I think our species will meet its end when the earth is destroyed because of overpopulation. So I suggest we enforce a law like the Chinese did in the late 70's, One Child Policy! This surely will keep a lid on top of demand in the future, only if other nations will enforce the same rule, which is very unlikely!
In the end I believe that all or most of our problems can be defined as overpopulation. We can do this as intelligent people or do nothing and let nature do it for us If nature does it, it will be bloody and painful. Chris has done a wonderfull piece of work here and I for one will help spread the word though I believe most people, like our polititions, don't want to hear about it. It makes them uncomfortable and nervous and moves them out of their comfort range...oh well.
@captainandthelady I have seriously thought about it and I feel I would rather live for a bit then die young than never live at all.
I think that death and killing is actually a better way to solve overpopulation than restricting birth. Those people get a chance to experience life, a chance to commit suicide if they think its right, and if they starve or are killed in resource wars, they at least got to see something of life.
They got a chance to try and live, and the fittest will survive.
@j12torts Our polititians are part of the problem and as such they don't want to here about it. If you can talk to then (and I have tried) you'll just get "the old politcial two step". I believe that your destiny is up to you and that people like Chris can show you what is wrong and maybe what to do but in the end is will be up to you. In other words, educate yourself.
Thank you for the extremely informative set of videos, there were surely the most information packed, clearly explained and well researched videos on the topic I have ever seen. Thank you for taking the time to create them and inform others.
If it all goes wrong, then know that perhaps five billion people could die. Before oil the world population was 1.5 billion, that means that five billion can only exist because of it. We are all children of oil and we will need to find a way through painful adolescence to our adulthood beyond.
If it all starts going to hell in the next few years (the slide could perhaps take decades, it did in the Roman Empire) then I hope to see you all on the other side. If not, I will die as your brother.
It seems that the bloody drag has been the exponential-debt-driven-economic system. A classic case of garbage-in-garbage-out: No system can save us if it is processing a heap of garbage! To further the mess, the political and economic professions have been perhaps the two with the stiffest 'ivory tower'; unlike down-to-earth jobs like running a small business, these two are not subject to frequent reality check and thus can screw themselves up without having to stick their necks out.
Thank you for presenting your facts objectively. I learned much from the course. There are places where I must disagree, but I appreciate your information.
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This is an excellent video detailing the greatest challenges of my generation and perhaps of all humanity. However, here are some more vital statistics that further compound these problems.
This is a great series, but I disagree with the conclusion.
There may be peak oil, peak fossil fuels, etc...but his point about money demanding exponential growth will probably parallel a chart that shows that energy consumption has also increased exponentially, regardless of where we got it from.
great talks. 2 issues which weigh as much as all the rest:
1) the "green revolution" = turning oil to food which increased many folds the production of food. for example wheat was 100 kg and now up to 1000 a dunam. not possible without oil.
2) population control is the most vital measure to be taken. otherwise nothing matters. this is a final world and so should be population. now reproduction is exponential. this will cushin greatly the crash
@klumnik ...... If you think the world is overpopulated, go to the doctor and sterilize yourself. C'mon malthusians, bring the war home! Commit suicide.
@poop890poop890 typical answer of a breeder who doesn't care about the fact that he's a murderer and not only that but he also curses the other who bring that to his knowledge. overpopulation -> (birth = murder). deal with that. btw if anyone should die it's breeders, not me - cause they are the problem. you kill me and others and laugh me in the face. sincerely hope you die. please die.
any idea how large a garden it would take to feed you, if you live in area that will support a garden and fruit trees expect some company the big curves are the food and water, and a huge fact left out is that every species moves to the resouces. I have been saying all of this for years and that was probably too late. I think we are about to find out what happens to rabbits when there arent any wolves around.
I still think energy efficiency, is a key solution. Eg use less oil, by driving smaller, lighter cars. Using electric trains, and copying Denmark, and having more people walking and cycling from place to place. It might even make us healthier. By the way, Denmark has one of the highest living standards in the world.
@KrunchyJD electric cars,trains etc arent the key where do u think electricity comes from the key is in renewable energy like hydrogen but the governments arent willing to invest in the infer-structure
@skillful89 I actually dont think cars of any form are much of an answer but I believe there will be smaller, and fewer cars. Also electric trains are far more efficient at transporting people then cars if they are well used. Bicycles are extremely efficient. My point is valid that if you look at places like Holland, and Denmark, much of the travel is undertaken via bicycle, yet they have good livingstandards. Peak oil is not all doom and gloom, IF we are smart, and I do know it is a big if.
@KrunchyJD sure trains n bicycles work great for people moving i wans't arguing against that but they aren't as practical in other fields ie moving goods like consumer products, construction materials hydrogen technology is there n proven to work without any harmful bi-product the idea of less cars on the road doesn't make sense in my head if the cars aren't doing any environmental harm???
@skillful89 You can move a suprising amount via bicycle, cargo bikes are popular in Europe, and bike trailers are available. Hydrogen needs to be created, and that process takes energy. Furthermore cars are exceedingly inefficient. To demonstrate this a very efficient car has a drivetrain that is only around 15% efficient, whereas a bicycle is between 85% and 97% effecient. Then you add the weight. Assume you have a person who weighs 80Kg, who is driving in a car that weighs 2000 Kg,
Most of the energy in this situation goes into moving the car. With a bicycle the reverse is true, most of the energy moves the rider of the bike, because the bike weighs so little compared to the rider.
Furthermore car travel creates distance and then offers itself as the solution to the problem that it created. Cars waste vast amounts of space in the city. Think about all the space that is dedicated to roads and car parks, just so people can drive into a traffic jam.
All these debts/shortfalls will be paid by printing money. It is the only way. The money does exist to be taxed or borrowed, not even close to enough. Printing is the only source, as they have already begun.That means declining value of the dollar and increasing prices of in-elastically demanded goods..
I am concerned you brushed of solar/wind energy so easily. You have made your case of peak energy, but don't you recognize solar/wind don't have this weakness? Doesn't it make solar/wind not only the best, but the must, source of energy for a sustainable future? even at 2000x the current installation?
Hydrogen may show an energy deficit using peak energy sources but a viable carrier of energy produced from solar/wind and useable in the largest oil consumer, transportation, leaving oil for goods
@Huttate1 thank you for continuing our spiral into oblivion. Rooftop photovoltaic panels are not a solution for global energy and nobody thinks it is. You, and the author of that Wikipedia article, are idiots for asserting this. A concerted effort on a massive scale to improve technology to make solar/wind more efficient will not only move us toward a sustainable, and ecologically sound, energy solution, but also create economic prosperity globally.
@wordpresswidget "Idiot". Why thank you for that ill informed judgement. I would suggest that you do some serious maths and then come back and explain how you propose to generate 5TW of energy.
The spiral will continue without me. The earth is Easter Island writ large. I would suggest that we start carving stone heads now, so that when ET does finally come visit he will know that intelligent [?] creatures did live here once upon a time but just used it up and wore it out.
@Huttate1@Huttate1 The total solar energy absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land masses is approximately 3,850,000 exajoules (EJ) per year.[6] In 2002, this was more energy in one hour than the world used in one year. Win 2,250 EJ
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There are two sides of alternative energy, production and delivery. It takes only a slight paradigm shift to see that the excess of these sources lend cost efficient (ne energy efficient) solutions. Now you do the math.
@Huttate1 just to help you with the math a little, if we harnessed 0.5% (yes one half of one percent) of the energy available from the sun we would generate 35 times the energy we used in 2005 every year.
If we could harness cow's farts we would all live in nirvana. You are living in cloud cuckoo land. You need to grasp reality. Look to the past to see the future. You are busy burning carbon just reading this message. The only way to survive is to switch off at the mains and get everyone you know to do the same, and then everyone they know, and then march on town hall. But you won't because you are human.
@Huttate1 wow, you are a lost cause. Your vapid defeatism is appalling. For the sake of us all go crawl in a cave like you suggest. Otherwise shut up because the uniformed may believe your caustic spew.
