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djbizkit10
August 16, 2021 at 4:27 pm
We don’t need a zero carbon world ffs it’s a con
ScoutiverTTV
August 16, 2021 at 4:34 pm
3 rules for zero-carbon world:
1. More nuclear power plants
2. More nuclear power plants
3. More nuclear power plants
mick mccrory
August 16, 2021 at 5:46 pm
1. Stop burning fossil fuels.
2. Clean up the mess you made.
3. Don’t do it again.
wojciech strzelecki
August 16, 2021 at 6:26 pm
Nahh u see due to the negative irrational perception of nuclear energy by the masses no politicians gonna risk that approach, instead they gonna focus on bogus, ineffective, unreliable, but nicer, less immediate fear inducing, renewables lol
ScoutiverTTV
August 16, 2021 at 6:31 pm
@wojciech strzelecki Yea, thats pretty much it haha
Jack Voss
August 16, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Here are some suggestions of items about which you can think.
(1) The world’s largest contributor of greenhouse gasses, as reported by National Geographic, is bovine flatulence. Not just cows in the U.S., but cattle, antelopes, etc world wide.
(2) The world’s 2nd largest contributor of greenhouse gasses, as reported by National Geographic, is wetlands. Again, all of those beloved wetlands worldwide.
(3) The world’s 3rd largest contributor of greenhouse gasses, as reported by National Geographic, is termite mounds. Again, worldwide.
(4) A volcano eruption wipes out years of carbon allotments.
If you notice, no human activity was involved in any of the above. That’s an important thing to realize. It isn’t very difficult to realize that Mother Nature owns Earth, it isn’t us. We’re tenants; Mother Nature is the landlady.
Random Person
August 16, 2021 at 5:07 pm
Finally searched “Ted talk” and this is what i find
Jim Mowrer
August 16, 2021 at 5:13 pm
Great talk! Thanks for sharing!
James Kulevich
August 16, 2021 at 5:21 pm
“Kindly let me help you,” says the monkey to the fish as he takes him out of the water and places him in a tree. This is the cobra effect. You can’t be so idealistic.
David Hunt
August 16, 2021 at 5:23 pm
Total BS. I suppose he’s ready to go to war with China and leap forward into starving most of the population while saying nothing about the actual problem of chemical and metal pollution done by the companies that run the U.N.
macareuxmoine
August 16, 2021 at 5:28 pm
Wow, just wow. 3 rules for the zero-carbon world. Well, I beg to remark, for decades there has been mainly one rule: the stewardship of international civil activism and NGOs who fought for the environment and against climate change, against exactly those who Nigel makes out to be the main players in tackling the climate crisis: politics and the economy. Mind you, those were the ones who created the crisis in the first place. While I am totally for including every, really every actor that has any role in carbon emission or reduction, here some serious greenwashing is going on. The ridiculous example of the Wilhelmshaven LNG Terminal makes this visible: Wilhelmshaven is only one of three LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) Terminals in Germany that is completely off the table in the meantime – and that by court cases having been brought forward by Deutsche Umwelthilfe and other NGOs. Before that, Olaf Scholz, head of the German Social Democratic Party and meanwhile a leading contender for chancellor in the upcoming german elections, had planned to invest 1bn € of taxpayer money into building those terminals. All three projects would have stood for 150 Million tons of CO2 imports per year – calculated for a lifetime of 30 years the resulting 4.500 Million tons CO2 ALONE would have equalled Germany’s CO2 budget in case it really wanted to stay within its limit of less than 1,5°C heating of the atmosphere. As in his Shell-Example it has been civil society and civil unrest that has been the driver behind these developments. That the task of tackling change is now as daunting as he admits himself is the direct result of the failures of policy and industries that he wants to divert us from looking at in his closing remarks. Who is he bashing by pointing at those telling the stories of fear and failure? Those who have known the path all along and have been a light in the dark. truly unsavory re-writing of history here. Let capitalism regulate itself… like that has worked so well in the past…
Techo Gamerz
August 16, 2021 at 5:33 pm
Tdddddddddddd ted talks
Kristoffer S
August 16, 2021 at 5:44 pm
At first I was deeply conflicted and deeply concerned about your pitch here. Since the global average of emissions per person and year needs to come down to inbetween 1-1.5 tons of CO2e, talking about the electrification of cars as a glowing example is a huge flaw in mindset. The reality which we all need to face is that we need to change our lifestyles and start to share more resources, especially cars. It is simply not realistic that every household in the US and/or EU and/or China should have a car.
But to bring out a positive and to practice what you preach here. How about starting more car-sharing-services, for instance one in every village with a maximum of 1 car per 4 households (or there about) and banning investors who are tax evaders and/or refuse to declare in what country they keep there fortunes?
Ifyoucantgooutside Go Inside
August 16, 2021 at 5:48 pm
The first rupe is no life and the second rule is recreating ourselves with hydrosilica / hydrosilicones
Vicky Vazquez, PhDc, MPH, BS
August 16, 2021 at 5:50 pm
A crucial message, thank you for sharing this!
Vito Murgida
August 16, 2021 at 5:55 pm
You said everything and nothing. So generic, nothing practical in this speech. Mathematics is not engineering. Saying is not doing.
Zero emission? With electric vehicles powered by batteries? Are you informed on batteries industry emissions?
The only reason why vehicles constuctors are moving to electric is that it’s the only option given by laws and politics. If they want to sell, they have to do it.
