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I think my main concern is that when 'big capital' gets wind of this, they'll try everything they can to farm as much as possible in as short a time as possible for the least amount of money as possible, very likely disregarding the environmental impact of the capitalist approach. My main hope for this industry is it helping to reduce methane production by cattle, cows in particular. And possibly enriching out diets :)
I recently moved to Maine and they've been farming kelp here for a while because the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 90% of the rest of the world's oceans, and it's a possibility in a few decades, that the lobster fishing industry won't be sustainable anymore. so it's potential as a source of employment in a "post lobster" fishing Industry is welcome to say the least.
animal feed. are you serious ?????? this is a climate channel, so this was the last place i expected someome to positively speak about f$#kin animal feed. WHAT THE F???????????????🤬😡🤬😡🤬
@@kaykay1570 at the risk of being baited, did you actually check the context? Specific kinds of seaweed can contribute to 80% less methane produced per cow. Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, if shorter lived. There are about 1 billion cows in the world. Now imagine their collective methane production reduced by 80%. Yes, there's still the landmass and water waste on cows alone, but for the short term, it's an amazing start if applied on a global scale.
@@Celis.C Of course i know. How many time do people have to mess up before they learn. Movements have supported climate activists for years are now getting thrown under a bus. This will ALWAYS backfire. Fs look at any movement throughout history. But now its ok because the people that fought against climate change the whole time AND WILL DO SO IN THE FUTURE, are now slightly onbaord. Awk sure it ok. Backing the animal industry, give me a break. Good luck
@@maxentirunos Same, Cause let’s be honest, lobbyism should not be legal… Think about it-who has more money: The oil, gas,coal etc industry or inviromental activists…
@@maxentirunos And wether he actually existed or not, not withstanding, people wouldn't have much reasons to hate Christians if they actually lived their lives according to the teachings of Jesus. Just putting my two cents in the jar...
Thank you for talking about how seaweed isn’t going to be a perfect solution. It’s a good thing! But I think any mass agricultural approach is going to be harmful. The ocean needs to do its own ocean thing, not be our big farm. But this goes to lots of areas on our earth, and I think we need to be rebuilding wildnerness
Seaweed and mollusks require zero input unlike ever land based farm. It’s basically habitat restoration that also has the added food benefit. It’s like permaculture underwater. Obviously we shouldn’t put seaweed farms on already healthy unique ocean ecosystems
The good thing about the ocean is that it is mostly empty. It replacing land based agriculture that poisons rivers and destroys forests that is a worthwhile enterprise. Not perfect and not a silver bullet, but a decent step to go
Even disregarding carbon sequestration; seaweed is still worth it just for the dense vitamins along with reduced land and energy usage to farm per calorie. That being said, I agree 100% that we have to reduce total emissions at the same time, and ensure that seaweed farming doesn’t turn into as bad of a process as most industrial farming has become.
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Another quality video using a critical thinking lens on a traditional practice merged with modern innovation. I like the prospect of repairing Dead Zones. Your videos on the Dead Zone, Capitalism is Killing the Planet, Biodiversity, the "corporate suite" you have produced, and a few others I show to the community college students I teach every semester. I teach two versions of Environment and Society courses, as well as Sociology, and I use your videos in each them (I steer my sociology course to be an environmental sociology course). These videos resonate with my students and often serve as an igniter of discussion on the issues and critical systems thinking. I thought you would like to know that your videos have an amplifying effect beyond the UA-cam view count. Thank you.
I loved this video. I wàs researching alot of this but your video is so concise and answered some of my unanswered aquaculture queires. Thank you, my friend.
I actually heard a scientist recently saying that we should be focusing on planting seaweed rather than trees. Apparently, it’s a huge deal among the ocean scientists.
I like it as a carbon sequestration tool as well as maybe a fertilizer bridge out of petroleum based fertilizer farming. If human waste isn't processed in a hydrothermal liquefaction power plant, it could be also processed in algae farms that utilize excess nutrients in human waste as well as farm manures, so catch those excess nutrients before they make it to the ocean, causing red tides and oxygen stealing blooms, and then keep those nutrients on land. It would just need to take care that it is not too salty at the end result, to not make the soil too salty. But I'm thinking something like a "soil bandaid knitting" factory would be very high in demand, not just a compost plant, but a fungi/mycelium garden that can create cover mats for barren soil or desertified prairies that are not naturally meant to be desert. It could be like (from bottom to top), a mat of: Wood ash] seaweed] Local invasive plants that have been boiled or composted hot] Local fungi to grow mycelium into the invasives] Farming waste such as hay, vegetable leaves like corn husks, And then top with tree leaf litter, fungi, and desalted-seaweed again. Then plant some cover crops on top that go with the local environment. I know it sounds ambitious and kind of over the top, but I think within 3 years and diligence, this seaweed and fungi assisted compost layering soil-knitting technique will help sequester carbon and revitalize soil.
stoked to see this episode. im a marine biology student wanting to enter the macro algae realm after graduating. keep up the great work, love this channel!
