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Dee Jay
February 1, 2023 at 8:39 pm
Absolutely fantastic! In the middle of this diatribe there’s an advertisement for Amazon Prime’s series The Rig.
Dee Jay
February 1, 2023 at 8:41 pm
OK Luisa, what’s your plan? Please do not reply with “Just stop oil” or “Use renewables”.
How many wind turbines?
How many solar panels?
How many hydro dams?
How many whatever?
Where will they all be?
When will they be available?
Do not forget that it is of no use if this is not done worldwide. Also don’t forget that worldwide energy consumption in 2050 is estimated to be 50% greater than 2020.
What happens when there is no wind?
What happens when it is too windy?
What happens when there is no sun?
If batteries…
When will large scale be available?
What capacity?
Where?
How many?
If pumped hydro…
When will they be ready?
What capacity?
Where?
How many?
Things to consider….
Renewables now provide 10% all energy.
Hydro is 7%.
Solar is 1%.
Wind is 1%.
Others is 1%.
Nuclear is 5%.
Fossil fuels is 85%.
Looking forward to hearing the plan and schedule.
Jerry Miller
February 1, 2023 at 8:43 pm
Pure propaganda
Joe Doaks
February 1, 2023 at 9:04 pm
Well ma’m, it is painfully obvious that you have saturated your mind, views and spirit with activist frames and have done zero analysis of the science which shows just how far off the mark your presumption on fossil fuels.
PLEASE look into the other side of the jeopardy equation that you present merely one side of.
Nature’s rhythms are not as easily affected as alarmists are touting…too much emotion while three fingers point right at your Heart.
Keith Bergen
February 1, 2023 at 9:06 pm
Does this person has expertise in petroleum industry? If yes, Ted needs to state. If not, it’s just an opinion.
Rob
February 1, 2023 at 9:17 pm
China will pollute what you won’t
Replace petroleum with clean technology
So rebuild education first.
武羅内洗羽寿茶
February 1, 2023 at 9:25 pm
She is so awful, thanks to her and her insane party Germanys economy goes down the drain!
M. A.
February 1, 2023 at 9:36 pm
Hard that we have to discuss this. 2,5 billion refugees comes with climate change from global south. That will disrupt a lot. Until this people will fight about every ressources. Hard to know that and read these comments, hear bullshit talking and recognize fossil uel lobbyed laws around the world…
Ligia Sommers
February 1, 2023 at 9:38 pm
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Jeff Gold
February 1, 2023 at 9:42 pm
when i was her age scientists warned the planet was cooling , thousands were dieing from drought in africa ( remember the fund raising concerts ? ) , hundreds of thousands died from a cyclone in bangladesh , millions were starving in china , the US was killing millions in a genocidal war , life before fossil fuels was impoverished , brutal and short . she is just another spoiled greta wannabe with no knowledge of history , science or engineering .
Jeff Gold
February 1, 2023 at 9:51 pm
the climate crisis is man made – fake information about polar bear extinction , fake information about the great barrier reef dieing , fake information about sea level rise accelerating . man made fake news is at the heart of the “climate crisis “
Luke Delport
February 1, 2023 at 9:45 pm
She dose now her green electric car had its battery’s raw materials mined by effective child slaves? Or her cell phone made by a company that uses force labour in Chinese concentration camps? What about her vegan food that kills all plant and animal life on the field it’s planted on? Do these contribute anything towards climate change?
What about the “green companies “ using band minerals in there solar panels? Or the billionaire who owns most of a country’s farmland who artificially raises the price of food?
These questions are often ignored because they don’t fit the narrative if you want real solutions can we for once have some fucking honesty and not just the same slogans and rhetoric we’ve had for the last fifty years
Ofay Hunkey
February 1, 2023 at 9:46 pm
I race her snowmobile⛷️
TrinkBruder
February 1, 2023 at 9:58 pm
I’ll race you down the hill. First we pick up the litter that will take to next year
Toni
February 1, 2023 at 10:05 pm
And Beyer is dumping fossil fuels on soils all over the world and killing the life in it. Also wiping our the insects and the bees at an incredible rate and no one is stopping this company. Germany is the base of this company.
