The Extinction Omelette

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  • čas přidán 9. 11. 2018
  • If I'd had time and footage, I would have started this video with
    the collapse of the megafauna when humans first met this continent. I hope you'll accept this analogue in its stead.
    In short: Even if you love omelettes, there's wisdom in not cracking all your eggs.
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    Thanks for watching! You're clearly one of the good ones.

Komentáře • 387

  • @RareEarthSeries
    @RareEarthSeries  Před 5 lety +114

    You allow these videos to happen: www.patreon.com/rareearth

    • @help-im
      @help-im Před 5 lety +1

      Like allowing extinction to happen

    • @John77Doe
      @John77Doe Před 5 lety +3

      Rare Earth We need to fund Rare Earth, so that there will be more videos like this. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @XIII_Vanitas
      @XIII_Vanitas Před 5 lety

      3:31 Small correction: it's pronounced "more-ee", not "more-i".

    • @safetyinstructor
      @safetyinstructor Před 5 lety +2

      Francesco is afraid of cliffs, ruff sea and heights...
      right...?
      Ok... I'm writing this on a very high cliff above the sea...

    • @e1123581321345589144
      @e1123581321345589144 Před 5 lety

      "standing on the dangerous rock!" *crack* "Wait. wha? .. FUUuuuu..."

  • @daanwilmer
    @daanwilmer Před 5 lety +307

    For those of you who read the end card: Mary March's real name is "Demasduit". There has been a petition in 2006 to rename the museum, but apparently to no avail.

    • @AlanmanAaron
      @AlanmanAaron Před 5 lety +10

      @skwteach12 me too, i'm glad for the explanation though because I was unaware of the reference

    • @FodderMoosie
      @FodderMoosie Před 5 lety +2

      To that point, I wish the plaque @6:58 could be re-worded a little more strongly. "Conflict with the newcomers" sounds a lot less like "colonialist genocide", but I wonder where on that spectrum of wording we ought to land when it comes to tragedies like this.

  • @RoyontheHill
    @RoyontheHill Před 5 lety +104

    "Woooooo standing on the dangerous rock!"
    Really kinda indicative of our situation as a species if you think about it

    • @recklessroges
      @recklessroges Před 5 lety

      Worse really. Evan is more important to mankind than I am, so he should take fewer risks than me. (Standing on the dangerous rock is just a sub optimal choice, when considering the benefit to the planet.)

    • @etherdog
      @etherdog Před 4 lety

      @@recklessroges Yes, just before the camera rolled, Evan said to Francesco, "Hold my beer, eh?"

  • @cdreNightshift
    @cdreNightshift Před 5 lety +7

    7:28 "So let's raise a glass to the Auk." I looked at the empty glass beside my keyboard and decided "what the heck, let's do it anyway". I raised my glass but then I noticed something. With reverence I carefully sipped the very last drop from my drink. It almost didn't make it all the way down to the rim and to my lips. Seems to me like a surprisingly fitting gesture. Thank you, Evan, for this video and all the others.

  • @michaelcherry8952
    @michaelcherry8952 Před 5 lety +141

    The most frustrating thing about these extinctions is the twin responses of "It doesn't make any difference to MY life" and "It had nothing to do with me, it just happened".
    Indifference and lack of accountability are two of the most destructive traits of human beings.
    We have the capacity to care, and to take responsibility when we're at fault, but our instinct is to close our eyes and pretend it's not our problem.
    We're rapidly running out of time to change this, but I do believe that we can and we will. That's why media like Rare Earth are so important.
    I hope your drone feels better :) How did you manage to find a tree to run into on what Joey Smallwood called "this poor bald rock"!
    By the way, teasing your cameraman when he's the only one around who can go for help is not the best idea. He could be thinking of the Documentary Emmy he'll win for his short subject "Death Of An Idiot" :)

    • @robinexcalibur9488
      @robinexcalibur9488 Před 5 lety +7

      Just want to try to bump this comment up because it's very true. Nothing is more dangerous than apathy, and those who take it a step beyond can't be stopped without accountability.

