Comments by "gwho" (@gwho) on "Is It Too Late To Stop Climate Change? Well, it's Complicated." video.

  1. 8:24 "we don't need innovations. We need to find ways to reduce carbon emissions." ...uhhh so finding a way to do something is an innovation... -_-
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  2. Prophet Alexandria Cortex said we'll all die in 12 years. I shall ask no further questions. I have 200% faith in AOC, our dear leader.
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  3. 7:40 No. Enforcing strict standards for energy efficiency is exactly what should NOT be done. It causes backfire side effects, direct and indirect (just like how Kurzy was talking about when making things efficient). Take the car industry for example. Enforcing strict standards for fuel efficiency caused car companies to achieve that narrow, myopic metric by implementing direct injection engines, but that causes a lot of side effects and the car engine doesn't last as long, and so more cars are made. This kind of sweeping, overly simplistic, authoritarian coercion that leftists love to focus on is the exact kind of self-contradictory hypocrisy and blindspot they exhibit all the time on big issues like this. If anything, there should be a gradual increase over time, just like how Kurzy mentioned right before this. And it should NOT be strict. it should be reasonable and even lax. And it should not be enforced strongly. There should be soft fines if anything, not harsh, strict, shutdowns where it causes companies and people to scramble and sacrifice all kinds of things to meet an artificially imposed myopic singular metric imposed by government coercion.
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  4. it's getting richer, more motion, more angles, and animations. they're hiring better artists and/or using an upgraded software.
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  5. This is the problem with leftist thinking: stop trying to punish or censor or ban or tax things you don't want, and instead, focus on making the solution more appealing that people flock to it voluntarily. Fighting ignorance of the advancements of nuclear tech is one, a big outdated ideological conception in people's minds for opposing more nuclear plants. (thorium doesn't produced radioactive waste, breeder reactors and molten salt reactors automatically liquify so you can't have nuclear runaway like solid core uranium reactors can.) Finding ways to achieve safety without harsh political and government regulations, which drive up time and cost to build plants is another, so that actually building more isn't so costly or risky, which deters investors and entrepreneurs who otherwise might do so. Marketing and changing the perception of nuclear by building a successful working shining example will prove in people's minds that things are possible. This is what Elon Musk did with private rocket launches, innovating reusable rockets, jump starting electric vehicles, and putting out all kinds of attractive and inspiring ideas that actually get funded, such as hyperloop and underground boring traffic networks. Leftists are too addicted to using the coercive power of government. It's there hammer, and everything looks like a nail to them, whether it's climate change, herd immunity, achieving environmental sustainability, taking care of the poor, solving problematic speech, and the list goes on. Virutally every issue is approached by leftists with a coercive government as the only solution, and they are unwilling to see any other approaches that are more voluntary and nudging.
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