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The Carbon Cycle – WMO

Posted by Matt Beer - December 12, 2016 - Climate Destabilisation, Climate Level 1, Level 1
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This simple video explaining the carbon cycle from the World Meteorological Organization – WMO.

Why Do Banks Make So Much Money?

Posted by Matt Beer - February 10, 2013 - Communication+, Economics, Economics Level 1, Level 1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOa8U0yixgQ

It’s hard to believe but banks have the licence to print money, or rather the licence to type it into a computer screen every time some one takes out a loan. It defies common sense but stop and think about it. If an economy grows, the money supply must grow too. Someone needs to inject this new money into the system. Normally you would think it would be the government, but they only create a small fraction of new money (physical money and electronic base money). Money has to be created from nothing, that’s what creation is. The unbelievable fact is that banks are licensed to have this ability. The more unbelievable fact is that no one talks about this in all the economic debates.

If you stop and think about it, the implications are mind boggling. Banks have huge control on the direction an economy takes. They like to loan to safe investments such as property and not to risky investments such as small businesses. This is why house prices are so unaffordable. Also when they create money through a loan, they charge interest. This interest does not exist. There is a mathematical flaw in the system which means our level of debt will always get bigger. And then there are the ethical concerns. What is the moral obligation to pay back a debt of money that was created out of thin air? Why does a sovereign nation need to borrow money from banks and be charged interest when they could create this money themselves at no interest. Why do we need to bail out the banks that provide this money creation when governments could claim back this power? Why don’t governments stimulate their economy by giving money directly to it’s citizens instead of handing it to banks to lend out to it’s citizens.

I’m still wrapping my head around this but it’s clear that this is a massive story that would shift the whole “cut government spending” debate on it’s head. Ask yourself why this issue of money creation is not talked about in the mainstream media.

How It All Ends

Posted by Matt Beer - February 9, 2013 - Climate Destabilisation, Climate Level 1, Level 1
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Science teacher Greg Craven succinctly (and amusingly) explains the central ideas that I am trying to get across with climateexperiment.com, most notably the idea that the science of climate change is uncertain and just like businesses who deal with uncertainty all the time, we should use risk management to decide what course of action to take. In this context the argument for action is undeniable. The great tragedy is that the mainstream media rarely puts climate change in this context.

This is the update version of the video The Most Terrifying Video You Will Ever See that has had over 7 million views. It spawned a website, a book and a further 7 hours of video (broken into chapters).

You can probably see the influence this video has had on this site, so cheers Greg for clarifying these ideas so well (and for all the hard work).

12 year old Canadian Victoria Grant explains the Debt Crisis

Posted by Matt Beer - November 24, 2012 - Economics, Economics Level 1, Level 1
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Want to know where money comes from? Victoria here has an excellent summary of how governments have given this power to the banks.

Banking, Debt, Economics, Economy, Video

Armstrong & Miller – Climate vs Weather

Posted by Matt Beer - November 24, 2012 - Climate Destabilisation, Climate Level 1, Communication+, Just for Fun, Level 1
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Broadcast 12/12/2010 from The Armstrong & Miller show Series 2 Episode 6.

Climate Change, Climate Destabilisation, Climate Science, Hahaha - that's funny, Video

This is What Global Warming looks like

Posted by Matt Beer - October 24, 2012 - Climate Destabilisation, Climate Level 1, Level 1
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Peak Oil Wars – Post Carbon Institute

Posted by Matt Beer - September 1, 2012 - Level 1, Oil, Peak Oil, Peak Oil Level 1
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Brilliant animation.

Peak Oil

ABC Catalyst Peak Oil Report – April 2011

Posted by Matt Beer - September 5, 2011 - Energy, Level 1, Oil, Peak Oil, Peak Oil Level 1
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ABC Catalyst travels from Paris, to London, to the outer space like world that is deep sea drilling, to find out where we stand with our oil supply. Some disturbing comments from the previously tight lipped IEA.

Extra material such as transcript, videos and extended interviews is available at the ABC Catalyst website

To hear the extended interviews from the program see below.

The Crisis of Credit

Posted by Matt Beer - September 5, 2011 - Communication+, Economics, Economics Level 1, Level 1
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I love this video on so many levels. In the 11 mins I learnt more about all the financial crisis mumbo jumbo than i had with the hours of newspaper articles. And it’s so damn pretty too. My gold standard for educational videos.

300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds

Posted by Matt Beer - September 5, 2011 - Communication+, Energy, Level 1, Oil, Peak Oil, Peak Oil Level 1
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