Why Do We Stop Thinking?

Humanity thrives when it seeks information and overcomes challenges. So why, at the start of the second decade of the third millennium, are we not collectively rising to the looming challenges of climate change, peak oil, peak water and resource shortages?

This video is intended to provoke reaction and debate! Please leave a comment. And if you want more depth on what is hear, please watch my other videos or visit ExplainingTheFuture.com

With Best Wishes,

Christopher Barnatt.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Climate
• Change
• Copenhagen
• Peak
• Oil
• Water
• Food
• Resource
• Shortages
• Future
• Studies

[KruegerSamuel]

wow, we're fucked lol..

well ill pretty much be in my prime for 2020, so i hope the apocalypse comes a bit early, because by 2050 i wont be so useful.

and ive been thinking, so basically all education you take in school is useless since in 50 years you wont be using it?

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@KruegerSamuel Education is useful if it changes the person who receives it in a positive way. But sadly many of the things we are teaching now will not be used in 50 years time.. I teach in a business school, and what 80%+ of what is taught is based on how the world was -- how we know things do NOT work -- and is hence irrelevant. This is very worrying. We need education to get people thinking and cooperating and coming up with solutions, not preaching the ways of the present and the past.

[Rcwatson83]

man I was expecting an answer.... very disappointed!

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@Rcwatson83 But others have posted some great answers here in the comments. :-)

[luckylukhasj]

Maybe we are not equipped to solve that one.

Being one of the species that`s causing it`s own demise.

Like the algea.

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@luckylukhasj Yes, I see what you mean. Like we are locked into a destiny -- an evolutionary cycle of birth-life-death beyond our control. Deep.

[javonoUTube]

The fossil fuel companies are acquiring the alternative electricity technologies so they can pit them against each other, never becoming effective, so fossil fuels will always be the only realistic energy source apart from Nuclear. There is a metaphor in this situation, 'don't put all your eggs in one basket'.

[Nastuf]

This is true we have stopped thinking.

To many distractions. No, that is just another excuse. I have found my self not thinking not caring. Only now I find my self wondering, worrying about the future of our species as a whole. I guess we all get caught in that immediate pleasure/problem. Negativity and distractions slip in so easily. Like a car sinking in the ocean, only your will can determine the integrity of your waterborne vessel.

[Hardcoregamermarc]

Global warming is real and it is a problem that needs to be solved soon, BUT we will without doubt be able to solve this before 2100 and the world WILL NOT end in 2020!!!!!!!

[Iattacku]

im pretty sure there is going to be a new world war when resources become scarce

[RedEyedRabit]

like most people i live day to day..

[jiaoyinyang]

@ExplainingTheFuture not just any education..

the right type of education..

great videos..

honestly, I would want to see more videos, goodluck

[TheCrod103]

THIS IS WAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN! everyone has to put aside their differences! The World needs to become 1 HUGE COUNTRY. we all need to be united as 1 like NOW! and we need to start preparing for upcoming years! Everyone has to do their part. think of new inventions, and tell them to other people! Spread the word, if we are all united as one, just think of what we can achieve. SPACE TRAVEL tech will come probably in our life time if this happens. and im talking about inhabiting other planets!THUMBSUP

[stephenkurti]

The elite wants us stop thinking, they wanna do it for us! That is the core reason why kids today stop thinking after a certain age.

[ronnaneil]

I agree 100%!

The light at the end of the tunnel is an illusion. catastrophic climate change is beyond the tipping point.

We have modified our atmosphere such that, the weather that we are experiencing, will probably become more and more extreme.

Catastrophic climate change is accelerating, and is probably beyond our control.

The amount of heat trapping green greenhouse gases going into our atmosphere is increasing every year.

Like it or not we are one of the endangered species!

Human life on

[MrDanSmithJr]

this guy is catering to the uniformed....this is not factual information

[xqSoccer]

Haha come to Canada, most fresh water in the world!