@wordpresswidget What an ignorant uneducated pillock you are! This guy is getting rich from peddling information that is obvious to anyone who can be bothered to do a little research.
The simple fact is that the west is facing an immediate threat as great as anything during the cold war, and tilting at windmills [or indeed building a few thousand] will do nothing to prevent it.
If you thing burning oil to post facile points is the best way forward then it is you who are deluded.
@wordpresswidget, solar and wind are 2 good alternatives. They can't be made into products but that is why they are sustainable energies since they don't rely on a resource. Of course you have to use some materials to make the devices but that's resources well used. The most intelligent choice would be to exploit the excess amount of energy the sun uses and other natural forces but the dumbs aren't seeing this.
@TheChineseEmpire One thing that is not discussed is using wind/solar to create hydrogen or store heat in molten salts, both of which are much easier to transport from remote areas than direct electricity.
And certainly if we can go from 0 to a man on the moon in a decade we can develop technologies to efficiently store and transport the energy from remote areas giving us a virtually unlimited world supply. Just think of all the desert in Africa and the U.S. alone.
@wordpresswidget, there's no doubt there are more technologies in these areas to be discovered. There is too much reliance on crude oil or anything that burns per say. Unfortunately the people that influence our policies also control oil. Even hemp can be turned into oil. While I'm not a pot smoker I can't see why hemp isn't more utilized as an alternative to many products including building materials. I know it is utilized in some countries but not in the US, the highest crude consumer.
When a population exceeds the environment that sustains it, it will surely fail!
A+ Except for one little thing which happens to be the elephant in the living room, namely, OVERPOPULATION! Any one who does not get that there are far too many of us is, well, not to be insulting, not aware.
Just a small personal pet peeve...it's "Eat our cake and have it too". Anyone who's GOT cake is going to eat it...that's what it's for. It's eating the cake and somehow still having it that's the real trick...and it's exactly the trick the system has pulled. Just thought I'd put that out there. Perhaps it would be more apt to say instead, "Spend our money and have it too" Sounds a lot more relevant that way too.
his retirement demographic short fall is solved by increased imigration from 2nd and 3rd world countries.his inflation is solved by an increasing population (deflation)...his oil shortage is solved by using renewable energy that has massive untapped potential and nano technology (for plastic). hydro electric dams, geothermal, tidal etc (wind/solar are shit). plus minerals like copper and iron dont get depleted there elements! recycle. so chill out. he dosn't have a geo education 4 a reason..
@0pocketpenis0 Wrong, none of it is solved until the culture changes because as long as the culture of people continues the route we are on now we are screwed. But eventually I hope people wake up to this reality instead of being brainwashed by Jersey Shore and other useless shows that serve no purpose. Also I'm not sure what you are talking about with copper and iron not being able to be depleted. The last time I recall, we still aren't capable of changing elements from one element to another.
Stop crying, we're not screwed, share this with the people you know. Sit down with them, plead with them to watch it. Start with your family first and tell them to pay it forward and make three other people watch it!
@Unit1iDirty we are screwed. People are not prepared for whats about to happen. Dollar crisis, food shortages. For the last 40 years we have been living a lie through inflation and easy credit. We are way past any real remedies. No politicians or greedy pensioners are going to step up. How many days of food storage do you have? How much silver or gold ? and @ De4sher.. it took 10 years to get the Euro going. People will go hungry and postal while our inept politicians try to fix it.
We haven't been "living a lie", we've been living it up! What happened for the past 50 years was people enjoying all the energy and resources we found rather than carefully saving it for long-term use. That's just how people are. There was no "lie", just hedonism. Now it is getting used up and the future will suffer by comparison and deal with the wake...
We are the mold and the planet is the sandwich. Our destructive nature is a genetic certainty even if only as a byproduct of our survival...just like mold on a sandwich. Great videos, Chris...but I believe our fate is sealed.
@Botronresearch dude, don't despair. monetary systems can be reinvented in 1 year. i know this because in my country we had 1000% inflation.
bacteria can produce oil. technologic development as how to make those bacteria work, also follow an exponential trend. they have already produced oil out of bacteria, and there's no reason to think it's over here.
now of course, if we don't get off the planet in 2 billion years, we're fried, but until then, and until the oil runs out, there's hope.
@De4sher In all due respect, the inputs alone into making those bacteria produce oil don't justify its inclusion in this discussion. Not only does a resource have to provide energy, it also must provide a positive net energy. Also, look at demand. Can oil produced by bacteria really contribute by 2015 when we are near peak? Also, how come the people who are obsessed with finding a solution to this problem aren't even talking about your alternative?
@seansean1129 dunno why they aren't talking about my solution. maybe it's because we don't have the technology yet, whereas we do have all the others.
i saw a piece of news that some departament in the US spent 120 million dollars this autumn to invest in an institute that's supposed to be doing exactly that: artificial photosynthesis.
i say it's the best shot we've got to continue living as we currently do.
if you build a hydroelectric dam there's nothing stopping you from building another one 10 miles down stream...and then another one...and then another..and all this energy is free, once the dams have been built. Geo-thermal, you can drill massive amounts of bore holes over 100's of kilometres if not thousands that are heated by the mantle...thats free....wind/solar is a bit shit, but tidal can be massive as well..p.s scientists can now form new ELEMENTS!.. there's your growth potential..!
your retirement demographic short fall is solved by increased immigration from 2nd and 3rd world countries that have a very different population demographic profile....your inflation is solved by an increasing population...your oil shortage is solved by using renewable energy that has massive untapped potential and nano technology (for plastic). hydro electric dams, geothermal, tidal etc. plus minerals like copper and iron dont get depleted there elements...so all you need to do is recycle them.
Oh I surppose they(those behind the FED) could store up alot of gold, get rid of the dollar and bring in a new currency based on a new gold stadard?
Hay what happened to the gold under the two towers? that would do for a start would it not? Last spotted being shiped out the day before they all came down ! Ummmm
I watch the whole series. I agree with everything... except the final conclusion. You left out two important possibility. One... which is the most likely one... as resources get scarce, people do what they have always done... they go to war and reduce the number of people using those resources. You have Russia, China, India and Pakistan bumping elbows and heavily armed. They have a lot of expendable people who have not been schooled in "humanitarianism".
@tsafa1 - Option Two... Einstein's theories allow for the possibility of worm holes. I can only assume that is the reason why they invest billions into building 5 mile particle accelerators. Its not just out of curiosity to find out what happens when you smash atoms at high speeds... It is a given that we need to get off this planet before we all kill each other. Bending time and space is the only way to travel in style.
people should watch all of this series because it gives you a lot of the information you need to know about what is really happening. why the economy crashed... why it will crash again, and an unflattering warts and all look at how fiat economies work. the only conclusion that can be drawn from all this is that we are on the brink of collapse, and we are not equipped to deal with it. the credit crunch was negligible compared to the inevtable crash thats coming, an exponential recession
Even the feeblest scientific mind must realize, the dramatic and sudden changes needed, will not come voluntarily...
No democratic Government on the Planet has the stomach, or the ability to force the changes... like Lemons, we will all run headlong into oblivion.
World leaders have discussed this scenario for decades... But they are all frozen with fear, because they dread the consequences, when they looked the Specter in the face.
It's fair to say Gentlemen... We Are Definitely Screwed.
Once energy surplus goes byebye having 1% of the population creating food for the other 99% wont work will it...As it is now noonw knows how to fucking plant crops and harvest. I for my part am preparing for some major clusterfuck in the to happen in the next 5,10 maybe 20 years
Weren't not screwed. We always have the choice to live simpler life styles. Start growing your own garden. Give something back to the earth, plant a fruit tree. Buy a bike for transportation. Stop wasting resources. Better technology is not the answer. The universe already provides the best technology for everyone to thrive on, which is the natural use of the sun, soil, and water to grow all the plants, and food we need to live happily, intelligently, and peacefully.
