking about getting into my local government lately. This video has made me want to start and I have a motive and cause now.
Welcome to the club. If you're in college try transferring to Urban Studies or Urban Planning.
Americans voting for an educated individual with competent ideas over a celebrity, sports coach/athlete, or a person on bath salts spewing nonsense…. Yeah in your dreams
Please do!
Same. Im 30 and tired of nothing being done
Go for it dude
When it comes to local elections, many of the decisions are also made by the city council, not the mayor; LA is an example of this. In the last 2 years, two LA city councilors have lost their seats to more progressive candidates, and it was the first time in 20+ years that an incumbent on the LA city council lost. The Controller race is actually getting attention too. People are realizing where the power lies and it's great.
Who would have thought that the Controller's race would actually be popular?!
absolutely crazy how much Not Just Bikes' content almost always sits at the center of the solution to so many different problems laid out by content creators from all over the site. The guy is like hitting legend status at this point yet, his vids are presented in such a simple and personable way
Poverty, climate change, congestion, health, the list goes on and on. Fuck car oriented planning.
Yeah it's actually baffling how simple the solution idea to so many of these problems is or at least to a way to vastly improve the situation, and yet it's not being done in most of the world for some reason.
Implementing it in different cities and countries will vary in complexity but with the transformation the Netherlands went through I believe it can be done almost anywhere.
@@ghosthunter0950 Meh, we have nice bike infrastructure but public transport sucks especially outside the Randstad. It's a congestion nightmare. We should've never privatized it.
I say it’s unfortunate that Not Just Bikes has become such a prominent voice since he’s extremely condescending and insulting. It really doesn’t help the movement to associate it with people like that
@@thedapperdolphin1590 what exactly did you find condescending and insulting?
I live in Paris, the city changed really fast, made biking way easier safer and faster (I wouldn't dare to take my bike there before), it took some streets back from cars and really transformed things in the last couple of years. New bike lanes are already full with people of all ages now. Every city can do this.
Just found your channel, loved it!
Yeas i do t know how big or dense Paris is but every city cannot do that. Im not gonna bike 5 miles to the grocery store when its 100 degress out side. The whole town would have to be redone not just add some bike lanes.
@@TychoKingdom Paris has a population just over 2.1 million with a higher population density than any city in the US. And thanks to not having retarded zoning laws, it's pretty impossible to be more than a few hundred metres from a grocery store.
The comedy in this video is so fire I’m worried it may affect the environment. Rollie & Climate Chance - one of the best channels out here
Climate Chance? Can’t find
I'd tell you to fix it, but calling it "Climate Chance" is too good and interesting.
As a French parisian I'm both glad for the reference at the end of the video and also crying at how fucked climate regulation is in Paris and the surrounding region.
Why is Paris so bad? France has like 1/3 the per capita emissions as the US and Paris is a wonderful example of getting cars out and bikes in. To an outsider it looks like a shining city on a hill
Climate reg issue?
It's become he s french Parisian. They complain frantically against France all the time.
Ahah yes its true l like to complain. But basically Paris is a weird city when it comes to regulation as you have mayor per "arrondissement", anocger council for the whole town, plus the "region" which is a little bit larger. When it come to climate regulation there are a lot of debat and legal issue on what socialist mayor can do or not (the region is republican). For exemple, to forbit certain type of vehicle in Paris may not be possible because some road are managed at a higher level or just simply have an impact on the surrounding towns. So closing some part of the river bank to cars took decades.
Same issue most others projects related to cars (type of cars allowed, speed limits, Boulevard périphérique,...)
All of that while the region and France is regularly late for air pollution control.
But you are right there are a lot of good points. Bikes lanes and are more and more popular, the most polluting vehicles can not enter Paris and the surrounding area (like 30 yo fuel based cars). Basically Paris is rearranging the priority, it used to be cars first then walking, then subway and other public transport, then bikes. Now cars are rightfully becoming last in term of priorities.
TLTR, climate regulation in Paris is weird because nothing can move without 20years of debate. Not joking
I wish there were content creators like this but in Canada about Canadian environmental issues.
I was just lamenting the same!
Best I can do is a 15 minute video on why bigfoot is woke and anti-oil, sorry
@@cl34ve I’d watch it, but in Canada we call him Sam Squatch.
Watching from outside the US: Thanks for the sincere apology. Pollution also has no clue about country borders.
Really respect your efforts in putting all this together
"The most Important THing is to get Educated about the Climate-Crisis."