"net source of carbon" -- unless seaweed is actually taking previously sequestered carbon and releasing it into the atmosphere, at worst it is carbon neutral (minus the energy taken to farm it).
That line stuck out to me as well. The only possible case I could think of would be when seaweed washes up on shore and then rots. So it would possibly release methane? But yea, it sounds like a stretch that it would be a net source of carbon.
A big amount is turned into O2, as for where the carbon goes? I think it’s released back into the water. But I’m not an expert and honestly this is a speculation
With any emerging research especially with the analysed benefits for the planet and biodiversity, it's exciting! I'm happy you brought up how seaweed isn't a silver bullet. Every exciting concept needs to be handled properly by people, so it has the impacts we need and want.
Correction: Most seaweeds are actually plants; they currently belong under Kingdom Plantae (Ruggiero et al. 2015)! They are not angiosperms (flowering land plants). Red (Florideophyceae & Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta) and green (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) seaweeds are plants!
For carbon sequestration, the best plan I’ve seen is not to sink the harvested kelps, but to process it and turn it into construction materials like bricks and concrete aggregate. We should be growing as much as we can immediately. The closer we get to 9% ocean coverage, the closer we are to stabilizing climate change.
People kelp which is one of the worlds most used seaweeds, is loaded with vitamins, minerals and trace elements, providing your body with maximum nutrition to develop on. This is a great idea on so many levels it should be every where. This is a very good video in that it provides genunie help for the earth as well.
Very true, off the Kenyan coast we did carbon test on both indigenous and farmed seaweed and it only contained approx 40% carbon, so not a very strong carbon sequester, it's strength is more in its mineral content and ability to coagulate.
“If it sounds too good to be true…” No. I don’t believe seaweed will save the world. Can it help? Maybe, maybe not, but we should have learned from the past our actions can have unexpected consequences and not to jump in with both feet.
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I don't think seaweed should be viewed simply as a method of sequestering carbon. Managed properly, it could also help feed us and the animals many of us eat.
When I think about carbon sequentration by plants, especially in farmed formats, truth is that it's only effective when it is recycled into the deep or locked away. Plant materal for food will invariably be re-released back into the atmosphere through the air we exhale or the leftover feed compost.
@Our Changing Climate I have several question: First off I love your videos and just to put it out there, I was a Cyberpunk enthusiast. But seeing your videos, I made a switch to Solarpunk. Now for the questions. How are we as a species are supposed to advance? How are we going to develope new technologies that are going to benefit us all? Is there a way to co-exist and sustain Mother Earth without being suseptible to the erratic changes of nature? I would like it if you could give us a video (or videos) answering these questions. I was just curious because I actually want to explore space, I want to see holograms, operate flying cars, etc. If there is a way that we can still advance without putting our faith, dreams, future to the hands of the 10%, or without needing to put a price tag on everything, I will be down for that.😊
I would buy fresh seaweed and experiment with ways of cooking it if I could find it in grocery stores. The dry seaweed snacks I can find in stores are tasty. I’ve been interested in seaweed farming since I learned about it ~5-10 years ago. I am a bit sad it hasn’t caught on more. I used to think we would carve canals from the ocean far into the Sahara and grow miles of seaweed in them.
You forgot that seaweed also helps the environment by being a good safe fertilizer for land based farming and when fed to cattle it dramatically reduces cattle emissions , these are also two factors that need to be considered
Im early so gonna hurry and give a tip. Have not watched alot but seems like a great channel so far. Please please please try to use a mic or some editing to reduce sibilance
There is/was this massive ad campaign by Shell (I think) about seaweed stuffs... so thanks to that I'm hesitant to think it's all that amazing lol. However, seaweed is tasty, and I guess more -plants- macroalgae on the planet is a good thing?
Are you going to ever talk about Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture which incorporates seaweed farming, fish farming, bivalve farming and sea cucumber farming.
It's great what you are doing! Can you maybe go about the Venus project by Jacque fresco that dude had brilliant ideas, I think it would be a great attribute if you make a long video about the Venus project and Jacque fresco because you have a large audience. And they deserve more recognition. People will also learn about a resource based economy and what that implies, almost no crimes no poverty,focus on creativity etc, it would be great if you can cover that.