    • @ckatm397
      @ckatm397 Před 5 lety +3

      While I think in general we should care more about preservation of species, we need to remember that humans are a component to nature as well and we should put ourselves before animals. For example, if there was a new species of malaria carrying mosquito in Africa but only developed in an isolated area, there's no reason we shouldn't stop our efforts to erradicate them just because they're nominally different from regular mosquitos and on the brink of extinction. Not all species should be protected.

    • @anonymouswhite7957
      @anonymouswhite7957 Před 5 lety +1

      ckatm397 but what about the plants there? the life cycle? ecosystem? maybe it is "harmful" for humans but such specimens are usually needed for the environment. in a jungle, mosquitos acts as a pollinator for small flowers, they played a big role in plants pollination, fruiting and reproduction. simply killing them all is an act for human convenience rather than for "nature". maybe it's better to just eradicate the malaria, rather than all the mosquitos in that vicinity?

    • @cameronrhanna
      @cameronrhanna Před 5 lety +1

      @@anonymouswhite7957 Wow, I had no idea that mosquitos are important pollinators. I thought you were wrong and then I looked it up.
      I've got to agree with ckatm397, though. Humans are special. We've got fossils covering 500 million years of complex life on Earth and this is the first time something as complex as us has emerged. It may be the only time. It may be our destiny, for lack of a better word, to colonize all the stars and find a way to survive heat death of the universe, who knows. But what I do know, no matter how many other species we destroy before going extinct, if that is our fate, life will go on and evolution will fill the world again with new species.
      That's not to say we should be reckless with the environment, quite the opposite; I think we should plan on existing indefinately and we can't do that on a wasteland. But fundamentally I think we should act as though all of nature exists for our benefit because we have the most important work to do, even if we don't quite know what that is.

    • @anonymouswhite7957
      @anonymouswhite7957 Před 5 lety +1

      Cameron H. glad i could be of use to relay an information... not trying to be arrogant, but i do agree with you. we are still one of the most influential species on earth. and the reason i said that is too inform that we need to preserve the environments that suit us very carefully, or else we'll unconsiously destroy ourselves in an act to protect ourselves (or other organisms)...

  • @ruki4929
    @ruki4929 Před 5 lety +305

    You somehow always make videos I didn't know I wanted.

  • @momon969
    @momon969 Před 5 lety +216

    Strangely enough, it's Europe that seems to work against this trend the hardest now. Not for any altruistic or grandiose reasons... Simply because we've been to the edge of what nature can take, and it's not nice. I'm german, and growing up acid rain warnings on TV were common. Industry had started here (the broader 'here', Europe), and here it brought nature to its knees first. It's not a pretty sight. It's like seeing your mother crying. It leaves no one untouched. But now there's salmon in the Rhine river again, when during my childhood its water wasn't deemed safe to swim in. Beavers, otters and wolves have been brought back. The nazi-era airforce base on the island Düne is now a seal sanctuary. Boars are returning. And so are sea eagles. I'm not saying that all of this excuses the crimes of Europeans across the world, it's not an excuse of any kind. But it's a little bit of hope.

    • @craggolly
      @craggolly Před 5 lety +48

      Europeans have matured to the stage where protecting the environment isn't a partisan lefty issue anymore, simply because they are being affected by it

    • @karlharvymarx2650
      @karlharvymarx2650 Před 5 lety +33

      Germans also installed solar panels by the train load despite not being an ideal location for them. That helped bring the price down enough to make them economically viable in many places. So thanks for that too Germany.

    • @FOLIPE
      @FOLIPE Před 5 lety +15

      That's only viable because this pollution has been "exported" to other areas though.

    • @cameronrhanna
      @cameronrhanna Před 5 lety +13

      Better than an excuse, it's an example.
      The whole world is developing and it needs examples. You've nothing to feel guilty for, Europe, you just got there first and still you're leading the way.

