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“How much more damage do we have to endure before we realize that it’s cheaper to save this planet than to ruin it?” asks engineer and investor John Doerr. In conversation with Countdown cofounder Lindsay Levin, Doerr and systems innovator Ryan Panchadsaram lay out six big objectives that — if pursued with speed and scale…

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“How much more damage do we have to endure before we realize that it’s cheaper to save this planet than to ruin it?” asks engineer and investor John Doerr. In conversation with Countdown cofounder Lindsay Levin, Doerr and systems innovator Ryan Panchadsaram lay out six big objectives that — if pursued with speed and scale — could transform society and get us to net-zero emissions by 2050. An action plan to solve the world’s climate crisis, backed up by a proven system for setting goals for success.

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72 Comments

  1. Светик Черезова

    February 10, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    its also really intesting, how does meat and milk connected to co2 problem?) are cows produsing so much gases? Or ur pharmaceuticals need more money?

    • Eydeet

      February 10, 2022 at 9:49 pm

      First you have deforestation for cropfields for meatproduction, emissions from producing fertilizer, transportation of food for the animals and methan from animals which has a much higher greenhouse effect. I think thoose have the biggest impacts. Ofcourse stuff like packaging and transportation to the warehouses won’t lower if we all become vegetarian because then they would simply package and ship other products.

  2. Dadniel

    February 10, 2022 at 8:33 pm

    Who will pay? The poor of course!

    • chinbrows

      February 10, 2022 at 9:13 pm

      For climate change?

  3. Benedikt Kaufer

    February 10, 2022 at 8:35 pm

    Great talk. Let’s get started.

  4. Vytautas

    February 10, 2022 at 8:37 pm

    They forgot to add: 7. To stop population growth in Africa and Middle East.

  5. 雛形㐂紫

    February 10, 2022 at 8:46 pm

    うん、こんな大きな目標も計画もないけど、ずっと言い続けているように

    【自分の目に入った範囲/手を差し伸べられる範囲】でその人やモノの為に何か行動する姿勢を持って欲しいの
    それは大切に思う誰かたった1人でも良い
    (通常これだと思うし)
    3人でも良い、10人でも良い
    【袖振り合うも他生の縁】
    自分に関わった全ては必然で出会う/起こる必然だから

    たった1人/一つを大事に出来ない人には何も守れない

    これは使い古された言葉だけど、私はこの公式に【自分】ではなく【他者/物】を代入して生きてきたつもり

    今日の私が一番これに近づいてる
    昔はもっと自分勝手だったし、体調悪けりゃ学校休んだりと責任感もなかったし、
    先生に出会った頃は今よりずっと状態が悪くて…仕事も人間関係も何もかも最低だった
    だからこそ助けて欲しかったの…
    私の頼り方が悪かったのは認めるし、申し訳ないと思っています
    (ママは多少私の【感情】を理解してくれてるはず)

    とりあえず今日はここまでー
    一旦寝ますw

  6. Frank R

    February 10, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    There is a climate issue, perhaps a climate problem, but it is not a crisis. There is a difference. To the Left, everything is a crisis but the crises they cause.

  7. Roman Makukhin

    February 10, 2022 at 8:59 pm

    Blablabla without true understanding and practical vision. Guys have no handson experience in what they try to speak about. Pathetic.

  8. sjoerd woudaa

    February 10, 2022 at 9:07 pm

    Funk that People ignore them

  9. cashlandrum

    February 10, 2022 at 9:12 pm

    And if you think China will adopt any of this garbage you are naive and dim-witted… Beijing wants you to base your economy on green power because they never will and they happily destroy your delusion of a Star Trek world with a smoking Machine Gun Barrel… if you have been paying attention you will noticed they just tried out a bio-weapon on us… the future will wipe that shiny grin off your face butter cup no time to be naive

  10. magpie

    February 10, 2022 at 9:13 pm

    Well these are the atleast the kinds of conversations that need to be had instead of people flat out denying it

  11. Elvis Adomnica

    February 10, 2022 at 9:17 pm

    “As of July 2017, Forbes ranked Doerr as the 105th richest person in the United States and the 303rd richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$ 12.7 billion as of March 3, 2021.” – great “action plan” from someone that is part of the problem. Such hypocrisy!