Brandon Binder
February 1, 2023 at 10:06 pm
Here – let me pay more carbon tax to SoLvE tHe pRoBleM
Ser Ta
February 1, 2023 at 10:06 pm
Very cool topic ❤
Ser Ta
February 1, 2023 at 10:06 pm
Fossil fuels = fossil minds
Ser Ta
February 1, 2023 at 10:16 pm
All these German hate comments here lol. Lol 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
WeAre Paramore
February 1, 2023 at 10:22 pm
Rich countries think they can survive once we reach the tipping points.. the lack of urgency on this climate crisis by those who have power and resources speaks clearly, the most vulnerable countries are used as sacrificial lambs so they can continue their buisness as usual bs
david ortega
February 1, 2023 at 10:24 pm
What is her solution to not use fossil fuels? Did she stand up to complain and talk about conspiracy? Why Germany turn off the nuclear plants? Ooo I know, some activist pushed the government to do it without real science comparing fossil to nuclear! Stop crying about it and study and do research in new energies. These kids are so unrealistic, go to Africa an experience a poor life and then find a solution for African countries not cooking with wood and coal! Oooo I found it! Helping them to have gas! And maybe after they eat better their kids can do better in schools and in one moment on time they will use electricity if they can afford it!
Toni
February 1, 2023 at 10:25 pm
All those fossil fuels are being sprayed on our food as insecticides, fungicides, etc. We’re being poisoned by billions of gallons every year.
Toni
February 1, 2023 at 10:26 pm
Especially our health. The more vegetables you’re eating the more fossil fuels are being consumed by the population. And that soil is being washed into the rivers and seas along with the toxins.
Toni
February 1, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Thank you for the ideas.
Cin GM
February 1, 2023 at 10:41 pm
Yeah but fossil-fuel made means man-made.
John W
February 2, 2023 at 12:28 am
Ys you’re right…. you’re naive……
Fayssal Kaddoura
February 2, 2023 at 10:54 am
Not a single substantial solution. Stop this and stop that. We are in a crisis. But we need the speakers to go beyond activism and have true solutions. Building electric power so far has shown unsustainable in the case of EV battery production. We don’t have the time… yet there seems to be a long way to go. So let’s hope mother earth has mercy on us in the meantime…
Jaco Flez
February 2, 2023 at 12:23 pm
Disillusionment in a personified version
mimosveta
February 2, 2023 at 12:33 pm
If you’re not going to mention lamerican military industrial complex and their impact on climate change, you have no room to talk about climate change at all. we could buy ourselves decades of time to figure this one out, if we just dismantled lamerican military, right here, right now. They tell us that China is biggest contributor to mmcc, but they only can come up with that number, if they completely exclude lamerican military from calculation. lamerica, sans it’s military, is barely, fractionally smaller emitter of ghg than entire country of China with its entire massive industry, and its military, all together. But, lamerican military alone, w/o rest of lamerica, is bigger cause of CC than entire China. That means, that lamerican military, plus rest of lamerica together, are more than twice as big cause of CC than China is. So for that reason, lamericans have stipulated that any official body counting contributions to CC or GHG emissions, must exclude lamerican military, as that allows lamerica to safely hide behind Chinese industrial base emissions. So, let’s see, Entire China, and entire lamerica, with its military together, make out the vast majority of GHG emissions and CC. If we look at the three, China, and lamerica sans military, trying to lower these two, would cause massive disruptions in lived of over billion and a half of people, but, shutting down lamerican military would cause no disruptions, and would in fact save millions of lives worldwide, all those places where lamerica is engaged in wars, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan (yes, they are still there) Iraq, Ukraine, Yemen, probably some I’m forgetting right now… anyway, all those people would stop getting killed, so, that’s millions of lives saved right away. And getting rid of one third, basically what it amounts to, of GHG emissions and CC causes in one fell swoop, would literally give us decades to figure it out, seeing how China itself was radically decreasing it’s own impact in last 2 decades. lamerica sans military probably couldn’t decrease it’s impact as much as China, as Chinese impact is due to industry, and you can just build better factories, but lamerican impact is due to traffic, and we still have no solution to that. No, EV’s aren’t solving that problem, as EV’s are still charging from the city grid, which is powered by burning of fossil fuels, so, in effect, we’d be getting rid of one third of current CC causes right away, and like half of current causes in short order, thanks to Chinese efforts.
And ppl like this lady, who get a platform to talk about CC, don’t even mention the main cause of this issue, she won’t even acknowledge that we have this solution at our disposal? useless!
Chip Leeds
February 2, 2023 at 12:44 pm
“Don’t look up! Don’t look up! Don’t look up!” (Netflix)
Why_so_serious?
