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Can the US and China Take On Climate Change Together? | Changhua Wu | TED

Climate change doesn’t care about ideological divides, says policy analyst and China expert Changhua Wu. Here’s what she says the US can learn from the progress China has made on the clean energy revolution — and why collaboration instead of competition is the key to avoiding climate catastrophe. Countdown is TED’s global initiative to accelerate…

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  1. Samuel Zev

    September 15, 2023 at 9:46 am

    To answer the question of this talk the answer is no, both countries are too stubborn to cooperate because of their selfish interests. Also remember that China is about saving face and not keeping promises and the US is about capitalist exploitation. These two countries deserve to go down the toilet

    • InspectorKen

      September 15, 2023 at 10:07 am

      You sir have the most honest comment here.

  2. Meanderin Oranges

    September 15, 2023 at 9:49 am

    China cares about the environment as much as they care about security at their bio research labs.

  3. David Boson

    September 15, 2023 at 9:50 am

    lol, the CCP does not negotiate, either accept what they offer or you will be re-educated.

  4. psychology zodiac signs

    September 15, 2023 at 9:56 am

    From these comments here, I can see how much hostility some Americans hold towards China. They seem unwilling to listen to any positive voices, even if they are based on facts.

    • InspectorKen

      September 15, 2023 at 10:10 am

      Dude, China has issues. Fix the issues, then we will talk.

    • Hagbard's Sub

      September 15, 2023 at 11:14 am

      China’s relationship to facts and truth is coincidental at best and downright dangerous at worst.

    • Isaac Kotlicky

      September 15, 2023 at 12:41 pm

      Dude, we have issues here in the US. Demanding perfection from everyone before we do anything is a great way to ensure nothing ever advances. Get your head out of the sand. Until the US acknowledges on both sides of the political aisle how we got here we’re going to keep ourselves deadlocked. We can either roll up or sleeves to tackle this existential issue or we can whine about it and let China take the lead.

  5. सिबा

    September 15, 2023 at 10:00 am

    first establish democracy in china than talk. you will see the end of ccp if you can do that.

  6. Locke

    September 15, 2023 at 10:15 am

    laughable

  7. Savy S

    September 15, 2023 at 10:32 am

    Wishful thinking to say the least, outright lie is more likely, but at least she has the opportunity to express the official CCP slogan in US disguised as personal opinion or advice.

  8. Joe Stocker

    September 15, 2023 at 10:52 am

    Short answer, NO! The US is already carbon neutral since we replanted over a billion trees. China simply does not have the ability to give up coal and wouldn’t if they could since they have so much of it. Not sure what lack of cognitive ability is required to think like this person but wow I laughed so hard.

  9. Tiavor

    September 15, 2023 at 10:57 am

    meanwhile in China: building more new coal power plants than all western countries together.

  10. PucaAtPlay

    September 15, 2023 at 11:12 am

    I’d believe China will do it before the Yanks. They actually care for the future of the planet they’ll rule.
    US only cares about money and short lived pleasures

  11. Hagbard's Sub

    September 15, 2023 at 11:13 am

    How TED has the chutzpah to wave this propaganda through is beyond me. Do they have any gatekeeping in place?

    • ams342t0

      September 16, 2023 at 7:01 pm

      I can imagine the CCP pushed hard for this. TED may have allowed this to avoid looking discriminating or too biased.

  12. Akira

    September 15, 2023 at 11:14 am

    I pray to satan, jesus, allah, santa clause, buddha or whoever everyday for climate change to reset the Earth sooner 🙏

  13. Gitta Pierro

    September 15, 2023 at 11:21 am

    I appreciate China’s progress. The CCP might not be what we want as a governing body here in the USA, but China has embraced it’s cultural improvement at a phenomenal pace, like 50 years.

    • rika

      September 15, 2023 at 1:01 pm

      Sometimes it requires a dictatorship, single mind set, society for massive change to happen. The US is so divided that even a tiny incremental change is amazing.

    • Billy Whitaker

      September 15, 2023 at 7:54 pm

      @rika Americans would rather die than have a dictatorship. With or without progressive policies. No man should have all that power. Especially career politicians.

  14. Stephen Catton

    September 15, 2023 at 11:27 am

    As the Chinese government enforce the social score within their community you can be certain they will say nothing negative about their country that would negatively impact their social score. I for one find it very hard to believe anything that comes out of China.

  15. ams342t0

    September 15, 2023 at 12:19 pm

    China cares so much for the environment they make sure no gutter oil gets wasted and gets reused asap for the next meal.

  16. Christian Soldier

    September 15, 2023 at 12:40 pm

    They invented it so yeah they can change it.

    • Darin Herrick

      September 15, 2023 at 2:55 pm

      That’s the best joke I’ve heard in ages.

  17. rika

    September 15, 2023 at 1:04 pm

    Regardless of what people want to believe, it is fundamentally important that all the superpowers of the world work together to solve this crisis. This is not something countries can solve on their own.