@nateburnett Problem with that is US has made so many enemies already that if she reverts to a "simpler life" she will be attacked by the people who she hurt in the past. US needs to reform first her foreign policy and make peace and amends with all her enemies. But I doubt of the powers-that-be, the oil-military-finance industrialists will even accept this change of lifestyle. You will need a bloody revolution for that! Either way, you're screwed.
@nateburnett so you haven't heard about Monsanto or codex alimentarius. You don't know about the law being passed to prevent people from growing gardens.
This the most preposterous, foolish comment I've read, and it has received the most OKs.
Nateburnett is saying this in a Computer , in a global Internet, while sitting on a comfortable chair, under a roof with AC, electricity, running water at home etc Enjoying all the benefits of technology!!
The problem is NOT technology, it's PEOPLE who misuse it. Nature is actually cruel when we strip all technology use from our lives. Try to live with NO TOOLS, NOT EVEN A CHAIR!!
Who is saying we are going to survive this? If the world is put under this much stress, wars over the last resources WILL be fought and might end in nuclear war. This is the same reasons why nuclear war occurred in the FALLOUT games, and they make sense.
The most obvious solution (but least likely) is a mass shift to renewable energy and shift to electric vehicles and manufacturing. It is possible, but very unlikely.
Thank you for these videos, I greatly enjoyed them.
My only comment is that behaps you underestimate nuclear power. Building 750 plants is expensive, but that does not need to be done all at once. Uranium contains a lot of energy, so the low concentration of ore is not so big a problem.
this presentation was by far the most balanced ... and logical view of the present situation ... very optimistic .. non fear mongering ... i ll ask all my friends to view this!
@bighorn2004 its on the website ... i just saw it ... i first thought that he would ask me to pay to view it ... but its for free ... so go to the site and watch it ...
WE NEED TO STOP USING MONEY!!! COOPERATION NOT COMPETITION IS THE KEY TO THE FUTURE!!
sry for the caps ^^ but think about this... how much are we wasting OUR lovely earths resources just to keep this monetary system working... to get profit regardless of consequences.
search Peter Joseph's vimeo profile and watch his lectures. (author of Zeitgeist documentary's)
you are really faced with two options... both of them require killing. You can either create a large commune where a well armed and fortified group of people create and defend your own resources, or you can be a group of well armed "gatherers" who go out into the night and "collect what is needed" by blood. Either way it involves more paintball sessions and more weapons and ammunition- now. Funny to think that our forefathers fought and died... so we could end up doing the same, for less...?!
All proposed solutions that are not grounded in the Ultimate Solution are at best Band-Aid relief. Relief from the symptoms of The Problem. But not the cure as is the Ultimate Solution.
with this landscape i guess there will be a war where the target will be people, common people in order to do a deep depopulation, and that will represent plenty of time to develop new sources of energy, i believe that there's no other way..overpop is undenyable
This guy is completely wrong!! America is #1, and always will be. There's plenty of oil, and besides, our dear leaders have our best interests in mind. :-)
wow open your eye's, your leaders are stupid, why print money, and devalue it. America is not as good as before, learn that, or your schools don't schools teach the things that the government tells, they don't want to show the real facts. Some democracy. Don't reply with something stupid.
Crash Course + Crossing The Rubicon + The Money Masters = WE ARE TOTALLY FUCKED. I'm building my survival pack right now, I predict December 22nd 2013, will be the beginning. Why? It's the 100 year anniversary of the Federal Reserve. Get ready for hyperinflation when your money can't buy you shit.
He says we are facing a predicament not a problem. His analogy for problem vs predicament is, hanging off a cliff is a problem and having already jumped off a cliff is a predicament.
He then goes on at great length through these videos as to how are we are going to solve the predicament we face, ie what plans do we have for when our bodys hit the ground at 130 miles per hour.???
what does he propose we do as we fall through the air to certain death? pay increased taxes? curb our lifestyles? cut our co2 emissions?reduce the population?????? what ??? hmmmm
How is a predicament and a problem not the same thing? They are the same. I'm not trying to ridicule you, but if you could define the difference, I would like to know.
Hey, the US is not unaware of the severity of the situation and is taken drastic measures against it right now. Because you're now worse off than the rest of the world - you built your entire infrastructure on the oil you have been swimming in. You do invest very heavily in a plan, too: The plan is extraction of resources by military power. Why else build up hundreds of military bases all over the world?
Still, your future is brighter than most - after you have restructured your way of living totally. All that good soil is what brough Europeans over there a hundred and fifty years ago. And it's still mostly in place. Good luck with solar powered farming!
@ossilation buy seeds, hard to get vitamins. Learn about the land, health and food. And that sort of things if it goes further out of hand... I guess it wont xD
But ye silver and gold will be profitible in the long run.
The problem is that if any political candidate of either party states that the situation is grim and either tough choices or tough times lie ahead, he can't possibly be elected. He's allowed to say bad things have already happened and thus you should elect me to fix the mistakes of the past, but never may he say that trouble lies in wait.
Damn, how can we let people support a system they do not even understand or teach about? I guess it's one of those disadvantages of a complex society...but the energy-economy connection is a high-level description, and high-level stuff should be explained to everyone.
@cds162 Some wise people living 2000 years ago foresaw the downfall of the Roman civilization. Now Chris has seen the downfall of the current civilization. We will be gone just like the ancient world is gone . We just have to accept the fact the humanity dies just like individuals die.
@T0B0KKE and you saw that in my post?? 39 people agreed with me.. so what does that say about you?
we are in trouble rather then reply with childish remarks.. add something that shows you are awear of whats going on.. and want to do something about it..
@cds162 I do want to do something about it. Hell, I even going to sell my fucking house so I detach myself to the bank that borrowed the money for it. But it is not with doomsaying and fatalist arguments that you are going to convince people that we are screwed. People still don't believe in global warming, let alone the end of the monetary system as we know it. People are, in fact, NOT AWARE of the situation, and ... face it, they won't ever be as long the media is controlled by you know who.
@cds162 I agree, the likelihood we can reverse, or even stop, the problem at this point of the exponential progression is IMO nil. That's why the action I choose to take is the push for a global policy of surviving the likely impact of a catastrophic climate shift.
Gov't interventionism has provided incentives that skew what would normally be the reasonable courses of action to take with one's finances. Instead one is offered various tax breaks [i.e: social engineering] if one supports or buy certain things. [E.g, owning a home as opposed to renting, being "green" etc..]
The real scarce resource is not oil, it's human ingenuity.
wealth have been transfered to China. America needs to open up its borders to mass Chinese immigration like Vancouver, and it will recover its housing prices.
i wonder if thats not the whole retirement plan, since there isnt enough youth with highpaying jobs... the retirees will have noone else to sell the stocks, bonds and houses to... except the chinese... and i suspect this to be the basis for the need for entitlement and massive immigration aswell.
the alternative trick would be genocide, followed by a collective armed tyranny enforcing eugenics and zero population growth. Having to constantly prove your continued worth, or be destroyed.
Further, Newton was the father of physics, much more than you credited him for, and it would have been interesting to draw a parallel between such a profoundly intelligent man back then, whose attention was directed at religion, theology, alchemy, and science - investing in this Tulip fiasco, a noble, eyes off his money. I disagree he wanted the ability to comprehend the fallacy, but that his attention was comfortably distracted. Much like the decisions of many smart baby boomers lately.
Chris, please accept my humble apologies for any insolence I offered you in haste earlier. You are an immensely achieved and benevolent man - that much is clear from your efforts here. My only critique of this is minimal - 98% fantastic. I could only improve it by suggesting you collaborate with a National Defense expert, and removing the murky half-truths about warfare earlier in the course.
i see criminal activity will be higher than many countries, so ditching green card and migrating back to home country. Sure living standard still higher than most nation but too stresful to stay for too long. A lot of social dysfunctions in this nation.
Good video. As I always say; facing the worst possible scenario is the first step to dealing with it. Also, we would do well to note that a decline in the standard of living, is not necessarily a decline in the quality of life.
