What If We Painted Earth White?
What If We Painted Earth White?
Imagine a white picket fence around a white house, with a white driveway and a white car. And it’s not just your house that’s white. It’s also the road, sidewalks, and every single building. It looks boring and sterile, but it could be the future. And it could help save our world. How much paint would you need? Why would your electricity bill be lower? Why would white paint fight climate change?
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Actually painting 1% of the earth white would be enough to reverse climate change. Painting the whole planet white (if that were possible), we’d condemn the planet into a horrible ice age
420 years until climate change is irreversible
Now lets turn everything black steel and metal and then go outside on a hot summer day in Mali while wearing a perfect black 3 feet thick jacket with full black fur all in it
well me using a jet black iphone 7 plus is not helping me then :/
American liberals would get offended
Why not black
POV:Racists took over the world.
Why? … Just, just why?
That why my house is white, white is best
Just paint the roof
What If It gets dirty
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4:39 “Now the downsides of white paint”
_Aw shit, here we go again 🙄_
How about we plant plants on roof? This can help to reduce heat.
If we’d painted everything white, we could also mess with local winds (rising and incoming). That could result in way more damaging climate change than expected.
Racism xD
its racist
Stop climate change
1:03 i Found Thai Clip
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A creamy planet 💀😭🤨😩
Usual climate alarmism. In the Cambrian, the Earth was 10C hotter and 3.2% CO". Life carried on. We had two Snowball earths. Life carried on. we had 5 previous mass Extinctions. Yet we’re here as a consequence. Weve had at least 3 cataclysmic meteor strikes big enough to wipe out the dinosaurs. Yet life persists . The truth of the matter is earth and species adapt. Species come , species go. Ecological niches are created, species evolve to fill them. Itas how Darwinian evolution works. Ecological niches vanish, and so does the species that have evolved to fill them,. Earth doesn’t care about the temperature or the CO2 levels. Life adapts, thats why we still have life on this planet. 10C hotter and 5% CO2 wont make a blind bit of difference to the Earth, life evolves to fit in. You are being scammed.
the entire world goes caucasian. yeah cool idea
Where do you find these movie clips?
Carbon dioxide is a nutrients plants absolutely love it that is a fact and there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way not including bushes and grass or plankton.
Climate change is BS 🖕🏻
Why does the intro of this video remind me of an old song name "i’m blue" by Eiffel 65? XD
And yes i know that this what if video is somewhat old and i respond a little late. 🙂
I still think that’s a good idea.
Trees:are you sure about that?
Quick answer, painting things white reflects heat off the earth… so in reality painting everything White or even just roofs would help a lot.. however it would be very dangerous to fly and you’d need sunglasses all the time.
Right off the bat there’s a problem….. the extinction of other species is happening now it’s not even waiting for climate change.
It’s happening because of greed and growth because of economy because of capitalism because of corporate power over govt Because of corruption. And because we will not hold those in power accountable or ourselves.
Stop using corporations as much as possible, grow as much of your own food as you can.
buy second hand, Think about the foot print you leave behind.
Being human has nothing to do with economy, money……Stop being complaint to power.
Do not accept the digital id the vaccine the pass. And in so doing you become free.
They are controlling you with fear, find your voice, We have the power not them.
Painting the world white sounds like people deciding the go light mode after reading the entire boble
I just love this channel for every reason ❤️😊
(Black people) BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!
(White People) What if we paint the world white?
Paint earth BLUE my favorite color
Are you saying 0.07 degrees lower compared to 7 degrees higher in 2300 if we don’t paint anything white? 0.07 degrees lower with no context sound ridiculous low.
Boring planet and blinding everyone. Car crashes increase…. they’ve been screaming climate change for years. Meanwhile, our sun is actually getting hotter.
I think the streets and buildings would look really cool all painted white
Paint colored ppl too 😆(calm down Karens).
It’s not global warming, it’s a cycle. There’s nothing can be done to stop it.
Rebulicans have been trying for years
Let’s take a drink every time he says climate change 😂🥃
Well time to paint my house 🏠
I’ll take it -👴🏻
lime paint your walls it is super cheap and was invented 5000 years ago, see Greece
I guess the Rolling Stones would have to stop singing that song, then.
uh imagine earth white the white planet it will kinda look like snow earth a snow ball
Obviously, everyone would get blinded by the light.
Based on the title, my question wasn’t "what if" at first place, it was more "WHY?"
so the trees and the oceans and the human skin?!
Imagine if a dirt storm hit.
roads reflecting light is always a bad idea