How Whales Can Help Us to Fight Climate Change I Climate Heroes

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  • čas přidán 5. 12. 2019
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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.
    Producer: Eva Schmidt
    Assistant Producer: Katrin Blaß
    Graphics: Jörg Eisenprobst
    Voiceover: Sophie Kozeluh
    Audio Mix: Stefan Fiedler
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Komentáře • 910

  • @KevinP32270
    @KevinP32270 Před 4 lety +1278

    since the whales are saving us, that would make them PRICELESS to me.

    • @syedsarwarhussain7316
      @syedsarwarhussain7316 Před 4 lety +37

      That's the beauty of true sensible human being.....💐

    • @teecarter4900
      @teecarter4900 Před 4 lety +19

      Money has no soul. Its a thing we use to motivate people to do things we cant or wont do ourselves.

    • @rasmus8510
      @rasmus8510 Před 3 lety +4

      @@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

    • @cadehassel3242
      @cadehassel3242 Před 3 lety +2

      @@rasmus8510 Haha why so serious? Chill the fuck out

    • @sinapi6031
      @sinapi6031 Před 3 lety +1

      we can just dump those mineral into the ocean to grow algae

  • @zagreus1249
    @zagreus1249 Před 4 lety +574

    The answer for our Climate issues is in the Nature itself we only need to know where to look

  • @SATYAMSINGH-ly8kb
    @SATYAMSINGH-ly8kb Před 4 lety +267

    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

    • @Rykvp
      @Rykvp Před 3 lety +53

      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

    • @Capu57
      @Capu57 Před 3 lety +32

      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.

    • @ostwind1388
      @ostwind1388 Před 3 lety +9

      Finally someone with some common sense.

    • @focidhomophobicii2426
      @focidhomophobicii2426 Před 3 lety +7

      @@Capu57 I think it's possible for some whales to produce minus carbon footprints by calculation their whole life.
      They even overcome cancer.

    • @Nightcxxite
      @Nightcxxite Před 3 lety +4

      They STILL help. And that help is needed rn.

  • @SpaghettiToaster
    @SpaghettiToaster Před 4 lety +141

    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.

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +23

      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. 🐋

    • @fortruegood8591
      @fortruegood8591 Před 4 lety +4

      @@terramater We need to.

    • @RealHypocrisy
      @RealHypocrisy Před 4 lety +5

      we are killing them off in staggering numbers just with basic shipping routes, a little bit more than nothing might be needed.

    • @Will_Moffett
      @Will_Moffett Před 4 lety +4

      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.

    • @jtc1947
      @jtc1947 Před 4 lety

      @ Spaghetti Toaster? My BIG CONFUSE Who is deliberately killing the whales and WHY??

  • @awesomebroke
    @awesomebroke Před 4 lety +379

    Trees: planting me please
    Whales: please don't hunt me.

  • @janardanram9259
    @janardanram9259 Před 4 lety +125

    That is why whales are treasure of earth . Save them in all case.

  • @thebluephoenix2701
    @thebluephoenix2701 Před 3 lety +47

    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

    • @vladimir_egay
      @vladimir_egay Před 3 lety +4

      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?

    • @pebbles8735
      @pebbles8735 Před 3 lety

      and whats the price for a ton of carbon? Where did they get that from?

    • @j3nki541
      @j3nki541 Před 3 lety +2

      ​@@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.

    • @j3nki541
      @j3nki541 Před 3 lety +10

      @@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.

    • @Capu57
      @Capu57 Před 3 lety +5

      @@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.

  • @omprakashsrivastava301
    @omprakashsrivastava301 Před 4 lety +24

    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?

    • @spyrosmitrakos5085
      @spyrosmitrakos5085 Před 4 lety +2

      because as the 1st predador animal on earth that we are we hav become spoiled, ignorant and arrogant

    • @fortruegood8591
      @fortruegood8591 Před 4 lety

      Because of willful ignorance.

    • @solsoil
      @solsoil Před 3 lety

      simple, ignorance

    • @GB-uc3ni
      @GB-uc3ni Před 3 lety +1

      Cod liver oil has medical properties.

