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Climate Change, eh? Well your problem there is the high-level advocates are known for lying, and people are VERY tired of being talked down to by "experts" that have been wrong before (every single climate model and cry of doom turned out to be wrong) and clearly despise us common folk. "We can save the whole world, all you have to do is give us your money and give up your freedoms" ..... yeah, that's a scam if ever there was one.
It's a good point that weather events are too familiar to provoke us to act to prevent them. For many people, if not most, perhaps the potent image that encapsulates the end of us from climate change isn't a weather event -- that's the acute part of the problem -- but the slow starvation when crops fail. For that I picture Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" -- or the father and son surrounded by dead trees, scrounging for a tin of food in "The Road." But as we've seen from the general public largely ignoring areas experiencing food scarcity, starvation isn't interesting enough to capture our attention.
You are not in touch with reality, based on what you've written here. I urgently recommend you watch some of Patrick Moore's talks, as a scientifically based corrective to your nihilistic vision of humanity's future. There are several of his talks available on UA-cam, but the one that comes to mind is "A Dearth of Carbon".
Human beings are animals, we can't hold the entire world in our hearts and minds. Trying to is part of why everyone is wigging out. The news shows images like that to capture attention, to shift opinion, to manipulate. Our hardened hearts are a complex phenomena.
@@gedofgont1006Patrick Moore’s talks are an excellent example of how effective pseudoscience can be. I believed him when I first saw his talks, he is very convincing. Then I did more research. And used my critical thinking skills. I agree that mass hysteria is possible and dangerous, and that our response to the climate crisis may become a crisis in itself, but his “science” is highly flawed. I prefer Bjorn Lomborg’s approach when it comes to this issue. He sometimes labeled a climate change denier, but I don’t think he is. He is anti-alarmist, and solution-focused. You probably already know of him.
8:32 So far I think this video's terrific, but I will say I don't think this bit holds any water. Raspberries and cauliflowers only describe the head of the explosion, and the explosions are rarely textured anything like those things. They're usually pretty smooth, like mushroom heads. The phrase 'dome-shaped column' is oxymoronic and too long to catch on as a common term anyway. The explosions can have tendrils like jellyfish do, but they all have columns, which jellyfish don't. Umbrellas have central 'columns', but those columns are much too thin to be an apt comparison. I think the mushroom is easily the most accurate comparison, and I don't think any spooky unconscious connections to a mushroom's deeper meaning for the human psyche need be invoked. I also don't think most humans have dark, poisonous or deathly feelings toward the image of a mushroom anyway. That could be the case with a number of other forms of fungus (I always found things like lichens rather disgusting or even nightmarish to look at), but I think most of us picture a mushroom as being a humble-looking and rather iconic part of a healthy (usually forest-type) environment. I think that sometimes a mushroom shape is just a mushroom shape.
I wrote a similar comment. He was reaching really hardcore there. They tested bombs in different ways, underground, surface level, air blasts. They wouldn't all look like a mushroom, some blasts would have looked weird. But mostly, lots of people are bad at describing things so a bunch of stuff people say would be plain dumb and thrown away in favor of the clearly better option. I do not think about fungus and the dark underworld at all when seeing the mushroom cloud. It simply looks like a mushroom more than anything else, by far.
'Letters from a Dead Man' should absolutely have had a mention in the lineup of great nuclear apocalypse movies. Arguably the most emotionally depressing of them all.
I've been watching your videos for a while now and really enjoy them! I’d love it if you could include a source for the imagery you use-maybe in small letters in the lower right corner, for example. Often, the visuals catch my attention, and I’d love to look up the movie or source directly. Right now, I end up taking screenshots and doing reverse image searches to find out more.
I was expecting a reference to Dark in the nuclear power plants segment since it partially was the reason of the tearing of the fabric of time and space in the show. It's very hyperbolic, but remember also how Nolan has past and future collide in Tenet just before Oppenheimer (and all for environmental reasons). Great video as usual!!!
Oh what a gift this was! A well penned essay of word and image, Compeling, driven, highly enjoyable. An aggregate far more than the sum of its parts. Thank you!
The timeliness of this video with Helene is eerie. But when nature is presenting us with yet another consequence to our manufactured climate catastrophe, another tally considered "natural disaster," it's more unfortunate irony. It's haunting how even understanding isn't enough in the face of the forces (corrupted individuals) that keep things status quo. *sigh* Great work 👏
Always love the depth (and profundity) of your videos. One meme or trope that didn't get attention in this video is the sublimity of H. P. Lovecraft's Cosmic Horror genre and its literary similarities to an atomic world that did not yet exist. And, of course, the paintings of John Martin, another hundred year before Lovecraft.
I'd argue we have a fundamentally different response to deliberate vs natural sources of danger. The ancient mind anthropomorphised the plague but as humans gained better knowledge of disease our perspective shifted. The fact that climate change policy is being warped by deliberate actions and the people driving those actions are the majority of the worlds billionaires who are oil billionaires, but whose wealth would vanish if the world stopped using their oil is in my opinion the missing ingredients.
An animal can lose a fight and feel no shame, we can't. A natural disaster doesn't think less of me after hurting me. Anything thats bad is worse with intention and judgement behind it.
The sad part is... for most of them it wouldn't make a huge difference. Only the dumbest of them put all their wealth in one place, and if their main industry went away, they'd just be smaller billionaires. They could lose well north of 99% of their wealth at it would do /nothing/ to them at all except bruise their ego.
@@Hat_With_A_Hat_On I exactly agree. That said do we feel differently about a hurricane if its intensity is partly related to the financially-motivated skulldugery of powerful individuals?
