Channel: Our Changing Climate

Category: Education

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Description: America will never be a climate leader, explained. Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: patreon.com/OurChangingClimate In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I explain why America will never be a climate leader. Specifically, I look at how the United States has spent over 40 years attempting to pass climate legislation and take climate action but because of partisan gridlock and the firm hold fossil fuel companies and the capitalist class have on the government, nothing substantial has gotten done. As a result, the emissions levels of the United States are much higher than in the 1980s. But the United States not only has failed on climate change and climate leadership domestically but also internationally. The United States continues to block climate agendas that foreground climate reparations, and through its massive military pollutes the air and destabilizes regions especially susceptible to climate change. The United States will never be a climate leader because it is a huge obstacle to effective climate justice and climate action. Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: patreon.com/OurChangingClimate Email List: ourchangingclimateocc.substack.com Twitter: twitter.com/OurClimateNow Facebook: facebook.com/occvideos Instagram: instagram.com/occ.climate Reddit: reddit.com/r/OurChangingClimate Check out other Climate YouTubers: Climate in Colour: youtube.com/channel/UC8Wp9EmfpV7EUSrSJAonxzw zentouro: youtube.com/user/zentouro Climate Adam: youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam Kurtis Baute: youtube.com/channel/UCTRM8LE1g6UXrVZKwgw5oEA Levi Hildebrand: youtube.com/user/The100LH Simon Clark: youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys Sarah Karver: youtube.com/channel/UCRwMkTu8sCwOOD6_7QYrZnw Sweet Soul Whisper ASMR: youtube.com/channel/UCkWMO64iyRbXQCq5fT4BlBw ClimateTown: youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA Jack Harries: youtube.com/user/JacksGap Beckisphere: youtube.com/channel/UCT39HQq5eDKonaUV8ujiBCQ All About Climate: youtube.com/channel/UCs0uXl-w0672ni8pS3UDXsQ Aime Maggie: youtube.com/channel/UCpIcLW8YOY1kL_6J0TzDBGA Just Have a Think: youtube.com/channel/UCRBwLPbXGsI2cJe9W1zfSjQ Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:56 - A Brief History of US Climate Failures 3:55 - How the US Continues To Fail On Climate 6:39 - How the US Exports Its Failures Abroad 8:26 - How We Make Change 10:10 - Support OCC on Patreon I use Epidemic Sound for some of my music: epidemicsound.com/creator Some video clips supplied by Getty Images _______________________ Resources and Further Reading: fascinated-soccer-ac0.notion.site/American-Climate-Leader-37083284497a49e99129d91f9b0d6d0d #Imperialism #ClimateChange #UnitedStates