Activism is a tough job, especially for young people yearning for immediate change — something climate activist Melati Wijsen has learned over ten years of pushing for environmental protection, starting at age 12 in her home on the island of Bali, Indonesia. How can young changemakers acquire the skills they need and keep from burning out? Wijsen offers three pieces of advice for anybody seeking to make lasting, sustainable progress.
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A. B.
December 23, 2021 at 4:06 pm
Another stooge of WEF…..
Pacmon Kruz
December 23, 2021 at 4:26 pm
You didn’t have to watch it but you did 🙂 lol
Atoms and Evolution
December 23, 2021 at 4:07 pm
We need links to her work and resources.
SUBB FOR SUBB BACK ꪜ
December 23, 2021 at 4:09 pm
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”
SUBB FOR SUBB BACK ꪜ
December 23, 2021 at 4:10 pm
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Yen Oudom
December 23, 2021 at 4:16 pm
😊
Shloomy Shloms
December 23, 2021 at 4:20 pm
they’re so cute when they think they can change things.
Overclocked Pentium
December 23, 2021 at 4:22 pm
Subtitles are out of sync
M B
December 23, 2021 at 4:26 pm
Amazing!!! ❤❤❤
More power to you!
Wish i had even a fraction of your guts 😌😌😌
English IELTS
December 23, 2021 at 4:40 pm
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Jan Klaas
December 23, 2021 at 4:54 pm
🇺🇳6:13
السليك موسى دفع الله
December 23, 2021 at 5:03 pm
Powerful speech I like your voice thank you very much
iLetStudio UnOfficial
December 23, 2021 at 5:19 pm
i want to be a changemaker…i hate children in my country…dr always playing Mobile Legend..
Carlos Nugraha
December 23, 2021 at 5:38 pm
Hi dear. I send regards from our country…
pyropulse
December 23, 2021 at 5:49 pm
Activists are annoying and useless
Andreia Muhitu
December 23, 2021 at 6:31 pm
OMG I resonated with what you said. Children don’t grow up wanting to be changemakers. It just happens. There’s an injustice and you feel you have no choice but to get involved, because if you don’t who’ll change it. And yes you get burn out. I’m not even a child, I’m in my mid 20s.
Mattimos
December 23, 2021 at 7:03 pm
Another Greta? How dear you?
Raw Bacon
December 23, 2021 at 7:31 pm
TED where they spread nonstop Leftist Lies trying to Brainwash Children.
CMDR After Hours
December 23, 2021 at 8:22 pm
Earth, NOT A GLOBE.
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December 23, 2021 at 8:26 pm
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lene goes natural
December 23, 2021 at 9:32 pm
Inspiring
Sky Gravity
December 23, 2021 at 9:38 pm
The easiest way to change the world around you is to change yourself. Then every action you take becomes part of this change. You soon begin to see these changes reflected back to you from the world. Chaotic causality and karma are tools just as much as they are traps.
Black Flame
December 25, 2021 at 6:02 pm
Sounds poetic, but some ppl don’t want to change and don’t gaf about anything except their own selves.
Ilia Adamant Hark
December 28, 2021 at 3:49 pm
Nah, the only way to change people are by enforcing law and justice system. People are way crazier than you think
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Paige Boughal
December 24, 2021 at 7:04 am
I love hearing young people with a passion for change!
David Kelly
December 24, 2021 at 8:38 am
really not sure it’s the young people that should be making changes. have you met young people?
Khondamir Karshiev
December 24, 2021 at 1:08 pm
I’ve met a lot of adults, and I know that they”d rather go complaining about how everything is awful instead of taking action. (whereas most of them are the reason for its happening).
The way I see it:
Adults = problem maker
Youth = problem solver
(not always of course)
Andrew Jacoby II
December 24, 2021 at 12:42 pm
A tremendous amout of impact could be made if people would simply make a personal choice to purchase products that are more in alignment with earth friendly practices. Hemp products, selective harvest forestry, rotational graze based animal farming, and alternate energy production methods such as geothermal, hydro, and nuclear. Everyone always wants to address restrictions and law curtailing damaging practices but if people would spend their dollars prudently those flawed business practices that are so unfriendly to the earth would quickly fall away as they wouldn’t have money to sustain them.
Aman Ahmed
December 24, 2021 at 1:19 pm
This video is similar to some anime
Where they speak in English
But
Subtitles are different
But meaning is same😑😑
Khondamir Karshiev
December 24, 2021 at 1:20 pm
Let’s imagine, if there were no problems, what would these children be doing now?
Wanderer
December 26, 2021 at 9:00 pm
innovations.
Gaurav Kumar
December 24, 2021 at 3:28 pm
A powerful speech ever spoken by this woman!!!! Nice to hear that….
Yusuf
December 24, 2021 at 4:06 pm
that girl is so amazing and so inspiring me as person to take action on our environment… 👍👍
Noukz
December 24, 2021 at 6:26 pm
I wish youth in my country were like this… 😞
EMILY
December 25, 2021 at 10:14 am
Thanks for sharing ❤️
جبر الخواطر
December 25, 2021 at 4:54 pm
شاهدتها انها هي احدى الاربع فتيات ….ولماذا اذا” قناة العربيه مازالت تعرض عملهن قبل اكثر من عشر سنوات مازال بدأ حديثا”…..؟
APK Edits
December 26, 2021 at 10:35 am
Can you please help me for an assignment… My teacher asked me to see Ted Talks videos and notice what makes their speech efficient to the listeners.
Plz tell me, what good thing you found in their speech.
Your Mom
December 26, 2021 at 9:15 pm
The roadmap is to have your political campaign be financed by oligarchs in order to acquire power in a system so corrupt that it will assassinate you for interfering with profit margins. Only concessions they will ever make are social, they will never cede an economic system that exclusively benefits them, while simultaneously exploiting the rest of us. We will not win by playing their game, and most people are too soft to accept the grim reality of what has to be done in order to overturn the reigns of power to a direct democracy.
John Morgan
December 27, 2021 at 11:43 am
she’s coming off a little hitler youth esque…. kids aren’t smart and don’t know about life at all. This is nasty TED. How dare you exploit this poor girl for this purpose. Shame.
PerempuanBukanObjek
December 28, 2021 at 4:18 pm
Keren banget! Menginspirasi 😆
Lawrence Motsomi
December 28, 2021 at 10:10 pm
Thanks for sharing.