Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do
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By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year. In the tropical zones, millions suffer from famine and resource wars have made millions more flee to the north. As things quickly get worse, in an act of desperation, the world's governments decide to enact an emergency plan...
It is far from certain that a grim scenario like this will play out. But the failure of world leaders to effectively address climate change, makes it far from impossible.
So in the near future it might become necessary to try something radical to slow down rapid climate change: Geoengineering. Interventions so massive in scale that they might undo centuries of human behavior. Or make everything much worse.
What is geoengineering, is it really an option and what if it goes wrong?
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Valentino Lawrence
5 dögum síðan
I have important
duvan beltran
7 dögum síðan
Faltan los subtitulos en español
Subhan Naeem
10 dögum síðan
You need to sign a deal with netflix! Please do so!
Rafael Augusto Mattos Ferreira
19 dögum síðan
What happened with the portuguese subtitles?
DynamicAlteration
26 dögum síðan
"It will give us time to prepare and adapt it is not a permanent solution" is exactly what they said about covid lockdowns, but there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution. This is more bullshit to keep the citizenry in check.
Already happening
0:45 so that's what the world looked like last year. Just thought that was sci-fi. Wow, can't believe that actually happened in my lifetime.
This sounds like such a dumb solution. What we really need is slow down our economic growth. Economic growth makes the rich richer and the poor poored. Kurzgesagt can you do a video about degrowth? I feel like minimalism and degrowth are the real solution
are there any evidence that we are conducting the experiment of adding 40 billion tons co2 into the atmosphere? or it is just the statistical number gained from modern industry process?
they already do this lol
Great
add Indonesian subtitles please
the chemtrails
Bass Drum Flextime
Degi Síðan síðan
yup
ight if yall have seen snowpiercer this is questionable
animation is great :D
Humanity was not meant to live without God.
Can you post the transcript of this video???
2021
So chemtrail.
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@John Doe Fr
John Doe
Degi Síðan síðan
@Bass Drum Flextime They wonder why people believe this shit
Bass Drum Flextime
Degi Síðan síðan
yup
I just realized that it's not only cold during the winter because the earth is the furthest from the sun but also because the snow also reflects the sunlight, cool to know
This is all trumps fault
Sauce Seeker
2 dögum síðan
I honestly think that humanity deserved the plague
Sauce Seeker
2 dögum síðan
Yeah also that
Sk. Abdul Halim
2 dögum síðan
*Humanity
Pls make something that can soak co2 out of the air pls pls.
Even if someone find a way to stop globalwarming,it is still wrong let the nature take us let there be a gigantic natural selection
i was thinking a solar shied like those sunglasses with that are reflecting to the outside...
Polish subtitles please
Can you explain about the creature
There was an day that I saw on the news an creature from the moon somehow got here in earth and the creature is headless
Valentino Lawrence
2 dögum síðan
How am I supposed to know I was watching the news it was the newssssss
Sk. Abdul Halim
2 dögum síðan
Fake news
Didn’t America do something like this in Vietnam but JUST to get the negative effects
Ther some ting in the background from splatton ting
It's so creepy, the first time I heard of it was back in 1999, watching the educational cartoon Albert sagt ... Natur - aber nur! in VHS.... how come we had so many hopes for a better future as kids, the future is as it is?
Wouldn’t plants die? Which means herbivores would die? Which means carnivores would die which means humans would die
This reminds me of the matrix where they spray nanotechnology into the atmosphere to block out the sun in an attempt to win a war against machines who relied on solar power
4:54 Scientists: Researching Random guy: Literally sticking head into bottle of chemicals
Isn't the house in the first few seconds from interstellar ??! Sure looks like it and fits the theme.
Atmospheric aerosol injections have been happening since the 1990s, and it's been ramped up since the evolution of the internet and spreading of information. Just watch a "chemtrail" timelapse. Those are NOT normal skies. It is literally causing a dimming, and placing a milky HAZE over the entire sky. Those were not the BLUE skies of my childhood. There is also a reason youtube has to censor anything about chemtrails with their little attachments.... the same reason they put those attachments on anything contrary to the main stream narrative on any given topic.
