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Make your actions on climate reflect your words | Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Take action on climate change at . “History has shown us that in moments of crisis, society can truly transform,” says environmental educator Severn Cullis-Suzuki. Nearly 30 years ago, at just 12 years old, she spoke at the UN’s Earth Summit in hopes of reversing the planet’s slide into ecological disaster. Some at the summit…

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“History has shown us that in moments of crisis, society can truly transform,” says environmental educator Severn Cullis-Suzuki. Nearly 30 years ago, at just 12 years old, she spoke at the UN’s Earth Summit in hopes of reversing the planet’s slide into ecological disaster. Some at the summit listened and took radical action, but for the rest of the world, it was business, politics and full-steam-ahead economic growth. Now, Cullis-Suzuki shares another warning about the future, this time informed by the COVID-19 crisis — and urges us all to make our actions on climate change reflect our words.

This talk was part of the Countdown Global Launch on 10.10.2020. (Watch the full event here: .) Countdown is TED’s global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world. Get involved at

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37 Comments

  1. Rebecca Leeman

    October 17, 2020 at 12:05 am

    Its so ironic and basically a little pathetic that many of these jokers shouting ” liberal media this” and “liberal media that” have channels filled with liberal video games and liberal music.
    These are the same fools who know nothing about history ,even recent history , if it isnt part of their edited narrative.

    If liberals and progessives weren’t around the only entertainment these echo chamberists would have is reading the bible and singing choir music. And if they’re real lucky a priest might give them a helping hand … undressing.
    LMAO

  2. Ken Florian

    October 17, 2020 at 1:21 am

    WTF? How does anyone down vote this voice?

  3. J. Blomeyer

    October 17, 2020 at 1:38 am

    Nothing new. The poor girl reads what was written for her. She does not understands the issue. She was chosen to improve the show.
    As she and the people behind her have no scientific education and no understanding of the complex problems. So, her talk is nothing than blah blah blah.
    But there is danger when such madness grows. Once about 500 years ago we had the crusade of children and we had recently the RAF, the communists who murdered in Germany. When these mad people see that nothing is done as they want then aggression can appear and they will become killers. It is possible.

  4. Semper Fortis

    October 17, 2020 at 1:56 am

    Like father, like daughter….
    God bless the two of them.

  5. Nihat Donmezov

    October 17, 2020 at 3:08 am

    We have to take action right now!!!

  6. Cường WIKI

    October 17, 2020 at 3:26 am

    Good job

  7. 34.Qg7#

    October 17, 2020 at 3:56 am

    Pseudoscience scam

  8. Pierre Elias

    October 17, 2020 at 5:10 am

    Watching from Papua New Guinea forests c5v.org forests verifications

  9. Jim Meh

    October 17, 2020 at 5:29 am

    The best thing hippies can do is invest their time coming up with inventions better futuristic that eliminate the need for electricity. Not sent us back in time hundreds of years. That’s the problem with these hippies. They literally want to send us back to the Stone age.

  10. Thomas Chevrier Laliberté

    October 17, 2020 at 5:31 am

    SUV car commercial right b4 this speech 🤦

  11. Ronny B

    October 17, 2020 at 6:29 am

    i loved the TED platform,it was a great platform for knowledge and new tech,now its just another rplatform for SJW, BLM,and climate warriors,sad
    if this continues i will withdraw following this channel, we see and hear enough of this crazyness, if its broke,fix it,how come these movements didnt react sooner
    and to all those “warriors”, come up with viable and payable solutions in stead of shouting at the top of your lungs,but maybe its just to be noticed and not to solve a problem

    • Evop Fx

      October 17, 2020 at 11:17 am

      Withdraw because we dont want uneducated people like you who will burn away the planet we live in to beat some liberals. If you cant see that climate change is above the natural rate then you are not okay.

    • Ronny B

      October 20, 2020 at 8:16 pm

      @Evop Fx ueducated,take look at yourself m8

  12. jmuld1

    October 17, 2020 at 6:45 am

    Got any predictions that were made then that have come true?

