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A New Social Contract for Global Climate Justice | Huma Yusuf | TED

Pakistan contributes less than one percent to the global greenhouse gas emissions perpetrating climate change, yet one-third of the country was recently inundated with “biblical” floods that killed hundreds and displaced millions. If we’re to move towards a sustainable future in the wake of such tragedies, the response will require more than just infrastructure repairs…

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Pakistan contributes less than one percent to the global greenhouse gas emissions perpetrating climate change, yet one-third of the country was recently inundated with “biblical” floods that killed hundreds and displaced millions. If we’re to move towards a sustainable future in the wake of such tragedies, the response will require more than just infrastructure repairs and a return to the status quo, says columnist Huma Yusuf. She shares a vision for global climate diplomacy where the countries responsible for pollution pay reparations for the damage they’ve caused, while developing countries bring forward a clean, green future. (Followed by a Q&A with TED Global Curator Bruno Giussani)

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  1. silverlined69

    October 28, 2022 at 11:59 am

    Remember folk, you are are a carbon based life form

  2. American Idiot

    October 28, 2022 at 11:59 am

    Dots connected. Using the Haber system allows 10x production of food per acre of soil. Fast forward 100+ years, we’ve increased world population exponentially. Good for profit though, so we WON’T be hearing any solutions that suggested that we even consider slowing that train. You don’t “come back” from environmental disaster by getting cash to rebuild. How does that slow the flooding? Good luck. In the meantime, move to higher ground? Idk…..but, I want a check too

  3. J.C. Owens

    October 28, 2022 at 12:02 pm

    She acts like this is new. This has ALWAYS been the state of living on this planet. Yet they are taking advantage of peoples ignorance of history of our climate over time. Obviously if the drought is allowing caves to be uncovered w/ human writing inside then that means the water level was this low before.

  4. Get Ready

    October 28, 2022 at 12:11 pm

    Climate emergency is a communist globalist dystopian hoax

  5. Carter

    October 28, 2022 at 12:11 pm

    You want the ‘Global North’ to pay you but China is the biggest C02 polluter and it is in the ‘Global South’. Keep shaking your tin cup, lady.

  6. Jonas P.

    October 28, 2022 at 12:17 pm

    Honestly, I’m a little bit shocked of all those comments here.
    First of all, I think the woman’s talk was really good and interesting.
    Because of this I can’t really understand the position of many people here.
    I have often read that money can’t be given to developing countrys like Pakistan because there is so much corruption. That’s partly true – the woman also mentioned. But is this really a reason not to help those people? And let them suffer? Where is the humanity? I don’t say you should transfer money to the government without any control of its use. Avoiding those aids to be abused isn’t that easy – but is this a reason not to help?
    Secondly, many said that Western countrys also support development countrys financially. That’s true. But is this enough? Are some million dollar per year compared to wasting our atmosphere for 150 years? Isn’t it rather ridiculous that some years ago, development countrys were promised 100 billion dollar per year – and the western countrys haven’t kept it? Recently, during COP21, this aim of 100 billion per year was confirmed again. Will it have any effect? I don’t know.
    In my opinion it’s completely injustice that poor countrys have to pay the bill of the economic growth in the industrialized world – without having any advantage of this growth. The people in those countrys still live in poverty and now, they have to suffer even further because of our wealth.
    Climate justice is due!
    Thank you for reading. 😃

    • Edward Nelson

      October 28, 2022 at 4:06 pm

      “Climate justice” is an oxymoron. COP21 was a sham with legal or moral power, much less scientific basis.

  7. Zachary Sielck

    October 28, 2022 at 12:17 pm

    The methane release from 10 thousand years of permafrost melt will dwarf human emissions in past 1000 years. We opened pandoras box. Sorry, deal with it.

    • chadnuts

      October 28, 2022 at 9:37 pm

      @Zachary Sielck I apparently know more about chemistry than you.
      plants love CO2. It’s what they use to build themselves. The plant life on earth is loving this CO2 so much that the earth is becoming measurably greener. The majority of these green house gasses are produced by geological activity like volcanoes anyway. I don’t think human kind causes enough of this punish people who are just trying to live. If you look at ice core records, we are still not at average temperature. The sun goes through cycles that increase it’s activity and we are going into solar maximum now. Mars is going through a “global warming” event too. Look it up, genius

    • chadnuts

      October 28, 2022 at 9:45 pm

      @Zachary Sielck BTW, that is not how global warming works…
      Greenhouse gases act more like a “mirror” that reflects the sun’s radiation that is dissipated from the Earth’s surface. It keeps the radiation that comes from the sun from radiating through the atmosphere and into space.