    • @Howtard
      @Howtard Před 5 lety +22

      We Europeans have the most active "living memory" of these things imo. I know growing up in the UK, my entire childhood was filled with WWF and National Trust awareness drives, local conservation efforts etc.
      I remember sitting in the doctor's office looking at the endangered birds poster on the wall and being fascinated by the Red Kite, as I had never seen a real one; now when ever I go back home in the summer you can see at least 3 in the sky at any time.
      I've lived through extinctions, with full understanding of how the actions of individuals cause and prevent them. This isn't the case everywhere.

  • @benedictramage-mangles2622
    @benedictramage-mangles2622 Před 5 lety +158

    ... Well, that was depressing.

    • @HxH2011DRA
      @HxH2011DRA Před 5 lety +5

      Humans, what can you do

    • @AtomicExplosion95695
      @AtomicExplosion95695 Před 5 lety +2

      Yeah, what a sad way to commemorate 100 years of Polish independence.

    • @sabinasabino141
      @sabinasabino141 Před 5 lety +18

      You know, we are still doing it, genocide I mean. I am from Brazil and around here the indigenous peoples genocide never ended, you see, it just faded into the background. There are a lot of tribes in Brazil, most of them inland, since we pretty much killed or enslaved those who lived near the cost. And every day now a logger, a rich farmer's militia soldier, o even a drug trafficker from São Paulo, goes deep into the heart of the amazon and kills every single indian they can find for profit. And that's not the sad part, the really sad part is that your average Brazilian hasn't heard a thing about it, and the international community hasn't heard a thing about it. We even elect politicians who have pockets lined with illegal logging, grileiros (land stealers), and several other business who have a very active interest in indigenous and preserved land. The president-elect once sad that quilombolas (communities of escaped african slaves that lived in remote areas to escape persecution) are fat and lazy and can't even serve as breeding-slaves. He also said that he won't give even one centimetre of land to any indigenous group. We are perpetuating a hidden genocide and no one talks about it.

    • @thinkabout288
      @thinkabout288 Před 5 lety +3

      we are a little late folks abrupt climate change is now exponential dig down with your research

    • @daanwilmer
      @daanwilmer Před 5 lety +8

      "Weekly dose of existential dread" indeed

  • @crystal6383
    @crystal6383 Před 5 lety +35

    your videos should be preserved.

  • @nicosack
    @nicosack Před 5 lety +52

    This should be on Tv. Your videos make people embrace critical thinking of their actions and the consequences.

  • @curiousworld7912
    @curiousworld7912 Před 5 lety +161

    No, not too preachy - just an uncomfortable truth.

  • @Nhoj31neirbo47
    @Nhoj31neirbo47 Před 5 lety +44

    Yes, we are asleep behind the wheel of the anthropocene.
    Will we wake up before so much is unnecessarily lost ?

    • @likira111
      @likira111 Před 5 lety

      Holy fucking shit that is the best possible song lyric ever.

  • @christophemarois5423
    @christophemarois5423 Před 5 lety +74

    What people here seem to perceive as pessimism, I see it as optimism. Your vision of the world is deeply realist, but in that realism, you never omit to consider the immense power we have as a species, and how that power could be wielded for good if we were to unite. Please stay preachy!

  • @SlimTony
    @SlimTony Před 5 lety +14

    Rip Evan, he fell of the dangerous rock. The last words reaching his ears were "I told you so"

  • @stephaniesummer2663
    @stephaniesummer2663 Před 5 lety +69

    I’m scared for the future. When I was more suicidal, one of the reasons I came up with for killing myself was not wanting to see the world be destroyed by us. So may people think that climate change and mass extinction are far away small problems. One of my friends even told me that she this the Earth is going to cool down soon and that she doesn’t care about climate change. This needs to be a priority.

