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Yes, Australia's climate policies are truly an abject failure!! Our governments, state & federal, are captured by the fossil fuel industry. Millions in political donations & flow to the two major parties from fossil fuel corporations. Also it was reported that, "Hidden donors handed more than $90m in “dark money” to Australian political parties in the financial year of the last federal election". The Albanese govt has written legislation to suit the expansion of the gas industry.."Sea Dumping Bill". And has approved multiple 'carbon bomb' gas & coal projects. All while dragging their feet on promised upgrade of our broken federal environment laws to include having to take climate impacts of fossil fuel projects into consideration before approval. The so-called environment minister, fought against a community environment group in favour of the coal industry. This headline says it all..."Tanya Plibersek doesn’t have to consider climate change when approving coal mines". The Australian govt fits Antonio Guterres definition of "dangerous radicals" being among those govts still going ahead with fossil fuel industry expansion. The Sky News reporter above repeats the fossil fuel industry lie that Australia's economy depends massively on fossil fuel exports.(And I thought Sky News UK was better than our Murdoch owned Sky News) The big winners in our fossil fuel exports are the multi-national corps carrying out the exports. Coal brings in some royalties, but most of the big coal corps pay little to zero income tax. And we are literally giving our gas away for free, while the exporters charge us more for gas than people in other countries pay for Australian gas, which has been processed to LNG & transported OS. The govt tells us there is a gas shortage and that's why we need massive new gas projects. No! What we have on the east of Australia is a gas export problem, with gas corps prioritising their exports over domestic supply. More gas than is used in all manufacturing in this country is used by the gas industry for their production processes for LNG export. Over 80% of our gas is exported, most of it across the Great Barrier Reef, which is a coal & gas superhighway. The GBR is currently suffering it's 5th mass bleaching in 8 years, with 75% of corals affected. The biggest threat to the GBR is global heating from burning fossil fuels & deforestation. Neither of which our govt is willing to take effective action on. Giant old growth forests in Tasmania are still being logged, as are NSW forests which are within the proposed Great Koala National Park. Logging there is taking place at twice the rate than before the koala NP was announced, destroying koala habitat. The govt's low ball 43% reduction in ghgs will not happen by 2030. Only by the pretense afforded by dodgy carbon credits of which their so-called Safeguard Mechanism allows an unlimited number, thus allowing fossil fuel corps to not only carry on BAU, but go ahead with massive expansion plans. Our emissions are still rising thanks, in large part, to the transport sector & the popularity of outsized SUVs & utes. Australia is a dumping ground for the biggest gas guzzler vehicles which car companies cannot sell elsewhere due to vehicle emissions standards. We have none. The govt announced they would bring in new vehicle emissions standards, but the fossil fuel car lobbied the govt for changes which means these SUVs and utes will in fact be exempt! This is just some of the Australian govt's 'achievements' on climate & biodiversity policy. PS. Fantastic to see how you refuted all of this this reporter's arguments. Including his 'people have to put food on their plates' argument against transitioning to renewable energy/ending fossil fuel burning as fast as possible, implying the supposed unaffordable cost, by noting how the Nordhaus paper has been debunked by numerous experts. Of course, the cost of global heating impacts outweighs any cost of the energy transition necessary to mitigate global heating. Australia as you said is one of the highest emitters globally per capita. We are also the 'Middle East' of renewable energy resources. We have no excuse at all for not phasing out the fossil fuel industry asap. A great book on this is "The Big Switch" by Saul Griffiths who points out that Australian households would be around $5000/yr better off by switching to all electric household appliances & BEVs. And our balance of trade/economy would be much better too as we can use the abundance renewable energy resources to create 'green' metals for export. And our current $18bn import of liquid fuel would be unnecessary. Many of our big miners such as Fortescue Metals are going electric. As the CEO of the company Forrest said recently at the national press club, "We have to get the boot of the fossil fuel industry off the neck of Australia" and just get on with the energy transition.

Hi Matt, Great video. Just a thought on natural fertilisers. Isn't the most important thing about natural fertilisers that they can create a balance between bacteria & fungus in the soil, rather than just balancing the soil bacteria? Have you seen the work by Johnson & Su? I searched your channel to check & can't see anything. They developed the Johnson Su Bioreactor. A cheap, easy to build no-turn compost system, for making compost tea after one year of composting. The compost extract is used in conjunction with no-till farming. The compost is created using wood chips, sticks and/or leaves, plus some manure & a legume such as lucerne hay or some other legume that's readily available. They have achieved fabulous results, with testing on arid land increasing carrying capacity 10x. The method increases photosynthesis efficiency in plant growth & has been shown to be able to produce 5x the crop biomass in the first year of application, & another 5x in the second application. I was amazed to see their test plots on arid land. The argument against natural fertilsers that they take too much time (a decade is often quoted) to regenerate soil to where cropping is not diminished is proven incorrect by their work. Farmers & graziers are finding their stock to be much healthier as well as their pastures/crops increasing in biomass & soil depth in the first year of use. And this system is being used on 1000s of acres, saving farmers & the land from the high cost & environmental downsides of artificial fertilisers.

