Is another mass extinction on the horizon?
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- There have been five mass extinctions in Earth's history. Author Elizabeth Kolbert thinks we may be headed for another.
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The problem is there aren't enough educated people in this world who understand or care for these concepts to change the course we are on.
There are enough educated people and people who care. There is a collection of corrupt politicians and special interests (*ahem*, fossil fuel industry, utilities, big agriculture) spending billions to disinform the populace and buy politicians to legislate their way. Remove the money from politics, and you will have a productive government that serves the interest of the people.
exactly. money and wealth is power while education can only bring you so far (unfortunately).
There are enough educated people who care, but they’re not the ones who decide what choices are made. Politicians are in charge, and stupidly enough politicians are the ones who don’t care.
Precisely. The problem is that such an irreverent, ungodly, ignorant brood was born in the first place. It's Hardin's "tragedy of the commons" which will doom humanity in the end. For starters, I propose limiting human reproduction to no more than THREE children per family. More than that and parents should be liable to a fine, because those extra children become a burden on society (in numerous ways) and we need to follow China's brave lead on demographic control.
Nature won't miss us.
white raven flying we're destroying it
Sadly true
most of nature wont exist in a hot house earth environment.
Watching this video while there's a COVID crisis..
Same
The mass extinction is well underway. Embrace for impact or fix the damn environment.
The interview totally missed the whole point. Our lives are totally dependent on the natural environment. The ecosystem serves very important functions of filtering out toxins, providing food, recycling nutrients and water, providing oxygen, providing medicine and building materials, etc. Our daily lives are so separated from the natural environment, most of us haven't appreciated the important service that other organisms provide.
We need to come up with an economic system that appreciates environmental protection and conservationism.
HaoSci yes, lettuce embrace 4 impact
Hello from 2020 Quarantine.
We should make an animal that farts out tons of oxygen every week
see the thing is TREES do that except we seem to have decided to cut most of them down...
Cat McLean Exactly. plants/trees < animals
so if we make animals that use the farting mechanism boom problem solved.
Keep the irrelevant noise down please. I'm not here to listen to your exercises in post-production, I'm here to listen to the speaker.
+Kakto Tak When he asked her why we should care about global warming it took him like an entire minute to ask a simple 5 second question. Fucking annoying as shit
lmao well stated
Thank you.
If bees go instinct the human race might go instinct :( save bees
*extinct
tom v You can't correct people whilst not capitalising the words in your username.
Yet you still can't spell capitalizing".....
+tom v sorry I was on a phone and you know how the things that you write change sorry 😑
just an FYI, only americans spell it with a 'z'
"In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." -Aldous Huxley
Watching this in 2020
Many would just download songs or watch videos about saving the earth and so and listen to it, cry to it but then... no action. 2016.
Get these two some chapstick
Lmafaooooo
This was one of your best videos yet. Balanced, candid and thorough. Thanks for the great work.
"training montage style of change".
Love it!
Wait, so im confused. I thought the earth was 6k years old. Also the last mass extinction was probably the great flood.
Nice bait, almost had me.
@@liamscott7508 hade me in the first half not gonna lie
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This channel predicted life
Interesting interview. Thanks.
anyone in thier reccomendations in 2020??
*their
On the horizon? Dude we're in it right now.
dinosaurs aren't gone they evolved and current live with us today as birds
The great barrier reef has died since the creation of this video... Wow...
No...it's not
Not all of it, but you are partially correct. A massive amount of the reefs have died, and will continue to die as we continue to release all this CO2.
you don't even know 2014...
Why bother using science to understand these changes if we just ignore it? We suck!
True, but in a way we can't help it. It's a natural thing that has come up thanks to HOW we evolved. I for one have listened, and even though it is MASSIVELY inconvenient, I have done a lot to change my life to try to help the planet.
Start researching WHERE conservatism leads us vs liberalism. Where it came from, the factors that lead to the labels we have put to those terms. The more you learn about it, the more you will see that, sadly, as a result of our evolution, we are, by default, conservative. And it takes A LOT of time to develop into a liberal.
Then go and watch Idiocracy.
Then you will see, that not only do humans suck, we NATURALLY suck. (I know I kinda went in a circle, but try to bear with me on that)
That's an Apple // or //e on the cabinet in the background. Such love. Wow.
where is the link to her book or even the name.
