Climate change, capitalism, and what's next: Matthew Schneider-Mayerson at TEDxUMN
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- Matthew Schneider-Mayerson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has published articles on American history, politics and literature in journals such as American Studies, Radical History Review, Studies in Popular Culture and The International Journal of Sport & Society. In his dissertation, "Peak Politics: Resource Scarcity and Libertarian Political Culture in the United States," and a forthcoming article in Environmental Politics, he explores the 'peak oil' movement in the context of contemporary responses to environmental crises and the rise of libertarian ideals in American political culture.
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Crazy how this was 7 years ago and things still haven’t changed :/
Thanks to the fossil fuel industry really. The disinformation campaigns are unreal and the influence they have us ridiculous
I like how this guy is not afraid to talk about system change which is the most important point related to climate change.
No, every single individual can change their footprint, this is not affected by capitalism, quite the opposite, capitalism maximizes this individual freedom.
Magnus Leuthner individual freedom to being tied to your boss and your landlord for the rest of your life
epic gamer being tied to the regime with no free thoughts is better then? Unfortunately it is human nature that drives consumerism and capital nature as we crave material goods. Having this free discipline is better than working for a mixed economy where state pays no attention to individuals. It would be ludicrous to suggest in life or in any political system there would be no restrictions to an individual. Democracy and capitalism isn’t perfect but it’s better than the alternative.
Thats why People are starting to wake up, we realize this is a scam perpetraded by the marxists in the UN. This Will never happen, capitalism always win
@White Boy so what is the cause of global warming? you are a moron
Amazing, talk and research. This needs more views.
Thanks for sharing!
I love the fact that so many of these comments are recent, this seems to be at the back of everyone's mind. and It should be at the forefront.
thank you
Expect first ever category 6 hurricane in 2018.Location the Gulf of Mexico Based on La Nina and a 30% slow down of the North Atlantic Drift which is adding to ocean temperature at this location.
+Zoe Phin In your experience, has anyone replied with scientific agreement about the poor evidence of CO2 causing anything?
hunnybuttah sprite can There is no official “cat 6” but it has been questioned why there is no category for storms like the recent “Dorian”. However, this 2018 prediction was a little overzealous lul.
When I saw his "fortress America", I looked at the published time: 2013. Now it's 2017 we have Trump building a wall. Wow, amazing prediction!
cool, looks like we have a home to advertise, "those without citizenship can live here free!!!" ... your home. just publish your address here and we will get it filled.
pelosi has a nice fortressed house, we need to get tents in her yard right away. lots of room at her place.
His microphone is too close to his mouth.
Is Capitalism killing us.. Ask yourself how many times have you replaced your mobile phone in the last 5 years? & just exactly what did the newer phone get you over the older model?
and also ask yourself how many times (per day) you use disposable plastic, whether its a bottle, a wrapper of some sort, etc etc and think of where that plastic contamination is going...and multiply that by billions of consumers doing the same thing
random.. but i like the music in the beginning.. anyone know what it is?
This guy was ahead of his time.
You can't eat money and you can't run you car or generate electricity with it. Money is only a marker, a contract for real, tangible resources (energy being the primary one, followed by water and arable land, etc.). Printing more money or having access to money only affects the distribution of wealth, it does not represent a substitute for real wealth. Given that our current economic paradigm is predicated on constant exponential growth and that it is damaging, even destroying the real, physical biosphere upon which everyone and every living creature depends for their survival and prosperity, it is axiomatic that this economic approach is not sustainable and will not be viable in the not too distant future. Mayerson's thesis is based on science, on hard facts, on the reality of Population Overshoot beyond long term Carrying Capacity by way of a finite endowment of fossil fuels having served to increase carrying capacity temporarily. The energy and other resource surpluses upon which Neo Classical economics and capitalism in it's current form are based, is currently in stasis. Fossil fuel production is on a bumpy plateau, soon to decline globally, and no monetary system or monetary policy tweaking will solve or even begin to address that problem. Mitigating declining resource quality and scarcity, along with global warming, will require a new adaptive approach, and one that is not dependent on the assumption of an infinite carrying capacity.
Well said!
Please go down to Venezuela tell Muduro how to do socialism correctly.
