Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot

https://youtu.be/-S14SjemfAg



Conservation International
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There is a natural solution to the climate breakdown: protecting forests. Climate activist Greta Thunberg and writer and climate activist George Monbiot explain.

Learn more at www.conservation.org/naturenow

This independent film was made possible with support from Conservation International, Gower St., The Food and Land Use Coalition and guidance from Nature4Climate and Natural Climate Solutions.

Narrated by Greta Thunberg & George Monboit

Directed by Tom Mustill
Producer: Andrea Walji
DOP & Offline Editor: Fergus Dingle
Sound Recordist: Ewan Dryburgh
Motion Graphics: Páraic Mc Gloughlin
Sound Designer & Audio Post: Tom Martin for Mcasso
Online Editor & Picture Post: Bram De Jonghe for Special Treats Productions
NCS Guidance: Charlotte Latimer
Music: Rone - "Motion" with kind permission of the artist InFiné & Warner Chappell Music

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The Crazy Scale of Human Carbon Emissions

Current data (from direct measurements of the atmosphere to historical records of industry) tells us that between 1751 and 1987 fossil fuels put about 737 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Between just 1987 and 2014 it was about the same mass: 743 billion tons. Total CO2 from industrialized humans in the past 263 years: 1,480 billion tons.
Now, let's relate that to something a bit easier to visualize. A coniferous forest fire can release about 4.81 tons of carbon per acre. At the low end, about 80% of that carbon comes out as CO2.
In other words, to release an equivalent CO2 mass to the past 263 years of human activity would require about 1.5 billion acres of forest to burn every year during that time.
That's 6 million square kilometres of burning forest every year for more than two centuries.
Except that is for an average output, spread across 263 years.
Estimates of today's CO2 production go as high as about 40+ billion tons per year. That'd take something like 10 Billion acres of forest burning each year, which is about 42 million square kilometres.
The entire continent of Africa is a mere 30 million square kilometres. So AFRICA plus another third, on fire, each year...every year.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-crazy-scale-of-human-carbon-emission/