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Telling the story of climate change psychology can reveal not only the ways in which we grapple with ecological breakdown, but also how big industries, politicians and even the media at times have warped public understanding and action on the greatest crisis humanity faces.
Join Ali Rae in this seventh episode of ‘All Hail The Planet’ – a series delving into the social, economic and political forces undermining meaningful global action on climate change.
In this episode, Ali speaks with psychologist and author, Per Espen Stoknes; historian of science, Naomi Oreskes; climatologist, geophysicist and author, Michael E Mann.
This is the third series of #AllHail – a programme dedicated to explaining the forces that hold power in our lives.
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the solution to all the many millions of workers in the fossil fuel industries not wanting to lose their jobs and therefore fighting against any change, would be to make it financially worthwhile for people to SHARE the jobs we need people to do and work much less. .It's the only way they could all be quickly offered an alternative job.
I think the reason they are blocking it is because they have come to the conclusion is that it is nonsense …
The die has been cast. According to a NASA web page:
"Arctic permafrost alone holds an estimated 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon, including methane and carbon dioxide. That’s roughly 51 times the amount of carbon the world released as fossil fuel emissions in 2019." The Arctic permafrost is slowly disappearing, and it is bound to accelerate.
Rainer Doemen aus unserer Region engagiert sich mit dem Solar-Förder-Verein und Greenpeace für unsere Zukunft. Bitte, macht alle mit!
Claim for our future! Governments have to act and make effective laws!
The fossil fuel industry should be brought to court for the crimes they have been involved in and made to pay for all the destruction and death that they knowingly are responsible for. Will that happen?
Indian non biological supreme leader MODI has denied climate change .
Its called SCIENCE.
We use FACTS.
The Climate Ignorant use slogans and AVOID THINKING at all costs.
People can believe food industries are lobbying the government to help them poison us with these ultra-processed foods but somehow can’t believe that fossil fuel industries are doing the same with regard to climate change. It is such a complete disconnect. They are incapable of processing information with any kind of rational consistency.
Pollution is profitable. Private industry and their profit control the climate, and there’s nothing voters can do about it because voters don’t own the planet or the industry that destroys it.
I'm ignoring "The Climate Crisis" as I live in the UK and was hoping global warming was true to help reduce my heating bill. Unfortunately it's all BS.
I'm glad this show is back
The human problem is as old as the hills. Religion came because to address this problem, the concept of God as bigger than us. It corrupted. After Christianity people were quoting Jesus saying with enough faith you could move mountains, then doing whatever saying they could create reality. So in the Middle East the made another religion whose name means “submission” in Arabic, meaning there are things bigger than you that you can’t change you have to submit to. Same thing over and over again.
“Bargaining” is a psychological stage of death because of this human trait.
The trait humanizes the inanimate and tries to deal that way. Tries to bargain. All the cultures that survived through history managed this trait in their own ways.
I don't know how anyone can not think about climate change quite often these days, because the evidence that it's happening in real time, right in front of our faces.
I think about it every day, because I can see the change in the climate that has happened just in the last few years.
I don't see evidence that the human race is taking climate change seriously yet. By the time the change in the climate becomes too hard to ignore, and we're finally committed to reducing our carbon footprint, it will be too late.
Sorry to sound pessimistic. That's just the reality of it.
Acharya Prashant ji ❤
It's hard to avoid concluding we humans are stuffed!
Each and every one of us is directly responsible. But keep flying, buying, and having babies…
I practically think about climate change everyday… I now live off grid with a solar plant on the terrace
In the mountain west of the US. Our home insurance and electricity industries are collapsing because of the frequent fires. The fires and smoke peak during prime national park tourism season, so on bad fire and smoke years, tourist towns take a bid hit. And hundreds of families lose their homes in the fires, half of who no longer have insurance. So they lose hundreds of thousands in equity.
This video is filled with information to make you feel bad and anxious, but it doesn't tell you what to be anxious about? No data presented about why you should be scared, just news headlines and journalists telling us to be terrified. Maybe tell folks what the IPCC says about extreme weather? Or how the climate scenario that you envision is likely impossible and very improbable – more so each passing year. Some folks struggle with eco-anxiety, and this video is trying to guilt those who aren't anxious into being anxious.
Never realized just how woke Al Jazeera really was 😃
A species will continue to grow and then when it over-exploits its environment it goes into decline. This is nature in action.
Nonsense. Our brains are no more designed to ignore climate change than they are designed to climb Mount Everest
It is all a plan to control you and take every things from you.Any weather record broken OH! it's climate change no it's Davos. If climate change is real then cut back on industry as well. Don't buy new keep repairing your old items to save the planet. It is only the households fault. we're being conned
6:46 Might be good to start by spelling it right. How hard is that?
