The fact that a small town in BC hit 49.7 degrees this month and then burned to the ground should be a serious alarm bell for what’s coming. The town has been pretty much wiped off the map.
I like to know the truth even if it's grim. I'm from Costa Rica. Most of our electricity comes from water, wind and geothermal energy. We shelter 5% of the world's biodiversity. And yet I'm not optimistic about the future. Human greed is a ravenous monster.
Thankyou for watching in Costa Rica. I guess you know that Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica was UN Secretary for Climate Change when the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015. I'll quote from THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE, the book, published in 2020, which she co-authored with Tim Rivett-Carnac (senior political strategist for the Paris Agreement............ - Margaret
One thing you can do is switch your search engine to Ecosia. It's just like Google, but they use all their profits to plant trees and use 200% renewable energy sources. 😘
“Human greed is a ravenous monster.” I believe that you’ve summed up the reality in this one sentence. I don’t know what to think about my own species anymore.
@@RichRich1955 The rich & greedy deliberately ensured overpopulation by a enacting constant series of anti-population control propaganda campaigns, laws, etc.
We are all chefs at that soup bowl to some extent. If anything I’d blame the continued post WW2 Cold War for hijacking our morals and resources. Not that it wasn’t for greed and riches.
@@mtn1793 Great point, the boomers are to blame for what is going on today, they have known about this for over 60 years and have done nothing and still in denial, How fucked up are they?
First challenge that needs overcoming is the constant desire for increased wealth. More precisely, increased wealth by taking living things and turning them into dead things. The paradigm of infinite growth locks us into a system where survival of the species means reduction of what we now call wealth.
Over 14 thousand views now. One thing you can do is switch your search engine to Ecosia. It's just like Google, but they use all their profits to plant trees and use 200% renewable energy sources.
I recently learned from a reputable scientist that the earth's climate system only has to pass a single irreversible tipping point to put most life forms on earth in jeopardy.
When average ocean pH hits 7.8 things will go very badly, very quickly. Since the 1820s we have gone from 8.25 to 8.10. The rate of ocean acidification is accelerating. Unless there is a radical change by 2100 Earth systems will be in freefall. Sadly my granddaughter will be 79 then.
Earl your sadly right , we are up the creek without a paddle and boat , 2022/23 summer sea ice goes ,the party will start then , starting with the poorest countries first
I like to think of the tipping points like a snowball rolling down a mountainside towards a village. When its small you can just step over and put out your foot and it stops. But as it grows you hit a point where everyone in the village can go stand in front of it and it just rolls right over them because its too big... We need to realize that if we can't stop it, we can still evacuate and relocate the village, there will be disruptions, but it's the only move. The issue right now is that not enough people understand how bad its going to be or how fast due to reinforcing feedback loops so we can't agree on whether or not there is even a massive snowball about to take out the village! Thanks for this video and all the work you do! Thanks for doing your part to help the world Pyhooya!
Another wonderful video presentation. Stuart , you seem to be in better spirit and wellness - all things considered. Thank you for all that you and your team are doing. 🎹✨😺💫🎹
Good to see another comment from you, Myles. You are right about its being a wonderful video presentation...brilliant diagrams and such clear explanations throughout. Let's hope it gets the attention it deserves! - Margaret
It´s very probable we´ve crossed tipping points. In fact I remember years ago claiming we were crossing the point of no return and then past year or so started to claim we had ten years to come. Anyway the fact it is already triggered and we don´t seem to turn the red lights on. I laugh when governments talk about 2050 agenda projects. What a genocide. Take in mind positive feedbacks started probably when atmosphere was created. Life on Earth is thanks to that positive energy balance. But I know what you mean.
You won't even hear this topic discussed by the very people that could have stoped it. They are perfectly content with the certainty of our Extinction !
I wish that I could say that you're wrong, but I think you're absolutely correct. The loss of arctic sea ice in the summer, and melting permafrost already tells me that we're on our way down the slippery slope, and no amount of shopping locally at a farmers' market and bringing my own cloth bags will reverse that. What I'm now morbidly curious to know is what our long term future looks like, now that we're playing the long game: what will things really be like in 20, 50, or 100 years. How bad will things really get before they start to stabilize at some new normal, or will we just keep burning up until we're like the surface of Venus. 🤔
but if we do so, we are doomed too. Our economics would plunge. The most comparable man made thing to earth system is the ISS. It is about 150B$, average cost for a person a day, 8M$ (to check on wikipdia the exactness of those numbers). But on earth we benefit a system much more complex, much more efficient, self resistant and self regenerative, if we try to give a price, a real price, we would literally be homeless according to our own calculations...
Thank you! Feedback loops are key to understanding the problem... how can we ever come up with a big enough solution if we don't understand how big the problem is... Thanks for spreading the good word!
Brilliant use of appropriate language by Professor Will Steffen. I much appreciate the fluidity of connections made by Will in the 'tipping points' scenarios, if that's an appropriate use of the word scenarios', described. This is essential understanding and knowledge for all, something like Earth Systems Science 101 with a real focus on the points of crisis for civilisation as we understand them atm. Thanks again Will Steffen and to Stuart Scott for continued efforts to get the real science information and knowledge to the people of planet Earth. Nga mihi, Haere pai
Well Done.... both the presentation and our Cooked Goose! I have been trying - converted a 42 yr old home in Northern Colorado from 15 tons of annual carbon emissions to MINUS 7 tons. No Fossil Fuels anymore. Car powered from Sunshine, Citrus grown in attached sunroom which also heats house... etc. Low temps: Minus 26 deg F.... High temps: 105 F. Super Insulation !!!! Sealing !!! Airlocks !!!! Passive Solar !!! Active Solar !!!
It is a far, far deeper transformation that we need, than we have ever done before; it is a far, far deeper cliff that we will fall off of if we don't. (apologies to Dickens)
Nice video. We have already crossed tipping point. What is surprising is with so much nature destruction and extinction of many species and forest cover and pollution, mother earth has tolerated humans so long that I fear that she has some plan to makeup for all this time lost. The rejection of our species could be so violent and fast it gives me goosebumps.
Oh it’s decades too late to act. Our criminal friends on Wall Street decided to send manufacturing to China for slave labor pricing, and they tripled emissions worldwide, Including those cargo ships bring us the Xinjiang slave made goods, which emit more carbon than ALL the cars on earth combined
"how urgently we need to act!" its to late mate, we will see this summer in the northern hemisphere things will be a lot worse than people think and Artic ice will be almost gone
I just summarized this excellent 30 minute talk for my young granddaughter. "You are screwed. So sorry. All those in charge today will be dead before the shit hits the fan. Good luck to you sweetheart."
A very depressing summary. I hope your granddaughter isn't five or so? 'All those in charge today will be dead before the shit hits the fan' I'm not so sure about that last part. Not everybody in charge is old and it may not even be that long before shit hits the fan.
Thanks, I think this video is really well done and explains where we at, and where we going and our options. from a scientific perspective. I will be forwarding it to friends and family, something I don't usually do!
The biggest war which we need to fight is to save our planetary Eco-system. Every ounce of every military in the world should be aimed with purpose and cooperation in the battle.
@@FacingFuture you have a newsletter? Guess I'll have to google you. Just found you today. Guess the AI heard me talking to my therapist and tweaked the algorithm to up the ante on my anxiety! Lol. Good work. Thank you.
With increasing population all problems are harder to solve. A first step is to stabilise population. Providing the means for all people to choose to have smaller families is essential and could help to reduce poverty. - Margaret
Birth rates are already declining in many developed countries, yet many of those same developed countries have terrible carbon footprints. A country such as Chad, where birth rates are rising, has an average carbon footprint of .01 tonnes. Compare that rate to the US, where birth rates have been steadily falling and which has a carbon footprint of 16.3 tonnes. Reducing population won't help much if developed countries keep on consuming resources like locusts and keep on using fossil fuels like there is no tomorrow.
@@Michilar Yeah, and we love the tesla's of the world. Working on developing electric cars ánd commercializing space flight, now for the few ... just now. But I have to go now. I have to make a selfie on the other side of the world.
His timelines sound decades off to me based on what I’ve been hearing from Paul Beckwith and the Maxtons in their recent book. And just anecdotally, it just feels like it’s getting worse every week / month before our eyes. At least that’s how it seems to me.
We're at the tipping points now. Blue Ocean Event around the corner, methane release in the Artic, melting permafrost methane bombs, Fires. What else needs to take place before people begin to realize. It's like a video of watching a container ship smash into a port, it's happening so slowly, you it's happening, you see it and yet you really can't do anything about it. Just watch it crash.
I’m at horticulturist for 30 yrs Plants that only bloomed in august or fall are blooming now Some plants are evergreen that were not before Worms seem better this year but dropped to almost nonexistent in my area years past Haven’t seen a flock of more than 5 birds in almost a decade Windshields used to be covered with bugs in summer night driving for 30 min Now a bug never hits windshield from GA to IL No more lightning bugs no more bats Summer nights looked like a blinking starry fantasy Now nothing
yeah... but you know the f*** they say. Dont mix up weather and climate................ battling the trolls and cc denier did not improve much of this so far.
Some credible and renowned scientists are providing evidence that we are well past the tipping point in the form of published, peer reviewed studies. How then am I, a non scientist, supposed to reconcile this relatively rosy picture you present?
The politicians do not matter! Saving the natural environment is an individual responsibility to reduce our carbon footprints, recycle, reduce, and reuse, and use contraception. It's just that simple, although the corporate powers do not want the general public to see this simple truth. Stress R Us
Thank you for your years of tireless efforts and dedication. It's about life. All life. It was always about that until we got lost. Please help me sow Acanthus Mollis all over the world. We got notting to loose anymore, for trying.
If we take the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum as an example of what's taking place now, it doesnt mean all life is going extinct, despite being in an extinction event, but that the planetary biosphere is transitioning to a different type of stable climate on this planet ie. an ice age climate to a hothouse earth climate. The equator will become to hot and if northern countries were smart, they'd be planning infrastructure where land will be habitable. Last time this happened we had tropical rainforests at our poles.
Thankyou, Bassphere. It seems that you are aware of the geological time-scale and understand the changes that our planet has undergone during its approx. 4.5 billion year existence.. Margaret for Facing future
no, we can drill for more oil, route more freight through the arctic and expand military bases so we can increase global conflict. it's an opportunity.
Since I was about 6 yrs old, I lived in a tyipical home, not out.of the ordinary back then. Beatings were normal which were commonplace, bieng a young child I could only consider this the insanity of humsnity....we are slowly evolving likely too slow I feel..I sought solace in the Forrest which seemed logical, harmonious and peaceful. My father was command seargent major, 25 years in ww2 Korea and Vietnam. My mother was strict roman.cathlic which I considered religious psychosis which is still rampant today and I loved them thing, family life was much different back then....on top that I was baby of 6 kids, 3 teens in house always..I studied environmental systems engineering, monitored and just observed what's happening over the last 40 year mainly. I am.horrified at what we let happen knowing the likely outcome was 100 years ago. Without some dramatic increase in technology, along with the ability and motivation for humanity to work together in full cooperation without wars globally for this common goal I see little hope. So yeah I tried my best to wake people, up and implemented many permaculture farming systems, aquaponics, vertical gro system before it wss.a. buzzword . I got nowhere and gave up. Just sitting here watching the show enjoying what I can of life..I am not trying to demotivate or depress people, if inspired do all you can, I'm disabled, in can barely walk and am.just waiting to die personally ..if humans go extinct so be it, and if not it will be by some amazing work by amazing people...my hats off to elon for lighting a fire under humans asses econimicslly.....and.wish you all the best. Whatever happens it will be quite a show, you don't mess with mother nature and we have. completely disregarded her. It's the children who will pay desrest imho.🖖✌🙏🤞
Will we give up the system that brought us to this point - capitalism? Obviously, we will not. In fact, we will not even THINK about changing that in any fundamental way, so I think it's equally obvious where that leads us.
In my view, for what it’s worth, I feel to understand why we can’t discuss capitalism as a theory that must evolve with certain conditions across the globe. In the USA, we’ve become so rabid about the pros and cons of capitalism that I believe we fail to adjust that system accordingly.Incorporating the best ideas from socialism (social safety net), communism (organizing & group equality) and now exploring eco-capitalism, all should help to make capitalism dynamic without losing our humanity-and planet.maybe I am naive.
Australia's ABC is like most other News programs- One generally gets limited coverage of the tipping points, global temperature rises, deforestation, population, tundra and ice melting, climate change etc. Your reporting needs to be on mainstream news channels every evening for everyone to absorb the social, demographic and economic sacrifices needed. The financial markets need to accept that increased government intervention and control is unavoidable, if we want to avoid an environmental collapse.
Rest In Peace my friend. You’ve more than earned it. And in a way, you’re lucky, you won’t have to experience the hell on earth most are going to suffer.
29:00. With a big vision of hope and prosperity for all humanity, inspire the change! I literally saw that bifurcation in a vision in 2016 and slowly realized the path out ;). Its beautiful!!! I hope we choose it! Thanks so much for the video, this one was super great!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting question. Personally, I don't think one can improve on these statements - WHY IS ECONOMICS FAVOURED OVER SURVIVAL? WE ARE SITTING AT THIS FORK IN THE ROAD NOW!" This video is so important and informative that it is worth watching twice or even 3 times. - Margaret
Tom, the latest AI computer model predicts 2022, for BOE, although I'm not privy to how long the ice free period is predicted to be. Could be just a few days, we hope. It grows longer in time, each year, or so we expect.
I really liked this presentation because its a great scientific summary of our climate situation. Particularly liked the last part which shows we can stabilize if we do sufficiently what's needed, or drop into a valley of bad consequences we won't be able to get out of. As he said the time for dithering needs to be over or else.
"Non-linear" changes are exponential changes and we don't know what the exponent IS! "Overnight" in geologic time is a couple of years. The "blue ocean event" in the Arctic may well occur in the next few years. This quantitative change produces a serious qualitative change.
