Crash Course: Chapter 18 - Environmental Data (2 of 2) by Chris Martenson

[billypaultiddler]

CLIMBING DOWN OUT OF TREES!!! ive watched all this great knowledge spew from an ape.....im an idiot

[sidework1]

well this whole series of videos make me feel better..

because now i dont have to work hard and think about how im goin to raise a family

and work harder for the rest of my life

b cuz guess what? WE ARE ALL GOIN TO DIE!

and EVEN BETTER we are all goin to KILL EACH OTHER

oh dont worry u guys..

im pretty sure JESUS GONNA FIGURE SOMTHING OUT

lolololol im gonna smoke weed and spend my money on whores until the apocalypse is here!

*TROLL FACE*

[gavinjengel]

Chris doesn't mention Thorium in any of his lectures, I believe. That is an extremely important resource that no one is talking about, but should be.

[TexxasToker]

It's a shame that more people don't have the patience or even the desire to watch these videos and fully understand all the concepts. Only goes to show how ignorant we all are.

[natepepin09]

It makes me think that inflation is intended as a means of stimulating growth because it encourages spending as opposed to saving. It may be an unintended consequence, but I'm more leaning on the side that it is not.

[paragshah2112]

we pissed it all away in the name of stupid fucker capitalism.

god damn republicans. god damn you all.

chris is a genius, but he has rightly inspired me to hang myself.

at least i wont add more spawn to the gene pool.

[MacabreManifesto]

Metals will always become harder and harder to extract but a net concentration in the land will always remain, why? If metal rusts, it is returned to the soil. It would be best to assume that, in the future, we will have mined all the metal we can at rate above average concentration in the rock. If we had huge swathes of renewable energy concentrations then we might be okay, but we don't. It is best to mine all that we can without destroying the environment too excessively, and then maximize...

[MacabreManifesto]

@MacabreManifesto ...recycling.

[habib1803]

One of the best solution to this issue is what some call as renewable energy and wwe have several choices. Water and Magnetic Energy are the two most promising. But the problem with these two is that it is cheap or some say free energy. It becomes a problem not for the wolrd at large, but for the multibillion dollar energy giants and they would do anything to protect thier business and stop these tech. People who invented/discovered free energuy ended up dead (in a mysterious way).

[papawx3]

So, cut to the chase, WHATS YOUR AGENDA? A global tax? What I thought, another Gore-Soros payrolled hack, not all that differant from the traveling medicine show "Doctors".

[Joe11Blue]

@papawx3 Quit thinking like a child.

[papawx3]

@Joe11Blue Anyone who doesn't think like you is either childish or mentally ill. I am familair with your type. They are called; Extremeist.

[Joe11Blue]

@papawx3 Yeah, nice. I'm either with you or against. you. I must either be for killing innocent Afghani's or for cap and trade. Oh and everything is controlled by George Soros, rather than watching through the whole video series and understanding the role of the Federal Reserve in this whole situation.

Hey genius, how about you look at my channel. Then, would you please quit thinking like a child?

[papawx3]

@Joe11Blue Watched the entire series, and took the good with the bad. This isn't the gospel. Some of it adds up, some doesn't, like most things I guess. No, Soros doesn't control everything, but the "club" he belongs to does. I have been railing against the evils of the Fed and it's subsidiaries {military industrial complex, medical complex, etc, etc } for over 25 yrs now, MUCH longer than most. Watch the film:"Death & Taxes". It is the story of a true american patriot, Gordon Kahl. Unbelievable

[Joe11Blue]

@papawx3 Thank you for the polite reply. I've heard of Gordon Kahl, but haven't had the time to read anything about him yet. I do believe it was Lew Rockwell that had brought him up previously.

It seems the human condition is what's holding us back yet once again. There's always that minority that wants to be dictator's and think they know the best way for others to live. i say let them try. Free minds always find a way around them.

[GVasilev]

President of...?

[pismo10]

We need fusion...

[enotdetcelfer]

Great you cover uranium here.. I was wondering in a previous segment. An interesting analysis would be to take a look at space exploration as becoming an economic use of our remaining resources to start drawing resources from other planets....

