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Fossil fuel companies know how to stop global warming. Why don’t they? | Myles Allen

Take action on climate change at . The fossil fuel industry knows how to stop global warming, but they’re waiting for someone else to pay, says climate science scholar Myles Allen. Instead of a total ban on carbon-emitting fuels, Allen puts forth a bold plan for oil and gas companies to progressively decarbonize themselves and…

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The fossil fuel industry knows how to stop global warming, but they’re waiting for someone else to pay, says climate science scholar Myles Allen. Instead of a total ban on carbon-emitting fuels, Allen puts forth a bold plan for oil and gas companies to progressively decarbonize themselves and sequester CO2 deep in the earth, with the aim of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 and creating a carbon dioxide disposal industry that works for everyone.

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  1. vlad wick

    December 5, 2020 at 2:27 pm

    The problem lies to us, why do we expect oil industry to kill their business off??

  2. Saul Sykes

    December 5, 2020 at 2:50 pm

    Solar and onshore wind are already the two cheapest energy sources, the cost of solar has dropped by over 80% in 10 years, it still hasn’t stopped energy companies from investing in fossil fuel sources instead of them. If you want to make fossil fuels irrelevant and economically unviable then you need to cut off the government subsidies that go to the energy companies that harvest and use them, that’s what’s making the positive change criminally slow.

    • Saul Sykes

      December 5, 2020 at 3:01 pm

      We’re probably never going to completely cut off fossil fuels, not until we can make hydrogen power safe and viable anyway. But we absolutely can remove fossil fuels from our energy production and the vast majority of our travel which is where the majority of emissions come from. That said, removing fossil fuels is not the only solution required. We need mass reforesting campaigns, a fundamental rethink of how we grow food and raise animals, a major change to plastic use (as most plastics are made from petrochemical byproducts), and a serious think about population control (this is the one that’s going to get me shouted at).

  3. sreeker siva

    December 5, 2020 at 3:04 pm

    Our world is doomed because of Greed . Awareness can’t change anything. Only action can. Hopefully someone acts soon.

  4. Psh hh

    December 5, 2020 at 3:30 pm

    Greed

  5. mark amburgey

    December 5, 2020 at 4:31 pm

    global warming can be debated.. negative effects of polution can not.. the two are corelated.. place huge fines and tariffs on pollution.. stop poisoning the ground.. the water .. the animals.. ourselves.. in turn the planet will be healthier and carbon emissions will go down.. maybe spend a huge amount of the money spent on debating global warming on cleaning up pollution.. force oil companies to give up the patents they bought and hid away that would have lead to alternative fuels and much higher mpg gas technologies

  6. hdmat101

    December 5, 2020 at 5:38 pm

    Short answer: money

    Longer answer: think of alternative and renewable energy as a disruptive innovation. There is still money to be made with Fossil fuels before the switch. Think of it like a digital camera relative to a traditional one.

  7. Kimani Wanyoike

    December 5, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    Great insights. At the end of the day as long as money is involved ,one would rather let the world burn.

  8. Invox

    December 5, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Is this a trick question?

  9. Annie Ycv

    December 5, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    Who knows 💖

  10. BuddyCBuddy

    December 5, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    This guy is wrong on every beginning assumption. Note has he even bookends global warming & climate change. Carbon is not pollution. On top of that all the fossil fuel company owners have divested into the “green energy” industries. Watch Planet of Humans doc to see how “green” is happening in the world today.

  11. Dave Cauwels

    December 5, 2020 at 7:48 pm

    He failed to mention a few key points that people should know. 1) the fossil fuel industry is the number one funder of clean energy projects and carbon offset projects. 2) “decarbonization” is the wrong term for what he is speaking about. He is actually describing carbon offset, where you let the carbon enter the atmosphere and you either pull it back out or stop the release of carbon somewhere else. 3) he gave no real examples of this happening. The best example now is clean coal. “clean coal” is real, and has managed to capture the pollutants from smokestacks to create pesticides and other chemicals, something that can be done at scale and power plants.

