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“If you change your city, you’re changing the world,” says Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles and chair of C40 Cities, a network of the world’s megacities committed to tackling the climate crisis. He shares tangible ways Los Angeles and other cities across the globe are promoting economic and social justice while taking concrete action on climate change — and talks about how to create a more inclusive, green and sustainable society as we rebuild from COVID-19. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED’s current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was recorded July 7, 2020.)
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Kanelmo
August 12, 2020 at 8:32 pm
First
El Bicho
August 12, 2020 at 8:34 pm
Garcetti is literally the worst mayor in history.
Poe Dameron805
August 12, 2020 at 8:46 pm
Why?
xj rope
August 17, 2020 at 4:50 pm
@Poe Dameron805 he thinks we live in a democracy “Pelosi talking point” it’s a republic
Loll Ol
August 12, 2020 at 8:38 pm
Third
Nicole Villeneuve
August 12, 2020 at 8:44 pm
0:34 Anime Time
Baker Anthony
August 12, 2020 at 9:08 pm
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Arctic Seraph
August 12, 2020 at 10:48 pm
Climate change is a scam.
Kloko Loko
August 13, 2020 at 2:14 am
Why?
Kloko Loko
August 14, 2020 at 1:11 pm
@eugenic eugene Oregon But what do you see here is this sustainable?
eugenic eugene Oregon
August 14, 2020 at 1:23 pm
@Kloko Loko give them the key or set them free… we are enslaved and packed in cities… that’s not sustainable … let us live off the land.. there’s plenty of space… the system was created by psychopaths with the thirst for power and control.. they know that what they created will kill life. It’s all in the plan to depopulate.. theres too many of us to control so some of us will die.. by design
VeryEvilPettingZoo
August 14, 2020 at 7:12 pm
The only scam is the fossil-fuel-funded denier propaganda machine, which has caused millions of ignorant sheep to – quite absurdly – dismiss the findings of the physical sciences.
Arctic Seraph
August 14, 2020 at 11:05 pm
There no science that proves climate change.
Kloko Loko
August 14, 2020 at 11:24 pm
@Arctic Seraph 😂 Welcome on planet, we have it here on Earth.
How was your trip?
Martinplayz
August 16, 2020 at 12:43 am
@Arctic Seraph Have you been braindead your whole life?
xj rope
August 17, 2020 at 4:51 pm
@eugenic eugene Oregon YES!!!
xj rope
August 17, 2020 at 4:53 pm
@Arctic Seraph it’s the sun that determines our weather unless their cloud seeding
xj rope
August 17, 2020 at 4:55 pm
@Arctic Seraph plenty that disproves it. How would they get chyna to follow their bullshit and make their slaves to pay more taxes for this bs?
Kloko Loko
August 13, 2020 at 2:27 am
This guy is awesome and he understand what are real solutions and how to implement it!
Startup Funding Event Global
August 13, 2020 at 2:38 am
This is great! We need more people to have an impact on the planet we call home!
e r
August 14, 2020 at 12:03 pm
People are like lice, there’s nothing you can do replenish the blood people suck out of the Earth and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. The smart lice are the ones that suck the money out of your wallet for climate change funding….one more thing to live in a perfect world…LOL.
WS Intern
August 13, 2020 at 7:08 am
virus is just first warning, brainless politicians 2050 CO2 neutral, what a crap, till this time this old fucks will be dead already and wash their hands in innocence. If no radical changes will come, in 2050 you can make the movie Mad Max reality , VERY BIG PROBLEM METHANE IS A BIG BOMB (PERMAFROST) , every day coming 200.000 new polluters to this planet. Nobody will stop this and oil is used more and more. So take your health insurance cards, possessions, money, credit cards, language skills, diplomas and fancy titles. In 10 till 12 years you can burn it with the rest of this planet
Further to mention: rising water levels, more CO2 makes quality of food production less, climate refugees, war, extreme weather events, extinction of plants and animals (humans), oceans will change in chemical way, burning of our woods, drought, diseases, plagues, earth quakes, pressure in Earth’s crust, maybe rotation of planet, human conflicts about food and water and so on ………….
