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so i had to watch this video for a class in college

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well here it is, i really really hated almost every seccond of it, maybe it's just the horrible corporate and elite aura it emits, maybe it's the fact that they emit a lot of really important details i can't tell for sure.
but would you niggas be willing to take a look at it and tell me what flaws you can find in it? or just you know general thoughts
 

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That was a cringe fest. The first major issue is the more plastic than fish in the sea.
A recent claim that there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050 was intended to highlight a pollution crisis in the oceans. The problem really does exist, but do the figures hold water, or is there something fishy going on?
The prediction was made by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Economic Forum, in a report called The New Plastics Economy, which looks at the amount of plastic that ends up in the sea.
It got a lot of coverage in the press, including the Guardian, the Washington Post and the Daily Telegraph, among others.
One of the big headlines from the report was that if we continue dumping plastic in the sea at the present rate, measured by weight, there will be more plastic than fish by 2050.
This raises two questions: how do you measure the plastic, and how do you count the fish?
The report acknowledges that it is difficult to be precise. For the plastics, it refers back to a study led by Prof Jenna Jambeck of the University of Georgia, published last year. She tried to carry out a global census of plastic pollution and to estimate how much ends up in the ocean. Her study looks at estimates for total waste in all non-landlocked countries, and then estimates how much of that waste is likely to be plastic, how much of it is recycled, and so on.
But to estimate how much of this plastic then ends up in the sea, the study examines just one area - San Francisco Bay. "If that's not representative of the rest of the globe then you can see the potential for large deviations in this calculation," says Prof Callum Roberts from the University of York.
What the Ellen MacArthur Foundation report does is to take Jambeck's research, which makes predictions only up until 2025, and project it forwards to 2050.

source. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35562253

So they took a study that goes up to 2025 that's full of holes and scaled it up. The biggest offense is highlighted in red.


The next big thing that raises a eyebrow for me is "Responsible social media platforms" Social media should be treated like a virtual square meaning you should have the right to say anything you want.


And the last big thing is equality. They want quotas for women meaning people with inferior qualities will get in to positions just to have nice statistics.


And the gender gap for wages is complete crap. When you look at the figure for controlled gender pay gap with is the only one of interest (because the Uncontrolled gender pay gap have to many factors to draw any conclusions from) the difference is 2% which is almost negligible. But it gets even worse for their claim when you factor in hours worked men works on average 8.2 hours compared to 7.9 hours for women. That means if my math is correct there is a different of 3.66 % so in other words women earn more per hour.
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And as a final nail in the coffin. Why would any company hire men if they could get cheaper labor by hiring women?

sources: https://www.payscale.com/data/gender-pay-gap https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-the-average-hours-per-week-worked-in-the-us-2060631
 

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well here it is, i really really hated almost every seccond of it, maybe it's just the horrible corporate and elite aura it emits, maybe it's the fact that they emit a lot of really important details i can't tell for sure.
but would you niggas be willing to take a look at it and tell me what flaws you can find in it? or just you know general thoughts
Oh god.
I've some limited experience around film and music and it's pulling every dirty trick in the book to try and make you feel anxious over the content. I mean fuck, most of this soundtrack is a fucking dirge.
>MUST be done
Glad to hear you mandate it.
>Butchering Amazing Grace
First of all, fuck the UN for using an ostensibly Christian hymn despite actively and persistently decrying the sins of Christendom.
Second of all, the song was written by an ex-slave owner turned abolitionist at a time in his life when he was genuinely trying to work out if it was possible to forgive a man who'd done the level of absolutely evil, fucked up shit he'd been involved with in his life.
To use the song in a clip that decries all our collective sins from a place of moral superiority genuinely fucking satanic.

>"The way that we've been moving leads to nowhere and now we need to change course..."
>"...The problem is political will."
As far as I can tell, this is the primary thesis. Everything else is just examples to back up this statement.
Issue: this is committing a kind of composition fallacy (just because you can apply to one part of the discussion, means that it must also apply to everything in the discussion - so here its the idea that 'lack of political will' is the only possible cause/perpetuator of all of their highlighted problems and thus the same solution is required for all of it - let the UN do it instead)..
>Climate is fucked
>Poverty exists
>Human rights issues are still a thing
>Women's equality clusterfuck is still a thing
But they use these points to then say
>Therefore world is so badly fucked we need to rebuild everything from the ground up. And you should let us be the ones who do it.
They're coming to a conclusion way, way before they've established the the arguments as to why that would actually be necessary - "just shit's fucked, thus do as I say."

