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Climate Change Isn’t a Distant Threat — It’s Our Reality | Selina Neirok Leem | TED Countdown

Every year, ocean levels rise and high tides flood the low-lying Marshall Islands in the Pacific, destroying homes, salinating water supplies and disrupting livelihoods. In a stirring poem and talk, youth climate warrior Selina Neirok Leem explains why adaptation using Indigenous solutions is the only choice for people on the front lines of climate change.…

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Every year, ocean levels rise and high tides flood the low-lying Marshall Islands in the Pacific, destroying homes, salinating water supplies and disrupting livelihoods. In a stirring poem and talk, youth climate warrior Selina Neirok Leem explains why adaptation using Indigenous solutions is the only choice for people on the front lines of climate change. “These islands are our ancestors, our predecessors, our homes,” Leem says. “We are at the risk of losing all of that for something we contributed very little to.”

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85 Comments

  1. s0m3cunt

    April 10, 2022 at 10:02 pm

    Climate Stagnation is a Conspiracy Theory, Human Ignorance is the true Crisis. If You Fear Climate Change it’s because You’re disconnected from Nature.

  2. Athena Moone

    April 10, 2022 at 10:04 pm

    there is no climate change. There are a lot of corporations who is wasting your money, trying to convince you that it is. Because it is profitable to them, but not to humanity

  3. Words of Insight

    April 10, 2022 at 10:07 pm

    Without any fundamental changes in our understanding of the economy, profit-making, and resources, it is extremely difficult to halt and reverse climate change. It is a shame that we will be leaving the trash we created for future generations.

  4. Christian Soldier

    April 10, 2022 at 10:07 pm

    God allowed them to do the climate change agenda

  5. Day of Blackout

    April 10, 2022 at 10:18 pm

    Ukraine in war and you talking about climate, are you seriously?

  6. Thomas Voloshen

    April 10, 2022 at 10:18 pm

    Really?😅

  7. Sittininthesun

    April 10, 2022 at 10:26 pm

    You bet. That’s why all the experts live in lake houses and beach homes and fly jets.

    Because we’re in so much danger and we can CONTROL it. 🙄

  8. Rumford Chimpenstein

    April 10, 2022 at 10:31 pm

    imagine if a doctor diagnosed somebody’s disease as “body change”

    • Darth Binks

      April 10, 2022 at 11:53 pm

      And your point is….

    • Rumford Chimpenstein

      April 10, 2022 at 11:57 pm

      @Darth Binks if you can’t see the problem in that on your own, there is no point in explaining it to you. have fun getting scammed.

    • Darth Binks

      April 11, 2022 at 12:25 am

      @Rumford Chimpenstein oh so climate change isnt a thing….cool so what is your expertise? Where is your research debunking climate change is caused by human interference?

  9. Tio Dave

    April 10, 2022 at 10:32 pm

    Climate change is just a term for the carbon credit score. It’s all just another implementation of control through safety. Giving control to people who created the fear that drove people to them.

  10. Absolute Truth

    April 10, 2022 at 10:35 pm

    Kind of hard to take climate change seriously when all those who claim it’s happening burn more fossil fuels that anyone else.

  11. JIUNnF

    April 10, 2022 at 10:38 pm

    А где здесь про способ утилизации тех или иных промышленных соединений, компонентов где информация про прототипы преобразователей солнечной энергии с КПД 40 и 70% которые были представленны 10ок лет назад( про заводы выпускавшие на Украине элементы солнечных батарей которые были кем то умышленно так как могли составить конкуренцию обанкроченны). Про то что россиян и российскую науку в том числе попросили из многих мировых проектов и в том числе наиболее важного для всего человечества проекта Артемида(скомпромитировав их известными событиями томившимися уже 1.5 десятка лет с вливание неприлично кощунственных средств год за годом в военную промышленность и диверсионные работы вместо того что бы идти по пути прогресса и гуманизма) проекта способного притормозить маховик глобального потепления война же этот процесс форсирует.