Thank you. And thank you for being brief on the explaining of the tipping point and domino effect concepts, and instead focusing on examples. Most of the videos i have seen on UA-cam would spend all the time coming up with yet 20 more metaphors, thinking viewers are stupid and didn’t get it the first time around. Loved the 3D diagram. Now, the bit of information i am still missing is the specific conditions in the presumably stable hothouse earth system. And perhaps also, how certain is the pocket of stability where the stewardship trajectory leads us? What makes it stable, knowing a couple of feedback loops are already in motion?
Yeah, but we need cheap bananas, and our cows need to be fed for our burgers. We will lecture Brazil when we come on our plane vacations to be good for the climate. We need to be quick to make a selfie in the forest before it's to late.
@@FacingFuture First thing: great presentation, thank you! I agree with your statement. I was thinking about his diagram where we wants to keep earth in the 'holocene' trough - what we were in before. The comment was that their was a fork in the road and we would go one way or the other. I believe we are past the fork because the Artic is going to melt and that will cause the cascades he was talking about with Greenland, Atlantic current, amazon, etc... Even if we stop all emissions right now the artic ice is quickly going away. I know we don't want to go to the doom scenarios but it is hard to ignore the evidence. Anyway as I said great presentation.
A few of us answer as FF, but only I use my name 'Stuart.' It is incorrect to refer to a tipping point since it will not be a distinct 'moment in time,' so I refer to it as a 'tipping threshold,' but I doubt it will stick. - Stuart
Yep, we don't care about fellow humans and animals on this planet. We won't care about future humans and animals on this planet. We want cheap bananas, chocolate and clothing. A car, air conditioning and dead cows on our plate.
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I’ve watched a number of climate topics on UA-cam; be it to do with climate tipping points, population growth, mass extinctions and what really depresses me is the small number of watchers and commentators? This is the greatest existential threat to humanity and why so little interest from my fellow Homo Sapiens?
People do not want to hear bad news, especially when they are the cause of the bad news. It really only matters to the human perception, the universe will continue on its path without us. It is sad that we had the opportunity to modify the climate to maintain its stability. Unfortunately greed and hubris deviated our vision.
Glad you like them! Please share them as much as you like them. We are still a small community of 'truth seekers' as most people would opt for cheap and misleading entertainment any day. Hence we also have to be 'truth speakers' and 'truth sharers.' - Stuart
I've been studying and watching the environment for awhile. I am learning about permaculture, restorative agriculture, food forest. Does anyone know if there are grants or programs to start a project on this? Right now I'm just saving my own down payment to invest 100 to 400 acres in mid to west Texas for this project I want to achieve. UA-cam shows many countries with restorative measure to bring back the deserts. I think every country should try this.
Wonderful thing that you are doing. I hope you will have enough water to start your permaculture down there. You might contact the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania. They might know about permaculture farm subsidies. God bless you.☺️
To paraphrase George Carlin, "The planet will be fine. WE'RE going away. In a million years the earth will heal itself, new life forms will evolve, there will be no signs that humans were ever here. She will shake us off like a bad case of fleas....."
I agree Liz, and that's why we need to get to it and be involved with Extinction Rebellion- XR. Greta is... the figure quoted by XR Scientists is right 2025 latest for (net) zero globally; every other date for taking action is too late to keep within reasonable distance of 2 degrees C Global Average Increase, which in itself means 4 degrees C increase on the high temps range at the middle of continental land masses of USA, Europe, Asia. Australia, and that's incompatible with organised human societies (professor kevin anderson Manchester University, Tyndall Centre for Climate) btw I personally don't agree with the term net zero. We need Real Zero, and not creative accounting- the climate doesn't care about creative accounting, it only operates on the physics of the volume ppm of co2 (GHGs) in the atmosphere.
@@FacingFuture It's not surprising Stuart. You've put heart and soul into educating the public against the Ecocide of the living planet. I wish you well.
Hi, Stewart, Philip here. Did you try the Newcastle thing I told you about?? In the hospital, right now, to correct the previous cancer operation: recovering well. The doctor looked all around, when he was inside my belly. Still clear. Heard a friend has taken the Newcastle route. Remember, it is NIH and NCBI tested.
Since last 15 years, we are in india experiencing short winter , in my childhood winter started from the beginning of November, but in recent years winter don't show its face till December.
I would hope that the surviving populous adopts the "stewardship of the Earth" approach to living, noted on the last graphical presentation, where very few live very lightly on the Hothouse Earth, that is already inevitable. We need to move, not just plants and animals, but complete biomes, to new areas compatible with their continued existence---and move them again---and move them again---as the Climate changes over future time.
Most people here state that the ultimate culprit is human greed. But what is human greed? "An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth." It is actually human insanity, that is the culprit. The risk always walked hand in hand with human consciousness, that that which gives us Sapience also gives us the ability to pervert it.
What none of our great climate scientists ever seem to mention is this: each and every human metabolizes food and produces 160 BTU/hr. So, come on, you can do the math here: 160 X 24 X 365 X 8 B= one helluva lot of so far unaccounted for heat on our planet, let alone all of the tens of millions of domestic animals we depend on. Stress R Us
The real news here is, Accelerate this by 100%., the dominoes are falling. The artic is lost. And siberia , Canada, the US west, and the Amazon are burning, 122.9 degrees in Canada, last week. Its a rap
I've watched this for 50 years and seen it firsthand. The studies are easily inderstandable for anyone with critical thinking skills, There is no longer anything you can do to protect yourself from this certain collapse, Extinction event is Imminent. RIP mother Earth.
That's what the Doomsters tell us. Stuart has repeadedly stressed that we need Active Hope. Concerned citizens can try to mitigate the damage already done by engaging in Nature-based interventions.
I live in Brazil, a country currently under rule by a fascist thug that almost openly dismantled policies that tried to prevent deforestation of the amazon rainforest and continues to do so. If you look at amazon deforestation rates since 2019 they have soared to levels not seen in decades. You might also want to check out the 2020 fires. Soon a tipping point will be reached and the forest will likely degrade into a semiarid savannah like biome. Rain patterns will change for the worse and food production collapse is likely. Such a person being able to get into a position of power and implementing this kind of policy is proof that there is no one in control of the world, we're all fucked to be honest.
"Huge and pro-active changes to human economy, culture and politics" will happen far after it's too late. It is not humanly possible to change the politics of governments of Russia, United States, China or many other industrialized countries. The rich will not give up their wealth for the betterment of mankind. And so many cultures are clinging to the way things were 100 years ago. Conservatism and religion will put the last nail in the coffin we call earth. Groups desperately trying to change things are noble in their endeavor's but it will be in vain because of the aforementioned reasons. May your prayers give you some solice.
thank you for the time taken to summarize that data, which, i must recall to the reader, exists for several years. I can only say i doubt of the effectivness of the biden government to handle that problem. I believe the technology, in its current state, is not part of the solution. We should not try to decide if we want to avoid it anymore, rather than, ask ourselves how we think we should do to pass through that bad situation and make the next millions years of hot house earth enjoyable after all, if that s possible. The inverse of what i said is that continuing like we do know will wipe us out (we should recognize how good we are at wiping out life in general).
