You sometimes have to stoop to the level of your audience to get your message across. Famous science educator and populariser Bill Nye recently did that to bring youths’ attention to a topic that needs more attention: climate change.
The third video in GE’s Emoji Science Lab, posted on Mashable’s Watercooler YouTube channel, sees Bill Nye explaining how the world has changed drastically in the last few centuries with emojis. Using a graph of emojis that goes from ‘meh’ to ‘shocking’ and ‘angry’, Nye demonstrates how humans have drastically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, now over 400 parts per million in just 260 years.
But more than being just a doomsayer, Bill Nye, in true science tradition, also explains what we can do to offset this impending disaster. His solution is typically low-key and easy to achieve: use renewable sources of energy, if possible store it in more efficient batteries, and use tried and tested technology. And soon, Nye says, you can turn that frown upside down. Or, turn L to J.
Watch the video embedded below, if for nothing else, then maybe to know at least how to use emojis more efficiently. And if you like it, check out Nye’s other videos in the series, like, for instance, the one where he explains Holograms and Star Wars using, yes, you guessed it, emojis. [blockquote cite=”Bill Nye” type=”left”]“Let’s use electricity! We could generate it renewably from wind and solar, and then the key is that we have to move it around the world through cool new transmission lines that someone is going to invent and develop and fund and distribute and then if we had a better battery, a better system, a better scheme of electrical energy storage, we could — dare I say it? — change the world!” [/blockquote]