  12. David Hunt

    April 10, 2022 at 10:55 pm

    Avg sea level rise since the melt water pulse has been about 1 inch every 12th years. Fear mongering. Is a sign of hucksterism. Plant a tree, love the earth, stop grifting and making the rest of us look like grifters instead of lovers of nature.

  13. Daniel Gaddis

    April 10, 2022 at 11:11 pm

    More blah blah blah.

  14. Derandcam

    April 10, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    The Netherlands is mostly below sea level and they’re doing fine, adapt by building levees, dikes, raised buildings or try Venice’s method. We have the knowledge to ADAPT.

    • Derandcam

      April 10, 2022 at 11:38 pm

      @patricia longo learn what taunting is, and I’ll wager the Netherlands will be fine in 28 years. Lastly….Fu? Are you being rude and/or insulting?

    • Debby Schutz

      April 11, 2022 at 12:55 am

      yes compare a developed european country to a third world island nation situated in the middle of the pacific with limited resources

    • patricia longo

      April 11, 2022 at 1:10 am

      @Derandcam no, I just don’t have any place to put the shock-.plan Delta is really real, the Dutch sold out and can you think of any country of people less likely to give up? How can that be okay? It’s not.

  15. patricia longo

    April 10, 2022 at 11:22 pm

    America isn’t a distant threat. Mass extinction is in its sights. Death would be better for it. Americans will always half support evey extinction and war is eternally present if they are.

  16. Florian Hansch

    April 10, 2022 at 11:22 pm

    Must be terrible living in paradise for generations, meanwhile I’m still getting frost outside in April, but I’m happy because I’ve seen the sun for the first time in months.

    • Debby Schutz

      April 11, 2022 at 12:53 am

      we’re literally a third world country with limited resources , land level with the ocean that floods our homes, salinates our soil that makes harvest seasons shorter and more difficult to grow anything. ocean acidification killing our corals and making fish migrate away from our islands. also being situated in the middle of the pacific heavily reliant on imported goods that many of the population cannot afford. and sea level rise continues to erode more of our already small islands. while ignorant ppl in developed countries tell us “ but u live in paradise” google anything related to the marshall islands and educate yourself

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  18. thesunisup_

    April 10, 2022 at 11:26 pm

    Cringe

  19. CriticalThinker

    April 10, 2022 at 11:40 pm

    We will adapt and we will help those who need it. The end.

  20. JIUNnF

    April 11, 2022 at 12:00 am

    А эрозию почв предотвращают дамбы и волнорезы защищающие поля солнечных батарей инецирующих со2 в океан.

  21. John Regan

    April 11, 2022 at 12:02 am

    This is absolutely ridiculous, baseless, obnoxiously melodramatic and presents no scientific reasoning to bolster the claim of the title. This is just some out of touch kid who’s attention starved. Extremely sub par for a TED event.

  22. Jw Smith

    April 11, 2022 at 12:19 am

    Temperature got down to freezing in South Carolina today. It’s April 10th… Climate Change is all BS

  23. dimebagmetott666

    April 11, 2022 at 12:26 am

    ” indigenous knowledge”
    lolol like what? how to build a mudhut? what dirt to eat ?

  24. Crown Victus

    April 11, 2022 at 12:30 am

    Yet another crisis actor to perpetuate the grift.

  25. Wonders of the world

    April 11, 2022 at 12:44 am

    We now but putin didn’t

  26. thenonexistinghero

    April 11, 2022 at 10:44 am

    These things would be happening with or without human interference. The planet has never been balanced. The planet is indiscriminate. It makes nature and life flourish, but just as well destroys all of it on a whim. Please blame humans all you want, just know that the planet does not care. Fighting climate change means ascending manhood to become gods and fighting the planet itself. Unlike what modern idiots think, people are not gods that are capable of everything. It is a battle that mankind cannot win.

  27. Richard Cowley

    April 11, 2022 at 10:53 am

    Nothing to do with CO2 and CH4

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    April 11, 2022 at 11:44 am

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  29. Kehrey Anne Dean

    April 11, 2022 at 12:18 pm

    Weather modification is also our reality. Just saying….

