How Whales Can Help Us to Fight Climate Change I Climate Heroes
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A humpback whale is worth $2 million. 🐋 The size of that number terrified even Ralph Chami, the economist who appraised the value of a whale. ↠ Subscribe: shorturl.at/wBNSW
But can we even put a figure on these giant marine mammals? A group of economists certainly thinks so, and it’s all to do with how whales can help us to fight climate change. As it turns out, they sequester tonnes of Co2
We look in detail at how whales are contributing to saving the planet, and how we in turn need to start saving them.
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Voiceover: Sophie Kozeluh
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The answer for our Climate issues is in the Nature itself we only need to know where to look
Indeed!
Very true, but people are too focused on giving ourselves all the credit(which is so annoying).
@@TheKaijuGamer_ sad
@BlueRaptorLea we played a part in it
And stop eating fish.
since the whales are saving us, that would make them PRICELESS to me.
That's the beauty of true sensible human being.....💐
Money has no soul. Its a thing we use to motivate people to do things we cant or wont do ourselves.
@@teecarter4900 Ofc it doesnt have a soul but would you like no currency at all? rather a communist globe? no one has to do anything to get the same resources everyone else gets? wake the fuck up
@@rasmus8510 Haha why so serious? Chill the fuck out
we can just dump those mineral into the ocean to grow algae
You compared the whalea entire life for carbon storage vs a tree's single year.
I guess it should be on a year's basis for both
I agree. Plus the video does not show how many whales would be needed to actually solve the climate crisis, which is the title of the video ... my guess is : too many to make this title anything else than clickbait
It also never discussed how much carbon dioxide the whale exhales during its Lifecyle. To my knowledge there is not a single air breathing animal on the planet that has a negative carbon footprint.
Finally someone with some common sense.
@@Capu57 I think it's possible for some whales to produce minus carbon footprints by calculation their whole life.
They even overcome cancer.
They STILL help. And that help is needed rn.
Trees: planting me please
Whales: please don't hunt me.
Truth
Whale watchers and Tree Huggers ROCK!!!!
R/im14andthisisdeep
🐳 : Japan, please stop hunting me...
Tf is planting me please lmao
That is why whales are treasure of earth . Save them in all case.
Yes, save the whales! 🐋
We shouldn't forget that the current market price of carbon is still way too low. Using Kenneth Arrow's method for calculating carbon shadow prices, you should get a much higher figure. What's great about whales compared to trees is that we have to do much less work to get the same benefits. Of course there's a cap on the number of whales there can be, and they breed very slowly. But all we have to do to reap the benefits is to essentially just leave them alone. This is yet another example of why there needs to be an international carbon economy, not just the limited regional ones and the one larger we have in the EU. Countries such as Japan and Norway would not be as keen to keep on whaling if they had to pay the appropriate price for each whale, including shadow prices.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
You're absolutely right, that some countries would not be as keen to keep hunting whales, if they had to pay the appropriate price for each whale. Hopefully, we can raise awareness for this topic and address it to authorities and local leaders. 🐋
@@terramater We need to.
we are killing them off in staggering numbers just with basic shipping routes, a little bit more than nothing might be needed.
Not to mention other countries whose shipping tankers are estimated to kill thousands of whales a year. Those incidents need to be better tracked and levy higher fines.
@ Spaghetti Toaster? My BIG CONFUSE Who is deliberately killing the whales and WHY??
Wait ur. Comparing what a tree can store in a year with the whole lifespan of a whale
Maybe I misunderstood
But if 1 tree absorbs 20 kg a year a tree normally lives 200+ years so 4000 kg
How can u compare 1 year to a livespan I would love to see the equation
Asked the same question. And how a whale body can store 33 tons of carbon when the biggest whale is just 40 tons? Is it made out of carbon?
and whats the price for a ton of carbon? Where did they get that from?