I feel the need to add something important to the conversation surrounding the lack of action on climate change. This essay enquires as to whether or not imagery potent enough to inspire action can be achieved. I would posit that such imagery already exists as the majority of the population believes climate change to be an existential threat to humanity. The issue isn't a lack of awareness but a lack of democracy within the economic sphere. It is the present global economic system that is causing climate change and this system has been insulated from democracy. I believe we have already reached, and perhaps gone beyond, the necessary awareness of the issue and now efforts must be shifted toward the extension of democracy to the economy. In a certain sense we are now wasting our effort and time focusing on the awareness aspect. After all, if one sees awareness as the primary issue, are they not presupposing the existence of a robust democracy for which the aware may make their will manifest? Perhaps it is this pressuposition that is the real impediment to change.
I grew up during the cold war era, and lived in a major US city that was certainly on the list to be one of the first to be targeted had things gone sour. Our city had air raid siren testing regularly once a month. My elementary school was a designated fall out shelter, complete with the nuclear tri-foil symbol on the building entry that we got to see every day as we filed into school. And quarterly we had evacuation drills where we would garb our partner and were directed to the basement until the all clear. That eventually takes a toll on the psyche of a 6, 7, 8 year old child. When nuclear apocalypse movies started coming out, I would watch them even though they scared me and gave me nightmares. I didn't realize it at the time, but I remembered the feeling of relief at the end of the movie that even though most of humanity would get wiped out, I as the viewer had survived the ordeal. Perhaps that's what drives some people to this genre -- we're able to see and vicariously experience our worst fears, but we make it through alive. I suspect some children of this generation will feel the same if we make it past the climate change era.
"The Bomb" being treated as a wrathful god is really underscored in Walter M. Miller Jr.'s post-apocalyptic novel where survivors of nuclear apocalypse (several generations later with only scraps of knowledge of the old world) have heard the word "fallout" in relation to the nuclear apocalypse (or "Deluge of Fire"), but lacking the knowledge of the old world, they thought fallout was a type of demon. (This reminds me I'm overdue for a reread. I haven't reread my "newest" copy of the book...)
You spent 38 minutes talking about and showing the power of images and then concluded with the claim that we should - somehow - go beyond the power of images and instead use reason to move us.......
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I am very skeptical of the idea that we simply lack a trigger or catalyst to motivate us to action on climate change. Governments around the world pay lip service to it, and in some places one’s carbon footprint is a new age original sin (I currently live in Sweden). But no matter how much we want to act, it’s not entirely clear what exactly needs to be done. Our lives are built around fossil fuels. Renewables can replace fossil power plants, but a) that’s only part of the energy system, and b) renewables are not without their own environmental issues. Which leads to the question, is climate change even the most pressing environmental issue? Deforestation, ocean acidification, biodiversity decline, and a wide variety of pollution may well be even more urgent. As you say, “climate change is a slow burn”. Maybe images of extreme weather don’t spark action on climate change because extreme weather will be a problem no matter what we do. Is it better to make enormous sacrifices to cut our emissions and maybe marginally reduce the extremes, or to use the tools we have to prepare ourselves (and help the most vulnerable prepare themselves) while making the extremes marginally worse? I don’t think there’s a clear answer to that question.
You've set my thoughts in motion but they're spinning in loops into nowhere. And isnt that a fun place to go. I can see it (my will?) A soft blue light twirling its way around the edges of a plane of spheres untouchable, whos only evidence of shape is from the tail of the light. As it crosses to and fro leaving a looping smear like a sparkler in the night i feel the plane become an ocean and the tension, the rigidity, the structure of it break and depths come into play as the space shifts and folds and expands around this light as it tries to pull it all together. It catches a few pieces, an old thought, 2 bit philosophys, some images, but they dont satisfy. They dont bend and merge into somet new while like drops of water spun togeether on a plate. It doubles down burns brighter and spins faster trying to bring more in and hold in to enough, but the units it needs are beyond it to maintain but for that serendipotuos moment of discovery and realization. It flickers and begins to slow and the memories drift off to settle near their fellows in their well worn places. Theirs a hint of moroseness in its motion that Fusion/fision did not occur. The tail grows shorter and shorter till it disappears. The sense of the space starts its degradation, edges fades, depth dissapears, and the point of light, the keywhole with which i tried to view the imaginary in my waking hours closes to a pinprick and in the instant before is closes i feel an acceptance and slight sorrow for not being able to help you (singular and collective in reference) more in your quest and also the same for myself. The answer is out there. Somewhere. And if i were a genius or a prophet i could have found it for you. Bur theres the problem. A shard of it at least. We have both among us and more of them than ever living today. They are why we're here. In this digital space. They informed the things I tried in vain to bring together and those thoughts i picked up on in my brief scan of the comments. We know. We care. Even the denial of deniers reveals the truth. Were a level down in my vision. In the trenchs with uniformly curved mounains flashing by on all sides. We're in the process. I feel it. I feel the change of peoples and goverment and myself reflecting the world as it changes. Maybe the rub is that we're looking for something singular or sacred. So mass? But the internet jn theory provides it. And still we are here. Sliding down the slope as fast as the lines in the barage of graphs go up. The lines go up. Hehe. Meme. And theres another facet. The lines have to go up. And those whos hands are in the wheel. Who designs and maintains the vehicle. the vessel if the states we live and ride in? Proportionaly. Yes its (kindof) a democracy. Here. Where i am. Another problem. Separation of people. The merging of humanities many dispeate camps onto one in government and mind (the colllective one?) still isnt done. Im not done. But im stopping anyways. Trained the algorithm enough for this instance. Nobody will read this. Nobody cares because we all do. problem of problems. Yada yada yada doomerism bs. ---End---
Building on the correlation between ants and nuclear devastation, I keep thinking back to HunterxHunter, and how Meruem, who is basically a demigod, succumbs to radiation poisoning of all things. I think it emphasizes the effect nuclear radiation had on Japan on a mythical level. Where even the Japanese power fantasy of anime can't survive something so real, and devastating.