    • @charliejohanssen7421
      @charliejohanssen7421 Před 3 lety

      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

  • @Nate-wf5hk
    @Nate-wf5hk Před 3 lety +7

    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

  • @Adriana.Gabriela
    @Adriana.Gabriela Před 3 lety +11

    Wow. Now that's something you don't learn in schools or hear on the news

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 11 měsíci +1

      Hey Adriana,
      thanks so much for your support! We just uploaded a video about grizzly bears and the fact that they are climate heroes too!
      Let us know what you think 🤗: czcams.com/video/cBrhQCQ_07s/video.html

  • @nataliemoss9515
    @nataliemoss9515 Před 4 lety +18

    I’d be watching to see that they don’t start farming/ containing and controlling whales for economic benefit

    • @burtonl7239
      @burtonl7239 Před 4 lety +1

      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.

    • @maain9474
      @maain9474 Před 4 lety +1

      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.

  • @simonbox5687
    @simonbox5687 Před 4 lety +52

    Beautiful Video. Well researched and presented 👍😊

  • @jiyajain684
    @jiyajain684 Před 4 lety +30

    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 !

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +3

      Thanks for watching and WELCOME! 🤗

  • @anthonyfuentes1452
    @anthonyfuentes1452 Před 4 lety +7

    Truly a remarkable animal, I've been a whale lover all my life, this only grows my love for these gentle giant's....

  • @Hitech82
    @Hitech82 Před 3 lety +3

    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.

  • @mornemorkel1483
    @mornemorkel1483 Před 4 lety +10

    Price: 2 million
    Writes 2000

  • @prasadsharma8585
    @prasadsharma8585 Před 4 lety +43

    Gentle giants at their best
    U r really good I subscribed and am looking forward to a new video

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +6

      Thank you! New videos are uploaded every week. So stay tuned!

  • @chester2847
    @chester2847 Před 4 lety +18

    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.

  • @sarthaksingh6888
    @sarthaksingh6888 Před 4 lety +2

    Terra mater great job guys.. Really appreciate the good work and thanks for the amazing content..

  • @RahulKumar-py8fz
    @RahulKumar-py8fz Před 4 lety +13

    This is so informative... subscribed !!

  • @elisanoro
    @elisanoro Před 3 lety +19

    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

    • @meruem6995ujjoooo
      @meruem6995ujjoooo Před 3 lety +1

      No and yes global warming has happend many timee

    • @charliejohanssen7421
      @charliejohanssen7421 Před 3 lety +3

      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.

    • @Mysikrysa
      @Mysikrysa Před 2 lety

      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.

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 11 měsíci

      Did you know that grizzly bears are true climate heroes?
      We just uploaded a video about this topic.
      Let us know what you think 🤗: czcams.com/video/cBrhQCQ_07s/video.html

    • @glennkerrison6108
      @glennkerrison6108 Před 14 dny

      Why would banks still give out mortgages for waterfront properties? I mean we're in a climate crisis and all the seas are rising, right? I guess banks are just too dumb to know they're making a bad investment, right? Or....maybe they know the truth.

  • @bahardin3992
    @bahardin3992 Před 4 lety +7

    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.

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +3

      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!

  • @rongeetbanerjee5205
    @rongeetbanerjee5205 Před 4 lety +6

    I love the initiative that you all have started 🌟.

  • @hermanocampeon6806
    @hermanocampeon6806 Před 3 lety +2

    Plankton: I need the secret recipe!
    Spongebob: If you feel useless, just bare in mind that you're priceless.
    Plankton: Inhale co2...

  • @fjvmunsterman
    @fjvmunsterman Před 4 lety +3

    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.

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety

      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!

    • @DanPiestun
      @DanPiestun Před 4 lety

      @@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

  • @carlb.4097
    @carlb.4097 Před 4 lety +15

    Whales lives matter ❤️🌍✌️ 😆 trees lives matter ❤️ whale poop feeds you all love growth.

  • @lightyearahead
    @lightyearahead Před 4 lety +10

    I never knew this. Very interesting! Thank you so much for these amazing videos. I am going to share this to the most.

  • @manulettleur8577
    @manulettleur8577 Před 4 lety +10

    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.

  • @Dyejob01
    @Dyejob01 Před 3 lety +4

    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.