The fact that the carbon emission of 300 Chinese is equal to 75 Americans should tell you everything you need to know about who is really responsible for climate change.
I we don't do like we usually do, seaweed can help a lot But, we humans, can destroy the sea growing seaweed, for sure Like meat farming, we can help the world raising meat, with planing, but we can destroy a lot of land deliberately to raise meat cheap af ... We just choose the bad option to do things, way to often
"If we use it as another carbon offset scheme, letting the fossil fuel industry continue generating emissions with immunity, then seaweed farming could be a dangerous proposition." I feel like this is a weak counterargument. Tell me ONE good sustainability solution (that isn't banning fossil fuels) that couldn't be critizised like this.
@@ChrisSham necessary caution, 100%. I just feel like it starts to be less of a downfall of a solution itself and more of a downfall of how humans make decisions regarding climate. If it applies to virtually everything, then it can be mentioned not as a unique shortcoming and rather as a trend among all other solutions. We need to stop seeing things as excuses to pollute more.
Why do people keep saying some plant is a great solution for capturing carbon from the atmosphere? Do we intend to bury plants deep into the earth's crust? If not, we're not removing anything from anywhere! 🤷
Managed correctly vegetation can turn into soil, which is a great place to store carbon. Build with lumber and the carbon from the trees gets stored in the wood; plant more trees and eventually you have more lumber and less CO2 in the air.
Lumber eventually decomposes into CO2; rich fertile soils are so because of fungal and bacterial activity, always in a state of decomposition and they also release - you guessed it - CO2. It might be a temporary storage, I agree with that. But unless we start burying organic material deep in the earth's crust, it's not a solution. Besides, vegetation (vegetalia) grows more easily and vigorously in CO2-rich ambients, so... 🤷♂️
Co2 sequestration requires draw-down to the ocean depths. Farming of seaweed/kelp alone does not remove the seaweed from the carbon cycle. Making products is great because it creates awareness and an economy, but it doesn't get it out of our atmosphere. When the carbon exists in the form of a plant, fertilizer, feed, etc, it will end up in the atmosphere again after decomposition. Growing it is key, but then we must sink it.
I do feel ambivalent about the topic of seaweed miracles. I recognize that it's an important topic, but it's difficult to feel enthusiastic when most people choose to view it as some sort of ironic punchline during dinner conversations. Those people would rather laugh at problems than work and fight to fix them.
The whole climate change issue is a non starter if major polluters like China show NO sign changing their practices and in fact are ramping up their use of fossil fuels such a coal. We can only do so much and have made great strides... but MORE needs to be done on a global basis. Seaweed has many other benefits to water quality besides its possible carbon sequestration benefits.
Maybe I should watch the nebula thing, but what's said here is so antithetical to my personal experience. Things may have changed, but my recollection is that seaweed farming was as harsh as corn farming, environmentally and physically.
In the same way it takes 20 years for a new growth forest to become carbon negative, I can imagine that when you take in all components of the foodweb/ecosystem in a seaweed farm they might not actually sequester any/much carbon
depends on the way tey farm the seaweed i guess. If the ecosystem is allowed to thrive and weeds are only plucked out from the middle when fully grown, it might work. If the farming method is similar to land methods (grow hectare, then harvest hectare). We will have the same problems regular farming has. A barren monoculture with no ecologic value (or even net emitter).
Once the seaweed is mature, what happens? Do we leave it there and it just keeps sequestering carbon? There must be a point in any organism’s lifespan that its ability to sequester is negligible because it only needs to maintain, not continue to grow. Or do we sink it to the bottom of the ocean, use it in a way that releases the CO2 back into the atmosphere, or what?
ONLY FEW HELP ARE GIVEN BECAUSE ,THE SEA WEEDS ARE FEW IN THE OCEAN AND FEW OIL ARE GIVEN ,,MUCH MANY OIL ARE GIVEN ARE THE TREES AND PLANTS IN THE LAND PLUS THE MINERAL LIKE METAL CARBON AND MANY TYPE OF MINERAL
Healthy ecosystems are mostly closed and balanced. Just on first principles it is doubtful that any resource can be harvested in industrial amounts without degrading the local environment over time.
Ocean water safely stores zero pollution hydrogen fuel and contains 150X more Co2 than air. Extracting hydrogen from ocean water provides free desalinated ocean water and mineral rich ocean brine that can sequester valuable Co2 contained in ocean water while making building materials. The @EirexTech provides highly competitive hydrogen fuel from any type of water using cavitation not electrolysis.
great video but annoying transcripting. The sentences are all over the place and it's confusing to listen to something while reading a sentence that was supposed to be there, but was skipped or moved a few second later.
