Can you fix climate change?

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before in have we been , more advanced or . And yet we feel overwhelmed . It seems simple : greenhouse gases trap energy from and transfer it to . This leads to , . Dry places become drier, and . Countless will die while the rising oceans swallow and .
So, why don't we just like . Well, it's . The public debate about often focuses on a few key features like , or burping cows. And so the solutions are : rows of solar panels, , something something sustainability. And a huge is : how you should change your to , which we'll find out together in the next few .
This is one of those videos to watch to the end because to real doable solutions, we first need to the problem.

A fuller picture.
Modern industrial , as we constructed it in the last 150 , is inherently to the planet. , everything we do to make our lives , safer and more is making things for the biosphere. , the streets we walk on, , the gadgets we use, and the pleasant temperatures we artificially create around us.
While most people know about , beef, cars and , many major polluters are barely ever talked about. The leaking out of landfills are as significant as the of all the in the air. More CO2 is released than for all cars combined. And the emissions when making a car is equivalent to .
So, it is nice to to electric cars but they won't solve if we keep roads the same .
Fixing one small of the industrial is not enough. of the many parts needs its solution and many of them aren't straightforward.
But even when we what to do, just because a solution doesn't mean we're or willing to it. There are many in , the most one is the between rich and .