February 2, 2023 at 1:16 pm
Check her connections to Reemtsma Billionaires ✌️
andyko14
February 2, 2023 at 3:39 pm
=philantrophist’s = malthusians =eugenics =racist’s =satanic’s
Юрий Евенко
February 2, 2023 at 1:17 pm
Now, from Kyev, Ukrain, your “problems” look very fondly. Sorry, but when you are under fire, wihout ANY kind of energy, you will use ANY way to live. And where have you been without “bad” sorses of energy for you education. medcine and other part of your growing.
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Carl van Simpleton
February 2, 2023 at 1:47 pm
💚Heads up. Most of these deniers are fossil industry plants. They are not here to engage honestly but to defend their exploitation. Ignore them. Focus on creating the world we want to live in.💚
andyko14
February 2, 2023 at 4:02 pm
…. KEINER leugnet das sich das klima ändert, das macht es seit jahrtausenden…… es ist die verlogene politik die man hinter eurer grünen clubofrome agenda erkennt. verlogen, eckelhaft verlogen…… wo ist eure anti kriegsbewegung die letzten 20 jahre gewesen, oder bist du noch zu jung um das zu verstehen ?
BuddyCBuddy
February 2, 2023 at 2:19 pm
I like how she didn’t name one fact.
Doc Skate
February 2, 2023 at 10:07 pm
Maybe overhaul your listening competence?
Better even call a neurologist?
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February 2, 2023 at 2:35 pm
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” _Les Brown
Stephane G.
February 2, 2023 at 2:46 pm
No such thing as a climate crisis. No catastrophy, just a fairytale.
Jan Christensen
February 2, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Thank you. Everybody should listen to this TED talk. ❤
Dee Jay
February 2, 2023 at 4:01 pm
It is an excellent example of the naivety of the climate cult.
Kamikatze
February 2, 2023 at 3:33 pm
Ideologien sind schrecklich für Demokratien
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adonisnetworks
February 2, 2023 at 3:50 pm
This just proves that the lunatics are running the asylum, and it’s been this way for about a decade. You can’t change the climate only adapt to it , all these changes a menial and meaning nothing , you think china and India will transition away from big industry ..No … we are failing back to a GSM, lowering solar output for decades to come and are well passed the point of the peak of this current interglacial period we have enjoyed, the future is most definitely cold .
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뀨륵
February 2, 2023 at 3:56 pm
simple, but powerful topic!
Collegiate Match Fishing
February 2, 2023 at 7:50 pm
Simple minded person
Luke Jones
February 2, 2023 at 3:58 pm
what is the best way to make money from crypto trading ?
Antonio Conti
February 2, 2023 at 3:59 pm
Nevaeh Taylor , she’s good.
Martin Bebow
February 2, 2023 at 4:06 pm
The spin on the climate crisis that made me maddest was a comedy dialogue by Bill Maher. He faced the camera and said “I’m Bill. I fly privately”. His whole point seemed to be to undermine the efforts of climate activists like you and Greta and to basically throw up his hands. “What can we really do?” He said maybe I could give up my standup comedy which makes my private plane necessary. Yes Bill DO THAT!
Dee Jay
February 2, 2023 at 4:14 pm
What makes me laugh is 40,000 people flying to a COP meeting to tell everyone else not to fly. It’s comedy gold.
Palm Harbor
February 3, 2023 at 12:34 am
Ole Bill is a Priveleged Establishment Person.
Martin Bebow
February 3, 2023 at 12:23 pm
@Palm Harbor the thing is I like a lot of his social commentary. There seems to be a real pushback against Greta and taking personal responsibility for climate change
kathie hill
February 2, 2023 at 4:13 pm
You have been deceived.
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February 2, 2023 at 6:12 pm
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February 3, 2023 at 6:41 pm
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February 2, 2023 at 7:53 pm
Remember that time that Germany had to sell power at a loss because it can’t store electricity
Dan Cater
February 4, 2023 at 10:13 am
Everyone looks like an idiot at some point. Remember that time the US paid people $20 per barrel to take its crude oil.
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Gene Strong
February 2, 2023 at 8:18 pm
very poor choice for a TED talk
Arnaud M
February 2, 2023 at 9:12 pm
Not talking about all the life saved by economic growth, bringing people out of poverty, and technological development enabled by last 2-3 centuries of cheap energy?
There are massive positive externalities to cheap energy. Strange that climate activists prefer to ignore it
Arnaud M
February 3, 2023 at 11:55 am
@AmUnRA256 that’s may point, cheap energy enabled growth, including fertilizer production (that requires massive amount of nat gas).