  • @shivenpatel970
    @shivenpatel970 Před 4 lety +7

    Nice research

  • @rongeetbanerjee5205
    @rongeetbanerjee5205 Před 4 lety

    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.

  • @had940
    @had940 Před 3 lety +1

    “how much can whales be worth in dollars?” they cant. they are priceless peaceful creatures beautiful and very majestic animals.

  • @sunilkumar-rs1of
    @sunilkumar-rs1of Před 4 lety +8

    This channel deserves million subscribers. one of the best channels I ever subscribed.

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +2

      Oh wow!
      Thank you so much! 🤗

    • @niteeshbihade1789
      @niteeshbihade1789 Před 4 lety

      Indeed!

    • @0MVR_0
      @0MVR_0 Před 4 lety +1

      Try to keep the hype to plausible levels.

    • @sunilkumar-rs1of
      @sunilkumar-rs1of Před 4 lety

      @@0MVR_0 don't be reluctant to appreciate people for their great efforts.

    • @0MVR_0
      @0MVR_0 Před 4 lety

      @@sunilkumar-rs1of Do be reluctant to appreciate effortlessness.

  • @hakundus8767
    @hakundus8767 Před 4 lety +3

    I would like to see the bibliographic resources for this videos please

  • @hiimryan2388
    @hiimryan2388 Před 3 lety +1

    Plankton be looking at whales like the god of life and death.

  • @tylerhawley4012
    @tylerhawley4012 Před 3 lety +2

    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.

  • @twilightgardenspresentatio6384

    They used to say “save the whales and you’ll save humanity”
    Never caught on but I think they were right

  • @rajanbhagat8217
    @rajanbhagat8217 Před 4 lety +6

    Your voice is awesome

  • @michellebabi643
    @michellebabi643 Před 4 lety +2

    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

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety

      Thanks for your kind words!
      And yes, you're absolutely right: we really need to start to protect whales!

  • @ajayvikram4804
    @ajayvikram4804 Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @DreM-pp4mg
    @DreM-pp4mg Před 4 lety +7

    This channel deserves a Million subscribers

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +1

      Thank you!
      Great that you are already here :)

  • @sleverlight
    @sleverlight Před 4 lety +43

    Very smart of Ralph to give value to whales, because this materialistic world are blinded by money unfortunately. Especially politicians

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +5

      Yes, that was indeed a smart move.

    • @hiitsnate
      @hiitsnate Před 3 lety

      Whales are delicious you selfish hater of whale eaters.

  • @yungtraps9417
    @yungtraps9417 Před 4 lety +1

    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....

  • @shintushyamm675
    @shintushyamm675 Před 3 lety +1

    Happy to hear that increase in number of humpback whale in athlantics

  • @carlb.4097
    @carlb.4097 Před 4 lety +4

    The solution is proper management benevolent ❤️🌍✌️

  • @mohfaryabi8912
    @mohfaryabi8912 Před 4 lety +3

    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?

    • @bolee3339
      @bolee3339 Před 3 lety +1

      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

    • @mohfaryabi8912
      @mohfaryabi8912 Před 3 lety

      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

  • @priyankaganguly910
    @priyankaganguly910 Před 4 lety +1

    nicely explained.. got to know more.. SUBSCRIBED thanks

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety

      thank you & welcome to our channel! #terramatters

  • @somukarthikeyan3387
    @somukarthikeyan3387 Před 4 lety +1

    very informative expected in all the department (technology)same like this

  • @EldhoMidhun
    @EldhoMidhun Před 4 lety +6

    1 tree = 23kg/year
    1 whale = 33,000kg/60 years = 550kg/year
    Therefore,
    1 whale =~ 24 trees
    What am I missing ?

  • @bladerj
    @bladerj Před 4 lety +9

    3:11 that is a lot of crap

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +3

      Indeed! The crucial and distinctive type that provides the source for a major part of the air that we breathe.

  • @someplayer1402
    @someplayer1402 Před 4 lety

    I really hope your channel gets up really good content and amzing stuff good luck on your youtuber journey

  • @sharonibose28
    @sharonibose28 Před 4 lety +1

    Amazing video!!

