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How Indigenous Guardians Protect the Planet and Humanity | Valérie Courtois | TED

“If we take care of the land, the land takes care of us,” says Indigenous leader Valérie Courtois. As climate change continues to devastate the planet, Indigenous guardians are helping to honor our responsibility to the land, monitoring water quality, conducting research and working to restore key species. Courtois invites us all to support the…

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“If we take care of the land, the land takes care of us,” says Indigenous leader Valérie Courtois. As climate change continues to devastate the planet, Indigenous guardians are helping to honor our responsibility to the land, monitoring water quality, conducting research and working to restore key species. Courtois invites us all to support the guardians working to ensure that humanity has a future on Earth — and to discover that healing the land can transform us as well.

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  1. Emmanuel Peni

    December 26, 2022 at 1:26 pm

    Love you Valerie. Feeling your words through and through. Hearing and listening and feeling. Lots of love from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 indigenous guardianship has answers for climate change

  2. Charles

    December 26, 2022 at 1:31 pm

    The land will take care of us for a very long period of time. Definitely not forever because 5 billion years later the sun will explode and Earth will disappear.

  3. Dee Dee Winfrey

    December 26, 2022 at 1:36 pm

    What a lovely thought, but indigenous people dont run the world. I’m a native American and I have always been a steward of the earth and it hasn’t made a difference in the world. Humanity is doomed.

  4. Linda McConnell

    December 26, 2022 at 2:30 pm

    Shared.

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      December 26, 2022 at 9:32 pm

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  5. listen2meokidoki

    December 26, 2022 at 2:33 pm

    The Guardians who know that to change the World, the wise man or woman says, do nothing.

  6. Justine

    December 26, 2022 at 2:51 pm

    The ignorant and hateful comments made here mean that the writers of those comments didn’t listen to the message. From, « the speaker isn’t as moving as other speakers » to « woke politics » wow – you really didn’t hear the message. There are indigenous guardians out there helping to heal not only the Earth from trauma but human bodies from trauma – that’s HUGE. When we treat the Earth like we wish to be treated, the Earth will take care of us. And I DO hope people WAKE UP. These Earth Guardians are helping us indirectly, whether or not you realize it and appreciate it. Your resistance to positive change and your ignorant comments will not stop people from doing what’s right and moving humanity forward. Have a healthy and peaceful New Year.

    • coolbreeze5683

      December 26, 2022 at 4:03 pm

      I didn’t see hateful messages. I guess they were so bad that they were removed. Growing up in Canada, unfortunately I’m not surprised by the hatred and ignorance against Indigenous People. It’s very sad that every Indigenous Person in this country has been affected by the Residential School System which took away their families, culture and their message of respecting the Earth. They are continued to be blamed for what happened. Now non-Indigenous are trying to use Indigenous culture to help the Earth and heal themselves but call it something else and try to profit off of it. It’s disgusting. I hope all Indigenous People through out the world can find healing and a way back to their cultures.

  7. UltraAar

    December 26, 2022 at 3:08 pm

    Indigenous supremacy

  8. sara warberg

    December 26, 2022 at 3:12 pm

    Não sabia que tinha índia sapata.

  9. Marcos Luna

    December 26, 2022 at 3:32 pm

    I love this. There ARE forces that we can’t see that are watching out for us

    • Kevin VanGelder

      December 26, 2022 at 7:30 pm

      Yes, His name is Yahweh, creator and sustainer of the universe.

  10. PH L

    December 26, 2022 at 3:34 pm

    Full respect to you and a wonderful talk 🙂👍

  11. fly famille

    December 26, 2022 at 3:48 pm

    We belong to the land not the other way around

  12. Tom Stoute

    December 26, 2022 at 3:58 pm

    Look towards the sun ..
    True science tells us that people are only a fraction of the reasons our earth is going through changes in our climate

  13. Mariana Costa

    December 26, 2022 at 4:02 pm

    I love when people start talk serious about our planet and care about that, specially who are doing something for don’t hurt this precious place and who is doing nothing for the planet, I’m so gratefull for this people caring about our planet and I help that too respecting these communities who help our planet for be healthull back

  14. Trfg

    December 26, 2022 at 4:35 pm

    In Brazil indigenous are being arrested and the world is quiet.

  15. Doug P

    December 26, 2022 at 4:48 pm

    Lmao

  16. Shiro Amada

    December 26, 2022 at 5:38 pm

    Nobel Savage trope is making a comeback I see. Anyone remember when these used to be about science and technology? Must have been a decade ago.