[hearts0ngs]

Why do people keep breeding so incessantly? We are just like other animals, we will face a 'correction' imposed upon us by Nature, and we will deserve it!

[Standuble]

@hearts0ngs Most people don't think of the bigger picture, their home is their kingdom and their family and friends are their lives. They don't realise how having children affects things, they only realise how much their children mess their house up. Humanity is a very ignorant species.

The only reason the Western general population is even as aware as it is because its been explained to death for decades. Other places haven't had such luxuries.

[Sirbirdbill]

thank you they cloud it with globe warning which is a theory

[PowerOfTheMirror]

I agree with what you say Chris. Awareness needs to overcome the unfounded hopes of infinite growth. Some painful measures need to be taken. Birthrate should be capped to 1 or 2 per couple to prevent further population growth. iter.org has a good idea, fusion may be the energy source of the future. There are ways but awareness must come first.

[ikkinnikk]

If I knew this a couple years ago, no if I knew this when I was born. Gosh ignorance is NOT bliss. Being 21 I feel like I was born into a big mess that I have no hope but to watch go kaboom! I feel so depressed. Humans, humans, HUMANS gosh...

[managarm1349]

Thank you very much for this but i dont share your optimism. You said you wouldnt have done this course if you didnt think we as a species can change. But we wont change, impossible. Humanity never changed unless it had to, by force. The only thing that we can do, being smart enough to realise whats coming, is to prepare...

[airharm]

Good Job Chris, good fucking job, you tried your best man.

[JubJubJr123]

Thought of translating this into chinese??

[zignationer]

awesome course Chris

[professornuclearbomb]

With uranium, however, one could reprocess nuclear waste, making more fuel, or could use the uranium in nuclear warheads, degraded with depleted uranium, used in anti-tank rounds.

[areeltube]

Aaaaaa, Natural Gas? Anyone? Abundant and everywhere.

[10speech110]

Whats sad agleh, is that you havn't looked up the fact that global populations are expected to peak out in 40 years between 8-10.5 billion before declining (without the use of population control measures.)

[TheAgleh]

If we do develop a new energy source that "frees" us from the constraints of nonrenewable fossil fuels, our planet's life support system will be destroyed - by us. As you can clearly see on the comments here, very few people will accept any kind of population control. So it is hopeless. Better we face a terrible terrible socoi-economic collapse and die-off before too long. And this is not going to be anything supernatural, it will be nature doing what nature does - restoring a balance. Sad..

[st105900]

the only way i can see out of the energy crisis is if we are able to successfully harness the powers of nuclear fusion. but who knows how many years that may take :((

[GuruTurtle]

@st105900 nuclear fusion would still only supply power for homes and some commercial and industrial process, it wont do anything for planes trains and automobiles....and yes fusion on a usable and practical scale is likely decades away. Major restructuring of consumption habits and production practices along with producing alternative powered transportation and other machinery that's currently dependent on oil is one of the only ways things can otherwise stay fairly close to how they are now.

[TheAgleh]

Human do not the "right" to have children. Any more than every dog has the right to have a litter of puppies. What we have legislated for our pets, we will have to also legislate for ourselves, or our species is toast.

[GuruTurtle]

@TheAgleh Good point, however, who's going to enforce that, how and who gets to have kids? If a couple has a kid anyway "un-permitted" does a slayer come in and chop the baby up to keep population @ a permissible number? Do the rich enjoy 2 to 3 kids while the poor are allowed none? If some scientist in a lab decides your genes are inferior are you just shit out of luck? A really big concept and would likely have resistance no matter how it's termed or enforced if it's anything like current laws

[phlashba]

Don't talk to me about anything until you talk about population control. We are in massive denial about this subject.

[john5246]

This is exactly how china picked itself up by it's bootstraps and began to come out of poverty, they realized that the 1 Child policy would do this.

People MUST stop having kids right now!!!! We can't hurt our children by bringing them into a world that doesn't have resources for them.

[herbs814]

@john5246

The one child policy guarantees that China will face an INEVITABLE collapse. The productive Chinese economy will face a crushing burden of debt to Chinese banks. The coming Chinese financial crisis will dwarf anything ever seen before.

