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Folk singer-songwriter Raye Zaragoza performs “Fight For You,” a song she wrote during the Water Protectors movement at Standing Rock, and dedicates it to all who stand up for the environment and care for the Earth.
This performance was part of the Countdown Global Launch on 10.10.2020. (Watch the full event here: .) Countdown is TED’s global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world. Get involved at
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Yisra'el Plato Tzedek
November 6, 2020 at 3:20 pm
Hey Raye! I really love your voice, your song, and your passion for the environment. I am a singer, song – writer dedicated to writing and singing for Social and Environmental Justice. I have about thirty songs. I wish we could connect somehow. I wish I could sing some of these songs with you, or have you sing some of them alone. My style is “Rock and Soul.” I play a little piano and guitar: wish I had time to learn more. Anyway, you are a great human, and I am happy I saw your video.
Subodh Kumar
November 6, 2020 at 3:38 pm
#successrapture
This is real amazing
Tatiyana
November 6, 2020 at 3:39 pm
THANK YOU! 💧🌬️☄️❄️🌀💦🌊💙
mmatrainee
November 6, 2020 at 3:43 pm
I wonder if you consider the cost the environment pays for that guitar, those clothes, microphones and pretty much anything else that doesn’t occur in nature, naturally, that you are using just in this instance.
Nice song, thanks.
couch pup
November 6, 2020 at 4:53 pm
you heard it here, people, unless you’re naked & use zero resources, you cannot advocate for the environment.
MehGamer
November 6, 2020 at 6:05 pm
@couch pup lol exactly. People are reaching so hard just to sound relevant.
John Aquino
November 6, 2020 at 7:02 pm
@couch pup
If someone takes up a cause, they can’t really be luke warm, otherwise, they discredit themselves.
mmatrainee
November 6, 2020 at 9:21 pm
@couch pup LMFAO! You’re funny.
couch pup
November 6, 2020 at 10:25 pm
@John Aquino wearing clothing makes you lukewarm? i guess it depends. maybe a light jacket.
kolaar genius
November 6, 2020 at 3:47 pm
Her voice is beautiful!
G D
November 6, 2020 at 3:55 pm
❣️If you fight for me…I’ll fight for you..
Environment- now if u save me .. I’ll save tomarow for you..!
Waleed Khan
November 6, 2020 at 4:20 pm
She is pretty. 🥰
Marcelo Gomes Da Silva
November 6, 2020 at 4:36 pm
This is so cool congrats for your initiative.
T M F
November 6, 2020 at 4:39 pm
Nice song 😆
Bob A
November 6, 2020 at 5:10 pm
Uh…no.
romina
November 6, 2020 at 5:26 pm
pleeeeeeeeseeeeeeee give persian subtitle for all vids
Tracy Shevling
November 6, 2020 at 5:26 pm
Beautiful voice clear message
Wasy Lion
November 6, 2020 at 5:31 pm
Good! simple lovely guitar playing…. With a beautiful song for great peoples….
Timothy Hall
November 6, 2020 at 5:44 pm
What is the limiting factor? At what cost?
Cuzaxo
November 6, 2020 at 5:52 pm
THIS WAS VERY COOL SONG ABOUT THE WATER #SaveTheWater
Lisa Love Ministries
November 6, 2020 at 6:12 pm
Seek God’s will daily.
John 3:16💞
1 Corinthians 15
day6creation breathing
November 6, 2020 at 7:40 pm
Use reverse psychology.
Does more to the fleeting masses
zuwei zhu
November 6, 2020 at 8:32 pm
Just get up this morning and watching you play this beautiful song for our earth…I will start form myself for protecting our planet!Thank you ray!