  12. Jonatan Jönsson

    December 5, 2020 at 7:58 pm

    If the fossil fuel companies don’t comply with this suggestion, make them pay a tax for how much it would cost to capture the CO2. They will quickly realize that they should capture it closer to the source. If money is the problem, solve the problem with money…

  13. Doc Skate

    December 5, 2020 at 8:39 pm

    NEVER will we as a spezies be clever enough to follow this man’s path. We are an evolutionary lifeform – faster, further, higher, better and MORE are the goals that we go for. We cut through and consume everything around us. It’s our destiny as a highly developed parasite, equipped with “intelligence” and self awareness. But we ain’t clever enough, never were and never will be. We can only decelerate our downfall as good as possible. No escape to the stars and eternal survival for us. Just a period of time as the dominating spezies on this very planet. But have a nice day anyhow ;-).

  14. Greg Bors

    December 5, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    We will go extinct because we evolved in a way that allowed us to become selfish and work against the better interests of our species in order to gain personal profit for ourselves

  15. Silverfirefly1

    December 5, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    They were told to burn it all down, back in the 30s. They were promised that once the ruin forced us to accept outside help then it would be restored. They were told they would be made pharaohs, like last time.
    It was a lie and they know it now.
    Now there are three types where once they were one. The first is trying to repair the damage with no comfortable way out. The second is doubling down on capitalism to fund colonies for the very few. The third is doubling down on destruction in order to honour the old deal, being led to believe that they will still be rewarded.

  16. jonathan bell

    December 5, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    Well I’m going to let you all in on a secret. An experiment was started 56 year’s ago in Australia. Governments from around the world gave billions in funding. The test ended 2 years ago. You are to late to change anything. Nothing and I mean nothing that you do from this point onwards is going to stop the end of us. So look into a mirror and tell yourself well done

  17. Gary Sarela

    December 5, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    The fossil fuel industry is dodging responsibility for the true cost of their product. They push the costs of climate change & healthcare linked to pollution onto everyone else.

  18. Nancy LaPlaca

    December 5, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    Seriously, anyone who thinks we can “easily and safely capture carbon and store it underground” needs to have a long talk with a physicist, or a smart junior high school student who understands thermodynamics.

  19. alice 4theroblox

    December 5, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    You can’t ban fossil fuels you idiot. What do you think the mining equipment for solar and wind requires?

  20. John Schofield

    December 5, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    Myles claims here that this is purely a question of forcing fossil fuel companies to capture the CO2 that their profucts emit. There is a big assumption here that the energy that it takes to extract the fossil fuel and then capture the CO2 from burning it will be less than the energy provided by the fossil fuel. To me that is not obvious, particularly when you look at hard to extract fuels like oil from tar sands.
    If that assumption does not hold then fossil fuel comanies would have to buy renewable energy in order to sell their product. Surely that will only make sense for a few really high value applications. It makes no sense at all for cars where the renewable energy can be used directly in EVs.

  21. Truth of the ball

    December 5, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    Stop the monetary system. Transition to a Resource based economy. Done…

  22. Cristian Crymy

    December 5, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    I don’t understand a thing he says,all I hear is decarbonisation and no methods of it and that someone somewhere knows how I can give the same speech and not clearing anything also.

  23. N3on Cyb0rg

    December 5, 2020 at 11:18 pm

    They don’t stop it because it’s profitable and they can live underground in luxury if anything goes wrong.

  24. Mr G

    December 5, 2020 at 11:56 pm

    Nuclear IS super cheap and efficient.

  25. Peknive

    December 6, 2020 at 1:27 am

    Money

  26. ithinkimjesus

    December 6, 2020 at 1:34 am

    I’m the only person at my job who cleans up the environment and my managers complain about how I supposedly waste time. I’m honestly disgusted with people that have this mentality.