[john5246]

Yes they will, they are in a bubble, and we have a similar problem with our demographics in the USA.

But you're forgetting one factor...medical technology and the life expectancy going up. So in short, the one child policy did work, population shouldn't be controlled that way but if people are too stupid to do it on their own then sometimes you have to make it a law.

[herbs814]

@john5246

China with one child per couple will inevitably face a more serious collapse than any other nation. Children support parents in old age. China screwed their own people by denying them support in their old age. Unless there are 2 children per couple, the elderly will inevitably face a reduced quality of life. The one child policy will prove an epic disaster.

[juanleiden]

i competely agree

[herbs814]

@phlashba

Population control is tyranny.

[phlashba]

By that "logic" all laws are "tyranny". At some point somebody has to be a grown-up.

[herbs814]

@phlashba

Grown-ups have as many children as they want... and they allow others to do the same.

Population controls laws are EVIL.

[phlashba]

Who is talking about "laws"? What about "self-control"? I never said the government should mandate anything.

[lwanatt]

i try to tell so many people this, and i hear, constitution this, rights that, its fascism i say. no one grasps the gravity of this situation. I love freedom as much as the next guy, but i also like being alive. you have to pick one or the other

[ccricers]

"It is mans quest to control his own destiny through science and medicine because he cannot accept or control his own demise."

I don't need the bible to know this...what you are describing is a lot like entropy. It's based from the second law of thermodynamics.

[kurtilein3]

ccricers:

i dont think mortality follows from enthropy, its just that we are mammals, thats the problem. i have a little freshwater biotope in my room with plants / crustaceans / snails, several spcies of each.

and hydra oligactis. and those critters are immortal. they can revert themselves into juvenile stages, like reverse aging, to avoid starvation or other dangers. if you look at a juvenile stage of it, it might be centuries old, or really young, no way to tell the difference.

[MCdogma77]

Makes me not feel so bad for Goth kids.... : )

[managarm1349]

only thing that can save us is nuclear fusion, or of course something else not yet debated/discovered

[Spurgeon123]

When men place themselves in supreme authority and surmise that they control their future and are responsible for self preservation and the earth, then you'll understand why genocide and holocausts are possible and necessary in their minds. Your picture paints men into a corner where theres no other solution than to decrease populations to the preindustrial eras. Its quite an easy task for any Antichrist with global control of food and medicine. Cheer up, God is still on the throne

[Spurgeon123]

Man is not a species, man is far above any animal or life form on earth. We are made to rule over the earth and the earth itself was made for us. We however were made to be ruled by God and our duration on this planet is set in stone by the decree of His own counsel. The amount of energy and resources were calculated for a specific purpose and duration. What you are discovering is that men and their kingdoms are finite and cannot save themselves from a preordained plan and conclusion.

[nightmareofsolomon]

What proof do you have of this absurd notion?

[Spurgeon123]

Sir, There is only one source of infallible truth and thats the very Word of God which is recorded in the pages we call

"the bible" You however probably derive truth from your experiences and knowledge which to say the least has been short and limited. My information and wisdom does not originate from CBS or ABC or from Oprah and Dr Phil. I gain wisdom from the very source that created wisdom and you and me, God

[nightmareofsolomon]

Yeah, I don't get my info from them, either. So, why do you believe the stuff in the Bible?

[sandcut1]

I'm just wondering what the bible says about, peak uranium, peak oil, peak coal or any other consumable energy producing fuel.

[Spurgeon123]

The bible clearing indicates that the kingdoms of men are short lived and that the end is near. From this you can conclude that resources and sustainability are impossible because the world has always been a temporal abode for those who are eternal. It is mans quest to control his own destiny through science and medicine because he cannot accept or control his own demise. We shall all die as well as the earth but then there is our eternal abode Heaven and Hell and both are sustainable

[sandcut1]

Your not very optimistic are you, we need to harness the sun it has an abundance of power, the energy is there we just have to use it. I live in Quebec and there is a lot of hydro power here, ocean tides can produce hydro power. I think we will get through these turbulent times (wind power also). Wind turbines can be very effective. You are a pessimist.

