The Race to Zero Emissions, & Why the World Depends On It | Planet A
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- In this episode of ‘Planet A’, Professor Narasimha Rao shows how deeply the fossil fuel industry is embedded into the world before turning to solutions that could lead us to net zero emissions.
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I used to think electric vehicles was the way but I've been convinced that we need to actually reform communities and cities to drastically reduce the amount of powered transportation required. Large central cities with acres of pavement and giant highways transporting people from far away giant suburbs with just houses upon houses and the occasional outlet mall with huge boxstores, all of which requires considerable driving, just can't compete with liveable, walkable, bikeable communities containing most of what you need in close proximity.
Exactly right! The contrast is clear between bankrupt car dependent american cities and far more financially and environmentally sustainable european cities. I hope you're on urbanist yt, if not check out 'not just bikes', 'oh the urbanity' and alan fisher.
Hmm totally agree. The way they mine their resource for the battery is not-so-friendly too. Atleast it's doing something, but it's not enough. Renewing public transportation or just easly cycling is more helping (without spend to much money for us, the working class)
@@nathasyapramudita6312 totally - electric cars are part of the future but it's wrong to assume we should just replace all current cars with them. We could probably get by just fine with 1/10th or even 1/50th the cars, so long as we had communities that made sense!
I just experienced a solid example last month. Visited my parents hometown in Mexico and I was able to get groceries and various other necessities just by walking to the town square in 5 minutes. No driving necessary, therefore no need for parking, or putting in gas so consistently like I do in the US. I love my home in the states, but I feel like we could definitely implement concepts like that into communities. Will absolutely leave less of a carbon footprint.
As more humans consume more space, all those walkable markets will still need some form of transportation in order to deliver the world's goods to them. Do you suggest that each community should only subsist on whatever they can produce locally and that trade should never occur?
Sounds like a future documentary of how humans brought their own dimise
you mean wealthy people.
ding,,ding,,,ding,,,,,best comment here.....you are correct.......OUR DIMISE SOON.
@@tclements8331 Hypocrite
FACTS!!
This needs 1000000 likes bro fr vice should pin the comment
The problem mainly is that the "Developed" countries have achieved a level of gluttony and luxury that it doesn't want to give any of that up, and the "developing" countries want the same. Unfortunately we cannot have either. If anything, we need to de-grow to a level that is sustainable.
What about no?
Uh......
sadly this isn't happening, try telling Americans that the way they have lived for the past 100 years is no longer sustainable, they will continue until it becomes apparent that they truly cannot continue then all hell will break loose
the world will never take the steps needed to reverse this global warming. We might as well enjoy life as long as we can. I feel sorry for our kids
@HunterBidensCrackPipe what all countries need to do is just to stop cutting down forests but nobody wants to commit to that
Why is there never emphasis on the fact that so few players are responsible for the vast amounts of emissions? It’s always a “we need to change”, it’s never a “get Berkshire Hathaway, the us govt, Dow, Etc to reduce their emissions, they’re the top polluters.”
Start naming them, put faces on them.
Speak to China, India and Russia first before changing stuff here.
“they” created all this, have perpetuated the false narrative, hold corps accountable not the public
Wanna solve the climate crisis? Drive less and take public transportation or ride a bike. It’s that simple.
@@vincentgrasso7602 US military is literally top 2-3 biggest polluters in the world they weren’t wrong
@@vincentgrasso7602 the western world outsourced almost all their production to those countries you mention. Y'all throw your pollution out of sight and say it's not your problem. They're just providing for western consumerism demands. Hold the big corps accountable now. There is no time at all.
Nuclear is the way forward but it's still a hard truth for some to swallow.
Yup, you cant show a windpark that covers some of Denmarks demand when Denmarks population is about half of NYC, and say it is a great solution. This winter we have suffered high prices on electricity to the point that burning oil to produce electricity has made sense. This because Germany could not rely on its wind and solar for its own power, so they needed to import from countries all around. And yet they are going to close the remaining nuclear plants and shut down their coal plants within a decade, relying on their neighbours to solve this type of issues, with their neighbours population paying the price. Greta wants people to panic but what good is panic for putting out the flames to a burning house? Most of these questions are too advanced for normal people to grasp, they demand change but have no idea what their words imply in practice. We might be f-ed already. Just because you work your hardest doesnt mean it is good enough, it also has to be realistic.
Read my comment about biochar production using photovoltaics.
It’s really not that hard to swallow if folks would learn about it. Obviously it can be dangerous… especially when we build out of date reactors and poorly maintain them… but it’s not 1975… nuclear tech is infinitely safer than 30 years ago.
We now have tiny self contained reactors that are much more robust and DONT RELY ON WATER TO COOL THEM! What a stupid idea, water is a poor coolant… especially when the source of the water is literally a river or ocean. Using water sources like that is bound to have problems… especially when there is absolutely NO WAY to turn the system off in an emergency… it takes power to turn them off, and the power goes off the reactors run away and melt down.
Terrible terrible design! But we’ve advanced quite a bit, and it’s happened in the face of huge pushback and basically no public support.
If we had focused on improving our nuclear technology towards energy production (not weaponizing it) over the last 50 years then it’s hard to imagine the potential progress.
