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The Climate Movement Needs New Stories — Here’s Mine | Fenton Lutunatabua | TED

“We are not drowning. We are fighting,” says storyteller Fenton Lutunatabua, echoing the mantra of the climate activists he works with across the Pacific. (Recorded at TED Countdown: Overcoming Dilemmas in the Green Transition on October 30, 2024) Countdown is TED’s global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a…

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“We are not drowning. We are fighting,” says storyteller Fenton Lutunatabua, echoing the mantra of the climate activists he works with across the Pacific. (Recorded at TED Countdown: Overcoming Dilemmas in the Green Transition on October 30, 2024)

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  1. @philcollins9517

    June 29, 2025 at 11:04 am

    🤮

  2. @Harrythehowler

    June 29, 2025 at 11:06 am

    Climate Manipulation* NOT Climate Change! Bio-Engineering , cloud seeds & chem trails are very real! Look up “Santa Barbara watershed project” and think about the the LA fires

  3. @Jasonxbr

    June 29, 2025 at 11:08 am

    The Western world needs to learn from this. 😊😊😊😊😊
    Resuse, reduce, respect 🙏 🫡 👏 🌎

    • @MrBrowne86

      June 29, 2025 at 3:52 pm

      But not China or India?

    • @l01230123

      June 29, 2025 at 4:15 pm

      @@MrBrowne86 Yes, that’s _obviously_ the point — not that TED has a large western audience or there’s truth in it. You’re being a really good listener, and _not_ _at_ _all_ using a truism! 🙃

    • @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z

      June 29, 2025 at 11:49 pm

      PM Modi of ln’dia has demanded $300 billion dollars of climate reparations Ransom from the West while India has 307 million farting cows, Burns 1.3 billion tons of coal every year, and India’s largest export is fossil fuels. It’s a Global scam it’s only getting worse your grandchildren will eat dirt and beg for coppers from their Indian overlords who are taking over America. 200 billion dollars a year of us jobs already going to India and more every year

  4. @loudspeaker-solutions

    June 29, 2025 at 11:25 am

    fatality creates victims all over the world.

  5. @CleaningUpAmerica

    June 29, 2025 at 11:27 am

    If not understanding science were a person.

    • @hudsonurruttia

      June 29, 2025 at 1:04 pm

      He’s doing better than you at guiding a narrative. Narrative is everything. Doesn’t even matter if you have science behind what you say as our potus can show you

    • @CleaningUpAmerica

      June 29, 2025 at 1:16 pm

      ​@hudsonurruttia He’s not. Considering I have helped write laws in my state, helped get cannabis legalized, and have changed the type of food served in the school district I went to while I was still in high school. I retired 7 years ago at the age of 40 and once cannabis is legal in all 50 states I’ll sell off my patented growing and ventilation system to the highest bidder securing wealth in my family for infinite generations. Currently my system is only being used on multiple reservations across the country, so yeah, this guy is miles ahead of me. 😂😂😂

    • @nathanjames1089

      June 29, 2025 at 3:12 pm

      I think he brings up a good point that aiming for true sustainability requires a more human element. Obviously showing people science doesn’t seem to work as well as it should, people are not logical and long-term-oriented enough for that. I also appreciate his focus on agency and not giving up in the face of gargantuan problems.

    • @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z

      June 29, 2025 at 11:45 pm

      Border Czar KAMALA letting 14,000,000 3W indigents in, from their Net Zero cultures, to America’s 1W energy intensive needs for heating, food and transportation, has added *40 MEGATONS of CO2* … every year. *Karbon Kamala!* 👌

      Greta Thunberg _the paid child actress_ is now, age 22, worth over $1,000,000, _after taxes!_ al-Gore’s Carbon Cap & Trade Scheme (legal name) syndicate *paid $4,000,000 for her UN spaz show.*

    • @SuperRONDALE

      June 30, 2025 at 3:11 pm

      ​@@CleaningUpAmericaand now you’re here. Crazy

  6. @balajiadithya1292

    June 29, 2025 at 11:42 am

    Bruh you’re boring

  7. @artg5726

    June 29, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Superior perspective.
    Your approach includes others as well as your self.
    Enjoy this time

  8. @maje9448

    June 29, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Convention

  9. @Tenso-lh3tm

    June 29, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    Climate change is a big lie imposed by imperialism to 3rd world countries to avoid them to develop themselves technologically.

  10. @meanderinoranges

    June 29, 2025 at 12:38 pm

    I have watermelon fatigue. It’s time to take environmentalism back from the Marxists.

    • @l01230123

      June 29, 2025 at 4:21 pm

      What does that even mean..? The Marxists stole your ability to care, so you’re gonna get ’em? 😅🤷‍♂

    • @at7able

      June 29, 2025 at 6:08 pm

      What does watermelon fatigue means?

    • @at7able

      June 29, 2025 at 6:13 pm

      Do you think this video has Marxist narrative? I was waiting for it but I couldn’t find it

    • @meanderinoranges

      June 29, 2025 at 6:37 pm

      ​@@at7ablewatermelons are green on the outside, and red on the inside. Get it yet?