    • @RealUlrichLeland
      @RealUlrichLeland Před 5 lety +29

      Woah mate, I understand your worried about the precarious place our species is in but by doing the right thing you can help get us all out of this mess, suicide is never the right choice. Just on the off chance you're still feeling a little on the edge I've put some suicide hotline numbers below...
      US: 18002738255
      UK: 08457909090
      116 123 (samaritans)
      Stay safe

    • @stephaniesummer2663
      @stephaniesummer2663 Před 5 lety +11

      dorgesh I’m better now, but I still have some dark days.

    • @RazorSkinned86
      @RazorSkinned86 Před 5 lety +4

      don't believe this braindead anti murica propaganda of a libural... IT'S SAD! Every person with any brain cells know that mass extinction is a hoax just like climate change syndrome. If you don't believe me... go educate yourself by checking out the conservapedia website!

    • @RealUlrichLeland
      @RealUlrichLeland Před 5 lety +7

      Allright glad to hear it man, your account name just set off some alarm bells 😂

    • @leftovermonday1642
      @leftovermonday1642 Před 5 lety +6

      I felt and a part of me still feels the same way. I can't justify having children of my own; knowing what the future may hold. I'd rather adopt already alive children and give them the best life I possibly could until my death. It's hard to think what's worth living for when you're in that depressive state. One human alone can't solve all the problems of the Earth, even if I, or many others, want that to be the case. The only motivation I have is helping (in my case, sharks) the preservation of the Earth until there's a wave of change and we all look to helping our home. But I'm even doubtful of that ever happening.

  • @benthemaster4321
    @benthemaster4321 Před 4 lety +4

    "Extinction isn't fated, it's created." Now that's a great quote.

  • @Paullsthebest
    @Paullsthebest Před 5 lety +6

    Woooo standing on the _"dangerous"_ rock wooooo **Rock crumbles** **Falls down**

  • @GooseSquadCo
    @GooseSquadCo Před 4 lety

    I started watching this, recently, this series. Came up in my recommended, randomly, and I have learned so much stuff since. This is such an informative series, and has come to me at such a good time. Thank you. Your art is appreciated, even if a bit bigger than me at times.

  • @leehaseley2164
    @leehaseley2164 Před 5 lety +3

    Those words for most any other's mouth might just be too preachy, but from your mouth with soft tones they are of great power and impact.

  • @oneofmanyjames-es1643
    @oneofmanyjames-es1643 Před 5 lety +10

    Hooray for my weekly dose of existential worry

  • @moguhoki
    @moguhoki Před 5 lety +38

    Not too preachy. We need good ideas to be empowered, not disempowered.

  • @danstiver9135
    @danstiver9135 Před 5 lety +5

    The big problem is that most people either don’t care enough or just don’t care at all.

  • @waaazzadu78
    @waaazzadu78 Před 5 lety

    Probably one of your greatest videos so far ! So well written and filmed ! Great !

  • @rainepanda
    @rainepanda Před 5 lety

    Your videos are so important. Thank you for being so well researched and caring

  • @coltonsmith5997
    @coltonsmith5997 Před 5 lety

    your end card is the greatest thing I've ever seen. "your weekly dose of existentialist dread" really got me.

  • @alliepug1
    @alliepug1 Před 5 lety

    these videos make me break down in tears every week... every video i watch ends in a , "do you need a hug?" from my room mates. I'm a grown ass man,. Thank you.

  • @banerjeepradeep
    @banerjeepradeep Před 5 lety

    Another classic!! Thanks for creating this channel.

  • @picpac2348
    @picpac2348 Před 5 lety

    Super awesome. I just feel like your videos should be prime time TV everywhere for the good of our civilization.

  • @mrmaje1
    @mrmaje1 Před 4 lety

    I don't have the word/s I'm searching for to sum up your channel/vids but I can't think of anything I'd change or think to do better....utterly brilliant work.

  • @WelfareChrist
    @WelfareChrist Před 5 lety +1

    You put a lot of faith in humanity's capacity for self-awareness and reflection. The anthropocene has proven to be more of an extinction event than historical epoch. I'm getting to the point where I'm literally starting to believe that consciousness is a sort of extinction protocol produced by the natural world whose sole purpose is to reset the clock.