  27. Disrrpt _

    December 6, 2020 at 2:36 am

    When is Ted going to talk. He has all these people talk but he never does

    • Disrrpt _

      December 6, 2020 at 2:36 am

      This is a joke btw

  28. Johnny G

    December 6, 2020 at 5:05 am

    The earth has been warming and cooling for billions of years. I am really excited that you think the Oil companies know how to stop all this.

    • thierry reus

      December 6, 2020 at 5:01 pm

      It is rising faster than the orbit of earth or the earth’s tilt can cause. There is a link between the warming and the amount of CO2 emitted. We pay the company’s by using their products, since there is not a lot of other option for most of us consumers. And knowing there are ways they can do it, they own it to everyone to take on this problem

  29. Mr Cheeseburger

    December 6, 2020 at 6:38 am

    Well gobal warming is fake because the earth’s climate changes ever couple decades and that’s why there was a ice age and other moments in history where it’s really hot or really cold so no one these days knows what they are talking about global warming is fake

    • Watermelon_Cat

      December 6, 2020 at 4:01 pm

      And you would know better than the entire field of science? Dunning kruger. Search it up

    • Mr Cheeseburger

      December 6, 2020 at 9:47 pm

      Hmm whatever

  30. Nguyễn Thắng Anh Khoa

    December 6, 2020 at 6:41 am

    Money and the Earth will be soon eliminated

  31. Midousuji Akira

    December 6, 2020 at 9:15 am

    blame the companies how about blame the people who use the companies blame everyone who drives a car has a house etc its not their fault ITS EVERYONE FUCKING FAULT SIMPLE AS THAT all people do is oh its his fault will eating meat and animal products driving a car and using hot water and a phone and a pc so they can upload videos like you smh

  32. Lisa Love Ministries

    December 6, 2020 at 10:19 am

    Seek God’s will daily.
    Romans 10:9
    1 Corinthians 15

  33. Breanna

    December 6, 2020 at 10:29 am

    K I know that at this point its a huge meme but I genuinely want to know if Ted has ever done a Ted Talk?

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  35. Zoltan

    December 6, 2020 at 1:10 pm

    Easy answer: they only care about money.

  36. Abhishek Reddy

    December 6, 2020 at 2:23 pm

    Simple answer – 1:21

  37. Sam M

    December 6, 2020 at 2:37 pm

    Funny how he talks about climate change and stands in front of all these extinct species.

  38. Big Dee

    December 6, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    Chicken 🐔 Little …. ur collective criminals for putting fear into the weak and feckless

  39. Youtube Freak

    December 6, 2020 at 5:32 pm

    Any high school student knows that CO2 is not a limiting factor in plant growth. Plants will happily take up ANY and ALL excess CO2 that comes their way…. So why is it that we think that this is a problem? Somebody’s either mistaken, or lying.

  40. Jay Johnson

    December 6, 2020 at 5:34 pm

    We need to move past the idea companies can use and destroy public, common externalities like the environment. They need to at least clean up what they hurt, and ideally leave everything better than they found