    • Kehrey Anne Dean

      April 11, 2022 at 1:37 pm

      @Richard Cowley Are you unaware of the over 175 US patents on the technology?

    • Kehrey Anne Dean

      April 11, 2022 at 1:45 pm

      @Richard Cowley My last sentence keeps getting blocked because they do not want me to inform you of a particular website that has all the links to the patents and all the newspaper clippings since the 1800’s on the topic and technology. Gotta love that censorship..

    • Richard Cowley

      April 11, 2022 at 3:22 pm

      @Kehrey Anne Dean cloud seeding is not chemtrails or geoengineering and dont attempt to claim that you know as very likely that you have had no involvement in the subject

    • Richard Cowley

      April 11, 2022 at 3:23 pm

      @Kehrey Anne Dean can you trust the claims of others ?
      very likely all it is that their claims fit in with what you want

  30. Maybe You're Right😀

    April 11, 2022 at 1:34 pm

    I don’t know why? 🤷🤷🤷
    I think.. 🤔

    You Rise me Up to more than I can be. 😀

    Oh thank you and thank so much, TED

    Thank you 😀.

    Thank you 🇺🇳.

    Thank you very much 🇺🇳.
    🤔

    Thank you. 😀
    And may God’s peace be upon you😀.

    We love you. 🤔

    😀😀
    .

  31. Maybe You're Right😀

    April 11, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    😀
    👍

    Yes👍
    Oh *TED* ✓ 🤗
    yes👍

    and yes-.
    MAYBE YOU’RE RIGHT 👍!.
    YES 👍

    👍
    # Cop 26
    SAVE OUR PLANET 🌏🌍🌎!

    👍

    ” we are talked a lot about, but we are not listened to ” -why?
    😀

    Thank you.
    😀😀

  32. Maybe You're Right😀

    April 11, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    😀
    👍
    Yes👍
    Oh *TED* ✓ 🤗
    yes👍

    and yes-.
    MAYBE YOU’RE RIGHT 👍!.
    YES 👍

    👍
    # Cop 26
    SAVE OUR PLANET 🌏🌍🌎!

    👍

    ” we are talked a lot about, but we are not listened to ” -why?
    😀

    Thank you.
    😀😀

    • Maybe You're Right😀

      April 12, 2022 at 1:54 am

      @robert hicks
      😀😀

      🤔
      Let us connecting *MINDS* ✍️
      Creating the *FUTURE* 🌍🌏🌎 in-

      Sustainability,

      Mobility,

      and opportunity!.

      Save CHILDREN’S ✍️ Rights!.
      Save WOMEN’S ♀️✍️🎓 Rights!.

      Save Our Peoples!.
      Save our planet now !!!.

      Thank you.
      And God bless you all forever!!.

      Thank you very much for
      Yours solidarity!!.
      For awareness !!!.

      GOOD HEALTH ALWAYS EVERYONE !!!.

      I thank you.
      😀😀
      .

    • Maybe You're Right😀

      April 12, 2022 at 2:43 am

      @robert hicks

      You’re right 🤔.

      😀😀

  33. TennesseeJed

    April 11, 2022 at 1:42 pm

    Our leaders are simply narcissistic wannabe actors who lack beauty and talent. Catastrophe is the only way the system will change at this point. I am livestock.

  34. AlJabbar [ WestJava ] جــاوة الغــربـيـــة

    April 11, 2022 at 1:44 pm

    *TED* Maybe yes!!. 🤔
    💋

    Music 🎶 Music 🎵
    Is the language of PEACE ✌️.
    🕺🏻💃️💃🏻

  35. AlJabbar [ WestJava ] جــاوة الغــربـيـــة

    April 11, 2022 at 1:44 pm

    🤔
    💋

    Music 🎶 Music 🎵
    Is the language of PEACE ✌️.
    🕺🏻💃️💃🏻

  36. AlJabbar [ WestJava ] جــاوة الغــربـيـــة

    April 11, 2022 at 1:45 pm

    Long Life the United Nations 🇺🇳!
    Long Life each of us the Peacekeeper’s 🇺🇳.
    😷✌️✌️😷.

