In June 2022, TED’s climate initiative, Countdown, launched its Dilemma Series: events designed to look at some of the “knots” in the climate change space, where diverging positions have stalled progress and solidified into an inability to collaborate across differences. The event focused on the question: Is there a role for carbon credits in the transition to a fair, net-zero future? Through TED Talks and conversations featuring scientists, CEOs, activists, politicians, artists, frontline community leaders, investors and more, this film offers a 360-degree view of carbon credits — a contentious subject that prompted some discomfort, disagreement and, ultimately, a renewed sense of possibility. It’s an invitation to listen deeply, keep an open mind and get a little wiser on a complex topic. (Featuring, in order of appearance: Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, John Kilani, Nat Keohane, Julio Friedmann, Donnel Baird, Nili Gilbert, Al Gore, Inés Yábar, James Dyke, Tom Rivett-Carnac, Lindsay Levin, David Biello, Gilles Dufrasne, Kavita Prakash-Mani, Susan Chomba, Gabrielle Walker, Derik Broekhoff, Annette Nazareth)
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heh heh
November 7, 2022 at 12:35 pm
nobody wants this except qWEFers
VeracityMedia
November 7, 2022 at 12:38 pm
No.
John Sirois
November 7, 2022 at 12:40 pm
“Now, how on earth can we take away people’s privacy and any sense of autonomy without a common enemy we can unite on? Any ideas?”
wie zum Teufel
November 7, 2022 at 6:14 pm
Best comment ever!
bigone24
November 7, 2022 at 12:43 pm
The reality is that this will end up extending Business As Usual activity. As humans we really don’t have the capacity to consider losing some aspects of modern life which we consider ‘essential’, that are inherently high-carbon-e, and a path of least resistance such as ‘offsetting’ will become the primary option for entities whose core values directly conflict with sustainable development. I look forward to seeing many rich folks being created from the incoming carbon offsetting boom. Good luck all, its gonna be a cowboy future out there.
Kathryn Palmer
November 8, 2022 at 3:11 am
I am 55 years old with very little set aside for retirement at this point. I have always been curious about the stock market and have witnessed some people who played the game right and retired early because they used the stock market. When I ask them, most said that they invested very little to start with, but their portfolio grew. I do have a significant amount of capital that is required to start up but I have no idea what strategies and direction I need to approach to help me make decent returns.
James Mcdonald
November 8, 2022 at 3:13 am
Buy index funds if you wanna be safe, though you are probably be better off just going to Vanguard or something for that
Finn
November 8, 2022 at 3:15 am
@Kathryn Palmer “My consultant is *Loretta Wilkinson* I found her on a CNBC interview where she was featured and reached out to her afterwards. She has since provide entry and exit points on the securities I focus on.
Finn
November 8, 2022 at 3:17 am
@Kathryn Palmer You can look her up online if you care supervision. I basically follow her trade pattern and haven’t regretted doing so”
Jacob Scanlon
November 8, 2022 at 7:33 am
@Kathryn Palmer Shouldve invested earlier but if you want a very safe investment with decent returns invest in the S&P500 or other index funds, they diversify your money across multiple stocks in companies usually the top 500 of the nation/international, the S&P500 are the top 500 American stocks, do your own research before doing anything of course but just some advice.
StrangerEyes
November 7, 2022 at 12:47 pm
There is only one way to reduce carbon in the atmosphere that don’t lead to tyranny. Drastically increase energy production from non-carbon emitting sources (nuclear, fusion, whatever) to a point where it becomes profitable to remove carbon from the atmosphere and make stuff with it. Problem solved. No need for any communist hippie totalitarian utopia. But I guess, this is the capitalist white men’s solution…. and that’s a no-no.
Sorin Hodosan
November 7, 2022 at 12:52 pm
Chinese Social Credit in disguise !!! Feudalism 2.0.
Jerry Miller
November 7, 2022 at 12:55 pm
No
AfroNaut
November 7, 2022 at 1:12 pm
In real life this is just another tool of global oppression, Africans are being told not drill their own oil, when we make up less than 10% of global emissions. As long as the conversation doesn’t have equity then it’s just the same as before and nothing has changed.
Extra_V_I_C_C
November 7, 2022 at 1:16 pm
If carbon credits are tradeable, it meams they’re aimed at poor people only.
Vesa Wuoristo
November 7, 2022 at 1:20 pm
No enough with the credits already, we are way past the time to think about , action is needed asap by converting all energy to renewables.
harshbutt
November 7, 2022 at 1:26 pm
Keep dreaming, they’re too inefficient. If the goal is “net zero” nuclear and carbon capture are far superior options.
John Sirois
November 7, 2022 at 2:39 pm
Does that include humans?
Eman Puedama
November 7, 2022 at 7:45 pm
And you’ve got the engineering expertise to know this is possible without incurring mass starvation and chronic fuel poverty?
John Sirois
November 7, 2022 at 7:53 pm
@Eman Puedama Maybe the starvation and fuel poverty is part of their solution?