Robert Callaghan
August 13, 2020 at 9:19 am
*4% OF MAMMALS ARE WILD + 4% OF ENERGY IS RENEWABLE*
We burn soy, corn and palm oil in cars, also plastic and trees for electricity. The trees come from clearcuts to plant more soy corn and trees. This is called green energy. It’s fraud for green money called carbon credits.
*Here’s what business as usual means:* Solar and wind power are 2% of total global energy use after 30 years trying . . By 2040 only 15% of global energy will be renewable . This is because electricity is only 20% of global energy use . By weight only 4% of mammals are wild ( humans & livestock = 96% ) . Emissions went up 50% in 30 yrs , up 30% in 15 years . C02 will be 500 ppm by 2040 and 600 ppm by 2050 = 2X safe limit of 300 ppm . Renewables will be only 20% of global energy by 2050, even with new solar tech — thanks to AC demand and cryptos, chargers etc.
Dams and bio-energy are ecological shitholes.
You can’t burn forests for electricity to save us from the climate.
To get 30% of energy from algae would take a country the size of Argentina.
Soy and corn are gene modded to survive the poisons that kill birds, bugs, fish, frogs & plants
Soy and corn are treated with petrochemicals and nano particles for market
Soy and corn are wrapped in gender bending containers for shipping and storage, then we eat it – get sick – and buy medicine from the same people.
There will never be a 100% green energy vegan world, ever.
Some ideas are so stupid, only intellectuals believe them.
Academic circle jerk asphyxia is the leading cause of male extinction.
See:
4% of global energy is renewable – YT, WSJ, BP 2019
4 global climate treaties failed in 30 years – Canadian Government 2018
15% of global energy will be renewable by 2040 – YT WSJ BP 2019
15% of global energy will be renewable by 2040 – CNBC IEA 2018
“To meet 20% of all global energy by 2050, the solar industry would need to install 300 to 500 GW annually over the next 30 years. Current global PV module manufacturing is 100 GW per year.”
Even without increased AC, crypto and charger demands, renewables are unfit for purpose on a global scale.
5% or even 10% per decade won’t do.
50 Reasons why wind power can not replace fossil fuels
Global scale new solar wind tech will take decades to do.
They still chug out solar panels the old fashioned way, and won’t stop until they have to. It’s the same with giant offshore epoxy wind blades. They’re worth too many millions to shut down just because it’s wrong.
Malcolm Jones
August 13, 2020 at 9:22 am
TED has gone WOKE.
Man made climate change is false science. The geological evidence shows we are in a CO2 drought.
Climate change invented by CPP to give them an unfair economic advantage. China builds cheap coal burning power stations while the rest of the world purchases 90% solar panels made in China.
Kloko Loko
August 13, 2020 at 12:33 pm
Fossil fuel propaganda!
CO2 last million years was from 180ppm to max 300ppm and average 220ppm and than you came and say this.
Maybe we should change your temp. to 40°C or 105F, it’s too low!
China is the world’s leading country in electricity production from renewable energy sources, with over double the generation of the second-ranking country, the United States. … China’s renewable energy sector is growing faster than its fossil fuels and nuclear power capacity.
VeryEvilPettingZoo
August 14, 2020 at 7:14 pm
Malcolm – Your post was so jaw-droppingly stupid that I’m going to have to call Poe’s Law on you.
eugenic eugene Oregon
August 14, 2020 at 7:25 pm
@VeryEvilPettingZoo go 2 word is stupid because hes ignorant
xj rope
August 17, 2020 at 4:58 pm
Plants need co2 to live. If hot pockets were made from plants these people would have a different tune
Kloko Loko
August 17, 2020 at 5:47 pm
@xj rope Plants would have bin fine without us. CO2 was stable before us at 270ppm and very long time ago before that, lowest was 180ppm 20 000 years ago and today we increased it from 275ppm to 415ppm.