Imagine a safe energy source that keeps producing for decades with no emissions, no refueling and minimal maintenance.
In theory we could probably all have a tiny reactor at home that powers everything you own and would work for 20-50 years.
True, but what about the nuclear waste?
Its not so much what the people want, we will want whatever we are told to (to a certain extent). Its more about what is possible under a capitalist system where r&d only happens if there is capital investment. Hence why the fossil fuel companies ran a massive fear mongering campaign against nuclear, and similarly with solar and wind.
Don't blame yourselves. When luxury clothing and purses were overproduced and burned...when houseplants and ceramic pots are regularly thrown out at big box stores.... it's a overproduction problem.
capitalism
They won't overproduce if you don't overbuy.
Our solar system is heating up it's not humans. Look it up and you will see
Again bangladesh??? Bangladesh land lost issue are full created by the sand mafias. The sand volume you take from the river, the margins land volume will fill that hole. Its not the rise of the sea level.
@@alexanderdvanbalderen9803 The destroyed goods are still bought first. Overproduction implies more was made than was bought.
If politics didn't infect this important issue we would have gotten the support needed a lot sooner.
Then what about the conveniently ignored issue of the absolutely insurmountable metallurgical/chemistry based impossibility of manufacturing lightweight, high density, stable, long life batteries..?
The least of the issues is some nebulous anti-environmentalist bias, it's really about maintaining the standard of living we all want, not going back to anemic electric horse and buggy days of future past.
The real solution with balls is something like ultra compact liquid Fluoride/Thorium based lightweight/miniaturized nuclear electrical gen-sets similar to the old experimental FireBall Reactor which are in actuality vastly more achievable then the alternative, and paradoxically infinitely more ecologically sound as LFTR reactors are extremely efficient.
In the long term we need virtual endless cheap clean energy on tap so that the Third World can chill out and settle down their ridiculous birth rates somewhat, or is it better that 6 year olds are breaking apart and "recycling" old hyper toxic Tesla batteries with their bare hands for the foreseeable future.??
LOL what a hipocrite, its actually the lobbyists that invented this imaginary problem.
Again bangladesh??? Bangladesh land lost issue are full created by the sand mafias. The sand volume you take from the river, the margins land volume will fill that hole. Its not the rise of the sea level.
I was just in Mumbai and know that the people will have the innovation in that country to make it so much cleaner very soon.
cant believe people still think we have a shot of getting out of this......stop giving people hope...there is no green energy that will save us.............people its over.....we will pay for our arrogance.
Yes, my thoughts exactly. All the evidence points to inevitable collapse of societies, it will happen sooner thank we like to think. Our global population keeps growing... this cannot go on without a major correction by earth's natural systems. Stop reproducing people !
@@MultiDarkElf Make that sacrifice if overpopulation bothers you then. Remember, it's all for the good of the planet. The world will thank you for your sacrifice.
It isn't really a question tho: we already got a solution as far as CO2 is concerned: renewables + nuclear. Question is can we get ecologists to stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater on that topic or not, fighting nuclear today is fighting FOR climate change: we all know modern societies won't go back 200 years on their own... Also, can we build all the reactors we need in < 20 years ?
Hell no. We don’t even have enough resources to make that happen. Overproduction and waste of resources is going to make society collapse completely in the next 100 years
@@chazl9531 100 years ? You are optimistic xD
Thorium based molten salt reactors are the future
It looks like the industrialized world is moving towards a zero carbon future by moving to electric vehicles powered by renewables and nuclear. I don’t see much of a change in the trade patterns between richer and poorer countries though. Instead of exporting petroleum Africa will be exporting more uranium and other minerals.
So I guess only Africa is causing it..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 just stfu lol seriously. Stop talking.
@@exteeriority4349 I guess you misunderstand what I am saying. I see the poorer countries continuing to develop without becoming industrialized and energy dependent like the richer countries. Like using buses and motorcycles and getting hard currency by exporting commodities to the rich countries. Not a lot will change in terms of living standards. In time the buses and motorcycles used in these countries will be electric because that is what the rich countries will be building and exporting to Africa once they get old. You can stfu because you are just trolling, not thinking.
@@exteeriority4349 Sounds true enough unless Africans do something about it.
Fossil fuel pollution bad, nuclear reactor malfunction.. you tell me.. if it can happen it will happen and it’s already happened. Multiple times
I used to think electric vehicles was the way but I've been convinced that we need to actually reform communities and cities to drastically reduce the amount of powered transportation required. Large central cities with acres of pavement and giant highways transporting people from far away giant suburbs with just houses upon houses and the occasional outlet mall with huge boxstores, all of which requires considerable driving, just can't compete with liveable, walkable, bikeable communities containing most of what you need in close proximity.
