I’ve been meaning to blog about this for some time now and though I may not reach as wide an audience as I would ideally like to, I feel that since time is very likely running out, now is as good as any other time.

Back in September 2008, I came across a guy on YouTube who was going by the username wonderingmind42. His real name is Greg Craven and he’s a simple science teacher from a High School in Oregon. What he did was put together a video to present a simple solution to Global Climate change called “The most terrifying video you’ll ever see“. With a catchy title like that, he did attract a lot of attention (2M+ views to date), but also a lot of criticism. People were pulling apart his argument completely missing the whole point of his video. Having caught on that, he then set out to make a herculean series of 45 10-min videos to try and address every single point that people were asking about from Risk Management to “What about God” to What we can do and more. The series is called “How it all ends” and if you’re up to it, the playlist of all 45 videos is below. There’s no music or anything, just him presenting solutions and rationales in a very simple way and a wide range of funny hats.

One weekend I had lots of free time, I did set myself to watch them all and, well, to say it opened my eyes would be a bit of an understatement. Since then, it feels like no matter what I do, it will never be enough to help tackle the issue. So hopefully you can watch it too and make your own mind.

If you do watch it all, you will soon come across the idea of the Manpollo project. The idea is simple, if mankind can come together to build projects such as the Manhattan project or the Apollo project to have mankind do a “giant leap” forward, to paraphrase Neil Armstrong, then in an unprecedented situation such as Global Climate Change, we should once more be able to come together and do a similar project, which we could call the Manpollo project.

Some folks have taken the idea to heart, not governmental folks, but random people like you and me and created Manpollo.org, a website and also community of people I mentionned in the past who seek to find some sort of solution, share ideas, scientific discoveries and so on.

Greg has also been contacted to write a book about his video series. The book should be released in July this year and has been on preorder on Amazon for a few months now. If you think a bunch of videos is too heavy for you, maybe a book would be a better choice.

Greg’s fundamental message is “spread the word” and so I do. Maybe you could too…