Watch the US stall on climate change for 12 years

It was once a bipartisan issue, but now one of America's major parties acts like climate science doesn't exist. This is an updated version of a video we published in 2016.

[MrMariopresident]

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom" -Isaac Asimov

[dainironfoot]

It's like watching one of those openings to Post-Apocalyptic movies where you see the buildup to the apocalypse.

[bosscron]

The fact that climate became “political” is sad, as well as these old boomers won’t be around to the see the consequences

[hvbris_]

Trump doesn't know the difference between weather and climate.

[Rudykawa]

When politicians are credited as scientific authorities and scientists are credited as politically driven. Oh our world today is upside down....

[Skip]

Hmmmm. . .a bunch of republicans talking about how climate change is real and we need to do something about it before November 2008, and then totally changing positions. I wonder what happened to change their minds. . .

[MyeongsooChoi]

Meanwhile, the rest of the world doesn't have this debate because it's just an obvious fact.

[Narutendo]

Interesting, I didn't realize republicans used to accept science as recently as a decade ago. What happened?

[funny-video-YouTube-channel]

The rich folks in US did *bet on the wrong technology.* Coal and oil is not the future. It's the fading past.

During the same time. China did build a massive capacity to produce solar panels and is making money on that. Europe has build a massive capacity to produce wind turbine parks, and is doing money with that.

[VulpeculaJoy]

What people don't seem to understand is that change *itself* isn't the problem, it's this unprecedented tremendously short time span over which it is occurring today that's the major issue.
You see, life will only find it's ways if it is given enough time to adapt.

Yes the planet was warmer and had way more CO2 in the atmosphere before, but it took hundreds of millions of years for that to slowly dissolve. For a species that meant it had enough time to make slight changes to their genes in each generation over thousands of iterations.
Nowadays things are so volatile the entire planet might be uninhabitable not even a few generations from now. And humans are entirely the cause.

[ezekielgomez-goldberg]

I don’t understand, since when did facts supported by years and years of experts studying and researching to create logical explanations become something we can simply “not believe.” It’s almost like people not believing the damn earth is round... oh wait.



I swear society is going backwards...

[heinkle]

What I don’t understand is, even if human activity wasn’t causing climate change (which it is), creating cleaner air and healthier environments is completely common sense. There is no reason to burn coal.

[diazjubairy]

If you really think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath while counting your money

Proff. Guy McPherson

[hamzamahmood]

"We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe."__Elon Musk

[ivanbee]

Climate change should not be a partisan issue, its a HUMAN ISSUE

[MrMariopresident]

Deniers of X: "Show me evidence that X is true"
Debunker: "Well, according to this study-"
Deniers of X: "That study is false"
Debunker: Well, fine, this other study says-"
Deniers of X: "Also fabricated"
Debunker: "Sigh..."

[joeys]

The melting ice also has methane stored in it so when the ice melts, it's releasing methane. No one wins. Congrats VOX this is your best video by far, powerful yet simple.

[TheRishabhkumar]

The issues that are common knowledge to the rest of the world are a partisan issue in the US.

[NateandNoahTryLife]

12 minutes 5 seconds of feeling depressed, brought to you by American Politics.

[Liamjcurran]

5:58 one of the most genuinely heart-breaking things I have ever seen