@@pebbles8735 According to worldbank.org the required pricing of co2 to drive transformative climate change is around 40$-80$ per ton by 2020. He calculated with the mean of the two values.
@@vladimir_egay A quick search on whale weight says a great whale weights averages 130t (species and gender considered). Considering that the human body has a Carbon compound of around 18% its not too far out there to believe that a 130t whale could have a carbon compound of 30t.
@@vladimir_egay pretty much, we are carbon based lifeforms. Our skeletons are primarily calcium phosphate but does contain calcium carbonate as well. The cells are made up of carbon. Proteins, amino acids, fats, etc are all made out of different forms of carbon.
I will add regarding fat when someone is loosing fat through exercise and diet they are not excreting it in their urine or poop (maybe a small %) but in fact mostly breathing out carbon dioxide.
Why anyone would eat such gentle giants is beyond me.They make such beautiful sounds, save humans, save the earth,WHY WOUld anyone hunt them down?
because as the 1st predador animal on earth that we are we hav become spoiled, ignorant and arrogant
Because of willful ignorance.
simple, ignorance
Cod liver oil has medical properties.
Several indigenous groups in the Arctic circle will hunt one or two whales a year to feed their whole village for the whole year, this is in harmony with the ecosystem. the massive overhunting of recent centuries is the fault of capitalism and european colonialiam
We need to find a way to stop ships from killing whales though, it’s a big problem that doesn’t get noticed since all dead whales sink thus we never get to see the impact we have
I like how they say “humans against climate change” but it’s technically “humans against humans” since we’re mostly the root of the problem
No and yes global warming has happend many timee
Climate Change wasnt a problem until the industrial revolution, there ware ways for us to live in harmony, food forests, agroecology, chanampas, pleistociene park, rewilding.
It is not humans against humans, it humans for humans because in the long term humans will destroy themselves if they continue to ignore the changes their make in the environment.
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Beautiful Video. Well researched and presented 👍😊
Thank you, Simon!
Wow. Now that's something you don't learn in schools or hear on the news
Hey Adriana,
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I’d be watching to see that they don’t start farming/ containing and controlling whales for economic benefit
No, instead, in order to sequester carbon, they need to sink to the bottom of the sea. So we raise them till they reach max size, then we bring them out in the deep, and put a bullet in their head. Beautiful.
Burton L I wonder what that would do to the abyss... as the abyss is very very very poor in nutrition. One whale can feed tens of thousands of organisms down there. So an industry of whale slaughter would be very interesting.
Whales lives matter ❤️🌍✌️ 😆 trees lives matter ❤️ whale poop feeds you all love growth.
Price: 2 million
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Truly a remarkable animal, I've been a whale lover all my life, this only grows my love for these gentle giant's....
wow !!!!! i'm so glad youtube showed this to me as my youtube recommendation !
Such a legitimate channel ! i'm sure yr channel is going to groww !
Thanks Terra Mater for such valuable information !
Thanks for watching and WELCOME! 🤗
Well the problem is only that microplastic is leading towards infertilization of giant marine animals (and subsequently their extinction) and we have a lot of that in our oceans (and are still adding more).
Also whales don't mean we have to fundamentally change our ways of consumption anyways.
This is so informative... subscribed !!
Gentle giants at their best
U r really good I subscribed and am looking forward to a new video
Thank you! New videos are uploaded every week. So stay tuned!
I have been off shore 100 miles several times over the past four years. I have noticed a lot more whales than when i was a kid fishing these same area with my Dad. I am 57.
Can we not provide more "poop" to the oceans, to drive a larger plankton fields, helping feed whales? I know thinking about mankind doing anything comes with fears of our typical blundering in ecosystems but, could this be a possibility? Just asking, as I'm not well educated in this area to understand all the ramifications of such an idea.
No.