[sandcut1]

And what does the bible say about, harnessing renewable resources as I just described. It seems the bible is not very helpful is it.

[ispeakthetruth2008]

This guy is a tool. He is NOT an investment professional, has NO experience or EXPERTISE in the financial markets, economics or anything related to investments. Noticehow he is reading from a script. hahahaha. This guy is a vulture preying on the desperation of investors, selling his "crash course" trash. Hey dude, STOP RIPPING PEOPLE OFF. YOU DID NOT PREDICT THIS MESS AND YOU HAVE NO EXPERTISE TO UNDERSTAND IT. You're a crook who obviously lost your job and now you're trying to take ppls money

[OPPI007]

you spend your time well for an optimist

[ekada77]

"Run out of energy" - are you kidding? If there's anything our world will never run out of, it's energy. There is no and will never be a "peak energy".

[talagor]

What data do you base this conclusion upon?

[kurtilein3]

ekada77:

you are making a huge claim here. you claim that something finite is actually infinite. why should we believe that?

can you back up your claim? do you realize that your claim does contradict some facts, like for example peak oil?

[DarckPL]

actually he's true. Because "infinite" Earth energy source is Sun. But practicly sun does not cover human's energy consumption.

[kurtilein3]

darckpl: you can calculate the area that you need to cover with solar panels in order to have an amount of energy production equivalent to our current fossil fuel consumption. i think its smaller than our planet, so its possible, theoretically, its just that we dont have those solar panels and we will run out of fossil fuel before we have them ;)

nuclear fusion is the way to go... will be available in 40+ years... until then... we got to muddle through somehow.

[britishjohn04]

I agree about fusion, however I wonder whether it is 40+ years away because of technological limits or because of a lack of political will amongst politicians and the special interests that control them?

[kurtilein3]

britishjohn: technological limits.

in order to get enough fusion reactions, you need to heat the fuel to at least about 100 million degrees celsius. no problem for our sun, also no problem if you use a nuclear weapon as the energy source and only want an explosion. but building a reactor that can keep the plasma at those temperatures for extended periods of time, and that is big enough so that the particles hit each other (and not the wall) often enough really is challenging.

[britishjohn04]

I guess when you put it like that, maybe it is a technological challenge. :)

[kurtilein3]

britishjohn04:

yes, but we are on our way.

read the wikipedia-article about "ITER", and then watch this: watch?v=_MoPydT_Zrg

the scientists already have a roadmap for the first fusion reactor that will produce electricity for the grid, and a name (it will be called DEMO), and are working on the design. maybe once people realize the importance of this we can speed it all up and get the first working fusion power plant sooner. im following this for over a decade now.

[phlashba]

@DarckPL

The sun is not "infinite".

[kurtilein3]

theres a mistake in the video:

we are not "mining top soil". this does not take photosynthesis into account. top soil is not being lost by taking plants from the top of the soil, the carbon in the plants did NOT come from the soil. trees do not pull wood out of the ground, they do photosynthesis.

fertilizers and pesticides change the soil, so that many important bacteria get lost, and it will be difficult to return to more green agriculture because of this. but noone mines top soil.

[Kratax]

Still erosion and desertification ruines some land even though we will be needing more for more people. Also fishes are dieing because of robbery fishing.

[kurtilein3]

very true, right now the fish on this planet is almost gone. just like with oil, fish production has peaked. while some species recover, some might be gone forever.

erosion normally starts when you remove the natural plant cover from areas, sometimes its possible to stop it by regrowing the plants that have been there before we flattened the landscape. reforestation.

[zrcattle]

Actually we are mining the top soil. As we harvest food, timber, etc... you do not return the whole plant back. We have removed something from the top soil, even if it is one apple or tree at a time. As mineral soils become weathered & subject to agricultural prod. over long periods of time, they tend to lose some of the macro & micronutrients they contained. Photosynthesis might supply the energy necessary to grow, but if the basic building blocks are not there then yields will begin to suffer.