Ok, but humans have the really odd Idea that commenting-multiple-times (to reach more people( makes one a bot, so the more you wanna help, the more your ignoed. Mentioning Hbomberguy, UpisNotJump, OCC, SMN, and Second Thought wont do much to give people high-quality Content!!
THIS GUY IS A LIAR !!!! USA didn't fix a single sh8t !!! it was the methane to fix the ozone layer.
@@nenmaster5218 idk how left you lean but I'd also recommend Hakim and Yugopnik if you are american and curious about actual left theory (the one they always warned you about 🤫)
@@kokorochacarero8003 I dont live in the USA.
@@nenmaster5218 then there's a bigger chance you'll like it
The Eric joke is absolutely top tier 😂
Fun fact for 7:50 : The hole in the ozone layer *over Antarctica* was fixed. Not the hole in the ozone layer that’s sitting on top of the Amazon though. We just discovered that one recently as far as I know
Why the Amazon? And is it manmade?
@@darkhelmet12e47 I looked it up, it comes from the faulty research of one guy named Qing-Bin Lu. Not real.
@@Nala15-Artist Why is his research faulty? Explain further before dismissing science outright
@@snakevenom8136 Feel free to look it up. I'm very skeptical of any research when it's the research of just one person, (eg. No peer reviews) for starters.
@@Nala15-Artist Even his first statement was wrong, the Antarctic ozone hole still exists, and yeah no other models support the amazonian ozone hole theory
That "Really putting the Eric back in America" line just tickled the ever loving shit out of me. Thanks Rollie.
Stuff like this is a great example of why voter guides are so important: you can’t just vote…you have to vote in EVERY ELECTION!
Ideally you would fully research everything yourself, but that takes a lot of time. So you can also just find a group with similar values to you who does this research and produces a guide. That way, you can still vote in every election and make it harder for junk like this to happen again!
Isn't it funny how literally all it takes is for people to stop giving their opinions and suddenly the world is literally on the brink of destruction? It's almost like voting has nothing to do with this... It's almost like billionaires don't give a fuck about what people think, and telling them what you think doesn't change their course? Crazy stuff
@@zed739 except that the reason the Supreme Court got to this point was electing Obstructionist Republicans who rammed conservative judges onto the bench…
@@zed739 youre right and i think the presidential election is a scam but voting in local elections is really important imo. there are people out there who want to create positive change but without people who care they wont have a chance
@GoriIIazVevo 🅥full vid of what?
There is no one to vote for. This video made that clear in the first 5 minutes.
Hi Rollie, long-time environmental consultant here. I'm sure you've figured this out by now. We are WAY outnumbered by the dummies.
4:45... Ahhh the nostalgia! As a wee tyke, me and mine used to romp and play in the white fog being sprayed into our neighborhood by the Pinellas County Mosquito Abatement trucks. Circa 1968, so me and mine were playing in clouds of DDT... I'm mostly fine. When I remember to take my pills.
I am binging all of your videos after seeing you on the Waveform podcast, and truly you are my favorite person on the internet! Thank you for being smart and funny and informed and hopeful and encouraging!
New Climate Town vid! Always the best part of my month-ish
If we can fix zoning, we'll alleviate a ton of the pressure to own a car and commute daily. I'd also like to see more subsidies go to farmers, construction workers, welders, etc... to invest in electric tractors, trucks, etc.. rather than giving all the tax credits to upper middle class computer programmers to buy Teslas (calling myself out a little lol).
Thank you for having self awareness and a mind for solutions, but don't be too hard on yourself, we're all simply symptoms of the actual problems that plague our society.
That's never going to happen in America
@@somad6997 Sorry, but I am strongly opposed to uprooting working class Americans from an industry they know and love when city emissions drastically outweigh animal waste. Furthermore, the waste of food during decomposition creates no small part of emissions. Lastly, if we shut down American farmers and ranchers, not only will we gut a vital part of our economy, but we'll relocate that destruction to other countries, doing nothing to actually solve emissions. We see this in other industries like clothing and oil production. So child labor is okay as long as it's in China or Singapore? Hydraulic Fracturing is okay as long as it stays in Venezuela or Saudi Arabia? I'd much rather give our local farmers the tools and incentive to run clean operations here in the states where we have higher standards, then to import beef from Brazil (that's where the majority of it comes from already). And before you get on the train that we should stop eating beef, you need to spend a day working on a ranch and observe how meticulously ranchers manage their range for sustainability, it's almost like their livelihood depends on it!
@@22z83 Never say never ;) Young people are taking over farming operations across the country.