23:20. Yes. The only thing faster in the geologic record are asteroid strikes. Maybe a super volcano, but I think even that was 1000's of years, so humanities impact on the planet is like a large asteroid strike... but we can change!!!
This is very worrying. Not sure what it's going to take to wake people up. Perhaps the sudden rupture of the Thwaites ice sheet in Antarctica (aka the Doomsday Glacier)? Otherwise, it's tragically the frog in boiling water scenario for humankind.
Humanity needs to change. Stuart, aware of Greta Thunberg's climate protest in Sweden, was instrumental in getting her to attend COP24 in Poland. Her well-known statement and title of her little book = NO ONE IS TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. - Margaret
There is a video by mathematician Sid Smith that approaches things from a different perspective but is also very well done. It was a talk he gave to the Green Party.
Thanks to the scientists that put their career on the line to speak up and enlighten us. I will be passing this on to all people in my community. We celebrate what Christ and other prphets did for humanity. But we cannot see what some of our activists have suffered including our scientists. You can find who we need to support and lets get on with it. Fìrst step is to inform people pass this and there are lots of other teriffic people who pursue the necessary solutions, lets help out.
Thankyou, Mario Hats, Seems you, like Stuart Scott & Facing Future Team recognise the importance of the faith/spirituality dimension in confronting the dangers of climate change... UPFSI Did you read in our Newsletter about Stuart's initiative with Circle of Elders (Ecological Economics) ? - Margaret
A non climatologist view for what are we doing: We as humans are creating a death zones around us. Just see what's around you. There is hardly any life in your apartment. All houses are covering vegetation. And most are build in and are blocking the best habitable zones around the globe. All roads are covering large portions of land. And we love our markets that are build in 10 km away and could be only reached by a car. Everything we build kills first on resource hauling, transporting, making it to products and even when we just clear everything for what ever we build. And it won't stop there. Let's eat something. We have killed everything, but the single crop from most of our fields. Fields have grown so huge that you can't even see their borders anymore. Total death zone with a single specie. And even fields itself are dying as soil degredates . And the food comes from the supermarkets. And the rest? We pollute with plastics, poisons, drugs, over fishing, mindless hunting, climate change, acid rain, zero oxygen death zones via our nutrients, ... And our forests? We in Finland has the best forests in Europe. What? There's hardly any natural forests left. Everything else goes for pulp factories every 60-80 years. Hardly anyone here has even seen old forests and those forests are as far away from people as they can be. And the pace of destruction is going up. Everywhere modern human goes we kill what we can. Only empty void is seen nice and clean. Not even our own scent can remind us that we emerged from nature. Total deserts that has a mindless specie wondering around what happens to the environment it has killed. We kill to create our own death zone.
Earthworms gone this year after noticeable 5 yr decline Garden vegetables quit producing after a few warm nights last year and this year Winters very mild and fluctuating while summers are mild compared to past and rest of country…nights too warm summer and winter Microclimate in small town NWGA but it’s coming to everyone soon -degreed published old horticulturist
I’m curious about what comes first. The ice ice predicted in the 1970’ or the melting of the poles which should have happened at least 20 years ago. Btw. Cool video of the melting glacier, is there a reason there’s no video of the growing ones?
Disney film, music, art..whatever we enjoy. Why not? Constant gloom & doom does not help with mitigating the damage. Preparations for COP26 (Glasgow) continue. Despite his cancer Stuart has forged ahead with his efforts to popularize ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS. (see Facing Future Newsletter on our website.) - Margaret
The fact that a small town in BC hit 49.7 degrees this month and then burned to the ground should be a serious alarm bell for what’s coming. The town has been pretty much wiped off the map.
The fact that this a thing that happened and isn’t like constant news is wild
I like to know the truth even if it's grim. I'm from Costa Rica. Most of our electricity comes from water, wind and geothermal energy. We shelter 5% of the world's biodiversity. And yet I'm not optimistic about the future. Human greed is a ravenous monster.
Thankyou for watching in Costa Rica. I guess you know that Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica was UN Secretary for Climate Change when the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015. I'll quote from THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE, the book, published in 2020, which she co-authored with Tim Rivett-Carnac (senior political strategist for the Paris Agreement............
- Margaret
The real problem is capitalism, which amplifies human greed.
One thing you can do is switch your search engine to Ecosia. It's just like Google, but they use all their profits to plant trees and use 200% renewable energy sources. 😘
“Human greed is a ravenous monster.” I believe that you’ve summed up the reality in this one sentence.
I don’t know what to think about my own species anymore.
agreed human greed will be the end of us all!!!!!!!
I have known about this situation for fifty years I think the rich and greedy have cooked our goose!!
Ecological Economics: See Facing Future Newsletter re- Stuart's current initiative involving the Circle of Elders.
The rich and greedy blame unchecked population growth lol.
@@RichRich1955 The rich & greedy deliberately ensured overpopulation by a enacting constant series of anti-population control propaganda campaigns, laws, etc.
We are all chefs at that soup bowl to some extent. If anything I’d blame the continued post WW2 Cold War for hijacking our morals and resources. Not that it wasn’t for greed and riches.
@@mtn1793 Great point, the boomers are to blame for what is going on today, they have known about this for over 60 years and have done nothing and still in denial, How fucked up are they?
First challenge that needs overcoming is the constant desire for increased wealth. More precisely, increased wealth by taking living things and turning them into dead things.
The paradigm of infinite growth locks us into a system where survival of the species means reduction of what we now call wealth.
This should have thousands of views by now.
No, billions. And a few thousands for the latest pop music prostitute. Unfortunately we live in a world upside down
Ridiculous isn't it!!!!
Ridiculous but predictable when you make Money your god. - Stuart
@@haunterbuythem137 sooo funny 😆 sooo true 🤔 sososo sad 😢
Over 14 thousand views now. One thing you can do is switch your search engine to Ecosia. It's just like Google, but they use all their profits to plant trees and use 200% renewable energy sources.
I recently learned from a reputable scientist that the earth's climate system only has to pass a single irreversible tipping point to put most life forms on earth in jeopardy.
When average ocean pH hits 7.8 things will go very badly, very quickly. Since the 1820s we have gone from 8.25 to 8.10. The rate of ocean acidification is accelerating. Unless there is a radical change by 2100 Earth systems will be in freefall.
Sadly my granddaughter will be 79 then.
Earl your sadly right , we are up the creek without a paddle and boat , 2022/23 summer sea ice goes ,the party will start then , starting with the poorest countries first
does this scientist have a youtube channel??
@@mafarmerga unfortunately, I think things will go bad within a matter of years, not decades. Some things I hope I'm wrong about!
@@mafarmerga systems are already in free fall. You seeing how fast the Arctic ice is thinning? The floods and fires?
I like to think of the tipping points like a snowball rolling down a mountainside towards a village. When its small you can just step over and put out your foot and it stops. But as it grows you hit a point where everyone in the village can go stand in front of it and it just rolls right over them because its too big... We need to realize that if we can't stop it, we can still evacuate and relocate the village, there will be disruptions, but it's the only move. The issue right now is that not enough people understand how bad its going to be or how fast due to reinforcing feedback loops so we can't agree on whether or not there is even a massive snowball about to take out the village! Thanks for this video and all the work you do! Thanks for doing your part to help the world Pyhooya!