I think there's a big opportunity in farming sea grasses and kelps in order to make general fertilizers to feed our food crops with; teas or dehydrated powders I'm working on a food production system for the home, producing an impactful amount of variety and yield at the point of consumption. I hope in this way we could reduce demand for land-based farming (freeing up land to be converted back to natural sinks) and then imagine if all indoor farming units could be fed with organic, natural kelp fertilizer, which sucks huge amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere. Would be a system with far less emissions possibly carbon negative, I believe the latest is that kelp can sequester up to 20 times more CO2 compared to an acre of forest? Plus it takes a new forest up to 100 years to reach their peak sink capacity
I agree with a lot of this video but the anti capitalist rhetoric is out of place. Capitalism is exactly why entrepreneurs are allowed to become seaweed farmers in the first place.
Imagine if we ate 90% less meat, we could eat all that seaweed, as well as the corn meant for livestock right now. Eating meat as much as we do is so not needed. We could feed people with 80% of the food we give animals, from which we don’t get enough meat/milk/eggs to compensate that People are starving… If you don’t care about animals, care about people then, not just yourself. Also, mass agriculture is NEVER good, you’d think humans would have learned that by now ….
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I think my main concern is that when 'big capital' gets wind of this, they'll try everything they can to farm as much as possible in as short a time as possible for the least amount of money as possible, very likely disregarding the environmental impact of the capitalist approach.
My main hope for this industry is it helping to reduce methane production by cattle, cows in particular. And possibly enriching out diets :)
I recently moved to Maine and they've been farming kelp here for a while because the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 90% of the rest of the world's oceans, and it's a possibility in a few decades, that the lobster fishing industry won't be sustainable anymore. so it's potential as a source of employment in a "post lobster" fishing Industry is welcome to say the least.
animal feed. are you serious ?????? this is a climate channel, so this was the last place i expected someome to positively speak about f$#kin animal feed.
WHAT THE F???????????????🤬😡🤬😡🤬
@@kaykay1570 at the risk of being baited, did you actually check the context? Specific kinds of seaweed can contribute to 80% less methane produced per cow. Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, if shorter lived. There are about 1 billion cows in the world. Now imagine their collective methane production reduced by 80%.
Yes, there's still the landmass and water waste on cows alone, but for the short term, it's an amazing start if applied on a global scale.
@@Celis.C Of course i know. How many time do people have to mess up before they learn.
Movements have supported climate activists for years are now getting thrown under a bus. This will ALWAYS backfire. Fs look at any movement throughout history.
But now its ok because the people that fought against climate change the whole time AND WILL DO SO IN THE FUTURE, are now slightly onbaord. Awk sure it ok.
Backing the animal industry, give me a break. Good luck
I'd put more faith in Seaweed than Politicians.
I put more faith in the existence of Jesus as an Atheist than into ANY politician
I would happily torture politicians for money. The more cruel and sadistic the torture, the more I will charge.
@@maxentirunos Same,
Cause let’s be honest, lobbyism should not be legal…
Think about it-who has more money: The oil, gas,coal etc industry or inviromental activists…
Reasonable
@@maxentirunos And wether he actually existed or not, not withstanding, people wouldn't have much reasons to hate Christians if they actually lived their lives according to the teachings of Jesus. Just putting my two cents in the jar...
Thank you for talking about how seaweed isn’t going to be a perfect solution. It’s a good thing! But I think any mass agricultural approach is going to be harmful. The ocean needs to do its own ocean thing, not be our big farm. But this goes to lots of areas on our earth, and I think we need to be rebuilding wildnerness
Seaweed and mollusks require zero input unlike ever land based farm. It’s basically habitat restoration that also has the added food benefit. It’s like permaculture underwater. Obviously we shouldn’t put seaweed farms on already healthy unique ocean ecosystems
I absolutely agree!
Agreed! Monocultures are not an answer
The good thing about the ocean is that it is mostly empty. It replacing land based agriculture that poisons rivers and destroys forests that is a worthwhile enterprise. Not perfect and not a silver bullet, but a decent step to go
Even disregarding carbon sequestration; seaweed is still worth it just for the dense vitamins along with reduced land and energy usage to farm per calorie.
That being said, I agree 100% that we have to reduce total emissions at the same time, and ensure that seaweed farming doesn’t turn into as bad of a process as most industrial farming has become.
"What can I do" OCC asks.