  • @andygoody2599
    @andygoody2599 Před 4 lety +8

    Math is wrong on whales. 33,000kg over 60 years is only 550kg per year. That's the same as 25 trees.

    • @donbow450
      @donbow450 Před 4 lety +2

      A tree weight is 3 Tons. So a whale weighs 10 Trees. So an eqivalent in the tens is surely more appropriate.

    • @Ahaaka1
      @Ahaaka1 Před 4 lety

      @@donbow450 He was talking about how much whale absorbs co2 (indirectly) for 60 years compared to trees

    • @donbow450
      @donbow450 Před 4 lety +2

      @@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.

    • @Ahaaka1
      @Ahaaka1 Před 4 lety +1

      @@donbow450 I see, I forgot to count that as well. Thank you for correcting the mistake

    • @michaeld4861
      @michaeld4861 Před 4 lety +1

      thanks for pointing that out, I knew this video was bs

  • @zainalii
    @zainalii Před 4 lety +17

    Subhan Allah. Look at blessings of God that we don't even notice.

    • @yousef9471
      @yousef9471 Před 4 lety +2

      @@lifeisshortdontwasteitread2830 I like how no one liked your comment.
      Stop hating start saving.

    • @yudhaadityasukmanto
      @yudhaadityasukmanto Před 4 lety

      You should say masya Allah brother, not subhanAllah

    • @thecrazycatgirl2481
      @thecrazycatgirl2481 Před 4 lety

      wth is going on here no fights or haters in the comments..................

  • @giovannibecerra
    @giovannibecerra Před 4 lety

    Impactante, todos debemos apoyar la protección y conservación de estos maravillosos cetáceos, son nuestra salvación!

  • @gisleyalves1819
    @gisleyalves1819 Před 2 lety

    Nature and its balance system has no price. They are priceless.

  • @chazzsavis6706
    @chazzsavis6706 Před 4 lety +6

    God is amazing, He created life to preserve life. Praise God 🙏🏼

  • @DixonWangYF
    @DixonWangYF Před 4 lety +8

    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.

    • @joseywales7463
      @joseywales7463 Před 4 lety

      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.

    • @LegendNinja41
      @LegendNinja41 Před 4 lety

      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.

    • @DixonWangYF
      @DixonWangYF Před 4 lety +2

      @@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.

    • @jimmymuthami7130
      @jimmymuthami7130 Před 4 lety

      You have many facts but humans don't have the largest biomass, even cows have more biomass than humans.

    • @DixonWangYF
      @DixonWangYF Před 4 lety

      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.

  • @user-bm4hx2go5j
    @user-bm4hx2go5j Před 4 lety +1

    I come to your video from an Ad which appears in the The Most Elusive Man in North America video..

  • @crayfish35
    @crayfish35 Před 3 lety +2

    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!

    • @IkeReviews
      @IkeReviews Před 2 lety

      Japan also still does whaling

  • @smilepleazz5650
    @smilepleazz5650 Před 4 lety

    BEST CHANNEL EVER!!!!
    thank you so much for such a beautiful video.
    support you guys very much

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +1

      Thank you so much for your support! 🥰

  • @goodvibebiker4776
    @goodvibebiker4776 Před 3 lety

    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!

  • @Deeer69420
    @Deeer69420 Před 2 lety +1

    I always thought we just needed trees until I watched this video

  • @karandtc
    @karandtc Před 4 lety

    very informative.. may i know sound track name used at the beginning of this video?

  • @brianoger993
    @brianoger993 Před 3 lety

    Thanks so much. I am going to share this video with as many people as possible 😁

  • @maazin2782
    @maazin2782 Před 4 lety +1

    The most underrated channel

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety

      Thank you so much for your support!

  • @FlavioColombini
    @FlavioColombini Před 2 lety

    Thanks for this wonderful video, full of rich information!

  • @chaiyetyang7711
    @chaiyetyang7711 Před 4 lety +2

    This video is very informative I will spread the word #Terramater

  • @pabloramos420
    @pabloramos420 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow did not know this !!!! 🙏🙏🙏 Whales are actually saving us

  • @yomanrai465
    @yomanrai465 Před 4 lety

    why do this channel don't have atleast a million followers
    it is so educational and interesting

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 11 měsíci

      Glad you think so!
      We just uploaded a new video about grizzly bears. Check it out 🤗 : czcams.com/video/cBrhQCQ_07s/video.html

  • @ProjectDuckHQ
    @ProjectDuckHQ Před 3 lety +1

    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!