I have made arangments to have my ssi check mailed to me. So when you are working in the goo log to pay for my check, I will be drinking veno and eating the best home baked bread with the best cheese in the world. Thank you and arividerci. viva la vida
Im moving to Italy. I contacted my reletives and they live in a small village. Have water food and no cares they ride donkeys. I guess all things come full circle. My Grandfather and Mother came here for a better life. Because of there hard work I am going back to there village to retire. I hope you survive the race riots food riots and prison camps.
ISN;T future shock what ppl. suffer while technology grows faster than our bodies can evolve though our minds can keep up our bodies are still for want of the schedule of up w/the sun and down w/it? i learned of this is phychology which no mention of monies was mentioned just the ever fast pace of growing technology.
aha, but after fishing through some data from the UN geological survey, the population growth rate is down by 1% from 2.2 to 1.2, sadly this smoothes out the curve by a percentage, but hey, its a start i suppose, but note how this is only occuring in the developed world, in retrospect, were lucky that china has a one child policy, but alas, the economy runs on growth, so these nations are actually making a loss in some cases, seems we need a 1600's style dutch monetary system size change
humans and more importantly , governments, only act after the fact. Especially when it comes to situations that will cost most politicians to lose their next election. the rich will use this new economic storm to buy up whats left of our natural resources or commodities and the world will once again return to serfdom !! or not....
Alexander72186, base on what do you know he is going to save you? Is it blind faith? So far, what has he done that is saving you? AIG kept going back for more money. GM is sure to go bankrupt after all the billions they received. Castro is laughing at his superficiality. Hugo Chavez says he is an ignoramus. He claimed credit for rescuing Captain Phillips when in fact he was holding up the Seals to do their job. Think, my friend!
I am grateful to this teacher for producing this wonderful program to help prepare us for what is going to surely happen. As he said: Don't confuse technologies with an energy source. (doofus)
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Wow, Chicken Little... this is all good and well but you are looking at all of these current events through the lens of the past. There are many emergent technologies in energy and other concepts that are growing daily that you do not even address in this series. Do we really need more fear?
perhaps you would like to share these technologies and other concepts with the rest of us? I'm curious what these things might be that convince you that "chicken little" and "fear" mongering attacks are appropriate. Thanks
there are no known subsitutions for oil today that will not require a great investment in the infrastructure of production and distribution. You are the one who need to "do you're research"!
This video contains more truth than any other I've seen here. It's certainly sad though that it hasn't reached more people.
TWSceptic 2 days ago
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I think our species will meet its end when the earth is destroyed because of overpopulation. So I suggest we enforce a law like the Chinese did in the late 70's, One Child Policy! This surely will keep a lid on top of demand in the future, only if other nations will enforce the same rule, which is very unlikely!
justbroadcast 3 months ago
i will quote one of the most prolific poets of our time for this subject,
Young Jeezy
"ITS GOING DOOOOOOOOWN"
sidework1 3 months ago
In the end I believe that all or most of our problems can be defined as overpopulation. We can do this as intelligent people or do nothing and let nature do it for us If nature does it, it will be bloody and painful. Chris has done a wonderfull piece of work here and I for one will help spread the word though I believe most people, like our polititions, don't want to hear about it. It makes them uncomfortable and nervous and moves them out of their comfort range...oh well.
captainandthelady 5 months ago
@captainandthelady I have seriously thought about it and I feel I would rather live for a bit then die young than never live at all.
I think that death and killing is actually a better way to solve overpopulation than restricting birth. Those people get a chance to experience life, a chance to commit suicide if they think its right, and if they starve or are killed in resource wars, they at least got to see something of life.
They got a chance to try and live, and the fittest will survive.
candistyx 3 days ago
Thank you, Chris!
gio4fun 5 months ago
why cant u show this videos to the politicians in white house!?
j12torts 6 months ago
@j12torts Our polititians are part of the problem and as such they don't want to here about it. If you can talk to then (and I have tried) you'll just get "the old politcial two step". I believe that your destiny is up to you and that people like Chris can show you what is wrong and maybe what to do but in the end is will be up to you. In other words, educate yourself.
captainandthelady 5 months ago
To further learn on this issue please check, Damon Vrabel's RENAISSANCE 2.0 in YouTube and watch all the lessons.
Also check his series DEBUNKING MONEY. Write it on YouTube search. Download them into your computer (they have been taken out before)
etniks69 6 months ago
Thank you for the extremely informative set of videos, there were surely the most information packed, clearly explained and well researched videos on the topic I have ever seen. Thank you for taking the time to create them and inform others.
vincentvandervaere 6 months ago
thank god we have the zeitgeist movement working to fix all this
Ztimes22 6 months ago
If it all goes wrong, then know that perhaps five billion people could die. Before oil the world population was 1.5 billion, that means that five billion can only exist because of it. We are all children of oil and we will need to find a way through painful adolescence to our adulthood beyond.
If it all starts going to hell in the next few years (the slide could perhaps take decades, it did in the Roman Empire) then I hope to see you all on the other side. If not, I will die as your brother.
Standuble 7 months ago
It seems that the bloody drag has been the exponential-debt-driven-economic system. A classic case of garbage-in-garbage-out: No system can save us if it is processing a heap of garbage! To further the mess, the political and economic professions have been perhaps the two with the stiffest 'ivory tower'; unlike down-to-earth jobs like running a small business, these two are not subject to frequent reality check and thus can screw themselves up without having to stick their necks out.
Waterflux 7 months ago
We can have our cake, eat it, and then borrow more when it's gone. That made me laugh.
natepepin09 8 months ago
Thank you for presenting your facts objectively. I learned much from the course. There are places where I must disagree, but I appreciate your information.
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tomeucap 8 months ago
This is an excellent video detailing the greatest challenges of my generation and perhaps of all humanity. However, here are some more vital statistics that further compound these problems.
Justin Bieber music video = 525,000,000 views
The crash course = 117,698 views
Buddha213 9 months ago 22
@Buddha213 haha...we are also suffering intellectual inflation, most use of our intellect is for stupid stuff...junk info
AAAjMMMiRRR 2 months ago
This is a great series, but I disagree with the conclusion.
There may be peak oil, peak fossil fuels, etc...but his point about money demanding exponential growth will probably parallel a chart that shows that energy consumption has also increased exponentially, regardless of where we got it from.
wrichcirw 9 months ago
great talks. 2 issues which weigh as much as all the rest:
1) the "green revolution" = turning oil to food which increased many folds the production of food. for example wheat was 100 kg and now up to 1000 a dunam. not possible without oil.
2) population control is the most vital measure to be taken. otherwise nothing matters. this is a final world and so should be population. now reproduction is exponential. this will cushin greatly the crash
i wonder why a word hasn't been said about this.
klumnik 9 months ago
@klumnik ...... If you think the world is overpopulated, go to the doctor and sterilize yourself. C'mon malthusians, bring the war home! Commit suicide.
poop890poop890 1 month ago
@poop890poop890 typical answer of a breeder who doesn't care about the fact that he's a murderer and not only that but he also curses the other who bring that to his knowledge. overpopulation -> (birth = murder). deal with that. btw if anyone should die it's breeders, not me - cause they are the problem. you kill me and others and laugh me in the face. sincerely hope you die. please die.
klumnik 1 month ago
any idea how large a garden it would take to feed you, if you live in area that will support a garden and fruit trees expect some company the big curves are the food and water, and a huge fact left out is that every species moves to the resouces. I have been saying all of this for years and that was probably too late. I think we are about to find out what happens to rabbits when there arent any wolves around.
steve852011 9 months ago
Money nowadays is just paper with some drawings printed on it .
T0B0KKE 11 months ago
I still think energy efficiency, is a key solution. Eg use less oil, by driving smaller, lighter cars. Using electric trains, and copying Denmark, and having more people walking and cycling from place to place. It might even make us healthier. By the way, Denmark has one of the highest living standards in the world.