  • @yesid17
    @yesid17 Před 5 lety

    Thank you thank you thank you thank you
    My family on my mom's side is descended from the Nutabe people of Medellín, the Beothuk's story and our own are similar thank you for sharing these stories and I implore you to keep trying your best to make videos like this one and the Yaghan video you tried to make-even just mentioning them in this video open the eyes of a lot of people, this has been going on for centuries, at the hands of different groups, at a continent-wide scale.

  • @Kissaki0
    @Kissaki0 Před 5 lety

    Great video yet again! Thank you!

  • @jalapenohiway
    @jalapenohiway Před 5 lety

    Somehow your videos keep getting better, always amazing & well thought out content. Have you considered making a video on the nearly extinct Redwood Trees in CA? That is, if you haven't done so already. Thanks & ✌🏽

  • @thumblister
    @thumblister Před 5 lety

    This channel helps me to be a better Canadian, but more importantly, a better human by learning through history. Please keep making these.

  • @delta3039
    @delta3039 Před 5 lety

    I'm moving to Newfoundland in 3 weeks, really awesome to see you making videos about it

  • @Thacarshee
    @Thacarshee Před 5 lety +4

    This made me sad

  • @SpringoStar
    @SpringoStar Před 4 lety +1

    Never too preachy... Like your honest cutting edge narrations and applied knowledge. Quite frankly, it's refreshing in such a PC world. ;)

  • @subiesteve2578
    @subiesteve2578 Před rokem

    Probably my favorite new CZcams channel. The 1st episode I watched was aboot Colonia Dignadad which I had only heard about because of Tim Kennedy's show hunting Hitler and we weren't taught about the nazis running away as far as they could and still have a place that kinda feels like home. WFT!
    But I gotta say I love the channel dude.

  • @MR101722
    @MR101722 Před 5 lety +8

    awesome upload in time for my birthday!

  • @sky1ar
    @sky1ar Před 5 lety +18

    Amazing

  • @jonasmikkelsen7240
    @jonasmikkelsen7240 Před 5 lety

    That's some strong shit right there. Keep up the good work :)

  • @Masterfrogg
    @Masterfrogg Před 5 lety

    These videos should be mandatory watching for every human on earth. I am certain that, in at least some small measure, the world would come out better for it.

  • @ZZ-sb8os
    @ZZ-sb8os Před 5 lety +2

    In all these videos I don't think I've ever seen you smile, can you do a video on something that makes you happy?

  • @Ricky-jr7io
    @Ricky-jr7io Před 5 lety +9

    It's truly sad and frightening, the level of malice and brutality us humans are capable of, and yet and at the same time the kindness and charity we can provide. Our existence, I think, is a paradox.
    Thank you very much for the hard work you guys put in these videos. Really appreciate it.

    • @dopaminecloud
      @dopaminecloud Před 5 lety

      we can't show kindness at the volume where it actually matters, we're stuck with little snippets to hold on to

    • @Ricky-jr7io
      @Ricky-jr7io Před 5 lety

      @@dopaminecloud I think the kindness a lot of people show(or rather show-off) these days is just for the purpose self-ingratiation.
      btw, I like your name.

    • @dopaminecloud
      @dopaminecloud Před 5 lety

      @@Ricky-jr7io for sure, though I'm sure anyone would take that kind of self servicing kindness over brutality still

    • @Ricky-jr7io
      @Ricky-jr7io Před 5 lety

      @@dopaminecloud Sure. I agree on that one. I'll take that kindness any day rather than being hunted down by a crazy lunatic who wants to make a trophy out of my head.

    • @dopaminecloud
      @dopaminecloud Před 5 lety

      @Siyabonga Dube
      Hahahah, this equilibrium you speak of is a myth. Domination and slaughter are human pastimes across all ages, all tribes and all civilizations. If not each other, then any of the organisms around them. Humanity's capacity for compassion extends as far as their comfort.