    🤗♀️🤞♀️👌💪💞👍👍

  37. Аб дулла

    April 11, 2022 at 1:49 pm

    ❤️❤️🌙✨
    لقد آن الأوان “من أجل إحلال السلام”
    لكي يتحمل الجانبان مسؤولياتهما’
    ولكي نتحمل جميعنا مسؤولياتنا.

    ——–
    كما يجب على الروسيين أن يتخلوا عن العنف..

    إن المقاومة عبر العنف والقتل أسلوب خاطئ ولا يؤدي إلى النجاح.


    لقد آن الأوان للقيام بعمل يعتمد على الحقيقة التي يدركها الجميع.. لقد تدفقت دموع الكثيرين وسالت دماء الكثيرين، وعلينا جميعا تقع مسؤولية العمل من أجل ذلك اليوم الذي تستطيع فيه أمهات الأوكرانيين 🇺🇦 والروسيين🇷🇺 مشاهدة أبنائهم يتقدمون في حياتهم دون خوف !!!.

    إن خوض الحروب أسهل من إنهائها،

    كما أن توجيه اللوم للآخرين أسهل من أن ننظر إلى ما يدور في أعماقنا،

    كما أن ملاحظة الجوانب التي نختلف فيها مع الآخرين أسهل من العثور على الجوانب المشتركة بيننا،

    ولكل دين من الأديان قاعدة جوهرية تدعونا لأن نعامل الناس مثلما نريد منهم أن يعاملونا،

    وتعلو هذه الحقيقة على البلدان والشعوب وهي عقيدة ليست بجديدة،

    كما أنها ليست عقيدة السود أو البيض أو السمر،

    وليست عقيدة /مسيحية /أو مسلمة أو يهودية،

    هي عقيدة الإيمان الذي بدأت نبضاتها في مهد الحضارة والتي ما زالت تنبض اليوم في قلوب آلاف الملايين من البشر،

    هي الإيمان بالآخرين، الإيمان الذي أتى بي إلى هنا اليوم.

    ——————————
    🇺🇳 *United Nations* ✓
    ——————————

    شكرا لكم والسلام عليكم.
    ❤️❤️🌙✨
    .

  38. Аб дулла

    April 11, 2022 at 1:50 pm

    ❤️❤️✨🌙
    من أجل مساعدة شعوبنا في مساعيها الرامية إلى تحقيق حياة أفضل.

    إن معالجة الأمور التي وصفتها لن تكون سهلة،

    ولكننا نتحمل معا مسؤولية ضم صفوفنا والعمل معا نيابة عن العالم الذي نسعى من أجله،

    وهو عالم لا يهدد فيه المتطرفون شعوبنا،

    عالم تعود فيه *القوات الأميركية* إلى ديارها 🏠،

    عالم ينعم فيه 🌍 الأوكرانيون والروسيون بالأمان في دولة لكل منهم،

    وعالم تستخدم فيه الطاقة النووية لأغراض سلمية،

    وعالم تعمل فيه الحكومات على خدمة المواطنين،

    وعالم تحظى فيه حقوق جميع البشر بالاحترام.

    🇺🇳🇺🇳🇺🇳
    هذه هي مصالحنا المشتركة وهذا هو العالم الذي نسعى من أجله،

    والسبيل الوحيد لتحقيق هذا العالم هو العمل معا.

    أعلم أن هناك الكثير من المسلمين وغير المسلمين الذين تراودهم الشكوك حول قدرتنا على استهلال هذه البداية، وهناك البعض الذين يسعون إلى تأجيج نيران الفرقة والانقسام والوقوف في وجه تحقيق التقدم،

    ويقترح البعض أن الجهود المبذولة في هذا الصدد غير مجدية

    ويقولون إن الاختلاف فيما بيننا أمر محتم

    وإن الحضارات ستصطدم حتما،

    وهناك الكثيرون كذلك الذين يتشككون ببساطة في إمكانية تحقيق التغيير الحقيقي،

    فالمخاوف كثيرة
    وانعدام الثقة كبير،

    ولكننا لن نتقدم أبدا إلى الأمام إذا اخترنا التقيد بالماضي.

