Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "We Will Be the Last Civilization on Earth" video.

  1. Bio plastics and bio fuels are not good environmentally. They require vast amounts of land to be used as a monoculture. It's bad enough we do that for food as it is, but it's a necessary evil. I completely agree on nuclear. It is currently the only answer that even comes close to being viable. Wind and solar absolutely are not viable on a mass scale because we don't have the battery technology yet, and that ignores what we have to do to the Earth to get the battery components, as well as what's required to get all the metals to expand the grid infrastructure on a scale people are hoping for. There is a 0% chance that everything goes electric on the timeframe politicians and activist want (the energy grid can absolutely not handle all cars being electric by 2035) and it is a math problem. We are not extracting things like copper at anywhere near the rate that would be required to electrify everything. Not even in the ballpark, and the same activists and politicians refuse to allow the conditions required, like approval for new mines, that would make it happen. It's absolutely infuriating that the people insisting we do this are the ones preventing it from happening, and they have their heads up their backsides when it comes to all of the negative aspects of their plans.
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  2. Great video. Do not apologize for giving people real information. If they don't like it, it's because they are ideologically driven and that doesn't help anybody. They can stuff it. Thank you for admitting we don't know how much oil is out there. 20 years ago, a giant percentage of reputable people honestly believed that there was only another 30 years of oil left, and that we had already reached peak oil production. They forget just how much mankind can innovate.
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  3. It was indeed a strange omission given that he talked about going to space.
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  4. Many people think that there will never be another Isaac Newton, or somebody who figures out some fundamental of science. I disagree completely. I think we will eventually discover things that make today's understanding look like the basics you would teach a child.
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  5. I always crack up when people say something is "natural", as though there is anything else on earth. I'm not sure we have found anything supernatural.
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  6. The math is very simple, and is compounded by the fact that no western nation is upping (let alone the drastic increase needed) the amount of mines they're allowing. We need WAY more metals and minerals mined. We need a gigantic increase and governments will not allow any of it to happen. I'm not "making assumptions". I'm telling you what's happening. And later is too late. It takes many years to bring a new mine online so if they don't do a completely about face right now it's not going to happen no matter how much money they throw at it. Thanks for the personal attacks though. They really help your argument @Dr.Gehrig 
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  7. Anybody suggesting that we literally stop all fossil fuel use right now is not somebody to be taken seriously in any capacity. That's so absurd that their opinion does not need to be heard. Those people go to the protest, wearing plastic in their shoes, plastic in their elastic socks, they talk on plastic phones, and have plastic rimmed glasses, and they probably have plastic in their T-shirts. They went to Starbucks beforehand and got a drink with a plastic lid, and then drank it before getting on their eco-friendly bike that is built with a ton of plastic. Those people absolutely would not want to live in the world that would exist if we literally stop fossil fuel use right now, or within the next 10 or 20 years minimum.
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  8. "It is not that we must not stop using oil. It is all a matter of finding/implementing viable alternatives first." That's too long of a title for YouTube. Also, I don't think anybody would read that title and think that means we literally should keep using oil forever, especially considering it's a limited resource. The fact we don't have a viable alternative is literally the point of the video so I think it's just understood.
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  9. Everyone is already looking at alternatives. If BP and Shell could make more money with an alternative they'd do that in a heartbeat. People are under the impression that oil companies produce oil because they have love for oil. No, they do it for money. If there's another alternative, they would absolutely do that without a second thought.
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  10. You, me, and Eric Weinstein definitely agree.
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  11. I'd be shocked if we ever did make a full transition to EV's. I think we will learn to make hydrogen less volatile. But, regardless, we won't be able to switch to all electric vehicles anytime soon, no matter how much we want to. Look up the statistics on the amount of resources we would need to create the electrical grid and the batteries. The infrastructure is mind blowing. You literally wouldn't believe how much more raw materials we need.
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  12. We absolutely are not stripping the Earth it's biomass. The amount of plant life is actually growing. As the Earth warms, it becomes more habitable for plants. CO2 is literally plant food. The Earth is actually greening. @Pushing_Pixels 
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  13. There absolutely would be. We have this conceit that we can literally destroy all life on earth. Not even close. Nature would retake the Earth incredibly quickly. Look at places like Chernobyl. Many people thought it would be literally uninhabitable for anything for generations, but there are tons of animals that live there right now. Where we dropped atomic bombs in Japan it's not like they are lifeless craters.
