What Earth in 2050 could look like - Shannon Odell

And you're not taking into account the wars that might occur because of those crisis

I hate the fact that that the countries and people who are the least responsible for all of this, are the ones who are most affected by it. Like indigenous peoples or people from island nations

I had a college Biology professor who once said, "The earth will destroy us long before we destroy her."

Its already 45 degrees in Delhi guys, try 50 🥴

Never underestimate the power of Denial.

It is actually very alarming right now, here in Philippines primarily car polution is what contributes to rapid change of climate it is getting hotter every year, traffic jams getting worse than ever specially in Manila you rather want to live in southern provinces than to stay in places like Metro Manila

I’ll still be ten years away from retirement age, and given current trends, probably more like twenty.

Progress is moving so slowly because most people in power, like CEOs and politicians, are old. They'll be long dead before they need to confront the consequences of their own actions, and thus, their eyes are only laid upon money. I expect to see the rate of climate progress slowly get faster and faster as older leaders die and are replaced with new ones who WILL need to face the climate crisis. Political and economic action is miserably slow right now, but I don't think it will stay this way for much longer.

I think the biggest mistake we made is thinking that we still have time. I live in the middle of europe and anyone can tell how much the weather is changing. And I'm still very young so I really don't want to imagine what the future is going to look like. I'm honestly so scared for all of us. I don't have any hope until we actually start cutting off emissions. But when is that going to happen...

Remember, it doesn't do any favours to the world if you become too panicked or give up hope or go the opposite route and think this video exaggeration and dont fight enough. We need to be cautious. But we cant give up hope, for if we do, we might as well die now.

A salesman sells you a cursed hammer. Every time you use it, one person dies. By the time you figured this out, you've already hammered 100 lives away. When you confront the salesman, he gives you two options: keep using the deadly hammer, or stop building altogether. He doesn't want you to realize you can just buy a normal hammer from someone else.

I do my part, not because it will necessarily make a difference, but because at least my hands will be clean when children 30 years from now ask us why we didn't do anything to stop it.

Based on how we here in the U.S. handled Hurricane Katrina, Sept. 11th, and the COVID pandemic, I have ZERO confidence that we can trust or rely on the government, corporations, or the "partrician" class to do anything to slow or reverse climate change.

And my parents wonder why I dont want any children...

More people need to know that climate change isn't just about things getting a little warmer

It's already very bad in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. I'm from there, a lot of my friends are there and back in March it was raining very bad. I remember, i woke up, i look at my phone, and all of my friends in Semarang said that their home is flooded, the road is flooding, they can't go to work, they can't go anywhere, it was just very bad.

The worst part of climate change is that the first people to be hurt will be those with the smallest margins and minimal safety nets, people like subsistence farmers and reef fishermen. Meanwhile, people in the U.S. will still be complaining about "high" gas prices (that are still lower than what most of the world pays), emissions regulations, "unsightly" wind turbines and solar farms, and refuse to participate in international agreements in the name of national sovereignty. And before someone tries to claim that China and India are bigger problems, India consumes less than half the energy the U.S. consumes, despite having more than four times the population. China does consume more energy than the U.S., but the U.S.'s per capita consumption is more than 2.5 times higher; most of China's energy goes to the industrial sector, while less than one-third of U.S. energy goes to industry, and the U.S devotes more one-quarter of its energy to transportation, which is a small sliver of China's energy usage. Yes, China and India have serious environmental issues to contend with, but the U.S.'s contribution to emissions is very disproportionate to its population, so it has a disproportionate responsibility to combat climate change. Sources: BP 2022 Statistical Review of World Energy https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/energy/us-energy-system-factsheet https://www.iea.org/countries/china/electricity

There are 147 fires in 13 states in Mexico right now. Most of the country doesn't have water. The president built a train for which MILLIONS of trees were felled. Temperatures in February, in Mexico City, soared to 30°C... No, the video is not exaggerating.

I won't lie. I've all but given up hope for real action. I won't be having children in this life time.

we're already at the point where people can't afford groceries and housing will be solved by everyone being homeless AKA thrown in jail for being homeless in America at least