Eman Puedama
November 7, 2022 at 10:21 pm
@John Sirois
Depending on exactly what level of ‘they’ you’re talking about, and what you think they see the problem as (hint: it’s not the climate), that’s not so much a ‘maybe’ as a statement of the obvious as far as I’m concerned.
MusicWorldwide
November 7, 2022 at 1:23 pm
How can I access the texts spoken at TED? I want to learn English. Thank you
Soya Suki
November 7, 2022 at 4:28 pm
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Crypto Tonic
November 7, 2022 at 1:27 pm
Thinking about it, I agree with the idea that it would be almost useless and ineffective to drastically reduce the extraction and use of fossil coal and I believe that the idea of providing for 2050 a system that guarantees removal from the atmosphere is the best solution! Also I believe that it will not be a process that will happen at any moment but with the right support and without problems, it can be achieved! congratulations for the great video as always!
The Cats Pajamas
November 7, 2022 at 3:42 pm
carbon capture is a flawed technology it will always cost more energy than the carbon you are able to pull out of the system. Until we have infinite clean electricity it cant happen.
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Christian Soldier
November 7, 2022 at 2:10 pm
The final conclusion is……..
kill off as many humans as possible without getting caught doing it.
That’s their goal , and the tools are,
climate change, pandemics, food removal, end economy, diversify the world so a one world government can be enforced, Central Bank digital currency that is programmable and there’s more. But ,,,,when enough people are removed, the total green electric system can work as long as it don’t have a lot to do. build mega regions and stuff it with the remaining humans. The agenda has been in the works since the beginning of time when Lucifer rebelled against God. This is all his fight. Don’t fall for it. Remain faithful to our Lord in Heaven. That’s the only way to life . If you fall for the world system, you’ll be lost . God gave us this world to populate and told us to believe in him and you’d be blessed by him, when you leave God, God will leave you. See the leaders you get when your country leaves God ?? Go back to God now before it’s too late. love y’all.
Paris Fitzgerald
November 7, 2022 at 2:19 pm
Climate change –> Depopulation –> Net zero
Dekaida
November 7, 2022 at 2:33 pm
No it’s not. Capture the carbon out of the air and make graphene out of it instead. It’s a revolutionary technology that would help to solve this “carbon crisis.” Then we should work toward switching over to nuclear energy instead of solar and wind. We recently got a fusion reaction successfully started. Pour more time, effort, and money into developing that nuclear technology if fission is to scary.
The Cats Pajamas
November 7, 2022 at 3:44 pm
carbon capture is inherently flawed and costs more energy than you are able to get out of the system. until there is infinite clean electricity carbon capture will always output more carbon than it removes.
Dekaida
November 7, 2022 at 5:25 pm
@The Cats Pajamas Right, so nuclear to facilitate carbon capture. Also, you’re being a bit salacious when writing we would need an infinite source of electricity. There isn’t an infinite source of carbon, so that statement is incorrect.
Soldier Forrester
November 7, 2022 at 2:44 pm
Methan go brr
The Cats Pajamas
November 7, 2022 at 3:40 pm
Carbon credits are a scam and just there to make people feel better as if we are doing something.
Eman Puedama
November 7, 2022 at 7:43 pm
They’re for more than that, and they’re definitely for doing something.. but it’s nothing good.
wie zum Teufel
November 7, 2022 at 6:13 pm
We DON’T want a social credit system, no matter how you call it❗
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November 7, 2022 at 6:59 pm
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Eman Puedama
November 7, 2022 at 7:41 pm
It’s a way of making non-productivity more profitable and investable than productivity. It’s a neofeudalist, technocratic agenda of deindustrialisation and depopulation.
antonioas709
November 7, 2022 at 8:05 pm
Heck no
Cosmic Warrior Princess Harmony
November 7, 2022 at 10:03 pm
The bullshit of just talking, talking, talking, instead of doing anything about it.
Personally I want to know if anyone of these speakers has tried reforesting deserts … or semi-arid areas. I have questions about soil&water management per plant.
Minh Hai Nguyen
November 8, 2022 at 3:21 am
True, just sound bites
Melisa Maldonado
November 8, 2022 at 1:08 am
Ted talk this. Ras Tafari Makonnen. The king of kings. Author of authors. Born 1982. Let’s hold a talk
Clem
November 8, 2022 at 3:44 am
The carbon market is a scam. We are living in a capitalocene world. Coming with “capitalistic” solutions is a dead end.
David Sanchez
November 8, 2022 at 4:10 am
How naive could be a person or group of person to beleive that similar mechanism, acttitud, values that created the problem of large CO2 emissions, could be used to create a solution of that problem? 🤦🏻♂️
Do you want to stop CC, for real? Then push for an economic system change/evolution/replacement
gabb05
November 8, 2022 at 1:17 pm
It would be great if the sources the speakers talk about could be listed as a “references” section on the videos for those of use that are interested in reading and learning the details of the facts (if indeed they are facts)
Sachin
November 9, 2022 at 5:10 am
Do you guys read comments on your videos on youtube ? like this one. I want all speakers in this video to take 5 minutes to read and respond to comments.
Why ? Just because I want. Na Na.. It will help unite you guys and these guys , maybe someone will consider doing something.