  • @petez2610
    @petez2610 Před 4 lety

    Watched two videos and a subscriber now. Keep it up

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety

      WOW, thanks!
      And welcome aboard! 🤗

  • @TheLaughingDove
    @TheLaughingDove Před 4 lety

    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!

  • @servicemanCOOL
    @servicemanCOOL Před 4 lety +2

    this documentary is pretty compact

  • @humber8220
    @humber8220 Před 3 lety

    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

  • @joseribeiro5894
    @joseribeiro5894 Před 3 lety

    Tumbnail:
    -"How Whales Can Solve the Climate Crisis"
    My brain:
    -"Interesting..."
    Video:
    1:47
    My brain:
    **Explosion**
    Rest of the video:
    **Lots of interesting, usefull stuff**
    Me:
    -"IT KEEPS EXPLODING, HELP !!!"

  • @lehnddyallapunjaab7960
    @lehnddyallapunjaab7960 Před 4 lety +1

    Wow! That's really good for both of us ❤... so PLEASE 🙏🙏 save our WHALES save our home 🙏😍❤🙏

    • @WadcaWymiaru
      @WadcaWymiaru Před 4 lety

      Fossil fuels are your gods then! THEY saved the whales, not greenpeace!

  • @mhroa1261
    @mhroa1261 Před 4 lety +1

    I have been meaning to ask ;can anyone join you?
    What i mean is when i grow up can i be part of your mission? If so, then please tell me what to do. I mean other then study biology, i dont know what i have to do, and would love to be part of a group that helps preserve wildlife.
    Thank you for listening.
    I asked because i'm from pakistan where lots of people just major in medicine and thats all, i mean thats cool, but i wanna help differently.

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety

      The best way to support us is by spreading the word, raising awareness that #terramatters and doing your part in protecting the environment.

  • @soluz-
    @soluz- Před 4 lety +1

    i liked your topics. i was just a little confused with how you showed 2 million that looks like only 2 thousand in figure -- $ 2,000.000.

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety

      Thank you for the feedback. In fact, using a decimal point or comma varies from country to country.

  • @d1pranjal
    @d1pranjal Před 4 lety +1

    This video showed how important are whales for the planet and Terra Mater too for spreading out essential knowledge.

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety

      Thanks for watching! 🐋

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 11 měsíci

      We just uploaded a video about grizzly bears and the fact that they are climate heroes too!
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  • @aaroncorona9870
    @aaroncorona9870 Před 4 lety +1

    I loved it. But, I only have one question: We already know that every whale, as every other living organism (in the ocean), is part of a whole system. How would the increase of the whales population affect the system? Thank you

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +1

      We're glad you loved our video! And thank you for your question - there are various effects related to an increase of world's whale populations - and they are all positive: Whales storage carbon in their bodies and when they die and sink to the bottom of the sea, they take this carbon with them. Additionally, whales' excrement provides important nutrients to phytoplankton and the more plankton there is, the more carbon can be sequestered and the more oxygen can be released. As a third example, whales contribute to the food web chain in the oceans and increase fish stocks.

    • @paramnayar4462
      @paramnayar4462 Před 4 lety

      @@terramater Great video, just a small question. Whales also consume many small marine animals apart from plankton. A rise in their population beyond the pre-whaling numbers is bound to affect these species. Will this have any negative impact on the eco-system???

    • @SpaghettiToaster
      @SpaghettiToaster Před 4 lety

      @@paramnayar4462 Probably not becauae the ecosystem was stable before we started whaling. Whaling was a very short-term disruption so it is unlikely that the ecosystem has already adapted to a point where it wouldn't smoothly changed back if whale populations increased.

  • @kate8160
    @kate8160 Před 4 lety

    This is the channel I’ve been looking for

  • @megnasarat3944
    @megnasarat3944 Před 4 lety +1

    Very informative channel!
    Love it

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +1

      Thank you!

