Comments by "the other Andrew" (@theotherandrew5540) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. Having worked for many years with fostered children and others with family problems, I STRONGLY recommend, if you don’t want children, DON’T have them. To grow up into healthy happy people, children need happily devoted, loving parents. Nothing will change for the better so long as our society promotes Work, Profit, fat Incomes over child care. Shovelling small infants off to nurseries is no the answer. Children need their parents and parents need society to support them to nurture their children. Breeding children to fill a gap created by our profit oriented society is certainly not the solution.
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  2. In my experience, most people just don’t want to know, they’d rather bury their heads in the sand and pretend it’ll all go away.
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  3.  @AArata63  And if you take the trouble to look at the rates of increase and decrease of temperature, you will see that the current extremely rapid rise in global temperatures correlates accurately with the use of fossils fuels/industrialisation.
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  4. Australians seem quite good at that. See the “Darwin awards”.
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  5.  @keithfallinghorse6732  Thank you.
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  6.  @TheBigBlueMarble  In the short to medium term, immigration can easily solve that problem. In the longer term, society is probably going to have to go through some painful readjustment as the global population declines.
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  7.  @TheBigBlueMarble  In the short to medium term, births significantly exceed deaths in most developing countries. Emigration relieves pressure on their social systems while immigrants can provide the rich, demographically imbalanced countries with needed and tax paying labour.
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  8.  @tberry79  There are many tipping points, all of which make the situation worse, some catastrophically. But anything that slows or reverses the CO2 increase, slows the disastrous consequences, and brings the possibility of climate rebalancing closer, even if not in our lifetimes.
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  9. Nuclear power is extremely expensive compared to wind/solar/geothermal. Maybe it has a place for those specific industrial uses identified, but for general use, it’s dead in the water.
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  10. The solution lies in social acceptance of people, as they are. If someone is of one sexuality, but acts of prefers the other gender, we should all just accept them, not judge or criticise them. It is an appalling condemnation of our “modern” civilised(?) society that anyone feels a need to physically mutate themselves in order to be accepted. As Sabine says, there is no “normal”.
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  11. None of this is new. The real problem is that most people just don’t want to know. 😢 Besides, if those lazy dinosaurs had backed up their hard drives properly there wouldn’t be any problem. Let’s pretend it’s not true and maybe it won’t happen. 😢😢
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  12. What an absurd idea. No politician will buy that one, it’s an idea only the common plebs would consider.
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  13.  @jaijaiwanted  liberty … as in the denial of women’s rights in Alabama? Democracy, as choosing between two parties offering almost identical policies in the US & UK? Yes, there are plenty of dictators, but they tend to dictate in their own countries. The armaments race only produces more and more expenditure on aggressive weapons threatening peace, not protecting it.
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  14.  @edt6488  your attitude displays accurately the cause of war. There is still enough for everyone if we share, don’t horde and recycle. The Americans had better weapon in Vietnam, and Afghanistan but they lost both wars.
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  15.  @95rav  Do you remember the START talks? How about arms reduction negotiations?
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  16.  @abarbar06  so we need disarmament negotiations.
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  17. If it wasn’t for gravitas there wouldn’t be any VPN, then there wouldn’t be any NordVPN, and no Sabine … no YouTube physics, no life on planet … watsitsname. But I do like her style, I’m always looking out for more of it!
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  18. You manage to make these videos AND manages teenagers? Wow!
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  19. If only we knew how to count the number of angles that can stand on a pin head …
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  20. “What’s that puddle on the floor?” “Sorry Mum, it’s my brain, I was watching one of Sabine’s videos.” “Oh, Brilliant! I warned you …”
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  21. Icelanders have a pact with the devil. The trouble is the devil sometimes ignores the small print.
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  22. Success has given Musk the idea that he’s right because he’s fabulously rich. Now he lives in a bubble of self deluded optimism somewhat detached from reality.
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  23. @ Yes, he is/has been a techno-wizard and the world benefits from his electric vehicle advances, but any good scientist knows his present/past achievements give no guarantee of future success. Musk’s ego is now in his driving seat.
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  24. The major problem with nuclear energy is the huge cost, the unknowable cost of decommissioning and storing of the waste. Thorium is a good alternative but it too has considerable problems. Nuclear fusion will solve the problem in the next 30 + 30 + 30 + …….. years, perhaps.
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  25. Beach property in central London, as the sea level rises! 😂😂😂😂 But, like the Great Stink, when MPs have to wear wellies in Westminster, they might perhaps take the climate crisis seriously and try to do something about it, (don’t get your hopes up) much too late of course.
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  26. Are there really more than two flat earthers?
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  27. Why is the speed of light the maximum possible?
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  28.  @jabiraidan  You have of course identified finance as a key problem, thus my reference to the need for support, financial being primary. It’s not possible to remedy or alter one part of societal problems alone, as all aspects of society are connected. WRT selfishness, this is also connected to social pressures and attitudes; when life is less of a struggle people are less selfish.
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  29.  @mylesleggette7520  quite so. Most modern societies value material wealth over children.
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  30.  @JohnPretty1  Yes, which is we’re the state should be providing adequate financial support, indicating it values children.
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  31.  @milferdjones2573  We already have too many humans consuming the resources of the planet including other nonhuman inhabitants, the ecosystem is badly out of balance. As the climate changes and limits the habitable space, the human population also need so shrink. Contractual obligations to rear children are absolutely not the way to go. Society needs to support those who choose to take care of children, and should enable family members and others to do so. Universal Income would be a significant help. Of course women are able to make similar contributions to society as men do, the care of children she similarly valued. But you can’t have your cake and eat it. Care of children doesn’t coexist with continuing a career away from the children.
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  32.  @milferdjones2573  I think you may have a good point about delayed childbirths. While the care and development of old ten children has been traditionally carried out by the grandparents generation, there can be no substitute for mother in the infancy.
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  33.  @ddoumeche  https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature
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  34.  @AArata63  https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature
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  35. It’s so good to hear the truth in such a public view.
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  36. Most accidents occur in the home, but you still go there. We live with some hazards, why add more?
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  37. They should never have given that word processor to the monkeys. Thank goodness paper can be recycled.
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  38. For what? Killing ourselves faster? If malicious Aliens arrive, you can be absolutely certain they will outgun us. They haven’t probably because the human race hasn’t yet learned just how utterly stupid war is.
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  39. Good one. I like the clear explanations.
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