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Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Picture your favorite place in nature. How would you feel if it disappeared tomorrow? In this love letter to the planet, social worker and environmental activist Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug invites us to confront the deep, difficult emotions — love,…

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Picture your favorite place in nature. How would you feel if it disappeared tomorrow? In this love letter to the planet, social worker and environmental activist Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug invites us to confront the deep, difficult emotions — love, sorrow and even rage — born from climate-driven ecological loss in order to act in service of our collective home.

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48 Comments

48 Comments

  1. Nicole on EQ

    April 1, 2021 at 3:11 pm

    Hope everyone reading this has a lovely day 💗

    • ianbearpig

      April 1, 2021 at 3:53 pm

      Stfu

  2. Farha Ibtisam

    April 1, 2021 at 3:11 pm

    We are closing the doors of our genuine peace for temporary comfort😔

  3. John Buckner

    April 1, 2021 at 3:11 pm

    It’s only recently we weren’t working sunup to sundown just to scrape out another day of survival for our children; unfortunately, industrialization and mass production has had some unintended consequences. Yet innovation has given us solutions, so let’s overcome our fear of nuclear power and fix this problem.

    • GIA ĐÌNH NHỎ

      April 1, 2021 at 3:13 pm

      I agree with you

    • Matthew Morton

      April 1, 2021 at 3:27 pm

      Bro…..life wasn’t THAT goddamn harsh lolol If we’re smart enough to invent Nuclear Energy……you don’t think we weren’t smart enough to get better at the very BASIC activities we did for thousands of years? lol

      Ya’ll gotta stop believing hollywood.

  4. Self-Education Methodology

    April 1, 2021 at 3:15 pm

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  5. Zakkeus Trepanier

    April 1, 2021 at 3:25 pm

    Emotions should not be powering anything. That’s not how you should be making any sort of important decision.

    • CHIPMUNK RAPIDS MADMAN

      April 1, 2021 at 4:15 pm

      But emotional response is what qualifies for science now.

    • Ken Romero

      April 1, 2021 at 4:21 pm

      Only if “believing in science” is your thing. Apparently no one tells these folks the difference between science and religion.

    • CHIPMUNK RAPIDS MADMAN

      April 1, 2021 at 4:27 pm

      @Ken Romero the reason Christian biblical prophecy remains relevant is because of the ambiguity of most of the predictions.

      The climate religion adherents believe in very unambiguous prophecy that never comes to pass

    • clearmenser

      April 1, 2021 at 11:47 pm

      @CHIPMUNK RAPIDS MADMAN damn, son

  6. Matthew Morton

    April 1, 2021 at 3:28 pm

    I make it a habit to distrust White Europeans…..the rest of the world should follow suit 😉

    • wojciech strzelecki

      April 1, 2021 at 5:10 pm

      Dat wink at the end

  7. SleezeHead

    April 1, 2021 at 3:29 pm

    April fools!

  8. jcooligan

    April 1, 2021 at 3:31 pm

    dude! epic april fools prank, you really got me my brony! keep it poggers my dude. 😉

  9. Vivek Panchal

    April 1, 2021 at 3:32 pm

    gratitude to nature for the peace it provides despite our nature of polluting it.

  10. Lee Spector

    April 1, 2021 at 3:35 pm

    Ohmilord, what utter, leftist drivel. More uber-environmental clap trap. Man is evil. Nature is good. We should all be dressed in twigs and leaves, eating grass, living fully in nature. All due to the fiction that is climate change. Lemme summarize- the Earth has been evolving for 6 billion years and will continue to do so, long after mankind has departed this planet. Get over it.

  11. Sannidor

    April 1, 2021 at 3:36 pm

    Man made climate change is a lie and a hoax. They surely want YOU to panic.

    • wojciech strzelecki

      April 1, 2021 at 5:06 pm

      Those who tell the stories rule society. Plato

  12. GuitarZombie

    April 1, 2021 at 3:38 pm

    I’m sad you want to geoengineer the weather by spraying chemicals.
    I’m sad you want to make glycophosphate legal to use.
    I’m sad you want to genetically modify plants and animals.
    These are the things that concern me……..not climate change.

