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Known for big, attention-grabbing installations — like his four towering waterfalls in New York’s East River — Olafur Eliasson has scaled down his latest project, Earth Speakr: an art platform for kids designed to spur budding climate activists to lead discussions on nature, conservation, pollution and more.
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Martin Svensson
November 20, 2020 at 3:20 pm
Kids are just repeating the propaganda they have been told. So you can just as well listen to it directly in that case. But I think most thinking people have had enough of that since long ago. Those kids need to learn things about life first. And especially about how propaganda works.
Tom K
November 20, 2020 at 3:22 pm
Didn’t they eat tide pods last week for internet points?
RTStx1
November 20, 2020 at 3:42 pm
You mean indoctrinating children with your lies……
Xaro Xhoan Daxos
November 20, 2020 at 3:56 pm
Kids are speaking up for banning vegetables. Let’s listen.
Xaro Xhoan Daxos
November 20, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Yall don’t even want children to work, yet you think letting them decide economic policy is a good idea… this is why we can never take your side seriously.
RdR
November 20, 2020 at 4:17 pm
Let’s listen to kids??? Kids are great and I like them a lot. But no, we don’t listen to kids!
RdR
November 20, 2020 at 4:19 pm
Kids have been speaking about the evils of broccoli! Let’s listen!
Undertone 13
November 20, 2020 at 5:12 pm
This is child abuse.
Andrew Fomin
November 20, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Climate change and environmental protection are extremely complicated, politicized and divisive topics, they are very hard to be fully understood even by adults. These kids are just speaking heads for the adults and that is disgusting: adults must have the bravery to speak by themselves.
I’m not saying that the kids said something right or wrong, but I am saying that adults should not use kids to express their views.
wojciech strzelecki
November 20, 2020 at 11:07 pm
Well said brotha
Bart Roberts
November 20, 2020 at 5:22 pm
Cap relative to 2019 levels fossil emitting activities, licenses and permits below 90% in 2021, 80% in 2022, 70% in 2023 steadily down to 0% in 2030: action even a kid can clearly understand and that too many adults fail to grasp.
Show us that you understand what this means, why it is necessary, good and right, if you can. We can compare your answers to kids’.
André Jacques
November 20, 2020 at 5:35 pm
Do you believe in Voodoo?
Artemius
November 20, 2020 at 5:49 pm
Where is “Kids are speaking up against pedophilia” video?
Thomas Noel
November 20, 2020 at 5:51 pm
But this doesn’t count as indoctrination… right?
twn5858
November 20, 2020 at 6:12 pm
Yep, kids who are brainwashed from government schools.
Ajay Miller
November 20, 2020 at 6:32 pm
America isn’t buying your TRASH Ted Talks!
Ajay Miller
November 20, 2020 at 6:47 pm
Libtard Propaganda
Chai Chu
November 20, 2020 at 6:58 pm
Very cute and simple minds, very complex problems and very resentful old kids who have never grown up are pushing their repetitive message through real children – our children.
Ajay Miller
November 20, 2020 at 7:31 pm
Never let this freak around kids.
_ Grundel _
November 20, 2020 at 9:04 pm
So the artist works with things he controls? Sounds like how religion is forced into kids heads before they develop reasoning skills. Get them while they’re young mentality as easier to manipulate.. Kids are the future. Kids speaking up is great, it depends on how they’re educated about it. Facts matter over having kids just say things they don’t actually understand.
Amachtinger
November 20, 2020 at 10:04 pm
Yea right. There’s a million 12 year olds who think like that. Follow the money, Mr. Gore.
Janice Stevenson
November 20, 2020 at 11:03 pm
“Today I will listen to another. Practice today listening to another…You will be engaging your whole mind in your conversation. Take time, then, to practice listening without speaking. Allow others to express themselves to you. You will find that they have a greater communication for you than you might at first have anticipated.” (quote from Steps to Knowledge, Marshall Vian Summers, New Message org)
wojciech strzelecki
November 20, 2020 at 11:06 pm
Yes use the most inexperienced therefore most impressionable part of population as a weapon in pushing groups of interest agenda. Anybody that isn’t concern of how pernicious that tendency can be need to seriously question his of hers awareness
Ryan Fila
November 20, 2020 at 11:08 pm
Who ever reads this please know:
You have so much potential inside you.