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  14. Thanking that nine out of 10 people would be dead is silly, I think. That's assuming that people wouldn't really quickly be spreading the knowledge of how to do the basics. Nine out of 10 people would die if they were all left completely on their own with absolutely no information or resources. There are other factors as well, like how we have all the land we need to grow food. People would just use their front lawn to grow food instead of grass. Lots of people would definitely starve to death but I don't think even close to 9/10 would. I think more people would die due to lack of medical care than to a straight up lack of food/shelter.
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  15. Do it then. Make fuels without the fuels in the first place. If you could do that efficiently, you would quickly become the richest human being the world has ever seen.
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  16.  @AORD72  fair enough. I think you’re massively discounting nuclear though. Eventually the environmental movement is gonna pull their heads out of their asses and get fully on board of nuclear. Did you know that the anti-nuclear groups are funded 14 times more than pro nuclear groups? You’ll never guess who they’re funded by…
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  17. Nuclear. It's incredible to me that there are modern countries who are actually decommissioning nuclear plants. Zero emissions, beyond belief energy density, and we have plenty of uranium, and the storage of the spent fuel is completely safe. Nobody has ever died from exposure to it. Ever. You can stand right outside the walls of the containers they make and you don't need special equipment. Completely safe.
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  18. Bingo. The world is greening. I find it funny when all these campaigns happen for people to plant trees to fight climate change. More plant food means more plants. That's some pretty basic math. I think all these people who are planting trees are absolutely wasting their time, unless they are planting trees specifically to restore animal habitat. The need to fight climate change by planting trees to store a little bit of carbon means they clearly don't understand how many trees already exist. Whatever they plant is a rounding error of a rounding error of a rounding error. Maybe I'm more aware of this because I live in an area of Canada where there are more trees than people can possibly comprehend.
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  19. The concept of a Carrington event is so widely known that we wouldn't be caught. Completely unaware. We would be OK. Much faster than you think.
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  20. Chernobyl had a meltdown and there are tons of animals living there right now. If one didn't know better, and they just stumbled upon the place, they never guess anything that ever happened. That's small potatoes compared to a full nuclear holocaust, but nature is so much more resilient than we give it credit for. It's just like that nonsense when people worry about climate change is if it's going to literally wipe out, humanity, or "hurt nature". We overestimate how important we are to the Earth.
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  21. I don't buy for a second that there wouldn't be enough food. There's way more land than we need. Look at our own houses. People out front yards and backyards that they don't plant anything on except grass. We absolutely have the space to grow all the food we want, if we wanted to. We would plant things like lettuce, which regenerates, and you can get a ton of food from a small strip of land. We would just have to be pragmatic about what we planted. @firesoldier343 
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  22. "The average person today in many ways lives better than a king in the Middle Ages". In almost every way imaginable. People talk about "I wish i was born in X era". No you don't. I guarantee you'd regret time travelling there if you couldn't return to today, with medicine like antibiotics at the top of the list. A time when a regular infection could kill you? No thanks! @anneloving8405 
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  23. Birds already had their day. They were the dinosaurs.
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  24. You are making the assumption that we are only on them simply because we couldn't be bothered to get off of them. We literally can't right now. We don't have the technology to. Find me anything significant in your life that didn't involve fossil fuels.
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  25.  @arnoldfossman1701  i’m not aware of anyone in any industry who’s discouraging research into finding viable alternatives. The fuels definitely will run out in the not too distant future, you are correct. The research shouldn’t go into finding new sources of energy, it should go into finding new sources of energy storage.
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  26. You believe the entrenched greed of people hinders us? I think almost all of the incredible things that mankind has ever done and achieved is due to greed.  @theterminaldave 
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  27.  @1three7  we are definitely short on technology. I think we are only really short one technology though. When we finally crack, the code for the cheap and reliable storage of energy I and the ability to distribute it without having it to be perfectly consistent, then I think we will be over the hump.
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