    • Zachary Sielck

      October 29, 2022 at 12:16 am

      @chadnuts I checked my work. “In order for molecular vibrations to absorb IR energy, the vibrational motions must change the dipole moment of the molecule. All molecules with three or more atoms meet this criterion and are IR absorbers.” I.E. C02 & CH4 are susceptible to valence excitation which increases the average motion of the molecule(heat goes up). So the greenhouse effect happens because less energy escapes the atmosphere & is absorbed more. There is probably more reflection as well, but the absorption is what raises temperatures.

    • Zachary Sielck

      October 29, 2022 at 12:19 am

      @chadnuts Ice cores give us an average over long periods of time. They do not have very good precision. I agree that these temperature swings are likely common. I argue that our ice core dating tech is not as accurate as we want to believe. What does rapid, brief melting do to the data? It probably doesn’t do a whole lot, but may mislead scientists. Carbon dating can be misleading or inaccurate has been wrong plenty of times before.

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      October 29, 2022 at 1:08 am

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  8. Nick L

    October 28, 2022 at 12:19 pm

    9:15 did you catch that? Their will NEVER be enough aid! Does that sound fromiluler? Middle East war? Ukraine war? Aka never ending wars that requires unlimited funding aka laundering all your hard earned tax dollars to line pockets of the few and pillage the poor all in the name of lies. WAKE UP

  9. Joshua MacDonald

    October 28, 2022 at 12:22 pm

    I agree 100%. Unfortunately some countries are are not only hesitant and even against fixing pollution problems but when they do rather then making good financial decisions in order to make positive changes they do a half ignorant job making extramy poor decisions about how to make this change that creates disparity in their own countries. I am in Canada and I support the carbon tax but what few outside people see is we have more and more displaced people, more and more people falling under the poverty line. People who have been paying attention have noticed 1000x more homeless on our streets, huge jumps in inflation all the while the luxury industries seem to be profiting and doing very well. The 1% is not suffering like the rest, at most they are barely inconvenienced. This would need to be changed with real policy changers. Don’t think this is a “vote for the other guy” argument as the other guy will at best do the same thing as they have done repeatedly in the past. People worship Justin Trudeau but don’t see the damage that he has done. I will not say that he hasn’t made some good policies but has done more harm at the same time. A changing of the guard as it will would fix some of those problems while equally creating new ones. Its frustrating as there is no potential leadership that will make the commonsense fixes while at the same time maintain the good changes that have been done. All a person can do is decide for themselves to make changes at an individual level but it is quite difficult as resources are spread thin.
    We feel for Pakistan and I support sending financial and other aid but we CAN do better.

    • TheEvolver311

      October 28, 2022 at 12:28 pm

      Individual action can never offset the damage that multinational corporations generate on the environment and the worlds climate. It’s a liberal fantasy that me changing my behavior will do anything of value against even just say a Amazon warehouse in my city which will produce more waste day than I could make in a year.

    • Joshua MacDonald

      October 28, 2022 at 12:45 pm

      @TheEvolver311 I’m not saying it will take the place but it can add to the positive change. As long as we keep looking at ourselves as individuals not as a pice of a whole there will never be progress either way.
      But you are right that it will be almost unqualifiedable in the grand scheme of things. I cant speak for other countries but in Canada no party will take on “the big boys”. If one even tries the others will it as an opportunity to attack that party and use less uducated citizens in crating discord over it blocking any real progress. And I will state again this would be true of any and all major parties (im not sure where you are or if you are in Canada but we have a decent number of political parties in our government that compete for leadership. The major 3 are the conservative, liberal and new democratic party but there are many more with elected seats)

  10. Timothy Wilson

    October 28, 2022 at 12:28 pm

    you do realize that this is a false premise…and a moronic train of thought

  11. dove72

    October 28, 2022 at 12:53 pm

    Send them some carbon credits.

