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Floating Farms, Sponge Cities and the Climate Solutions Already Working | Harjeet Singh | TED

What if every dollar you spend today could save you 10 dollars tomorrow? Development expert Harjeet Singh reveals how climate solutions like floating farms and “sponge cities” that absorb floodwater aren’t just clever adaptations — they’re smart economics. He explains why wealthy nations must fund the adaptation efforts of developing countries and shows how anybody…

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What if every dollar you spend today could save you 10 dollars tomorrow? Development expert Harjeet Singh reveals how climate solutions like floating farms and “sponge cities” that absorb floodwater aren’t just clever adaptations — they’re smart economics. He explains why wealthy nations must fund the adaptation efforts of developing countries and shows how anybody can build resilience to climate change no matter where they are. (Recorded at TED Countdown Summit 2025 on June 17, 2025)

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38 Comments

  1. @harirao6991

    October 9, 2025 at 11:29 am

    Good job 🎉❤

  2. @Stephill-f8o

    October 9, 2025 at 11:51 am

    Wird sehr „spannend“ werden. 😬Grad für die Landwirte. 😢In meiner Gegend gibt es fast auf jeder bewirtschafteten Fläche Beweise von Keltensiedlungen. Wir sind froh, wenn “Goldgräber” ihren Mund halten, wenn sie was finden🤫. Die meisten suchen eh illegal. 😤Wenn man sie erwischt und anzeigen möchte, drohen sie mit Veröffentlichung ihrer Funde, was bedeuten könnte, dass Ackerflächen wegen Forschungszwecken brach gelegt werden müssten. 😣Landwirte sind derart eingeschüchtert, dass sie es lieber hinnehmen, nachts die Sondler auf ihrem Acker buddeln zu haben, als Anzeige zu erstatten. Traurig. Geschichte und Archäologie sind zwar spannend, dürfen aber nicht auf Kosten der Landwirtschaft gehen. 🙏

  3. @Jasonxbr

    October 9, 2025 at 11:53 am

    The real reason for not adopting climate change solutions is greed, corruption, powerful oil, natural gas, coal, companies lobbyists that pays oops I mean contributions to the politicians donors and their affiliates. 😢😢😢😢😢😢 when all the reachable resources are completed runs dry and the sea levels have rise, the deserts has formed into wasteland while all the pollution has ruined the habitats, declining humans population and food and water security then maybe they will look into renewable. FYI. Your not going to leave earth and escape your destruction on planet and try to do the same on another. First its not financially viable and two the tech isn’t there without deaths and contamination with aliens microbes. Add we humans aren’t designed to leave earth with out long terms effects physical and psychological 😢😢😢😢😢 a complete failure of the highest order by the capitalism of greed, corruption, power, control, regulation, oversight, laws and ethical practices. We ourselves doomed humanity 😢😢😢😢😢

  4. @saranbhatia8809

    October 9, 2025 at 12:06 pm

    Yes we need to act collectively and use collective wisdom for bringing the desired objectives for happy coexistence.

  5. @flynfrd

    October 9, 2025 at 12:21 pm

    India is a 3rd world country. We have been modern farming for decades. Ted gives him a platform because he has a towel on his head. He’s speaking of climate change, but India is THE WORST for the environment. Change India, don’t change the world. Put you money where your mouth is.

  6. @kingofhoarbags

    October 9, 2025 at 1:10 pm

    Climate change is out of style.
    Try coming up with a new better hoax.

  7. @contrarianviewpoint

    October 9, 2025 at 1:19 pm

    You’ve got an impossible task of convincing older people that human caused climate change amounts to anything. That is because we were fearmongered and propagandized on this 50 years ago. We have seen through the decades the lies and deceit. The only thing that has really changed is the words they use and the talking heads on TV. We call BS, you lied so much there is no credibility. We heard all this crap back in the 70s and 80s and it was our grandparents that told us that is was BS. Turns out our grandparents were right and the so called experts were wrong. Now we are the grandparents telling our grandchildren that it is all lies, except now it’s on Youtube instead of the family gatherings and church socials from decades ago. Doesn’t make the fearmongering or propaganda any different.

  8. @SeegerInstitute

    October 9, 2025 at 1:26 pm

    Thank you for this talk, but has a regenerative farmer who is trying to restore, vibrant ecosystems to process, incoming solar energy through photosynthesis with a holistic approach as long as the discussion centers around fossil fuel energy without acknowledging that we have destroyed the planets capacity to process energy into matter, and other things, we will not advance this conversation. We need to change the story from one of the blame of fossil fuel energy to one of human civilization, starting with the dawn of Agriculture 13,000 years ago to acknowledge that our relationship with the planet has been corrupted, and that we no longer understand that our survival depends on the survival of the entire ecosystem, and that it is only in support of life in general, and acknowledging that life is an interconnected Superorganism in evolution that we can survive. At the moment we are acting as a virus, killing our host, but it is not exclusively about Solar about fossil fuel energy. It’s about environmental degradation, and not caring for the planet.

  9. @ExistentialWolf

    October 9, 2025 at 1:33 pm

    The crisis is mechanical hysteresis … the ultimate contribution to social human virtue is minimizing one’s food waste.

  10. @sophia.shamani

    October 9, 2025 at 4:45 pm

    Important 🙏🏻 Thank you for caring for our planet

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  33. @althea1315

    October 10, 2025 at 10:25 am

    I really love learning about new initiatives towards tackling climate change, but lately I have been feeling very hopeless due to the countless natural disaster events occurring worldwide and the lack of action towards fixing its source. However this Ted Talk was very inspirational and brought me a lot of hope, so thank you Harjeet, this is one of my favourite Ted Talks 🙂

  34. @cnealmartin

    October 10, 2025 at 1:46 pm

    35 years of climate change predictions, someone please name 1 that has come true??

    • @BonnieShadow33

      October 11, 2025 at 8:07 pm

      Glaciers melting. Rising sea levels. I gave you a bonus one.

  35. @doubleuenbeeeh

    October 10, 2025 at 5:08 pm

    “so what you and I can do?”

  36. @bck-89

    October 11, 2025 at 9:46 am

    India wale khana hagenge..kahan mutenge..aur kahan kudha fekenge wahi sikh jaae ..wahi badi baat hai…

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