They even literally have a big floating hand in the video.
"We are at the point where not de-carbonizing is a bad business decision". lmao ok.
What do y'all think about this?
yeah sure kurzgesagt let me know when you bring up the fact that antarctica is 70 degrees warmer than it should be and then maybe we can have a non-propagandized discussion about how effective your fucking green capitalist bullshit is
"Green capitalism" is just capitalism, which includes everything from copium about arctic shipping lanes to hopium among some billionaires involving fantasies of escaping a damaged ecosystem in favor of someplace with no ecosystem at all.
Don't do that. Don't be the "it's snowing outside har har global warming" clown we already have to live with.
literally climate scientists, ice scientists and meteorologists alike are saying this is cause for alarm esp if it recurs. it's well established that the mass arctic ice melting is mostly caused directly by climate change and also bad. this could def be part of that. the temperature is not normal. i'm unsure why you think I was saying the equivalent of "[predicted weather patterns] means climate change isn't happening" because I'm fucking not this is entirely abnormal for the poles :lenin-confused:
You: [single abnormal event unrelated to the thrust of your argument, therefore you're wrong]
Okay, you’re clearly convinced I’m making an argument that I’m fucking not making at all, I’m just gonna disengage man :what-the-hell:
We are at the point where not de-carbonizing is a bad business decision
Funny, the logic of markets always seems to come out as Actually, you don't have to do anything because the problem will sort itself because it has to. Most convenient, we can turn to more important matters, like what's for lunch.
What's for brunch, you mean. What are you, a climate change denialist?
Alexa what is de-growth?
Seriously the first world will have to do it in some form. We can't have so few people using so many resources.
They did mention it as a throw away line, something like "rich countries will have to change their ways" then they went and compared emission reduction with gdp growth in Central European countries and I felt like gouging my eyes out.
They take a bunch of funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, so even being generous and thinking they might have other views, they can't be kicking their lunchbox with anything spicier than "um ackshually, our economic system is awesome and tech will sort everything out... By the way, fuck poor countries"
I hope everyone involved with this fucking shit channel drowns in their own feces
Smugly standing on the deck of the Titanic and saying “Actually, the ship manufacturers are incentivised to patch the hole in the hull, so we shouldn’t bother avoiding the iceberg”
MotherFUCK Kurzgesagt. Astroturfed to all hell by the Gates Foundation and for every one actually interesting video they have about black holes or some shit, there's 10 more like this saying we should all :vote: with our wallets to end climate change, and how we need to make African countries into more neoliberal outposts, or how racist whig history is super correct actually.
These sorta pop-edutrainment channels on YT all seem to do this same thing of lacing together educational content with mild truthfulness and benefits with out-right propaganda. Not sure if that's just the force of YT pushing content creators into propaganda for easy money or they're astro-turfed to hell from the outset. Probably a mixture of both.
"Don't worry, we're only locked in for 3 degrees of warming, which will cause mass migrations that kicks fascism into overdrive in 'developed' countries!" Wow, sounds great.
"Don't give up! Keep fighting!" By, what, :vote:ing? The US government does not represent the views of the people at all, so unless you're suggesting we start minecrafting some of those people with names and addresses, this is fairly empty.
Scientistism: An Infantile Disorder (the video).
The only thing he's right about is that you shouldn't give up, but like, who is actually arguing that you should? 3C warming is a nightmare and you shouldn't feel fine about it, you should be furious and it should spur you into direct action :picard-direct-action:
I'm much more concerned that people will be complacent because they believe climate change will be taken care of than I am concerned that some people will care so much about climate that it might make them sad. It should make you sad, but then turn that into anger and mobilize.
I absolutely like how free marketeers just assume they can make infinite lithium batteries for cars and the prices will stay low.
Even if I approach this with the most open mind possible, it seems mired in numbers without any sort of context to them, wishful thinking regarding the impact or even the feasibility of certain technologies (shout out to artificial meat), ignoring that lithium battery production also produces massive CO2, BLATANTLY ignoring that alternative energy production has only become profitable in Europe because of weird marginal pricing schemes that are, in practice, direct grants to private corporations AKA "sending the right market signals" and I'm only halfways through. The thing that stands to me is the very beginning, the GOOD NEWS MANY PEOPLE IN THE FIRST WORLD WILL PROBABLY NOT DIE seems like a thing everyone will settle with, probably covid rhetoric finally coming to roost.
HE IS ONE OF THE GOOD ONES which means he MAKES ME FEEL GOOD while doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to improve the situation! :so-true:
The heckin wholesome anesthesiologist in the forced limb harvesting clinic
My favorite part is when they list coal use going down dramatically as if it means emissions and fossil fuel use are also going down, then they switch straight to saying it was renewables getting cheaper that did it.
Some hacks there decided to ignore natural gas and oil.
Reminds me of that time this guy came to defend himself when people were talking shit about one of his videos on r/cth. Can't recall which one.