Okay so hear me out, I have a plan. A baby horse costs about 150,000 dollars to clone, and has 1/15th the mass of a baby humpback whale. Assuming maybe 50k is R&D and the price per unit is actually $100,000, cloning a baby humpback would theoretically be 1.5 million dollars, so that's a profit of 500,000 dollars per whale, so lets stop investing into scrubbers and stuff, which do almost nothing in terms of footprint, and lets just clone a bunch of whales!
I never knew this. Very interesting! Thank you so much for these amazing videos. I am going to share this to the most.
Awesome, thank you!🤗
Great that this information helps us protect whales in the ocean but the real question is, what are you guys doing to stop countries exploiting these whales like Japan who makes eco-friendly cars but then destroys the environment with their cultural practices not to mention continued industrialization. The world superpowers like the US, Russia, EU and China also contributes the largest amount of pollution that smaller developed countries suffer from.
Nice research
Thank you!
"We have to save the whales, because they are saving us." Simple, but so powerful.
💙🐳
Man, as the great grandson of a falkland whaler, I'm so dissapointed in my fellow norwegians who can't put their whaling-culture in the past. We can forever remember those brave men who sailed the ocean just to feed their families in a positive light, but let's not allow that to stand in the way of the world of tomorrow.
If we could stop pillaging english churches, then we can stop the unecissary whaling!
Japan also still does whaling
Very smart of Ralph to give value to whales, because this materialistic world are blinded by money unfortunately. Especially politicians
Yes, that was indeed a smart move.
Whales are delicious you selfish hater of whale eaters.
A very interesting video, to say the least. One thing that i was missing though is the fact that the amount of whales in the worlds oceans, also must have an affect on the total amount of life in the worlds oceans, being that their excrements seem to be for a large part at the basis of the oceanic food-chains, basically making whales the largest fertilizers of the worlds oceans. More whales means more excrements, which means more algea blooms, which means more other species living off those algea increasing in numbers, creating some sort of a positive oceanic feedbackloop, increasing life in the worlds oceans, but also carbon sequestration, increasing oceanic iron content, (which has been steadily decreasing on a global level for some time now) but also food ! This would make whales a very important key oceanic species, that should be protected as much as possible.
Well said! 👏🏽
Thanks for pointing out the importance of whales even more! You're absolutely right, whale populations are essential for healthy oceans! We need whales for a healthy climate and therefore it should be our utmost priority to save them! 🐋
We're currently working on another whale story so stay tuned!
@@terramater I humbly "take my hat" to you! 👏👏👏👏 I am working in Brazil to cultivate macro-algae (seaweed) as a bio fertilizer and scale to the biggest possible frontier (Santa Catarina coastline ). Let me know if I can be of service to you guys. Big kudos for your channel! Ig: @aguacer.h2o
Plankton: I need the secret recipe!
Spongebob: If you feel useless, just bare in mind that you're priceless.
Plankton: Inhale co2...
“how much can whales be worth in dollars?” they cant. they are priceless peaceful creatures beautiful and very majestic animals.
They used to say “save the whales and you’ll save humanity”
Never caught on but I think they were right
I love the initiative that you all have started 🌟.
Plankton be looking at whales like the god of life and death.
Why
Terra mater great job guys.. Really appreciate the good work and thanks for the amazing content..
1 tree = 23kg/year
1 whale = 33,000kg/60 years = 550kg/year
Therefore,
1 whale =~ 24 trees
What am I missing ?
This channel deserves a Million subscribers
Thank you!
Great that you are already here :)
I think the value of whales could be found to be even greater than just its carbon sequestration price. Being a keystone species has a major impact on the ocean environment, which affects the abundance of many seafoods and other ocean based goods. Even whale tourism is a large industry.
Nature and its balance system has no price. They are priceless.
Your voice is awesome
Thank you!
a very good educational video.
I'm a bit confused with your commas and dots on the figures.
To me and lots of parts of the world 2 million (US) dollars would look like this : USD 2,000,000.00
ah well, I have to relearn I suppose.