Imagine building a FUSION reactor in your garage 🤣 Homie is a genius! Nuclear is the future. We need to fund and deploy small modular reactors (SMRs) until Fusion and/or Thorium reactors are viable
At least in this video they talked a little bit about nuclear, not enough imo, also they mention changing our economies, but it's more about changing our way of life, that's the most important thing. I don't think that we are able to do the changes necessary as a species, some people can't walk to buy something at a shop that's like 5min by walking, honestly I don't have faith in the human species, we are becoming more and more entitled and lazy pieces of sht. Also, we talked so much, but we don't act upon it, the most guilty are the politicians. Also the burden for saving the planet of course it's on the most developped countries, but like it's told above
I'm glad to see so many people like yourself being realistic in these comments. This was just a feel good sales pitch in spite of all the scenes of destruction. In order to confront the problem we have to be honest about what is wrong here. The way we live is flat out wrong. Life generally might bear that out against us.
Thorium based molten salt reactors are the future
You forgot to mention investors and shareholders.......and a lot of ppl in the west support the oil industry without realising it by using embedded fossil energy in our food, clothing, building materials and pension investment, let alone tech gear, crypto and in general the need to buy new better faster bigger newer etc. Only once oil and the ICE came along did ppl begin to lose interest in horsepower which replaced enslaved human power. Interesting times we live in.
One thing we need to do, is to use more nuclear power since it´s currently the only way to get clean reliable energy without having to have certain geographies and such
That's why this whole "movement" is a scam. If it were about reducing emissions, then we'd see new plants going up all over the country. But no, there hasn't been a new plant in 40 years. I don't believe this hysteria, just like with covid, and I never will.
And what about the nuclear waste?
@@skeetrix5577 i believe in climate change, but I cannot take anyone seriusly the conservatives protect the meat industry and the greens don't use science like idk man
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@@mug3l nuclear waste only takes a fraction of the space coal does, and all the world's nuclear waste can be stored inside 2 football fields
11:16 that honestly brought a tear to my eye. I feel so lucky to be able to go apply at many different jobs but I feel guilty so many others have none of those options. The man knows what he's doing is illegal but he literally has no other way to eat :(
why do they even have the rights to live? lol
You really can't blame the guy. He's probably got people depending on him to eat to drink to go to school to provide shelter. Makes you think this guy isn't guilty he's just a victim like everyone else. He's trying to survive.
Again bangladesh??? Bangladesh land lost issue are full created by the sand mafias. The sand volume you take from the river, the margins land volume will fill that hole. Its not the rise of the sea level.
What about all the others that make a living doing honest work? Guess they looked farther than criminal activity
@@beentheredonethatoriginals5673 ...sometimes it's better to shut your mouth than to open it and remove all doubt of stupidity. Yeah I'm sure the guy loves doing the job that he knows is fucking up his health and cutting his life expectancy by a 1/3...🤦🏿♂️
Basically we can choose to start living with less, or end up living with absolutely nothing, if we survive at all.
We already are on track to extinct ourselves
@Apeman Commeth yeah thats the attitude, explains how we got here, way to many people like u, selfish, take all u can apeman, well chosen name
Seriously? Lol. The only reason mankind is even what it is today is because of warming at the end of the ice age. Warming isn't going to kill off humans.
We have enough for every not for everyone greed
Blaim CO2 as a malady of our tims is completely baseless- in history of civilization there's was many environmental 'catastrophic 'events and none of them destroyed our world. Biside CO2 is extremely important element of weather fotosintese evolution, so not Co2 to blame, but ...nuclear energy is the answer..with energy you can do anything.!
It's usually Westerners who are criticised for using too much energy, as the populations of Africa & South Asia increase at a ridiculous rate.
Eastern countries may be expanding in population but live more sustainably than the west. Let's not blame it all on numbers while conveniently looking away from how wasteful the western countries are.
Westerners have the ability to conserve energy as a 1st world country.
@@jazzypari The western people aren't even at that much fault. It's their corporations, but you will always find right wing corporate bootlicking idiots like this who'd rather just blame their problems on muslims and dark skin people.
@@jazzypari if it wasn't for Fritz haber you wouldn't of been born.
The west per capita is going down. The west is dying it's deindustrialization.
1911 was 1 billion and we at 8 billion because of the Jewish German white man. We all live in Fritz world
You can’t compare though. Most of Africa barely emit much Emission simply because of poverty and not being able to afford energy to begin with compared to the average westerner
We should aim for negative emissions, basically absorbing all the emissions we have created since the beginning of our emissions.
Exactly
@@immabigkidnow1 I wish we lived in a world where the corporations would do what's right. They could make more money cleaning up their mess and reconfiguring their entire industry to clean energy and green hydrogen. We need to create lithium ion battery recycling, create new batteries with recycling built in so we can transition our entire grid to using some form of renewable or new generation modular nuclear reactors. We need to stop spending money with companies and governments that insist on destroying our only planet.
China is the only one burning lignite in mass, the rest is a scam
@@iiyyxxnn en masse
@@iiyyxxnn Your comment says you need a whole lot more education about climate-related information before writing a comment about climate. Hell dude...the whole Earth should've been carbon neutral in the year 2000. Need proof - monitor the current rate of global ice melt...the rate increases each year. Humans have blown far past 'tipping points' to make any difference. Future life will be a series of 'adaptive reactions' by humans just to survive. Happy 2022 New Year.
personally, I no longer care.. I have no kids, parents, money, food, car. life, government and covid has already stripped me of everything
I am sorry for your troubles dude.