KrunchyJD 11 months ago
@KrunchyJD electric cars,trains etc arent the key where do u think electricity comes from the key is in renewable energy like hydrogen but the governments arent willing to invest in the infer-structure
skillful89 10 months ago
@skillful89 I actually dont think cars of any form are much of an answer but I believe there will be smaller, and fewer cars. Also electric trains are far more efficient at transporting people then cars if they are well used. Bicycles are extremely efficient. My point is valid that if you look at places like Holland, and Denmark, much of the travel is undertaken via bicycle, yet they have good livingstandards. Peak oil is not all doom and gloom, IF we are smart, and I do know it is a big if.
KrunchyJD 10 months ago
@KrunchyJD sure trains n bicycles work great for people moving i wans't arguing against that but they aren't as practical in other fields ie moving goods like consumer products, construction materials hydrogen technology is there n proven to work without any harmful bi-product the idea of less cars on the road doesn't make sense in my head if the cars aren't doing any environmental harm???
skillful89 10 months ago
@skillful89 You can move a suprising amount via bicycle, cargo bikes are popular in Europe, and bike trailers are available. Hydrogen needs to be created, and that process takes energy. Furthermore cars are exceedingly inefficient. To demonstrate this a very efficient car has a drivetrain that is only around 15% efficient, whereas a bicycle is between 85% and 97% effecient. Then you add the weight. Assume you have a person who weighs 80Kg, who is driving in a car that weighs 2000 Kg,
KrunchyJD 10 months ago
@KrunchyJD cont..
Most of the energy in this situation goes into moving the car. With a bicycle the reverse is true, most of the energy moves the rider of the bike, because the bike weighs so little compared to the rider.
Furthermore car travel creates distance and then offers itself as the solution to the problem that it created. Cars waste vast amounts of space in the city. Think about all the space that is dedicated to roads and car parks, just so people can drive into a traffic jam.
KrunchyJD 10 months ago
All these debts/shortfalls will be paid by printing money. It is the only way. The money does exist to be taxed or borrowed, not even close to enough. Printing is the only source, as they have already begun.That means declining value of the dollar and increasing prices of in-elastically demanded goods..
pismo10 11 months ago
I am concerned you brushed of solar/wind energy so easily. You have made your case of peak energy, but don't you recognize solar/wind don't have this weakness? Doesn't it make solar/wind not only the best, but the must, source of energy for a sustainable future? even at 2000x the current installation?
Hydrogen may show an energy deficit using peak energy sources but a viable carrier of energy produced from solar/wind and useable in the largest oil consumer, transportation, leaving oil for goods
wordpresswidget 11 months ago
@wordpresswidget Renewable energy will not replace oil - see "a cubic mile of oil".
Huttate1 11 months ago
@Huttate1 thank you for continuing our spiral into oblivion. Rooftop photovoltaic panels are not a solution for global energy and nobody thinks it is. You, and the author of that Wikipedia article, are idiots for asserting this. A concerted effort on a massive scale to improve technology to make solar/wind more efficient will not only move us toward a sustainable, and ecologically sound, energy solution, but also create economic prosperity globally.
Stop spreading your ignorant/evil drivel.
wordpresswidget 11 months ago
@wordpresswidget "Idiot". Why thank you for that ill informed judgement. I would suggest that you do some serious maths and then come back and explain how you propose to generate 5TW of energy.
The spiral will continue without me. The earth is Easter Island writ large. I would suggest that we start carving stone heads now, so that when ET does finally come visit he will know that intelligent [?] creatures did live here once upon a time but just used it up and wore it out.
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wordpresswidget 11 months ago
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There are two sides of alternative energy, production and delivery. It takes only a slight paradigm shift to see that the excess of these sources lend cost efficient (ne energy efficient) solutions. Now you do the math.
wordpresswidget 11 months ago
@Huttate1 just to help you with the math a little, if we harnessed 0.5% (yes one half of one percent) of the energy available from the sun we would generate 35 times the energy we used in 2005 every year.
wordpresswidget 11 months ago
@wordpresswidget and...what?
If we could harness cow's farts we would all live in nirvana. You are living in cloud cuckoo land. You need to grasp reality. Look to the past to see the future. You are busy burning carbon just reading this message. The only way to survive is to switch off at the mains and get everyone you know to do the same, and then everyone they know, and then march on town hall. But you won't because you are human.
Huttate1 11 months ago
@Huttate1 wow, you are a lost cause. Your vapid defeatism is appalling. For the sake of us all go crawl in a cave like you suggest. Otherwise shut up because the uniformed may believe your caustic spew.
wordpresswidget 11 months ago
@wordpresswidget What an ignorant uneducated pillock you are! This guy is getting rich from peddling information that is obvious to anyone who can be bothered to do a little research.
The simple fact is that the west is facing an immediate threat as great as anything during the cold war, and tilting at windmills [or indeed building a few thousand] will do nothing to prevent it.
If you thing burning oil to post facile points is the best way forward then it is you who are deluded.
Huttate1 11 months ago
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@Huttate1, It wouldn't if nobody tried.
"Renewable energy will not replace oil - see "a cubic mile of oil"
TheChineseEmpire 11 months ago
@wordpresswidget, solar and wind are 2 good alternatives. They can't be made into products but that is why they are sustainable energies since they don't rely on a resource. Of course you have to use some materials to make the devices but that's resources well used. The most intelligent choice would be to exploit the excess amount of energy the sun uses and other natural forces but the dumbs aren't seeing this.
TheChineseEmpire 11 months ago
@TheChineseEmpire One thing that is not discussed is using wind/solar to create hydrogen or store heat in molten salts, both of which are much easier to transport from remote areas than direct electricity.
And certainly if we can go from 0 to a man on the moon in a decade we can develop technologies to efficiently store and transport the energy from remote areas giving us a virtually unlimited world supply. Just think of all the desert in Africa and the U.S. alone.
wordpresswidget 11 months ago
@wordpresswidget, there's no doubt there are more technologies in these areas to be discovered. There is too much reliance on crude oil or anything that burns per say. Unfortunately the people that influence our policies also control oil. Even hemp can be turned into oil. While I'm not a pot smoker I can't see why hemp isn't more utilized as an alternative to many products including building materials. I know it is utilized in some countries but not in the US, the highest crude consumer.
TheChineseEmpire 11 months ago
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thiwaggenerkfu 1 year ago
This might be tougher to digest than chapter 17....
MsPeakOil 1 year ago
When a population exceeds the environment that sustains it, it will surely fail!
A+ Except for one little thing which happens to be the elephant in the living room, namely, OVERPOPULATION! Any one who does not get that there are far too many of us is, well, not to be insulting, not aware.
ehswan 1 year ago
Just a small personal pet peeve...it's "Eat our cake and have it too". Anyone who's GOT cake is going to eat it...that's what it's for. It's eating the cake and somehow still having it that's the real trick...and it's exactly the trick the system has pulled. Just thought I'd put that out there. Perhaps it would be more apt to say instead, "Spend our money and have it too" Sounds a lot more relevant that way too.
OriginalTharios 1 year ago
Finally I'm now going to learn what to do weeeeeeeeeeee. I've been asking myself this question at the end of every video.
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tiblon1 1 year ago
tax the boomers !!!! problem solved !!!
quadcatfly 1 year ago
where is chapter 20???
prikard 1 year ago
his retirement demographic short fall is solved by increased imigration from 2nd and 3rd world countries.his inflation is solved by an increasing population (deflation)...his oil shortage is solved by using renewable energy that has massive untapped potential and nano technology (for plastic). hydro electric dams, geothermal, tidal etc (wind/solar are shit). plus minerals like copper and iron dont get depleted there elements! recycle. so chill out. he dosn't have a geo education 4 a reason..
