>> The IPCC sixth assessment report has come out focusing on the impacts,
adaptation and vulnerability to climate change the world over. You can see a little shot of
their website there and I show this to you so that you know that @ipcc.ch. You
can actually go to this if you wanna dive into these different areas and understand
the nature of the threat that we face as a people, it's there.
I will bottom line it for you though, it's not good. And why wouldn't it be? We haven't
done anything since the last one. Wouldn't that be weird? If suddenly it's like, no, actually
the glaciers are way more solid now, we don't have to worry about, the oceans are receding.
No, that's not what happened. The report finds that climate change is affecting every person's
physical and mental health. And classifies nearly half of the entire global population as being
highly vulnerable to climate impacts, which can come
in a variety of forms as we will describe. The report concludes by the way,
that it is no longer possible to fully adapt to some global warming impacts.
Irreversible losses are occurring among some warm water coral reefs, coastal wetlands and some rain
forests. And once ecosystems reach their hard limits, people will be directly affected as they
lose the benefits these natural systems provide. That's one of the things that we often forget
in this is that, the destruction of these sort of things isn't gonna be limited to arable farmland.
These parts of the world that are being wrecked serve a purpose in their own right,
and we're gonna be losing that. And that's given an idea of some
of what we face deadly heat stress could affect up to 76% of humanity
by the end of the century. Up to three billion people around the world could face chronic water
scarcity if world leaders fail to meet the goals of the Paris climate accord.
And there are obviously many other effects other than that Sabrina. But
I think that's a good launching point. What do you think about
this? Will anyone listen this time around? >> Right now? I don't think so. Unfortunately
they should, because I think maybe people are more focused understandably on global events.
>> Mm-hm. >> But the thing is with climate change, it's only
going to ramp up more fighting across countries and what not. Because as resources get diminished,
people are going to be gravitating to wherever they can survive and we're going to continue to
see more conflict. So if people will want to say, well, climate change should not be a priority.
We've got potential war is happening. It's like, well let's look a little bit more long term,
let's look at the future of the planet, let's look at the future of humanity, how is humanity gonna
survive? Not only just breathing with the weather, but the future wars that this is going to create.
>> Yeah, you're totally right. We have this opportunity right now where people recognize,
hey major powers invading each other not a great thing, okay. Well then, how about we before it's
too late, stop producing a world that's gonna be far more conducive to that. Do we think that
countries are gonna do less invading when they have a harder time feeding their population.
When they have a harder time getting clean fresh water that they need access to. No,
this is gonna result in not only a lot of strife inside of the borders of countries but between
them as well. Resource wars are going to be effectively the story of our time for the rest
of this century and we are just barreling towards that situation.
And it would be bad enough if we didn't see it coming. If we were suddenly smacked
by some sort of dark asteroid that no one could see, that would be a tragedy.
But when you see it coming for a really long time, that's what Oscar nominated movies are made of.
And as in that, we have all the information we need. This is the sixth of these reports,
they keep coming out. We have some responsible people whether on the activism side
or elected politicians that are trying to get through to us and what happens to them. AOC,
talked a lot about the Green New Deal, Greta Thunberg is one of many high profile activists.
How were they treated by the media at large? They were laughed at.
>> We just saw how they were treated. They're trying to make the cost for climate change,
they're trying to distill it to, it's just this young girl, she doesn't know any better.
She's gonna drop solar panels on this country and that's how she is gonna save the world.
They're trying to make this hyperbolic enemy to their cause in order to make it just seems so
irrational. No, we can't have a cleaner planet. No, we have to care about what's happening
right now. And the thing is they just don't care. They just don't care cuz they're not
gonna be around probably by the time we feel the more harsh effects of climate change.
So it's all for one to them. >> Yeah, I think it's two pronged,
it's what's one, the first one that you just said that a lot of the
absolute worst most apocalyptic effects, they don't care. These are people that largely
don't care about the vast majority of people that are alive right now.
We expect empathy for people who aren't yet born, that isn't how they work. But we are
gonna experience a lot of bad effects of climate change. I got news for you, we are right now
obviously, I'm in California, it's generally on fire these days. So that already exists.
The thing is, all the people doing the attacking or as insulated from those effects as possible.
My knee jerk reaction is to say, Greg Gutfeld, you're broadcasting the five
from New York city. How interested are you in canoeing to work someday? But the thing is,
they'll just flee their a-holes, but they're rich a-holes.
And they know it like Donald Trump lived in New York now is in Florida. Both are gonna
be absolutely devastated by climate change. But they'll move and they will have the ability to,
others will lose their homes, they will lose everything. They'll be wrecked financially,
when the time comes for them to finally flee when the flooding gets even worse than it is already.
But they're insulated from it. And so we get no empathy
and what they are effectively doing is the same as what they're doing on so many topics,
wasting our time. Muddying the waters, trying to sheepdog as many people as possible into
not carrying until it's too late. And unfortunately on this topic, as much as
any other topic I can think of, they have been incredibly successful for literally decades.
Any final thoughts Sabrina? >> No, it's just exactly what
you said. It's a problem for normal working class people who don't have the means to just
up and uproot their life and move to wherever will be safer. And even then, who's to say,
even if you could move, how affordable will it be to move to these safer places?
As we continue to see climate change for the worst. It's not gonna be accessible to normal
people, only the rich will be able to survive. And it's unfortunate because they don't seem to be
the ones who are doing much to actually advocate for
climate change. >> Exactly, yeah.
They're so good at following the profit motive. Make some solar panels, invest in some of the
technology. And I use that obviously a short script for a wide variety of technologies across
multiple different forms of renewable energy generation. But they've just got it too good
when it comes to oil and coal as of right now, they've got it too good.
Well, the report is online and great reporting is available in a variety of sources. So if
you are interested in this, the fate of our planet, feel free to go look that up.