Stay strong I geniunely wish you goodness, stay positive and stay good
Y’all kinda ignored nuclear fission reactors that don’t emit CO2 and are much more reliable than renewables. I don’t think it’s impossible to imagine a future without nuclear energy, but it is going to be much more difficult to decarbonize without them
This video literally helped me finish my senior project, thank you to everyone who put in on this documentary you helped someone's life. I hope the best for this planet and all of its inhabitants
What's your major?
Europe has walkable places because they are better places to live. Being economical and good for the planet are just bonuses.
Yes, and for very good reasons Munich & Milan are much better places to live than Maiduguri & Mogadishu.
@@andrewjones575 He says that as if maiduguri and Mogadishu aren't in countries that have been ravaged by war and poverty.
But Europeans are one of the biggest beneficiaries of burning fossil fuels so being a "better place to live" doesn't really mean much when Europeans are consuming more energy than most in the developing world and are still contributing, significantly, to the demise of the planet.
@@tejashdasgupta1840 They're like that because of the people who live there - not because of Westerners.
@@backto-il9ne The rapid population increase is the biggest problem & it's not Westerners who are causing that.
Accountability leading to more responsible consumption would be a huge help, but we all know how much accountability falls upon anything higher up than us sheeple......
Time to clean the house we've all been living in since the beginning but like a bunch of bachelors we continue to leave the toilet seat down when we use the toilet..
Step 1 should should be ending subsidies to industries that have been mature and profitable for many decades. Step 2 should be requiring all industries to manage and remediate the waste and byproducts of their operations without forcing it on others. These 2 steps alone will force businesses and technologies to truly stand on their own merits and actually compete.
Do you realize what that does to pricing? That will quite literally kill people who cannot afford to heat their home. Or go to work where no public transportation exists. Only the wealthy will be able to live comfortably.
@@beentheredonethatoriginals5673 Prove it.
@@goonies_never_say_die so you want me to prove that companies who are accustomed to "X" income and suddenly have less profit will pass those losses on to consumers?
Have you been to a grocery store in the last 6 months?
Those companies have had to pay more for the goods that stock their shelves. Some goods are subsidized, but that is not the point. The point is these stores (corporations) lost nothing because they took out their pricing guns and added the costs to the price of the goods.
Energy companies will do the same, they have in the past why wouldn't they now?
That was pretty good, I had expected something far to one side. As for ideas like sharing bicycles or scooters, I see that near me in Nashville, but I’m a paraplegic and not only can I not use these, which is no big deal, but people leave them on the sidewalk which forces anyone in a wheelchair to backtrack to a curb cut and push their wheelchair up the road with cars, that’s quite dangerous. Another thing that comes to mind is batteries and what we do with them once they’re used up, how are they properly and safely disposed of, and how are the materials extracted from the earth. Also, electric vehicles take time to charge, that’s not a big deal day in and day out, but on long trips it is a big deal.
True electric vehicles are very damaging to the environment because of their batteries
Again bangladesh??? Bangladesh land lost issue are full created by the sand mafias. The sand volume you take from the river, the margins land volume will fill that hole. Its not the rise of the sea level.
@@ricardoxavier827 What?!
@@RobinP556 Ricardo has a point. Surrounding countries take in millions of tons of sand from India, ironically much of it is to build up their shoreline. Sand mafias are a real threat to India and the health of their inhabitants.
@@beentheredonethatoriginals5673 Okay, that makes sense. The mention of Bangladesh out of the blue threw me off a bit.
The video didn't answer the question proposed in the title
It’s too complex to answer. We probably will never have an complete answer to that question because a lot of us know we’re screwed
Need more nuclear power plants
We don’t have the resources to make a full switch to renewable energy. We won’t even have enough resources to keep up with our way of life in the next 50 years. Societal collapse is near. Armageddon is here.
@@chazl9531 get out doomer
Old growth forest and Western Europe do not belong in the same sentence any more…..
Make buses green not cars make industrial things green not cars
Who benefits from making renewable public transport? Not elon musk... the root cause is capitalism. They will make renewable products only so far as they are pushed to by the consumer, any more would be illogical under capitalism as it would hit their profit margins. They will grind us into a paste and sell us as grease for their machines before they invest in anything for the good of humanity.
Either there is a revolution, we strike and say enough is enough we want our planet back. We want a choice in what work we do, what we produce and for who. Or we're going to be subjected to increasingly worse working conditions while a few at the top live the most luxorious scifi lifestyle ever imagined, while the planet heats up and the eco system collapses leading to mass extintion events.
We have to take our planet back and the best way to do this is to resist. Dont work for destructive companies, dont buy destructive products and spread the word to other to do the same. Organise with likeminded people in your area and distrupt the capital owners *by any means necessary* .
EV’s still aren’t a solution. The pollution created from them is still substantial. Did no one notice how when we were in quarantine things in nature started improving? Massive changes need to be made, from action against corporate pollution, to restructuring cities to be more pedestrian friendly.
All in all, I think we are probably fked
True, the earth atmosphere and ozone layer healed itself too
Seriously though we need some more bikes and trains
I don't know about you but some of the stuff vice is putting are journalism at it's finest
Same story. Different day.