Maybe bad idea
The CO2 is food for plants, they grow fast and bigger and animals also flourish.. . from a geologist We live in an alive planet, we can't think and plan things like we are on Venus
Better we don't do nothing, we proved many times how we csn make very stupid things without considering the consequences
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Me encantan sus videos, ojalá este y los que faltan los subtitulen al español pronto
No korean..? TT
Another amazing video. Glad you're doing some Geography ones again. A very small nitpick: at 1:57 the movement of cycling air should rotate like gears due to friction e.g. the Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells.
i want to make a power point presentation on this topic and may be also present it, can i use someparts of this script? and also where can find background and animated stuff to put on the ppt like the above video
*Meanwhile, "They" admitted to the geo-engineering program years ago (chem-trails), doing it without asking us and simultaneous I have to still argue with my clueless brother who clings to the fantasy that chem-trails are a tinfoil hat Theory!*
These nerds bruh Coold nerds
When will Kurtzgesagt speak about the pros and cons of nuclear energy compared to other energy sources and about Thorium based reactors (the most promising for example)?
4:55 That bird is not okay!
It is hard for world leaders to recognize a problem that doesn’t exist
Gourmetrash
8 dögum síðan
It’s hard work to win an argument with a moron. Your not worth my time.
Australia: More Coal power is good for the environment!! Let's make people pay more for clean energy so that will love our idea. Climate Change is fake news! Australian People Responded: We are so proud!!! China: More clean energy and electric cars are good for the environment! Let's continue to lead the world in electric car industry and make people pay less for electric cars. Let's take climate change seriously! Australian Government: China need to apologize!!! Australian People Responded: YES!!! (They love the current Australia government so much that they had it continuously for almost a decade!!!)
Conclusion: We're fucked
Termination shock is just science words for withdrawal symptoms
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Could I request that you post the transcript of this video? I use some of your content in my English lessons and my students would greatly benefit from being able to skim the content during our discussions. Thanks for what you already do!
Kurzgesagt:*mentions Mt.Pinatubo* Any filipino in a 8 mile radius:👁️👄👁️
im only 7 but im very smart
Grauderst
14 klukkustundum síðan
Good for you
They are already doing it. Look up .
Who else is here after Bill Gates said he was preparing for this?
Abi türkçe çeviri gelsin bir an önce
Saglit lang yung mount pinatubo e nasa philipinas
the only thing im mad about at our goverments and world leaders is the fact they DONT BEEPING LISTEN TO KURZGESAGT!!!
The arrogance in a plan like this is stupifying.
If you get funding from the Gates foundation and they are trying to push Geoengineering through, isn't this a conflict of interest? How do we know its an unbiased video?
Maybe, as noted in the video that the technology has been around for a while now, those who have the power to pull the strings have already been doing this as to convince the masses that there is now a need for the very thing that caused the problem. Literally usurping all power, stripping the people of their perception
Cole Filer
9 dögum síðan
@Am_Yeff ok
Am_Yeff
10 dögum síðan
To cover that up, you'd need to convince millions of people, so no, not at all likely
Translate te subtitle to portuguese, please
Our lovely planet needs the sun, regulations need to be made
Oh so like the plot of snow piercer, nice!
Non Filios Tuos Videbis Vacillantes
Degi Síðan síðan
Why Richard why
But Kurzgesagt also said that when a civilization is powerful enough to alter the atmosphere, it's very close to the great filter...
I love how the videos are broken down and easily understandable. I love science and my daughter is beginning to love it too and these videos explain a lot in a form she can easily grasp
Reminds me of Operation Dark sky from the matrix
Спасибо за русские субтитры! Очень ждал, думал, что уже их больше не будет никогда.
This staff happens,it causes side effects,we go back to the medieval age.
We need to remove China from the equation
Am_Yeff
10 dögum síðan
Not really, the US makes about the same amount and India makes even more
OK this video is maybe the first one that really makes me feel unconfortable this channel man... but i love it
And that is what you call covid 19. It falls back to earth.
Projects that require commitment for longer than a politician's term are basically a no-go. Also, global change would require global cooperation and we already know how well that works.
Translate legend to portuguese , please
The solution is to end American Excessive Consumerism culture. None of this shit needs to be done after that.
“a *horrible* idea we might have to do” 2021: *it’s showtime*
Kamanashis Kar
Degi Síðan síðan
@Yri Yup, it didn't; Washinton fell.
Yri
4 dögum síðan
@Brawl Stars Pro This comment didn't age well.