    • Dave B

      October 28, 2022 at 7:38 pm

      😂

  12. Mohammad Hussain Jamal

    October 28, 2022 at 12:53 pm

    😂😂😂 it’s what you capable of😁😂😂

  13. Christian Williams

    October 28, 2022 at 12:59 pm

    87% of greenhouse gasses are caused by the animal agriculture industry. It is what we eat that is killing our planet. If you factor in what the animals emit, how many crops are needed to to feed all of these 80 billion animals, and all of the infrastructure and resources to make this whole thing run, and most important how much land does it take to maintain this industry. The only reason why they say we need more planets if our population grows, is because of our agriculture practices, which the biggest culprit is eating meat, dairy, fish, shellfish and eggs. This industry takes up almost half of the land mass on this planet which could be rewilded so it would capture most of our carbon in the air, but because most of our forest have been cut and burned down for animal agriculture which is the biggest driver of deforestation world wide, we now have lost most of our carbon sequestration function on this planet and this is why animal agriculture is responsible for 87% of all greenhouse gasses. Oxford researchers have said if everybody adopted a plant based lifestyle we could rewild 76% of all that farm land so we can recapture the carbon in the air. To know more look up How to go extinct by Sailesh Rao on youtube.

    • chadnuts

      October 28, 2022 at 1:33 pm

      Nope

    • Christian Williams

      October 28, 2022 at 2:50 pm

      @chadnuts Ha ha ha at least show some science that rebut my claims instead of simply saying Nope. I’m willing to take criticism and learn from where I got it wrong, but I bet you didn’t even look up the video I mentioned where I got my science, I think you are just scared of new information that might change your life for the better.

  14. Lorenzo Blum

    October 28, 2022 at 1:38 pm

    3:28 the logic is simple but the politics are complicated…
    And yet, not a word on the elephant in the room aka the military industrial complex, biggest polluter on Earth. Omerta.

  15. Carl Keeling

    October 28, 2022 at 2:09 pm

    Climate change is a hoax it’s all about less freedoms and more control. The only climate change there is is called the changing of seasons. If it was real it would be hot in the fall and winter.

  16. joni jokunen

    October 28, 2022 at 2:43 pm

    Why is the comment section full of people promoting Ponzi schemes?

  17. MUHAMMAD YASIR KAMAL

    October 28, 2022 at 3:42 pm

    Applaud 👏
    The Lady has clarified that Her country don’t need Aid but Reparation in the form of finance which is necessary to do even a single bit of work
    And Access to Green technology to catch up the collateral damages But without Carbon emissions rise.

    • Edward Nelson

      October 28, 2022 at 4:01 pm

      So she is a grifter, dumbing down everyone who believes her.

    • harshbutt

      October 28, 2022 at 4:16 pm

      Maybe if they take a point off the four percent of gdp they spend on their military budget or cut their nuclear weapons programme they could afford that “green technology” they’re so desperate for. No i don’t think they’re that desperate for it, either.

    • MUHAMMAD YASIR KAMAL

      October 28, 2022 at 4:32 pm

      @Edward Nelson whatever the way she adopt and One May assume
      The undeniable truth is that her country collateral loss is more than $30Billion
      And that is much larger for a country that do even structural changes in economic plan to seek 2 to $3 Billion from US Hegemonic IMF .

    • MUHAMMAD YASIR KAMAL

      October 28, 2022 at 4:35 pm

      @harshbutt Bro if they don’t do that
      It would be an existential threat to their survival from their hostile neighbour India 🇮🇳
      And it’s obvious What India is doing in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir
      And cases of Kulbhushan Yadev and their Tea Loving guy!

  18. Britton Price

    October 28, 2022 at 4:14 pm

    Well damn Jackie, I can’t control the weather! 🤷‍♂️

    • Mister_Whiskers

      October 29, 2022 at 2:50 am

      When will the rain of tears stop? When they call quits?

  19. Britton Price

    October 28, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    My great grandfather used to say if the government could find a way to tax the air they would.

    • Mister_Whiskers

      October 29, 2022 at 2:33 am

      My Grand Father Usta Say, If The Corporations Could Acquire Slaves, They Would Move Over Seas.

  20. Dave B

    October 28, 2022 at 7:35 pm

    It’s not newsworthy enough to stay in the headlines in the country in which it’s occurring?