    • Redakteur

      February 10, 2022 at 9:41 pm

      Hmm, and what “part” of problem is he? “Hypocrisy” is in your brain, it’s good that clever rich people know what to do

    • Elvis Adomnica

      February 10, 2022 at 9:52 pm

      @Redakteur I would’ve engaged with you on a debate around the structure of capitalism and how that affects the world but your second sentence just shows you are incapable of having rational debates!

    • Redakteur

      February 10, 2022 at 10:03 pm

      @Elvis Adomnica ok, go North Korea, you just can’t compete with me, that’s why you can’t “debate”, bae

    • Elvis Adomnica

      February 10, 2022 at 10:05 pm

      @Redakteur 🤣

  12. José Miguel Martínez

    February 10, 2022 at 9:19 pm

    trash

  13. Jonathan Gibson

    February 10, 2022 at 9:23 pm

    Reasonable. Decades too late. When has opportunity hoarders ever let-go of their dominance games… that have worked so well for them? Look at 1-25 years of COP/UN fecklessness and explain how your going Shrink these companies + economies, not your usual Growth plan. We are already collapsing economically: look at those trillions the Fed Reserve pulls from it’s butt with space-magic. Only handful of companies and interlocking Boards of Directors explaining how they should be made Stewards of Earth… because they did so well this time. maybe better next-planet?
    Yes. This is a journey to another planet, but not the one Musk planned. When we come out the other side it will be a different world, with new creatures and we will learn new ways to get along… or we won’t stride anywhere at all.

  14. KTown

    February 10, 2022 at 9:33 pm

    A plan. ☹️ Feel like it’s missing how to stop the greedy. Saying what we need to do doesn’t do anything when CEOs and politicians know that oil will remain profitable for decades. The greedy have the power and there’s nothing we can do about it. Making a plan is great, but if you don’t address and force the greedy to stop, it’s a non-starter. We’re screwed. How about a plan to stop those who put us in this place. Oil is everywhere. Oil is currency.

  15. AM

    February 10, 2022 at 9:41 pm

    TED is total ideological nonsense nowadays. Can`t really support these neo communism ideas. Rich will get richer, poor will not only get poorer. They`ll end up bankcrupt and killing themshelves and it`s happening already. Why? Follow the money and the learn how greediness works.

  16. Greg Gary

    February 10, 2022 at 9:50 pm

    These guys are living in a dream world. There is no circumstance under which fossil influence over our political systems, combined with the sheer economic momentum can be overcome by moral suasion, scientific data, economic postulation or political argument. If that was going to work it would have by now.

    The only viable lever is that of reallocation of investment without reliance on political will. I am unaware of any force capable of accomplishing that other than organized consumer action.

    • Rick Rys

      February 10, 2022 at 11:10 pm

      A price on carbon will reallocate investments

  17. Jh5578

    February 10, 2022 at 10:12 pm

    “Safer nuclear” Nuclear is already one of the safest forms of energy ever invented.

  18. William P

    February 10, 2022 at 10:21 pm

    The biggest issue is that they are preaching to the choir. A large portion of the carbon polluters are not changing – in fact, they are getting worse.

  19. gasdive

    February 10, 2022 at 11:08 pm

    At 0:44 he’s lost me already. Nuclear doesn’t scale to the size needed in the time remaining. If you spend even a few seconds thinking about it, it’s pretty obvious.

    First, figure out the scale needed.

    We need to build about 50,000 one GW reactors over the next 8 years. That’s one every 42 minutes.

    So, do we have any designs that are suitable for mass production at that scale? Obviously not. So we need to design one. How long would that take? At least a year to design. Then we need to build a test unit. Currently it takes at least 5 years to build a reactor to a design we have already built. Assuming we can halve that, (which is unlikely) that’s 2.5 years. Then we need to test it. It’s going to need to work for 40 years. If we test one unit for 5 years we will only be sure of picking up problems that occur in the first 5 years and 100% of reactors. So it’s unlikely that the reactor design is fit for purpose, but assuming we go with it anyway. That gives us 6 months to build 50,000 reactors. The factories to build them don’t exist. They’d need to be designed and constructed. The factories that make the machines that would go in those factories don’t exist. They’d need to be designed and constructed.

    Nuclear might have been an option in 1970. It’s not an option now. Even the most casual look at the subject makes it completely clear, it’s not an option.

