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An Updated Action Plan for Solving the Climate Crisis | Ryan Panchadsaram and Anjali Grover | TED

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April 29, 2024

When it comes to climate, what are we doing right and where should we focus our efforts next? Systems innovator Ryan Panchadsaram and strategist Anjali Grover talk with TED science curator David Biello about the latest on the world’s progress toward solving the climate crisis — and why there’s more reason for optimism than you might think. Using strategic goal-setting tools that have transformed countless organizations, Panchadsaram and Grover explore the urgent actions needed to steer the planet toward a sustainable future and the pivotal roles of innovation, investment and policy. “The climate story isn’t yet written,” Grover says.

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36 Comments

@TheWasthereonce

April 29, 2024 at 4:50 pm

“Eat less meat”. Tell that to large corporations that turn livestock into cheap processed fast food. I swear that everything is blamed on the consumer when the Industries are the real drivers of pollution and consequently climate change.

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@itube027

April 29, 2024 at 5:05 pm

Give me a break.

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- @TheGamingAddict2000
  
  April 29, 2024 at 8:21 pm
  
  If you don’t care about climate science, dont watch a video about climate science.
  
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@Soeg44

April 29, 2024 at 5:33 pm

So, more comumerism is the answer… We’re so extinct everyone.

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@bogiesholdtheweight

April 29, 2024 at 5:36 pm

What a load of romanticised fantasy based on not one morsel, not even a speck or a micro particle of scientific evidence. More propoganda and lies to further the green agenda. Sure particulates from pre catalytic converter or diesel particulate filters and exhaust gas recirculation modules internal combustion engines and dirty old coal and gas power stations was and is problematic health wise but to say that CO2 is responsible for global warming is like saying ice cream ruins a Sundae. CO2 is no more a greenhouse gas than oxygen, you wouldn’t take all the oxygen out of the atmosphere would you? How do you think the plants feel about removing all the CO2 from the atmosphere? Plants need CO2 like we need oxygen. All this alarmist BS about humanity destroying the Earth only makes the lies more transparent. You are full of it, now just stop it, stop it with all the lies and ill informed nonsense, please.

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@rmac3217

April 29, 2024 at 5:41 pm

The solution is obvious, everyone gets a CO2 ration and you cannot buy more.
Try to get the leaders of the climate movement to sell their yachts, jets and cars, dirt cheap as well.

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@milonjano

April 29, 2024 at 5:51 pm

What change? The Earth changes all the time.

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@andacomfeeuvou

April 29, 2024 at 6:01 pm

The issue is quite straightforward: All climate conference goals set since the 1980s have not been met. All this blah blah blah about numbers and percentages doesn’t convince me. International relations (and other issues) are much worse today than they were in the 1980s. Without international cooperation, it will be very difficult to meet the goals of climate agreements. I don’t like being a pessimistic voice, but to convince me that there is hope, it will take a deeper analysis of the reality we are living in today. This TED talk sounds to me like cheap propaganda.

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- @BGWee
  
  April 30, 2024 at 5:37 am
  
  Optimism generates mass support. Being nihilistic about it is simply not an option.
  
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- @gasdive
  
  April 30, 2024 at 8:15 am
  
  @@BGWee optimism generates delay. “We must take action within 30 years” translates to “no need to take action for 30 years”. The activist industry must always insist that there’s time available, and insisting that there’s time available has played into the FF industry’s hands for the last 60 years.
  
  There is no more time available. If we let the permafrost thaw then everywhere that has a continental climate will be deadly to mammals (that includes us BTW). Civilisation will not survive a 12-15 degree jump in the space of 1-5 summers.
  
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- @BGWee
  
  April 30, 2024 at 3:58 pm
  
  @@gasdive I don’t know, seeing how minor measures to reduce emissions in Europe have been politicized so much makes me think apocalyptic warnings just makes it more politicized and partisan. Action on climate change shouldn’t be political at all given its urgency and how it affects us all.
  
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- @gasdive
  
  April 30, 2024 at 7:23 pm
  
  @@BGWee the only thing that matters is getting CO2 back under 300 as fast as possible. 60 years of optimism has got us where we are now. Maybe we could try telling people the truth? That this is not a fight to save luxury waterfront property, nor is it a fight to save investment firms from having to rebuild wharves 1 metre higher in 80 years, it’s a fight for survival. That we don’t have 30 years before action is needed. That it may already be too late to save ourselves, but to have a chance we need to actually do something, not make up acronyms, make pledges, or sign and ignore agreements.
  
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@mmokhtabad

April 29, 2024 at 6:41 pm

All lies, let’s make money and enjoy it as we can

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- @TheGamingAddict2000
  
  April 29, 2024 at 8:20 pm
  
  Nice argument, you heard of the burden of proof? Climate scientists have shown their proof, now you show yours.
  
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@HenrikLantzHedstrom

April 29, 2024 at 6:50 pm

How do we tackle made up problems? Three letter abbreviations!!!

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- @hotrod8915
  
  April 29, 2024 at 7:01 pm
  
  🤔
  
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@hotrod8915

April 29, 2024 at 7:00 pm

A new plan for a crisis that doesn’t exist. Genius. Fool-proof.

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@donniemoder1466

April 29, 2024 at 8:47 pm

Spin. Let’s be honest. Fake meat and electric cars don’t work as well as you think. Electric cars are too heavy, use electricity from fossil fuel power plants. And the batteries don’t work in cold weather. Oh yeah, and we should have started 40 years ago. The positive feedback loops are going to doom us. Listen to Carl Sagan from 50 years ago and you should be very scared. Oh, yeah we were over 1.5 degrees C last year

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@ClickingHeads

April 29, 2024 at 8:47 pm

The world is on the brink of WWIII and these people focus on the environment. Grifters are gonna grift.

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@cktorm

April 29, 2024 at 9:19 pm

nuclear energy is the only solution, we’ve known that for decades. We need to all focus on this and stop “studying more options”.

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- @hahtos
  
  April 30, 2024 at 3:45 am
  
  It’s not
  
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- @gasdive
  
  April 30, 2024 at 8:22 am
  
  There’s no design for a mass produced breeder reactor. To design one would take a decade, testing another decade building the factories that make them, another decade actually building the reactors several more decades. 40 to 50 years from now it’s too late.
  
  If we go with existing breeder designs, we can’t build enough because they’re designed to be hand made in small quantities like Formula One cars. There’s no way to build tens of thousands.
  
  If we go with existing non breeder designs there’s not enough uranium to even fuel them all once. We couldn’t even start them all.
  
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@saraghhh

April 29, 2024 at 10:05 pm

Grateful that organizations like TED are looking into the issue of climate change and helping to highlight potential solutions and emphasizing the roadblocks. It’s concerning for sure, but seeing that people are leading the charge gives me hope for change.

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@wind-leader_jp

April 30, 2024 at 2:34 am

I saw on the news the other day that CO2 emissions in 2023 will reach a record high, but is that a lie?
In fact, temperatures are rising rapidly, and there is a recognition that last summer, agricultural crops were pushed to the brink in large areas of the world.
I also heard that Spain continues to be in dire straits due to water shortages.
In particular, doubts remain about China’s mass production of EVs by emitting large amounts of CO2 from coal-fired power plants.
This is because CO2 is a stable gas and will maintain its structure even after 1,000 years, so we should have reduced CO2 emissions even if we had to reduce EVs.
Furthermore, if it is true that the power storage capacity will decline considerably in 6 to 8 years, I am against relying on EVs at this stage.
Solar panels are expected to last more than 20 years, so drastic policies are needed to make maximum use of sunlight and temporarily stop factory production at night.
If individuals do not take steps to conserve energy in the meantime, they will easily exceed the tipping point.

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@phillipstephens3079

April 30, 2024 at 3:23 am

Try dealing directly with China, India, Mid-East, African continent, South America where pollution is a massive, massive issue. Good luck to your euphoric ideals…they will “continue” to show you their backsides. How are you doing with the fact that our planet is one huge fireball with a thin little crust on it and plays by ITS RULES, when IT FEELS LIKE IT.

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@renzodiflorio

April 30, 2024 at 4:26 am

Eat less beef is a very simplistic, yet misleading, message. Eat better beef should be the message.
Grazing animals are essential for soil health and regenerative agriculture.

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- @keniacharles5902
  
  April 30, 2024 at 11:55 am
  
  I strongly agree with your statement.
  
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- @LeviGratton
  
  April 30, 2024 at 3:50 pm
  
  Replace them with better grazing animals.
  
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@generalshrooms

April 30, 2024 at 4:52 am

crisis this, crisis that, climate change hit me with a wiffle ball bat

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@gasdive

April 30, 2024 at 8:07 am

How are people so delusional. If you are about to walk off the edge of a cliff at 3.9 km/h, it’s not an improvement to only walk off the edge at 2.7 km/h

There’s 1700 billion tonnes of carbon in the permafrost. *THAT* is the most under told story. If it comes out as CO2 it’s equivalent to 170 years of current emissions. If it comes out as methane that’s equal to 17,000 years of current emissions. We’ve already had a year above 1.5 above 1850-1900 (more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial). The permafrost is *ALREADY* thawing. The chances are that most of it will come out as methane, and the enormous amounts will completely overwhelm the atmospheric hydroxyl radical that degrades methane into CO2. Methane is 100 times worse greenhouse gas than CO2. It’s only called 20 or 80 times because the hydroxyl radicals degrade the methane into CO2. When billions of tonnes of methane hit the atmosphere it will just use up all the hydroxyl radical.

Net Zero is nowhere near enough. Net Zero by 2030 is not enough, far too late. Net Zero by 2050 is assured because civilisation will not survive the 12-15 C temperature increase that will come from letting the permafrost thaw.

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- @mikestaub
  
  May 2, 2024 at 9:01 am
  
  Everyone is at a different stage of grief. Some are in denial, these people are still in bargaining.
  
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@johnthomasriley2741

April 30, 2024 at 8:41 am

How does AI fit in this plan?

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@selinaydogan1434

April 30, 2024 at 9:58 am

Don’t touch my meat. It’s frustrating to have to handle meat when there are industrial gases and so many other air pollutions. I don’t want to eat anything artificial. Eating meat is our body’s need.

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@gyomen

April 30, 2024 at 12:55 pm

the big climate issue that is going on is the shadow governments political climate destroying our entire society as we know it

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@micro8106

April 30, 2024 at 1:43 pm

Grateful knowledge from Ted video. It is the time which we need to consider our nature and future environment. Long time ago, the nature was devastating by fuel and gas and it attack the biology cycle, as soon as possible this problem are coming in our society. One of the key to resolve the problem is less eat meat, and I agree with this statement. I know growing cows and pigs are acquire huge source such as water and stockpile based on that we don’t need to be a vegetarian, we just need to reduce some of the meat in our table. This solution could help us to enhance our environment.

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@lifeleisuresa1229

April 30, 2024 at 1:51 pm

Just one problem. THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS!!

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