I think we picked mushroom cloud because it looks most like a mushroom, not because of the symbolism. You have a million people look at something and a bunch of words will be used to describe it. But over time a concensus is reached, usually but not always based on accuracy. Plenty of people are kinda dumb and their word choices were just wrong. Mushroom cloud is a basically perfect description for an above ground blast at surface level. The other shapes likely came from different kinds of explosion, like underground. The idiots back then tested many hundred of bombs in all sorts of ways, the explosions did not all form that distinctive mushroom shape.
The difficulty with climate change imagery is very much to do with the fact that humans regularly deal with weather catastrophes, which is the worst of the types of things that come to mind when thinking about climate/weather. What is harder for people to see and immediately apprehend is imagery of a paradise lost, the change from something good to something else. Climate change isn't just weather events, but how the world we've built upon is fundamentally changing and becoming less hospitable to life. There is that background context that needs to be understood before the imagery has impact. You can't just show images of starving refugees, because this could be anywhere at any time. Same thing with those catastrophic weather events. When all of this finally becomes real (maybe) is when we'll have those images of massive migrations of people and families as entire cities are being abandoned. We'll have images of millions of people starving and desperate, traveling in large caravans (like we see coming from Central/South America, but larger and more militant) hoping to find some sanctuary. But most people can already see, these refugees will not be welcomed. The most visceral images will be those of bodies piling up outside of border checkpoints - that is when climage change FINALLY becomes real to people.
I'm gonna disagree about why they call nukes mushroom clouds. The early test everyone could see were fission bombs over flat land. Those are smaller and smoother than the fusion blasts that you see over the oceans. also the stem is very small compared to the top, which is more mushroom than cauliflower.
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37:40 yeah with major catastrophes I kinda prefer STAYING in the before time and cliamte change is by definition inevitably global as harsh as it sounds, its not like we can just throw cliamte change at two cities so the rest of the world sees what the result is like without everyone being affected
I would suggest the reason humanity imagines its own apocalypse is because we are (possibly) the only species possessed of self-awareness that life has a beginning, and an ending. Contemplating our specific deaths or the eventual deaths of loved ones is somehow a bridge too far to cross, so we imagine the end of all things instead. Every culture has its variation of Genesis just as it has an end-of-all myth. Why? Because every great story needs an ending.
Climate change only matters to humanity. This planet has been here for longer than anyone will ever know, and will remain here for longer than anyone will ever see. Along this planet's journey it has hosted many passengers, and we are fortunate enough at this time and place to be among them. It seems to me that the planet has existed through many versions of itself and given rise to many variations of life. The position that we are among the most important of those variations or that we should outlast any other variation is a matter of human opinion. People forget that humans are not outside of nature, and therefore anything that we do is not outside of nature. If the basic output of humanity is accelerated change of our environment, then it seems to me that nature likes change. I'm all for continuing the human species, but it's important to acknowledge that this is the premier purpose of stopping climate change. To continue human existence.
I firmly believe that things will go as they must. That includes every act of conservation alongside every ounce of apathy or inaction. Besides, if we're honest with ourselves, humanity's propensity for self destruction poses a far greater (immediate) threat than the slowly felt changes to our environment. If and or when we destroy ourselves, there will be no one left to grieve the loss.
What we do in the so called spectre climate change is to adapt, not establish an authoritarian Marxist regime to control everything, or to deindustrialize.
Warnings are important. Reflection is key. Unfortunately, humanity is stubborn, arrogant, and brazen to the point of blind foolishness when it comes to any future beyond 6-12 years. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
Something I've been thinking about that pertains to climate change imagery is the idea of a parallel universe isekai or reverse isekai where the monsters come to earth that has become popular in the Manhua community lately. There is something totally unnerving but also too real to fully take in about a surprise gate opening in the middle of the 405 and instead of running away in fear for their lives people are so used to the catastrophe they just hunker down in their cars are wait for the hunters to close the gate, because they know if they abandon their cars they won't receive a late for work exemption. We become to numb to it long before it destroys us completely, and by then that is just how it is, why bother trying to change the status quo?
Something crazy is I've seen this video now and your one for 'A Paradise Built in Hell' and I lived through Katrina and now I live outside the Augusta Ga area and my anecdotal experience has been nothing optimistic. People robbing homes that are vacant, liquor stores, Pharmacies for drugs that can be abused; it's a Walking Dead like situation. I just don't see this extreme-social "In-it-for-the-betterment-of-all" type attitude being actualized in person. Sure, it can and does happen; but, the opposite happens and, again, anecdotally, more often and the longer a situation like this goes. They just announced it might be another week before power is restored and that very night, homes were arsoned, looted, and violence. Sorry, but, It just seems like this is theoretical utopian world building and not actual, real, descriptive human nature and experience.
Well yeah, the US is one of the most hyper individualistic, look out for number one societies in the world. It doesn't necessarily mean that such behaviour is inevitable, at least to such a degree. Other countries like Japan have had much different experiences during natural disasters.
As an image maker, I get confused… Do people want to save the declining polar bear population when they see photos of healthy bears in pristine Arctic landscapes? Or are they moved to action by emaciated polar bears eating out of garbage dumps in a snowless climate change affected landscape? Having watched your wonderful film maybe what we’re missing is some kind of visual of the detriment in the human experience.
So, if I understood you correctly, the only thing that will awaken the majority of the public to the dangers of climate change is a truly ghastly event (with an appropriate visual image) that will galvanise them into action? As someone aware of the dangers we invite by failing to act that portends a bleak outlook for us. Thank you for another very thought provoking essay.
Guarantee normal people never thought of the apocalypse like the Natives of the Americas before europeans arrived. feel you have to have some really goofy beliefs to always imagine the end of the world and prob completely disconnected from real history and reality.
Yep. And, regarding American Eastern front, with the possibility of real nuclear war, the nuclear 'Doomsday Clock', mentioned in the video, approached 9 seconds to midnight the other day... 🎵🎶
I never found an apocalyptic story in tribal stories. Maybe I just don't know enough, but I don't think so. Nowadays we even find stories of animals waging war against each other to normalize our behaviour. So I would expect such stories to be known. The end of the world is a fear that seems unique to civilization. The ones who call themselves the most successful culture ever. Well, success is a matter of definition.
1. Flood myths (apocalyptic stories) are all over the world, from the Amazon forest to the Middle East. 2. You think chimpanzees waging war on one another was made up in order to justify us doing the same? If anything, it shows that we shouldn't think so highly of ourselves as we're just another animal species doing animal stuff with slightly more developed tools than other animals. 3. The end of the world is not only a fear of successful people, it is an untold wet dream for many unsuccessful ones who think there would be a clean slate waiting for them afterwards, not knowing there would be no slate left at all.
Make movies about people’s living standards being dramatically downgraded. I bet people will grasp the horrors of climate change then. Show people what developed nations will do to the people showing up at their door asking for salvation.
We are the only species that is conspiring for its own extinction. 40 thousand years ago, homo sapiens shared the planet with 5 other human species, homo nendertalensys, homo erectus, homo florensis and I don't remember the other two. homo sapiens systematically extinguished these species. There are countless dogs, horses, felines, but only one human, it is our exclusivity that is abnormal and not the rule. I recommend reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Human beings are historically absurdly violent.
Read a bit more before drawing wild and possibly incorrect conclusions of a nature that will only harm yourself. There are lots of less bleak but therefore also less hipster trendy books on human prehistory.
Seems like you took offence from being offered a more nuanced perspective. You may be right about the monkee parts of the brain being stronger than I assumed, at least while you speak of yourself.
33:15 well we know what nuclear war is you can convert it the excss heat in our oceans is rising at a rate equivalent ot about 1.6 billion hiroshima nukes per year sounds fun
There are not many people that one needs to, and pardon the Judao-Christion term, have the FEAR of God put into them. They are the Few Rich Assholes, and our so Leaders
Why - people don't fear Death any more? Because, yes, they clearly, obviously, really don't, especially the young. Well, IMHO, that's simply because they are not fully alive any more... 😔😶
They fear death. They just think that death has a respawn option, they suppress their fear by refusing to believe death is real and will happen to us all. And if you deny death, you deny life. In that I would agree. We can't really live if we don't accept death as reality. They never face death, except in games and movies. The young spend so much time in virtual worlds that they take them more serious than the real world.
Fantastic video...until you started talking about man made climate change. The problem is we have no way of being certain we are contributing, in any significant way, to a phenomenon (an ever changing climate) that has existed since the planet first developed an atmosphere. In fact, the amount of CO2 human activity puts into the atmosphere is a tiny, tiny percentage of the overall amount generated by entirely natural processes. To think that this miniscule percentage is somehow the thermostatic control knob of the planet's climate system is the height of human self-absorption. Perhaps you should make a video about that instead. You'll find numerous other examples to help you!
Well that's a big lie. There is literally no model that explains observable warming effects without having human carbon contribution taken into account. It's like a flat earther saying round earth evidence is all a lie but having no flat earth model that explains observable evidence. Like them, you're just a contrarian. This epidemic of reality-denial will cause nothing but suffering for us all.
You seem to be missing the information that "natural processes" are not just releasing CO2 in the atmosphere, they're a cycle that also captures the same amount. So yeah it seems huge but it's balanced. The problem with our emissions is that we don't capture them back, so they stay in the atmosphere and increase the greenhouse effect. Sadly the natural processes are too slow to compensate. As a result, we already contributed in increasing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere by 50% since before the industrial revolution. That's not tiny.
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Climate Change, eh? Well your problem there is the high-level advocates are known for lying, and people are VERY tired of being talked down to by "experts" that have been wrong before (every single climate model and cry of doom turned out to be wrong) and clearly despise us common folk.
"We can save the whole world, all you have to do is give us your money and give up your freedoms" ..... yeah, that's a scam if ever there was one.
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“Well, I was born yesterday.”
"Yes, but a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts" goes both ways actually sounds goo but no actual substance to it
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It's a good point that weather events are too familiar to provoke us to act to prevent them. For many people, if not most, perhaps the potent image that encapsulates the end of us from climate change isn't a weather event -- that's the acute part of the problem -- but the slow starvation when crops fail. For that I picture Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" -- or the father and son surrounded by dead trees, scrounging for a tin of food in "The Road." But as we've seen from the general public largely ignoring areas experiencing food scarcity, starvation isn't interesting enough to capture our attention.
You are not in touch with reality, based on what you've written here.
I urgently recommend you watch some of Patrick Moore's talks, as a scientifically based corrective to your nihilistic vision of humanity's future.
There are several of his talks available on UA-cam, but the one that comes to mind is "A Dearth of Carbon".
Human beings are animals, we can't hold the entire world in our hearts and minds. Trying to is part of why everyone is wigging out. The news shows images like that to capture attention, to shift opinion, to manipulate. Our hardened hearts are a complex phenomena.
@@gedofgont1006Patrick Moore’s talks are an excellent example of how effective pseudoscience can be. I believed him when I first saw his talks, he is very convincing. Then I did more research. And used my critical thinking skills. I agree that mass hysteria is possible and dangerous, and that our response to the climate crisis may become a crisis in itself, but his “science” is highly flawed.
I prefer Bjorn Lomborg’s approach when it comes to this issue. He sometimes labeled a climate change denier, but I don’t think he is. He is anti-alarmist, and solution-focused. You probably already know of him.
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Congratulations on this very mature take on the matter.
8:32 So far I think this video's terrific, but I will say I don't think this bit holds any water. Raspberries and cauliflowers only describe the head of the explosion, and the explosions are rarely textured anything like those things. They're usually pretty smooth, like mushroom heads. The phrase 'dome-shaped column' is oxymoronic and too long to catch on as a common term anyway. The explosions can have tendrils like jellyfish do, but they all have columns, which jellyfish don't. Umbrellas have central 'columns', but those columns are much too thin to be an apt comparison. I think the mushroom is easily the most accurate comparison, and I don't think any spooky unconscious connections to a mushroom's deeper meaning for the human psyche need be invoked.
I also don't think most humans have dark, poisonous or deathly feelings toward the image of a mushroom anyway. That could be the case with a number of other forms of fungus (I always found things like lichens rather disgusting or even nightmarish to look at), but I think most of us picture a mushroom as being a humble-looking and rather iconic part of a healthy (usually forest-type) environment. I think that sometimes a mushroom shape is just a mushroom shape.
I wrote a similar comment. He was reaching really hardcore there. They tested bombs in different ways, underground, surface level, air blasts. They wouldn't all look like a mushroom, some blasts would have looked weird. But mostly, lots of people are bad at describing things so a bunch of stuff people say would be plain dumb and thrown away in favor of the clearly better option. I do not think about fungus and the dark underworld at all when seeing the mushroom cloud. It simply looks like a mushroom more than anything else, by far.
'Letters from a Dead Man' should absolutely have had a mention in the lineup of great nuclear apocalypse movies. Arguably the most emotionally depressing of them all.
I've been watching your videos for a while now and really enjoy them! I’d love it if you could include a source for the imagery you use-maybe in small letters in the lower right corner, for example. Often, the visuals catch my attention, and I’d love to look up the movie or source directly. Right now, I end up taking screenshots and doing reverse image searches to find out more.
Maybe its because we are saturated in images rather than lived experience which is the reason for the lack of response to new images.
I was expecting a reference to Dark in the nuclear power plants segment since it partially was the reason of the tearing of the fabric of time and space in the show. It's very hyperbolic, but remember also how Nolan has past and future collide in Tenet just before Oppenheimer (and all for environmental reasons). Great video as usual!!!
Incredible work.
If it weren't for his fear of death, man would only have ever created some really lame art.
Well said and undeniably quite true.
Oh what a gift this was! A well penned essay of word and image,
Compeling, driven, highly enjoyable. An aggregate far more than the sum of its parts.
Thank you!
The timeliness of this video with Helene is eerie. But when nature is presenting us with yet another consequence to our manufactured climate catastrophe, another tally considered "natural disaster," it's more unfortunate irony. It's haunting how even understanding isn't enough in the face of the forces (corrupted individuals) that keep things status quo. *sigh* Great work 👏
Always love the depth (and profundity) of your videos. One meme or trope that didn't get attention in this video is the sublimity of H. P. Lovecraft's Cosmic Horror genre and its literary similarities to an atomic world that did not yet exist. And, of course, the paintings of John Martin, another hundred year before Lovecraft.
You have absolutely outdone yourself.
I'd argue we have a fundamentally different response to deliberate vs natural sources of danger. The ancient mind anthropomorphised the plague but as humans gained better knowledge of disease our perspective shifted. The fact that climate change policy is being warped by deliberate actions and the people driving those actions are the majority of the worlds billionaires who are oil billionaires, but whose wealth would vanish if the world stopped using their oil is in my opinion the missing ingredients.
An animal can lose a fight and feel no shame, we can't.
A natural disaster doesn't think less of me after hurting me.
Anything thats bad is worse with intention and judgement behind it.
The sad part is... for most of them it wouldn't make a huge difference.
Only the dumbest of them put all their wealth in one place, and if their main industry went away, they'd just be smaller billionaires. They could lose well north of 99% of their wealth at it would do /nothing/ to them at all except bruise their ego.
@@Hat_With_A_Hat_On I exactly agree. That said do we feel differently about a hurricane if its intensity is partly related to the financially-motivated skulldugery of powerful individuals?
I feel the need to add something important to the conversation surrounding the lack of action on climate change. This essay enquires as to whether or not imagery potent enough to inspire action can be achieved. I would posit that such imagery already exists as the majority of the population believes climate change to be an existential threat to humanity. The issue isn't a lack of awareness but a lack of democracy within the economic sphere. It is the present global economic system that is causing climate change and this system has been insulated from democracy.
I believe we have already reached, and perhaps gone beyond, the necessary awareness of the issue and now efforts must be shifted toward the extension of democracy to the economy. In a certain sense we are now wasting our effort and time focusing on the awareness aspect. After all, if one sees awareness as the primary issue, are they not presupposing the existence of a robust democracy for which the aware may make their will manifest? Perhaps it is this pressuposition that is the real impediment to change.
I grew up during the cold war era, and lived in a major US city that was certainly on the list to be one of the first to be targeted had things gone sour. Our city had air raid siren testing regularly once a month. My elementary school was a designated fall out shelter, complete with the nuclear tri-foil symbol on the building entry that we got to see every day as we filed into school. And quarterly we had evacuation drills where we would garb our partner and were directed to the basement until the all clear. That eventually takes a toll on the psyche of a 6, 7, 8 year old child.
When nuclear apocalypse movies started coming out, I would watch them even though they scared me and gave me nightmares. I didn't realize it at the time, but I remembered the feeling of relief at the end of the movie that even though most of humanity would get wiped out, I as the viewer had survived the ordeal. Perhaps that's what drives some people to this genre -- we're able to see and vicariously experience our worst fears, but we make it through alive. I suspect some children of this generation will feel the same if we make it past the climate change era.
