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We WILL Fix Climate Change!14:11

We WILL Fix Climate Change!

12.3M views • 4 years ago
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Kurzgesagt's animated take on climate change argues that, despite alarming headlines, there are real reasons for hope as technology, policy and public attitudes shift. It surveys trends and solutions while acknowledging the scale of the problem.
1. Climate Change -- the scientific debate10:42

1. Climate Change -- the scientific debate

530K views • 18 years ago
potholer54
The first video in potholer54's climate series, giving a basic look at how climate scientists infer that man-made carbon gases are changing the climate. It is a short explainer meant to present the scientific evidence plainly.
I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.21:37

I wasn't worried about climate change. Now I am.

2.5M views • 2 years ago
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder explains climate sensitivity and why recent observations suggest climate models may have underestimated warming. She says this changed her view on how worried to be.
Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?10:36

Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?

11.7M views • 6 years ago
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Kurzgesagt examines who is responsible for climate change, comparing historical, current and per-capita emissions by country. It argues that individual footprints are a distraction from larger responsibility.
Plastic Recycling is an Actual Scam | Climate Town8:45

Plastic Recycling is an Actual Scam | Climate Town

1.9M views • 5 years ago
Climate Town
Climate Town gives a comedic, fast-paced account of how the plastics industry promoted recycling, including the resin-code recycling symbol, while knowing most plastic could not be economically recycled. It points viewers to the Frontline documentary Plastic Wars for a deeper treatment.
How H&M’s Recycling Machines Make New Clothes From Used Apparel | World Wide Waste8:53

How H&M’s Recycling Machines Make New Clothes From Used Apparel | World Wide Waste

3.4M views • 5 years ago
Business Insider
A Business Insider World Wide Waste episode on H&M's garment recycling machines, which turn used clothing into new apparel. It asks whether a fast fashion company can solve the waste problem it helped create.
Can YOU Fix Climate Change?15:50

Can YOU Fix Climate Change?

14.3M views • 5 years ago
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Kurzgesagt examines what individuals can do about climate change, covering lesser-known carbon sources and why systemic and political change matter more than personal footprints.
Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?12:48

Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?

2.9M views • 8 years ago
Real Engineering
Real Engineering examines whether greening the Sahara could draw down carbon and slow climate change. It concludes that the effort would be enormously costly and that changes in albedo and other effects undercut the climate benefit.
Who else benefits from the Dutch cycling infrastructure4:01

Who else benefits from the Dutch cycling infrastructure

88K views • 13 years ago
BicycleDutch
A short BicycleDutch episode showing how people with disabilities use Dutch cycle tracks on hand-cycles, tricycles and mobility scooters.
Idaho Stop for Cyclists? Drivers Already Do It!4:22

Idaho Stop for Cyclists? Drivers Already Do It!

34K views • 5 years ago
Oh The Urbanity!
A short urbanism video presenting original observations of how drivers treat stop signs, to argue that cyclists rolling through them under an Idaho stop is no different. It filmed intersections in Ottawa.
The Best Kind of Dutch Cycling Infrastructure5:21

The Best Kind of Dutch Cycling Infrastructure

355K views • 6 years ago
Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes explains Dutch bicycle-only roads, which let people travel long distances in and out of cities with almost no car interaction. It shows how this changes cycling from a chore into something enjoyable.
Who’s Taking America’s Water? | Climate Town39:22

Who’s Taking America’s Water? | Climate Town

888K views • 2 years ago
Climate Town
A Climate Town episode on who uses America's water, particularly Western water. It looks at agriculture such as alfalfa and animal feed, and at water-rights rules that discourage conservation.
Safe Cycling Showdown - Good vs. Bad City Design - Plus 1 Minus 223:01

Safe Cycling Showdown - Good vs. Bad City Design - Plus 1 Minus 2

1.1M views • 5 years ago
Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes compares the same cycling trip to a hardware store in Calgary and in Amsterdam, using a 'plus 1 minus 2' format. It shows how street design shapes how safe and practical cycling is.
How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris13:00

How to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris

1.4M views • 4 years ago
Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes visits Paris to see how Mayor Anne Hidalgo's policies are turning it into a '100% cyclable' city. It looks at the changes that took space from cars for bikes and people.
Dutch junction design - safer for cyclists4:01

Dutch junction design - safer for cyclists

52K views • 15 years ago
BicycleDutch
A short BicycleDutch episode showing how Dutch junctions with protected cycle paths are laid out. It argues these are proven, non-experimental designs that make intersections safer for cyclists.
Cyclists' hearts: can you be so fit that you die?7:19

Cyclists' hearts: can you be so fit that you die?

