Can YOU Fix Climate Change?

One of my favorite channels on YouTube is Kurzgesagt and they recently (looking at date, well, last year - still recent in the scale of things) had a video on global warming - Can YOU Fix Climate Change? ▶ this video There's also Do we Need Nuclear Energy to Stop Climate Change? - link Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated. - link

Kurzgesagt made a really good video about climate change [0]. What stuck with me the most was that if I would eliminate 100% of my emissions in my entire life, I would save 1 second of global energy sector emissions. [0] ▶ this video

You are not representing the seriousness of this situation adequately (in my opinion). This excellent cartoon video explains the seriousness of all the lesser known sources of carbon: ▶ this video Seems like Chairman Xi is serious about tackling Climate Change so he does not get deposed if the Gobi desert grows and eventually swallows up half of China.

If you don’t mind YouTube, here is a decent video and a follow up more positive one I found. It does mention concrete and many other forms of co2 production we haven’t figured out yet. 2022 Kurzgesagt in a nutshell. ▶ this video 2023 less doomerism climate change update: link

From Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: Can YOU Fix Climate Change? ▶ this video and We WILL Fix Climate Change! link Make sure that you watch the second one if you watch the first one.

No. > The use of household carbon footprint calculators originated when oil producer BP hired Ogilvy to create an "effective propaganda" campaign to shift responsibility of climate change-causing pollution away from the corporations and institutions that created a society where carbon emissions are unavoidable and onto personal lifestyle choices. link Kurzgesagt also provided a very good view on this that I agree with - ▶ this video - "Can YOU Fix Climate Change?" (No*). The video explains it much better than I could in a comment but if you're concerned about your own contribution, you're focusing on the wrong thing.

>Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, the most-popular decentralized digital currency, have a notoriously large carbon footprint (bitcoin mining alone consumes about half as much electricity in a year as all of the UK). So to leverage a cheap source of energy to run their bitcoin mining operations, Lochmiller and Cavness found themselves partnering with oil companies to repurpose a byproduct, primarily methane, that’s typically vented or burnt off in flares. Aren't crypto miners using GPUs to "mine" bitcoins? Doesn't that also mean every person who plays video games is also responsible for stressing the power generation system. And as GPUs become more powerful to give better frame rates and fancy tech like RTX, they also become more power hungry. Doesn't that also mean the massive data centers like the what Google is running for Stadia with massive number of GPUs is responsible for taxing the power generation system? Or people who train Deep Learning models with billion of parameters on GPUs? I do see people pointing fingers at Deep Learning and how it isn't "carbon neutral" but the other things are not really talked about. That being said, I am not people/companies who use GPUs aren't the cause of global warming or are somehow singlehandedly making it worse I believe that as a society we are kind of involved in this. Finger pointing will really keep going in circles. I am not the biggest fan of pop science as it often oversimplifies problems but this video by Kurzgesakt is very

Kurzgesagt made a video about it, and they say, and I agree with them, the answer can only be political pressure: ▶ this video They also mentioned the stat that if 1 person lived totally carbon neutral for 70 years, that would offset only 1 second of current global CO2 emissions, which I'm going to presume is sourced properly. I'm not very optimistic. Politicians follow the polls and go with what's popular, and if the people living in the rich nations have to pay more to fly to Asia for cheap holidays, and iPhones, etc, get more expensive because of carbon tax, the majority probably won't support the governments and will instead vote in populist idiots that will make things "great again". In the poorer countries, being told that the decades-old luxuries they've envied from richer nations will cost more because of government policies will also not be popular, never mind that the policies are meant to save the future.

Kurzgesagt: Can YOU Fix Climate Change? ▶ this video Link in response to people asking what everyone is doing, should be doing, and can be doing...

That's nice, but the unfortunate thing is: ▶ this video It's a Kurzgesagt video about why individual action is far from enough, and why we need systemic action. Do your part, but also pressure politicians, because that's where the main pain point is.

Only in aggregation when everyone else changes their behaviour as well. Each individuals contribution is too tiny to have an impact, which is why we need a systematic change or legislation, so that its no longer a choice/personal responsibility to take action. Kurzgesagt's recent video (sponsored by bill gates notes)e xpressed the issue much better then I ever could, so i'll only link to it here. ▶ this video

Some argue that another form of climate denial is the denial that we're headed for certain doom. Of course it's an easy cop-out, to say "well the planet's doomed anyway, let's book those flights to the Maldives! (Before the sea swallows them)". Or to deny responsibility by saying "Why should I change, look at those private jets!". I agree when Kurzgesagt argues, the fix is to push for political change ▶ this video . I like meat, petrol cars and flying vacations, but if they get heavily taxed to help save the planet, I'll sign up for that! I'll grumble that meat is such a luxury, but that's how it's supposed to be...