You're completely right! In fact, using a decimal point or comma varies from country to country but here we mixed it up by using both methods. Sorry for the confusion, our bad!
The comparison between the whale and trees equivalent is flawed. One hand, they compare the trees CO2 capacity in a year which is 22 kg and on the other they take into account the CO2 capacity of whale for the whole lifetime i.e. 60 years. Hence, the number is coming out to be huge. If we compare the CO2 absorption capacity in a year, for whales it would be 550 kg and for a matured tree, it would be 22 kg. So, ideally the multiplier factor is 25 and not 1500.
Happy to hear that increase in number of humpback whale in athlantics
Yay!!! 🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳
This channel deserves million subscribers. one of the best channels I ever subscribed.
Oh wow!
Thank you so much! 🤗
Indeed!
Try to keep the hype to plausible levels.
@@0MVR_0 don't be reluctant to appreciate people for their great efforts.
@@sunilkumar-rs1of Do be reluctant to appreciate effortlessness.
I would like to see the bibliographic resources for this videos please
Amazing video!!
Thanks for this wonderful video, full of rich information!
The solution is proper management benevolent ❤️🌍✌️
3:11 that is a lot of crap
Indeed! The crucial and distinctive type that provides the source for a major part of the air that we breathe.
amazing pictures. great work👍
Hi, Marina!
We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)
people should know this .it is truly heartbreaking knowing that they are helping us while we are killing and making them suffer , this shouldnt have 18k but 2 billion views
Thanks for your kind words!
And yes, you're absolutely right: we really need to start to protect whales!
Math is wrong on whales. 33,000kg over 60 years is only 550kg per year. That's the same as 25 trees.
A tree weight is 3 Tons. So a whale weighs 10 Trees. So an eqivalent in the tens is surely more appropriate.
@@donbow450 He was talking about how much whale absorbs co2 (indirectly) for 60 years compared to trees
@@Ahaaka1 Yes, 33Tons in a livespan and they divided it by the trees 22 kg per year which equals their 1500 and that is wrong, because a tree also has a livespan. So to make it equal you have divide the livespan binding by the whale by the livespan of the whale.
@@donbow450 I see, I forgot to count that as well. Thank you for correcting the mistake
thanks for pointing that out, I knew this video was bs
my question is though, how much carbon do they contribute as well? just like any other living things, oxygen is used and CO2 is released. So the real question is are whales and plankton together carbon neutral?
They said stored not release, Wales breath oxygen and expel carbon dioxide like you so like you it can never be neutral as an living being but unlike you it stores carbon dioxide in its fat cells from the food it eats thus it's not released back into the atmosphere.
So the plankton feeds on the carbon dioxide and releases oxygen and the Wales eat the plankton full of carbon dioxide and stores that in its fat and sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
So basically Wales are a +positive and humans are a negative because we in our daily lives expel more carbon dioxide than we filter out
Bo Lee oh i see that would make sense in theory, but a proper study on it would validate it more. Thanks for the info
Amazing.In our planet's darkest days Hope is the trigger to rebel against extinction.ThankYou ,I just saw your ad and rushed to this site.
All the creatures are priceless
God is amazing, He created life to preserve life. Praise God 🙏🏼
Subhan Allah. Look at blessings of God that we don't even notice.
@@lifeisshortdontwasteitread2830 I like how no one liked your comment.
Stop hating start saving.
You should say masya Allah brother, not subhanAllah
wth is going on here no fights or haters in the comments..................
The sad truth even that we know this is that in about a year we will forget about all this...whales are still gonna get hunted until their all extinct and we will only realise how much we needed them and how much they could’ve helped us once their all gone....
The 2 million price is a faux number. No one wants to buy carbon from other market players, it doesn't help at all.
The question is what is the method that has the lowest carbon reduction to price ratio and how much would it cost to use that method to reduce carbon to the same amount a whale would reduce during it's remaining lifespan (or entire lifespan if you want to breed them).
