The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert | Talks at Google
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Please note, the slides are not included in this video.
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us.
In "The Sixth Extinction", Pulitzer Prize winner and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human. - Розваги
Google, will you tell your film crews that it is indeed okay to show the graphs that are ever so important for the topic at hand?
It'd be great to see the slides that she's constantly pointing at! :)
I met someone who didn’t believe in climate change yesterday. I think I lost half of my brain cells trying to reason with them.
Why on earth were the slides not shown?! I was so looking forward to this talk :(
This is Peak Modernity when one of the foremost technology companies in the world cannot split screen a presentation presented on its own platform.
What the hell was wrong with the camera person ? We miss most of the video because the camera never focuses on anything but her ! I gave up watching after 8:35 because of this. Sad, I would have watched it, but it could have had the same impact if it were done as a radio show !
This is Peak Modernity when one of the foremost technology companies in the world cannot split screen a presentation presented on its own platform.
Google UA-cam is fucking retarded rolling in dough incompetent bastards got the whole world held ransom. Meanwhile can’t even produce a decent music app
THIS IS WHAT A REAL JOURNALIST LOOKS LIKE.
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." The words come from the 'Bhagavad Gita' and were said about the first atomic bomb detonation, but these words can as easily apply to the effects humans and their activities are eliciting upon the Earth.
The theme for the book is very interesting and meaningful...
Thanks for showing us the photos the speaker is referring to. Helps a lot.
i like how they never show any of the slides
This is Peak Modernity when one of the foremost technology companies in the world cannot split screen a presentation presented on its own platform.
There is literally a TON of little things, as with big things, we all could do - IF given the tools - to make great strides in living in harmony with the earth. But economically rich people have to be willing to give up their egos and some of their riches in order to MAKE that happen.
For example, fashion - the clothing industry. That industry alone has a vast impact on the earth, while the truth is, here in North America everyone has FAR too many clothes most of which are not even worn. Clothes that sit in dressers and closets and end up in good will stores or in the garbage. It is WASTEFUL and TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. And that is just ONE example of thousands of examples. There are plenty of solutions that people do not seem to want to see and/or thus employ. Hence, it is little wonder some folks are suspect of the whole idea concerning climate change.
Google couldn't afford a camera for her slides?
3:00 Apparently crows are generally monogamous, perhaps he's in love with the 'handler' and doesn't want anyone else?
I can not see how they could possibly know that there have been 5 previous extinctions..carbon would not be the biggest problem a volcano eruption would spew out more carbon than all human industrial production in a lifetime...now Methane would be more of a problem...
Elizabeth Kolbert (born 1961) is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and as an observer and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker magazine.She received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
Ron La Manna they examine the complete life mass index throughout geographic records, and can easily see the rise and fall of species. Most dieouts are stamped with a steady decline, then some record of disappearance and the advent of a series of speciation events to replace the dead. I'm not sure you really meant to say you couldn't see how this is possible to know.
Thanks for putting this on Google! It's great to see a major corporation contributing in some way to this catastrophe we've found ourselves in.
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Sir please do watch the above video too & you'll know the reality how things are.... !! 👍😊
Wow, no slides???
On one of her PBS interviews she talked about releasing particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun-rays back upward away from the earth to cut down on global warming. This would be done with airplanes. My,my,my isn't this exactly what everyone has been calling Chem-trails ... Of course they made fun of them and called those that believed in it ... Conspiracy theorists. This woman is talking science.
Slides are not necessary as her narrative and your own imagination should be enough to produce your own image of what is on the screen behind her. Elizabeth also mentions titles to many of the slides which can easily be found elsewhere online.
for anyone who finds the speaking portion of this presentation of less value because the slides aren't shown alongside, go watch Kolbert's OSU talk (just search "kolbert osu"). it's the same talk, in more detail, plus slides.
More books need to be digitized or kindle-ized, and made for non- Fossil fuel economy products, text read-out devices;of the digital-internet based type.
There are too many people and population growth is not yet slowing. It will as resources wane but that is the main motivator to increase in fossil fuel consumption. Sorry to say but I just don't see a way to reverse the trend or even put a significant dent in it. Yes and Fritz Haber saved the populations from starving but now look at where fixed nitrogen has placed us.
John seven kill all humans
"...100 million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man - the sculptures & the libraries, the monuments & the museums - will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper." Chapter 5, "Welcome To The Anthropocene" THE SIXTH EXTINCTION By Elizabeth Kolbert. Saturday, July 27, 2024, AD, 4:40 pm, Eastern Standard Time, Temporary milky way galaxy.
What a pity we can see the presentation she is showing
the indians lived with bison a long time without destroying them
11:55 Prof Kolbert drinks from her disposable cup. Slightly breaking my heart. Little actions matter.
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If possible try to watch this video from 0(min):15(sec ) sir....👆☺️
it's worth watching. 🔥😊
Probably it is coffee with dairy and dairy industry is one of the major contributor to the greenhouse gas emissions.
Permian mass extinction where in one
***** agreed it's not looking good
Have you seen facts in motion’s Permian video?
39:33 Rats are everywhere humans are, and so are many ''rat people'' so, if humans go extinct, the cockroaches and rats will still b e around, feeding on the remains of the day.
I see we have a load of 14 year-olds here, or people, all male, sadly, with a mental age of 14 or under.
And is she right or wrong ?
We are creating the new pangaea. Yikes. :(
if she is so concerned about the future why does she have 3 kids..
Ron La Manna I HONESTLY CANNOT BELIEVE YOU ASKED THAT QUESTION?
+Ron La Manna Probably the stupidest comment I have ever read on youtube.
she knew about this after having kids.just like you and me did..and what about social pressure..my dad wants a grandchild more than me.
Good question ! Although she is right on the rest.
People like her should have 10 kids as they'll likely going on to find solutions to take care of the planet
A more likely cause of the sixth extinction event will be a massive solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, a giant space rock, a massive comet, a global nuclear war, a polar flip, massive long lasting volcanoes or a combination of the above. To my eye, all these make adding CO2 to the atmosphere pale by comparison.
As an example, a solar event the magnitude of the Carrington event in 1859 (only 160 years ago) would render our modern electric society useless for years, perhaps decades. Millions to billions in large cities would starve to death in a matter of days and disease outbreaks caused by the rotting corpses would take millions more.
Do we need to be better stewards of our planet? Yes, but we need a serious discussion about where to put money to understand and perhaps mitigate all these disasters. Just sayin'.
Look we keep trying to concentrate massive wealth into fewer and fewer hands and we refuse to do anything else.
Yeah if Earth or the universe burp we get rekt. But at least we put some stuff on Martian sand.
Nothing else on this planet figured out to do that.
Slightly less hairy apes did. We have thrown our mechanical poo at the neighborhood rock.
This video editing should be extinct 😤
10 years now and say same trash shit ever and ever and ever 😅
No one properly (a LOT) discusses carbonic acid in the ocean created by us and our gross overages of CO2 from transportation industry and power generation. 67% of the biosphere's oxygen our breathable air comes from plankton and carbonic acid kills this plankton (nasa estimates 26% of plankton is gone, from the early 70's to now). By not NOW stopping CO2 emissions (via electric cars only and deep geothermal powerplants only, stopping all fossil fuel burning powerplants), we are ipso facto suffocating life on earth as we know it. youtube Great Thunberg she says 'people with a platform' have the responsibility (as they can be heard) to sound the alarm. Tell EVERY Andrew Weaver you know to "do more"!!!!(*And please youtube the pure logic of Greta Thunberg.)