    Then look at fuel. Using known, tested, working designs as the basis for the 50,000 new reactors means that we would run out of fuel in a few months, well before the last reactor got its initial fuel load. So we need a design that has the most efficient neutron capture design ever created, by far. In months.

    Then we need operators. Breeder reactors are finicky things. Each plant needs maybe 100 highly skilled operators, so 5 million operators. They must be trained on a plant we haven’t yet designed. We can’t start training them until we know what they’re going to be operating.

    These problems of time and scale are insurmountable. Even if we start today.

    • Tony Rosati

      February 11, 2022 at 12:59 am

      What is your solution?

    • Internet Hobo

      February 11, 2022 at 6:49 am

      @gasdive Your argument relies on the false assumptions that: we can’t reduce our power use, we can’t research better technologies in years, (it’s been done and is happening) and we wouldn’t build typically better than average (and well funded) reactors in future times.

      Hydroelectric, public transport, reduced beef consumption, regulations, etc. apparently just don’t matter? “Wasn’t impressed” is by no means a reasonable dismissal, these all play a different-sized part.

      “Fill the gaps” means use in addition to other solutions. There was absolutely no implication of needing peaking power plants, you made that up.

    • gasdive

      February 11, 2022 at 12:43 pm

      @Internet Hobo “Your argument relies on the false assumptions that: we can’t reduce our power use”

      Well that has never happened so far. But say it does happen. Over the next 8 years we reduce our energy consumption by 50%. That cuts our need to 25,000 reactors, and extends our deadline by 2 years. Rather than needing a finished reactor to drop off the end of a production line every 42 minutes, we need one about every 3 hours if we had the factories and a design. That doesn’t materially change the situation. We don’t have the factories. We don’t have the design.

      “we can’t research better technologies in years (it’s been done and is happening) and we wouldn’t build typically better than average (and well funded) reactors in future times”

      On the contrary, I said it absolutely depends on creating a new nuclear technology. Not just “better than average” but a reactor with a neutron efficency that has never been achieved in any reactor, of any sort. As for funding, “(well funded)” I didn’t mention it, assuming cost absolutely no object. Some things take a certain amount of time no matter how much money you throw at it. You can’t produce a baby in a month by making nine women pregnant.

      “hydroelectric, public transport, reduced beef consumption, regulations etc apparently don’t matter?”

      No, they don’t matter. Hydro is practically fully utilised already. Even if it wasn’t, it takes about a decade to build one. (Three Gorges took 17 years) We have 8 years. If private car use was banned tomorrow, and replaced by zero emission public transport today, right this instant we’d save the passenger car emissions. Which according to Statisa “Passenger cars produced approximately three billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide in 2020”. Statisa says 2020 World CO2 emissions were 34 billion tonnes. So banning private cars today extends our deadline by 9 months.

      These are all nibbling at the edges of the issue and failing to tackle it in any sort of effective manner. Yeah, I’m unimpressed.

      “fill the gaps means use in addition to other solutions”

      You bet it does. It’s in addition. Meaning you have the other solutions (a solution being something that fixes the problem) then you add nuclear like a wart on top.

      Otherwise those aren’t “solutions” and when the wind doesn’t blow, and the sun doesn’t shine, ie, the gaps, nuclear fills the whole energy need. I’m not making up that this is peaking. It’s the very definition of peaking.

      Ryan says “when you think of solar and wind as they get deployed, you can’t turn that on and off when you need it, right? So a grid needs to find a way to fill it’s gaps”.

      Now he’s completely wrong there. Both wind and solar can be turned on and off very quickly. He’s saying they’re intermittent baseload. They are intermittent, but they’re not baseload. Either way the focus of that statement is on the intermittent nature of geographically limited solar and wind. If you’re going to backup solar and wind with nuclear, then obviously the nuclear needs to be able to provide all your electrical needs, otherwise its not a backup at all. Which means it needs to be sized just as large as if it was the only supply. 50,000 reactors. Even if 99% of the time they’re running on bypass.

    • Tony Rosati

      February 11, 2022 at 3:31 pm

      @gasdive solar is intermittent and required grid scale storage that we don’t have. Otherwise you destabilize the grid. So no. Solar panels come from Asia (mostly China which we do NOT want to depend on). Solar is only suitable in some climates and takes massive land areas. Look at Germany’s – massive solar and wind with no plans to get off fossil fuels until 2040. Look at France – self sustaining nuclear power and the cheapest prices of electricity. Germans pay the highest prices.

