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Kurzgesagt and the art of climate greenwashing

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🧾Sources:
1. World Bank, Groundswell Part 2: https://openknowledge.worldban....k.org/handle/10986/3
2. Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/energy#country-profiles
3. International Energy Agency, Methane Tracker 2021:https://www.iea.org/reports/methane-tracker-2021
4. Steven Davies: https://fee.org/articles/the-g....reat-horse-manure-cr
5. Oil price: https://markets.businessinside....r.com/commodities/oi
6. Lithium and battery prices: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium https://www.greencarcongress.c....om/2021/10/20211030-
7. EV emissions: https://www.carbonbrief.org/fa....ctcheck-how-electric
8. Norway exports: https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Norway_Pro
9. "Sustainable Systems", Donella Meadows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg
10. Hickel, Kallis. Is Green Growth Possible? https://content.csbs.utah.edu/....~mli/Economics%20700
11. Jason Hickel, "Less Is More", pg. 140-142
12. Bill Gates, the Virus and the Quest to Vaccinate the World: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/1....1/23/world/bill-gate
13. Kelemen et al., "Frontiers in climate carbon mineralization": https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/....sites/default/files/
14. Steven Pinker, "Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm9Ng0bbEQ
15. US poverty data: https://www.census.gov/content..../dam/Census/library/
16. US emissions data: https://www.c2es.org/content/u-s-emissions/
17. Jason Hickel, "Progress and its discontents"": https://newint.org/features/20....19/07/01/long-read-p
18. Shellenberger and fast fashion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZKbPgXaVVI
19. Agroecology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/....topics/agricultural-
20. 7 points: https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog..../degrowth-response-e
The Degrowth Response to Ecomodernist Manifesto: http://www.resilience.org/arti....cles/General/2015/05
21. Kurzgesagt sources: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-climate-how/
22. "What is degrowth?": https://degrowth.info/degrowth

Bad Empanada's video:
🎬No, Kurzgesagt, We WON'T Fix Climate Change https://youtu.be/0KQYNtPl7V4

Further reading:
(Difficulty: 📗bedtime reading, 📙more difficult theories or many facts, 📕near-academic level)
📗Jason Hickel, "Less Is More" (economy, philosophy)
📙Michael E. Mann "New Climate War" (science, politics)
📕Jason W. Moore (ed.), "Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism"
📗Kate Raworth, "Doughnut Economics" (economics)
🎥Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet https://www.netflix.com/pl/title/81336476

Contents:
0:00 Introduction
2:47 Humanity and unity in the Anthropocene: we don't talk about colonialism
9:08 Fewer refugees and less coal, kinda
13:09 Batteries get cheaper, so what?
14:55 The Great Horse Manure Crisis
19:40 The little country that could: Norway isn't representative
22:47 When numbers blind us: irrationality of rationality and instrumental reason
30:54 It's just the economy, stupid: green growth is fake
35:38 Decoupling, numbers, and monkey brains
43:04 We'll help the poors this time, we pinky promise: Global South
44:58 The pacifier of carbon capture
48:35 We hear you, so shut up: not really addressing criticism
50:05 New optimism and making the numbers talk
58:00 How do you do, fellow climate activists? Co-opting the climate movement
1:00:40 When civilizations go bad: cheap natures and the capitalocene
1:06:04 We'll help the poors this time, too: agricultural boogaloo
1:08:44 Ecomodernism: Those Magnificent Men and Their Green Machines
1:15:27 The part with the propaganda: we only have capitalism and degrowth sucks
1:23:54 Agreed: personal responsibility is horse emissions
1:25:46 Solarpunk: the future that is actually fresh
1:31:07 The Kurzgesagt, uh, solution
1:35:27 The man behind the curtain
1:36:48 Jobs the comet will provide: billionaire non-imagination
1:41:51 The T3 solution🇵🇱

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