    إن الفترة الزمنية التي نعيش فيها جميعا مع بعضنا البعض في هذا العالم هي فترة قصيرة،

    والسؤال المطروح علينا هو: هل سنركز اهتمامنا خلال هذه الفترة الزمنية على الأمور التي تفرق بيننا؟

    أم سنلتزم بجهود مستديمة للوصول إلى موقف مشترك وتركيز اهتمامنا على المستقبل الذي نسعى إليه من أجل أبنائنا واحترام كرامة جميع البشر؟
    .. ..

    وهذه الأمور ليست أمورا سهلة.

    # أشكرك.
    ❤️✨🌺 💞

  39. अब्दुल्ला 🇮🇳

    April 11, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    أيتها السيدات النبيلات ❤️.
    أيتها السيدات الجميلات ❤️.
    أيتها الأمهات العظيمات 🇺🇳.
    أيتها النساء القويات 🇺🇳.

    🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳
    إسمحوا لي أن أقول الحقيقة بكل تواضع أمامكم.

    إنما نحن نحترم حق جميع من يرفعون أصواتهم حول العالم للتعبير عن آرائهم بأسلوب سلمي يراعي القانون،
    حتى لو كانت آراؤهم مخالفة لآرائنا.

    وسنرحب بجميع الحكومات السلمية المنتخبة شرط أن تحترم جميع أفراد الشعب في ممارستها للحكم.

    هذه النقطة لها أهميتها لأن البعض لا ينادون بالديمقراطية إلا عندما يكونون خارج مراكز السلطة،
    – ولا يرحمون الغير في ممارساتهم القمعية لحقوق الآخرين عند وصولهم إلى السلطة.

    إن الحكومة التي تتكون من أفراد الشعب وتدار بواسطة الشعب هي المعيار الوحيد لجميع من يشغلون مراكز السلطة’

    بغض النظر عن المكان الذي تتولى فيه مثل هذه الحكومة ممارسة مهامها’

    إذ يجب على الحكام أن يمارسوا سلطاتهم عبر الاتفاق في الرأي’ وليس عبر الإكراه.

    ويجب على الحكام أن يحترموا حقوق الأقليات’

    وأن يعطوا مصالح الشعب الأولوية على مصالح الحزب الذي ينتمون إليه.

    # أشكرك.
    🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
    🌏
    🙏🙏🙏
    .
    .

  40. अब्दुल्ला 🇮🇳

    April 11, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳
    إسمحوا لي أن أقول الحقيقة بكل تواضع أمامكم.

    إنما نحن نحترم حق جميع من يرفعون أصواتهم حول العالم للتعبير عن آرائهم بأسلوب سلمي يراعي القانون،
    حتى لو كانت آراؤهم مخالفة لآرائنا.

    وسنرحب بجميع الحكومات السلمية المنتخبة شرط أن تحترم جميع أفراد الشعب في ممارستها للحكم.

    هذه النقطة لها أهميتها لأن البعض لا ينادون بالديمقراطية إلا عندما يكونون خارج مراكز السلطة،
    – ولا يرحمون الغير في ممارساتهم القمعية لحقوق الآخرين عند وصولهم إلى السلطة.

    إن الحكومة التي تتكون من أفراد الشعب وتدار بواسطة الشعب هي المعيار الوحيد لجميع من يشغلون مراكز السلطة’

    بغض النظر عن المكان الذي تتولى فيه مثل هذه الحكومة ممارسة مهامها’

    إذ يجب على الحكام أن يمارسوا سلطاتهم عبر الاتفاق في الرأي’ وليس عبر الإكراه.