    • Jarrod Tucker

      September 16, 2023 at 1:08 pm

      and regardless what people believe, that will never become a reality.

  18. Oren Bowers

    September 15, 2023 at 1:33 pm

    Poles flip every 6000 years.
    Just look it up. They started to slowly move in 1859. Then picked up speed in 2012. Should be completed by 2040-ish.
    Go to Google maps. Zoom out and you can see where the waters are pushed onto land and recede.
    You really see the remanence of these flips on the African coast near the eye of the Sahara and the center of china. It’s why you find seashells in the middle of deserts.
    Wake up people. They just want to depopulate and who ever is left, will live a life of misery

  19. JeDx

    September 15, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    I’m so glad the majority of people don’t buy into this climate change crap. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keeptrying our best to stop polluting and keep innovating but honestly governments just make everything they touch worse and nobody trust them. Specially not China lmao

  20. ExplainItAgain

    September 15, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    “I have witnessed a clean energy revolution” in China? And the problem is that the US doesn’t trust the Chinese government enough?
    So many jokes.

  21. R Holm

    September 15, 2023 at 4:45 pm

    The best scientific evidence (Antarctic ice core analysis) proves that climate change is due to naturally recurring 100 thousand year cycles and that CO2 FOLLOWS, not leads, temperature changes. The cycles are driven by the Sun, not by natural OR human caused CO2. We are nearing the peak of a 100 thousand year warming cycle that has not yet reached previous maximum levels … still 2 degrees C colder than previous (when humans were not around). That Earth may be warming, therefore, is not surprising. But global temperature has increased less than 1 degree C over the past 50 years. The IPCC models predicting large temperature increases have been discredited for using debunked starting temperatures and Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity “factors”.

    • Scott Koontz

      September 16, 2023 at 4:27 pm

      Yes, we all know that CO2 can both lead warming (it is clearly a greenhouse gas) and following warming. We also know that less sun would mean cooling, so why are you claiming less sun is what is warming the earth? Neat idea, hilarious even.

  22. iloveyouamberappel

    September 15, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    Wishful thinking. IMO these are lies pushed by the CCP. They are building coal fired plants at an alarming rate. China has the power to make changes but they do not. “China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries, report finds. A new report finds that last year China permitted the equivalent of two coal plants per week.”

  23. Erik Abele

    September 15, 2023 at 7:08 pm

    The US as well as the EU are not interested in cooperation, they are only interested in domination. They are the past, China is the future.

  24. R

    September 15, 2023 at 7:42 pm

    The US doesnt like China because theyre literally supporting Russia against NATO, and they only want the US to cooperate with them so they can take Taiwan. Till China changes this stance, they will be the enemy of the US.

  25. Sam Rey

    September 15, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    China could start with not drawing new maps that riles up all it’s neighbors.. for a start 😂

  26. Bullish Dragon

    September 16, 2023 at 12:40 am

    Pivot, and change of focus… The people will make the change that we and our mother Earth needs. Governments may be in our way, why progress is slow.
    We need a living reason to make change?

  27. Bullish Dragon

    September 16, 2023 at 12:49 am

    Circular ○ plus an x creates infinity or a crossing partnership that has may paths towards goals we have and have not seen yet. ❤

  28. Bullish Dragon

    September 16, 2023 at 12:50 am

    Great job, Lady!

  29. Henry Guo Teach Chinese in Jokes and Tell Jokes

    September 16, 2023 at 3:03 am

    Algorithms recommend what we like to watch, and if we’re not actively looking for different points of views, most likely we’ll be exposed to views we agree with most of the time.
    I’ve been trying to watch various channels to try to make comprehensive understanding of the world.
    I’ve made many videos teaching Chinese language vividly and in a humorous way. I hope somebody can recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese. For beginners, Chinese characters may look complicated. But once you learn about 100 basic radicals, most characters become easy.
    I hope more people can learn Chinese to get comprehensive firsthand information about China and most likely seek more job opportunities.
    Know ourselves as well as our partners, competitors, adversaries…..

  30. None of your Damn Business

    September 16, 2023 at 6:05 am

    *Sure 🤦🏽‍♀️Paying more taxes saves us from climate change 🤡*

  31. Tangan Besi

    September 16, 2023 at 9:19 am

    The main problems are, Some Countries don’t want to all countries progessing and andvancing together.

    They just want to be a Supreme Country, at all cost.

    • Robert Marmaduke

      September 16, 2023 at 1:26 pm

      Human nature the same as animals and plants is to struggle to reach the Sun, the source of life. Every nation by circumstance and design, by coup and occupation, determines to thrive and survive. The ‘victim’ fallacy, like the ‘envy’ sin, is eating the bitter fruit. That’s why they call it the Human Race! 🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃

    • ams342t0

      September 16, 2023 at 6:57 pm

      Exactly. Like when a bully country unilaterally claim territories well within the economic boundery of smaller countries in southeast asia.