@@MagicToadSlime Thanks for the vote of encouragement. I definitely took the tax credit on our Model Y, but I would have bought an electric car either way and there are other people that need them more, people who can't afford new cars for example. I'd like to see those people with some opportunities to go electric. That said, I'll probably take every tax incentive from the new "Inflation Reduction Act" as well, because right now it's the best job the government has done yet, sadly..
Fun fact, in the original Ghostbusters from the 80s, one of the bad guys was the *EPA inspector*
Grew up in Southern California in the 80s it was insane it’s so amazing seeing the change that to place and how it changed so fast
Excited for this one, and I hope we get to see one on the Inflation Reduction Act as well.
That would be a good video, I hope he makes one on it.
Also...Please join me in reporting the comment that says "Here's the full video" as spam. Tired of the bots. When they said someday the robots would overrun everything, I don't think this is what they meant. Report the lame robots.
@@roibeard94 reported. I hate those bots too. On popular videos you'll see a reply like that on every comment. Half of them have the name "F me, click on my profile picture!"
Idk what does that act have to do with the environment? Seems kinda like overreaching if climate town, as a channel, branches out to other tangentially related political topics. Just my opinion though.
god this is all so depressing it feels so hopeless sometimes but people like you do a lot by putting this stuff out there in such an accessible way
I feel exactly the same way.
I work for the "state level EPA" (a dept of environmental quality, if you will) and we are much stricter with our regulations and take it a step further than thr EPA. I will say, the local level goes even deeper with some issues.
Granted, I'm in solid waste and not air, so there are differences. But solid waste (RCRA) was the last program to be established.
Great video though!
I live in Poland (you know, central/eastern Europe), so all the political and administrative context of your videos is of really little importance to me, but I still love all of your content! I regularly show your videos to firends, as it is just SO refershing to listen to the depressing reality of climate change being narrated in such a fun, fresh and easy way!!
Thank you for your amazing work
Oh boy, a climate town episode AND a some more news on the same day! Even more sad times for me!
Seriously though, it blows my mind how some people keep trying to actively destroy the planet.
Like, not just "not do anything to help" (which is unfortunate but totally understandable-it's sometimes hard to visualize anything other than how things are, and change is scary), but they actually seem to go out of their way to fuck everything up.
And add Three Arrows to boot!
stay blessed my brothers in Christ; and don’t forget Hasan is screaming, every day🙏🏽
not so much destroy the planet, but neglect humanity's habitat
I am just as confused, like, you DO know screwing over the planet will screw you over too, right?
CO LAB
i'm hoping to go into environmental studies within the next year and your videos are a great inspiration, thank you for keeping so many folks informed
A few things to be aware about, if you aren't already. As someone working in the field of environmentalism I would make sure you are comfortable with reading about depressing things on a daily basis. Think of it like working in a care home and dealing with death on a daily basis, just in our case it is the death of millions(humans and animals). During my studies many of my colleagues were so depressed that they dropped out. Reading IPCC reports that are increasingly saying "It is too late for prevention or rehabilitation, we now just need to go into damage control mode" can lead to some nasty depression.
If you still want to dive into the topic, I salute you! P.S. Not to scare you off they don't pay nearly enough in the sector to read doom and gloom on the daily.
@@Nomusicincluded yeah, the amount of potentially catastrophic statistics I was exposed to on a daily basis during my environmental science degree was pretty staggering. On the same note, I also learned a lot of ways we can change things for the better.
Thanks Rollie. Love your work. Peace, Calvin.
As someone feeling down on how slow things are moving in Denmark i can relate. Know that we also feel sorry for you Americans. Call us when you get through it
I seriously believe we need to stop voting for representatives and simply vote on laws, regulations etc. After all, we the people need to have a say and these people in congress and the senate get paid by these lobbyist. They don't care about us just their pockets.
We have representatives _because_ we can't vote on _every single law and regulation._
There are far too many. There isn't time in the day.
Though certainly some of them should be designated to be voted on by the people.
so you're saying direct democracy
that's one i haven't seen on the internet in a while
except for when i watched anarchist breadtubers
@@heartache5742 It's not a bad idea in general, but we run into the same problem as mentioned in the video: in some issues its better to just delegate.
This is by far away one of the best channels on UA-cam, keep up the good work man
GREAT video!!! Talking points dispersed w just the right amount of tongue-in-cheek humor, which, I might add, has gotten waaaay better than previous videos. Not that the previous videos were bad, but the evolution is noticeable. Thank you for your commitment and thank you for sharing knowledge.