2.2M views • 8 years ago
Medlife Crisis
Medlife Crisis examines why some elite endurance athletes die in their sleep, covering extremely slow heart rates and the effects of performance-enhancing drugs that thicken blood. It uses cyclist Marco Pantani as an example.
Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town31:39

Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town

1.9M views • 3 years ago
Climate Town
Climate Town traces the history of American parking minimums, how they came from shaky research and ITE guides, and how they shape zoning, cities and housing costs. It is a long, comedic video essay.
How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town18:58

How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town

922K views • 5 years ago
Climate Town
A Climate Town video on how the auto industry reshaped American cities and culture through advertising, lobbying and campaigns like the 1939 World's Fair. It is snarky in tone but backed by a published source document.
The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry | Climate Town (feat. @NotJustBikes)20:59

The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry | Climate Town (feat. @NotJustBikes)

3.3M views • 4 years ago
Climate Town
A snarky, comedic video essay from Climate Town, with a guest appearance by Not Just Bikes, arguing that American suburban sprawl and single-family zoning are financially and environmentally unsustainable. It covers how zoning rules shape housing and what viewers can do locally, such as attending zoning meetings.
Invisibility Training for Motorcyclists8:41

Invisibility Training for Motorcyclists

1.8M views • 8 years ago
FortNine
FortNine's tongue-in-cheek guide to why drivers fail to see motorcyclists and how riders can make themselves more visible. It touches on perception psychology, including the role of saccades.
A CONSERVATIVE solution to global warming (Part 1)21:33

A CONSERVATIVE solution to global warming (Part 1)

278K views • 8 years ago
potholer54
Potholer54 presents the climate science case and a market-oriented, conservative-friendly approach to addressing global warming, with sources listed. It is part one of a two-part series.
Topic match · Climate policy, solutions & debate
13 Misconceptions About Global Warming6:50

13 Misconceptions About Global Warming

5.9M views • 12 years ago
Veritasium
Veritasium debunks common climate change myths in under seven minutes, with references to NASA and published research. Topics include CO2 sources, sea ice and 1970s predictions of cooling.
Topic match · Climate science & climate change
Eating less Meat won't save the Planet. Here's Why23:11

Eating less Meat won't save the Planet. Here's Why

5.8M views • 5 years ago
Joseph Everett - WIL
Joseph Everett, with Dr. Frank Mitloehner, argues that eating less meat will not do much for the climate. He covers beef's water footprint, land and feed use, and methane.
Topic match · Climate policy, solutions & debate
Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)15:14

Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)

3.3M views • 5 years ago
Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes argues that winter is not what stops Canadians cycling, using Oulu, Finland as proof that safe, well-maintained cycling infrastructure enables year-round biking despite harsh weather.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning
How the Dutch got their cycle paths6:30

How the Dutch got their cycle paths

1.2M views • 15 years ago
BicycleDutch
A short BicycleDutch video on how the Netherlands got its cycling infrastructure, including the 1970s protests and the shift away from car-centric planning. The channel later published an updated version.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning
What *Really* happens to used Electric Car Batteries? - (you might be surprised)7:04

What *Really* happens to used Electric Car Batteries? - (you might be surprised)

5.6M views • 3 years ago
JerryRigEverything
JerryRigEverything tours Li-Cycle to show how lithium-ion batteries from EVs, phones and tools are recycled. It walks through the process of shredding batteries and extracting materials.
Topic match · Environment, agriculture & food systems
The Best-Designed Town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world)25:05

The Best-Designed Town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world)

1.2M views • 1 year ago
Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes tours Houten, a Dutch town designed around cycling, explaining how its layout makes most trips by bike safe and easy. It also promotes a book about the town.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning
Are Electric Cars Worse For The Environment? Myth Busted13:47