Another wonderful video presentation. Stuart , you seem to be in better spirit and wellness - all things considered. Thank you for all that you and your team are doing. 🎹✨😺💫🎹
Good to see another comment from you, Myles. You are right about its being a wonderful video presentation...brilliant diagrams and such clear explanations throughout. Let's hope it gets the attention it deserves! - Margaret
This brutal heat wave in the Pacific Northwest and the massive floods in Russia, China, Japan all make me believe we're already there as of July 2021.
Short term profits, long term consequences - - Socialized costs, individualized profits
Ecological Economics
It appears, Eddie, that you realise that our current economic system is harming Planet Earth. Are you aware of Ecological Economics?
The tragedy of the commons.
Every human including you has a co2 carbon footprint. We are all to blame but mostly the rich are the highest co2 generators.
We are already passed the tipping point. The positive feeadback loops started years ago.
It´s very probable we´ve crossed tipping points. In fact I remember years ago claiming we were crossing the point of no return and then past year or so started to claim we had ten years to come. Anyway the fact it is already triggered and we don´t seem to turn the red lights on. I laugh when governments talk about 2050 agenda projects. What a genocide. Take in mind positive feedbacks started probably when atmosphere was created. Life on Earth is thanks to that positive energy balance. But I know what you mean.
You won't even hear this topic discussed by the very people that could have stoped it.
They are perfectly content with the certainty of our Extinction !
I wish that I could say that you're wrong, but I think you're absolutely correct.
The loss of arctic sea ice in the summer, and melting permafrost already tells me that we're on our way down the slippery slope, and no amount of shopping locally at a farmers' market and bringing my own cloth bags will reverse that.
What I'm now morbidly curious to know is what our long term future looks like, now that we're playing the long game: what will things really be like in 20, 50, or 100 years. How bad will things really get before they start to stabilize at some new normal, or will we just keep burning up until we're like the surface of Venus. 🤔
the price of goods HAS to represent their environmental impact ! if not we are doomed.
Yes, Mark. So why is Economics (Growth Economics) favoured over survival? Ecological Economics makes more sense. - Margaret
but if we do so, we are doomed too. Our economics would plunge. The most comparable man made thing to earth system is the ISS. It is about 150B$, average cost for a person a day, 8M$ (to check on wikipdia the exactness of those numbers). But on earth we benefit a system much more complex, much more efficient, self resistant and self regenerative, if we try to give a price, a real price, we would literally be homeless according to our own calculations...
Great work , unfortunately the train left along time ago ,2 many tipping points already in motion
Played this while doing my morning yoga. Thank you for this. I'm just a small content creator trying to spread awareness.
Keep it up
Thank you! Feedback loops are key to understanding the problem... how can we ever come up with a big enough solution if we don't understand how big the problem is... Thanks for spreading the good word!
Brilliant use of appropriate language by Professor Will Steffen. I much appreciate the fluidity of connections made by Will in the 'tipping points' scenarios, if that's an appropriate use of the word scenarios', described. This is essential understanding and knowledge for all, something like Earth Systems Science 101 with a real focus on the points of crisis for civilisation as we understand them atm. Thanks again Will Steffen and to Stuart Scott for continued efforts to get the real science information and knowledge to the people of planet Earth. Nga mihi, Haere pai
Thank you both for your Work! Your work is so Valueable and the awareness rises!
Thank you too!
“We’ve run out of time.”
-Couldn’t have said it better myself-
“I think we have the perfect ending.”
Brace yourselves.
As always,
Thanks Stuart 🙏🏼🦄❤️
Well Done.... both the presentation and our Cooked Goose! I have been trying - converted a 42 yr old home in Northern Colorado from 15 tons of annual carbon emissions to MINUS 7 tons. No Fossil Fuels anymore. Car powered from Sunshine, Citrus grown in attached sunroom which also heats house... etc. Low temps: Minus 26 deg F.... High temps: 105 F.
Super Insulation !!!! Sealing !!! Airlocks !!!! Passive Solar !!! Active Solar !!!
Sounds great!
It is a far, far deeper transformation that we need, than we have ever done before; it is a far, far deeper cliff that we will fall off of if we don't. (apologies to Dickens)
Nice video. We have already crossed tipping point. What is surprising is with so much nature destruction and extinction of many species and forest cover and pollution, mother earth has tolerated humans so long that I fear that she has some plan to makeup for all this time lost.
The rejection of our species could be so violent and fast it gives me goosebumps.
I can feel that it will be so. I can sense it
In case of mortal emergency due to hot house Earth conditions installing, there is a last resort mad train stopper : nuclear or volcanic winter.
An excellent summary and appraisal of the risks we facing and how urgently we need to act! Thank you for producing this video.
Glad it was helpful!
Oh it’s decades too late to act. Our criminal friends on Wall Street decided to send manufacturing to China for slave labor pricing, and they tripled emissions worldwide,
Including those cargo ships bring us the Xinjiang slave made goods, which emit more carbon than ALL the cars on earth combined
"how urgently we need to act!" its to late mate, we will see this summer in the northern hemisphere things will be a lot worse than people think and Artic ice will be almost gone
I just summarized this excellent 30 minute talk for my young granddaughter.
"You are screwed. So sorry. All those in charge today will be dead before the shit hits the fan. Good luck to you sweetheart."
Its happening so fast many will live to see it.
A very depressing summary. I hope your granddaughter isn't five or so? 'All those in charge today will be dead before the shit hits the fan' I'm not so sure about that last part. Not everybody in charge is old and it may not even be that long before shit hits the fan.
Maybe not a good time to be reproducing
Thanks, I think this video is really well done and explains where we at, and where we going and our options. from a scientific perspective. I will be forwarding it to friends and family, something I don't usually do!
Well said!
The biggest war which we need to fight is to save our planetary Eco-system. Every ounce of every military in the world should be aimed with purpose and cooperation in the battle.
Essentially we’re fucked…
For something positive.....See Stuart's initiative re- Ecological Economis in our Newsletter.
@@FacingFuture you have a newsletter? Guess I'll have to google you. Just found you today. Guess the AI heard me talking to my therapist and tweaked the algorithm to up the ante on my anxiety! Lol. Good work. Thank you.
There are some of us on the stewardship pathway but we are few.
I kinda want to cry, but I will take all that despair and use to to fight as best as I can...
There is no way out of the worst case scenario without drastically reducing the human population immediately. And even then - maybe.
With increasing population all problems are harder to solve. A first step is to stabilise population. Providing the means for all people to choose to have smaller families is essential and could help to reduce poverty. - Margaret
Birth rates are already declining in many developed countries, yet many of those same developed countries have terrible carbon footprints. A country such as Chad, where birth rates are rising, has an average carbon footprint of .01 tonnes. Compare that rate to the US, where birth rates have been steadily falling and which has a carbon footprint of 16.3 tonnes. Reducing population won't help much if developed countries keep on consuming resources like locusts and keep on using fossil fuels like there is no tomorrow.
@@Michilar Yeah, and we love the tesla's of the world. Working on developing electric cars ánd commercializing space flight, now for the few ... just now. But I have to go now. I have to make a selfie on the other side of the world.
His timelines sound decades off to me based on what I’ve been hearing from Paul Beckwith and the Maxtons in their recent book.
And just anecdotally, it just feels like it’s getting worse every week / month before our eyes. At least that’s how it seems to me.
We're at the tipping points now. Blue Ocean Event around the corner, methane release in the Artic, melting permafrost methane bombs, Fires. What else needs to take place before people begin to realize. It's like a video of watching a container ship smash into a port, it's happening so slowly, you it's happening, you see it and yet you really can't do anything about it. Just watch it crash.
I’m at horticulturist for 30 yrs
Plants that only bloomed in august or fall are blooming now
Some plants are evergreen that were not before
Worms seem better this year but dropped to almost nonexistent in my area years past
Haven’t seen a flock of more than 5 birds in almost a decade
Windshields used to be covered with bugs in summer night driving for 30 min
Now a bug never hits windshield from GA to IL
No more lightning bugs no more bats
Summer nights looked like a blinking starry fantasy
Now nothing
yeah... but you know the f*** they say. Dont mix up weather and climate................ battling the trolls and cc denier did not improve much of this so far.
Exponential function is not something people are willing or maybe even able to grasp.
Definitely think it’s happening quicker than they think.
Excellent video, wishes this stuff was cover on MSM
Some credible and renowned scientists are providing evidence that we are well past the tipping point in the form of published, peer reviewed studies. How then am I, a non scientist, supposed to reconcile this relatively rosy picture you present?
The politicians do not matter! Saving the natural environment is an individual responsibility to reduce our carbon footprints, recycle, reduce, and reuse, and use contraception. It's just that simple, although the corporate powers do not want the general public to see this simple truth. Stress R Us
Thank you for your years of tireless efforts and dedication. It's about life. All life. It was always about that until we got lost. Please help me sow Acanthus Mollis all over the world. We got notting to loose anymore, for trying.
If we take the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum as an example of what's taking place now, it doesnt mean all life is going extinct, despite being in an extinction event, but that the planetary biosphere is transitioning to a different type of stable climate on this planet ie. an ice age climate to a hothouse earth climate. The equator will become to hot and if northern countries were smart, they'd be planning infrastructure where land will be habitable. Last time this happened we had tropical rainforests at our poles.
Thankyou, Bassphere. It seems that you are aware of the geological time-scale and understand the changes that our planet has undergone during its approx. 4.5 billion year existence.. Margaret for Facing future
I think the first summer without arctic sea ice will be the wake up call...could be a rude awakening....
no, we can drill for more oil, route more freight through the arctic and expand military bases so we can increase global conflict. it's an opportunity.
Tipping point has just passed for the Amazon forest, last time I checked the peer reviewed journals and real time observations on this...
Since I was about 6 yrs old, I lived in a tyipical home, not out.of the ordinary back then. Beatings were normal which were commonplace, bieng a young child I could only consider this the insanity of humsnity....we are slowly evolving likely too slow I feel..I sought solace in the Forrest which seemed logical, harmonious and peaceful. My father was command seargent major, 25 years in ww2 Korea and Vietnam. My mother was strict roman.cathlic which I considered religious psychosis which is still rampant today and I loved them thing, family life was much different back then....on top that I was baby of 6 kids, 3 teens in house always..I studied environmental systems engineering, monitored and just observed what's happening over the last 40 year mainly. I am.horrified at what we let happen knowing the likely outcome was 100 years ago. Without some dramatic increase in technology, along with the ability and motivation for humanity to work together in full cooperation without wars globally for this common goal I see little hope. So yeah I tried my best to wake people, up and implemented many permaculture farming systems, aquaponics, vertical gro system before it wss.a. buzzword . I got nowhere and gave up. Just sitting here watching the show enjoying what I can of life..I am not trying to demotivate or depress people, if inspired do all you can, I'm disabled, in can barely walk and am.just waiting to die personally
..if humans go extinct so be it, and if not it will be by some amazing work by amazing people...my hats off to elon for lighting a fire under humans asses econimicslly.....and.wish you all the best. Whatever happens it will be quite a show, you don't mess with mother nature and we have. completely disregarded her. It's the children who will pay desrest imho.🖖✌🙏🤞
Thank you, well explained.
Will we give up the system that brought us to this point - capitalism? Obviously, we will not. In fact, we will not even THINK about changing that in any fundamental way, so I think it's equally obvious where that leads us.
See Facing Future NEWSLETTER ....Ecological Economics/ Holy See.
In my view, for what it’s worth, I feel to understand why we can’t discuss capitalism as a theory that must evolve with certain conditions across the globe. In the USA, we’ve become so rabid about the pros and cons of capitalism that I believe we fail to adjust that system accordingly.Incorporating the best ideas from socialism (social safety net), communism (organizing & group equality) and now exploring eco-capitalism, all should help to make capitalism dynamic without losing our humanity-and planet.maybe I am naive.
Excellent. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Australia's ABC is like most other News programs- One generally gets limited coverage of the tipping points, global temperature rises, deforestation, population, tundra and ice melting, climate change etc. Your reporting needs to be on mainstream news channels every evening for everyone to absorb the social, demographic and economic sacrifices needed. The financial markets need to accept that increased government intervention and control is unavoidable, if we want to avoid an environmental collapse.
500 views?! we deserve extinction.
So true, and some lame cat or kitten video has a million views, unbelievable !
Over 2000 views now.
@@FacingFuture it should be 2 billion if we want things to change 😅
I hope enough people, companies, and governments take action now to help prevent catastrophic anthropogenic climate change!
Rest In Peace my friend. You’ve more than earned it. And in a way, you’re lucky, you won’t have to experience the hell on earth most are going to suffer.
FacingFuture will continue Stuart's work
29:00. With a big vision of hope and prosperity for all humanity, inspire the change! I literally saw that bifurcation in a vision in 2016 and slowly realized the path out ;). Its beautiful!!! I hope we choose it! Thanks so much for the video, this one was super great!!!!!!!!!!!
The First B.O.E will be the start of and the beginning of heading towards a Hothouse World. Question is how soon ? < 5 > Years . Your thoughts
Interesting question. Personally, I don't think one can improve on these statements -
WHY IS ECONOMICS FAVOURED OVER SURVIVAL?
WE ARE SITTING AT THIS FORK IN THE ROAD NOW!"
This video is so important and informative that it is worth watching twice or even 3 times. - Margaret
Tom, the latest AI computer model predicts 2022, for BOE, although I'm not privy to how long the ice free period is predicted to be. Could be just a few days, we hope. It grows longer in time, each year, or so we expect.
2029 for the first BOE is my best guess...
@@FacingFuture simple answer: rusted behavior patterns (you also see it in historical patterns and civ's)
Hi Stewart, wishing you well .propagating seeds last 30 years now both trees and food in one way or another and can see the changes. Keep it up !
So nice of you
I really liked this presentation because its a great scientific summary of our climate situation. Particularly liked the last part which shows we can stabilize if we do sufficiently what's needed, or drop into a valley of bad consequences we won't be able to get out of. As he said the time for dithering needs to be over or else.
