Europe is cooking at double speed! Are Europeans ready?

Unfortunately, it just isn't cost effective to save civilization.

North East England here. Apologies southern Europe, we seem to have all your rain. Please feel free to take it back at your earliest convenience.

The problem is that the entire global financial system absolutely demands infinite growth on a finite planet in order to 'work'...and the only possible way out (apart from the nightmare of system collapse and a mad max world) would be to make it financially worthwhile for people to share the jobs we would almost unanimously AGREE we definitely NEED to have done and work much less. It would then no longer be an infinite growth system. It would no longer demand 'growth' in order for the system to 'work' and collapse couldn't happen because we would be doing everything we NEED to do.

In Ireland farmers are looking for the government to bail them out. Cattle that were wintered in September last year are still in sheds, with farmers running out of silage to feed them. The fields are saturated and won't support the weight of machine used to cut the silage! Tillage farmer have the same problem of equipment sinking into the wet ground, prevent the sewing of crops. It's reported that it has rained somewhere in Ireland every day since last July!

I'm 68 and we have been extolling the virtues of renewables for nearly 20 years. Our house more-or-less pwoers itself and the car. We aren't affected by the skyhigh price of energy. And yet, when I talk to a lot of my peer group about solar and heatpumps etc, the usual question is "how long will it take to get my money back." They don't appear to care about the prospects for thier children and grandchildren. I just don't get it 🤔

Agri business lobbies in Ireland are scratching their domes over why rain and water saturation in soil has been so consistently bad from Sept 2023 up to April 2024. It's not like anyone was warned about a record warming Arctic bringing more precipitation wreaking havoc on tillage and livestock farms?

Lots of folks still encouraging traveling even though planes, cars, and cruise ships are horribly polluting. Food waste, meat production, and plastics use are all done without any thought. No one wants to change anything until they are starving or drowning and then they'll blame the govrnment.

When John Kerry resigned his position after COP 28 we had to know that solving the Global Warming problem was politically impossible under the current world political environment !

Our governments aren't going to do anything. It's not producing maximum value for their shareholders. We're screwed.

I about spit my coffee out laughing @ 1:38. I do appreciate you switching between existential dread and hope. However, my favorite part is the humor in your presentations. Between the terrific British accent - Yank here - and the humor, it's a great start to many a Sunday.

Never underestimate the need of an American to need someone with a funny British accent to tell them what's going on in front of their eyes, or the futility of it.

I work remotely 4 out of 5 days a week, avoiding the 60 km one-way commute to work. My small contribution to reducing the burning of fossil fuels.

I wish I could say that my country, Canada, has anything constructive to contribute to the climate crisis, but it looks like we are going in the opposite direction. Our largest oil producing province outlawed any new renewable energy projects for months, and now are limiting them based on some very dubious criteria, while oil projects can proceed as always. Several provinces have banded together to challenge the carbon tax and, along with the anticipated next federal government, will eliminate any consequences for the damage done by carbon emitters and leave the cost of climate change to the average tax-payer. We have long been among the world's worst carbon emitters on a per-capita basis, and there seems to be no change in that fact on the horizon.

I'm so sorry. I made a joke when meeting you at the everything electric show on Saturday. I said your video is the highlight of my Sunday, and the low point of my wife's. It was a terrible joke and your face told me it didn't come across as I meant it. I'm so embarrassed and sorry. She's not as into YouTube videos on the climate crisis as I am, and that is no reflection on you personally. I was just trying to make a joke by comparison, but it was bad. Your videos are incredible, thank you for making them.

My pessimism says things are so bad they can not get worse, but optimism says YES they CAN.

As an European, the short answer is a resounding NO ;(

Thanks Dave! I'm always happy when I receive notifications of a new upload. Sometimes not so happy after watching the video.

The real risk is continental famine across the globe.

By the way: if you want to see the wonders of green tech: take a look on Germany & how it runs it’s industry into the ground

Of course we are cooking at double speed in Europe. We have thousands of highly trained french Michelin star restaurant chefs.