    • @at7able

      June 29, 2025 at 6:39 pm

      @@meanderinorangesyep xd

  11. @CalmWatersLiving

    June 29, 2025 at 1:05 pm

    We are fighting needs to be – “We are Nurturing” our climate.
    Climate is a constant ongoing event. Understanding the climate is to nurture our environment and see how the climate can helps improve our Nurturing abilities.

    • @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z

      June 29, 2025 at 11:47 pm

      All I know when I lived in the tropics for 7 years I felt a lot more nurtured than I did when I lived in f****** freezing Alaska for 7 years.

    • @SibylleLeon

      June 30, 2025 at 6:35 am

      Fighting. Nurturing hasn’t worked in the past 40 years. It’s time to fight.

    • @CalmWatersLiving

      June 30, 2025 at 8:49 am

      Fighting means you want someone to be a looser? That you do not care about the other? This talk did not carry hate but concern. His words were of concern and ways to find solutions. That is to nurture through love for what will be good for all​@SibylleLeon

    • @SibylleLeon

      June 30, 2025 at 11:03 am

      @@CalmWatersLiving That’s not what it means at all, but you do you.

    • @CalmWatersLiving

      June 30, 2025 at 11:38 am

      I appreciate your reply. My take is on the verbiage being used and action being attached. Words matter.​@SibylleLeon

  12. @cgr1825

    June 29, 2025 at 2:02 pm

    Keep being AMAZING!!❤

  13. @l01230123

    June 29, 2025 at 4:29 pm

    More like fossil fools

    [Extra large nerd emoji]

  14. @leviefrauim1425

    June 29, 2025 at 7:43 pm

    Ya know what the climate movement needs? To STFU. It’s a theory proven false over and over. We know what it’s all about- power and control by the left. Not anymore- we’re done w/this BS.

    • @TheKevman12

      June 29, 2025 at 7:59 pm

      Wtf. Way more than 90% of climate scientist agree, we produce this. Your problem seems to be a general distrust in sciene, which could be seen happy if you had the slightest idea of how epistemology works. If that is the case I will not bother with you.

    • @leviefrauim1425

      June 30, 2025 at 7:16 am

      @@TheKevman12that’s a blatantly false claim and has been disproven. Most scientists understand this is a money and political power grab, there’s no evidence to substantiate any of this hysteria.

  15. @TiberiusEmpire

    June 29, 2025 at 9:44 pm

    How much did they pay this guy to talk nonsense?

  16. @AhyeesOasis

    June 29, 2025 at 11:22 pm

    ❤❤❤

  17. @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z

    June 29, 2025 at 11:44 pm

    Growing up, the elders who considered them are Royals sold our Island fishing rights to the Chinese in return for some boat docks and Port facilities. Now we export Capra to China and there are no fish in the lagoon because China catches all those before we do. This is a new story for the new century of climate Doom goblins

  18. @Project13-f6d

    June 30, 2025 at 12:52 am

    I agree the climate needs new stories cause they are saying the same thing over and over…so much so that I wonder if they ae just saying what their parents believe/believed or if they are speaking their own truth

  19. @jeffluo9591

    June 30, 2025 at 1:18 am

    Why is the US reversing back to coal anyway?

    • @ba3787

      June 30, 2025 at 3:00 am

      The coal miners want their good old jobs back, and they managed to vote Trump in. Also certain coastal liberal types made their living demeaning these men and women, this is what happened.

    • @ExistentialWolf

      June 30, 2025 at 7:29 am

      these are corporate commercials … you want to mine you can mine 🙂

    • @l01230123

      June 30, 2025 at 10:44 am

      So Trump can pretend he’s being useful while sending people to their deaths, ignoring renewable’s increasing value and be bought by fossil fuel companies, and some people think it’s easier to work themselves to death than find a new job.

      My grandfather was a coal miner, him and many of his friends died slow deaths from lung cancer. The ones who weren’t killed by cave-ins at least, some called them lucky.

    • @ExploreVanIsle

      June 30, 2025 at 12:02 pm

      It’s needed to on-shore all that ore smelting

  20. @mariaantoniettamontella9173

    June 30, 2025 at 5:12 am

    evviva

  21. @heykike

    June 30, 2025 at 5:22 am

    It needs ACTIONS, not more stories.. clickbait

  22. @Slipstream0001

    June 30, 2025 at 10:53 am

    The banking and oil moguls at the pointy end want to reduce the population, so they convince the dumb masses that we shouldn’t be allowed to use the resources that keep us alive and sustain populations.

  23. @user-fo7rh8sh7b

    June 30, 2025 at 7:06 pm

    One thing I can today is carrying water bottle from my home, not buying PET bottled water. It is a small thing, but…???

  24. @Me_Anandita

    July 1, 2025 at 10:10 am

    Sustainability starts from these steps

  25. @joependleton6293

    July 1, 2025 at 6:06 pm

    We are heating 🌎 🌡 up the planet? Great to see individuals speak out 👍 👍 👍 especially on things that matters to them! Interesting videos Ted☆

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