  41. Bart Roberts

    December 6, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    Fossil companies generate fossil emitting substances entirely in reaction to the sign off by public servants of auctions, leases, licenses, loans, permits, procurement, projects, regulatory gifts, subsidy, trade, treaty and use. Is it impossible for public servants to “effectively ban” all fossil emission?
    Not at all.
    From ASHRAE through ZETA, the world’s technology leaders have set out paths to replace fossil entirely with sustainable alternatives by 2030. By coincidence, 2030 is the last year we can emit fossil fumes if we hope to avoid chain reaction runaway to Hothouse Earth and the loss of our farms, fisheries and forestry worldwide.
    Sadly, drawdown is more nuanced than some suggest. 25 times as much carbon flux is from natural as from fossil sources, and ice core export Mauro Rubino in 2013 proved only fossil emissions raise equilibrium GHE. If taken from air, or reduced meat consumption, or sequestering biochar as terra preta, it takes more than two dozen times the volume to have the effect of suppressing one tonne of CO2 from fossil.
    Are such fossil industry initiatives as CCI or “blue” H2 worthwhile? On the whole, no. These processes are so leaky that it is likely they emit far more CO2e than even conventional oil producing the same amount of energy. The volume of such leaks is habitually underreported by industry at least 50%. Moreover, these activities are marginal business activities that make practical more extraction and lower fossil prices through economies of scale. Especially, because these ‘green’ initiatives are invariably subsidized, your tax dollars to to line the pockets of the fossil industry as it dumps more and more fossil fume wastes into your air, damaging your farms, fisheries, forests and more.
    Would it be easier with the fossil fuel industry helping? Absolutely. However, the track record of greenwashing, misdirection, reallocation of funds from government meant for green alternatives and so forth makes the fossil sector inherently impossible to trust without the deepest levels of transparency and scrutiny by the most zealously suspicious auditors keeping in mind either actual zero, or zero reached by 25 times drawdown of GHE credits as fossil debits is the target.
    Cap through the public service fossil emissions relative to 2019 levels below 90% in 2021, 80% in 2022 steadily in 10% nominal steps per year to 0% in 2030, and not only will agencies like ASHRAE and ZETA as private actors have their way paved to replace fossil with cheaper, cleaner, more plentiful alternatives, but also the fossil industry itself will follow or will divest.
    Write your government representatives explaining this, showing them also that economic collapse is inevitable even without figuring for climate change — bitumen has been functionally bankrupt worldwide since 2015 held on the market by government imposed barriers to exit — and that collapse will make 2008 look like a picnic, and reminding them sometimes their job is to say no to new requests for use of resources. Today, that “sometimes” is always, for fossil, until we get CO2 levels back below 350 ppm.

  42. Noukz

    December 6, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Unlike all the other “countdown” speeches and ideas, this is the first one that doesn’t really make sense, on so many levels. We have to ultimately stop removing fossils from the earth, no matter how powerful oil companies are. There are many other ways of doing this, cheaper, and quicker. People have to be told what to do and what not to do, that’s why we need laws, and law-enforcers. No mercy for the “Big oils”!

  43. Afrostrology

    December 6, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    i don’t even need to listen to this one. answer: money. it’s always money when it’s europeans and asians involved. it’s their god and all they care about even though they give lip service to the environment and caring for family……blah blah blah….they want money because they have low self-esteem. done.

  44. Subhajit M

    December 6, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    Animal agriculture knows how to stop climate change, why won’t they?
    Humans know how animal agriculture is awful for the planet, why do they fund it every day?

  45. Louis Niemann

    December 6, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    Just want to add that we are talking here about climate or respective geo engineering, wich is not as easy or risk free as you might think after this video. Don’t get me wrong. The man got a point and states it, but climate engeneering is a field wich is highly complex and fragile. There is a huge scientific debate going on how and if we should use ist at all. Just mind that there are a whole more technologys discussed right now than CO2 storage (CCS in this video if I am right) and I don’t want to go too far here.
    As fore example a leaking CO2 storage could have devestating effects on ecosystems and groundwater.
    Nevertheless I am glad he brought that topic into a wider range of an audience. This should be discussed and can only be done responsibly on a transnational level.

    Thanks for your attention reader. 🙂

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  48. Hagop Bulbulian

    December 6, 2020 at 8:18 pm

    We need clear numbers or better say real production numbers , and real co2 capturing numbers not just some hoaxes or some PR campaigns projects

  49. Cope57

    December 6, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    Who is piloting this planet?

  50. Bob Terryson

    December 7, 2020 at 12:03 am

    4:09 ‘Consumers can’t do this’ it’s a true statement when applied to a ton of V8 exhaust gas and burying a ton of carbon. Burying CO2 in a sealed former coal mine or oil field must be the most stupid idea anyone ever heard.. as though it will stay there, it’s up there with the big impressive looking machine with big fans on top of it that is going to act like a big vaccum cleaner and remove enough CO2 to make a difference, conventional wisdom fairytales, all a fantasy.