WÄÄÄÄÄHHH BUT MUUUH VENEZUELA
....at the Same time we started hyper-injecting fossilized carbon into our atmosphere.... we began PROLIFERATING Iron Plow Tillage.... agriculturally disrupting photo-synthetic carbon sequestration.... effectively Doubling the Damage....at LEAST. We MIGHT be able to turn THAT around faster than anything else we CAN do.... EXPONENTIALLY increasing Soil Carbon Retention by adopting all-around no-till organic agricultural methods.... MANY beneficial Societal effects here... MO' Bettah Food&Health/Mo' Bettah Money (at GROUND-level.... where LongGreenMoney makes Mo' Bettah Benefits in a trickle-UP eco-nomic model) & LESS money to the Manufacturers of Agri-Toxins.... where Mo' Money makes Mo' Profit$forPoi$on and NOTHING else.... and THERE's your trouble.... NOW we know why it's so hard to even TALK about making beneficial changes much less understand root Need for So doing AND....Root Cause for NOT. Go ahead.... Wave your magic Wand.... even WITHOUT climate crisis.... these agri-poisons cause Air/Water/Food AND Health Pollution.... so IF you should find yourselves mentally incapable of grasping a Wider Scope for this Impending Horror... understand clearly NOW.... that carcinogenic agri-chem residues are CURRENTLY doing to your body&being what the manufacturers of those chemicals are doing to all Life IN and ON Earth. It is Time to Change.... not just how we generate and use our energy (Roof-top Solar w/BatteryBack-up.... NOnukes) but how we grow the very food we eat....and in So doing we can.... in ALL likelihoods.... RESOLVE our Climate AND Pollution PROBLEMS.... in REAL Time.
no climate has changed since the first country was formed on earth. tghere are numerous climates, desert, tropical rain forests, savannah land and temperate climates. we have never seen one climate change into another yet so many are lying to the kids that carbon dioxide is causing climate change. i challenge them to set up 10 transparent chambers, each with a thermocouple hooked up to data logging, equidistant from a heat source, one chanber caontaining 0.01% carbon dioxide, other 0.02%, 0.03%, 0.04%, 0.05%, 0.06%, 0.07%, 0.08%, 0.09 and 0.10% carbon dioxide.keeping all other factors contant, record the temperature every second for 24 hours and see if you will find a corelation between carbon dioxide concentration and temperature change. specific heat capacity of water is 4200j and that of carbon dioxide is only 40 so why are you not attacking water and blame carbon dioxide. please stop the lies.
the energy absorbed by the atmosphere = mass of the atmosphere x the specific heat capacity of the atmosphere x temarature rise of the atmospherre.
the atmosphere only contains 0.04% carbon dioxide so whyt are you wrongly accusing carbon dioxide? disgracefull!
Love it when people state the obvious and some idiot jumps out "unamerican vision" LOL
I love how this tedtalk attacks the real enemy of humanity.
Solid TED talk on how capitalism is flatly incompatible with addressing global warming or saving Earth's ecosystems. Good explanations.
more ted talks, thats whats next, hey atleast we're talking about it guys, good job now go ahead on to your second home and just have a great day
Population growth requires economic growth no matter the economic system. Capitalism is not to blame for the extreme population growth we have seen since WW2.
Magnus Leuthner I agree
We humans face massive challenges.
Climate change => downplayed by the right for no other reason than that people on the left started talking about it.
Overpopulation => considered taboo by the left because the blame can't be put on the West and 3rd world countries are allways intrinsically good
Spread of Islam => 3double taboo but a problem nonetheless. War, civil war and destruction of Western culture will certainly follow.
Ever wondered why population growth started post world war 2 when on the other side of the world literacy rate plummeted to 13 % due to colonialism. Ever wondered if population growth could also be a causal effect of the system ?. if 3rd world countries were really ancient - then calculate the population growth pre industrialization for the past 2000 years and post industrialization for the past 200 or so years .. and if you don’t have data points then you have no reason to argue that population growth was not a by product of this capitalistic or colonialistic system
Why are third world countries good at population growth you ask ?. Culture formed as a results of years of evolution is what balances individual freedom. Explains why China was able to get to such a high growth level in a short amount of time. “Third world” ancient societies knew early on that they will need to survive with nature (sustainable growth) not against it. If only non-westerners were looked at as the source of wisdom instead of source of loot world would have been in balance long time back .. and now those responsible will see to it that their climate change reversal systems will extract all the benefits they need .. another colonialistic / capitalistic mindset. Still have not learned.