But I’m always open for alternative, because it’s easy to say “oil, coal and gas pollute and energy companies are the bad guys”, but what’s the realistic alternatives ? And when can be deployed?
AmUnRA256
February 3, 2023 at 1:08 pm
@Arnaud M in the beginning (1800-1900s) it was really useful that these resources were kinda cheap but now we are rich industrial countries and can affort the more expensive but sustainable alternatives. I have no idea if there are already alternatives for the fertilizer part but on the energy side it is only a mater of time and devoution to throw the needed amount of money on that problem. Main problem in Germany for example isn’t the energy production itself but getting the energy from the north to the south (and later from africa / M.E. to europe)
Arnaud M
February 3, 2023 at 1:45 pm
@AmUnRA256 I’m a neoliberal, so I don’t care if industries die because they are not competitive, while it’s quite stupid to penalize some industries in Europe against other parts of the world for political reasons…
And when we see the massive protests in the streets because of insignificant increase in fuel or electricity prices I’m thinking the society is based on low prices and thinking an increase is « fine », it’s misunderstanding the deep impact of energy.
Plus it’s a naive European view to think about decarbonisation without considering India, China, USA, etc
Here we are not even touching the problem of electrification (massive mines in Africa that don’t pollute much less than oil fields) or the lack of metals in regard of the current production…
AmUnRA256
February 3, 2023 at 4:01 pm
@Arnaud M China is adopting so fast that there has to be one technological leader to show them how it is done the modern way and they will copy it and sometimes maybe do it even better. Same with the rest of the world, if rich countries share technology, ideas and money we as a whole could change, adapt and save the planet. It is not a competition in the end, when we are all on the same boat. oh and I am with you with dying industries which can’t adapt.
Arnaud M
February 3, 2023 at 6:00 pm
@AmUnRA256 it’s a competition for resources. If we want renewables/batteries, there is no way to get enough metal for all (and as I said, quite polluting mining resources).
China economy is based on cheap energy (that’s the reason why they generate electricity mainly from coal), they don’t have any reason to go to more expensive renewables.
The problem is not about money but return. Why to invest in expensive energy generation if competing against cheap one… economics 101
Frankly speaking, I’m not convinced it’s cheaper to transition to renewables than to adapt to a new world 2 degrees warmer and less stable climatically
Schwinn Scrambler
February 2, 2023 at 9:20 pm
Where does she think electricity comes from ? We still have yet to harness lightning . And guess who works in the lithium mines and the damage those mines do to the environment ?
How dare they ?
Wolfgang Pöhlmann
February 2, 2023 at 9:32 pm
Probably one of the worst TED Talks ever.
Mohammed Ryane
February 3, 2023 at 12:25 am
I think this pandemic has taught people the importance of multiple streams of income, unfortunately having a job doesn’t mean financial security. I really appreciate the transparency and giving people a fighting chance during this troubling times.
danv kaann
February 3, 2023 at 1:03 am
@Thomas Golden I totally agree with you. I see a lot of young and old making mistakes that I don’t think they should. I believe everyone should have an investment plan that improves their financial stability. The investment can be your retirement plan or your future plan, whatever you want, but the most important thing is that you have an investment plan that pays off.
Mich Noah
February 3, 2023 at 1:05 am
@danv kaann You are right! I lost my Job during the pandemic, I lost almost everything I had including my savings. I started an investment which today is the reason I have my own business.
Amelia Tee
February 3, 2023 at 1:09 am
@Bart Stein Wow. I thought I was the only one who knew Alicia Seda Rich. Her techniques are quite exceptional. I had the privilege of meeting her at a Summit in Singapore. It feels really good to see you talk about her.
Amelia Tee
February 3, 2023 at 1:09 am
2 years ago, I started off with about € 17,000 investing in FOREX and stock market, with Mrs Alicia Seda Rich managing my investment portfolio, now I’m worth a little over 500k. investing works if you are willing to put in the hard work.
Amira Rasha
February 3, 2023 at 1:12 am
I agree with you 100%. Did you know that the unemployment rate increased significantly between 2020-2021. people found themselves unemployed. we should not depend solely on wages and salaries.
JR Bee
February 3, 2023 at 7:42 am
So easy to promote simplistic idealistic solutions. Lots of buzwords. Activists never have to deliver anything.