0pocketpenis0 1 year ago
@0pocketpenis0 Wrong, none of it is solved until the culture changes because as long as the culture of people continues the route we are on now we are screwed. But eventually I hope people wake up to this reality instead of being brainwashed by Jersey Shore and other useless shows that serve no purpose. Also I'm not sure what you are talking about with copper and iron not being able to be depleted. The last time I recall, we still aren't capable of changing elements from one element to another.
addiktion13 1 year ago
Stop crying, we're not screwed, share this with the people you know. Sit down with them, plead with them to watch it. Start with your family first and tell them to pay it forward and make three other people watch it!
Unit1iDirty 1 year ago
@Unit1iDirty we are screwed. People are not prepared for whats about to happen. Dollar crisis, food shortages. For the last 40 years we have been living a lie through inflation and easy credit. We are way past any real remedies. No politicians or greedy pensioners are going to step up. How many days of food storage do you have? How much silver or gold ? and @ De4sher.. it took 10 years to get the Euro going. People will go hungry and postal while our inept politicians try to fix it.
alex94115 1 year ago
@alex94115
We haven't been "living a lie", we've been living it up! What happened for the past 50 years was people enjoying all the energy and resources we found rather than carefully saving it for long-term use. That's just how people are. There was no "lie", just hedonism. Now it is getting used up and the future will suffer by comparison and deal with the wake...
nphony 1 year ago
We are the mold and the planet is the sandwich. Our destructive nature is a genetic certainty even if only as a byproduct of our survival...just like mold on a sandwich. Great videos, Chris...but I believe our fate is sealed.
Botronresearch 1 year ago
@Botronresearch youre making me hungry
0pocketpenis0 1 year ago
@Botronresearch dude, don't despair. monetary systems can be reinvented in 1 year. i know this because in my country we had 1000% inflation.
bacteria can produce oil. technologic development as how to make those bacteria work, also follow an exponential trend. they have already produced oil out of bacteria, and there's no reason to think it's over here.
now of course, if we don't get off the planet in 2 billion years, we're fried, but until then, and until the oil runs out, there's hope.
De4sher 1 year ago
@De4sher In all due respect, the inputs alone into making those bacteria produce oil don't justify its inclusion in this discussion. Not only does a resource have to provide energy, it also must provide a positive net energy. Also, look at demand. Can oil produced by bacteria really contribute by 2015 when we are near peak? Also, how come the people who are obsessed with finding a solution to this problem aren't even talking about your alternative?
seansean1129 1 year ago
@seansean1129 dunno why they aren't talking about my solution. maybe it's because we don't have the technology yet, whereas we do have all the others.
i saw a piece of news that some departament in the US spent 120 million dollars this autumn to invest in an institute that's supposed to be doing exactly that: artificial photosynthesis.
i say it's the best shot we've got to continue living as we currently do.
De4sher 1 year ago
if you build a hydroelectric dam there's nothing stopping you from building another one 10 miles down stream...and then another one...and then another..and all this energy is free, once the dams have been built. Geo-thermal, you can drill massive amounts of bore holes over 100's of kilometres if not thousands that are heated by the mantle...thats free....wind/solar is a bit shit, but tidal can be massive as well..p.s scientists can now form new ELEMENTS!.. there's your growth potential..!
0pocketpenis0 1 year ago
your retirement demographic short fall is solved by increased immigration from 2nd and 3rd world countries that have a very different population demographic profile....your inflation is solved by an increasing population...your oil shortage is solved by using renewable energy that has massive untapped potential and nano technology (for plastic). hydro electric dams, geothermal, tidal etc. plus minerals like copper and iron dont get depleted there elements...so all you need to do is recycle them.
0pocketpenis0 1 year ago
Oh I surppose they(those behind the FED) could store up alot of gold, get rid of the dollar and bring in a new currency based on a new gold stadard?
Hay what happened to the gold under the two towers? that would do for a start would it not? Last spotted being shiped out the day before they all came down ! Ummmm
Jesusizjdoe 1 year ago
2 conclusions
One:- those in control:- will need to get rid of a few people, those at the older end (bird flew perhaps...ect..)
Two:- a new saurce of energy needs to be discovered or at least the know how to harness the energy that we allready no about
But to do it in far more efficiant way!
In the mean time move to EIGG (yes with an "I")
Jesusizjdoe 1 year ago
its game over
benjiheads 1 year ago
thanks river.
Kroenen117 1 year ago
I watch the whole series. I agree with everything... except the final conclusion. You left out two important possibility. One... which is the most likely one... as resources get scarce, people do what they have always done... they go to war and reduce the number of people using those resources. You have Russia, China, India and Pakistan bumping elbows and heavily armed. They have a lot of expendable people who have not been schooled in "humanitarianism".
tsafa1 1 year ago
@tsafa1 - Option Two... Einstein's theories allow for the possibility of worm holes. I can only assume that is the reason why they invest billions into building 5 mile particle accelerators. Its not just out of curiosity to find out what happens when you smash atoms at high speeds... It is a given that we need to get off this planet before we all kill each other. Bending time and space is the only way to travel in style.
tsafa1 1 year ago
where is the last part?
Kroenen117 1 year ago
@Kroenen117
it's on the chrismartenson web page
KillikRiver 1 year ago
were is chapter 20????
syprix 1 year ago
@syprix it's on the chrismartenson web page
KillikRiver 1 year ago
we need to start exploring other worlds. outer-space here i come :)
syprix 1 year ago
people should watch all of this series because it gives you a lot of the information you need to know about what is really happening. why the economy crashed... why it will crash again, and an unflattering warts and all look at how fiat economies work. the only conclusion that can be drawn from all this is that we are on the brink of collapse, and we are not equipped to deal with it. the credit crunch was negligible compared to the inevtable crash thats coming, an exponential recession
lucasleivia 1 year ago
Even the feeblest scientific mind must realize, the dramatic and sudden changes needed, will not come voluntarily...
No democratic Government on the Planet has the stomach, or the ability to force the changes... like Lemons, we will all run headlong into oblivion.
World leaders have discussed this scenario for decades... But they are all frozen with fear, because they dread the consequences, when they looked the Specter in the face.
It's fair to say Gentlemen... We Are Definitely Screwed.
phoenix11994466 1 year ago
Once energy surplus goes byebye having 1% of the population creating food for the other 99% wont work will it...As it is now noonw knows how to fucking plant crops and harvest. I for my part am preparing for some major clusterfuck in the to happen in the next 5,10 maybe 20 years
managarm1349 1 year ago
We're not screwed gentlemen...
We are FUCKED.
airharm 1 year ago
@cds162 we are not "screwed"
consider that there are many informed, educated people who feel hope for the future.
google transition towns for instance
materialistic consumerist existence will change and thats good i feel
but life can go on
work at building your immediate community to be resilient to these shocks
take this information and use it to prepare yourself and your community, with the emphasis on community,
since when have governments been in touch with whats best for us anyway?
KxEx 1 year ago
where is the last chapter?
boipinoi604 1 year ago
Weren't not screwed. We always have the choice to live simpler life styles. Start growing your own garden. Give something back to the earth, plant a fruit tree. Buy a bike for transportation. Stop wasting resources. Better technology is not the answer. The universe already provides the best technology for everyone to thrive on, which is the natural use of the sun, soil, and water to grow all the plants, and food we need to live happily, intelligently, and peacefully.
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AccordGTR 1 year ago
@nateburnett Problem with that is US has made so many enemies already that if she reverts to a "simpler life" she will be attacked by the people who she hurt in the past. US needs to reform first her foreign policy and make peace and amends with all her enemies. But I doubt of the powers-that-be, the oil-military-finance industrialists will even accept this change of lifestyle. You will need a bloody revolution for that! Either way, you're screwed.
AccordGTR 1 year ago
@nateburnett so you haven't heard about Monsanto or codex alimentarius. You don't know about the law being passed to prevent people from growing gardens.
katards 1 year ago
@nateburnett Yeah, start your own garden. Tell that to the lady who could land in jail for 92 days for having a garden in her front yard!
puttincomputers 6 months ago
@nateburnett
This the most preposterous, foolish comment I've read, and it has received the most OKs.
Nateburnett is saying this in a Computer , in a global Internet, while sitting on a comfortable chair, under a roof with AC, electricity, running water at home etc Enjoying all the benefits of technology!!