I want Rollie to be my friend. Like, he would make board game night absolutely lit. Wednesday night Trivia at the bar around the corner? Off the chain with this man.
Rollie, I love your sense of humor and style, so I am conflicted.
I love the swearing in these and it is not egregious, but I also wish I could use your videos in the classroom. And I really just cannot justify that to my superiors.
Would you ever consider releasing "clean" versions of some of your videos?
I know, I feel stupid asking but you have to pick your battles in public education and I can't fight the climate fight AND the political fight while also fighting the swearing fight.
id consider editing the swears out on your own, or getting a friend to do it, and then showing that in class. climatetown isnt going to care about copyright of the handful of views showing it in class will net.
I could be misremembering, but I thought he mentioned in another video that his Patreon had classroom-safe edits of (some of) his videos. I'm not sure, though; hopefully someone else can confirm one way or another.
ua-cam.com/video/SfsCniN7Nsc/v-deo.html He mentions it here.
Typical of the government, it doesn't care about the working class, only the rich.
So grateful I get to work for the EPA
My favourite thing about you is that you advocate for individuals to try and enact systemic changes, you never tell individuals that they shouldn't drive, or fly, or live their life however, because the only real solution comes from regulations and systemic changes
I watch all your videos. Congrats on hilariously covering topical and important material. I hope your channel blows up so you can continue to grow and do amazing things.
"...if you're not living in United States, sorry, we're working in it..." THIS IS GOLD.
Cannot even begin to express my relief in the beginning when the camera panned out to reveal the empty Oatly cartons instead of cow's milk.
WE NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU. (Yes I am screaming)
Something that gets me is how little of the amassed wealth extracted from this planet will ever be used/spent.
What does that mean?
@@neolithictransitrevolution427 the resources extracted from the planet to increase the wealth of the owner-class will likely never be turned into useful product, basically becoming waste upon extraction.
Boy, all that wealth will be used to protect the last piece of livable land from the loser hordes.
@@pennyforyourthots What is waste? I mean if you're saying buring oil instead of making cool stuff like carbon fiber or plastic or medication, sure. Or most gold and diamond mining for fashion/investment.
But I don't think a significant amount of material extracted from the planet is used in conspicuous consumption. If anything its mainly labour that is wasted, a yatch isn't all that much material.
I've been waiting for that apology on behalf of the US for a LONG TIME Rollie!!! 🤣
Great video btw. Really great content 👍
SCOTUS must be reformed. They are an interest group, not for US law or the constitution, nor for the people, but for corporations.
I'm not the go get involved-kinda guy, but I am now a Patreon!! 👍
Your videos are so good I can't get over it!! Just the perfect combination of being funny and also super informative and interesting 🤯
Agreed, an environment policy communication for the masses GOAT
I remember Tom Lehrer and his mock-song "Pollution" from the 60s :
If you come to American city,
You will find it very pretty.
Just two things of which you must beware:
Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!...
Would be cool if the audiences back then and their children would have drawn the right lesson.
As a child raised in So Cal during the 50's and 60's when our air pollution was the worst in the nation, I have great appreciation for the Clean Air Act (and CA's even more stringent standards) and the removal of lead from gasoline. Long term studies have shown that children like myself raised in polluted air have on average 10-15% less lung capacity as adults than the population at large. Politicians and now judges beholden to special interests may literally put the whole planet in peril.
Gives us a step-by-step when calling congress!
That clip with Mark Zuckerberg was devastating.
I find the extreme rightshift of US policy and society in the last 50 years incredibly disturbing, to say the least. And the most disturbing aspect of it is how few people are even willing to *acknowledge* this massive shift. This is how a society drifts into fascism. A significant portion of US citizens already supports a political figure who openly tried to hold on to his presidency after he lost the election. Even rallying his supporters to storm parliament is acceptable to far too many Americans.
Against this background, I see little hope for saving the planet for humanity. But look at the bright side: other species will thrive after we are gone.
Let's hope we leave them something to thrive on.
@@dennismitchell5276 they'll be fine. Humans are not that powerful.
Can I switch sides? I'd like to turn in my human card as soon as possible before it expires.
America is doomed to become a dictatorship. There was way to little pushback against Trumps coup attempt. The next few candidates will make atempts at the same thing untill one succeeds
Destroying your own planet including the country you live in and love is not really a rightists topic. Traditionally right wing parties were trying to protect the environment. What we see is a shift towards anti-intellectualism I would say.