What do you mean on the horizon, its already begun!
Between 5:00 and 6:00 the discussion on the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is highly exaggerated.
Carbon dioxide concentration reached up to 1,700 ppm in the Cretaceous -- over four times today's level. This is also higher than the CO2 levels during the Permian in the lead up to the Great Dying, when they were around 900 ppm.
I thought they were talking about the rate at which the CO2 is increasing not the actual CO2 levels of the time
Didn't those species have thousands if not millions of years to adapt to this change?
Well if your dead y IP u can't adapt
Why is there a soviet star in the background? 0:04
Gonna agree, the cuts are annoying and so is the audio. Good going Vox.
Hey Vox, I LOVE your videos but it is easier to understand them with english subtitles as a non native speaker; plus I learn new vocabulary and correct pronunciation. But everyting else is great :D.
Does anybody else get motion sickness and annoyed because of the editing of the video? And why not cut out irrelevant noises?
Something to look forward to
The one (I realize minor) thing that bugs me about this video is that she keeps saying how no dinosaurs survived.
They did.
They're called birds.
Crocodiles, alligators and other reptiles as well.
The following reply has been copypasted from another comment string, so not all references will make perfect sense. Sidenote, before yelling at me, I did create this reply, so you have no ground to stand on for the copypasta.
It's much simpler than you're making it. Think about the methods of homeostasis in most if not all members of the class Aves. They are able to warm their bodies from within their bodies. Reptilians are cold-blooded, they must use their surroundings to change their body temperature.
Point two, the definition of dinosaur is (directly from the Merriam-Webster dictionary):
1 : any of a group (Dinosauria) of extinct often very large chiefly terrestrial carnivorous or herbivorous reptiles of the Mesozoic era
2 : any of various large extinct reptiles (as ichthyosaurs ) other than the true dinosaurs
Point three, the Wikipedia page to which one of you linked (the one about dinosaurs) mentions birds as "avian dinosaurs," and as the "modern descendants of extinct, feathered dinosaurs." You can't link to Wikipedia unless you are sure the whole page agrees with you.
Point four, the Wikipedia page about birds says that they have been defined as DESCENDANTS of a common, extinct ancestor since the nineties.
My Fifth and final point is the simplest of all. The Archosaur Wikipedia has a few levels of classification listed for the Archosaur, and it goes far enough to say that Archosaurs are in the class Reptilia, i.e. ALL archosaurs are in the class Reptilia, and birds are in the class Aves.
For christ's sake, check your Wikipedia links before you post them.
99% of them died. The alpha's of the time (massive actual dinosaurs) are gone. We're the alpha.
tf? those aren’t dinosaurs
A more likely cause of the sixth extinction event will be a massive solar flare, a coronal mass ejection, a giant space rock, a massive comet, a global nuclear war, a polar flip, massive long lasting volcanoes or a combination of the above. To my eye, all these make adding CO2 to the atmosphere pale by comparison.
As an example, a solar event the magnitude of the Carrington event in 1859 (only 160 years ago) would render our modern electric society useless for years, perhaps decades. Millions to billions in large cities would starve to death in a matter of days and disease outbreaks caused by the rotting corpses would take millions more.
Do we need to be better stewards of our planet? Yes, but we need a serious discussion about where to put money to understand and perhaps mitigate all these disasters. Just sayin'.
We can only hope!
Don't just hope. make change and do.
Yes
I agree that we're harming the planet, but . . . This author is suggesting that the polar icecaps are melting extraordinarily fast and we're all doomed, etc, but keep in mind that all those "go green" people who fund the icecap studies get a LOT of money off of people worrying about the planet. The El Niño current is changing the temperature too, along with other PERFECTLY NATURAL climate fluctuations. Personally, I think we're either going to run out of food (we're growing enough to feed 11 billion (why are people starving again?) people, but once we get up to 12 billion+ people, what are we going to do? Or, ya know, we'll just nuke everything. That works too.