Sima Moradi Channel
November 6, 2020 at 9:09 pm
Very nice song 👍👍👍
h3arty
November 6, 2020 at 9:29 pm
*GORGEOUS VOICE*
Alejandro Flavián
November 6, 2020 at 9:36 pm
I live in Zaragoza
Mary Pinakat
November 6, 2020 at 11:27 pm
When performing artists, especially singers climb the Ted platform it’s a different world altogether. Huge Thanks Ted☆
Janice Stevenson
November 6, 2020 at 11:28 pm
“Humanity is preparing to live in a very different future, a future unlike the past in so many ways. To be able to recognize this and to respond to it accordingly, you have to be able to think clearly. You have to be able to see clearly, with great objectivity. You have to bring common sense to your decisions. But this seems remarkably difficult for people because their thoughts reflect the past. Their assumptions reflect the past. They assume and believe that the future will be like the past. There is endless speculation but no vision, no Knowledge, and no recognition. You have to become tremendously sober, self-reliant, and clear-minded. This will not be easy, but it is redemptive, for this is where your great strength comes forward. Here is where your real gifts to the world have an opportunity to emerge where they could never emerge before. Here you will be living not a life of comfort and preference, but a life of clarity and meaningful engagement with others and with the world.” The Great Waves of Change, Marshall Vian Summers, New Message org)
Dmitri Zaslavski
November 7, 2020 at 2:09 pm
It represents totalitarian communism, where your wishes as individual does not matter and you must to do what community wants you to do.
Janice Stevenson
November 7, 2020 at 2:44 pm
@Dmitri Zaslavski Communism is of the past as is capitalism/consumerism, built on ideas from a different time, a different world than we are facing now. This is not about ideology, but about facing the reality of what humanity is experiencing right now and where we go from here. The future will not be like the past and we need to be open to learn a new way of being on earth, where resources are being depleted, a few live well while the rest barely survive. We do need to come together but realistically, it starts with individual decisions and responsibility. Thank you for your comment.
David Backstrom
November 7, 2020 at 1:28 am
We saw you in michigan with Nahko great show! You are fabulous.
Balance Health Wellness Music
November 7, 2020 at 1:55 am
Beautiful song! Great job creating such positive energy for the earth.
Joshua Emanuel Michael Massop
November 7, 2020 at 2:39 am
Great Song Raye, Fitting! We must reduce pollution and particulates in our resources that give life us on Earth such as water, soil, and air. Big corporation can’t see the planet hurting from 50,000 feet up.
Jordan DeLarge
November 7, 2020 at 3:27 am
Dear god. This is not what I thought a “subscribe” with Ted would be
Just 92
November 8, 2020 at 1:54 pm
Lol
Stephen Kenechukwu
November 9, 2020 at 9:08 am
Hilarious. What does that even mean? Lol.
Safaura
November 7, 2020 at 5:55 am
Wow her voice is so big and beautiful 🥰
JC
November 7, 2020 at 8:27 am
B-e-a-utiful 🙂
Dhyanam Talukdar
November 7, 2020 at 2:39 pm
Lets appreciate her beautiful strumming for once
jmuld1
November 7, 2020 at 2:44 pm
A song may be good for bare foot hippie’s but for the rest of us “?”
Juan VAIL
November 7, 2020 at 4:47 pm
you sound fine the world appriates it .
Cười Cho Số Phận
November 7, 2020 at 11:57 pm
very good
Toys Lea
November 8, 2020 at 1:50 am
I’m a English learner, and could someone tell me what she said at the beginning of this video?
Jasmine (吳思儀) Wu
November 8, 2020 at 12:22 pm
She said ” I wrote it during the Standing Rock Movement, and dedicated to all water protectors. I wanna thank all of you out there for standing up for our environment and taking care of the planet.”
Mr.0
November 8, 2020 at 10:47 am
It is nice
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November 8, 2020 at 10:58 am
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Rémi _
November 8, 2020 at 11:30 am
Stand up against censorship and remove false claim from geek and gamer first
Nathalie Brispot
November 8, 2020 at 12:35 pm
Bravo magnifique chanson très beau message merci 🌍
Mario Wrexan
November 8, 2020 at 2:21 pm
Why i’m seeing this?
Rebecca Leeman
November 8, 2020 at 9:55 pm
Because youre staring at your phone while pushing play.
Frankpark96
November 8, 2020 at 3:09 pm
I know I know the importance about the only one planet Earth we should protector from the pollution and world no more nuclear weapon no more climate change people in the world are getting difficulty we should have stopped the war only for peace.
Mariyam SHaji
November 9, 2020 at 5:09 am
nice.