Just completed a 4 day walk in the Takine, cannot believe it's not all national park and world heritage.

Regenerative farming is a thing... it is 'pseudoscience' but it works

Almost like monoculture farming is bad

Beef is not bad for environment. False. Monocultures are the worst. Beef replenishes soil with poop. Monocultures suck everything up and kill land

Yea and besides that at days where I got no school I always sleep arpund 4am and wake up at 12 max 1pm, without forcing myself at all, maybe schools should find a diff hour to start cause 7am def don't feel natural

Hi Matt, as I was doing some original research for my channel, I ran across your wonderful video. Scott and I have only just moved to this majestic place and were amazed that the Tarkine is in our backyard. We are shocked by the ongoing climate crisis and often feel helpless, as I am sure that so many others do. This video helped me to understand this region more. Thank you. I subscribed to your channel. Thank you for making me more aware of the Bob Brown foundation and the threat to our beautiful Tarkine. As I grow my channel, I hope to help my viewers become aware, as you have. Thanks, Matt! - Robin Bird.

Dinosaurs were cool animals but people laughably fanboy over them ,so i agree .

It's interesting seeing this video pop up five years later. It seems absurd talking about vegetarianism and veganism as being in any way capable of changing the global climate trajectory. The ice loss around Antarctica alone this year has increased the heat absorption of the planet equivalent to dumping an extra TRILLION tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere (that's approximately equal to half of all human emissions ever). It really puts into perspective the futility of individual action and even national action.

water is wet bruh

Dope bro thanks

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Excuse me, in my local garden they buy CO2 and pump it in their green houses because their is not enough CO2 in the air. Plants and trees breath out carbon dioxide. Its needed just as much as Oxygen is. Do your own research don't be lobbied by multi national corporate agendas like BP into thinking that climate change is anything other than people trying to change the climate.

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You lost me at stop eating beef, shame was a good Video..

Excellent video. Henry Ford made hemp plant plastic car powered by hemp and that was eighty years ago. Why cant we back and still hemp now?

Lesson being- bring a 'comfortably' sized tube with me when going out to Sea... are there fish that small though? Maybe also a rag and a rubber band so I don't poo out fish later. This is pretty neat though!

yeah. a guy sitting in his bath tub sprinkles pepper in it and life begins. rofl

We need fusion, fast

Don't ask how I'm just finding this in 2022... But the fly travels at a constant 100mph in the same time it takes a truck to travel 50 miles at 50mph. So, 100mph*1hr = 100mi. That's how I figured it, and ... the world needed to know? Merry belated three Christmases ago!

More people need to hear about this!! #savesoil

Holy shit, Matthew shredded so hard. That was awesome!

You misunderstand the most basic concepts of nature and how fire is a natural necessary part of the cycle

ALL BULL SHIT

The problem with new infrastructure is that it’s likely to be used for decades to come to recoup the costs to build it. He’s wrong about the billionaire class wealth though. It’s a big chunk for sure but it would be inadequate to do much, and in doing so the retirement funds of half of Australians and Americans would be demolished due to stock market depression.

Bollocks! They said we passed the 'point of no return' a number of years ago... now they're going back on that, there's still that little bit time left. This is repetitive garbage!!! The world's coastal cities were supposed to be submerged in 2016 and every decade or so before that since 1922. What utter scaremongering rubbish! Why is there no debate about this??? Why do we only hear one side??? This is NOT how science works. The truth is that these people will be shown up for what they are should they debate with scientists of the opposite view. ABSOLUTE NONSENSE... and we keep hearing exactly the same thing... AND THE DISASTROUS SCENARIO NEVER HAPPENS!!!

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None of the alarmist stats he gives can be remotely correct: "Seven in ten of animals with spines down on the planet". C'mon. He talks about his "feelings around this". And that's the problem - all we get from these people is "feeling" not science. If you boil down the essentials of what he is saying - in terms of the necessary adjustments - it is either back to hunter/gatherers or we are all doomed. It is just not a practical proposition.

As ever Matt, thank you for speaking truth and pushing for the work that needs to happen.