  • @alfusious
    @alfusious Před 5 lety +2

    I'm sure that I am parroting many who have stumbled across this CZcams channel Evan, but it needs to be said. You are producing reasonably un-biased content that is essential to the long-term well being of our collective societies. As a Canadian now nearing my 50's, it has long been a desire of mine to look at history aand culture through the eyes of the world and what is has been gained and lost through the development and assimilation of the earth.

  • @Gurman8r
    @Gurman8r Před 5 lety

    Excellent. Keep em coming bois.

  • @waaazzadu78
    @waaazzadu78 Před 5 lety

    Hey Evan ! I really love your videos but since those mostly convey the messages through the audio part, have you ever thought about putting the episodes on Spotify ? I think it would be a good way to gain access to a bigger audience whilst allowing us to listen to them on the go. Cheers, and again nice work to the team !

  • @ecrusch
    @ecrusch Před 5 lety +2

    Not too preechy.
    But very cool.
    I've learned an awful lot from you.
    Thank you.

  • @davekooper
    @davekooper Před 5 lety

    Great video, very touching, it reminds me of the stories of the fighting natives in central America against the Spanish and again in Northern America with the natives there.

  • @d.v.00
    @d.v.00 Před 5 lety

    Amazing as always

  • @Sayuameangkis
    @Sayuameangkis Před 5 lety

    That ending on the rock is the most Canadian thing I have seen this year.

  • @bloodfire1989
    @bloodfire1989 Před 5 lety +1

    Not gonna lie, the thumbnail made me think this had something to do with peas and corn.

  • @A3Kr0n
    @A3Kr0n Před 5 lety +1

    Raise a glass, build a memorial, and quit having so many babies

  • @terrylindsey895
    @terrylindsey895 Před 5 lety

    Well said, and well done.

  • @guatemalantomcat
    @guatemalantomcat Před 3 lety

    I sometimes wonder why this channel isn't the bigger but it is because not everybody like to think about "uncomfortable" things.

  • @Jetman123
    @Jetman123 Před 5 lety

    Wow. You visited my homeland? I'm stunned. I would have loved to shake your hand, I'm still living in Newfoundland. Maybe I'll have a chance one day! Stunning video, I'm so happy you mentioned the Beothuk and went into Newfoundland's history, even if it's such an ugly side of it.

  • @aaronmiller6118
    @aaronmiller6118 Před 5 lety

    keep up the great work!

  • @killercaos123
    @killercaos123 Před 5 lety +2

    Prediction:
    It's all of the extinction groups.... edit: yep

  • @gordybishop2375
    @gordybishop2375 Před 5 lety

    Nicely done,,,thank you

  • @jamesjanzen2604
    @jamesjanzen2604 Před 5 lety +1

    "Some people will tell you this is just how things are."
    It's so close to being correct: Remove the word 'just'. This is how things are... but we have the power to change that. Not in the individual sense - well, maybe - but as an entire species, we have an incredible amount of control over the world.
    I hope that this ceases to be "the way things are" before we're so deep into this campaign of extinction against our own home planet that the only diversity we know of is "the way things were".

  • @hesselvandereijk2614
    @hesselvandereijk2614 Před 5 lety +1

    I know use the droneshot of the trees of 2:46 as my background image! It was just too beautiful.

  • @rexdxiv
    @rexdxiv Před 5 lety

    I love your work

  • @BagelBunny
    @BagelBunny Před 4 lety +1

    Extinction is the Rule; Survival is the Exception.

  • @davidmalugen9513
    @davidmalugen9513 Před 5 lety

    Very insightful

  • @samirahaslet8227
    @samirahaslet8227 Před 5 lety

    Thank you for your travels and stories you tell! You are good, never too preachy. Our human species could use a bit of scolding...

  • @dgehosky
    @dgehosky Před 4 lety +1

    Not too preachy... spot on Rare Earth.