      I’m not against solar or wind but nuclear has to be in the mix if we care about the climate. Every energy technology has pros and cons. We need massive amounts of energy to grow and prosper.

    • Zenn Exile

      February 11, 2022 at 8:19 pm

      It’s like all these clowns fergot that the Sun already puts out more power than we will ever need for thousands of years. We simply have to exploit it’s potential correctly through the proliferation of Life, and the harvesting of said Solar and Life Energy. I mean you could put 5 million normal people with zero technical skill each on a Hectare of land, produce far more energy, reverse global warming through storage of Carbon in living systems, and supply each of those 5 million people with the value of excess production to barter with and live a gainful productive life.

      Instead of now where most people work for 70 years and die in massive debt just to produce, raise, and educate a single child in a system of absolute chaotic waste and destruction.

      The smart move would be to provide everyone who has no wealth a Hectare of Land, and the education needed to turn that Hectare of Land into a permanently productive source of gainful income. Turn the Sun into Progress.

      Everything else is a lie designed to support some corporate interest. And the only thing Corporations are interested in is the illusion of growth and quarterly profit. Normal people have ZERO need for central energy production and extreme energy density and storage solutions. The Sun is all we have EVER needed, and will ever need long into the forseeable future.

    • gasdive

      February 11, 2022 at 11:12 pm

      @Tony Rosati It is always sunny somewhere. What’s needed is not so much grid scale storage, as interconnects that connect continents. We already have factories that make that sort of cable, so we know how to build them. That takes care of the issue of high latitude sites that don’t get much energy half the year, but too much the other half.

      Solar doesn’t destabilise the grid, because contrary to what Ryan said, solar can be turned on and off very quickly. That lets correctly programed solar to act as an artificial inertia on the system, making it more stable.

      Panels can be made anywhere, not just China. There’s a big factory in Florida. Mine came from Germany. In fact they’ll *have* to be made everywhere if we’re going to get out of this mess. We don’t have anywhere near the number of factories needed. Luckily, unlike nuclear, we already have the designs for those factories, and for the factories that make the machines to go in them. We just have to build more. We could physically start today.

      French electricity prices don’t reflect the reality of the cost (I’ve been ignoring cost, what cost survival? but you brought it up). The French nuclear fleet cost about the same as the Apollo program, (by estimates, the actual cost remains a French state secret) and the cost was picked up by the French government. The cost to the consumer no more reflects the real cost than the fact that Neil Armstrong could afford to fly to the moon for the weekend on a public servant wage, reflects the cost of the Apollo program.

      Current panel prices are around 0.2 USD per watt in retail quantities. A well sited panel produces about 6 Wh per day per nameplate W, on average. With a life of 30 years, that’s 11,000 days, or 66,000 Wh. 66kWh for 0.2 USD. Now there’s the cost of borrowing the capital for 30 years, but ignoring that, you’re looking at less than 1/3rd of a cent per kWh for solar. If you built your own factories, obviously the cost would be less.

      The French, that you just held up as an example of how cheap nuclear is, have built (or at least part built) a reactor where the cost isn’t a state secret. Hinkley Point C cost 22 billion GBP for 3.2 billion watts. That’s 6.8 GBP per watt nameplate and about 22 Wh per day on average. With a life of 40 years, or 15,000 days or 330,000 Wh per installed W. 330 kWh for 6.8 GBP. That’s 0.02 GBP per kWh. About 12 times more. But unlike solar, nuclear has to be actively run. EDF is being paid 19.5 £/MWh. That’s another 0.02 GBP per kWh. Making nuclear more than 24 times more expensive than solar.

      Now at this point, I must point out that Hinkley Point C is a PWR that can trace its history back to marine reactors more than 70 years ago. It’s designed to be quick and cheap to build and no thought is given to fuel efficency. There’s a trade off between fuel efficency and initial cost, and between fuel efficency and difficulty in operation. Using that cheap to build, easy to operate design for 50,000 reactors would mean we couldn’t even give them their first load of fuel, as that would be equivalent to 200 years of fuel at current consumption rates. So we must use expensive to build, difficult (expensive) to operate breeder reactors. So 24 times the price is a lower bound, and the real dollar value would be much higher.