Fusion energy has to be the future!
We aren't even close to creating a working plant.
@@armanisim7791 Thats not even true. We are extremely close. Closer than we have ever been and will get closer faster than we have before.
@@lukeuseforce Actually we aren't close, we still pretty far. Maybe 20 years away if we are lucky.
@@armanisim7791 Considering 20 years in the entire scheme of trying to solve fusion, it isn't to far off tbh. *Edit: It's been 68 years since it was first discovered back in 1952, had to double check the year lol.
@@smokedrugsallday I was being generous by saying 20 years. I'd would say realistically maybe 50 years to have a functioning fusion plant. We probably going to have a function reactor first, but a powerplant that serve an entire city would take many more decades.
Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson. - Dan Wells
We're learning. Maybe not the soul part though...
I assume that our future selfs won’t appreciate the benzene laden environment that we’ve left them. It’s akin to the adage that is “Don’t crap where you eat.”
Man I need to hear them bald eagles when i drive my supercharged car we need to find other ways to go zero emissions
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thats why were soo worried bout goin too Mars!! 🚀💯 who wants to stay here its been destroyed!!!😩 🔥
A few things here really bothered me, first painting nuclear power generators as dangerous citing chernobyl.. while statistically its one of the safest forms of energy. Secondly you slammed exxonmobbile 'yet they continue to drill oil'. While you yourself use their oil, and the sociaty needs it. Also like u stated the developing countries now need their oil more than ever 'yet they continue to drill'
Unfortunately we don't have enough resources to store energy for the entire planer, and that is an inconvenient fact.
In South Africa there has not been a year of normal weather since 2008.
The world doesn't have till "2030" we have been out of time for 14 years.
yeah but you can still get Quaaludes
infinite growth on a finite planet is unsustainable. people need to be considering adoption as a primary way of raising a family. the pitter patter of little carbon footprints ushers in more consumption. our population, and consumption, would regulate itself.
Yea, my wife and I have already been floating the idea of only having one biological child and adopting if we want a larger family.
And don’t forget about supporting women’s rights and access to abortion! Studies have linked those two items with lower birth rates.
Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 a reality. All hail the Anthroprocene epoch 🙌
What is that? Should I be celebrating with you?
@@therealforeignwolf Not celebrating, crying perhaps.
Thank you Vice
May all human came together to tackle humanity and earth life beyond the borders
Yeah but unfortunately a few greedy rich people will get in the way because it ain't as profitable for them or they want to make money off of it until it gone like oil companies
News organizations say we have till 2030 like its decades away.
From 2000-2008 the average internet speed in the US only increased by 200kbs with massive investment and demand.
They really expect the US to go from 20% to 80% renewables? Reality is by 2040 the US will maybe be 50%. 2030 is already lost.
@HunterBidensCrackPipe It's not a doomsday where humans go extinct. But the quality of life is going to be drastically reduced and there will be wars over things that we didn't have wars over before.
Its to late, planet will keep getn warmer as time go's on..
Nuclear energy is statistically the safest form of energy. In the west we have developed very stringent safety features making the chance of a meltdown almost immppssible.
Look into thorium
I laughed my ass off at the caption matched with the title haha
Am I the only one that thought the thumbnail for this video was hilarious sexual innuendo?
Please mention renewable energies have also limits and create their own pollutants. The manufacturing of the solar panel and battery requires rare earth materials, and the mining operation of rare earth materials involves serious environmental hazards. Right now, other than a nuclear power plant, renewable energy sources are expensive in general than hydrocarbon-based energies. These are really difficult and big problems to solve. No politician wants to lose a vote due to increased electricity tax due to increased renewable energy. Not to mention the job problems as well.
Not just the issues with mining for things like lithium, but the disposal of batteries and other things involved with renewable energy.
Not entirely true. Although renewables are are not completely clean, they are still cleaner than the alternatives, and the cost of implementing wind and solar has now become cheaper than traditional methods.
@@Snarkonymous Wind and solar are getting way cheaper, but I haven't seen information suggesting they're cheaper than the traditional alternatives yet.
@@destubae3271 It's been that way since 2020. There are plenty of articles on it including:
Renewable Energy Is Now The Cheapest Option - Even Without Subsidies - Forbes
This is unfortunately not the full story, oh, if it would have been that simple. The major problem yet to be solved is the effective storage of electricity, the most common Lithium ion batteries are neither cheap, easy or clean to manufacture as well as having a ton of limitations and arguably worst of all having a ridiculously short live span. The other problem is the efficiency of the grid, from the power plant to the end user, as of now, at least twice as much energy is required to power an electric car than than to directly produce the power from an internal combustion engine. So for the way things are right now, we would probably need not to just substitute the remaining 70% but instead 140% of the energy production to renuable.