Even if we stop CO2 release tomorrow it will stay hundreds of years above 400ppm.
Problem is that we humans have problem with more CO2 in air, we do not breath CO2 like plants so more CO2 in air is harmful for humans!
xj rope
August 17, 2020 at 6:10 pm
@Kloko Loko so where does the money go? Why is China exempt. And why is there no mention of global warming or what ever it’s called today not mentioned in the green new deal “Manifesto”????????
Kloko Loko
August 17, 2020 at 6:18 pm
@xj rope China is still less CO2 intensive per person that all developed countries.
Also their renewable sector is growing much faster than fossil fuel one.
They have 50% of all electric vehicles in the world (they have public electric public buses on batteries) and they have fastest growing wind and solar sector in the world.
VeryEvilPettingZoo
August 17, 2020 at 6:36 pm
@xj rope
China produces the most renewable energy of any nation… it’s only slightly less than the sum of the 4 next best nations combined. It’s investment into renewables is also the most of any nation, being 45% of the total global investment.
China produces more than three times as much renewable energy as the USA, and its renewable % of energy use is 24%, compared to 15% for the USA. China, like basically the entire rest of planet Earth except for the USA, has agreed to the Paris Accords, and is on course for hitting its peak CO2 emissions 10 years ahead of its Paris Accord’s pladge.
So I have no idea what garbage you’re reading that led you to claim that China is exempt. China has been much more committed and aggressive in dealing with this issue than the USA.
Regan Parenton
August 13, 2020 at 10:27 pm
I just published a video on my channel on the disappearing sea ice in the arctic.
eugenic eugene Oregon
August 14, 2020 at 12:34 pm
It couldn’t be active volcanos causing the ice to melt could it..?
VeryEvilPettingZoo
August 14, 2020 at 7:10 pm
@eugenic eugene Oregon Correct, it’s not volcanoes. It’s the crazy warming the Arctic has experienced ( exactly as climate science predicted).
xj rope
August 17, 2020 at 4:43 pm
Glacier national park took down signs this year that said the glaciers would be gone this year ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha aah
VeryEvilPettingZoo
August 17, 2020 at 6:51 pm
@xj rope If Glacier National Park were in the Arctic, and the Park Service’s signs were somehow significant to the science, and what was happening in Glacier National Park was somehow running contrary to the scientific expectations… then a denier imbecile like you might be forgiven for laughing there.
But none of that is the case, and thus you’re a denier imbecile who’s a fool to boot.
Kent Horvath
August 14, 2020 at 6:19 am
pro tip: city mayors are doing as much for climate change as i am in putting out the sun
VeryEvilPettingZoo
August 17, 2020 at 6:38 pm
The Sun isn’t the cause of the recent global warming… we are.
e r
August 14, 2020 at 11:56 am
Those people hyping up climate change live and work in air conditioned places and when they go outdoors, wow, it’s hot even the weathermen are now reporting the heat index to boost figures. It’s like putting on more sensors in your car that will make it more expensive and when it breaks down, one sensor can cost you hundreds of dollars. Isn’t life grand with stupid people on Earth?
eugenic eugene Oregon
August 14, 2020 at 12:33 pm
Human caused climate change theory = Modern day eugenics
eugenic eugene Oregon
August 14, 2020 at 7:30 pm
@VeryEvilPettingZoo do you fall for the left right paradigm hating trumpster nonsense?