Brawl Stars Pro
11 dögum síðan
Why? 4 Days without a Zombie Apocalypse or the end of the world are unbeliavibly good!
What would happen if every planet in the solar system stopped ?🤔🤔
Am_Yeff
10 dögum síðan
We would die immediately from the sudden stop
pupiegod
10 dögum síðan
Have of earth would burn, half would freeze
awab boubaker
13 dögum síðan
um good question
Wow, I wondered how they handled the natural cycles of the planet before humans...
try again we're not quite that stupid STOP POISONING !!!! Life on earth SHAME ON YOU!!! May God have mercy on your void soul for the Hot Coals Heaping as his promise he is keeping.
Benedict Mannheim
11 dögum síðan
So God wants us not to use our Mind to save ourselves and the creatures on here from radical change we didn't expect
so, it pretty much falls under politics. We are... what's the expression I'm looking for... oh yeah, fucked.
nice interstellar referance
Marchias Aleks
13 dögum síðan
Lmao, seems like I'm not alone now. 😤
GOOD THING YOU LISTED SOMETHING IN MY COUNTRY
Arabic should also be added to the translation
4:54 I always suspected that is how you do research!
So the world is going to end I guess prove me wrong if you can then the world won’t blow 🆙
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Am_Yeff
10 dögum síðan
@Benedict Mannheim there are thousands of these accounts and i dont understand what their point is They all joined 2 months ago and have no info on them, so possibly a bot attack?
Benedict Mannheim
11 dögum síðan
Nobody can understand what you write
ok so basically snowpiercer
Elay
"Operation Dark Storm initiated" - Animatrix
TheHuangShan
13 dögum síðan
Exactly my thoughts
is it just me or the house and the farm in the beginning of the video looked like the one in interstellar?
Do a video on thorium
More carbon=More Plants=More rain and oxygen=More storms= more ozone= thicker ozone layer=Cooling the earth on its own Its simple science I am smarter than this entire group of ISsoftsRS
pupiegod
10 dögum síðan
Luca Bralia exactly, i hate people who don’t know anything, and then proceed to sound so confident and spread false info as if they’re smart
Luca Bralia
10 dögum síðan
oh wooow you're soooo smart, if you give 100000 trilion meals to a single human being, can they eat all of it instantly?? no! Plants can absorb carbon dyoxide, but not on that scale, and by cutting down trees you're releasing that carbon into the atmosphere, because plants don't just magically transform carbon dyoxide into oxygen, they have carbon as a biproduct that they keep stored. More plants doesn't equal more storms, you people are the problem with this world, you are the exact example of the dunning kruger effect, you people have a 10 miunute research on google and think you've acquired all the knowledge in the universe, meanwhile there are people that dedicate thgeir entire lives to science, helping us.
Global Warming isnt and issue the earth regulates itself More carbon=More Plants=More rain and oxygen=More storms= more ozone= thicker ozone layer=Cooling the earth on its own
Am_Yeff
10 dögum síðan
Thats not how it works bud
F L
10 dögum síðan
@Benedict Mannheim exactly they take it out of the air it becomes dirt
Benedict Mannheim
11 dögum síðan
I don't know we are kinda cutting alot of plants down and plants don't eat the Carbon dioxide they store it
F Tgihf
14 dögum síðan
Ur sooooooo smart, not the people who research this for a career and the ppl putting hours into researching for accuracy
The aeresols would cause more problems than its worth youd poison the environment by some degree Honestly Your point is retarded
Let's just place some nitrogen in the air. It makes more clouds and cools down the earth and the ozone layer. More clouds means less sun for earth, too.
Chemtrails!!!!!!! Ahhh.
Sulphur in the atmosphere, wont that lead to acid rain?
Durp
Could phytoplankton be engineered to perform even more photosynthesis than they need and have evolved?
Hey remember when they tried this in Snowpiercer, it went horribly wrong triggers an Ice Age and set off the forever train with delicious delicious new borns to nom on? Hey can we not.
Am_Yeff
10 dögum síðan
Infinite air conditioning and a cool train/bunker life? Sign me up!
So one part in teh vid it says closing in 2021 so see yall in hell or heaven! :3
Well we're fucked.
Am_Yeff
10 dögum síðan
We indeed are
pupiegod
10 dögum síðan
Yep
F Tgihf
14 dögum síðan
Agreed