TED talks is too busy being activist
Paul Picquigny
February 3, 2023 at 11:52 am
I know this is only 10mins, but there is no content here, just rhetoric. What are the ‘fairy tales’? Show your working. Stuff like, fossil fuels = Putin, is not an argument for green technology. So you’re saying energy can be abused? Of course it can. So can everything else. So what? This kind of low level of discourse seems all too common among green ‘activists’ and it should encourage everyone who eats food and likes being warm to require governments and institutions to ask serious questions about the credibility of their ideology. Demonising fossil fuels whilst ignoring their benefits isn’t honest. Nor is pretending that wind and solar etc are magic solutions. They aren’t magic solutions, and will require enormous amounts of minerals to be mined, far and above what ongoing hydrocarbon discovery and extraction needs. This isn’t ‘green’. We need honest and informed public debate about the implementation of policies which are going to radically inflate fuel and food prices for billions of people who can’t afford for those prices to rise, and end personal transport (i.e. freedom of movement) for all but the elite. By the way, chances are, you are not part of that elite.
Ethan B
February 3, 2023 at 2:20 pm
6:45
That isn’t how war spending works. If there weren’t fossil fuels it would just be a different industry funding all those things.
Adding flair for dramatic effect undermines credibility in my opinion, especially when you’re not offering sources but anecdotes as your evidence.
Statue_of_Liberty
February 3, 2023 at 6:39 pm
TED shouldn´t promote political agendas. Luisa is a politician of the Green party in Germany and the face of Fridays For Future. I love to have an open-minded exchange of ideas but don´t need another outlet for political motivated statements.
ESAN2013
February 3, 2023 at 9:49 pm
It is remarkable that naive people listen to the propaganda spokeswoman. She has no degree and earns millions thanks to her youth. her narcissistic nature of intolerance is very striking.
martymorse2
February 4, 2023 at 12:39 am
Meanwhile in Greece one of the largest open pit coal mining operations is going on under the sanction of their leaders.
I CALL HACKS!
February 4, 2023 at 12:09 pm
luisa neubauer, a billionaires daughter, she flies around the globe each week..and tells people they shouldnt fly or use their cars…she is incredibly hypocritic
RE
February 4, 2023 at 7:40 pm
The greatest trick the fossil fuel industry ever pulled was making people believe that it is the individual’s responsibility to clean up the planet. Community-led climate action is a fiction and it will fail, just as the oil industry intended.
Matt Basford
February 4, 2023 at 8:43 pm
What a bunch of propaganda.
Robert Yates
February 4, 2023 at 11:59 pm
She needs to read Alex Epstein’s “Fossil Future”.
Peter Ston
February 5, 2023 at 5:15 am
Society is at a precipice of things to come due to our own making.
We have, for a very long time, managed to let corporations and misguided politicians (some simply corrupt, greedy for profit and power) dictate of what happens in various countries and on this planet of ours. All in the name of “Growth and Profit”, enrichment of the very few and mass manipulation of the rest.
And that is a global problem.
According to science there have been several mass extinctions. Those (as far as we know) were “acts of god”. This one will be of our own doing and the people in charge, voted in or promoted in, will be the ones bringing it about. Unless the people – all the people – open their eyes to see what is being done and not what is being said. Start looking at consequences of what people do, all people do and are willing to do, to make a living or in the pursuit of money and power.
Everyone has to look at themselves, what have I / you done, what are you, what am I doing, today, tomorrow, to make a difference. To stop food from being poisoned, the environment from being wrecked, consumption destroying the planet, people being killed in name of whatever senseless cause, right or ritual or simple stupidity we as human beings can conjure up.
The countries, corporations, political organizations, religions are made up of people, those people must be participants in all the things that harm others in order for a country, corporation, political organization, religion, gang, group to do those things. From the cleaning lady to the president, all the people in an organization, political or corporate or otherwise, have to be willing to sacrifice any or all of us in the name of money or some sort of gain. Without that, it cannot happen.
Many will say or actually believe that they do what they do for the right reasons, for the betterment of human kind, the betterment and protection of whatever “club”, group, they belong to at that time. Some do what they do simply for survival, to feed themselves and their families. But all of us, every single one of us, will feel the impact of what’s to come. And no matter how much money has been amassed by whoever or whatever, it will not protect them.
And once the planet had time to rebuild after we are all gone, maybe then Mother Nature will come back with Humanity 3.0 and try again. Hopefully that version will be more deserving of what they have been given then we have proven to be.