Yes I agree, I wish they had talked about this more. For anyone wanting to learn more about this you can watch the free documentary Planet of the Humans by Michael Moore on youtube
Battery plants are already included in renewable energy development. The real problem is if we have enough resources to make a full switch to renewable energy
Nuclear plants making hydrogen is the future
Batteries and light bulbs can actually be much better than those we buy today. The manifactures cant make them too good though. If they did they will be bankrupt within a year
Grow a garden in your backyard like your life and the lives of those you love depends on it. The earth is right out your back door under your feet. Get to work and get to know her 🌍
This is part of the reason my wife and I want to buy a townhome and move out of our apartment. Want a small garden so I can compost our food scrapes and lessen how much food we buy from the store.
I find it intolerable that those who have the least are suffering the most due to humanity's greed...
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I wish our government would invest in green energy instead of still relying on fossil fuels. We have so many windy cities to create power
This should be in the news everywhere.
You look like a typical antifa they/them
@@bigmike836 ad hominem attacks are so infantile. Why are you triggered? Did you get sad when you realize how ignorant you are?
@@CrunchyDark We’re completely doomed because of people like him 🤷🏽♂️ just accept it at this point
Humanity must die
Sure mate. You can start with yourself
Crane homes equipped with drone delivery service 20 meters away from cliffs.
Surprised nobody calculated the volumes inside of mountains. All that future land.
this was a really interesting docu as usual. but you need to check the sound before an upload, it sounded un-naturally deep with no treble...
Watching this documentary reminds me of movie "Don't look up". There is no comet but climate change so ye... It was nice knowing ya all...
Humans: We can go to Mars and terraform it and live there
Also humans: We can't do nothin' on earth to change its climate it is what it is
back when dinosaurs roamed earth the average temperature was not 18c but 25-36, ITS NATURAL process
@@trader2137 yea, we just have to adapt all of our crops, plants, physiological response to the temperature. You know, as hard as that sound, it’d be much easier with GMO, that is, if u nutcase actually are willing to eat it
@@trader2137 The planet heating up is natural. The timeframe in which it did right now is not.
@@hv9074 so what? who cares? do india and china care? no they dont :)
@@trader2137 Why should they? Compared to the West, our CO2 emissions per capita is low.
We need a wind farm right here by the white house. Also a pig farm to house the President, vice pres & mayor.💯
This is just crazy! And we still (at least here in America) drive our loving trucks and Sport Utility vehicles). Keep up the good work VICE, love you guys!
We need to take advantage of all renewable and sustainable sources of energy. Even oil companies are investing in this technology because they know it’s the future.
they are not investing in renewable energy, they are investing into lying to you about how they care about the future..
@@mimik2098 they are investing in renewable energy, glad to inform you.
@@pri.sci.lla.
The oil industry spent a whopping 1% of its revenues on renewable energy.
1% let’s you say “we investing in the future” without doing anything else.
Think smarter.
Calm your audacity, kiddo.
More important than that we need to conserve nature particularly forests
@@mimik2098 They are a business first and foremost. ie. if renewables will make them more money then they will invest more. You can bet that they will be the first ones to capitalize on renewables when the time comes.
More of the younger crowd should see this, they ultimately have the biggest chance to make an impact.
Absolutely 💯
I disagree it’s the 50+ year old Chief executives of energy companies, manufacturers and politicians who need to make the right decisions today because it will be too late by the time younger people gain control.
@@TheBeesKnees98 yeah I see your point. Thing is if they were told any of this or were to come across this video, it wouldn’t push them to make a change. The younger generation on the other hand might
Humans and this planet are already lost, i know people hate to hear the truth but its already too late. Even if we would stop worldwide economy right now and forever there is still a chainreaction going on that you cant stop anymore. In simple words: its too late, all you can do is hope that our next generation can enjoy a little bit of this planet before it gets so toxic that humans cant live on it anymore. Thats why i always say humans are the most dumb species in the entire universe.
@@mannygarcia3217 based on how young people vote I’d say the majority of us vote for politicians who put pressure on energy monopolies to pay for the transition to green energy sources but it will require a wide range of professionals to make the tough decisions that ultimately make an impact and unfortunately those are the old people not the young people
The world depends on solar radiation reduction by geoengineering, which is the only thing that can stop global warming in the necessary timeframe; and in the longer run, on nuclear energy, which is the only thing that can achieve zero and then negative emissions.
Your not stopping climate change.All the other planets are also warming up..It's not us it's the Sun..I like how every problem is them spending and wanting more money also
@@SpaceRanger187 Even if it were the sun, we would still need to control its effects on us. In that case it would be even more the case that geoengineering is the main solution.
As the FBI people told the 'them them' conspiracy theorist in King of the Hill - the one honestly centrist to slightly conservative TV comedy show - "hey buddy, we are 'them'".
Denmark and wind energy.
Sorry guys, but what they dont tell you their 100% wind energy is super super expensive and ye, they need to import electricity from sweden to maintain the stability of their power supply.
The amount of space we would actually need in solar panels to power the entire US is something like 0.5% of the land we have. It's totally possible with the vast range of desert, idk why we don't use it.
Yes and no.
Transmission lines...lol
Someone hasn't looked up the amount of damage massive solar panels does to wildlife aka birds
@@TheMagicJIZZ Fair, but right now we have huge oil pipelines going across continents that can leak so I don't see it as much of a trade off. I believe that's a solution that can be solved.