    ويجب على الحكام أن يحترموا حقوق الأقليات’

    وأن يعطوا مصالح الشعب الأولوية على مصالح الحزب الذي ينتمون إليه.

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  41. Lisabeth Ryan

    April 11, 2022 at 2:23 pm

    CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT CAUSED BY HUMANS!!!!!!! IT’S CYCLICAL AND IS CAUSED BY A IRON OXIDE PLANET,AKA PLANET X, THAT COMES THROUGH OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND HEATS UP OUR ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM. THEY LIE TO YOU SO THEY CAN ENACT BILLS AND STEAL MORE MONEY FOR THINGS UNDER THE GUISE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

  42. Aaron Oneal

    April 11, 2022 at 2:40 pm

    If you are looking for a way to help the Earth and fight climate you can use Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress….

  43. Globally Aware

    April 11, 2022 at 2:57 pm

    It’s so good to see that huge organizations and conferences such as TED are taking action to inform people about really important global issues, such as climate change in this example. We all should know that we contribute to this change without even knowing it, and we should really try to reduce our negative effect on our planet!

    • Richard Cowley

      April 11, 2022 at 3:37 pm

      about time that people like you provided untampered, empirical and direct evidence for those claims
      There will be no Oxygen and no life without CO2 which is a very important component in Photosynthesis

    • robert hicks

      April 12, 2022 at 1:20 pm

      @Richard Cowley Yes, plants that evolved in higher co2 levels do better with higher co2. During the last glaciation, some plants evolved needing half the co2, but they do not provide the nutrients needed for animals. You only see them in greenhouses when alarmist are trying to prove that plants do not gain from higher co2 levels.

    • Richard Cowley

      April 12, 2022 at 9:41 pm

      @robert hicks the point being CO2 and CH4 are not the climate control knobs

    • robert hicks

      April 12, 2022 at 9:43 pm

      @Richard Cowley totally agree.

  44. Bodies By Ang

    April 11, 2022 at 3:42 pm

    Get speakers that don think they’re in a poetry reading please.

  45. Study shit

    April 11, 2022 at 5:02 pm

    Look. I would rather appreciate some citations to papers if you actually want me to listen to your talk. This is mainly because I cant take you seriously if you start acting like a poet.

  46. Ismael

    April 11, 2022 at 7:45 pm

    How tall is she?

  47. Gaasuba Meskhenet

    April 11, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    enough people are becoming homeless from disasters. We don’t need to help the disasters destroy us.
    No more evictions from primary residences!
    No one should own 10 homes while some have none!!

    • robert hicks

      April 12, 2022 at 12:43 am

      Translation: “I dont want to have to work hard at having anything, but want everything given to me”. Grow up kid and stop living in your mommies basement.

    • Gaasuba Meskhenet

      April 12, 2022 at 2:57 am

      @robert hicks translation: I think it’s normal for society to be a Rube Goldberg eugenics machine

    • robert hicks

      April 12, 2022 at 3:03 am

      @Gaasuba Meskhenet What I think is normal is for people to have to earn a living and to get the rewards of their efforts, rather than people setting on their butts getting the rewards others work for. Obviously you do not believe people should earn their way. Before you tell me I have no idea, I was once homeless. I had to live with friends, or in shelters. I now have my own home. IF you do not have a home, in America, you can get help. You can work to get your own way. Expecting mommy and daddy to give you everything, or to have the government take it away from those that earn it so you do not have to do any work is not the way the world can possibly work. Its been tried many times and it has always failed.

  48. Emilio G.

    April 11, 2022 at 10:00 pm

    No need to predict doom& gloom, it’s already started. I really don’t see a way out at this point. I was hearing about climate change back in the 70s. Now it’s here and the damage has been done. Beyond sad.

  49. robert hicks

    April 12, 2022 at 12:34 am

    climate change is a real thing but it is not man made. Leading scientist say there is no threat from it.

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  51. Joshua Cheng

    April 12, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    If I could donate a billion dollars and help adapt your islands to climate change I would, but right now all I can say is *…….Godspeed* 🤞

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