      As for the massive land area. We need 25 TW. Panels run well over 20% efficency, 1000W falls on each sqm. So that’s 200W/sqm nameplate. Given that you need roads, panels could be angled, etc call it half that, 100W/sqm nameplate. Ideally sited panels make about 6 Wh/day per nameplate W, but call it an average of 4 Wh/day. That allows for some as low as 2 Wh/day, which is pretty much everywhere covered. (Scotland is over 3). So 100W nameplate would make 400 Wh per day, or an average 16.6666, call it 15W. So I think you’ll have to agree those are very conservative numbers.

      So at 15W/sqm, and we need 25 trillion watts. Let’s say we need 30 trillion watts to make the maths easy. 30 trillion Watts, divided by 15W/sqm. 30 trillion divided by 15 is 2 trillion. Watts divided by Watts cancels. Two lots of divided by divided by sqm, the two divides become a multiply. So it’s 2 trillion sqm. Change that to sqkm by dividing by the number of sqm in a sqkm (one million) and you get 2 million sqkm.

      Where could you fit 2 million sqkm? Such a big area.
      Sahara, 9 million sqkm
      Russian Arctic 5 million sqkm
      Great Australian desert 2.7 million sqkm
      Arabian desert 2.2 million sqkm
      Gobi Desert 1.9 million sqkm
      Kalahari 0.9 million sqkm
      Patagonian desert 0.6 million sqkm
      Great Basin desert, 0.5 million sqkm.

      While you’re right to say every energy has pros and cons, that doesn’t mean every energy should be loaded into the mix at a global scale. Every transport has pros and cons, but that doesn’t mean you should include ocean shipping if you’re designing a public transport solution for Nepal. Some things just aren’t useful. Nuclear is one. We need to switch in 8 years. Nuclear that takes 30 years to ramp up is no more useful than building a port in Kathmandu.

  20. आदित्यAditya मेहेंदळेMehendale #BringBackDislikes

    February 10, 2022 at 11:16 pm

    The English language direly needs separate words for
    We1 : “We, excluding you” and
    We2 : “We including you”

    • gasdive

      February 11, 2022 at 3:38 am

      I know right?

      Te reo Māori has “tātou”. We, 1 or more others, plus me and the listener. Eg: we are in big trouble.
      “Rātou” They, 3 or more, but not including me or the listener. Eg, they are making too much noise, could you ask them to be quiet?
      “Mātou”, We, my two or more friends, me, but not you the listener. Eg, we would like a room for the night.
      “Koutou”, you, the listener, your 2 or more friends, but not including me or my friends. Eg, could you and your buddies keep it down, we are trying to sleep.

    • आदित्यAditya मेहेंदळेMehendale #BringBackDislikes

      February 11, 2022 at 9:54 am

      @gasdive Fascinating 🙂 I’m gonna quote you!
      Marathi (my mother tongue) has separate words “Aamhi” (we excluding you the listener) and “AapaN” (we including you the listener). The Te reo Māori version is far more nuanced 🙂

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  23. Zander Lee

    February 11, 2022 at 12:13 am

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  24. ViasSillV💠

    February 11, 2022 at 12:18 am

    Проблема в людях

  25. Tony Rosati

    February 11, 2022 at 12:52 am

    Yes Nuclear! Proven (50 year track record), the fuel is not imported, provides stable base load for the existing grid, we have the waste solution in place. Thank you.

    • Internet Hobo

      February 11, 2022 at 12:05 pm

      @gasdive That’s so true! Online lectures aren’t even real! Assuming any form of education, technicians or engineers, in the future existing is just objectively unfair because big numbers and they aren’t there when there’s no market demand for people who don’t exist! Innovation at it’s best 😉

    • gasdive

      February 11, 2022 at 1:07 pm

      @Internet Hobo well, if you can design the most neutron efficient nuclear reactor in history, and design it such that it can be run by a teenager who has done some self directed online learning, I’d day you’ve pulled off a neat trick.

      Like designing a World Championship winning Formula 1 race car that can be safely operated by a learner driver that has never sat in a car before the first race. Not precluded by the laws of physics, but you’ve made your design process just a little harder.