Besides that the US definitely moved to the left, one example would be same-sex marriage. Leftists might understand the problem of climate change but rather focus on minority rights. When we had elections in Germany climate scientists were reviewing the election platforms of all parties. Not a single party had plans to achieve the Paris temperature goal (limiting the global warming to 1.5⁰ Celsius). Blaming it on the right is a lame excuse, we fail to stop climate change because the whole political spectrum doesn't care.
Let me repeat that for you:
The RIVER caught on fire...
Absolutely incredible episode! This really makes me want to get loud in my area about local progress and enables me with resources to do so effectively. Also I bet that milk glass at the end was full of sheeps milk.
It would be terribly hypocritical if it was animal milk.
@@WHALEx3 Nutjuice isn't milk.
@@MPostma72 and peanut butter isn’t butter. Be quiet.
Your videos are the perfect balance of chaos and education.
I was a part of your live stream today and I wanted to say thank you. I emailed my local superintendent about the clean busses rebate and it felt good to do something productive for change.
I love how your videos always have a "what you can do" section. I'm sick of climate videos that just breakdown how bad the problem is and then you leave feeling hopeless and doomey. Thanks for doing your thing
Thank you so much for all that you do. Really excited for the UA-cam live!!
This channel is best combination of educational and funny.
Even Milton Friedman flat out said that companies could not be trusted to regulate themselves and needed the government to step in and set up the rules which they would have to play by.
Rollie, I really appreciate that you don't just create outrage, you give concrete actions to put that outrage to use.
Thanks for educating in a great way. Let’s keep fighting!
I'm going to be dead from holding my breath before this even airs! 😱
heh, airs
Rest in peace 😇
@@janmamu8721 heh
UA-cam needs to provide the ability to give two thumbs up. This video certainly deserves two thumbs up.
I swear your videos have gotten better and better every release! You’ve really honed in on a exemplary style that relays usually dense information in easily digestible format. It’s really educated me on what I can do as a single person to make a difference in the world! I always look forward to your videos. :)
Can we get a round of applause for the "..itty bitty City committee.." line!! Also, that's a glass of Oatly. Pay the man...
Thanks for this video, especially the call to action at the city level!
How you don't become depressed making this awesome videos is the true marvel here
Keep fighting the good fight my man. Peace
How do you combine humor and environmental/political education so well? You're gold brother!
Is that a glass of half milk half bathwater?
This is it, this is going to be the only channel I've ever considered supporting financially. Your level of entertainment, apparently, is the ultimate cure for my climate anxiety. Thank you.
The "eric" joke was pure gold and got me to the end.
The starting analogy and all the background kinda confused me and was a bit much, but you pulled it together nicely and the second half was easier to follow with a super clear, targeted finish. Top Tier Content as always!!
Thanks for the apology and I'm glad to hear you're all working on it 🤞
How are you so funny?? I don't even. Please never stop making these. Unless we fix climate change, I'll give these up for healing the world
‘I don’t even know if air pollution knows what state lines are’ Brilliant!
I blame UA-cam AI for how long it’s taken for me to discover this channel. Thank you for such fantastic production. Looking forward to the future stuff and and binging on the all the past videos.
you're getting better at making videos, love to see it. most times i've laughed in any of your videos so far
Hi, you probably won't see this comment under the 1000 other ones below your video but I just wanted you to know I just attended your livestream and you inspired me to call my local county executive to advocate for the Clean School Bus Program. Keep making videos, your content is amazing and it makes the crazy world we live in easier to digest and process.
Didn't expect a video about the Enviroment to have a part where Matt Walsh gets dunked on LMAO
I wish the average American comprehended how fucked we are
You put so much work in, keep doing what you do!
I think it’s worth noting that the IRA goes a long way towards undoing the damage done by the WV vs EPA ruling.
It includes specific language that amends the Clean Air Act to specify CO2 from burning fossil fuels as a pollutant, empowering the EPA to regulate it and precluding future cases that would try to use WV vs EPA as precedent
Nice work! I will clue others in. Hopefully they will listen ss we don't have much time left.
Thank you for your work. Much love to you guys!!
Amazing video. I live in Auckland NZ, and with a mayoral election coming up, I'll certainly be getting more involved than I planned thanks to this video!
Thank you for restating things as you go along, the re-summarizations help me keep me on track with all the info you explain.
but then you rhymed Austin and Boston with Wisconsin and... I don't know how I feel about that.
Comment for the algorithm, keep up the good work.
This was hilarious and awesome. Feeling inspired and I'm not from the US. Keep up the great work! 👍