  13. Cecilia Spears

    April 1, 2021 at 3:47 pm

    That was beautiful. Thank you!

  14. insertpienow

    April 1, 2021 at 4:05 pm

    zealot…..

    • Antonio Usai

      April 4, 2021 at 6:15 pm

      The guy with a Trump’s picture is talking about zealotry. You can’t even think on your own.

  15. Marcella Tarpley

    April 1, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    I found this book helpful for my sorrow and gave me a place to feel connected behalf of life: Climate Cure, by Jack Adam Weber

  16. Suyash Gupta

    April 1, 2021 at 4:21 pm

    By the time we come together, it will be too late😓

    • TED

      April 2, 2021 at 1:34 pm

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  17. Divyanshu Jaiswal

    April 1, 2021 at 4:36 pm

    Very stressful year 😓

  18. chyfields

    April 1, 2021 at 5:00 pm

    It is said that what we perceive externally is a projection of our own inner microbiome.

  19. Sain D

    April 1, 2021 at 5:38 pm

    When you use personal feelings instead of scientific research and methods then you are a charlatan and sycophants hobbling the mass with propaganda! Nothing more!

  20. Mohamed Esam

    April 1, 2021 at 6:36 pm

    We have to launch a campaign against everything and everyone destroying our nature because it’s a painful topic . Who agree with my point of view?!

    • TED

      April 2, 2021 at 1:33 pm

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    • Sommer Ray

      April 4, 2021 at 3:48 pm

      What are you talking about ?

  21. Za Az

    April 1, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    Mankind’s final act with Nature may be a Murder/Suicide.

    Come back when all the plastic is gone.

  22. Solitary Reaper

    April 1, 2021 at 8:13 pm

    Stop making babies – best climate action anyone can take

  23. James Kulevich

    April 1, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    Perfect day to release this video (April fools) because this is a bunch of grade A, smelly BS.

  24. credenza1

    April 1, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    Climate activists are motivated by narcissism, bourgeois status seeking and class snobbery. They presume to be better than their fellow citizens, morally and intellectually. Extinction rebellion has such contempt for (and lack of understanding of ) the productive and working people that it will screw with their lives as if they didn’t matter -shutting down city streets and wrecking their livelihoods. It is the arrogance of the aristocratic class, holding themselves above the law, insisting that their pet concerns get given priority, and indifferent to the harm they inflict.

  25. Razali Jantan

    April 2, 2021 at 12:02 am

    Plant more trees and stop using plastics bags.

  26. Razali Jantan

    April 2, 2021 at 12:02 am

    Plant more trees and stop using plastic bags.

  27. Paradite

    April 2, 2021 at 3:24 am

    holy, what a name lol.

  28. Kevin Jessy

    April 2, 2021 at 7:06 am

    Good talk! Tanks,

  29. Hendra Adi Saputra

    April 2, 2021 at 3:43 pm

    is life only information and data?

  30. Emen Nakoti

    April 2, 2021 at 4:54 pm

    Love is everything…. Agree like plz

  31. Ronaldo do Amaral

    April 3, 2021 at 5:12 pm

    “While there is life, there is hope”.

    • I Ozilto

      April 6, 2021 at 2:12 pm

      The door of hope is now closed

  32. Richard Branam

    April 4, 2021 at 10:53 pm

    It’s really all about management when in America we have two opposing political parties. And in our international world opposing ideologies, spending so much energy trying to control all other forms of life, we have instability. This is not natural it’s a pathology that needs many solutions, and unfortunately too many ideologies are driven by greed, over a man-made system of exchange, not worthy of the cost.

  33. Phyllobates Terribilis

    April 5, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    Yeah, emotional decision making works so well.

  34. kebakent

    April 6, 2021 at 6:27 pm

    Where did all the dislikes go

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