All that while keeping in mind that whales are living creatures and produce carbon dioxide of their own, which reduces the net anount of carbon they reduce.
I can't in good faith estimate a whale's net climate worth to be 2M$.
I estimate it is much lower than that.
This is hugely MISLEADING and completely WRONG to the point where it can be called ridiculous. ONLY PLANTS can pull out carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert the carbon into biomass through photosynthesis. Whales DO NOT pull out carbon from the atmosphere. By your logic, all animal species have carbon inside their body, elephants, cows, chickens and even humans. In fact, humans have much larger biomass than most wild animals. Does it mean humans are one of the most helpful species in putting carbon in the ground? Or the millions of cows? Whales, along with all other animals, build up their mass through consuming other biomass, not consuming CO2. And all this biomass eventually comes from plankton and plants that can photosynthesize. Even if whales do not exist, the carbon that was originally inside their body will continue to exist in other forms of life, plankton, fishes and so on. On the contrary, all life forms including whales, release CO2 into the air through respiration. Without photosynthesis to offset their released CO2, animals contribute to higher levels of carbon concentration in the air. If you want a maximum effect in reducing airborne carbon, you should just kill every animal. But then plants will have no CO2 to photosynthesize and gradually die off. Hence, it's a tricky balance that requires great efforts to achieve equilibrium. Whale certainly is a part of the big ecosystem, but absolutely has no effect in removing carbon from the air but contributing to more carbon in the air for plants to use.
As a dominant predator on the top of the food chain, the fact that whales can grow so big only proves the might of the plankton which are the ultimate energy source for all marine life. All you prove is that the plankton are more powerful in removing airborne carbon than forests, which is a widely-known common sense.
Additionally, it's not the whales that promote the proliferation of plankton. Just because plankton are blooming on whales' routes , does not mean there is a causation. Correlation is not causation. It's more likely that it is the higher concentration level of CO2 that promotes the proliferation of plankton, and because whales can eat them as food. Whales look for them and show up in the same place. And for the iron, nitrogen and phosphorus whales excrete to the ocean? Guess what? They originally come from the ocean. You can't really say returning back the things you took is a benefit, right? Whales, indeed, benefit a lot of living organisms when they die and fall to the sea floor. But without whales, those lives that were originally living deep down under, will just spread across the ocean, living somewhere else, since there is an overall conservation of energy/nutrients in the ocean.
czcams.com/video/z15i018v8H4/video.html causative link Sperm whale phytoplankton giant squid. Iron is the llimiting Factor for phytoplankton, which do pull lots of carbon out of the environment. Most iron rich animal is giant squid. Sperm whale pop is up and so is g squid pop and size.
they did say that wales pull out carbon dioxide temporarily, not permanent, after the wales die they sink to the bottom of the ocean, with that carbon dioxide and that is taken out of the atmospheric cycle for hundreds of years.
@@LegendNinja41 How exactly whales pull out Carbon Dioxide??? Whales produce CO2 through respiration. They only INJECT MORE CO2 to the air, and reduce the capacity of carbon-fixing organisms by eating them. And like all animals, they fall into the ground when they die. ONLY PLANTS & MICROBIAL that can photosynthesize have the ability to pull out carbon from the air! The way this video is worded is definitely trying to push its own agenda instead of telling the truth.
You have many facts but humans don't have the largest biomass, even cows have more biomass than humans.
Jimmy Muthami Thanks for pointing that out. I've corrected that. It's still mind-boggling to think that the biomass of humans or domesticated animals and livestock that depend on humans dwarfs the biomass of most wild animal species.
Wow did not know this !!!! 🙏🙏🙏 Whales are actually saving us
Glad you enjoyed it Pablo 😊 Whales are indeed amazing creatures 🐳
Priceless
Most people don't know that oceans are like deserts. Seawater itself has no nutrition so life is very scarce. Most of the sea life lie along shores where currents rip up sediment from the sands, the shores etc. That's why the whales are so important to bring nutrients out in the vast open sea.