"Non-linear" changes are exponential changes and we don't know what the exponent IS! "Overnight" in geologic time is a couple of years. The "blue ocean event" in the Arctic may well occur in the next few years. This quantitative change produces a serious qualitative change.
I just realized that only a civil society breakdown would generate the level of fright necessary to produce the necessary action required.
Too bad that won't happen before ecological collapse or having damage the planet enough that ecological collapseful occur soon after.
Thank you. And thank you for being brief on the explaining of the tipping point and domino effect concepts, and instead focusing on examples. Most of the videos i have seen on UA-cam would spend all the time coming up with yet 20 more metaphors, thinking viewers are stupid and didn’t get it the first time around. Loved the 3D diagram. Now, the bit of information i am still missing is the specific conditions in the presumably stable hothouse earth system. And perhaps also, how certain is the pocket of stability where the stewardship trajectory leads us? What makes it stable, knowing a couple of feedback loops are already in motion?
Tipping point is well passed for the Arctic Sea Ice, last time I checked the peer reviewed journals and real time observations on this...
I'm Brazilian. We need help from other countries to stop Bolsonaro from destroying the Amazon rainforest.
Yeah, but we need cheap bananas, and our cows need to be fed for our burgers. We will lecture Brazil when we come on our plane vacations to be good for the climate. We need to be quick to make a selfie in the forest before it's to late.
A TEMPERATE forest following Amazon rainforest degradation?
He probably means a tropical dry forest or savannah(?)
You say we might pass the artic tipping point in a decade or two ---around 12:45. I keep hearing BOE in this decade, not in a decade or two??
Either way, it is prudent to assume that it could happen RIGHT NOW.
@@FacingFuture First thing: great presentation, thank you! I agree with your statement. I was thinking about his diagram where we wants to keep earth in the 'holocene' trough - what we were in before. The comment was that their was a fork in the road and we would go one way or the other. I believe we are past the fork because the Artic is going to melt and that will cause the cascades he was talking about with Greenland, Atlantic current, amazon, etc... Even if we stop all emissions right now the artic ice is quickly going away. I know we don't want to go to the doom scenarios but it is hard to ignore the evidence. Anyway as I said great presentation.
A few of us answer as FF, but only I use my name 'Stuart.'
It is incorrect to refer to a tipping point since it will not be a distinct 'moment in time,' so I refer to it as a 'tipping threshold,' but I doubt it will stick.
- Stuart
the boe 2023/24 according to graphs from Noaa , its already very patchy according to professor peter waddams Cambridge university uk,
I'd like to see a link to the paper published by The Geological Society of London.
Super good syntesis and vulgarisation of tipping points.
Forgive my ignorance but isn't 2.5 degrees too much if we are already seeing the tipping points quite substantially affected?.
Yes!
"High tech very wealthy globalized society"? Earth? There are a billion of your fellow humans starving to death right this minute.
Yep, we don't care about fellow humans and animals on this planet. We won't care about future humans and animals on this planet. We want cheap bananas, chocolate and clothing. A car, air conditioning and dead cows on our plate.
UN doesn't report such numbers?
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I’ve watched a number of climate topics on UA-cam; be it to do with climate tipping points, population growth, mass extinctions and what really depresses me is the small number of watchers and commentators? This is the greatest existential threat to humanity and why so little interest from my fellow Homo Sapiens?
People have their ears covered, chanting, "La-la-la! I can't hear you!". They can't/won't face the fact that our lifestyles must change.
People do not want to hear bad news, especially when they are the cause of the bad news. It really only matters to the human perception, the universe will continue on its path without us. It is sad that we had the opportunity to modify the climate to maintain its stability. Unfortunately greed and hubris deviated our vision.
Where can we get copies of the illustrations?
Hey Stewart, you’re looking quite dapper. Hope you’re feeling well. Keep doing whatever it is you’re doing.
Thanks ... I really enjoy your videos
Glad you like them! Please share them as much as you like them. We are still a small community of 'truth seekers' as most people would opt for cheap and misleading entertainment any day. Hence we also have to be 'truth speakers' and 'truth sharers.'
- Stuart
I've been studying and watching the environment for awhile. I am learning about permaculture, restorative agriculture, food forest. Does anyone know if there are grants or programs to start a project on this? Right now I'm just saving my own down payment to invest 100 to 400 acres in mid to west Texas for this project I want to achieve. UA-cam shows many countries with restorative measure to bring back the deserts. I think every country should try this.
Wonderful thing that you are doing. I hope you will have enough water to start your permaculture down there. You might contact the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania. They might know about permaculture farm subsidies. God bless you.☺️
Don't have to go to Mars if we turn Earth into a dead red planet.💯
Such sad news.
Makes my heart hurt for Mother Earth..
To paraphrase George Carlin, "The planet will be fine. WE'RE going away. In a million years the earth will heal itself, new life forms will evolve, there will be no signs that humans were ever here. She will shake us off like a bad case of fleas....."
I agree Liz, and that's why we need to get to it and be involved with Extinction Rebellion- XR. Greta is... the figure quoted by XR Scientists is right 2025 latest for (net) zero globally; every other date for taking action is too late to keep within reasonable distance of 2 degrees C Global Average Increase, which in itself means 4 degrees C increase on the high temps range at the middle of continental land masses of USA, Europe, Asia. Australia, and that's incompatible with organised human societies (professor kevin anderson Manchester University, Tyndall Centre for Climate) btw I personally don't agree with the term net zero. We need Real Zero, and not creative accounting- the climate doesn't care about creative accounting, it only operates on the physics of the volume ppm of co2 (GHGs) in the atmosphere.
And the pain and aggravation gave me a case of cancer. - Stuart
@@FacingFuture Stuart: Praying for you to experience good health.
@@FacingFuture It's not surprising Stuart. You've put heart and soul into educating the public against the Ecocide of the living planet. I wish you well.
Hi, Stewart, Philip here.
Did you try the Newcastle thing I told you about?? In the hospital, right now, to correct the previous cancer operation: recovering well.
The doctor looked all around, when he was inside my belly. Still clear.
Heard a friend has taken the Newcastle route. Remember, it is NIH and NCBI tested.
I feel at a loss when I see charts and math-inspired articles. I simply do not understand charts.
What works best for you?
Since last 15 years, we are in india experiencing short winter , in my childhood winter started from the beginning of November, but in recent years winter don't show its face till December.
How does this affect non winter
I would hope that the surviving populous adopts the "stewardship of the Earth" approach to living, noted on the last graphical presentation, where very few live very lightly on the Hothouse Earth, that is already inevitable.
We need to move, not just plants and animals, but complete biomes, to new areas compatible with their continued existence---and move them again---and move them again---as the Climate changes over future time.
Most people here state that the ultimate culprit is human greed. But what is human greed? "An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth."
It is actually human insanity, that is the culprit. The risk always walked hand in hand with human consciousness, that that which gives us Sapience also gives us the ability to pervert it.