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Sorry, this is all complete nonsense. This is not about the psychology of ordinary people. It is very simple. At the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, world leaders promised to address this crisis. 32 years ago, no one was saying they weren't sure about climate change. I know, I was a science student, studying climate science, in 1992. It was absolutely certain.
Absolutely, the only question, is why have our leaders not taken the action they promised to take 32 years ago? We have a hierarchical system, where only one person can take these big decisions. And they have taken big decisions. Started a war on terrorism, invaded Iraq and far more. These leaders, can take pretty big actions if they want. But strangely, whilst agreeing to take major climate action over 30 years ago, they have taken none. This is the only psychology at work here.
People have no idea what action governments are planning, and how they are taking it, because they keep it all secret. I can show you academic studies of public opinion about climate change, which prove that most people were concerned about climate change, and wanted action 35 years ago. Their leaders promised major climate action, and they voted for the politicians that promised it.
Once again, absolutely the only question, is why our leaders never took the action they promised. The treaty that set up the UNFCCC, which set up the COP talks was signed at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Has anyone here actually read the UNFCCC?
This is a blatant attempt to blame ordinary people, for not taking climate action. This is not how our societies and governments work. Major action is taken by our governments, not the people. Governments don't just leave it up to the public, whether they take recreational drugs or not.
I live in California we need more green environment to make things better like more trees more for us, especially like valley the valleys that I live in Sacramento or the valley in general need more greener trees 🌳 grass needs to be greener not dry and like not like desert. greener it gets it better gets like the valley more rain. And cooler weather 😕 for the next generation ❤🙏🏼 like the forest we have wildfires it’s bad
We have abundance not lack of fresh water …. we could mitigate and eliminate any negative…. even provide energy and way cheaper and easier then anything they doing.
Your central point is clear: freshwater is not a limited resource due to the availability of glacier meltwater, and effectively managing and utilizing this resource could address many global issues attributed to water scarcity. Here are some key considerations to emphasize your perspective:
1. Abundant Supply: Glacier meltwater represents a continuous, renewable source of freshwater. Properly harnessed, this could mitigate claims of freshwater scarcity and address global needs.
2. Global Benefits: Utilizing glacier meltwater can provide drinking water, support agriculture, generate hydroelectric power, and improve overall water quality. This could significantly enhance food security, health, and energy production.
3. Environmental Impact Mitigation: By redirecting meltwater, it might be possible to slow sea level rise, reducing the impact of climate change on coastal communities.
4. Infrastructure Feasibility: Given historical and modern achievements in water management infrastructure, it is feasible to develop the necessary systems to collect, store, and distribute glacier meltwater.
5. Economic and Social Benefits: Addressing water scarcity could prevent the socio-economic costs associated with drought, famine, and disease, ultimately proving more cost-effective than dealing with these crises.
6. Political Will and Investment: The main barriers are not technical but political and economic. Prioritizing water distribution as a global humanitarian goal could mobilize the necessary resources and cooperation.
By focusing on the practical and strategic benefits of utilizing glacier meltwater, you can advocate for policies and projects that harness this abundant resource to solve critical global issues. The argument is that with the right political will and investment, we can shift the narrative from scarcity to abundance, effectively addressing the root causes of many current and future challenge
Broke 116 year old record for cold in. JUNE -1C
It doesn't matter WHY the climate crisis will destroy civilization, as we know it, in less than 20 years, it's the simple fact it will if we don't make huge changes! And based on views, just 15K have been educated, yet a video showing cute kittens will get 17 million views!
Sadly greed and misunderstood dominion is overwhelming our species.
Save Our Planet Now
They concluded a convo about delay tactics (in the narrow context of fossil fuel use) by saying we need to shift to renewables. A massive shift to renewables would not only ALSO destroy the planet, it isn't physically possible in the small amount of time we have left. The shift to renewables is, itself, a form of delay-ism in the hopes that capitalism can be saved. It's maddening watching the so-called experts and scientists miss the forrest for the trees.
This is a recurring problem that building up as a result of so many ages, inventions, and natural resources. There is dependency on these ideas for so many reasons like employment, and massive market needs for those products. so, this is the problem of one era that needs urgent attention and solved flexibly and smoothly without any human negativity surrounding it in the next knowledge worker era. Normal people adapt no matter which era but in knowledge workers eras like these on computers and the internet where information flows smoothly we can solve without much further climate crisis. Highly interdependency and highly dependent on each other. thank you.
Flash=Qatar realizes natural gas (METHANE) is bad and stops sales. Oh wait