The Catastrophe No One Talks About

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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." Edward Abbey Edit: this is a condemnation of capitalism, not population growth.

I can feel my sanity slipping away every day. I was a super idealist as a kid, now it's shattering to see how people have and are behaving. I'll give previous generations some leniency because they just didn't know better but anyone alive after say the 70s should understand the consequences... However, It's just getting exponentially worse! I've got to take a break from "doom scrolling" or I'm going to lose it.

As a Native American, I thank you for how respective you approach this subject, we have known how important and intricate this land is for thousands of years, it was only when The colonial world arrived that all of that changed

I witnessed extinction 60 years ago when an interstate freeway opened just upwind of our farm . Everything died within two or three years. Fruit trees and waterfowl were the first. Then the fish in the lake disappeared and an oil slick covered the surface. The well tasted like gasoline. We were forced to move away. The place looks awful now.

I don’t think I’ve said this before but I really appreciate how openly anti capitalist this channel is. People need to understand that capitalism created this issue and is continuing to exacerbate it uncontrollably. People who are climate aware need to understand that things like carbon tax credits to capitalist corporations won’t fix anything. We need global policies that phase out fossil fuels as quickly as we can and stop worrying about the share prices of Exxon and Shell

I find it amusing how many people consider us to be simply observers of the extinction event and not participants and all that means...

I have lived in a cabin in northern California for the last twelve years. In that short time I have heard the first grow nearly silent. Twelve years ago I would hear birds in the morning, see many bats hunting the millions of insects in the evenings. Hundreds of squirrels were constantly bounding thru the trees. Thousands of insects of many species would come to the patio light. Now on a good night there will be two or three types of moth with at most 40 or 50 of them, most nights there will be almost zero. The squirrels and birds are nearly gone, the bats no longer seen at all. The tiny numbers of insects is the most frightening sign. I have seen the 6th extinction begin to take hold in the small microcosm. I can't imagine what another twelve years will bring. I'm old enough that it won't make a huge difference before I shoot thru the blue tunnel, but what will the young experience?

It's really depressing. I'm vegan and I try to shop consiously, use less plastic etc, but I know what needs to change is basically the whole system, and I cannot fathom how so many people are so oblivious to it all, and they don't seem to care, or they only care about profits. How is money gonna save you when there is no more food left, no more fresh air, no more clean water, and no more usable land?

This extinction is very, very different for many reasons, but in particular because it is measured in decades and centuries instead of tens of thousands to millions of years. The shock to the ecosystem is unlike anything the Earth has been through before.

Capitalism sounds like an abusive relationship to me tbh. The kind where you are blamed as if your behaviour causes the abuse, similar to how gas companies blame people with individual carbon footprints.

We not only need nature, we are part of it.

I went to visit the great barrier reef in 2019 and was really horrified at how bleached the coral was

I like to piggy back, 1. The dodo wasnt just hunted but also killed off by another major human-caused event. The introduction of invasive species, rats, and cats was another cause. 2. I glad you brought up civilizations that trued to go with the flow without infantizing native americans. Exploitative economics sadly is a human thing it in imperialistic powers. Europeans seemed to not learn from the ruins of the Aztecs and Mayans clear cutting their forests and ruining their topsoil. We have to seriously fight back against this mode of production. (I want to make a slightly correction for clarity) The notion of the collapse of the Mayans is still a debated topic. I encourage folks to read up on Mayan collapse it still relevant to how climate change can affect Civilizations) 3. Love you brought up furr traders. 4. Climate change is such a terrible thing hard to see any hope.

I'm an ecologist and I have mixed feelings about having to justify sustainable communities through quantifying ecosystem services. "Why shouldn't we milk the earth to death?" Is the question I hear all the time from the lay-person unconcerned with the health and diversity of the planet. Why does the value of the WORLD have to revolve around YOU!?

Just one thing: there is no “reversing” the catastrophe, only mitigation. We are talking about life being killed en masse everyday, often in gruesome ways. There is no “reversing” the damage, regardless of whether or not new life emerges.

this is absolutely terrifying, the fact that so many people are cosplaying as ostriches right now and denying the great loss of life on earth is possibly worse.

I watch a good handful of climate channels, and it's such a breath of fresh air that you aren't afraid to say the C-word. Capitalism really is driving us into the ground, and no real positive change can happen until more people realize that. I can see your channel being an important entry point in the leftist pipeline. Good stuff as always.

It really burns me up when we subsidize fossil fuel drilling, roads for driving that are 50% paid for by income taxes, regulate large parking minimums, and single use zoning putting homes a long drive from shops. These regulations and subsidies increase pollution while harming the economy by favoring inefficient building and transportation.

Last year, I visited my uncles ranch in Texas, near Stepheville. It was sold to a real estate development. It wasn't the only ranch sold, other neighboring ranches were sold for development. The ranch was already suffering from the drought, a little lake & connecting river we used to frolick & fishing even 20 years ago, was totally gone due to the drought. But the area was still beautiful, & one of the interesting thing about the area was the fossils of sea life, usually shells of clams & ammonites. And the history in the area, as well a part of it that was supposedly hunted & the 'spooky bridge'. And the native animal population that still roam the area, surviving one way or another the drought. Well, this spring the real estate company razed down everything, I was shock how quickly they razed the area. I feel sorry for the ghost & the frogs, & the animals that roamed the area. They have nowhere to go now. People & wildlife never mix well, any surviving animals will be eradicated one way or another. I don't think will be able to stop the 6th extinction wave. We are going to suffer the full consequences of the climate change. It's very too late & is little what we can do about it.