When Climate Change Threatens Climate Solutions | SciShow News

Plants may be useful tools for sequestering carbon, but if we don’t get started on the process immediately, they might be far less effective than we previously thought. And if we start composting for regions and crops, it may prove to be more nutritious for the land.

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[nerdygamer]

This just in: Waiting to implement techniques to combat climate change could hamper ability to combat climate change. Big business and policymakers shocked.

[FrozEnbyWolf]

"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now."

[DrifterOSullivan]

The operative word is PROCRASTINATION....The ongoing strategy implemented so far is "we'll do it in a little while." It's impossible to fight climate change when policy remains the same, even if some nice words are thrown around.

[dang]

As someone who practices vermiculture, worms and local vermicompost is going to be super important. As someone who has history with addiction, we are clearly addicted to petroleum products. We would not be able to function without them. We have to ween ourselves now, not later. If we don't, when the time comes that we have no choice, we are really screwed. Like, a lot of people will die screwed.

[manikmonkey]

Ridiculous they would save the ‘best idea’ as an emergency back up. If they want better technology in the future, build the infrastructure now (and use it) but build it for easy upgrades in the future. We can’t wait 😞

[cancan-wqun]

I remember a scientist was telling we were too late to change the outcome, like 10 years ago. According to him, the effects to climate has delayed outcomes, so whatever you do now, you will see the effects decades later.

[b_uppy]

That we are still using an engineering/tech paradigm. It is less than holistic in its approach that evermore creates more costs and problems than it solves. That hurts the environment ourselves, wildlife. We continue to shoot ourselves in the foot. That is a huge problem.
We need to ask ourselves what gives more value for time and effort invested, what creates less harm?
Just watched a some videos and read case studies on Brad Lancaster's site harvestingrainwater.
There was a USGS side by side comparison of Rock Creek versus Turkey Creek with its 20 thousand check dams was a start. That they could have made smaller check dams that needed less repair and less technical expertise would be better, as Brad pointed out. We need more solutions like that to reduce the problems we have.

[origami_dream]

Can we act fast? No. Acting fast would've meant acting decades ago. Now we're acting absurdly slow. And we can only meaningfully do even THAT if we rise up and demand action with... action. With civil disobedience. With actually claiming our power and refusing to let the great and powerful just keep truckin'.

[stax]

Yeah, Procrastination when it comes to Climate is basically all we get.

[scotthenrie]

France is rebuilding Paris to have more trees to provide shade. A few other areas are also doing that

[HopefullyUnoptimistic]

2:00 I wonder if it wasn't mentioned, or the researchers didn't think of it. But was there an analysis of what if we implemented BECCS in 2020, 2010, or further back? If procrastinating reduces the effectiveness of the strategy, then would have implementing it earlier been more efficient? Seems like the kind of analysis that might kick governments in the nads and get them to actually act on something for a change. In a sense FOMO directed to good ends for a change.

[thomasking]

I recently saw some discussion of "which percentage CO2 increase is the tipping point?" and you mentioned 2.5 %. I maintain that the actual number was 1%, which we are well past. The fact that we let it get past 1% was evidence that we had no serious intention of preventing it from getting to 2%, or 2.5%, or 4%.

[ardencassie]

Carbon capture and storage is still yet to prove its actual worth.

[jeremysolano]

@ 3:16 just in, if your dying remember "Compost yourself "

[SuperVlerik]

We can do this now (some already are, in fact), and without handing the controls over once again to industrial scale profiteers.
#Biochar is a millennium-old low-tech technique which repairs soils, increases fertility, regulates soil moisture and sequesters literally tons of carbon for hundreds (in some cases, thousands) of years. The combination of materials, pressures, temperatures used to 'char' can also provide fuel and energy at the same time.

It would be awesome if you guys could produce an informative episode on the history and current status of biochar production and use. The science is already there; has been for a few decades.

The irony of having a datacenter sponsor this video...

[Supernoxus]

Reading those comments, it seems like a lot of people have already lost hope facing this overwhelming crisis.

[evanm]

wow crazy how waiting to do anything will make it harder to do anything

[michelledove]

YAY! I sponsored the Compost photo! We compost and add it to our garden. I am glad we grow some of our own food!

[twocvbloke]

The "Large-scale biosomethingorother" bit just made me go "Oh, like using wood to fuel steam turbines?", cos, erm, that's a thing, but people think it's better to re-invent the wheel... :\