  • @DarkHarlequin
    @DarkHarlequin Před 5 lety

    Too preachy for my comfort? Yes! Did it need to be this preachy to reach us? Absolutely! Keep going guys

  • @captaincam5
    @captaincam5 Před 5 lety

    It’d be really cool if you did your next location in Hawaii, there’s tons and tons of interesting history there

  • @Kevin-kf9ct
    @Kevin-kf9ct Před 5 lety

    Though it's possible we might get the Great Auk back. There's enough remains around with enough preservation that it's not completely out of the question to clone them.

  • @marcuslingus
    @marcuslingus Před 5 lety

    Hey, love your videos but i would ask for you to put some maps once in a while. I stopped the video to search the island in google maps. Something like a dot in a world map i think would be really usefull for context, thank you for the hard work!

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  Před 5 lety

      I prefer people stop and use Google maps, personally. It gets them researching outside the video, which is my not so secret desire for all my viewers. :)
      But we're always tweaking it to see what looks best. I'll think on it.

  • @TestSpaceMonkey
    @TestSpaceMonkey Před 5 lety

    "We are as gods and might as well get good at it."
    Had that quote bouncing around the back of my mind. Tried to look up attribution and it appears the story behind it is more interesting than I knew:
    www.wholeearth.com/issue/1010/article/195/we.are.as.gods

  • @BaoNguyen-un1km
    @BaoNguyen-un1km Před 5 lety

    I love your videos. Beautiful words

  • @Raptortastic
    @Raptortastic Před 5 lety

    I don't usually post comments but I'd just like to say thank you guys for continuing this intriguing docuseries? Existential art? Whatever it is. Cause it makes my heart sing and my mind absorb another interesting but challenging subject within our short existence. So... Thank you, you glorious world traveling bastards....This is Rare Comment.

  • @cherylcarlson3315
    @cherylcarlson3315 Před 5 lety

    beautifully done and depressingly inspiring...

  • @UntitledCollegeProject

    Please tell me if there has been a greater docu series in existance

  • @bilalmoin8565
    @bilalmoin8565 Před 5 lety

    Why hasn't this gone viral yet!

  • @CrazyRandomLord
    @CrazyRandomLord Před 5 lety

    Im still haunted by the videos of the tasmanian tiger. Like seeing a ghost. The incomprehension of extinction. Its easier to believe there's still some out there, hidden deep in the woods than to wrap your head around them being gone for good.

  • @lordarturo117
    @lordarturo117 Před 5 lety

    will you guys be doing merch from this show like t-shirts and stuff??

  • @07sconway
    @07sconway Před 4 lety

    thank you rare earth creators

  • @shadymerchant1198
    @shadymerchant1198 Před 5 lety +2

    I take small exception to your description humans didn't wipe out north American megafauna this was a hypothesis from 40 years ago repeated endlessly despite new proven evidence to the contrary and that in fact changing climate conditions from the end of the last ice age lead to the collapse of megafauna making smaller animals more viable. The reason for the original human made extinction was do to a sudden die-off of around 11,000 years ago which at the time of the hypothesis the estimated time of arrival for humans on north America but humans had settled north america over 20,000 years ago according to new findings in alaska.
    Humans had be prolific throughout the continent for literal millennia before the die-off occurred and there was no sudden uptick in population that would cause a extinction level surge in demand for meat and hide or anything else that would explain a sudden human caused extinction event. What did occurred however was the end of the Pleistocene Epoch the last ice age 11,700 years ago megafauna in north america had over 2 million years during the epoch evolved to survive the colder conditions when these conditions ended the species were not equiped to survive the new environment and experienced extinction.
    I always found it strange that people would believe humans caused the extinction of megafauna because of 1 thing bison. Bison existed in the same time period as mastodons the giant bears and sloths and they survived long after until westward expansion nearly wiped them out so a little over 11,000 years past the time when the megafauna was supposedly killed by humans but the bison were never wiped out by the natives despite a significantly larger population size in later millennia yet humans wiped out mammoths, mastodons, lions, bears, sloths, tapirs, horses, american camels dire wolves, giant condors, several ox species and many others at the exact same time period despite not settling some of the areas they lived in but completely leaving alone wolves and bison and several other surviving species this suggests not that humans are to blame for the Quaternary extinction event but climate change is.