Heres my List im proud of:
-Both UpisnotJumps Climate-Video and many of Second-Thougths videos
end with 'Heres what you can do'-sections.
-Great Climate-Coverage:
UpisNotJump, Hbomberguy, SMN, and Not-Just-Bikes!
You can make a Difference if you go and like, watch, act-on-it
and most imortantly: share.
-Email said videos to your local Mayor and everyone who you can reach.
What about Colleges? I never went to one, but i heard you
can just hold Speeches there?
-Telltale Fireside warns you EVERY Time Qanon or Flat-Earthers run for Office so you can alwas vote against 'em, and yet thats not even the Best Use you can make out of them.
-Professor Daves Fight with Pseudoscience is aided by UA-camr Some-More-News, especially his video about the GOP manipulating the Schoolsystem...
-Atheist-UA-camr in General do Fight Extremism.
Also if it's mitigating algal blooms that's huge
The biodiversity & deacidification benefits alone seem enough to push research along ASAP, carbon capture is icing on the cake
Exactly. It’s almost like the ocean version of rewilding in that respect.
Carbon capture and deacidification go hand in hand, when it comes to capure from oceans, since ocean acidification is caused by CO2
Another quality video using a critical thinking lens on a traditional practice merged with modern innovation. I like the prospect of repairing Dead Zones. Your videos on the Dead Zone, Capitalism is Killing the Planet, Biodiversity, the "corporate suite" you have produced, and a few others I show to the community college students I teach every semester. I teach two versions of Environment and Society courses, as well as Sociology, and I use your videos in each them (I steer my sociology course to be an environmental sociology course). These videos resonate with my students and often serve as an igniter of discussion on the issues and critical systems thinking. I thought you would like to know that your videos have an amplifying effect beyond the UA-cam view count. Thank you.
I loved this video. I wàs researching alot of this but your video is so concise and answered some of my unanswered aquaculture queires. Thank you, my friend.
The seaweed episode from Undecided with Matt was also great.
Using seaweed for omega-3 is a great vegan replacement for fish-based omega pills!
It is a good replacement even if you aren't vegan because it is less contaminated with heavy metals and other pollutants.
I hadn’t heard of the hype behind seaweed as a carbon sequestration tool. Thanks for covering!
I actually heard a scientist recently saying that we should be focusing on planting seaweed rather than trees. Apparently, it’s a huge deal among the ocean scientists.
I like it as a carbon sequestration tool as well as maybe a fertilizer bridge out of petroleum based fertilizer farming. If human waste isn't processed in a hydrothermal liquefaction power plant, it could be also processed in algae farms that utilize excess nutrients in human waste as well as farm manures, so catch those excess nutrients before they make it to the ocean, causing red tides and oxygen stealing blooms, and then keep those nutrients on land. It would just need to take care that it is not too salty at the end result, to not make the soil too salty. But I'm thinking something like a "soil bandaid knitting" factory would be very high in demand, not just a compost plant, but a fungi/mycelium garden that can create cover mats for barren soil or desertified prairies that are not naturally meant to be desert.
It could be like (from bottom to top), a mat of:
Wood ash]
seaweed]
Local invasive plants that have been boiled or composted hot]
Local fungi to grow mycelium into the invasives]
Farming waste such as hay, vegetable leaves like corn husks,
And then top with tree leaf litter, fungi, and desalted-seaweed again.
Then plant some cover crops on top that go with the local environment.
I know it sounds ambitious and kind of over the top, but I think within 3 years and diligence, this seaweed and fungi assisted compost layering soil-knitting technique will help sequester carbon and revitalize soil.
i just wanna say people like u and St. Andrewism helped me on my journey to becoming an ecosocialist thank u :)
And it's a plastic alternative. You mentioned this in passing, but I think it's a massive point in favor of seaweed farming research.
stoked to see this episode. im a marine biology student wanting to enter the macro algae realm after graduating. keep up the great work, love this channel!
Reminded of Can Sea Otters Combat Climate Change? (by eating sea urchins and saving kelp forests)
Save beavers though
Thanks!
"net source of carbon" -- unless seaweed is actually taking previously sequestered carbon and releasing it into the atmosphere, at worst it is carbon neutral (minus the energy taken to farm it).
That line stuck out to me as well. The only possible case I could think of would be when seaweed washes up on shore and then rots. So it would possibly release methane?
But yea, it sounds like a stretch that it would be a net source of carbon.
A significant amount of CO2 is dissolved in seawater so seaweed actually does have the potential to be a net emitter.