Thanks so much. I am going to share this video with as many people as possible 😁
nicely explained.. got to know more.. SUBSCRIBED thanks
thank you & welcome to our channel! #terramatters
Great video
Great video, thanks
Impactante, todos debemos apoyar la protección y conservación de estos maravillosos cetáceos, son nuestra salvación!
Great video, but the comparison is a bit misleading.
60 years of a whale is compared to 1 year of a tree.
When you look at the carbon intake of a tree during the same 60 years (1320kg) one whale equals only 25 trees. This is still very impressive but nothing to the imposed 1500.
Wouldn't it be even higher if you factored in the free pumping of nutrients? What would the cost of machinery and electricity to run equivalent systems artificially be worth? It's an insane amount of free service....it reminds me of how trees are often calculated based on oxygen production, but people totally fail to realize that they are intense sources of water vapor and pump millions (billions?) of tonnes of it from ground to air, and are major sources of rain. That rainforests physically produce most of their rain. And then these dead silent, massive, free mechanical pumps are just destroyed for transitory profit that is far, far lower than what they're worth alive. It's madness!
I always thought we just needed trees until I watched this video
The thing about plankton is that it lives mostly near the surface, and due to increasing temperatures of the worlds oceans THC is slowing down and carbon isnt cycling into the depths as well as it should be and it ends up getting picked back up by the atmosphere. Also storing carbon in the ocean is only a bandaid solution to climate change as itll have damaging effects to those ecosystems if we stick to that
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Great to hear! Thanks! :)
very informative expected in all the department (technology)same like this
Glad that you like our video!
Video said that it'd take about 30 years to get whales back to their pre exploiatated numbers but the amount of increase in human population within those 30 years would increase co2 emition exponentially. We should start preserving whales by more extreme measures if we want to see some drastic change in co2 emission.
This video is very informative I will spread the word #Terramater
Nature has all the solution of our problems...we have to understand and protect it rather destroying it
Just a friendly correction: narrator says they are worth two million dollars and the text reads two thousand. ($2,000.000 when it should be $2,000,000) surly it’s a typo. Thanks for the great content!
Thank you so much for all these important and fascinating infos! Great mermals, great pictures, graet video! THX
Hi, Harry!
We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)
Wow! That's really good for both of us ❤... so PLEASE 🙏🙏 save our WHALES save our home 🙏😍❤🙏
Fossil fuels are your gods then! THEY saved the whales, not greenpeace!
Nature is truly priceless
Yes, it really is!
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At the height of whale hunting, the baleen whale population went down by over 90%. imagine how different the world would be if whale hunting never existed.
Even 2 million seems as an insignificant price if we look carefully at the contribution of this extraordinary creature
That's because he used the current market price of CO2 in his calculations. The real price, including the costs of future climate change damages and mitigation, is likely orders of magnitude higher.
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we do our best to produce valuable content!
This video showed how important are whales for the planet and Terra Mater too for spreading out essential knowledge.
Thanks for watching! 🐋
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Cool 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)
Wow ! It is so so big
I like whales a lot more now. Wow!
People needs to see this
thank you for this video
Thanks for watching!
How does one even calculate the positive externality and put a price on it though
Mr. Beast: Making 30 million whales
The math is not very strong with this one. They show the storage of a tree per year and the whales in a livespan. So 33,000 / 60 550. 550/22= 25. That would be 25 trees. Another way to see it: A Tree weighs 3 tons. So one whale stores 10 Trees. Trees however don't sink to the bottom of the ocean, removing it permantly.
I thought whales were gonna be a new food source.
We need to save Whales and in general their entire food chain
I really hope your channel gets up really good content and amzing stuff good luck on your youtuber journey