EF M
November 9, 2020 at 4:38 pm
In 1971, Richard Milhous Nixon and administration ordered the shutdown of the world’s only molten salt reactor research facility (“LFTR in 5 minutes” on Youtube) without explanation other than budget cut. If it had been allowed to go forward, we could have been mass-producing these breeder reactors by 1980. Of course, this would have eliminated the fossil fuel and light water industries due directly to competition. Considering the molten salt reactor BTU ratio is approximately 2,000 to 1 and solar panels are 9 to 1, that would give a multiplier effect of 2,000 * 9 = 18,000 to 1. Dividing this number by a coal-fired power plant BTU ratio of 80 to 1, would calculate to 18,000 / 80 = 225 times in increased efficiency. This does not include the price of batteries, which will also decrease in price, will cut the multiplier effect down somewhat. Even still, doing so would flatten out the hierarchies of the world, creating vastly greater independence worldwide. This would accomplish exactly what the murderous communists attempted but badly failed at. So, if this is all true, why haven’t we done anything about it? Two primary reasons, money is better invested elsewhere at this time and inertia. What we need another Manhattan Project if we wish to save our own butts and for the generations to come. There already are companies that are investing in this technology like, Flibe Energy, Lightbridge Corp. (NASDAQ: LTBR), Transatomic Power Corporation, ThorCon Power, Terrestrial Energy, Molex Energy, Seaborg Technologies, Copenhagen Atomics, and Terrapower.
There are in fact issues with Molten salt reactors.
Firstly, the molten salts are highly corrosive especially if H2O is present at higher temperatures. This is also partially due to the salts having a small probability of producing tritium when irradiated (which in turn reacts to produce tritium fluoride – an extremely corrosive acid), but also because the fluoride salt also produces hydrofluoric gas when irradiated which corrode common metals such as stainless steel. This could be overcome by injecting inert gas over the fluid at marginal pressures to prevent the hydrofluoric acid from precipitating from the solution (although this has not been proven). The corrosiveness of the coolant/fuel mixture suggests that the entire plumbing system of the reactor may require replacement every 5 years if current metals are used. Experiments have shown that Hastelloy-N and similar alloys can withstand these corrosive effects up to temperatures of 700 degrees C, although it is unknown how the alloys would be affected by long-term use in a production scale reactor. A higher operating temperature would also be necessary to improve the efficiency of the reactor but at 8500 C a process of thermochemical production of hydrogen becomes possible, which would once again present dangers of gas accumulation and explosion. Other materials such as molybdenum alloys and carbides may be feasible, but the effect of constant bombardment by radiation has a tendency to make metals more brittle over time leading to a changing microstructure of the vessel. It is primarily due to these issues of corrosion that LFTR remains the safe reactor of the future and not a present piece of human ingenuity, but with a Manhattan Project, there is little reason to doubt these problems cannot be quickly overcome.
EF M
November 9, 2020 at 4:39 pm
Since there seems to be an issue with energy sources, the question is what to do about it. This is my answer. If anyone has a different solution, I’d like to hear it. Let’s begin with BTUs out vs BTU in by the energy source.
Corn 1.3 / 1
Solar PV 9 / 1
Natural gas 10 / 1
Windmills 18 / 1
Light Water Reactors 80 / 1
Coal 80 / 1
Hydropower 100 / 1
Molten Salt Reactors and Traveling Wave Reactors 2,000 / 1
Now, consider deaths per terawatt.
Coal 161
Oil 36
Biomass 12
Peat 12
Natural gas 4
Solar PV .44
Wind .15
Hydropower .10
Light Water Reactors .04
Molten Salt Reactors and Traveling Wave Reactors .003
This does not include the one to two million people that die annually from cooking with carbon-based fuels. Solar ovens are by far the better way to go.
As you can see Molten Salt Reactors and Traveling Wave Reactors are the most cost-efficient and safest energy supply possible at this time. We should easily be able to reach $0.02 to $0.03 per kilowatt-hour at the meter, plus they can be used to manufacture ammonia, a direct replacement for diesel fuel. That brings the price of everything down substantially. Building small mass-produced modular breeder reactors would also make windmills and solar panels exceptionally cost-effective. We could have the population producing the majority of their own energy leaving nuclear energy for industry. If anyone checks, safety-wise, a MSR calculates to be approximately 54,000 times safer than a coal-fired power plant.
Максим Сидоров
November 11, 2020 at 9:38 am
Никогда не бери в руки гитару, не позорься
Ahmad Yunadi
November 12, 2020 at 4:10 am
Amazing
Mac Smiffy
November 13, 2020 at 2:53 pm
Reminds me of the giants of the 60s movements such as Baez and Mitchell.