A big amount is turned into O2, as for where the carbon goes? I think it’s released back into the water. But I’m not an expert and honestly this is a speculation
@@eliannevdlinden6047 the carbon is litterally turned into sugars and is a significant percentage of the mass of the seaweed itself.
@@garethbaus5471 ah I see, wow, I should’ve known that since most organisms are a big percentage of carbon haha. Thanks!
With any emerging research especially with the analysed benefits for the planet and biodiversity, it's exciting! I'm happy you brought up how seaweed isn't a silver bullet. Every exciting concept needs to be handled properly by people, so it has the impacts we need and want.
Correction: Most seaweeds are actually plants; they currently belong under Kingdom Plantae (Ruggiero et al. 2015)! They are not angiosperms (flowering land plants). Red (Florideophyceae & Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta) and green (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) seaweeds are plants!
I sometimes just eat sheets of kelp as a snack it's pretty nice
Awesome video, very well presented!
This is why I always gather seaweed if I find an ocean in minecraft
For carbon sequestration, the best plan I’ve seen is not to sink the harvested kelps, but to process it and turn it into construction materials like bricks and concrete aggregate. We should be growing as much as we can immediately. The closer we get to 9% ocean coverage, the closer we are to stabilizing climate change.
I agree.
People kelp which is one of the worlds most used seaweeds, is loaded with vitamins, minerals and trace elements, providing your body with maximum nutrition to develop on. This is a great idea on so many levels it should be every where. This is a very good video in that it provides genunie help for the earth as well.
I believe seaweed farming and protecting sea otters will help the Pacific ocean
Very true, off the Kenyan coast we did carbon test on both indigenous and farmed seaweed and it only contained approx 40% carbon, so not a very strong carbon sequester, it's strength is more in its mineral content and ability to coagulate.
Fantastically informative documentary. Best channel on the entire internet
“If it sounds too good to be true…” No. I don’t believe seaweed will save the world. Can it help? Maybe, maybe not, but we should have learned from the past our actions can have unexpected consequences and not to jump in with both feet.
Great video, it’s great to have channels dedicated to climate change information 👍🏽
I like how OCC always reminds the viewer that these measures are incomplete without the elimination of capitalism.
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Great content as always! Thank you 👍
I don't think seaweed should be viewed simply as a method of sequestering carbon. Managed properly, it could also help feed us and the animals many of us eat.
The CO2 emission per capita in the US is crazy, can Americans alter their consumption behaviour drastically?
5:45 With all of the fertilizer runoff, it looks like seaweed is having a boom.
"Seaweed and Socialism" sounds like a good motto :D
Thank you so much for very informative video
When I think about carbon sequentration by plants, especially in farmed formats, truth is that it's only effective when it is recycled into the deep or locked away. Plant materal for food will invariably be re-released back into the atmosphere through the air we exhale or the leftover feed compost.
@Our Changing Climate I have several question: First off I love your videos and just to put it out there, I was a Cyberpunk enthusiast. But seeing your videos, I made a switch to Solarpunk. Now for the questions. How are we as a species are supposed to advance? How are we going to develope new technologies that are going to benefit us all? Is there a way to co-exist and sustain Mother Earth without being suseptible to the erratic changes of nature? I would like it if you could give us a video (or videos) answering these questions.
I was just curious because I actually want to explore space, I want to see holograms, operate flying cars, etc. If there is a way that we can still advance without putting our faith, dreams, future to the hands of the 10%, or without needing to put a price tag on everything, I will be down for that.😊
I would like to implement seaweed into my diet. I've heard it's really good, and when it's likely helping the environment; I'm all in!
I would buy fresh seaweed and experiment with ways of cooking it if I could find it in grocery stores. The dry seaweed snacks I can find in stores are tasty.
I’ve been interested in seaweed farming since I learned about it ~5-10 years ago. I am a bit sad it hasn’t caught on more. I used to think we would carve canals from the ocean far into the Sahara and grow miles of seaweed in them.
You forgot that seaweed also helps the environment by being a good safe fertilizer for land based farming and when fed to cattle it dramatically reduces cattle emissions , these are also two factors that need to be considered
Im early so gonna hurry and give a tip. Have not watched alot but seems like a great channel so far.
Please please please try to use a mic or some editing to reduce sibilance
It's not enough to be a zero carbon world. We need to be carbon negative. Seaweed alone is absolutely not going to do anything to help.
As an adjunct with other restorative methods, I see hyuge potential for seaweed- one that should be fully positively exploited.
All hail seaweed.
There is/was this massive ad campaign by Shell (I think) about seaweed stuffs... so thanks to that I'm hesitant to think it's all that amazing lol.