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      October 29, 2022 at 1:11 am

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  21. Аб дулла

    October 29, 2022 at 1:12 am

    في مجلس الأمن اليوم الجمعة، دعا منسق عملية السلام تور وينسلاند الجانبين الإسرائيلي 🇮🇱 والفلسطيني 🇵🇸 إلى بذل الجهود لاستعادة الهدوء

    وأعرب عن قلقه إزاء تصاعد العنف في الضفة الغربية المحتلة

    وأعرب عن جزعه إزاء استمرار وقوع الأطفال ضحايا للعنف، مشددا على ضرورة ألا يكون الأطفال أبدا أهدافا للعنف أو يتم تعريضهم للأذى

    ─ 🇺🇳 UN News Arabic
    _– أخبار الأمم المتحدة_ 🇺🇳

  22. Аб дулла

    October 29, 2022 at 1:12 am

    في 🇵🇰 باكستان يخوض الأطفال الجياع والضعفاء معركة خاسرة ضد سوء التغذية الحاد والإسهال والملاريا وحمى الضنك والتيفوئيد والتهابات الجهاز التنفسي الحادة والأمراض الجلدية المؤلمة

    وتحذر اليونيسف من أنه كلما طالت الأزمة، زاد الخطر على صحة الأطفال العقلية

    ─ 🇺🇳 UN News Arabic
    _– أخبار الأمم المتحدة_ 🇺🇳

  23. Аб дулла

    October 29, 2022 at 1:12 am

    مع دخول الاحتجاجات في 🇮🇷 إيران أسبوعها السابع، حثت الأمم المتحدة 🇺🇳 السلطات على معالجة المظالم المشروعة للسكان، بما في ذلك ما يتعلق بحقوق المرأة

    وأدانت جميع الحوادث التي أدت إلى وفاة أو إصابة المتظاهرين بجروح خطيرة

    ─ 🇺🇳 UN News Arabic
    _– أخبار الأمم المتحدة_ 🇺🇳

  24. Аб дулла

    October 29, 2022 at 1:12 am

    اعتمد مجلس الأمن قرارا بالإجماع صباح اليوم يمدد ولاية بعثة الأمم المتحدة 🇺🇳 للدعم في 🇱🇾 ليبيا لسنة أخرى حتى 31 تشرين الأول /أكتوبر 2023

    بهذا يؤكد المجلس التزامه بإجراء انتخابات رئاسية وبرلمانية وطنية حرة ونزيهة وشفافة وشاملة في أقرب وقت ممكن

    ─ 🇺🇳 UN News Arabic
    _– أخبار الأمم المتحدة_ 🇺🇳

  25. Аб дулла

    October 29, 2022 at 1:12 am

    عندما يفكر المرء في الإرهاب فإن الصورة التي تتبادر إلى الذهن غالبا هي هجمات كبيرة تقوم بها جماعات متطرفة

    لكن التكنولوجيا كشفت عن واجهة أخرى للإرهاب – فقد قربت خطر الهجمات “غير المرئية” وفي كثير من الحالات، على بعد نقرة واحدة فقط

    ─ 🇺🇳 UN News Arabic
    _– أخبار الأمم المتحدة_ 🇺🇳

    • Аб дулла

      October 29, 2022 at 2:40 am

      @Mister_Whiskers 🤔
      ربما أنت على حق!
      😊

  26. Mister_Whiskers

    October 29, 2022 at 2:08 am

    Is it just cool if I give you a facial luci, or do you want the entire hot dog?

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      October 29, 2022 at 7:47 am

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  27. Levi Efrauim

    October 29, 2022 at 2:27 am

    All I had to do was read this- Social Contract for Global Climate Justice- in the title and I knew this entire piece would be a piece of leftist/progressive/socialist/communist crap, more social justice nonsense that calls for wealth redistribution. And the only way out? We must send them money, give them power and yield our rights. Uh, nope, nope and nope.

    • freesk8

      October 29, 2022 at 7:23 am

      Well said. I agree.

  28. Jimmynoleaks boilerman

    October 29, 2022 at 2:31 am

    Who new the cure for climate change is money! Pay Up

  29. David Sanchez

    October 29, 2022 at 4:26 am

    It’s NOT about to stop Climate change…but to stop and change current economic system…

  30. Michael Jensen

    October 29, 2022 at 4:36 am

    Logically, this is an excellent presentation. Cynically.. well, anybody can fill in the cynical responses.

  31. Hosoi Archives

    October 29, 2022 at 4:54 am

    This crap never ends

  32. Taieb najafi

    October 29, 2022 at 6:29 am

    One-third of the country is under water, 33 million people effected by that, but still the Pakistan government use most of their budget to fund and support military and terrorist groups in Afghanistan and other areas ignoring the humanitarian disasters which has happened in their own country and the humanitarian disasters which they cause in other countries like Afghanistan. Instead of fighting against these sort of crisis they cause them just on their own.