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 11 měsíci

      We just uploaded a video about grizzly bears and the fact that they are climate heroes:
      Let us know what you think 🤗: czcams.com/video/cBrhQCQ_07s/video.html

  • @harryhermann7663
    @harryhermann7663 Před 2 lety

    Thank you so much for all these important and fascinating infos! Great mermals, great pictures, graet video! THX

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 2 lety

      Hi, Harry!
      We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)

  • @thesonofrage9
    @thesonofrage9 Před 4 lety

    it's time to learn during pandemic💖💖

  • @alanreinhackel7329
    @alanreinhackel7329 Před 3 lety

    Priceless

  • @anonymous-ui8xw
    @anonymous-ui8xw Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @friedrichbacon2129
    @friedrichbacon2129 Před 3 lety +1

    How does one even calculate the positive externality and put a price on it though

  • @deepaaich1529
    @deepaaich1529 Před 3 lety

    I hope you guys can become a good and big channel channel
    I really would like to support you guys
    I am impressed by the awesome content👍👍
    I would like to see more

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 11 měsíci

      Still working on it, but we're so thankful for your support!
      We just uploaded a video about grizzly bears and the fact that they are true climate heroes:
      Let us know what you think 🤗: czcams.com/video/cBrhQCQ_07s/video.html

  • @sudhansusekhar4161
    @sudhansusekhar4161 Před 4 lety

    Even 2 million seems as an insignificant price if we look carefully at the contribution of this extraordinary creature

    • @SpaghettiToaster
      @SpaghettiToaster Před 4 lety

      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.

  • @rudrapatel7240
    @rudrapatel7240 Před 3 lety +1

    All the creatures are priceless

  • @atio3078
    @atio3078 Před 3 lety

    We need to save Whales and in general their entire food chain

  • @marinawahl6727
    @marinawahl6727 Před 2 lety

    amazing pictures. great work👍

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 2 lety +1

      Hi, Marina!
      We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)

  • @errylinarroyo4445
    @errylinarroyo4445 Před 4 lety +1

    Keep going advertising, humanity needs this!

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 4 lety +1

      we do our best to produce valuable content!

  • @spyrosmitrakos5085
    @spyrosmitrakos5085 Před 4 lety +2

    thanks for the educational video especially the info for the plankton and how whales affect it but there is a missculculation that i noticed directly and i am surprising why nobody else have noticed it..The comparison with the tree is totally incorrect because it compares how much a tree absorbe CO2 per year and how much whale absorbes during her life span that is 60years..so do the right math and would be just 25 times more and if we cosnider that a life span of a tree its much more than 60years then it could be almost equal..another misconcepcion is about how they absorb CO2 and this is indirectly through their poo that produce nutrients that create marine plants in the area such us plakton or help them to grow.By eating the plakton it absorbs the CO2 that has been captured by it and use it to grow i guess..but on the other hand such a huge animal like all of them needs Oxygen to live and gives out CO2..doesn't seem that they have calculated this as well..and thats another reason why you can't compare it with plants like a tree since a tree does produce more O2 than CO2 but a livng organism like a whale only produce CO2 and absorbs O2 directly like us so hasn't estimate that neither..so make that comparison and how much a whale should worth i believe is totally incorrect at least is not that simple.

  • @rapssuazo7096
    @rapssuazo7096 Před 3 lety +1

    I thought whales were gonna be a new food source.

  • @yashrajsahu9244
    @yashrajsahu9244 Před 4 lety +2

    thank you for this video

  • @aptorres01
    @aptorres01 Před 2 lety

    Great video, thanks

  • @anonymousdude2550
    @anonymousdude2550 Před 4 lety

    Nature is truly priceless

    • @terramater
      @terramater  Před 11 měsíci

      Yes, it really is!
      We just uploaded a video about grizzly bear.
      Let us know what you think 🤗: czcams.com/video/cBrhQCQ_07s/video.html

  • @vishalrao1398
    @vishalrao1398 Před 4 lety +3

    Please Make A Whole Documentry About Climate Change 'cause We Humans Are Not Fully Aware. And We only Have 8-9 Year to turn Global Warming Around Or Earth Will Be Destroyed By Us. #SaveMotherEarth