You do realize that the people who become scientists are generally not the type who want tons of money. Being a scientist isn’t something that you do if you want to become rich. Also what do you think is more plausible; Either thousands of scientists are being bribed or a few corrupt politicians whom happen to be very influential are paid off by oil companies with deep pockets and a vested interest in going against green energy.
deadass feels like vox has 2 reporters, this one and the Asian lady
It doesn't even need to be just us. If the level of output now is high, then couple that with some Supervolcano explosion would send the carbon in the atmosphere to unfathomable levels. Acidity in the water would go, hey presto further food shortage and then mass famine.
Not saying all or any of this is false, but we survived multiple comet impacts 12,000 years ago that sent us into a deeper cold than the ice age followed by rapid warming (each caused by separate impacts) which wiped out 90% of mega-fauna.
I just comment because I feel my username is relevant to yours.
+YOU_WILL_LOVE_EACH_OTHER lmao
You're right. Let's just ignore it and take our chances.
that's true, tribes will survive extinction events pretty easily. civilizations? not so much. the grain belt will turn into a desert, the middle east will become inhospitable, hurricanes will destroy the Gulf Coast. tornados will destroy even more than they do now. we can survive as a species, sure, but as a civilization? hell no.
Klein as Malthus, without the gravitas.
I got an anxiety attack from this. We need to stop global warming of we are going to survive
I hope so
He looks like Brandon
interesting...
What are these people called other than authors, like those who express their questions and ideas?
+Abigail Lim scientists?
+Abigail Lim Philosiphers
"Investigative journalists," although part of a journalist's responsibility is to remain completely impartial when faced with an issue to cover.
Then again, the official job title of newscasters on most major networks is "televised journalist" or something ridiculous like that; as you can see, the term gets thrown around a lot.
What if the greatest mass extinction of all time (carbon out pouring) was due to another civilization like ours that colonized our earth and went down the same path we are heading down but the reason we have not found any remains of them is that they were just so advanced 🧐🤯
What does she mean "You shouldn't have a species go extinct in your lifetime"?
She means that in your lifetime there should not be a species that is completely wiped out
+Jazelle R. Oh yeah, ha-ha.
as in going from healthy numbers (like from threatened to extinct). something that barely clings on as it is is not what they're talking about.
The reason so many people do not take action towards the obvious problem is because of two things. One so many people don't want to embrace the facts in front of them. The second is so many people believe that eventually the problem will sort itself out. They think oh, eventually we will find out how to solve the problem and it will be okay, but no, if we want to fix the problem we have to take action. The technology and the answer to these problems are already out there, we are just ignoring them. We need to grow our own food, or buy local food. We must depend on solar energy and other perpetual energy sources. We must educate ourselves about our carbon footprint and take measures to decrease it. We all must be more self sufficient and stop waiting for someone else to fix the problems of us all.
all correct
wow
Yes the oceanic system is breaking down and the reprecussions are massive. Acidification and it's effect on biomass and the warming temperature and it's effect on the frozen locked water. The great barrier Reef is the canary in the coal mine. This mixed with global warming and the loss of tundra permafrost the locked carbon sink. These amount to two of the major threshold moments which could/will trigger enviromental collapse. We should just for good measure calculate what population level we could support if the oceanic biomass was not available in the future you will be surprised by the results
Sure, let's just keep throwing money at the problem. That'll totally help. :-)
On a serious note, what happens when the global financial markets collapse and the almighty dollar becomes worthless? How will we incentivize people to not clear cut the rainforest then?
The editing takes away from this video.
Good video but whoever does audio for this channel sucksss! You can't hear them over music at moments or it's audibly blurred.
Yea and paleontologist have already said there are six what she actually means is the 7th.
We should take a step like the people at amazon who want to protect the forest did
haha, very relevant
extinct away
life is boring enough as it is
the bees are dying ! all over the world that is a fact , once it gone completely, we are doomed !
carbon dioxide emission is the result of rising temperature not the other way around... when you burn something it emits carbon dioxide. things don't start burning when you add carbon dioxide to them!
That is a super illogical argument. If you had said that there is a lag from temperature rise and CO2 levels rising, then you would have a TINY case. But the rising CO2 levels DO cause more warming, and, after a certain point, will feed back into a loop of warming. Plus, with us killing trees, which is a natural CO2 sink, we loose more and more ability to process CO2. Then the oceans will absorb a TON of it, making it so that the CO2 in the air seems like it is just....lost. When in reality it's going somewhere else, and causing havoc there.
Continue to do research on the topic, and you will see what I mean.