@@functioningbroken3497 No I agree that needs to be addressed, but I think there are some easy fixes, like a simple netting over the top of them or making them less reflective. Birds die to windows and cats all the time way more that solar panels would too, and we don't really feel the need to address the problem there, only when it comes to renewable energy. Everything industrial we do has a negative effect on the natural environment, and the number of birds killed by renewables is nowhere near the number killed by fossil fuels so it's worth it in my opinion.
@@functioningbroken3497 and have you heard the noise they make? It's like 'gzzzrrrr-gzzzrrrr'!
Don't give more undeserved fame & publicity to Greta Thunberg. She doesn't understand what she's talking about & has merely jumped onto a trendy bandwagon to become famous & gain praise.
I agree, yet Awareness and Reactions are important. The message has to get out ~ despite the messenger 🤷♀️
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@@Stacey0909 There are plenty of messengers who have a lot more knowledge who can do that so much better.
@@andrewjones575 I can't contest That🤷♀️
Thanks for being so polite 😉 Folks who are passionate can get down right rude,😒 and that's kind of creepy, plus it negates the conversation ~ that might be rich with information.
I hope you have a wonderful day 🌞
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Imagine... Such an important undertaking and the forefront is Greta and AOC. And then vice makes a doc like this where the overall goal is to get people excited/scared and wonder why it's not well received.
@L.U.157 NYC That's the reason why I disliked the vid (even though CZcams disabled the dislike button you can still dislike a video) because of Greta and AOC...
The problem with oil production is these other countries don't care how it extracted
Neither does the US.
@@taylorbug9 the united states has some of the strongest oil drilling restrictions in the world
@@taylorbug9 Our government has nefarious plans ~ they don't care about us peons. Change will not happen until a senator's daughter is effected, or one of the Elites', or their family. Just like this "opioid epidemic" 🙄
LRecognition of the problems are coming, and We must have a plan 😉 We must unite in Love to resist and fight the Evils in Our world 🌎 💝🌞 Divided, we WILL fall, and the huge population will decrease in number ~ at least that's "Their" plan 😉
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Are you dimwit or do you genuinely believe this. The people are poor. Their corrupt governments make deals with rich countries to extract oil using cheap labor with no restrictions. What about that don’t you understand?
TY for sharing The Truth ☝️
Your a sucker if you believe this garbage
“Truth”?!?!?
This is Michael Moore fear mongering.
They throw a few buzzwords….a few photos of Greta….and all the kids get al excited.
Be smarter.
you made an article in 2018 titled "your dog is ruining the environment" ... why don't you make a video for it?
Also changing from emissions to toxic battery waste is no solution.
Unfortunately it's the best option we have at the moment. We have water, solar, and air power, but those don't produce enough otherwise I feel we'd be completely dependant on those.
“Nigeria sits on one of the biggest oil reserves in the world”
US ARMY: YES
The U.S. is the largest producer of oil in the world. Canada, it's largest trading partner has the third largest reserves on the planet. North America could be energy independent if it weren't for Trudeau and Biden's myopia. The U.S. has no need for Nigerian oil.
Sounds like they need democracy...
RIP humans
Good riddance to the dumbest species to exist in this part of the Galaxy. Was cooperation on our only home planet really that hard ?
Absolutely crucial film everyone should see, especially at schools
and yet I bet you are still a personal mass consumer with low education and nothing really to contribute contribute society
@@leyahsdad he was saying this was a good film don't come at him
@@leyahsdad aren’t u a angry dude
@@leyahsdad who pissed in your cereal this morning LOL??
The planet has corners? But..but a globe does not have corners. My brain hurts.
Hurts mine too! 🤯
Why is the audio "bloomed" for lack of an understanding of audio terms hahha.
An asteroid needs to put humanity out of its misery. Like right now.
@@OverlandOrange if you dont know what he means......forget you
dont worry ,,,we will get what we deserve,,,soon,
Don't look up
@@OverlandOrange What the f##k does CNN have to do with anything? What are you smoking?? People are so stupid I swear. ASTEROID!!!! Where are you????
Nuclear energy is the best source of clean energy that humans can use up. With modular reactors and latest technology, they are deemed one of the safest and least harmful sources of energy. It is unfortunate that many people are still under the fear of what happened in Chernobyl and Japan. This video isn't really right about renewable energy. It is a bit of a pipe dream that keeps people's conscience a bit cleaner. Wind turbines take an enormous amount of resources and maintenance to create them, but these resources come from the very thing we're trying to avoid mining (which causes global pollution). Solar farms are also highly efficient and yet again requires an enormous amount of resources to create them. Both wind turbines and solar farms take up a large amount of space, but a nuclear plant could achieve all of this with much less.
Citation needed
That colossal glacier ready to break off the Antarctic ice cap in the next few years is going to be the worst devastating event this world could fathom. 😒 It's going to happen. 😵😱😲
Zero just doesnt work. There has to be something to make something. When you add zero and zero what do you get? Still nothing
zero net carbon emissions is possible. Not sure what "zero" you mean?
@@yomommashaus Zero emmisions?
@@hv9074 zero carbon emmisions? Isn't that fairly impossible? Net I can understand.