Brilliant video.
A beautiful deep video, love the work you do ❤ Also miss the ones with videogames as a main theme
I've been teasing myself with this video for a week! It's time!
"The Bomb" being treated as a wrathful god is really underscored in Walter M. Miller Jr.'s post-apocalyptic novel where survivors of nuclear apocalypse (several generations later with only scraps of knowledge of the old world) have heard the word "fallout" in relation to the nuclear apocalypse (or "Deluge of Fire"), but lacking the knowledge of the old world, they thought fallout was a type of demon.
(This reminds me I'm overdue for a reread. I haven't reread my "newest" copy of the book...)
What's it called? The Bomb?
"A Canticle for Leibowitz", one of the best novels I have ever read
@@VonGuildehaus Ooohhh right on. I've heard it mentioned many times but I never knew what it's about. Sounds right up my alley.
This video is Da Bomb
I always watch your videos on Nebula! Great work you do here!
You spent 38 minutes talking about and showing the power of images and then concluded with the claim that we should - somehow - go beyond the power of images and instead use reason to move us.......
Is it me or for some reason I didn’t get notifications for this upload. Not to mention not seeing it on the recommendation lists until you post that reminder
I hope he talked about Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke!
2:22 they were doing soapbox derbies all the way back then? respect!
I am very skeptical of the idea that we simply lack a trigger or catalyst to motivate us to action on climate change. Governments around the world pay lip service to it, and in some places one’s carbon footprint is a new age original sin (I currently live in Sweden). But no matter how much we want to act, it’s not entirely clear what exactly needs to be done. Our lives are built around fossil fuels. Renewables can replace fossil power plants, but a) that’s only part of the energy system, and b) renewables are not without their own environmental issues. Which leads to the question, is climate change even the most pressing environmental issue? Deforestation, ocean acidification, biodiversity decline, and a wide variety of pollution may well be even more urgent. As you say, “climate change is a slow burn”. Maybe images of extreme weather don’t spark action on climate change because extreme weather will be a problem no matter what we do. Is it better to make enormous sacrifices to cut our emissions and maybe marginally reduce the extremes, or to use the tools we have to prepare ourselves (and help the most vulnerable prepare themselves) while making the extremes marginally worse? I don’t think there’s a clear answer to that question.
You've set my thoughts in motion but they're spinning in loops into nowhere. And isnt that a fun place to go. I can see it (my will?) A soft blue light twirling its way around the edges of a plane of spheres untouchable, whos only evidence of shape is from the tail of the light. As it crosses to and fro leaving a looping smear like a sparkler in the night i feel the plane become an ocean and the tension, the rigidity, the structure of it break and depths come into play as the space shifts and folds and expands around this light as it tries to pull it all together. It catches a few pieces, an old thought, 2 bit philosophys, some images, but they dont satisfy. They dont bend and merge into somet new while like drops of water spun togeether on a plate. It doubles down burns brighter and spins faster trying to bring more in and hold in to enough, but the units it needs are beyond it to maintain but for that serendipotuos moment of discovery and realization. It flickers and begins to slow and the memories drift off to settle near their fellows in their well worn places. Theirs a hint of moroseness in its motion that Fusion/fision did not occur. The tail grows shorter and shorter till it disappears. The sense of the space starts its degradation, edges fades, depth dissapears, and the point of light, the keywhole with which i tried to view the imaginary in my waking hours closes to a pinprick and in the instant before is closes i feel an acceptance and slight sorrow for not being able to help you (singular and collective in reference) more in your quest and also the same for myself.
The answer is out there. Somewhere. And if i were a genius or a prophet i could have found it for you. Bur theres the problem. A shard of it at least. We have both among us and more of them than ever living today. They are why we're here. In this digital space. They informed the things I tried in vain to bring together and those thoughts i picked up on in my brief scan of the comments. We know. We care. Even the denial of deniers reveals the truth. Were a level down in my vision. In the trenchs with uniformly curved mounains flashing by on all sides. We're in the process. I feel it. I feel the change of peoples and goverment and myself reflecting the world as it changes. Maybe the rub is that we're looking for something singular or sacred. So mass? But the internet jn theory provides it. And still we are here. Sliding down the slope as fast as the lines in the barage of graphs go up. The lines go up. Hehe. Meme. And theres another facet. The lines have to go up. And those whos hands are in the wheel. Who designs and maintains the vehicle. the vessel if the states we live and ride in? Proportionaly. Yes its (kindof) a democracy. Here. Where i am. Another problem. Separation of people. The merging of humanities many dispeate camps onto one in government and mind (the colllective one?) still isnt done.
Im not done. But im stopping anyways. Trained the algorithm enough for this instance. Nobody will read this. Nobody cares because we all do. problem of problems. Yada yada yada doomerism bs.
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Building on the correlation between ants and nuclear devastation, I keep thinking back to HunterxHunter, and how Meruem, who is basically a demigod, succumbs to radiation poisoning of all things. I think it emphasizes the effect nuclear radiation had on Japan on a mythical level. Where even the Japanese power fantasy of anime can't survive something so real, and devastating.
Holodomor
This video reminds me I have to stock up on spices because it's almost shrooming season.
Great mind....thank you
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I think we picked mushroom cloud because it looks most like a mushroom, not because of the symbolism. You have a million people look at something and a bunch of words will be used to describe it. But over time a concensus is reached, usually but not always based on accuracy. Plenty of people are kinda dumb and their word choices were just wrong. Mushroom cloud is a basically perfect description for an above ground blast at surface level. The other shapes likely came from different kinds of explosion, like underground. The idiots back then tested many hundred of bombs in all sorts of ways, the explosions did not all form that distinctive mushroom shape.
its as real as mario mist
@@Joe-sg9ll I don't know what you are trying to say
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@@Joe-sg9ll Still getting nothing from that
images are the language of the subconscious
Thanks for using the word "plethora".
It means a lot to me.
Totally not me having a nightmare about the apocalypse tonight...
The difficulty with climate change imagery is very much to do with the fact that humans regularly deal with weather catastrophes, which is the worst of the types of things that come to mind when thinking about climate/weather. What is harder for people to see and immediately apprehend is imagery of a paradise lost, the change from something good to something else. Climate change isn't just weather events, but how the world we've built upon is fundamentally changing and becoming less hospitable to life. There is that background context that needs to be understood before the imagery has impact. You can't just show images of starving refugees, because this could be anywhere at any time. Same thing with those catastrophic weather events.
When all of this finally becomes real (maybe) is when we'll have those images of massive migrations of people and families as entire cities are being abandoned. We'll have images of millions of people starving and desperate, traveling in large caravans (like we see coming from Central/South America, but larger and more militant) hoping to find some sanctuary. But most people can already see, these refugees will not be welcomed. The most visceral images will be those of bodies piling up outside of border checkpoints - that is when climage change FINALLY becomes real to people.
Indeed. Humanity only seems to get its shit together when there's a holocaust going on.
The Horror.
The Horror.
I'm gonna disagree about why they call nukes mushroom clouds. The early test everyone could see were fission bombs over flat land. Those are smaller and smoother than the fusion blasts that you see over the oceans. also the stem is very small compared to the top, which is more mushroom than cauliflower.
Does Nebula provide full access like Medium?
Hey are you connected to the channel “Eternalised”? Sound very familiar!!!
~For we who grew up tall and proud / in the shadow of the mushroom cloud
reading way too much into the term 'mushroom cloud' I think its just the one that stuck.
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” - Slavoj Z.
obligatory end of capitalism comment.
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yeah with major catastrophes I kinda prefer STAYING in the before time
and cliamte change is by definition inevitably global
as harsh as it sounds, its not like we can just throw cliamte change at two cities so the rest of the world sees what the result is like without everyone being affected
I would suggest the reason humanity imagines its own apocalypse is because we are (possibly) the only species possessed of self-awareness that life has a beginning, and an ending. Contemplating our specific deaths or the eventual deaths of loved ones is somehow a bridge too far to cross, so we imagine the end of all things instead. Every culture has its variation of Genesis just as it has an end-of-all myth. Why? Because every great story needs an ending.
Climate change only matters to humanity. This planet has been here for longer than anyone will ever know, and will remain here for longer than anyone will ever see. Along this planet's journey it has hosted many passengers, and we are fortunate enough at this time and place to be among them. It seems to me that the planet has existed through many versions of itself and given rise to many variations of life. The position that we are among the most important of those variations or that we should outlast any other variation is a matter of human opinion. People forget that humans are not outside of nature, and therefore anything that we do is not outside of nature. If the basic output of humanity is accelerated change of our environment, then it seems to me that nature likes change. I'm all for continuing the human species, but it's important to acknowledge that this is the premier purpose of stopping climate change. To continue human existence.
So the alternative is to do nothing and off ourselves?😅
I firmly believe that things will go as they must. That includes every act of conservation alongside every ounce of apathy or inaction. Besides, if we're honest with ourselves, humanity's propensity for self destruction poses a far greater (immediate) threat than the slowly felt changes to our environment. If and or when we destroy ourselves, there will be no one left to grieve the loss.
What we do in the so called spectre climate change is to adapt, not establish an authoritarian Marxist regime to control everything, or to deindustrialize.
@@ethancoster1324 We're already doing that by responding to every horrible event with memes as a cope so yes.
you are obviously crossing “human existance” with “western industrial society” and thats quite embarrassing
Yeah,you're speaking on how cinema speaks of life whilst yerself speaking for life,in the name of!
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um, hate to point out, regardless of the ubiquity of nuclear imagery, we still have nukes
Warnings are important. Reflection is key. Unfortunately, humanity is stubborn, arrogant, and brazen to the point of blind foolishness when it comes to any future beyond 6-12 years.
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Something I've been thinking about that pertains to climate change imagery is the idea of a parallel universe isekai or reverse isekai where the monsters come to earth that has become popular in the Manhua community lately. There is something totally unnerving but also too real to fully take in about a surprise gate opening in the middle of the 405 and instead of running away in fear for their lives people are so used to the catastrophe they just hunker down in their cars are wait for the hunters to close the gate, because they know if they abandon their cars they won't receive a late for work exemption. We become to numb to it long before it destroys us completely, and by then that is just how it is, why bother trying to change the status quo?
Something crazy is I've seen this video now and your one for 'A Paradise Built in Hell' and I lived through Katrina and now I live outside the Augusta Ga area and my anecdotal experience has been nothing optimistic. People robbing homes that are vacant, liquor stores, Pharmacies for drugs that can be abused; it's a Walking Dead like situation. I just don't see this extreme-social "In-it-for-the-betterment-of-all" type attitude being actualized in person. Sure, it can and does happen; but, the opposite happens and, again, anecdotally, more often and the longer a situation like this goes. They just announced it might be another week before power is restored and that very night, homes were arsoned, looted, and violence. Sorry, but, It just seems like this is theoretical utopian world building and not actual, real, descriptive human nature and experience.
Well yeah, the US is one of the most hyper individualistic, look out for number one societies in the world. It doesn't necessarily mean that such behaviour is inevitable, at least to such a degree. Other countries like Japan have had much different experiences during natural disasters.
As an image maker, I get confused… Do people want to save the declining polar bear population when they see photos of healthy bears in pristine Arctic landscapes? Or are they moved to action by emaciated polar bears eating out of garbage dumps in a snowless climate change affected landscape? Having watched your wonderful film maybe what we’re missing is some kind of visual of the detriment in the human experience.
Stalkers exclusion zone is a good place to get rich, I hear.
So, if I understood you correctly, the only thing that will awaken the majority of the public to the dangers of climate change is a truly ghastly event (with an appropriate visual image) that will galvanise them into action? As someone aware of the dangers we invite by failing to act that portends a bleak outlook for us.
Thank you for another very thought provoking essay.
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yeah, but no one's that observant. it's mostly an easter and xmas thing
Guarantee normal people never thought of the apocalypse like the Natives of the Americas before europeans arrived. feel you have to have some really goofy beliefs to always imagine the end of the world and prob completely disconnected from real history and reality.
When? Was earlier today as well. It doesn't look it, that's because the chains are so tight around their throats.
60% in Europe but yes, whole communities perished.
any catholic can do extreme unction if a priest is unavailable
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Israel has just announced their land invasion will commence tonight, the timing of the release of this video is terrifying
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Yep. And, regarding American Eastern front, with the possibility of real nuclear war, the nuclear 'Doomsday Clock', mentioned in the video, approached 9 seconds to midnight the other day... 🎵🎶
@@ZecZliwere the people who advanced it towards midnight wearing white coats so we could know that they were objective and scientific?
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I never found an apocalyptic story in tribal stories. Maybe I just don't know enough, but I don't think so. Nowadays we even find stories of animals waging war against each other to normalize our behaviour. So I would expect such stories to be known.
The end of the world is a fear that seems unique to civilization. The ones who call themselves the most successful culture ever. Well, success is a matter of definition.
All 200 civilizations in history have collapsed.
@@erdelegyThat makes 10.000 years of failure. Maybe there's something wrong with the best system ever ... 😂
1. Flood myths (apocalyptic stories) are all over the world, from the Amazon forest to the Middle East.
2. You think chimpanzees waging war on one another was made up in order to justify us doing the same? If anything, it shows that we shouldn't think so highly of ourselves as we're just another animal species doing animal stuff with slightly more developed tools than other animals.
3. The end of the world is not only a fear of successful people, it is an untold wet dream for many unsuccessful ones who think there would be a clean slate waiting for them afterwards, not knowing there would be no slate left at all.
Then you just haven't listened to any.
Make movies about people’s living standards being dramatically downgraded. I bet people will grasp the horrors of climate change then. Show people what developed nations will do to the people showing up at their door asking for salvation.
We are the only species that is conspiring for its own extinction. 40 thousand years ago, homo sapiens shared the planet with 5 other human species, homo nendertalensys, homo erectus, homo florensis and I don't remember the other two. homo sapiens systematically extinguished these species. There are countless dogs, horses, felines, but only one human, it is our exclusivity that is abnormal and not the rule. I recommend reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Human beings are historically absurdly violent.
Read a bit more before drawing wild and possibly incorrect conclusions of a nature that will only harm yourself. There are lots of less bleak but therefore also less hipster trendy books on human prehistory.
@@5kunk157h35h17 prove It wrong and i'll do It. Your word means nothing, for all I Care you're no one
Seems like you took offence from being offered a more nuanced perspective. You may be right about the monkee parts of the brain being stronger than I assumed, at least while you speak of yourself.
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well we know what nuclear war is
you can convert it
the excss heat in our oceans is rising at a rate equivalent ot about 1.6 billion hiroshima nukes per year
sounds fun
USA and Israhell gives us a lot of terrifyingly evocative material in this regard. They work tirelessly to get us all there.
it's a lie
"Uranium fever has done and got me down, uranium fever is spreading all around"
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We need new Threads and a version that shows the world of climate breakdown
There are not many people that one needs to, and pardon the Judao-Christion term, have the FEAR of God put into them. They are the Few Rich Assholes, and our so Leaders
I’m glad we were locked out of heaven, because now we will make our own paradise on earth.
We never needed God, we have become better than him.
What has the lies of lockdown done to us. To the society
Why - people don't fear Death any more? Because, yes, they clearly, obviously, really don't, especially the young.
Well, IMHO, that's simply because they are not fully alive any more... 😔😶
They fear death. They just think that death has a respawn option, they suppress their fear by refusing to believe death is real and will happen to us all.
And if you deny death, you deny life. In that I would agree. We can't really live if we don't accept death as reality.
They never face death, except in games and movies. The young spend so much time in virtual worlds that they take them more serious than the real world.
Fantastic video...until you started talking about man made climate change.
The problem is we have no way of being certain we are contributing, in any significant way, to a phenomenon (an ever changing climate) that has existed since the planet first developed an atmosphere.
In fact, the amount of CO2 human activity puts into the atmosphere is a tiny, tiny percentage of the overall amount generated by entirely natural processes.
To think that this miniscule percentage is somehow the thermostatic control knob of the planet's climate system is the height of human self-absorption.
Perhaps you should make a video about that instead.
You'll find numerous other examples to help you!
Well that's a big lie. There is literally no model that explains observable warming effects without having human carbon contribution taken into account.
It's like a flat earther saying round earth evidence is all a lie but having no flat earth model that explains observable evidence. Like them, you're just a contrarian.
This epidemic of reality-denial will cause nothing but suffering for us all.
You seem to be missing the information that "natural processes" are not just releasing CO2 in the atmosphere, they're a cycle that also captures the same amount. So yeah it seems huge but it's balanced. The problem with our emissions is that we don't capture them back, so they stay in the atmosphere and increase the greenhouse effect.
Sadly the natural processes are too slow to compensate.
As a result, we already contributed in increasing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere by 50% since before the industrial revolution. That's not tiny.
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