Also, I AM aware your comment is 4 months old, nonetheless I wanted to try to help you understand what is going on.
you no one has commented in here for 8 months.
This dude's lisp kills me.... Come on, man. E.N.U.N.C.I.A.T.E.
Birds are dinosaurs.
I saw a bird today.
Ergo not 100% of dinosaurs are gone.
+NadieNobdy ask a biologist. birds are dinosaurs like cats are mammals.
This is because dinosaurs are a monophyletic group.
Your mom, on the other hand, is a paraphyletic group.
+TomyLobo archosaurs, dinosaurs, no. would you call us australopithecus? of course not.
"The fossil record indicates that birds are the last surviving group of dinosaurs" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird
Yes i know you learned something else in school.
So did I, but that just means we're both old :)
TomyLobo but they're not dinosaurs, they belong to the order aves, dinosaurs are not Aves, just as we are not snyapsids, we are mammals, though we (mammals) are the surviving lineage. I didn't learn this in school.
TomyLobo funny, that link doesn't seem to have anything that looks like these guys in it. en.m.wikipedia.org
And those guys don't have any aves shown in the pic, either.
You know, it almost looks like dinosaurs are in the reptilia order, not aves.
Perspective in this video is super screwed up! Ezra looks like a giant!
Something about the way he talks is annoying...I don't know if that's an ever the slightest of the lisp that keeps making what he says sounding awkward or something else but...
that's more of a YOU problem, cause I don't care.
Dude nobody cares that you don't care.
Cxrtah I guess you cared enough to leave a comment. Cheers lol
+shyadeny fair point
I can't take her seriously because it wasn't an open-pore of CO2 in the air it was oxygen the great dying was because of oxygen
Eerie……..COVID ?
hi
want some chocolate ?
Im so glad the veiws are low on this. . .just. . .facepalm. Its like she completely ignores the ichthian extinction, global warming is a threat to us, not the world, or life for that matter.
Global warming is an extreme risk to all life. If the climate gets too warm, the air will become rid as a result of hyper-evaporation. This would cause the ground to dry out, because it would stop raining. The trees would all die, along with all other land plants. Then all the animals except fish would die, because they would already be dead because of their oceans evaporating, as a result of the lack of land plants. Did I mention aquatic plants? They would die, too, because the fish would stop producing CO2 for them to breathe. Now let's talk Eubacteria. Eubacteria would run out of spots with suitable food, because they eat animal waste and oil. The oil would be gone because humans would have burnt it all. The above applies to animal- and plant-like protists as well. Finally, fungi, because Archaeabacteria would probably survive. Many fungi are parasites, so their cause-of-death is fairly obvious I believe. Fungi are all saprotrophs (even the non-parasitic ones), meaning that they feed off of dead and decaying organisms. Where would their food source be if there was no life left to die? By the way, all of this information came from my seventh grade biology textbooks, so it's not exactly hard to come by.
epilepsy warning!
What’s wrong with your camera man? Why pan to the ceiling. Did they learn that in some school?
Dinosaurs are gone.? Has she ever seen an alligator or a bird?
Whats with the tray of booze in the background ?
watch cowspiracy
LOVE that movie! My gf showed it to me. She has changed HOW I think, not just WHAT I think. Sadly, most people will NEVER change, it's an evolutionary trait, and sadly, humans aren't changeing fast enough to deal with this issue.
"One very very well known paleontologist..." Wouldn't it be faster and easier to just say his name? Enable me to do my own research, if you don't come prepared to make proper citations you shouldn't be doing interviews.
a few years later and she is proved right, the great barrier reef is dead
All this channel is about is creating fear
extinctions aren't predictable
Joseph Harding =.= Yes they are.
If we see a meteor coming straight at us, I think it’s pretty predictable at that point...
they are when you're driving them...hurr-durr
If Climate Change continues, yes.
informative but it doesnt really grab my attention
10.10 is the funniest thing I've seen in 5 years and how awkward and arrogant it was.I think his 2000 year old but new calzone face needs to go extinct
Going vegan is the single most impactful thing you can do
No
How many animal farmers will be jobless and homeless
@@stupidify7003 instead you give jobs to people to grow grains, vegetables and fruit, vegan products
GO VEGAN!!!!!!