Are Electric Cars Worse For The Environment? Myth Busted

2.2M views • 8 years ago
Engineering Explained
Engineering Explained works through whether electric cars are really worse for the environment than gasoline cars. It covers battery production emissions, the electricity mix used to charge, and how long an EV takes to break even on lifetime emissions.
Topic match · Climate policy, solutions & debate
Space Shades: Humanity's Last Hope | Answers With Joe28:46

Space Shades: Humanity's Last Hope | Answers With Joe

1.1M views • 6 years ago
Joe Scott
Joe Scott takes a serious look at space sunshades as a climate fix, asking how big they would need to be, what they would cost and whether they would work. He draws on Roger Angel's paper and launch options.
Topic match · Climate policy, solutions & debate
Stop Signs Suck and We Should Get Rid of Them6:04

Stop Signs Suck and We Should Get Rid of Them

906K views • 6 years ago
Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes argues that stop signs are a poor traffic control, drawing on Dutch practice and the Idaho stop to show intersections can be safer without them, especially for cyclists.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning
Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?7:30

Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?

2.1M views • 8 years ago
Veritasium
Veritasium examines whether food has become less nutritious, weighing soil depletion, selective breeding and rising atmospheric CO2. It evidences nutrient decline even in weeds over a century and ties it to faster plant growth.
Topic match · Environment, agriculture & food systems
Dutch Cities are Better for the Environment (and my sanity)13:08

Dutch Cities are Better for the Environment (and my sanity)

1.1M views • 4 years ago
Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes explains why living in a dense, bikeable Dutch city sharply reduced his family's environmental footprint and improved quality of life. It is a collaboration that continues on Climate Town.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning
The Carbon Offset Problem22:57

The Carbon Offset Problem

1.9M views • 4 years ago
Wendover Productions
Wendover Productions examines why carbon offsets so often fail to reduce emissions, covering specific examples and the perverse incentives in offset schemes.
Topic match · Climate policy, solutions & debate
I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works.19:07

I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works.

989K views • 3 years ago
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder explains how the greenhouse effect actually works, given that infrared is mostly absorbed low in the atmosphere already. She walks through why more CO2 still warms the surface.
Topic match · Climate science & climate change
The Future of Humanity's Energy No One Knows About | Terraform19:59

The Future of Humanity's Energy No One Knows About | Terraform

228K views • 2 years ago
S3 | Science, Startups, & Stories
A 20-minute S3 episode touring Terraform Industries, a startup making synthetic natural gas from air and solar power. It walks through the reactor, injection system, direct air capture and electrolyzer, plus the company's cost goals and next milestone.
Topic match · Climate policy, solutions & debate
I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years.22:38

I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 years.

767K views • 3 years ago
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder explains that waste heat from ever-growing energy use could eventually boil the oceans in a few centuries, whatever the energy source. She discusses proposed ways to cool the planet.
Topic match · Climate science & climate change
The Best Country in the World for Drivers15:48

The Best Country in the World for Drivers

2.2M views • 4 years ago
Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes argues that the Netherlands, famed for cycling, is also the best country for drivers. It explains how prioritizing walking, cycling and transit makes driving faster and more pleasant.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning
Feeding Bill Gates a Fake Burger (to save the world)16:39

Feeding Bill Gates a Fake Burger (to save the world)

83.4M views • 6 years ago
Mark Rober
Mark Rober makes a plant-based burger for Bill Gates and explains why meat production strains the environment. Gates also appears and discusses his worry about steel and cement.
Topic match · Environment, agriculture & food systems
What People Get Wrong About Induced Demand8:05

What People Get Wrong About Induced Demand

291K views • 5 years ago
Oh The Urbanity!
Explains induced demand beyond roads, showing that it applies to transit, walking and cycling infrastructure too but with different consequences. It corrects common misunderstandings of the concept.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning
The Gym of Life11:47

The Gym of Life

1.3M views • 4 years ago
Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes argues that people in walkable, bikeable Dutch cities stay healthy because exercise is built into daily life, which he calls the gym of life. It contrasts this with car-dependent cities that require deliberate workouts.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning