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Humanity’s planet-shaping powers — and what they mean for the future | Achim Steiner
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Humanity now has incredible power to shape nature and the Earth: the power to destroy and the power to repair, says sustainability champion and UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. In this action-oriented talk, Steiner shows how this power is putting…
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When wildfires rage in California, incarcerated people are often on the front lines fighting the flames. TED Fellow Royal Ramey was one of them. He shares the story of how doing public service in prison inspired him to cofound the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit helping formerly incarcerated people become wildland firefighters —…
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Why aren’t restaurants part of the climate solution? This question inspired chef Anthony Myint to go from opening buzzy pop-ups to pushing for a shift to regenerative farming practices in the food system. He explains how it didn’t go the way he expected at first — and how restaurants are now teaming up with farmers…
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Dani68ABminus
February 4, 2021 at 8:44 pm
Living by principles that are life-affirming instead of life-destroying. What can I do instead of what can you do for me. This is how we shape a better future. Thank you for this important message.
ok ok
February 4, 2021 at 8:46 pm
Iam watching their video at 2 a.m . From India
Infinitum Neo
February 4, 2021 at 8:47 pm
This is a very important crucial topic for our generation and our legacy.
Rooted Reality
February 4, 2021 at 8:55 pm
Wish I could add more than 1 like 👍
cherifleury
February 4, 2021 at 9:28 pm
“Have you accepted totalitarianism — masquerading as a greener and more equitable future — as your lord and savior?”
The Big Picture
February 4, 2021 at 9:55 pm
Have you accepted Big Oil – masquerading as Freedom – as your Lord and Saviour?
Agamend0rn
February 4, 2021 at 9:41 pm
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The Big Picture
February 4, 2021 at 9:58 pm
I’m calling you now to give you all my financial and credit card info.
Zenn Exile
February 4, 2021 at 9:57 pm
Humanity doesn’t have planet shaping powers. A very small ultra minority population of psychopathic wealth consolidators have, and abuse, planet shaping powers for profit. You take this dang o propaganda and shove it right straight up your prop, or your ganda if you feel like. You ain’t trickin nobody johnny richboy. Sustainability… my left DNA accelerator. “WE” ain’t part of the Corporate Feudal Agenda. Humanity is just being strung along by psychopaths who were allowed to take 10,000X more than any human in all of known history ever needed.
Ligia Sommers
February 4, 2021 at 10:08 pm
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻💖🌷
Shadin Ahmed
February 4, 2021 at 10:08 pm
Those Who Do Not Understand True Pain Can Never Understand True Peace.” – ‘pain’
Shadin Ahmed
February 4, 2021 at 10:09 pm
We Are Just Ordinary People Driven To Revenge In The Name Of Justice. But If Revenge Is Called Justice, Then That Justice Breeds Yet More Revenge And Becomes A Chain Of Hatred. – ‘pain’
Shadin Ahmed
February 4, 2021 at 10:10 pm
Pain Is The Only Way To Teach, Pain Is The Only Solution To Peace. If You Want To Know Pain, You Need To Understand Pain.”
Shadin Ahmed
February 4, 2021 at 10:10 pm
Just By Living, People Hurt Others Without Even Realizing It. So Long As Humanity Exists, Hate Will Also Exist. There Is No Peace In This Accursed World. War Is Just A Crime Paid For By The Pain Of The Defeated.”
Shadin Ahmed
February 4, 2021 at 10:11 pm
Religion, Ideology, Resources, Land, Spite, Love Or Just Because. No Matter How Pathetic The Reason, It’s Enough To Start A War.”
Shadin Ahmed
February 4, 2021 at 10:13 pm
Huh! All the answer is in ‘ Naruto ‘
Sir , you must watch full ‘naruto’.
Then you will know what i am saying.
@TED😶🙃
Jedi Lady
February 4, 2021 at 10:18 pm
Let us go to the road of positivity, love and unity to a better and healthier human earth!🌱🌎🌱
Joshfisher Fisher
February 4, 2021 at 11:10 pm
💥💥✌️✌️✌️💯💯💯💯
Joshfisher Fisher
February 4, 2021 at 11:11 pm
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February 4, 2021 at 11:12 pm
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Joshfisher Fisher
February 4, 2021 at 11:15 pm
For proper guidance reach Mr Peter roland
Bob Barker
February 4, 2021 at 11:11 pm
Learn what shapes the Government Agenda
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vangelis sotiropoulos
February 4, 2021 at 11:14 pm
Progress and not idealism change lives..
Btown Tom
February 4, 2021 at 11:19 pm
I switched off at “I work at the UN”
Gabriel Avila
February 4, 2021 at 11:44 pm
Aren’t you that guy who mention persecution of Christians
True Crime Queen TV
February 4, 2021 at 11:21 pm
Love these videos! I always click right away. Stay safe out there everyone 🙏❤️
Konstantinos Kyfonidis
February 5, 2021 at 11:45 am
you too, spread positivity!
Jonas Br
February 5, 2021 at 12:02 am
This speech is a whole lot of nothing. Maybe it’s because I’ve heard so many of these speeches but they boil down to “we can better”. However, he fails to call out exactly what is causing climate change, hunger, and injustice to continually get worse. He fails to call out the people in power who choose to pollute and abuse labor. Bezos owns enough wealth to completely fund American health care and still be a billionaire. Bolsonaro is allowing the rain forest to be burned down to allow for more beef exports. 20 companies are behind 1/3 of all carbon emissions. It’s our failing economic and political systems that allow for this happen. If you’re going to talk about this, then say who is responsible, why they are responsible, and what we can do about it. Yes, people change systems, but it’s the people in power that are enforcing these systems. As we’ve seen in France, India, and America, it is with violent force and media influence that corporations and politicians enforce a capitalist system that empowers short term profits over our long term wellbeing and the survival of our species. Do better!
Bri Lar
February 5, 2021 at 12:45 am
Use blockchain tech to decentralize power.
Mutant Buzzard
February 5, 2021 at 12:46 am
oil is renewable, wind won’t last with the current tech, and once you mine all of the rare earth mettles solar won’t ether
Samuel Christian
February 5, 2021 at 12:54 am
Oil is only renewable when enough organic matter die and decompose for more than a billion years to become oil, if we wait that long, it would be too late and we’ll become fossil fuels ourselves from damaging the environment
Mutant Buzzard
February 5, 2021 at 1:02 am
@Samuel Christian u r deluded the youngest oil found so far is around 5000 years old,
do u think that the planet stooped making oil?
Samuel Christian
February 5, 2021 at 1:24 am
@Mutant Buzzard do you want to wait that long though? You lose a lot of precious time
Mutant Buzzard
February 5, 2021 at 3:37 am
@Samuel Christian is that the billion yo oil pov? again u r deluded if u think ethanol is is in any way “clean” no one yet has made an ethanol powered vehicle that can pass California emission standards and unlike using oil for fuel which puts hydrogen back in to the environmental hydraulicall system, storing hydrogen takes it a way, possibly leading to catastrophic drought
Samuel Christian
February 5, 2021 at 3:46 am
@Mutant Buzzard ethanol is not entirely clean bit it does emit less carbon, if you want clean energy then thorium nuclear would be the solution and there is currently a development for zero carbon fuel using CO2 as its fuel source bit emit zero carbon
Erik Burzinski
February 5, 2021 at 3:57 am
@Mutant Buzzard nuclear is the solution it is far safer when measured in deaths per 1 terrawatt hour then it has the least death and that is useing the highest estimates from scientific studys.
Mutant Buzzard
February 5, 2021 at 4:14 am
@Samuel Christian u r deluded, if that was true then they would mandate ethanol fuel in call and you can’t subsist eating oil, using food for fuel leads to famine in poor nations.
there is no way liberals will let US use nuke power
Mutant Buzzard
February 5, 2021 at 4:17 am
@Erik Burzinski to that liberals say “Fukushima u”
Sasha Townsend - Tulsa
February 5, 2021 at 12:52 am
Beautiful talk, with a beautiful vision. Thank you!
Tumelo Mapheto
February 5, 2021 at 1:02 am
Thank you
Eli Nope
February 5, 2021 at 2:04 am
I expect to be paid for my labor pursuing someone else’s happiness in advance this time around.
Daniel Matthews
February 5, 2021 at 3:45 am
The UN is a complete failure, the world has been constantly at war somewhere since its founding, and they are always reactive to conflicts which were no surprise to people with the levels of intelligence gathering that the UN has. We need an organisation that operates like an asian doctor, they get rewarded for keeping the customer healthy, not for being prescriptive after the fact, not that it is realistic to expect the current UN to ever be that capable. Countless people have died or lived in great suffering due to the incompetence and corruption within the UN.
K D
February 6, 2021 at 10:14 am
By 2030, you will own nothing and be happy. Didn’t you hear about their agenda yet?
Tord Brudevoll
February 8, 2021 at 4:59 am
Seems unfair to judge the UN’s effectiveness on the basis of the actions of nations and groups other than the UN during the UN’s existence. How do you expect them to prevent other nations and organisations from committing atrocities before they’ve been committed? That would be like criticising a policeman for not arresting a criminal before he’s committed a crime. If you created an organisation to work towards getting rid of plastic waste for instance, I wouldn’t call it a complete failure on the grounds that there is still plastic waste left in the world…
Daniel Matthews
February 8, 2021 at 5:31 am
@Tord Brudevoll You didn’t understand a word I wote, or worse you did and deliberately raised strawman arguments so as to avoid dealing with what I have actually pointed out. It is psychopathic to be so shamelessly dishonest about actions that have caused so many human deaths. It is entirely fair to judge the UN on the basis of what its members knew and failed to act on in an effective and timely manner, otherwise “the UN” is an oxymoron. Furthermore is it not uncommon for the intelligence services of competent nations, such as Australia, to arrest terrorists before they have acted, that is a key part of their role, monitoring and preemptive intervention. So you see even your strawman arguments are pathetic. Perhaps you want to review what I actually wrote and address that?
Tord Brudevoll
February 8, 2021 at 1:00 pm
@Daniel Matthews I was just trying to point out that it seems unfair to judge the success or failure of a humanitarian organisation based on whether or not the thing it has vowed to combat is completely eradicated. The human race has always been at war, throughout it’s entire history, and the fact that it still is doesn’t necessarily mean that the UN is a failure. And conspiring to commit acts of terrorism is in fact a crime, so doesn’t disprove anything I said. Crime is always, by definition, in the past or present. If we are going to start rounding up potential future criminals, then that’s a VERY slippery slope. Should be noted that I’m not pro or anti-UN myself, just felt like your criticism and the reasoning behind it seemed unjustified, and wanted to point that out. It could of course just be that your initial comment was badly formulated, and that you have excellent reason for stating that the UN is a complete failure, but if so, it didn’t show itself in your initial argument.
Cliff Mays
February 5, 2021 at 3:47 am
That was not a football team as they had no helmets or shoulder pads. They look to me as if they were playing soccer.
Tyrankoos of the deep
February 5, 2021 at 4:25 am
We must push for a Constitutional direct liquid democracy.
End private property and copyrights.
End passive income.
Push for personal property and open source
Push for planned economy with ai and online sensors and automation and shared work. Aka 4hour work days or 3 days a week with same pay level and more employees. And push for automation as fast as possible
Aka a new version of socialism . And we must end capitalism .
iloveagdolls30
February 5, 2021 at 4:41 am
Great job 👍👌
Stand For freedom
February 5, 2021 at 7:24 am
This is the great reset bs. If you havent heard of it or think it’s a conspiracy I strongly urge you to read up on the world economic forum website
They're Distorting Your Rhthym 126
February 5, 2021 at 11:15 am
Millions AWAKE
Zielosław Wiesław
February 5, 2021 at 8:34 am
“…the power to alter the atmosphere and the biosphere (…). No species has ever had that kind of power before.” – well, tell that to these ancient microbes who evolved photosynthesis (-> oxygen levels rising beyond measure, causing mass extinction of anaerobic organisms). We humans tend to think so big of ourselvers, or maybe it’s just me being picky 🙂
John Paul Oclarit
February 5, 2021 at 10:06 am
I really wish to be invited in Ted talks, sharing my story, about my life, the life here on earth to inspire and motivate someone! I hope so…
Nouhaila l
February 5, 2021 at 10:09 am
Good luck
Khaim Gulkovich
February 5, 2021 at 12:02 pm
Anthropocentrism is an ideological paradigm, and not an economic one.
Khaim Gulkovich
February 5, 2021 at 12:10 pm
More, more war! More, more bloodshed!
fatalmystic
February 5, 2021 at 1:54 pm
Our power to change the world is just a totally uncontrollable experiment of chaos. To believe we are in control is utter BS. We don’t control the climate system!
Also: Climate catastrophy is only in it’s infancy, but we are already in the 6th mass extinction! BECAUSE of our wealth producing but opressive, industrial, poisenous shitshow which the UN totally goes along with.
Without removing this capitalist, nationalist patriarchy we stand no chance. We can not change the world, we can change human societies.
Also: This guys non-mentioning of prolonged neo-colonialism is a slap in the face.
Timprime DiBiase
February 5, 2021 at 2:13 pm
The earth belongs to God and the fullest with in . You need to kill 40000000 people to save it .
Brian Kagimu
February 5, 2021 at 2:18 pm
This is very inspirational
Meer Mehrunnisa
February 5, 2021 at 3:34 pm
This is a talk we really need to think about
Larry mac
February 5, 2021 at 4:21 pm
Its big business that has caused the majority of damage to our enviroments. They have become fat from the resources of our planet, now they meet at Davos and decide how we should be punished and restricted. They have polluted our waterways and our lands, they have even filled our air with contaminents. They need to hang.
Tatiyana
February 5, 2021 at 5:13 pm
I loved the idea of the poem…
those words must be written somewhere…
I don’t know where exactly… but it must be somewhere.. – SO,
that every person on the Globe could read it at any moment in time..
Thank You! – 💕✌🏻
K D
February 6, 2021 at 10:11 am
Didn’t they just confirm their agenda 2030, that you will own nothing and you will be happy?
——> I really hope humanity has the power to achieve what you said.