  33. freesk8

    October 29, 2022 at 7:28 am

    More climate change hysteria. This is about more power for the globalists. Our greatest threat comes from the politicians who have been corrupted by the excessive power that we the people have let them have.

  34. Aleksandr Komarov

    October 29, 2022 at 8:20 am

    Floods occur on Earth as long as there is water on Earth.
    If you suffer from from floods – don’t beg for money, build a flood-defense like Netherlands and many other countries and territories did.

    • Jay Kanta

      October 29, 2022 at 11:28 am

      Denialist is still just a denialist. Go away.

  35. Matheus

    October 29, 2022 at 9:11 am

    We need to help ourselves. Help the others is help us.

  36. arts of indians

    October 29, 2022 at 9:12 am

    This is a speech 😇😇😇😇

  37. Jonesy!

    October 29, 2022 at 9:43 am

    How about we say that no company can claim to be carbon neutral or eco-friendly ( Whatever buzzword you wish to use ) unless they can show that what they produce is done so in an carbon nutral way at every step of the process.
    I’m not just talking about that company or how they make their products or the materials used but also the companies they get their materials from, is the electricity used to make the product produced carbon neutral energy, is it transported by companies who also used carbon nutral energy.
    This could apply to every company at every step from production to shipping etc.
    Doing so would cause companies to not only become carbon neutral but those they deal with because a company won’t choose another if it doesn’t follow those rules because it would then affect them.

    God i hope that makes some sense, lol!
    It’s not easy to explain, for me at least!, lol!

    • Æmma

      October 29, 2022 at 11:09 am

      I agree and I also think a big problem is we want companies to be carbon neutrals, but we still consume. I personally start to face what seems to be the inevitable truth, we need to stop consume the excessive amounts we do. A new Tesla is still a new car with all it took to produce and build. I hope we can start more conversations on how to live a fun, meaningful life without excessive use of energy and resources.

  38. Bruno M.

    October 29, 2022 at 11:21 am

    A mais pura hipocrisia. Ted virou plataforma dos cínicos

  39. Fayzulla Saurov

    October 29, 2022 at 12:03 pm

    This is excellent speech. She is so care about our future,nature, climate, weather. Such speeches should be a lot of, something everybody could help each other.

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  40. Ben

    October 29, 2022 at 11:38 pm

    the logic is very simple, you have little power and influence and we have a lot. you are asking us for our resources in exchange for your absolution of guilt. not going to happen.

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  41. 下木

    October 30, 2022 at 8:01 am

    確かに賠償っていう圧があれば、国家も本腰入れて環境問題に取り組めるな

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  42. Hussnan Raza

    October 30, 2022 at 3:35 pm

    I loved this video Thank you TED for delivering this good type of information and telling the major issues of Pakistan.

  43. Hussnan Raza

    October 30, 2022 at 3:36 pm

    Thank You so much for funding as well as becoming the voice of Great Pakistan.

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      October 30, 2022 at 4:32 pm

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  44. Hussnan Raza

    October 30, 2022 at 3:37 pm

    Thank You so Much Madam Huma.

  45. Sibylle Leon

    October 31, 2022 at 6:14 pm

    Hear, hear!!

  46. scott denoncour

    November 1, 2022 at 1:05 pm

    its happend before and WILL happen again ,get over it live in the highlands like our smart ansestors

  47. JENNI

    November 1, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    We need too fix zoning laws so denser housing and communities aren’t illegal. That way more people can use other modes of transportation like electric bikes.

  48. j Hall

    November 2, 2022 at 1:03 pm

    Its not a “Social Contract” when its forced on you….thats called tyranny

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A Path to Social Safety for Migrant Workers | Ashif Shaikh | TED

Hundreds of millions of migrant workers travel within their countries to seek out means of survival — often leaving behind all they know for months or even years. Many face poverty and exploitation, and they need a robust social safety net to protect them, says migrant advocate and 2023 Audacious Project grantee Ashif Shaikh. He…

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Hundreds of millions of migrant workers travel within their countries to seek out means of survival — often leaving behind all they know for months or even years. Many face poverty and exploitation, and they need a robust social safety net to protect them, says migrant advocate and 2023 Audacious Project grantee Ashif Shaikh. He shares how his grassroots organization Migrants Resilience Collaborative is making life-changing benefits like social security and health care accessible to those who need them while also amplifying migrant voices — paving the way towards a world that supports the workers actually building it. (This ambitious idea is a part of the Audacious Project, TED’s initiative to inspire and fund global change.)

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