Good info ,, "change is gonna come ,, only at the end of a gun." 🔥💀🔥 From a song that just might have nailed it. ❤️❤️🌎❤️❤️
High, Ana Marua from São Paulo, in Brasil
What none of our great climate scientists ever seem to mention is this: each and every human metabolizes food and produces 160 BTU/hr. So, come on, you can do the math here: 160 X 24 X 365 X 8 B= one helluva lot of so far unaccounted for heat on our planet, let alone all of the tens of millions of domestic animals we depend on. Stress R Us
The ones willing to be honest will tell you... It's over.
That said who wants to be the one to tell people that? Almost nobody.
Tipping point is well passed for the Greenland Ice Sheet, last time I checked the peer reviewed journals and real time observations on this...
What date was this interview? Steffen mentions the Bolsonaro govt "coming in".....?
We all miss you deeply, Stuart!
We also miss Will Steffen, who died in January 2023.
The real news here is, Accelerate this by 100%., the dominoes are falling. The artic is lost. And siberia , Canada, the US west, and the Amazon are burning, 122.9 degrees in Canada, last week. Its a rap
I've watched this for 50 years and seen it firsthand.
The studies are easily inderstandable for anyone with critical thinking skills,
There is no longer anything you can do to protect yourself from this certain collapse,
Extinction event is Imminent.
RIP mother Earth.
That's what the Doomsters tell us. Stuart has repeadedly stressed that we need Active Hope. Concerned citizens can try to mitigate the damage already done by engaging in Nature-based interventions.
This info/ video is being introduced to an audience of very few. The rest couldn't care less unless of course there is money involved..
I live in Brazil, a country currently under rule by a fascist thug that almost openly dismantled policies that tried to prevent deforestation of the amazon rainforest and continues to do so. If you look at amazon deforestation rates since 2019 they have soared to levels not seen in decades. You might also want to check out the 2020 fires. Soon a tipping point will be reached and the forest will likely degrade into a semiarid savannah like biome. Rain patterns will change for the worse and food production collapse is likely. Such a person being able to get into a position of power and implementing this kind of policy is proof that there is no one in control of the world, we're all fucked to be honest.
"Huge and pro-active changes to human economy, culture and politics" will happen far after it's too late. It is not humanly possible to change the politics of governments of Russia, United States, China or many other industrialized countries. The rich will not give up their wealth for the betterment of mankind. And so many cultures are clinging to the way things were 100 years ago. Conservatism and religion will put the last nail in the coffin we call earth. Groups desperately trying to change things are noble in their endeavor's but it will be in vain because of the aforementioned reasons. May your prayers give you some solice.
Thankyou MS
FacingFuture will continue Stuart's work.
thank you for the time taken to summarize that data, which, i must recall to the reader, exists for several years. I can only say i doubt of the effectivness of the biden government to handle that problem. I believe the technology, in its current state, is not part of the solution. We should not try to decide if we want to avoid it anymore, rather than, ask ourselves how we think we should do to pass through that bad situation and make the next millions years of hot house earth enjoyable after all, if that s possible. The inverse of what i said is that continuing like we do know will wipe us out (we should recognize how good we are at wiping out life in general).
23:20. Yes. The only thing faster in the geologic record are asteroid strikes. Maybe a super volcano, but I think even that was 1000's of years, so humanities impact on the planet is like a large asteroid strike... but we can change!!!
This is very worrying. Not sure what it's going to take to wake people up. Perhaps the sudden rupture of the Thwaites ice sheet in Antarctica (aka the Doomsday Glacier)? Otherwise, it's tragically the frog in boiling water scenario for humankind.
But for awhile there, the Dow was really soaring!
Humanity is too stupid and greedy to ever change
Humanity needs to change. Stuart, aware of Greta Thunberg's climate protest in Sweden, was instrumental in getting her to attend COP24 in Poland. Her well-known statement and title of her little book = NO ONE IS TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. - Margaret
At last i've found a video that
confronts us with the truth.
I'll be sharing this one.
P.S Like finding an oasis in a desert.
Thanks for sharing.
There is a video by mathematician Sid Smith that approaches things from a different perspective but is also very well done. It was a talk he gave to the Green Party.
There is not mitigation and we are forced to ride it out “Hot House” and all.
And "the great acceleration" happened starting in 1950!
Cheery stuff!😔
Thanks to the scientists that put their career on the line to speak up and enlighten us. I will be passing this on to all people in my community. We celebrate what Christ and other prphets did for humanity. But we cannot see what some of our activists have suffered including our scientists. You can find who we need to support and lets get on with it. Fìrst step is to inform people pass this and there are lots of other teriffic people who pursue the necessary solutions, lets help out.
Thankyou, Mario Hats, Seems you, like Stuart Scott & Facing Future Team recognise the importance of the faith/spirituality dimension in confronting the dangers of climate change... UPFSI Did you read in our Newsletter about Stuart's initiative with Circle of Elders (Ecological Economics) ? - Margaret
A non climatologist view for what are we doing:
We as humans are creating a death zones around us. Just see what's around you. There is hardly any life in your apartment. All houses are covering vegetation. And most are build in and are blocking the best habitable zones around the globe. All roads are covering large portions of land. And we love our markets that are build in 10 km away and could be only reached by a car. Everything we build kills first on resource hauling, transporting, making it to products and even when we just clear everything for what ever we build.
And it won't stop there. Let's eat something. We have killed everything, but the single crop from most of our fields. Fields have grown so huge that you can't even see their borders anymore. Total death zone with a single specie. And even fields itself are dying as soil degredates .
And the food comes from the supermarkets.
And the rest? We pollute with plastics, poisons, drugs, over fishing, mindless hunting, climate change, acid rain, zero oxygen death zones via our nutrients, ... And our forests? We in Finland has the best forests in Europe. What? There's hardly any natural forests left. Everything else goes for pulp factories every 60-80 years. Hardly anyone here has even seen old forests and those forests are as far away from people as they can be.
And the pace of destruction is going up.
Everywhere modern human goes we kill what we can. Only empty void is seen nice and clean. Not even our own scent can remind us that we emerged from nature. Total deserts that has a mindless specie wondering around what happens to the environment it has killed. We kill to create our own death zone.
Earthworms gone this year after noticeable 5 yr decline
Garden vegetables quit producing after a few warm nights last year and this year
Winters very mild and fluctuating while summers are mild compared to past and rest of country…nights too warm summer and winter
Microclimate in small town NWGA but it’s coming to everyone soon
-degreed published old horticulturist
Maybe not the Anthropocene but the
#Anthroplasticene ...
we will leave a burning, melting plastic nuclear disaster...
Thank you ...reduza recicle reuse
I’m curious about what comes first. The ice ice predicted in the 1970’ or the melting of the poles which should have happened at least 20 years ago.
Btw. Cool video of the melting glacier, is there a reason there’s no video of the growing ones?
WASF Cubed, want a happy ending, best watch a Disney film.
Disney film, music, art..whatever we enjoy. Why not? Constant gloom & doom does not help with mitigating the damage.
Preparations for COP26 (Glasgow) continue.
Despite his cancer Stuart has forged ahead with his efforts to popularize ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS. (see Facing Future Newsletter on our website.) - Margaret