  17. Gaasuba Meskhenet

    December 26, 2022 at 5:47 pm

    Allow people to live based on their feelings of love instead of desperation and they make their lives and the world better?
    Whaaaaaaaa????
    I’m soooOOoooOOOOoooo surprised…..

  18. Dennis Cambly

    December 26, 2022 at 5:48 pm

    What do you mean when you say “what is now known as Canada?” If you care for each other why are the cities being flooded with unemployable indigenous people. Why did the native population explode by 40% since 2012? Please show us the land you have sustained more than anyone else in Canada. Why do you support the Ekati open pit diamond mine that works collaboratively with Indigenous leaders? You lash out at every Canadian as colonialists and settlers yet you take our money by the billions per month. Your hatred of anyone outside your circle is astonishing.

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    December 26, 2022 at 5:50 pm

    Dare to start a butterfly effect today

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    December 26, 2022 at 5:56 pm

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    December 26, 2022 at 6:22 pm

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  23. Oluwali Blue

    December 26, 2022 at 6:27 pm

    Tradition does not warrant the murder of animals. Being vegan is easy, is less harsh on the land and doesn’t involve harming animals.

  24. Kevin VanGelder

    December 26, 2022 at 7:28 pm

    Climate change is nothing but fraud designed to make the poor poorer and the rich richer.

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    December 27, 2022 at 12:16 am

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  26. brwnJohnnySvage

    December 27, 2022 at 2:05 am

    “Indigenous creature” or “something else”..

  27. makkia

    December 27, 2022 at 2:08 am

    What we can do to save Earth is to practice.

  28. 민하♡

    December 27, 2022 at 2:10 am

    This video gave me a lot of knowledge. Thanks to you, I am happy to know a lot about climate change.

  29. 막지

    December 27, 2022 at 2:50 am

    I think it’s really cool to hear that when I take care of the land, the land takes care of me I thought I should donate little by little from now on and think about the environment. Let’s try as much as we can little by little!

    • UltraAar

      December 27, 2022 at 4:35 am

      It’s a shame you bought into the propaganda. Because the climate change agenda is utter bullshit. In the 70s the elite were telling us their was global cooling. Its all a farce

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    December 27, 2022 at 4:00 am

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    December 27, 2022 at 9:29 am

    I very much agree that we should stop global warming. We will be able to protect animals, and we will be able to protect them all over the world.
    Give me more Comments please🙏

    • jdkskeb

      December 27, 2022 at 9:37 am

      Yes,I agree.

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    December 27, 2022 at 10:26 am

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  35. Roger Roger

    December 27, 2022 at 11:06 am

    It’s always some woman that looks like Paola Ramos. What if we listen to the indigenous people of Mexico City and instead build highly dense cities?

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    December 27, 2022 at 4:28 pm

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  38. ᄋ ᄋ

    December 27, 2022 at 11:44 pm

    If I take care of the land, the land takes care of me… I think this is a really cool word

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    December 28, 2022 at 6:58 am

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    December 28, 2022 at 7:13 am

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  41. usha murali

    December 28, 2022 at 2:24 pm

    Great

  42. The Big Dawg

    December 28, 2022 at 8:31 pm

    I mean, this is all scientifically false, so.

  43. GisNot UsLike

    December 28, 2022 at 9:28 pm

    Ya well everyone wants to be a cold 50 right well be careful what the planet wishes for

  44. GisNot UsLike

    December 28, 2022 at 9:34 pm

    God is watching ya and his listening!!!

  45. 津田真佑

    December 29, 2022 at 11:33 am

    then,I thought the land of evelopment in the earth is protected by peple when I was a student. Ensure continuting is good action.

  46. Jedi Lady

    December 30, 2022 at 5:51 pm

    Indigenous people should be in the forefront of climate change summits to educate us further! We don’t only need academic experts because their knowledge is very limited!

  47. John Hall

    December 30, 2022 at 8:12 pm

    Every culture in human history has this story in their culture. Obviously when you’re primitive and your entire existence depends upon crops, weather, sun, etc etc. That’s where this “mother” term comes from and the Father is the Sun. The moon controls the tides etc, maybe they’re having a threesome or something. Look taking care of the planet is common sense and all ancient cultures knew this. The issue is money. Always has been always will be. Get rid of money completely and the competitive drive to be more and have more than everybody else and humanity and the Earth will naturally fix itself. God bless!!!

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