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Holdup if capitalism is causing water usage and deforestation than what difference will it make with other systems of government? Population growth is inevitable and if we're giving a house to everyone besides if they need it or not then wouldn't we cutting down more wood, or supplying more people with water? What do we need to do?
Use less and require businesses to show how they will replace the resources they use so they are sustainable. And stop using fossil fuels. And pray.
Great speech
we have to end capitalism
Yes !!!!
Because Venezuela, Cuba, NKorea And Puerto Rico are doing so great
@@PInk77W1 i think you misunderstood. Wanting to end capitalism is not the same as wanting to mirror the countries you cited's economies. Further, due to globalisation, a large reason for these countries'/states' failings is due to them being a part of a global capitalist system; they are still part of a capitalist world, even if internally they may not be. There are a variety of other factors, but TL/DR: what Him Bike said is not an accurate recount of what zirbat16 said
*reform it
It's obvious that things have got to change. But you must have growth while the worlds population grows. but equally you can't have unlimited growth in a finite world. So we have to change the finite world. Start off with the moon, and then Mars. By the time we've populated the moo and Mars then we may have the technology to move on to other star systems.
The odds we can create and sustain any significant amount of life on the moon or Mars are essentially zero. And the materials used and pollution created by any routine space travel would just kill Earth's ecosystems faster. We only got one livable planet and we have to save its ecosystems or human civilization is toast.
@@karlwheatley1244 The reason the human race developed is because some people always thought outside the box. Agree that we have to do much better with our planet but we must also travel beyond our planet. To be able to survive and grow then we can't limit ourselves to this earth only.
@@chrisparsonson420 Thanks for your reply. It's fine to encourage space travel, but if you understand the distances involved and the cold void that most of space is, you realize that if the mass of humanity is to have a future, it will be here on Earth. I'm a huge advocate of and practicer of outside-of-the-box thinking, but the version of that thinking we need now focuses on how we can transform our civilization to survive and thrive here on Earth. Take care.
@@karlwheatley1244 First can I say that it's refreshing to be able to discuss and disagree without the abuse and expletives which seems to be common in this kind of forum. Thanks for that. I just think having people settled on the moon, and even Mars. is a lot easier than transforming our civilisation. One good reason is that there are good commercial reasons for going to these places. When it was just governments doing it maybe your argument would hold water, but not now..I think they'll be terraforming Mars before we get our civilisation under control. Many thanks for your reply
First of all, no "climate change" predictive model has ever been correct. Not one. Not even close. Secondly, capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than any other system in recorded history. Thirdly, anyone with two last names is owned by the extreme socialist left and is biased by irrational ideology.
propaganda
Economic growth as we measure it under neolibetialism is dead.
refer to ANY yaron brook video for the counter to this.
Presentation built off of two false premises; unlimited growth is a tenant of capitalism and that the last 50 years has been a representation of capitalism in action. Ignoring that capitalism has nothing to do with unlimited growth but simply reacts to the availability of resources,high or low, through the price system. Also ignoring that over the last 100 yrs the world has been developing advanced mixed econs.
tenet. And I think you make a good point about mixed economies; I think the capitalist parts of the mix are the worst parts and disable any attempts to regulate corporations using our oceans and skies as a (free) toilet.
Pipe down liberal, the politics of the rich is dead.
your vision of a "better future" is the most unamerican vision I've ever heard.
hope you have grown up in the meantime and see it differently by now...
Sam Hoeks communism is a failed outdated ideology and Marxist doctrines are unbelievably wrong, Marx writes about the proletariat as a collective, disregarding that these people have individual lives furthermore Marx writes about how the proletariat need to become class conscious to overthrow bourgeois society which is plain ridiculous as it romanticises the collective and gives them too much credit. I hope you grow up and realise how much of a failed ideology you adore, it’s truly sad
capitalism has been proven to succeed over and over again. let the index of economic freedom be a sign. sadly the us over the last 100 years has taken steps further away from free markets.
which free markets? certainly not for the major industries...oligopols, monopols are the dominant forces in capitalism ...which is nothing but the use of technik to produce profit, but it is the distribution of those profits that has gone wrong ...(by cap. nature)