[kurtilein3]

zrcattle:

and what do those plants consist of? what substances? what elements? its plants... so that would be mainly carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. now where does that come from? water an CO2.

the "basic building blocks" are water and air. and everything else can easily be replaced, unless its the microorganisms in the soil, they are more difficult to replace once they got poisoned by fertilizers/pesticides. then it can take up to a few years to restore the soil.

[zrcattle]

kurtilein3;

I challenge you to grow a crop without; Nitrogen, Phosphate, Potassium, Zinc, Magnesium, Iron, Copper etc... What do you think plants use for hemoglobin, ATP or lipids etc.. Plants cannot grow in a sterile enviroment without fertilizer applied. Think rock wool in a greenhouse.

We need soils that have nutrients and by removing food from the local area we are exporting nutrients. It's not as simplistic as it looks.

FYI I do crop recommendations for a living.

[zrcattle]

Total Crop Removal, lb/acre of Essential Soil Nutrients by a 150 bushel corn crop. Nitrogen 200 Phosphorous (P2O5) 85 Potassium (K2O) 200 Calcium 42 Magnesium 44 Sulfur 25 Zinc 0.15 Iron 0.10 Manganese 0.08 Boron 0.06 Copper 0.05 Molybdenum 0.03 Chlorine unknown

[kurtilein3]

if i remember correctly, nitrogen can be restored by some plants. nitrogen is present in huge quantities in our atmosphere, and some plants produce & store the required compounds.

if your numbers are correct, only phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium and sulfur might be a problem. the other ones, i mean, just look at your own numbers, thats just not a problem.

what about seperating between biological waste and other waste, processing and returning the biological waste to the fields?

[GuruTurtle]

Well, obviously composting is the way to go, however that becomes more difficult when food is grown, harvested and then shipped 1000's of miles away. Even if it's composted it gets put back into a crop or garden elsewhere. This could theoretically work if nearly everyone was pretty good @ composted and got most if not all there food from local farms that they return the compost to.

[panthy22]

thats nt true, wht about the death rate especailly in the developing world is really very high,,,

[ufewl]

Spot on. I have been woried about all this stuff not so much the debt, that's just a promise the real issue is energy - thats going to run out so fast and everythhing will collapse like a house of cards. All those exponential willl combine and it will no longer be a curve - but a brick wall!

It makes global warmng look lillke a picnic.

Imagine supermarkets were not restocked - thats wha we face!!

[dangriff12]

be good if the whole world could see this

[gaborreo]

WWIII would solve the problem u already know what wars do to the economy and profiters paying attention to the same trends. I've also watched a documentary the other day called "the esoteric agenda" exposing a plan do reduce population. Got to be open minded to understand the thesis, nevertheless.

[annkewley]

Who will have the money (energy) to maintain a war?

[666sigma]

It's far worse. Because we now have about 2.5 billion people in China and India that want to live like North Americans and Western Europeans. You can probably throw another billion from the Middle East , South America, Eastern Europe and Russia.

Our planet cannot support its current population base and current resource consumption. My guess is that it can't support more than 1-2 billion environmentally friendly humans.

[gnggg2006]

The cold fusion is the solution :)

[kurtilein3]

cold fusion would contradict the laws of nature as we know them.

its not scientific, there has been no experient in the history of humankind that would even come close to showing that colf suion could even be possible. on the other hand, all we know about the laws of nature contradicts this non-scientific idea. basically, you need to be ignorant in order to believe it. education is the antidote.

look at the stars, hot fusion is possible. that will need to do.

[lbp2007]

the reason uranium production peaked in the US is because the price is so low. as demand and the price increases, production will increase. I agree with your points on the grade though.

[neilutubename]

God bless you. I will help share this with others.

[Sibelius92]

Well done Chris!

It is not the vastness of the different challenges that worry me most - there's much we can do . . . .

It's the fact there is so little awareness (as indicated by this v important video having less than 4,000 views! I realise it is available elsewhere, but even so.

[kent6608]

Run for president, and i will vote for you.

[GVasilev]

@kent6608 President of...?

[eduardoobregon]

@kent6608 please stop giving up responsability to government for a problem that is of each and everyone of us.