However, seaweed is tasty, and I guess more -plants- macroalgae on the planet is a good thing?
Are you going to ever talk about Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture which incorporates seaweed farming, fish farming, bivalve farming and sea cucumber farming.
I recommend Eat Like A Fish, a book by fisherman turned kelp farmer, Bren Smith.
It's great what you are doing! Can you maybe go about the Venus project by Jacque fresco that dude had brilliant ideas, I think it would be a great attribute if you make a long video about the Venus project and Jacque fresco because you have a large audience. And they deserve more recognition. People will also learn about a resource based economy and what that implies, almost no crimes no poverty,focus on creativity etc, it would be great if you can cover that.
Nailed it.
We should grow and harvest them on ocean farms
The fact that the carbon emission of 300 Chinese is equal to 75 Americans should tell you everything you need to know about who is really responsible for climate change.
Now do historic emissions per capita
@@TheFabledSCP7000 Yea, the USians are still higher.
@@gelinrefira I am only now realizing my comment sounded confrontational
@@TheFabledSCP7000 Ohh I understand now. Cheers!
Charlie sounding outright optimistic in this one
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I we don't do like we usually do, seaweed can help a lot
But, we humans, can destroy the sea growing seaweed, for sure
Like meat farming, we can help the world raising meat, with planing, but we can destroy a lot of land deliberately to raise meat cheap af ... We just choose the bad option to do things, way to often
How much water does seaweed need to grow?
Can you do a video on phytoplankton please?
"If we use it as another carbon offset scheme, letting the fossil fuel industry continue generating emissions with immunity, then seaweed farming could be a dangerous proposition." I feel like this is a weak counterargument. Tell me ONE good sustainability solution (that isn't banning fossil fuels) that couldn't be critizised like this.
Is it a counterargument, or a necessary caution?
@@ChrisSham necessary caution, 100%. I just feel like it starts to be less of a downfall of a solution itself and more of a downfall of how humans make decisions regarding climate. If it applies to virtually everything, then it can be mentioned not as a unique shortcoming and rather as a trend among all other solutions. We need to stop seeing things as excuses to pollute more.
It would be neat if seaweed growing regulations eased up in the US so we could catch up with other countries and do our part in carbon capture.
Not one thing can save the planet. It's a lot of policies combined. #Degrowth for the win!
Is there any difference between seaweed and sargassum?
yes, difference species and sargassum is a nuisance
Bit of support
Me 2
Seaweed is delicious! Kelp is naturally high in Glutamate.. it gives umami in dishes.
Why do people keep saying some plant is a great solution for capturing carbon from the atmosphere?
Do we intend to bury plants deep into the earth's crust? If not, we're not removing anything from anywhere! 🤷
Managed correctly vegetation can turn into soil, which is a great place to store carbon. Build with lumber and the carbon from the trees gets stored in the wood; plant more trees and eventually you have more lumber and less CO2 in the air.
Lumber eventually decomposes into CO2; rich fertile soils are so because of fungal and bacterial activity, always in a state of decomposition and they also release - you guessed it - CO2.
It might be a temporary storage, I agree with that. But unless we start burying organic material deep in the earth's crust, it's not a solution.
Besides, vegetation (vegetalia) grows more easily and vigorously in CO2-rich ambients, so... 🤷♂️
Co2 sequestration requires draw-down to the ocean depths. Farming of seaweed/kelp alone does not remove the seaweed from the carbon cycle. Making products is great because it creates awareness and an economy, but it doesn't get it out of our atmosphere. When the carbon exists in the form of a plant, fertilizer, feed, etc, it will end up in the atmosphere again after decomposition. Growing it is key, but then we must sink it.
The seaweed in the thumbnail looks like númenor.
I do feel ambivalent about the topic of seaweed miracles.
I recognize that it's an important topic, but it's difficult to feel enthusiastic when most people choose to view it as some sort of ironic punchline during dinner conversations.
Those people would rather laugh at problems than work and fight to fix them.
Seaweed just tastes good imo
Carbon Dioxide is food for plants, it is not a poison.
The main problem is lack of diversity in the seaweed like all other carbon sinks
I really hope that if this gets implemented it doesn't get used as an excuse to continue with the fossil fuels bs
If it's so easy to grow seaweed, how come edible seaweed is so expensive? Are those varieties much more difficult to grow or what?
The whole climate change issue is a non starter if major polluters like China show NO sign changing their practices and in fact are ramping up their use of fossil fuels such a coal. We can only do so much and have made great strides... but MORE needs to be done on a global basis.
Seaweed has many other benefits to water quality besides its possible carbon sequestration benefits.
it is not only china, it is developed countries like the US, UK, France, etc
Maybe I should watch the nebula thing, but what's said here is so antithetical to my personal experience. Things may have changed, but my recollection is that seaweed farming was as harsh as corn farming, environmentally and physically.
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In the same way it takes 20 years for a new growth forest to become carbon negative, I can imagine that when you take in all components of the foodweb/ecosystem in a seaweed farm they might not actually sequester any/much carbon
depends on the way tey farm the seaweed i guess. If the ecosystem is allowed to thrive and weeds are only plucked out from the middle when fully grown, it might work. If the farming method is similar to land methods (grow hectare, then harvest hectare). We will have the same problems regular farming has. A barren monoculture with no ecologic value (or even net emitter).
Once the seaweed is mature, what happens? Do we leave it there and it just keeps sequestering carbon? There must be a point in any organism’s lifespan that its ability to sequester is negligible because it only needs to maintain, not continue to grow. Or do we sink it to the bottom of the ocean, use it in a way that releases the CO2 back into the atmosphere, or what?
I'm sure uses can be found like anything else in life.
ONLY FEW HELP ARE GIVEN BECAUSE ,THE SEA WEEDS ARE FEW IN THE OCEAN AND FEW OIL ARE GIVEN ,,MUCH MANY OIL ARE GIVEN ARE THE TREES AND PLANTS IN THE LAND PLUS THE MINERAL LIKE METAL CARBON AND MANY TYPE OF MINERAL
Mangrove trees astride salt water habitat is another excellent plant to seqester Co2 and provide building materials from the wood.
Healthy ecosystems are mostly closed and balanced. Just on first principles it is doubtful that any resource can be harvested in industrial amounts without degrading the local environment over time.
Ocean water safely stores zero pollution hydrogen fuel and contains 150X more Co2 than air. Extracting hydrogen from ocean water provides free desalinated ocean water and mineral rich ocean brine that can sequester valuable Co2 contained in ocean water while making building materials. The @EirexTech provides highly competitive hydrogen fuel from any type of water using cavitation not electrolysis.
Can we sustain Earth when our major economies are modeled for infinite, exponential growth? No. The logic doesn't add up. A cave person could do it.
To be completely honest, the concept of infinity and finiteness are much younger than cave men
Always nice to hear atlest 2 sides
Seaweed is yummy
What combos work beside sushi?
i eat seaweeds every week. delicious
You sound like Matt Ferrell
Isn't it more energy efficient and greener if people reduce eating meat?
great video but annoying transcripting. The sentences are all over the place and it's confusing to listen to something while reading a sentence that was supposed to be there, but was skipped or moved a few second later.
not to mention the missing words here and there. Kudos for the effort but please.
I think there's a big opportunity in farming sea grasses and kelps in order to make general fertilizers to feed our food crops with; teas or dehydrated powders
I'm working on a food production system for the home, producing an impactful amount of variety and yield at the point of consumption. I hope in this way we could reduce demand for land-based farming (freeing up land to be converted back to natural sinks) and then imagine if all indoor farming units could be fed with organic, natural kelp fertilizer, which sucks huge amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere.
Would be a system with far less emissions
possibly carbon negative, I believe the latest is that kelp can sequester up to 20 times more CO2 compared to an acre of forest? Plus it takes a new forest up to 100 years to reach their peak sink capacity
Le alghe sono il futuro
Hopefully not on Nigerian coast unless you like fossil oils
I agree with a lot of this video but the anti capitalist rhetoric is out of place. Capitalism is exactly why entrepreneurs are allowed to become seaweed farmers in the first place.
Not if we use it unsustainabley like Americans do with everything else.
literally just veganism
So?
I love smoking seaweed, makes me feel like I'm underwater
we are all gonna die
What date?
Imagine if we ate 90% less meat, we could eat all that seaweed, as well as the corn meant for livestock right now. Eating meat as much as we do is so not needed. We could feed people with 80% of the food we give animals, from which we don’t get enough meat/milk/eggs to compensate that
People are starving… If you don’t care about animals, care about people then, not just yourself.
Also, mass agriculture is NEVER good, you’d think humans would have learned that by now ….
Overall good presentation but the socialist rhetoric is annoying.
Finally something less political!!!
Is this a pro seaweed video or a pro communism?
it is a pro communism video... this channel is trash
@@thetaomega7816 it's a fantastic channel. Move on if it's not for you.
Go Communism.
Both.
@@thetaomega7816 Communism is based
It's been anti-capitalist from the start where the F have you been?
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Thanks!