Climate change is happening we all need to get serious about limiting our carbon dioxide emissions! At the same time, scientists are looking for plan B because we might need it.
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Too bad ya can’t use the system that converts it into rock to make the particular sand that the world needs… that’s a big money business
Issue isn’t “Which one thing will help most?,” but how much the practical part of each approach helps. Planting more trees helps some. Growing some kelp farms will help some. So do both. 9% of the oceans is a biiiiig area and some of that mist be difficult to get kelp to.
Drive less. Take fewer flights. Insulate your homes of you can. Eat less factory meat. Vote, campaign for, and donate to eco-friendlier candidates. Use less plastic.
Promote eco-friendlier science, like GMOs and nuclear power, just not on earthquake faults or frequent-tsunami areas.
5 years later up from 410 ppm to 421 ppm in July 2023
Seaweed is actually a very good idea. It can be used for really many things, from Japanese seaweed salad to biofuels or part of cattle food
Iceland may also get slightly larger this way 🤔
Plankton was a couse of oxygenation of the earth so why do not to think about? And think there is a quick solution to get rid of some problem cousing gases with few devices lifted up with a helium balloons
Lawns and gardens that are natural to the environment the individuals live in to cut back from water usage
Now a days we humans are just a sleeping dickh**d
This guy's look is face and ears 1990s, hair and clothes 2022.
1. How has population growth been factored in to any of these?
2. What happens to the species that inhabit Antarctica if the temperature is dropped more?
This reminds me about the medical method of treating symptoms and leaving the causes alone. I great deal of factories make stuff that is designed to break and will need to be bought again. Water heaters used to last 50 years but now they burn out in 6-7 years. Their are broken snow shovels all around the snowed in complex where I live. When I was a youth (60 years ago) snow shovels were wood handled and steel bladed. They lasted for decades. Now they break in a week or two without any abuse. How many factories here or in China are pouring out smoke to making things that are designed to break over and over again. Same with everything that we make except planes, trains and ships. A rigid standards branch could stop a huge amount of CO2 production in factories burning fuel to make stuff designed to break.
We don't need extra space. After the alagae farm or an artificial forest that we create (say in a grassland) grows to it's full potential, we must cut it down and store it somewhere. That's it. Carbon trapped. Now we have our space back for the next round. If all the people start storing wood instead of letting it rot or burning it, that will by itself do a massive difference.
How about Phytoplankton? They already generate 70% of earth oxygen.
Can y’all make a video on what the world is doing today for climate change? Like companies or small scale businesses that we can support.
So we have the ideas but no money to do it ? Meanwhile Jeff Bezos is going to space for sports and Elon musk is thinking of giant space ads .. who tf gave these people money !!
Just build an artificial mountain with waste and sand from Sahara, high enough to make it snow at the tops, the heat waves captured by the mountains will be cool downed by the icy cold space and the resultant moisture would become new rivers, this is what the nature is being doing for the last millions of years.
Only if earth could speak…
So our government wants the slaves in Africa to continue to mine Cobalt so we can drive electric cars so there is enough fuel to run container ships back and forth to Asia so we can continue to buy products made by the slaves over there. What a great plan! Did you know a massive expansion of nuclear power is part of the Democrats 2020 platform?
How about bringing the Columbia River down to the Colorado River and irritate the south West so we can plant more trees? How about if we bring jobs back to this country?
Trend that I think should be more popular: letting people grow out their lawns. Why? Because it’s actually better for the environment. The longer grass allows more cover and habitat for wildlife that are beneficial to the area. Not to mention the gas consumption lawn mowers take. Especially in the plains and grassy areas.
Don't need to re invent the trees. Plus trees stop soil erosion and are habitat for life. N a hundred other purposes. How selfish it sounds that I have to try to convince humans forests are worth it…
we are going to stop using oil in the next few years if the GOP likes it or not we just cant keep using something we know is bad for the environment
Let's do it.
How about cow fart?
They are the main cause
We need someone like Elon musk or bill gates to get off there ass and spend their money on something like this, I know they donate lots of their money to charity but how do you think they got their billions ? By exploiting the whole world. They need to start giving money back.
PS the seaweed one sounds sick
smells nocebo effect long way, the low level of both temperature & co2 of today
is an anomaly in the history of complex life
2:56 bruh people go to auction house and buy a useless painting that only has a dot in it for some billions of dollars and you think that they can't afford changing the world?
can't we just agree not to burn dino goo?…no…just me… ok
There’s all this talk of money being a problem but this is so urgent and there are enough billionaires on the planet that it shouldn’t be a issue ..