  13. bravojr

    October 17, 2020 at 8:52 am

    You are only a child, so know your place…
    Children shouldn’t decide our future with their voices in uneducated interests that act way above their own heads.
    Till they can learn the weight of that choice, they are children… They should be treated as children not as leaders.
    A leader must learn to become that.

    • Evop Fx

      October 17, 2020 at 11:00 am

      Its the opposite, you are an oldie, you decide our future yet you aren’t good at it. I dont want 60-70 year olds deciding what will happen to the world when they wont even be alive to see the catastrophe they didnt prevent.

  14. Ivan Mosiichuk

    October 17, 2020 at 9:17 am

    Just try this search engine instead of Google. Make your actions on climate change.

  15. Rosolino Lo Sciuto

    October 17, 2020 at 9:21 am

    La migliore acqua se la bevono i porci quella che vi offrono al bar e’ contaminata

  16. Nihon115

    October 17, 2020 at 11:43 am

    tell that to the politics….I don’t give a f* about climate any more. Nearly 40 years old and i didn’t see a single sign of improvement in the world’s politics. Every “good action” hides hundreds of bad things, every time ! It’s all over. Humanity is lost. Young generations are even more stupid than ours. We had time 30 years ago. Now it’s too late. Enjoy the fall of men.

  17. Robert Callaghan

    October 17, 2020 at 12:26 pm

    *It’s not about giving it’s about taking*
    Fossil fuels have been 80% of global energy for over 25 years. Electricity is 20% of global energy. Renewable electricity is 4% of global energy. Solar & wind electricity is 2% of global energy. North Euro solar panels work 11% of the time. North Euro onshore wind turbines work 22% of the time. North Euro offshore turbines work 30% of the time. The F-35 fighter jet works 11% of the time. By 2040 15% of global energy will be renewable. By 2050 30% of global energy will be renewable.

    Water stress will threaten 50% of thermal power capacity. By 2025 66% of us will live in water stressed areas. Most solar solar panels will become un-recyclable garbage generating 6 million tons of waste per year by 2050. In the last 10 years the US cut emissions more by switching from coal to gas than Europe did by investing in renewable energy.
    Europe gets 50% of its renewable energy burning stuff.
    Europe burns 80% of the world’s wood pellets for renewable electricity
    Europe burns 80% of its recycled plastic & paper for electricity
    Europe burns 50% of its palm oil shipments in cars & trucks
    Out of earth’s 1.2 billion vehicles only 6 million are electric
    Electric cars will have no positive effect on climate whatsoever
    Total greenhouse gases went up 45% in 30 years.

    Weather = flash floods + flash fires + flash mobs + flash infections
    Climate = 30 years of weather

    500 years ago there were so many cod fish John Cabot thought they would lift his ship off the water
    400 years ago there were more Caribbean sea turtles by weight than buffalo on the plains
    300 years ago Passenger pigeon migrations would block out the noon day sun
    97% of great fresh water species gone since 1970 ( Guardian 2019 )
    96% of mammals are livestock and human by weight ( Ecowatch 2018 )
    96% of tigers gone in 100 years ( IFL Science 2019 )
    90% of elephants gone in 100 years ( Hurriet 2019 )
    90% of lions gone in 100 years ( African Impact 2019 )
    90% of Leatherback sea turtles gone since 1980 ( Earth Watch undated )
    90% of Monarch Butterflies gone in 20 years ( Inhabitat 2014 )
    80% of Antarctic Krill gone in 30 years ( Research Gate 2005 )
    77% of Eastern lowland gorillas gone since 1996 ( Treehugger 2020 )
    68% of world’s wildlife has been wiped out since 1970 ( Mongabay 2020 )
    50% of Marine vertebrates gone since 1970 ( WWF 2015 )
    50% of Great Barrier Reef gone since 1985 ( Live Science 2012 )
    40% of Giraffes gone since 1990 ( NRDC 2019 )
    40% less insects in next 30 years ( PNAS 2019 )
    4% of mammals are wild ( Vegan News 2020 )

    Sources for all these statements can be found at Loki’s Revenge blog on wordpress.
    You can also find a massive research library there on how pollution is affecting our youth

    *support James Hansen’s monthly private carbon dividends*

    If I had a nickel for everytime I didn’t know what was going on
    I would wonder where all the nickels are coming from
    — Loki 2020

    zzzzzzzz

    • Haley

      October 18, 2020 at 8:12 pm

      Incoherent trivia. Carbon dividends seems a good idea though.