Watching this…. The night before

Not the sort of thing you want to hear first thing in the morning, but certainly puts things into uncomfortable perspective. I feel like the change can only come from the top at this point. The majority of us would obviously prefer a greener, cleaner world to grow up and old in, but the wheels of fossil fuel and capitalism keep turning. The collective procrastination of those in power coupled with our general cognitive avoidance... there isn't a lot of hope to be found.

I loved these videos so much I remembered your name 4 years on. great videos

absolutely spot on, said how it is, and dominated the conversation. Keep up the good work!!!

Amazingly said nice work!

This is like watching Don't Look Up all over again.

Hey Clitmatt, loved your video!

Stop using food to make ethanol. Beef is not the problem.

Very knowledgeable video🎥

World wide farming is destroying the ecology

"We're making 350 million tonnes of plastic every year which is a lot because that's a big amount." Can't argue with facts like that.

Africa and the middle east dont use birth controls Muslims have huge families in a bid to grow islam. They have used up much of their water supplies so much so that some places use more water on farming than people. And now Europe is going to go the same way because the problems are being put onto us with mass migration. China did the right thing with a 1 child per family law. They decided to try and be responsible. But the population is already too large. If people are irresponsible with population then population sustainability declines. Shame they care more now about water amd food than birth control. Funny the UK Government talks about the green agenda yet at the same time its chipping away at greenland to build millions of homes and roads because of mass migration. The earth is warming because of concrete and lack of natural cover like trees. Building more concrete jungles is not green.

The soil is the skin of our mother. Thanks to the Godists ( those people who claim to follow the prince of peace but do the exact opposite of what he taught) most of the people on earth don't know that. They're trying to force our creators (yes even the Bible says that there are more than one) into starting the prophecies in revelations that are actually someone's experience with hallucinagenics mixed with history. They believe that when our planet begins to die "God" will allow them to kill or otherwise abuse all of the non-believers. Once the planet is gone and they're all living in the mansions their wealthy masters wouldn't even let them look into here in earth unless they were the hired help. Well if each of them has their own mansion and the streets are made of gold and they're all happy socialists, who's going to cook, clean, and perform all e those chores the poor Godists did on earth? They're going to import slaves, into heaven, for that. I'm serious. What use of mansions and streets of gold will our bodiless souls have? Have you ever asked a poor Godist that? The only real answer you'll get is their answer for everything. Don't question it. Just have faith. Sure I will. Hell no.

www.consciousplanet.org/what-science-says/ "What Science Says | Conscious Planet" Please expand your horizons of knowledge and learn how to live a Sustainable life in harmony with the nature, Soil is the fundamental base of it. "95 percent of the food we eat comes from the soil - UNFAO". Visit the website to know more about the movement: "Home | Conscious Planet" www.consciousplanet.org Some quick alarming facts: ⚠️ Around 45% of the mineral soils in Europe have low or very low organic carbon content. - European Commission ⚠️ 63% of India’s soils have low organic carbon content. - Govt of India ⚠️ Half of the topsoil on the planet has been lost in the last 150 years. - WWF ⚠️ More than 50 percent America’s topsoil has eroded away. - POLITICO ⚠️ Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years. - Scientific American. ⚠️ In agriculture, we estimate that soil erosion can lead up to 50 percent loss in crop yields. - UNFAO Good news and responsibility: 🌿 Potential impacts by 2040 under a regenerative agriculture scenario: 20% increase in soil organic carbon. IUCN 🌿 Potential impacts by 2040 under a regenerative agriculture scenario: 30% reduction in soil erosion. - IUCN 🌿 Potential Impacts by 2040 under a regenerative agriculture scenario: 17 billion USD potential avoided. - IUCN 🌿 Potential Impacts by 2040 under a regenerative agriculture scenario: 5 million jobs across sub-Saharan Africa. - IUCN 🌿 You can support to raise the awareness among the electorate about the situation we are in and the possibilities we can create. "Volunteer for Conscious Planet - Join the Movement" www.consciousplanet.org/join-the-movement-volunteer/

Know more about Soil, it's role in life on earth and it's present condition with these short beautiful films. Concious Planet | What Science Says czcams.com/play/PLANbd-HAMQQ8OQfyLZ6Pp6T0T9h_ICKRV.html

We're fucked tbh. Modern civilization would most likely collapse and we would enter into a new dark age.

bath is lit

I highly recommend the podcast Breaking Down: Collapse. All our systems are unsustainable. It's looking like things are going to keep getting rougher in our futures.

Animals grazing and cow poops will contain the nutrients needed. Also any methane created dissipates from the atmosphere within 10 years.