    • gasdive

      February 11, 2022 at 1:28 pm

      @Internet Hobo or putting it another way.

      Say there were 500 aircraft in the whole world. Mostly 2 seat piston engine.

      In 8 years we need 50,000 Dreamliners. There’s no factories for them, no design. No pilot has ever flown a jet, or a multi engine aircraft, but the continuation of civilisation depends on building 50,000 in 8 years and putting them all into regular passenger service. Someone says “where will we get the pilots, and the people to service them?”

      Your answer is online training.

      Would you get in that aircraft?

    • Tony Rosati

      February 11, 2022 at 3:15 pm

      @gasdive there are plenty of proven Nuclear power plants that have been proven, mostly light water reactors. The entire country of France runs on Nuclear with out issue. They also have a fast reactor MSR that’s been running for 30+ years. We absolutely can build them. Companies like Terra Power, Terrestrial energy are building new generation reactors that scale.

    • gasdive

      February 11, 2022 at 11:42 pm

      @Tony Rosati do you have a name for the French MSR because as far as I know there’s been a total of 2 MSR operated, both research reactors in the USA?

      The TerraPower and others reactors are *not* being built. They’re at the “cool renders” stage. No where near the “send these drawings to a manufacturer” stage. Let alone the “fully tested and ready for mass production” stage.

  26. 45°N regenerative homesteading

    February 11, 2022 at 6:19 am

    First of all, we need to give up on unnecessary things. Consume less, buy less, eat less. Repair, reuse, recycle, barter. Multiply that effort per 8 billion human beings on the planet, and you’ll see results.

    • Zenn Exile

      February 11, 2022 at 8:03 pm

      Actually you couldn’t be more wrong. Average consumption is extremely low among the vast majority of people because they are all extremely poor. Even if every single human on the planet was delusionally following the Repair, Reuse, Recycle fallacy toward it’s absolute perfect outcome, Coke would still be making a garbage continent worth of plastic every year. Dupont and Monsanto would still be poisoning the planet’s soil, acidifying the planet’s oceans, and the Agriculture and Energy Industries would still be choking the atmosphere with CO2.

      Nothing would change. The problem never was the average person. The problem is psychopathic wealth consolidators choosing the path of human progress based on what makes them personally feel good simply because they have managed to amass wealth with absolute disregard for their impact on others or the logic and reason behind their delusions.

  27. sea bird

    February 11, 2022 at 6:56 am

    Petroleum , plastic , Chemical industries are the cupids.
    But they still make profit and haven’t done anything to fix it.
    Free of any charges, or penalties.
    Politics are responsible of pollutions, Profits ……….first.
    But soon it will be too late, and the bill is going to be the last one…..
    And no ones will be able to afford it.
    Parasite must die, and Nature will erase us…..Don’t you worry !

  28. bla blup

    February 11, 2022 at 7:51 am

    I always ask myself how do you want to make those jobs available ? You can’t just take someone and think it is so easy to change his job …

  29. Gionna

    February 11, 2022 at 8:33 am

    Unfortunately electrifying transportation has a sick downside which is mining. I’m definately all against fossil fuel, don’t get me wrong but we can’t rely just on battery fueled future. We have to keep looking for even cleaner alternatives! Let’s not just get stuck on this one option.

    • Zenn Exile

      February 11, 2022 at 8:04 pm

      No we don’t. There’s a Sun in the sky pumping out enough energy to power a 50 billion human strong technological future for thousands of years. It’s pure lunacy and delusion to believe anything else.

  30. Santiago Arellano

    February 11, 2022 at 9:40 am

    What about working less? Much less? Productivity is killing us, to the point of turning consumption of unnecesary products (a compensation cycle) into an actual form of happines. Like being really happy for going to a Bad Bunny concert, to that degree our crisis has gotten.

  31. Marvin Götza

    February 11, 2022 at 10:43 am

    USA is really living far in the past. If they still want to have a strong economic position in the future, they must finally arrive in the present. Other countries are already much more progressive.

  32. 🇬█ 𝔎𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝔎alisari│

    February 11, 2022 at 12:41 pm

    TED | Ladies and gentlemen!

    The question is
    whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart?

    or
    whether we commit ourselves to an effort — a sustained effort — to find common ground?.

    to focus on the future we seek for our children – and to
    respect the dignity of all human beings?.