@@yomommashaus Idk man, I'm just trying to gauge what the comment is trying to imply. Its too vague.
Vice News how do you expect to get to zero emissions if you forget to mention China is building coal powered electricity generating plants like they're going out of style?
Thanks for your time and knowledge...🙏 in this environmental disaster.
It shouldnt be where the energy comes from but how we can generate the most electricity from the sources we have
This is very scary. And it also makes me feel really sad
If we all live like peasants, with the exception of the rich, that’ll save the planet. Why should the working-class be able to drive to work, use a plane to go on holidays etc?
That is why the rich need to be regulated. 80 percent of the earth's emissions are produced by the top 70 companies.
@@tejashdasgupta1840 Don't simply regulate the rich. Take their wealth.
@@d0lvl0 Absolutely Based
@@d0lvl0 BASED AND BREADPILLED
I don't know why people are blaming China and India for climate change.
India is the first country to achieve the goals of Paris climate summit on the other side china is converting deserts into forests and purifying air in cities by installing various types of purifiers and equipments.
Both China and India have launced EV program in which local automobile companies are supported to produce cheap Evs like: Neo in China and tata in India. These vehicles are much more cheap then Tesla cars.
India has world's biggest solar farms around 11 solar farms which has size of big cities.
If you see the Statics recently China and India are the countries which are contributing more in reforestation and restoration of wild life.
India agreed to increase it's energy production by 40% from solar, wind, hydroelectric, nuclear plants. These goal was set in 2015 and is completed in 2020-21. Just in five years. On the other side did usa, uk, EU achieved their paris climate goals.
Western countries just have to say reduce your carbon emission. But in reality these are the countries who are responsible for the climate change. WW2 saw a big industrialisation up who was fought by Western countries.
Yes, india and China are contributing in carbon emission but not higher than the USA and EU.
This is so better than the drug related content...some people are tryna get healthy here, it doesn't help
uhh what? Their content on drugs is SUPER IMPORTANT and highlights how much we've screwed up addressing drug problems and mental health. What is not helpful about it?
Everything has a beginning and a end. Long as there is a desire to have more nothing will change.
Well, most of the greenhouse effect gases are caused by wealthy people from a global capitalist system which depends on savage consumption and, in consequence, wild extraction of resources in order to satisfy or supply consumption of the wealthy people and to empower the biggest multinationals of energetic, industrial and commercial sectors. So, that would be a good start for the documentary.
I blame europe, america and china ALONE. these 3 continents are running the entire planet to the ground
@@PHlophe at least China has planted billions of trees, is planning on peaking emissions by 2030 and go to net zero by 2060. Of course, you actually have to believe them, which can be difficult lol
Yeah, no. Capitalism isn't entirely to blame for GHGs.
Nuclear & renewables with storage.
The smog in Delhi is not a result of only buring of fossil fules, there's more to why the AQI is so bad in Delhi
Amazon rain forest is the nucleus and pivot point of where we go from here……
Lol one super volcano removes all that you’ve done. One super volcano has more of a carbon footprint than anything mankind has done up until now times ten 😂
And guess what it’s cyclical and the earth absorbs it every time it happens.
We are 30 to 40,000 years overdue stop running in circles and enjoy life.
And stop thinking so much of yourself.
Tell Indonesia, Philippines, China, Nigeria and these countries that are trashing the environment to act up and clean.
The US is making more pollution than all of those. The reason India and China are contributing so much is because they're developing countries. If you want them to transition faster you're gonna need to help them.
@@tejashdasgupta1840 China is the only one burning lignite in mass and produces far more pollution than the US, the rest is a scam
@@iiyyxxnn That's not true tho. The US produces more pollution than China. Like, it's literally a fact
@@tejashdasgupta1840 I don't see USA rivers or beaches being with trashes. Try traveling
@@niamtxiv Ah yes, your anecdotes outweigh literal facts.
Thank You Vice News.
I’m glad someone had the answers to how we became , oil is the cooling system to our Mother Earth
The biggest factor in emissions is the number of people. There aren't meant to be 8 b people on this planet. Most countries have had large falls in their birthrates without any significant negative effects, so it's high time the rest followed suit.
Yup, there is really no need to bring additional humans into this world at this moment. 8 billion is more than plenty ..
if so many people didn't have pets it would help too.
@@algernonwebbe There aren't billions of people eating multiple times more food than they should. There are clearly too many people. For the vast majority of human history, there were far fewer than a billion people. Having 8 b has been disastrous for the planet.
@@vasectomyfail442 How so? Those animals would still exist, but be in the wild instead.
@@ZENMASTERME1 No-one in this thread has blamed the West.
Vice loves their climate alarmism
We are actually pretty screwed if we don't change. It would take about a 100 years to decrease temperatures by 1 degree if we did our absolute best. Natural disasters are what got my attention - they've essentially doubled in the past 100 years and are just getting worse and worse.
And conservatives love denying the obvious
I think a carbon based economy would be good. Basically biochar net zero emissions. Compacted carbon can be stockpiled and stored safely for as long as you want. Stockpiling is actually carbon negative my money is on azolla fern. Azolla can be converted to biogas or pyrolysed to carbon and doubles its mass every day.