Yeah, whole video is one half-hour long exercise in emotional manipulation, which is used to distract you from the sophistry they're trying to ram down your throat.
I'd have more respect if they just lied to your face.
It's a propaganda reel.

Also quick thing to note about poverty: we're getting to the point where Africa is starting to have issues with obesity instead of issues with malnutrition (granted, really depends where you are on that continent, some places are just fucked out of lucked), but the idea that it's somehow worsening is a falsehood. The issue with food isn't that there's not enough, we actually have more than enough. The issue is distribution - it's extremely difficult to transport it to the places where it's actually needed.
 
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The "gender pay gap" has always been trash. They take the entire US jobs market separated by gender and pits them against each other, including jobs that have literally zero to one woman working in that field (and yes, there was a single woman working admin in the mining field in 2017, no I don't know how the Department of Labor got these numbers).

Kind of hard to get accurate numbers when you lump everything together, but hey I was a nice person in 2017 and ran the numbers myself. I only found CEO and management positions to have the slightest amount of "wage gap" and again its because very few women in those positions.

For the actual gap, it turns out women are making more than men in specific fields, like teaching and nursing, but not enough to offset the ridiculous amounts of money men make in oil, mining, and STEM positions.

For the rest of the video, I already know all of it is trash because these climate psychos have been using fake datasets since the 70s. The most recent was them admitting last year that they used a "yealy 300% increase of coal usage by 2020" for all their doom and gloom articles and papers during the early 2000s. This is why there's a bunch plaques and notices stating things like:

"This ice flow in this national park won't exist in 2020" with the ice flow still existing in 2020

And:

"All the beaches will be gone by 2021 because of rising sea levels" and yet beaches only eroded less than an inch globally since 2000 (might be more or less, I can't exactly remember).

I would post the BBC article from last July that had the interview with the guy that worked on the "300% increase of coal" but looks like it got purged

Scratch that it wasn't BBC, by Phys which shows that the Ocean is actually really good at processing carbon and previous models were underestimating it's potential:

I definitely still remember a BBC article interviewing

And scratch that again, found it in the discord I'm in. Got the date wrong and the percentage. It actually states a 500% increase in coal which to them was "business as usual":
More than 2,000 papers used 500% as their dataset.
 

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Also quick thing to note about poverty: we're getting to the point where Africa is starting to have issues with obesity instead of issues with malnutrition (granted, really depends where you are on that continent, some places are just fucked out of lucked), but the idea that it's somehow worsening is a falsehood. The issue with food isn't that there's not enough, we actually have more than enough. The issue is distribution - it's extremely difficult to transport it to the places where it's actually needed.

Coincidentally, I once saw a case of donated shoes that they took to Africa and because of this they ended up deteriorating the shoe market in the region and many people took advantage of this to take large quantities of shoes and resell them more expensive lol

all because people stupidly believe that everyone in Africa lives barefoot and in loincloths lol

well here it is, i really really hated almost every seccond of it, maybe it's just the horrible corporate and elite aura it emits, maybe it's the fact that they emit a lot of really important details i can't tell for sure.
but would you niggas be willing to take a look at it and tell me what flaws you can find in it? or just you know general thoughts
man that video gives cancer
It has so many things conveniently said and so many fallacies that I don't know where to start
and was it necessary to put all the presenters black ? anyway, I'm not going to go into details
I will only say that for me the United Nations is a great garbage and I do not usually trust anything they say
good promotion shit
 

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Coincidentally, I once saw a case of donated shoes that they took to Africa and because of this they ended up deteriorating the shoe market in the region and many people took advantage of this to take large quantities of shoes and resell them more expensive lol
Yeah, I remember a TED talk by a Tanzanian economist who was like "yeah, charities are killing Africa to justify their continued existence. Cut ALL of it if you want to help us."
all because people stupidly believe that everyone in Africa lives barefoot and in loincloths lol
Parts of Africa do, but these parts are also in a perpetual state of brutal civil war.
It's not that they're poor and disadvantaged, it's that some asshole with a gun took all their shit.
I don't see a charity magically fixing that either - stealing from them is oftentimes what gives the warlords the leverage to be a problem in the first place.
 
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