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climate change is boring don't get me
wrong it's incredibly important it's
just that the story of climate change is
not especially compelling and that's
when the carbon dioxide concentration
reached 400 parts per million when I
started making this video I thought that
everyone knew the story but apparently I
was wrong what do you feel about climate
change so I think Australia is the most
affected by the climate change that's
because I'd rather say the the oan layer
the hul in the O layers I think I reckon
yeah and whereas before there used to be
a natural layer up there that blocked
things that layer seems to be getting
it's getting something and so more
Heat's coming down the ozone layer and
therefore our seasons are changing the
whole on the ozone layer is causing a
problem yeah okay the hole in the ozone
layer is a problem but it's not a major
cause of climate change to recap we are
burning fossil fuels releasing carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere which traps
slightly more thermal energy causing the
overall temperature of the planet to
rise have you changed anything about
your life because climate change is
happening I recycle now we recycle more
we recycle a lot in England in England
yeah do like more things like recycling
lot of recycling recycling recycling
plastic and paper just putting plastic
in the right bin and paper in the right
bin and stuff like this okay again
recycling is very important but it's not
really going to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions which come mainly from energy
use and transportation so what I've
learned is lots of people don't know how
climate change works and don't know what
to do about it what's worse is there's
so much confusion that some people don't
think humans are responsible I'm a
datter what does that mean it means I
don't know whether it is or it isn't you
get so many conflicting opinions on it
and they all seem to be coming from
reputable sour forces here's the thing
the vast majority of climate scientists
agree that climate change is happening
and that humans are playing a
significant role but the public doesn't
see this broad consensus because well
there are arguments made to the contrary
by businesses with vested interest those
who stand to lose if a price is put on
carbon now these people will make up
stories whatever they want things like
Al Gore and his Pals just invented
climate change in order to make
themselves rich and famous meanwhile the
scientists respond with carefully worded
predictions that would result in a
rising of temperature of between 1.4 and
2.6 de C that is within a 90% confidence
interval by the year 2050 I don't want
to listen to this story again this is
why scientists have had such a tough
time informing the public about climate
change it's much easier to tell a
compelling story if you can make up
whatever you want than if you have to
stick to the truth climate change is
like Armageddon just instead of a giant
Earth crushing asteroid it's slightly
more of a invisible odorless gas and
instead of the imminent destruction of
the planet it's a gradual warming over
decades see our brains are well adapted
to a deal with clear and present danger
they're not so good at handling complex
long-term probabilistic forecasts which
is kind of why we have governments
they're meant to act in our best
interest especially in the case of
complex long-term problems and in fact
last year the Australian government
implemented a carbon tax which seemed to
be working great it was reducing carbon
emissions and then this year they
repealed that carbon tax the first
government in the world to do something
like that and my question is why you
know there is a un climate Summit coming
up next month and you can actually win a
trip to go there and ask your questions
to the world leaders if you're between
the ages of 13 and 21 head over to asky
why not.org where where you can submit a
one minute video asking why why not
questions like why would you scrap a
carbon tax that was working why not join
the rest of the world in putting a price
on carbon I mean the real reason I find
climate change boring is because we know
what the problem is the science is
wellestablished and the solutions are
fairly obvious and yet action is not
being taken so if you feel like I do
perhaps you should take some action and
maybe we can change this story and make
it a little bit more
interesting this video was sponsored by
the climate reality project but uh it
really opened my eyes cuz I really
thought we already all knew the facts
but clearly we don't so maybe we need to
spend more time educating the people
around us