You are beautiful and strong.
Have a wonderful day ❤️.
Much love!🙏🏽
Lost in the internet
November 23, 2020 at 8:22 pm
50kg is my top push, i am skinny AF.
It is evening at my place. So, sry dude
Solitary Reaper
November 20, 2020 at 11:56 pm
how dare you
Terry Wheelock
November 21, 2020 at 2:17 am
These “kids” need to sit down, shut up, and go to school! AND, the parents who are abusing them into fronting this crap for them need to stop!
So your answer is “all you have todo is listen”, …… so listen to ME, SHUT UP, SIT DOWN, and GO TO SCHOOL!
SEE, YOU DON’T LISTEN! 🤣
PS: I have already heard what you got to say many, Many, MANY, MANNNNNY, years ago and they were WRONG then, and YOU are WRONG now!
So SHUT UP, SIT DOWN, and GO TO SCHOOL …… and LISTEN! 🤣
MarkQubOW
November 21, 2020 at 5:00 am
you rreally think a video willl make these money hungry business men change?
lit lit
November 21, 2020 at 7:48 am
They’ve brainwashed the youth to the point of hysteria and now they hit them with covid. They are going to be a messed up generation indeed.
MTW
November 21, 2020 at 2:12 pm
Using children for green propaganda ops is disgusting. Shame on you sick SOBs.
Sky Runner
November 22, 2020 at 8:45 am
This is pathetic. As a last resort the Marxists must stoop to using kids as cannon fodder after terrifying them out of their minds. What do these kids know about Mann’s Hockey Stick or that the IPCC Models have failed to predict reality for over 20 years but are STILL being used to shape policy that are destroying millions of livelihoods that may cause these kids to starve or at least stunt their development or deny them opportunities. Despicable.
Mauro Köller
November 22, 2020 at 11:26 am
Kids cannot be experts. And i must know, I was a kid 😀
Cal Cervo
November 22, 2020 at 1:54 pm
Too late.
Xristos H.
November 22, 2020 at 4:32 pm
With so much politics and money involved around literally any aspect of our life’s kids see the whole issue with their innocent point of view (as long as they are not used as a means to push forward adult views – in general). And that is not bad. Maybe, for once, the big powerful men and women, could actually listen and move forward without involving personal interest. Maybe the solution to a huge problem like climate change, could then become as simple as a kid sees it. And frankly, it is that simple. People are just not willing to accept it.
For example. If you smoke, throw your cig, in the appropriate bin. If you buy a soft drink/ whatever drink, don’t just leave it at some corner on the street. Throw it to their dedicated bin sections. There are things that governments have actually followed, simple common sense things, that people can’t follow even then. So it’s laughable to think that we all can make a change, when people ignore basic stuff like this. But, as we say in my country, hope dies last, so you never know.
Wild Edibles
November 22, 2020 at 4:47 pm
Yes children our our future
Fabio Massimo Proietti
November 23, 2020 at 7:21 pm
whooa 1080p ted talk? must be a dream
Lost in the internet
November 23, 2020 at 8:20 pm
You know, in russia we have a term infogypsy.
These are all those coaches and lyfestyle trainers.
Well, Ted is indeed the mother of infogypsies XD
TJ C.O.D.
November 24, 2020 at 12:43 am
Stop the war first than open your hole about the environment bch
Michael
November 25, 2020 at 8:27 am
“their imagination is so inspiring”. They just spoke a sentence while recording a random object with their phone. WOW AMAZING! 😂
Adventures with Frodo
November 27, 2020 at 7:59 am
This is one of the worst things I have ever seen. TED talks are really going down hill. Is there a way to selectively view TED talks.
Justin Kincaid
November 27, 2020 at 1:03 pm
The only thing that children know is what you adults have been lying to them about for ages. So maybe stop lying to your children.