THE VIDEO SHELF · carbon debt and climate
Tom Chi: How to Address our Carbon Debt to Heal the Planet
Tom Chi gives the opening talk of a Foresight Institute competition on clean energy and clean air, framing excess CO2 as a carbon debt to repay and discussing large-scale tree planting, including by drone.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters call it a fantastic talk and cite it in climate threads for the carbon debt framing and tree-planting cost estimates.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Foresight Institute
- Topic
- carbon debt and climate
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Related: GoogleX co-founder Tom Chi gave a fantastic talk on carbon debt (with a rather depressing 238 views at the moment; I hope more people watch...): [VIDEO]
mehrdadn on Hacker News · 2019-06
In The toll climate change is taking on oceansAgreed, this is an excellent talk. Main takeaway is to view the problem as debt which has to be paid off. Simply stopping new purchases will not pay off the debt. Above point summarized here, timestamp 22:15 - [VIDEO] We currently have a one trillion …
symplee on Hacker News · 2019-06
In The toll climate change is taking on oceans
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