    • Robert Callaghan

      October 18, 2020 at 8:53 pm

      @Haley not too bright but good instincts

  18. Adj

    October 17, 2020 at 12:56 pm

    Only sounds good in speeches, i tried convincing my classmates, let’s do something for the environment, i requested the school for using solar panels, and people to reduce wastage of water. All they did was laugh at me, even worse at school. They mocked me everytime. What i did, plant 12 trees, compared to the trees getting cut down its nothing.
    Conclusion: speeches will not make change and neither some 20 to 30 million people compared to 7 billion people.

    • Haley

      October 18, 2020 at 8:06 pm

      Progress will not be tree planting or solar panels, but ending fossil fuel subsidies.

    • Adj

      October 19, 2020 at 2:08 am

      @Haley yes indeed, but at that time all i thought was that if i could plant trees then i could save at least something.

  19. Divyasuhas vk

    October 17, 2020 at 2:16 pm

    St Francis students come on…🤣🤣🤣🤣

  20. Erika Mants

    October 17, 2020 at 3:42 pm

    Not going to front this video hit! I love the throw back film – I think showing that she’s been fighting since she was 12 years old says something, I loved the ending of that speech. “What you do makes me cry at night” This video is very powerful in the sense that these people in power didn’t listen then, and look at what fucking happened to the world! This video doesn’t offer a solid solution but it is powerful in a sense this capitalistic did not age well and it’s the government and corporations to blame.

  21. Shane d

    October 17, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    Love the rich westerners guilt their.own people, but never hear about this in a back water villages, GTFOH all about $$$$$$!

    • Nancy Reyes

      October 17, 2020 at 9:54 pm

      the biggest polluter today is China. Over the last 30 years, China has lifted most of their people out of poverty. Now, maybe you want China to go back to having their people live in poverty?
      Talk about white privilege ….

    • Shane d

      October 17, 2020 at 10:48 pm

      @Nancy Reyes maybe china should join the rest of the world! You know china has concentration camps, the most racist country in the world, wheres their racial diversity training? GTFOH!! They also steal every intellectual property possible and for tthe last 40 years since, they segregate their people and on a wim, 22 million people went “missing” in china roughly one day because of cv19 so seriously though what are you arguing? Western civilization has done more for human than anything in history. Just as in you live in the best time in history, so keep your judgment for yourself, pfff

  22. Snakeyes244

    October 17, 2020 at 4:45 pm

    Don’t describe green policies as “radical”. What’s “radical” is the unregulated continuation of the status quo: the wealthy elite deciding to do nothing and leaving the insurmountable damage on the lower and middle class

    • Haley

      October 18, 2020 at 8:03 pm

      I agree with your sentiment, but regarding the definition of “radical” this is exactly wrong. “Radical” can be defined as what is different from the status quo.

  23. Nancy Reyes

    October 17, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    the starving children are a lot fewer now because of capitalism. But never mind.And Covid was due to corruption in China and in the WHO not global warming. But never mind.
    When you move to a poor country instead of living in affluent Vancouver maybe I’ll believe you are taking this seriously.

  24. Joffrey

    October 18, 2020 at 12:42 am

    Fake news !!!!!

  25. Maggie Robinson

    October 18, 2020 at 2:29 am

    Yes we want to tax you for breathing.

  26. Jithin Govind K

    October 18, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    30 years… we’ve had warnings and signs…yet what did we do? We let ourselves to be divided in the name of politics, war, religion and greed . We have invited the doom of ourselves. The Earth will heal eventually, but humanity won’t be able to see it. Unless…. We take action. The governments won’t listen to us. They are more interested in building their economies and are lost in the delusions of a glorious future, while the reality is that the collapse has already began, slowly and steadily it will strike .

  27. MostlyLoveOfMusic

    October 18, 2020 at 1:00 pm

    meanwhile governments are opening new gas pipelines, expanding fracking and continuing to start wars in order to get more oil… GREAT

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