Carbon (PPM) is Getting Worse (Not Better) in 2020, 2021 & 2022.

we live our lives as the prisoners of
thoughts that seem plausible but can never be true this is just as terrifying in the sciences as it is within religion it seems plausible that if you do good deeds you'll go to heaven after you die if you do good deeds you'll be reincarnated as a better person whereas those who do bad deeds will be punished and things will turn out terribly for them it seems plausible in the same way as a sort of moral fable that if each of us just pitches in and does our part if we all just do our best we can beat global warming by recycling glass bottles by taking fewer vacations by reducing the number of airplanes being used for tourism i have viewers in the audience of different ages some of you will not be old enough to remember september 11 2001 and the first few months of 2002 thereafter let me tell you that was the single most dramatic decline in international air transport in the history of the world to that time there was a sudden abrupt reduction in the number of airplanes flying around the world did you hear anyone saying oh wow and just look at the number of parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere look at how it's reduced look at how it's gone down i've had several people say to me on the internet just in the last few months that they believe or they presume that reducing the number of airplanes in circulation will solve the carbon pollution crisis and they point to what's happened in just the last few years 2019 2020 and now 2021 and indeed this is about the most extreme reduction of tourism international air transport that you could have under sort of voluntary conditions without really having government policies or the outbreak of a war that forces people to stop taking flights look at the charts i have on street view right now there was no reduction in the parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere in 2019 2020 and in the year 2021 these statistics are accurate up to the middle of september 2021. it did not make a difference it did not even slow down the rate at which the problem is getting worse and if you haven't seen this type of chart a million times before in case you are diluting yourself into imagining that we're still within the normal range for carbon in the atmosphere no the orange line on the right hand side of the chart shows how far we are above whatever could be considered normal going back in history not just hundreds of years but many many thousands of years and here's the thing the world's gonna end the world as we know it is over because even if you can cope with the sun's rays coming in even if you can for example deploy satellites to reflect away excess solar radiation even if you can manage the temperature change or the rise of the oceans or maintain ice packs on the top of the mountains in india that provide river water that's crucial to the lives of about a billion people even if you can do all that even if you can manage everything as brilliantly as possible the simple fact that there is more carbon in the atmosphere means that the acidity of the oceans is increasing that the whole ecosystem of the ocean including the tiniest forms of life including the constituent components of coral reefs anything and everything in the ocean that relies on calcium which is pretty much all life in the ocean as we know it the whole food chain of the ocean will be wiped out and yes in case you didn't know it that whole food chain is also related to the production of oxygen the production of clouds it's a huge part of what makes life on earth as we know it possible now so we are looking at game over for the oceans even in the best case scenario of all the other coping mechanisms stuff like elon musk here posing with his brand new uh his brand new system of of roofing and solar panels right all of these things proposed to us currently by government experts by people with phds who are now being interviewed on the news okay all of them are a god damn joke and you know what's worse do you know who's worse we are people like us are even worse because i can say about elon musk he's still out there trying he is still out there quite literally building solar roofs and i'm the guy's harshest critic but i've got to hand it to him he's born rich he had a successful career he got richer what did he want to do with his millions of dollars he wanted to save the world he's made a lot of mistakes along the way in some cases he's done more harm than good but i can say that he is still out there with his millions of dollars humbly trying to nail solar panels onto people's rooftops to do his part and we the vegans of youtube five years ago we were so committed to this notion of lifestyle activism that what we were going to do is display beautiful bodies in bikinis in front of beaches we were going to change the world and we didn't even change youtube this is the reality the woman in the bikini you've just been looking at is tess begg and she is typical in as much as her commitment to this cause her commitment to promoting veganism her commitment to saving the world just plain evaporated it just disappeared as soon as the money stopped flowing in and i feel this is true across the board i feel it's true across our whole strange category of so-called activism there was a time when she could relatively effortlessly get half a million views in a month and now she's at a point where she has to work very hard just to get a few thousand views and you know what she stops trying she stops making the effort all the people who were pretending that they were far more committed to this cause than elon musk all the people who looked down their noses at people like elon musk and one generation of political leaders after another as they came and went and said oh we're not like them we're morally superior to those people we are the ones who are truly going to save the planet you know what i think all of them were unaware of themselves at the extent to which they were just motivated by money fame power respect and sex and once they got their money and got their fame and gotten laid they took their bag of money and they goddamn left and i would say this about a lot of people in lab coats a lot of people are supposedly respectable scientists who have made millions of dollars out of this game and they are not trying to save the world either i want to close this video by asking you a very simple question when you look at these charts today when you look at these hopeless charts can you remember what your own attitude was 10 years ago what your expectations were 20 years ago i think a lot of you if you're really being honest and reflecting probably 20 years ago you thought oh well yeah this is bad this carbon dioxide in the atmosphere thing is bad or you might have even known specifically about ocean acidification oh this is bad but it's getting better and better now oh looking forward next five years 10 years 50 years all these famous people whether you're thinking of sexy influencers in bikinis or multi-millionaires who are captains of industry or the leading politicians in america france germany england everyone is preaching from the same prayer book everyone's inside everyone supports discussions so from here it can only get better and better well guess what look at the line on the chart it got worse and it has continued to get worse during 2019 2020 2021 there are no effective halfway measures reducing airplane transport won't do it we're looking at two options and we need coercive action on either one now either we engage in public education and coercion on a massive scale to force humanity to transition to a vegan diet or we look at radically reducing the number of human beings on planet earth of those two ethically and politically and pragmatically i know which one i'd support just a few weeks ago i had this long in-depth discussion on the channel if you haven't seen it watch it now and it's several points during that discussion i point the finger at my audience and say not one of you is gonna send me an email after i make this video falling on this i'm not gonna get one email talking about taking action and instead i'm gonna continue getting a whole bunch of [ __ ] emails about my sex life some of which are from people who want to gossip about it some of which are from people who actually want to [ __ ] me whatever whether i'm flattered or annoyed by this is immaterial during that video you'll hear me say look we supposedly have gathered here in this audience today some of the most intelligent the best informed and the most cynical people who've ever been in the vegan community what are you going to do about it because i know i'm not even going to get one email and i don't have one colleague to work with there's nothing i can do there's nobody i can call that's where i'm at as i creep closer to 6 million views total on youtube it seems so plausible that some scientists in a lab coat that some government official that someone somewhere wealthier more powerful more influential than yourself is gonna solve this problem and i think we live with that seemingly plausible myth the same way that people live with the expectation of going to heaven or hell after they died throughout the dark ages what i'm saying to you now is no nobody else is going to do it for you nobody is coming to save you neither elon musk nor tess begg in her bikini neither millionaire activism nor consumer activism nor lifestyle activism nothing is going to make the difference i'm turning to you in the audience and asking how about you [Music] you