The problem is NOT technology, it's PEOPLE who misuse it. Nature is actually cruel when we strip all technology use from our lives. Try to live with NO TOOLS, NOT EVEN A CHAIR!!
etniks69 6 months ago
wow, fantastic work on these videos chris martenson. highly appreciated,
ZorgDK 1 year ago
Who is saying we are going to survive this? If the world is put under this much stress, wars over the last resources WILL be fought and might end in nuclear war. This is the same reasons why nuclear war occurred in the FALLOUT games, and they make sense.
professornuclearbomb 1 year ago
There is a solution called Technocracy.
Gmantis14 1 year ago
There is a huge amount of uranium in nuclear bombs and nobody want this shit ! Convert to electricity !
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trancerobot 1 year ago
there is no chapter 20 - because there is no solution to these problems
GoDrex 1 year ago
@GoDrex That's exactly what I was thinking - CHRIS! Where has chapter 20 gone?
Appenet 1 year ago
if you're a boomer you better keep working until you die - or kill yourself immediately upon retiring hahahaha
"fuck these boomers, fuck these yuppies - and fuck everyone, now that I think of it." - George Carlin
GoDrex 1 year ago
The most obvious solution (but least likely) is a mass shift to renewable energy and shift to electric vehicles and manufacturing. It is possible, but very unlikely.
MrTh1rteen 1 year ago
Thank you for these videos, I greatly enjoyed them.
My only comment is that behaps you underestimate nuclear power. Building 750 plants is expensive, but that does not need to be done all at once. Uranium contains a lot of energy, so the low concentration of ore is not so big a problem.
That and electric cars might be the future.
Miklus023 1 year ago
this presentation was by far the most balanced ... and logical view of the present situation ... very optimistic .. non fear mongering ... i ll ask all my friends to view this!
mintoo2cool 1 year ago
no chapter 20!?
bighorn2004 1 year ago
@bighorn2004 its on the website ... i just saw it ... i first thought that he would ask me to pay to view it ... but its for free ... so go to the site and watch it ...
mintoo2cool 1 year ago
Guys solutions are on the table, check out thevenusproject com
Netherborn 1 year ago
tooo late, sorry but too late, also it is able from a scientific point of view but not from a social point of view...
we are just going to return to the 1000 AC that is all, it´s not that bad.
elmaxidelsur 1 year ago
WE NEED TO STOP USING MONEY!!! COOPERATION NOT COMPETITION IS THE KEY TO THE FUTURE!!
sry for the caps ^^ but think about this... how much are we wasting OUR lovely earths resources just to keep this monetary system working... to get profit regardless of consequences.
search Peter Joseph's vimeo profile and watch his lectures. (author of Zeitgeist documentary's)
tonn333 1 year ago 4
you are really faced with two options... both of them require killing. You can either create a large commune where a well armed and fortified group of people create and defend your own resources, or you can be a group of well armed "gatherers" who go out into the night and "collect what is needed" by blood. Either way it involves more paintball sessions and more weapons and ammunition- now. Funny to think that our forefathers fought and died... so we could end up doing the same, for less...?!
MCdogma77 1 year ago
I will go medieval on you ass!!!, that is the future... well it´s not that bad
elmaxidelsur 1 year ago
All proposed solutions that are not grounded in the Ultimate Solution are at best Band-Aid relief. Relief from the symptoms of The Problem. But not the cure as is the Ultimate Solution.
zonsb 1 year ago
At the end of all of these videos, I have just one final question: We're screwed aren't we?
Psychosmurf547 1 year ago 33
@Psychosmurf547 Yas we are
jasenAngelov 1 year ago
with this landscape i guess there will be a war where the target will be people, common people in order to do a deep depopulation, and that will represent plenty of time to develop new sources of energy, i believe that there's no other way..overpop is undenyable
juanleiden 2 years ago
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This guy is completely wrong!! America is #1, and always will be. There's plenty of oil, and besides, our dear leaders have our best interests in mind. :-)
ryanluvsthesamples 2 years ago
@ryanluvsthesamples Tell me in what way america is number 1? Creating dept. Averegly americans have no savings but dept.
The inport export is in the minus. So theres only money leaving the country.
slash3rr 2 years ago
wow open your eye's, your leaders are stupid, why print money, and devalue it. America is not as good as before, learn that, or your schools don't schools teach the things that the government tells, they don't want to show the real facts. Some democracy. Don't reply with something stupid.
alexvasilenko14 2 years ago
I'd rather be prepared and wrong, then unprepared and right.
kikrlbs 2 years ago 3
Crash Course + Crossing The Rubicon + The Money Masters = WE ARE TOTALLY FUCKED. I'm building my survival pack right now, I predict December 22nd 2013, will be the beginning. Why? It's the 100 year anniversary of the Federal Reserve. Get ready for hyperinflation when your money can't buy you shit.
kikrlbs 2 years ago 2
Great vids but theres a breakdown in his logic.
He says we are facing a predicament not a problem. His analogy for problem vs predicament is, hanging off a cliff is a problem and having already jumped off a cliff is a predicament.
He then goes on at great length through these videos as to how are we are going to solve the predicament we face, ie what plans do we have for when our bodys hit the ground at 130 miles per hour.???
MotaMouse 2 years ago
what does he propose we do as we fall through the air to certain death? pay increased taxes? curb our lifestyles? cut our co2 emissions?reduce the population?????? what ??? hmmmm
MotaMouse 2 years ago
Mota, suppose just for the sake for argument, that what you just stated is what is actually necessary to fix the coming problems. It must be done.
jimbobubbadj 2 years ago
That is point. He is not saying we are facing a coming problem. he is saying we are in a unsolveable prediciment.
If we are in a prediciment there is no solution, according to him .
MotaMouse 2 years ago
How is a predicament and a problem not the same thing? They are the same. I'm not trying to ridicule you, but if you could define the difference, I would like to know.
kikrlbs 2 years ago
If you need to ask that questionI think you need to watch and listen to futureshock carefully. No offence.
MotaMouse 2 years ago
Hey, the US is not unaware of the severity of the situation and is taken drastic measures against it right now. Because you're now worse off than the rest of the world - you built your entire infrastructure on the oil you have been swimming in. You do invest very heavily in a plan, too: The plan is extraction of resources by military power. Why else build up hundreds of military bases all over the world?
GuleGardiner 2 years ago 2
@GuleGardiner
Still, your future is brighter than most - after you have restructured your way of living totally. All that good soil is what brough Europeans over there a hundred and fifty years ago. And it's still mostly in place. Good luck with solar powered farming!
GuleGardiner 2 years ago
Take all the credit you can and buy silver or gold.
ossilation 2 years ago 4
@ossilation buy seeds, hard to get vitamins. Learn about the land, health and food. And that sort of things if it goes further out of hand... I guess it wont xD
But ye silver and gold will be profitible in the long run.
slash3rr 2 years ago
take your vaccines and diminish (die)
fast Mass depopulation = ( bought time)
someone will release a man made Virus ...... are we awake or are we scared enough?
LastReplaySC 2 years ago
The problem is that if any political candidate of either party states that the situation is grim and either tough choices or tough times lie ahead, he can't possibly be elected. He's allowed to say bad things have already happened and thus you should elect me to fix the mistakes of the past, but never may he say that trouble lies in wait.
holzpusher 2 years ago 3
Those are the only candidates I've ever voted for.
Piscivorus 2 years ago 2
20-30 WOW u sure this country will even exist or just fade away back like when the first Euros came to setup in jamestown, it was harsh.