    It’s easier to start wars than to end them.

    It’s easier to blame others than to look inward.

    It’s easier to see what is different about someone
    than to find the things we share.

    But we should choose the right path,
    not just the easy path.

    There’s one rule that lies at the heart of every religion — that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

    GOOD HEALTH ALWAYS EVERYONE !!!.

    # I thank you.

    ###
    .

  33. 阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭

    February 11, 2022 at 12:53 pm

    O thank you!.

    Thank you.

    Thank you very much.

    Thank you.
    And May God’s peace be upon you all:
    Staff and Crew of the TED Group !!!.

    Good luck to you all !!!.
    GOD BLESS US EVERYONE!.
    Thank you – and thank you so much!.

    *****

  34. Maybe You're Right😀

    February 11, 2022 at 12:58 pm

    😀
    👍

    Yes, TED👍
    and yes, TED🤗🤗
    TED, Maybe you’re right 👍!.

    Yes👍
    👍
    # Cop 26
    SAVE OUR PLANET 🌏🌍🌎!

    👍

    ” we are talked a lot about, but we are not listened to ” -why?
    😀

    Thank you.
    😀😀

  35. ✿Shahrezad Nor💜 Mohammadiy

    February 11, 2022 at 1:08 pm

    O my Noble-Ladies!

    Thank you very much for yours role, and # women do hold high positions√ .

    Long Live Women – So Tender and Lovable !!!.

    Long Live Women – Kindly so Hard-working !!!.

    Hi’ you’ll Ladies…..!!!
    Hi’ you’ll Great-Women….!!!.

    Let us Connecting MINDS ✍️
    Creating the future 🌏🌎🌍

    in

    – Sustainability

    – Mobility

    and opportunity- !.

    Good luck to you all !!!.

    Thanks.
    😀

    .

  36. Hamdija Memic

    February 11, 2022 at 2:34 pm

    Quite a while since sine I took a look at this channel , and I am quite disappointed.
    Last time young man has invented 13 layer composite material that can change the world “Climate inklusive”.
    And now most of videos some type self improvement ….. , Climate change etc .
    Maybe is time to remove “T” out of “TED”.

  37. Rafael Alas

    February 11, 2022 at 3:53 pm

    para evaluation:

    de truamas de:

    hierarchy
    identification
    dictional
    acknowledgment
    spacial
    emotional
    visual
    honing
    audio
    sensing
    financial

    please do not evaluate
    gangbangers or KKK authorities.

    • Rafael Alas

      February 11, 2022 at 3:54 pm

      be mindful of space occupied.
      listen to their words,
      look em in the eyes; control facial reaction; register what they’re saying.
      retort by ______ structure(s);
      enunciate emphasis with physical display.

  38. Robert Pattinson

    February 11, 2022 at 4:06 pm

    Investing in crypto now should be in every wise individuals list, in some months time you’ll be ecstatic with the decision you made today.

    • Olivia

      February 11, 2022 at 4:24 pm

      I wanna Invest too, how do I get to Greg Gonzalez ?

    • Marion ⭐

      February 11, 2022 at 4:24 pm

      His availability is on WhatsApp👇

    • Marion ⭐

      February 11, 2022 at 4:25 pm

      😷😷†𝟏𝟑𝟏𝟕𝟕𝟐𝟏𝟏𝟔𝟗𝟒

    • Olivia

      February 11, 2022 at 4:25 pm

      @Marion ⭐ thanks

    • Zenn Exile

      February 11, 2022 at 7:55 pm

      Actually crypto is just another fictional economic trap based on faith. What everyone should invest in is a minimum Hectare of Land, and the education required to turn that Land into a productive Wild Resource. One that can be tapped for dividends, recognized as a valued asset, and that supports a complete ecosystem.

      You could Mint a Hectare of productive Wild Land, harvest and sell it’s excess production, buy sell and trade them for clout, and use those minted REAL NFT’s to back actual crypto value. Instead of just we all agree to pretend crypto is currency, we can just say, productive wild land is worth X value, it takes Y amount of X value to gainfully produce crypto, therefor, crypto is now backed by the value of the solar, and ground harvested, energy required to produce it.

      The smart investment was, is, and will forever be, Land.

  39. wojciech strzelecki

    February 12, 2022 at 12:27 am

    Seriously…?

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