 Hello, I'm Aristide from Metabolos No Cities and in this video we will discuss why our climate crisis is perhaps a material crisis. So we're right in the middle of a climate crisis. You've heard it everywhere, you've seen a number of strikes, you've seen a number of documentaries, you've seen a number of IPCC reports, you know, already probably everything about it. What I want to say here is that perhaps with the climate crisis we're thinking about the symptoms and not about the cause. Why am I saying that materials are perhaps at the root of the problem and more important than the climate crisis is because most of the greenhouse gas emissions that we generate are because one way or another we produce, we manufacture, we move around materials. This is true for food but it's also true for construction materials, it's also true for electronics, it's true for most of what we have in order to function as a society. But what we put forward are the climatic consequences of it, which is greenhouse gas emissions, which is global warming or climate change in general because it's not always global warming. So we see these consequences and we want to treat these and the main responses and solutions are well perhaps let's take energy, which is consumption of energy is perhaps one of the biggest responsible factors for greenhouse gas emissions and let's make it more green. So instead of having coal powered plants, let's have them natural gas or even better renewable energy. But what you don't think about it is that well all of these solutions require more materials or more energy. So to create a solar panel you require a number of materials that we will probably end up not having at the end of it. So that means that even if we get our energy more green, at the end we won't have enough materials to make our economies more green. And this means that of course what we have to do is to reduce our consumption overall of energy of all of the things that create greenhouse gas emissions. But we still have to think that or at least for me the main pressure point here is resource depletion. Because if we don't have resources then we won't allow the possibility to create solutions in order to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. So the lesson here is not really saying let's stop striking, of course not. This is a great movement and this is where we should be going. However try to always link problems together because there are not many people who are striking against miners in Chile that are extracting copper for instance. Or all of the precious metals that we need for solar panels or for wind turbines. All of that requires precious materials that we might not get. And there are people behind it that are actually extracting these materials. Yet we don't strike as much for that cause rather than climate change. So what I'm saying here is that try to always think that challenges are linked, interlinked, interwoven. And we need to prepare for solutions that can cover them all. So yes it's great to switch to a bike instead of a car but perhaps reducing your consumption every day, becoming vegetarian. A number of other things are also as important if not more important for mitigating our greenhouse gas emissions. I invite you to go have a look at the IRP work. So the International Resource Panel who is trying to combine these efforts of greenhouse gas emissions or carbon footprint and material footprint. I'll also link some studies in the description. I hope you're gonna also put some comments about your thoughts and about potential solutions that you want to propose. And I'll see you in the next video. Cheers!