Enlightenedtruth777 2 years ago
Damn, how can we let people support a system they do not even understand or teach about? I guess it's one of those disadvantages of a complex society...but the energy-economy connection is a high-level description, and high-level stuff should be explained to everyone.
ccricers 2 years ago
we are so screwed..
there is no way we are going to "fix" this
20 to 30 years from now, our kids/grandkids are going to live very differently then we do today..
thefact is we are seeing it take place even today
people this is NOT an obama thing.. just as it was NOT a bush thing..
our leaders are out of touch with these issues. and refuse to deal with them...
good luck to all of you
cds162 2 years ago 41
@cds162 we are not "screwed"
consider that there are many informed, educated people who feel hope for the future.
google transition towns for instance
materialistic consumerist existence will change and thats good i feel
but life can go on
work at building your immediate community to be resilient to these shocks
take this information and use it to prepare yourself and your community, with the emphasis on community,
since when have governments been in touch with whats best for us anyway?
KxEx 1 year ago
@cds162 Some wise people living 2000 years ago foresaw the downfall of the Roman civilization. Now Chris has seen the downfall of the current civilization. We will be gone just like the ancient world is gone . We just have to accept the fact the humanity dies just like individuals die.
Adamalgorithm 1 year ago
@cds162 You just committed suicide?
T0B0KKE 1 year ago
@T0B0KKE and you saw that in my post?? 39 people agreed with me.. so what does that say about you?
we are in trouble rather then reply with childish remarks.. add something that shows you are awear of whats going on.. and want to do something about it..
cds162 1 year ago
@cds162 I do want to do something about it. Hell, I even going to sell my fucking house so I detach myself to the bank that borrowed the money for it. But it is not with doomsaying and fatalist arguments that you are going to convince people that we are screwed. People still don't believe in global warming, let alone the end of the monetary system as we know it. People are, in fact, NOT AWARE of the situation, and ... face it, they won't ever be as long the media is controlled by you know who.
T0B0KKE 1 year ago
@cds162 I agree, the likelihood we can reverse, or even stop, the problem at this point of the exponential progression is IMO nil. That's why the action I choose to take is the push for a global policy of surviving the likely impact of a catastrophic climate shift.
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WORLD WAR 3... obamageddon
i99xx 2 years ago
Gov't interventionism has provided incentives that skew what would normally be the reasonable courses of action to take with one's finances. Instead one is offered various tax breaks [i.e: social engineering] if one supports or buy certain things. [E.g, owning a home as opposed to renting, being "green" etc..]
The real scarce resource is not oil, it's human ingenuity.
Radeo 2 years ago
wealth have been transfered to China. America needs to open up its borders to mass Chinese immigration like Vancouver, and it will recover its housing prices.
mrzack888 2 years ago
i wonder if thats not the whole retirement plan, since there isnt enough youth with highpaying jobs... the retirees will have noone else to sell the stocks, bonds and houses to... except the chinese... and i suspect this to be the basis for the need for entitlement and massive immigration aswell.
the alternative trick would be genocide, followed by a collective armed tyranny enforcing eugenics and zero population growth. Having to constantly prove your continued worth, or be destroyed.
nelemak 2 years ago
NWO is diabolical.
mrzack888 2 years ago
20 is here chrismartenson. com /crashcourse /chapter-20-what-should-i-do
But i dont think this offers a solution or alternitive to the current system.
Have a look at the Zeitgeist Movement for one alternitive.
itsfreeandeasy123456 2 years ago
so uhhh wheres 20
sysopkc 2 years ago
Further, Newton was the father of physics, much more than you credited him for, and it would have been interesting to draw a parallel between such a profoundly intelligent man back then, whose attention was directed at religion, theology, alchemy, and science - investing in this Tulip fiasco, a noble, eyes off his money. I disagree he wanted the ability to comprehend the fallacy, but that his attention was comfortably distracted. Much like the decisions of many smart baby boomers lately.
dcmantommy 2 years ago
Chris, please accept my humble apologies for any insolence I offered you in haste earlier. You are an immensely achieved and benevolent man - that much is clear from your efforts here. My only critique of this is minimal - 98% fantastic. I could only improve it by suggesting you collaborate with a National Defense expert, and removing the murky half-truths about warfare earlier in the course.
dcmantommy 2 years ago
i see criminal activity will be higher than many countries, so ditching green card and migrating back to home country. Sure living standard still higher than most nation but too stresful to stay for too long. A lot of social dysfunctions in this nation.
symmetry08 2 years ago
Thanks for this eye opening presentation.
bramas4 2 years ago
Good video. As I always say; facing the worst possible scenario is the first step to dealing with it. Also, we would do well to note that a decline in the standard of living, is not necessarily a decline in the quality of life.
bramas4 2 years ago 3
There is a chance that pensions and ssi will vanish, prepare to barter and protect your own family.
Ubookz 2 years ago
I have made arangments to have my ssi check mailed to me. So when you are working in the goo log to pay for my check, I will be drinking veno and eating the best home baked bread with the best cheese in the world. Thank you and arividerci. viva la vida
golfprobro4eagles 2 years ago
Im moving to Italy. I contacted my reletives and they live in a small village. Have water food and no cares they ride donkeys. I guess all things come full circle. My Grandfather and Mother came here for a better life. Because of there hard work I am going back to there village to retire. I hope you survive the race riots food riots and prison camps.
golfprobro4eagles 2 years ago
The best video I've ever seen on Youtube.
aslomski 2 years ago
current government solutions: more debt, more entitlements, more inflation, and..... windmills
ryeb00 2 years ago
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ImTheRiffRaff 2 years ago
ISN;T future shock what ppl. suffer while technology grows faster than our bodies can evolve though our minds can keep up our bodies are still for want of the schedule of up w/the sun and down w/it? i learned of this is phychology which no mention of monies was mentioned just the ever fast pace of growing technology.
mountain19 2 years ago
Wishful thinking I'd argue.
EmeraldAxe2 2 years ago
aha, but after fishing through some data from the UN geological survey, the population growth rate is down by 1% from 2.2 to 1.2, sadly this smoothes out the curve by a percentage, but hey, its a start i suppose, but note how this is only occuring in the developed world, in retrospect, were lucky that china has a one child policy, but alas, the economy runs on growth, so these nations are actually making a loss in some cases, seems we need a 1600's style dutch monetary system size change
meninagorda 2 years ago
At 1%, the population doubles in 70 years (6 to 12 billion). You STILL don't understand the exponential function.
EmeraldAxe2 2 years ago
oh wait, the rich already own everything!
inthebluescrossroad 2 years ago
humans and more importantly , governments, only act after the fact. Especially when it comes to situations that will cost most politicians to lose their next election. the rich will use this new economic storm to buy up whats left of our natural resources or commodities and the world will once again return to serfdom !! or not....
inthebluescrossroad 2 years ago
Oh gosh im so happy we have Obama... I know he is going to save us! He'll think of something!
Alexander72186 2 years ago
funny lol, hes the new jesus
inthebluescrossroad 2 years ago
Alexander72186, base on what do you know he is going to save you? Is it blind faith? So far, what has he done that is saving you? AIG kept going back for more money. GM is sure to go bankrupt after all the billions they received. Castro is laughing at his superficiality. Hugo Chavez says he is an ignoramus. He claimed credit for rescuing Captain Phillips when in fact he was holding up the Seals to do their job. Think, my friend!
limey36 2 years ago
LoL im going to hope and assume your joking because the alternative is me cussing you out for bieng a fucking idiot
Jordan22473 2 years ago
I am grateful to this teacher for producing this wonderful program to help prepare us for what is going to surely happen. As he said: Don't confuse technologies with an energy source. (doofus)
khunbill1 2 years ago 3
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Wow, Chicken Little... this is all good and well but you are looking at all of these current events through the lens of the past. There are many emergent technologies in energy and other concepts that are growing daily that you do not even address in this series. Do we really need more fear?
nybe 2 years ago
perhaps you would like to share these technologies and other concepts with the rest of us? I'm curious what these things might be that convince you that "chicken little" and "fear" mongering attacks are appropriate. Thanks
hamyncheese 2 years ago 3
do you're research.
nybe 2 years ago
there are no known subsitutions for oil today that will not require a great investment in the infrastructure of production and distribution. You are the one who need to "do you're research"!
snakecharmer133 2 years ago 4