    • Robert Marmaduke

      September 17, 2023 at 12:25 am

      @ams342t0 Yeah like Jammu and Kashmir, and oh lawdie, don’t get me started on the Is’reali Junta in Kyiv!

    • ams342t0

      September 17, 2023 at 12:45 am

      @Robert Marmaduke You’re implying it’s ok to steal other’s territories since it’s in your view others are doing it. Right..

    • Robert Marmaduke

      September 17, 2023 at 12:55 am

      @ams342t0 It’s none of your business what other countries do. Even the Pope, the King and the Ayatollah. know when to look away, but the Green Pope in Brussels can’t keep their sticky hands off of the aWorkers’ wallets _in every country._

    • ams342t0

      September 17, 2023 at 1:31 am

      ​@Robert MarmadukeLovely how you put it. Turn a blind eye on some things but not on everything, or the other way around. Got it.

    • Robert Marmaduke

      September 17, 2023 at 2:02 am

      @ams342t0 Your world view is that of a supremacist endowed by your religious belief to lift up oppressed and scorn the oppressor, but your language and voice betrays you were raised in and still live in an elitist oppressor nation. Move to Jammu and save them, or STFU..

    • G B

      September 18, 2023 at 8:00 am

      @Robert Marmaduke You sound like an avid user of “zionist” in your political conversations

  32. Patrick Goldsmith

    September 16, 2023 at 11:14 am

    We are all in this world as part of nature, yet we act collectively like a cancer on our host planet.
    Pondering mysteries is the basis for both true art & Science.
    Dogma is the antithesis of open-mindedness. Sometimes belief subverts reason, yet belief as supposition is different from belief as dictum. These beliefs may lead to inquiry. Can we get together to address our past idiocy? Can we unite in wisdom, rather than contend in fear & greed? China’s use of coal burning plants belies some of what is claimed. Agendas impede.

  33. singlaak

    September 16, 2023 at 12:52 pm

    She in CCP worker no doubt

  34. Rashida Hamid

    September 16, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    That is a good

  35. Jason Johnson

    September 17, 2023 at 5:48 am

    Unfortunately transparency isn’t the CCP’s strong point…

    • CoiledDracca

      September 18, 2023 at 10:14 am

      It’s also not very strong with most other governments either, including the US too.

  36. grapehannie77

    September 17, 2023 at 10:06 am

    US and China should work together,not against each other

  37. Paulpddelnn

    September 17, 2023 at 12:05 pm

    USA AND CHINA SHOULD WORK TOGETHER ASAP AS CLIMATE CHANGE IS HURTING THIS WORLD AND OUR TIME IS RUNNING OUT FAST!

  38. Jaume Josa i Pons

    September 17, 2023 at 4:46 pm

    Congratulations! Great job. Thanks! 谢谢!

  39. Henry Zelman

    September 17, 2023 at 4:57 pm

    So CCP Connie suggests the US take advice from the most polluted country on earth? Really???

  40. Mahad Mukhtar

    September 17, 2023 at 10:24 pm

    Great 👍

  41. Pustaka Rileks

    September 18, 2023 at 1:50 am

    USA and China work together for climate changes? No, they are busy each others to make great economy. Green economy u say? It’s only used to maintain the image in international perspective

  42. chi chan

    September 18, 2023 at 10:22 am

    Một nước thiện chí, một nước thì như một con rắn có thể cắn bất cứ lúc bào

  43. Rn Kn

    September 19, 2023 at 2:18 am

    Climate change principally requires cutting GHG emissions, not necessarily an energy transition. Industrialized production is what caused this nightmare, so it is curious how more industrial production has become the focus. Unsurprisingly, both America and China are still increasing gas and coal consumption, respectively. Show progress on reducing energy consumption, and we can be impressed. We cannot solve our problems with the same economic system we used to create them.

    • Squeaker

      September 20, 2023 at 7:27 pm

      Yay, thanks for stating the only solution. The growth narrative must die. Most people still believe renewables will save us and we can keep exploiting the environment forever. Governments should be preparing people for greater self sufficiency but none of them seem to be doing that yet.

  44. Pushpraj singh Chundawat

    September 20, 2023 at 1:33 am

    Saram karo bhagwaan se daro 😂

  45. Pushpraj singh Chundawat

    September 20, 2023 at 1:39 am

    Never trust on. China goals ,terms, policies ,people, govt and products 😂

  46. Digital Formosan

    September 20, 2023 at 5:59 am

    Propaganda by its finest! No word about China’s massive coal power buildup or plastic waste cloaking the three gorges dam.

  47. Ntucson

    September 20, 2023 at 4:52 pm

    China is building a hundred new coal plants. This is greenwashing BS Propaganda.

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