  • @rujusu
    @rujusu Před 5 lety

    it is depressing but, and correct me if I'm wrong but does not our universe tend towards entropy? One state of homogeneity, as in everything is the same?

  • @celanis7164
    @celanis7164 Před 5 lety

    It is SO hard to realize the extinction that's happening.
    "I still see birds outside". Diversity has tanked a little perhaps. But it's still very hard to fathom. I wonder how the extinction correlates to which part of the world..

  • @Qigate
    @Qigate Před 5 lety

    I love these videos! And... too preachy? No...just right.

  • @pseudonymous1382
    @pseudonymous1382 Před 5 lety

    The camera's perspective at 5:06 makes you look like a giant.

  • @bigburd875
    @bigburd875 Před 5 lety

    That moment when you start to think that the ludites weren't extreme enough

  • @alwinpriven2400
    @alwinpriven2400 Před 5 lety

    Ketill Ketilson? Are you sure he's not just an implement?

  • @richardnavas2207
    @richardnavas2207 Před 3 lety

    I keep going back to agent’s Smith quote: “ humans are a virus”

  • @KannikCat
    @KannikCat Před 5 lety

    That was incredibly powerful, a perfect metaphoric comparison that really drove the idea home. I'd say not too preachy at all -- we are and can be both the most beautiful and the most ugly species on this planet. Every chance to be reminded of that, and, most importantly, reminded that we have a choice in how we want things to go, is vital and valuable. Thanks Evan for the insightful video, great work as always.

  • @richabhardwaj3692
    @richabhardwaj3692 Před 5 lety

    Too preachy, too preachy :-) We need that.

  • @MisterItchy
    @MisterItchy Před 5 lety

    Wonderfully poignant video. Thank you!

  • @b.griffin317
    @b.griffin317 Před 5 lety

    1:40 "infant mortality rates" historically the leading cause of infant mortality was tetanus. within a month of birth the newborn goes into spasms until suffocation finally takes them, which may be quick or quite slow to develop.

  • @luapchalos
    @luapchalos Před 5 lety

    Never stop doing what you're doing.

  • @Bill-zp2mt
    @Bill-zp2mt Před 5 lety

    How can we unite together and focus on the issue at hand? When we are distracted by our egoistic life, nd entertainment bombareded at our eyes at all hours of the day.

    • @ddwkc
      @ddwkc Před 5 lety +1

      Sadly on top of that we are kinda susceptible to "us vs them" narrative. Democrats vs Republicans, Christians x Muslims x Atheists, Left x Right x Moderates. We can unite, but only over very small things and on short term. Even the idea of Nationalism which kinda unite a huge group of people has been pretty destructive. However, looking at the real challenges our species need to face, we fall short.
      We can't even feed all the unfed even though we make more calories than needed and we waste so many on catch and destroy Ocean biodiversity. We can't even grant a proper place for people to poop with proper sanitation. We still think education and health aren't rights. We can't even eliminate slavery completely. We ignore the real price of things. Just go to a buffet and see the waste there. Collectively we just don't get it.

  • @elpachonisimoSOS
    @elpachonisimoSOS Před 5 lety

    Brutal, implacable... profundo, irremediable, pero esclarecedor.

  • @dindings
    @dindings Před 5 lety

    Canada: upper northern Dakota with a town that eats baguettes

  • @ullasahuja
    @ullasahuja Před 5 lety

    Legend

  • @spitfire7738
    @spitfire7738 Před 5 lety

    How do we get the people in charge to see this so they remember the invisible?

  • @craggolly
    @craggolly Před 5 lety

    Not too preachy. Keep em coming

  • @AntonisExplores
    @AntonisExplores Před 5 lety

    Best yt channel on planet earth

  • @habeasdorkus3795
    @habeasdorkus3795 Před 5 lety

    Rare Earth should get segments on CBC.