VeryEvilPettingZoo
August 14, 2020 at 8:05 pm
@eugenic eugene Oregon Based on that baseless rambling drivel, you’re obviously an idiot. So nevermind.
eugenic eugene Oregon
August 14, 2020 at 11:14 pm
@VeryEvilPettingZoo you are what you think I am.. sense ya mentioned it
eugenic eugene Oregon
August 14, 2020 at 11:14 pm
@VeryEvilPettingZoo and some 90 % of communication or something is nonverbal so theres that
eugenic eugene Oregon
August 14, 2020 at 11:18 pm
@VeryEvilPettingZoo you should change your YouTube name to very live zoo petting sense ya love the Beast so much 😁
Contact Us
August 14, 2020 at 2:09 pm
Every 3 seconds America looses a 100 acres of Farmland and Ranch land to development, America is becoming an overpopulated third world sewer.
MAMA J
August 14, 2020 at 6:06 pm
Praying for all and hope you will help share this very important Truth from Almighty God’s Word:
“Time Has An End”
Time has an end, with much of God’s word, the Bible, to comprehend, but most won’t contend, and climate change won’t mend; Global warming is God’s final warning, as He is always in control, and He is our Weatherman (Isaiah 45, Nahum 1, Jeremiah 23….)Because of too much rebellion and sin, and wicked hearts within. (Jeremiah 7, Psalm 48, Romans 1-3…) God gave us His written word, originally in Hebrew and Greek, and called this book the Bible, to show us how to live and be; The Bible was written by holy men of old, many years ago, as God moved them through the Holy Ghost (2 Peter 1:21); And all scripture was written by inspiration of God, for us to be corrected, and reproved, by walking in His truth (2 Timothy 3:16,17); We have a most loving, and merciful God, to be praised and obeyed, from the moment we arise, til we go to sleep at night, yet much of the world won’t take heed, and go their own way; (Psalm 113:3, Ezekiel 39, Jeremiah 12, Ephesians 5, Titus 3, 2 Timothy 3….. ) He is the King of kings, LORD of lords, He is our Savior, Creator of all, but most won’t even acknowledge Him, and mock Him with much gall; We’re in the “Great Tribulation” now of Matthew 24, the LORD has opened up the seals (Revelation 5-22), so we can see truth more; In Daniel chapter 12 vs 9, God told Daniel the seals were closed til the end of time; If you study from Isaiah to the book of Malachi, hopefully you will see that this is all about the end times; Too many false gospels, signs and wonders, none have the truth, since God has allowed Satan to take his seat in the temple, and now rules, according to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 (2 Corinthians 11, Revelation 2,3, 17-22)Judgment has begun on the house of God, in 1 Peter chapter 4, God is starting with the churches, and then to many more; (Ezekiel 9, Jeremiah 25…) God is our Faith, our Baptism, our LORD, and Father of all, and only He can save, not the pope, priest, you, or me, and none can come to Him, unless He draws, and only by His mercy; (John 6:44, 10:30, Ezekiel 36, Romans 1-9, 1 Timothy 2:5, Titus 3, Ephesians 1-5…)So as the days of Noah, because of too much sin, when the floods came, and took most everyone/thing away, except for the animals on ark, and Noah’s family of eight, So shall our LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ (both the same), come and destroy this earth with fire on the dreadful Judgment Day, with only a remnant saved (Isaiah 1, 10, 11, Jeremiah 23, 31, Ezekiel 6, Joel 2, Malachi 4, Romans 9, 11, 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9, Revelation 11, 12, 18-22….), and He alone is the Author and Finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2);Please come soon LORD Jesus, please come soon, let Satan and sin no longer rule, for many are suffering, more and more each day, especially the children, LORD we pray; Please come soon dear LORD, please come save (Revelation 18-22)
Thank you for listening, may God bless, and keep you always!
Kathleen
Sueyu Yu
August 15, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Awesome Mayor! This is what we need right now is FUNDING for CLIMATE CHANGE WHILE PEOPLE ARE DYING ON THE STREET OF LOS ANGELES!
Krip Trib
August 17, 2020 at 11:43 am
Climate change sounds like a cult to me
Azul Bonito
August 17, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Garcetti is a damn dictator. Threatening to turn off peoples water and power. Get that tyrant out!