    Thing is that ‘consumers’ can do so much more, ‘consumers’ can reduce their consumption, they can grow their own foods whilst sequestrating carbon and not generating as much CO2 (onions from New Zealand for sale in Europe, please make it stop!) and as much plastic waste ‘consumers’ can go off grid, ‘consumers’ can stop driving 400 hp SUVs day in day out, ‘consumers’ can stop eating so much beef, ‘consumers’ can decide not to support the fast food industry, ‘consumers’ can stop worrying about their individual freedoms and start taking notice of the collective solutions that are needed to address the problems of the planet.

    We can regreen the deserts we’ve made and stop using the till and the petrochemicals we do to grow our food and start rethinking about how we eat and keep warm, it is possible to have a reduction in the reliance on fossil fuels and still live a life of luxury, however ‘consumers’ will fight tooth and nail against any perception that they might not still be living in 1958.

    “Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.” – Bill Mollison.

  51. Forever

    December 7, 2020 at 3:40 am

    Why are there no Turkish subtitles..?

  52. Sean

    December 7, 2020 at 5:07 am

    But what about the energy required to bury it

  53. Vedant Varma

    December 7, 2020 at 5:31 am

    Who wants Elon musk 2020 TEDX

  54. Duk Balla

    December 7, 2020 at 5:48 am

    Kim trails will stop global warming?

  55. Duk Balla

    December 7, 2020 at 5:51 am

    El Gore is doing it to he captured his carbon from his toilet

  56. anirudh shukla

    December 7, 2020 at 6:36 am

    Nobody sees bio char as option.

  57. Quỳnh Nguyễn Thị

    December 7, 2020 at 9:50 am

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  58. R Johnson

    December 7, 2020 at 10:56 am

    fossil fuels just became more important with the need to rebuild economies b/c of the economic externalities of the covid effects

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    December 7, 2020 at 3:16 pm

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  61. Who?

    December 7, 2020 at 4:53 pm

    I don’t have any reason to believe the fossil fuel companies will willingly cut into their own profits and pay to decarbonize their products. Talk about dangerous optimism…

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    December 7, 2020 at 5:01 pm

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  63. James McGinn

    December 7, 2020 at 5:41 pm

    Only morons believe the scant amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has any kind of dramatic effect. This is all about propaganda from unscrupulous science frauds.

  64. James McGinn

    December 7, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    If you pay attention to anything in this, pay attention to the fact that these frauds don’t want to discuss the fact that there is zero evidence that CO2 causes warming. Zero.

  65. Cate true eleven

    December 7, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    The responsibility of all life on earth and it’s safety and continuance- all the industries and things we fuel our lives eith must be changed – in hate of capitalists and all other isms-
    You only make me feel futility

  66. P Ed

    December 7, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    Are you really saying that you want to bury staggering amounts of CO2 ? Future generations will surely say ” Was that the best you could come up with … dumping CO2 ? “

    • DylanP_ayz

      December 13, 2020 at 9:00 am

      Storing it for 10,000 years is awfully better than extinction if you ask me.

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    December 7, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    good video

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    December 8, 2020 at 2:15 am

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  70. Brett Deadrich

    December 8, 2020 at 3:35 am

    One thing I do know, tsunamis will change the earth’s landscapes and will bump the earth axis by centimeters. That little bump will change the earth’s atmosphere by a lot. Yes there are ice ages, which is all directly correlated to the positioning of the earths axis to the sun, not what man kind doing. Milutin Milankovitch, look him up he shares the same idea. Tsunami can change the earth’s orbit too, which can bring earth closer to the sun. Just think of the amount of energy there is in a tsunami. Ultimately all that smog is choking off how our brain processes things. It chokes off your thoughts so to speak. Inhaling smog affects the brain mainly.

  71. Koert Tijdens

    December 8, 2020 at 8:07 am

    Its great to be in the conspiracy religion.
    Join the club and pray 5 x a day to the Holy Chemtrail.

  72. Koert Tijdens

    December 8, 2020 at 8:08 am

    We need more incompetent computer models to make climate hoaxing great again.

  73. Laurier

    December 8, 2020 at 8:19 am

    Climate alarmists are wrong about the future.
    Higher CO2 greens the planet.

  74. Alexander Vok

    December 8, 2020 at 11:02 am

    When a child, we had very cold winters in Siberia, now the winters are much milder, which makes our life and life of our children better. I can see no issue in that the climate became warmer, at least for my country.

    • Hasti Najjarzadeh

      December 8, 2020 at 11:19 am

      Maybe not for your country but it definetly is for our planet, the warmer it gets the more ice will start to break off from the arctic sea wich leads us having higher sea levels.. and thats not good. It also means that the hole in the ozon layer is expanding which also isnt pretty at all because it protects us from harmful ultraviolet radioation and in case you didnt know it isnt just extremely harmful for our planet but also for the human species as this may cause many health problems.

  75. 강태규

    December 9, 2020 at 1:39 pm

    Yes l uphold your opinion these days global warming is the most important problem. We have to overcome this disaster.

  76. 강태규

    December 9, 2020 at 2:08 pm

    Global warming is Global warning

    • 강태규

      December 9, 2020 at 2:09 pm

      I think I’m genius kakaka

  77. Halcyonacoustic

    December 9, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    This entire premise is bullshit. A couple investors and workers can’t force the fossil fuel industry to do anything. They are corporations. They take the cheapest way out by design.

    We need politicians to stop taking money from fossil fuel companies, and then we need to legislate such that they are forced to take responsibility for their own carbon costs.

    Energy companies aren’t a force of nature that we’re powerless to stop. They are ruining our future, and we have the power to stop them through government regulation.

  78. Evan Samaritano

    December 10, 2020 at 9:45 am

    What unmitigated BS! Decarbonize -> collect underpants -> ??? -> profits!!!
    This is beyond vague.

  79. psp785

    December 10, 2020 at 10:53 pm

    Money they knew about global warming from the 70s

  80. Neo Anderson

    December 11, 2020 at 12:19 am

    Nobody has a clue

  81. Tim A.

    December 11, 2020 at 4:44 am

    I think things have now changed and it’s clear renewables will become very cheap. As we know anything can come down close to the cost of materials and solar panels can be made with 20x less materials. By 2030 they might be cheaper than the paint on your roof, with improvements still to be had.

  82. jfreelan1964

    December 12, 2020 at 8:06 am

    Its going total a movement. More like a bowel movement.

  83. DylanP_ayz

    December 13, 2020 at 8:58 am

    They’ve known for decades…. I am enraged beyond belief.

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Bill Ackman has made billions of dollars — and a name for himself — as an activist investor, buying up stock to push for change at companies. In this wide-ranging conversation with author and business ethics professor Alison Taylor, Ackman discusses how he’s bringing his activism into the social and political spheres — and shares his thoughts on free speech, his notoriously long posts on X, the conversation around Harvard and DEI and more.

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The Workers Rebuilding Communities After Natural Disasters | Saket Soni | TED

As climate change leads to more and more natural disasters, a group of workers is showing up at one site after another to rebuild and repair. If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a TED Member to support our mission of spreading ideas: Follow TED! X: Instagram: Facebook: LinkedIn: TikTok: The TED…

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As climate change leads to more and more natural disasters, a group of workers is showing up at one site after another to rebuild and repair.

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A New National Park to Reclaim Indigenous Land | Tracie Revis | TED

In a part of the United States with more than 17,000 years of human history, cultural preservation advocate Tracie Revis is working to turn the Ocmulgee Mounds into Georgia’s first national park and preserve. This park would be co-managed by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, bringing the tribal voice back to an area they were forcibly…

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In a part of the United States with more than 17,000 years of human history, cultural preservation advocate Tracie Revis is working to turn the Ocmulgee Mounds into Georgia’s first national park and preserve. This park would be co-managed by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, bringing the tribal voice back to an area they were forcibly removed from 200 years ago. Revis explores the complex feelings of caring for this land and shows how it’s fostering healing in return.

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