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Crash Course Climate & Energy Preview
Nov 30, 2022 · 4m 3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhFlDkES6Ws
our planet is heating up and fast but understanding what that means and what to do about it can be a lot after all climate change isn't about any one thing it's rocks chemicals gas its geography physics politics it's billions of years billions of tons billions of solutions billions of people connected by vast trade networks and energy grids but at the same time it's also about you
in your bedroom eating a whole box of mac and cheese in one sitting or maybe that's just me hi hi I'm M Jackson a glaciologist a writer a National Geographic Explorer and total cold weather Enthusiast I've studied glaciers from all seven continents I became fascinated with them when I realized in my early 20s that we knew very little about our planet's ice and then it was
disappearing I thought it was so cool there was still something on Earth we could discover and could serve so now I'm trying to understand what happens to us to real people in various communities worldwide as our eyes transforms I think if we understand Glacier change we can understand climate change and then we might be able to understand future change so that's me and this is Crash
Course climate and energy understanding how each of us fits into the bigger picture of climate change can be tricky we hear that as individuals we should eat less meat turn off the lights recycle but we also hear that individual actions won't fix things unless big corporations and systems change so over the next 12 episodes we'll dive into these issues together we'll Zoom across time and space
to explore why the climate is changing how we know that what consequences are already underway and what we might expect in the future and we'll focus on what it might take to decarbonize our energy sources or in other words stop emitting so many greenhouse gases as we power our world we'll find there are not only no easy solutions but also that we shouldn't expect easy just
as climate change is complicated so too are all the ways forward we'll encounter plenty of fascinating ideas ideas for rethinking the energy we use to make things grow things power things move things heat and cool things we'll learn why each of these industries pose their own challenges for example why it's really hard to build a battery-powered semi truck and why we can't just fill the Sahara
with solar panels and we'll explore the extra tricky territory of politics human behavior and environmental and climate Justice because while climate change involves everybody it doesn't affect everybody equally along the way we'll encounter a lot of questions with answers that can be summed up as it's complicated but crucially we'll learn why the situation is so complicated in some ways Humanity can navigate it covering things like
electric cars carbon storage and the Kyoto Protocol at times it might feel a bit like a Choose Your Own Adventure book except if we don't act quickly the planet will choose our adventure for us big picture the story's not over all of us have a role to play in shaping what's next whether it's a city planner a scientist an educator a business manager an activist a
Storyteller and so so so much more at the end of the day tackling climate change will require a ton of creativity and even more cooperation it's Humanity's biggest group project ever so join us and let's get to work crash course climate and energy is produced by complexly with support provided by breakthrough energy and Gates Ventures this episode was filmed at Castle Garrity studio and was made
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