Climate change: Earth's giant game of Tetris - Joss Fong

There's a game of Tetris happening on a global scale: The playing space is planet Earth, and all those pesky, stacking blocks represent carbon dioxide -- a greenhouse gas that is piling up ever more rapidly as we burn the fossil fuels that run our cars, factories and power plants. Joss Fong outlines how this overload of CO2 leads to climate change and reminds us that, unlike Tetris, we won't get an opportunity to start over and try again.

Lesson by Joss Fong, animation by Provincia Studio.

[joeanthony]

Not as much tetris, as a game of Jenga: we are removing the stored blocks down low in the ground, and stacking them above, in the atmosphere/ oceans, the more we disturb the location of the energy/carbon, the more difficult it is to stabilize, like a rickety Jenga tower.

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

We need to find energy that will only produce the long pieces.

[genevieverramsey]

who else is here bc of their science teacher? happy 50th earth day!

[RinoaL]

and just like a game of tetris, our existance won't really be worth remembering once we are gone.

[ahmadmahfuzhaque]

ted-ed (as usual ;)) simple, to the point and well designed. the finale about how a tetris game(and Earth) can end, really makes you think.I love ur vids

[karatkdj]

Awesome, probably one of the best descriptions of climate change I've ever seen

[megamagicstars]

well made video, ted-ed (as usual ;)) simple, to the point and well designed. the finale about how a tetrus game(and Earth) can end, really makes you think.

[Immajeanyus]

We need to wait for that one long piece to prevent global warming.

[david.stachon]

Tremendous explanation! ...nicely done TedEd.

[purgxzur]

I like Ted Ed, I just subscribed but it’s pretty good for getting general information but not specific which is what I’m looking for

[may]

"It's a game that we're all stuck playing. And unlike in Tetris, we won't get a chance to start over and try again"

[oceanelement]

Who else is here because their social studies teacher? Also, it’s not really like Tetris, it’s more like Jenga. You remove what’s at the bottom, to resurface at the top. All in all, creating this huge pile that could tip over and end.

[naingchanmyae]

I was surprised to see that Joss Fong makes Ted Ed lessons too.

[zjebauo]

0:31 - product placement for MS Windows.

[rickiex]

you should mention that the more water and heat is put into the ocean, the more energy hurricanes can get to become more violent 

[linateale]

Wow.... I never thought of it this way :/

[zomicks-bakery-org]

A really colorful explanation. Unfortunately it is very true!

[kimmoraes]

Possibly because I haven't played too much Tetris, I'm still not really sure how it relates to climate change. I don't know if there's a clear analogy, but I do think this is great video with concise information that makes it easy to understand the basics of climate change.

[CadetGriffin]

0:54 - When you duplicate objects over and over again on LittleBigPlanet.

[ayushkamboj]

The cheat code to win the game : T R E E S