Regards,
Vito
wojciech strzelecki
August 16, 2021 at 6:03 pm
What a inane title. We’re carbon based beings in case deranged at TED didn’t noticed, as most of the rest of this world anyway. Leave the fkn carbon alone and focus on the actual pollution of other elements that are actually, to a degree, detrimental to our immediate environment. Stop this half-truth bogus propaganda that is just here by using autistic useful idiots ‘scientists’/ activists to build their and many politicians careers.
Music Essentials
August 16, 2021 at 6:15 pm
Why would we want to reduce carbon
Derek Heckley
August 16, 2021 at 6:32 pm
Tell us when the map was surveyed or don’t use the story. That said, everything else you said was brilliant
Dot's Channel
August 16, 2021 at 10:43 pm
The whole world already knows what’s happening, keep up by getting out of your momma’s basement.
Derek Heckley
August 17, 2021 at 12:02 am
@Dot’s Channel yer an angry little thing arncha.
Persephone
August 16, 2021 at 6:32 pm
Okay im not gonna watch because the one solution is to fine and ban large corporations for their continuous pollution of the earth.
People think their electric cars help the earth when companies are responsible for 98% of pollution.
Michel Bulthé
August 16, 2021 at 6:51 pm
El primer mundo desarrollado fue el causante mayor de esta contaminación. Tiene la obligación de arreglarlo. A su costo.
chyfields
August 16, 2021 at 6:56 pm
Plants need CO2, especially plants like tomato plants. Perhaps we should grow more tomatoes?
Sol Stice
August 16, 2021 at 6:57 pm
I’m sorry. No. Any, any energy consumption adds to global warming. So. You don’t change production systems. You stop them. Shipping, transportation and any industry, agriculture on the top of the list there, is all about sobriety. We don’t need economic growth. We, the planet needs downscaling. Sustainability isn’t reached by cheating with more energy consuming tech. It just doesn’t work.
Hard times are coming.
Yep Yep
August 16, 2021 at 8:00 pm
Ha ha, will China fly in the same direction? The largest polluter out of all of the combined countries? Not happening. This is a daft endeavor that will only cause the persecution of developed countries making the people in those countries slaves to their government like the poor Chinese people. I don’t wish that upon anyone. But there is to be a great tribulation. Perhaps this is the beginnings of that.
Amod Raj
August 16, 2021 at 8:40 pm
“The stories that we tell most often, are the ones that will come true.”
wojciech strzelecki
August 17, 2021 at 7:34 am
Those who tell the stories rule society. Plato
Also
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. M Twain
Mister D
August 16, 2021 at 11:08 pm
What I don’t understand is that scientists now all know what’s going wrong?.
I saw that 40 years ago.
never one scientist said that using fossil fuels was wrong?
the earth took these substances out of the atmosphere for a reason, and now that we’ve released everything back into the air.
we need to get it back in the ground.
something that took the earth so many years.
completely incomprehensible.great culprit greed and money!.
Anthony
August 16, 2021 at 11:29 pm
Unless steps 1 and 2 are nuke China and nuke India, there’s no way to accomplish this.
And I’m not advocating we actually do it, I’m just saying China and India are the elephants in the room, and they will not become carbon neutral for at least 100 years.
English IELTS
August 16, 2021 at 11:51 pm
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David Sanchez
August 17, 2021 at 3:32 am
it’s good to be positive… it’s better to be realist. By 2050 there is a REAL chance to achieve the goals set by 2030.. NOT before.. And perhaps, by the end of this Century, we will acheive the Cero (Neutral best describes this) carbone emissions.
Ivica Jaranovic
August 17, 2021 at 6:48 am
Hahaha, but you forgat “greed”! Rich ppl will kill us all, just for fun and greed! Rest will try to follow, but ship do not take sheeps!
RODS
August 17, 2021 at 8:01 am
Nigel Topping get paid to sprout this bullshit. If he does not he does not get paid! He is not a scientists!
Atilla Göktan - Listen Turkey
August 17, 2021 at 8:17 am
can you visit the new channel there are hundreds of radios on the fixed link 📻
Барис Петров
August 17, 2021 at 10:58 am
He looks like a grown up boy from God of War
David Craig
August 17, 2021 at 12:41 pm
Perhaps the speaker should read a new book titled “THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS” and then stop force-feeding us his climate catastrophist nonsense?
楊小藍
August 17, 2021 at 12:51 pm
English subtitle please
Mona Iannucci
August 17, 2021 at 1:27 pm
Doris Jane
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August 17, 2021 at 2:49 pm
Rule 1 : give me all your money
Rafael Cardoso
August 17, 2021 at 10:36 pm
All that make sense, but will be totally useless unless we all stop eating and using animals, as the animal production is responsible for a enormous part of the global warming.
Jorgeluis Luna
August 18, 2021 at 1:03 am
Super , ejemplos para aplicar en la vida de las personas , presente y hacia el futuro de una vida mejor 👍🏻
DeathToMockingBirds
August 18, 2021 at 7:19 am
This is fairly vague, in a time where concrete action now is not just urgent, but past due.
Alvyn Abraham
August 18, 2021 at 9:03 am
Please! I need captions Indonesian.
JAA Little
August 18, 2021 at 9:40 am
Great! Can you give the Australian Prime Minister a call and explain this please. There is so much happening and we are being left behind…
Chan Aidan
August 20, 2021 at 6:42 am
Just made a summary for you lol here ya go
Don Brown
August 18, 2021 at 9:40 am
Our world, as well as the universe, are carbon based, so your talk means little! Much to do about nothing!
ッ
August 18, 2021 at 3:59 pm
Why did TED disable comments of that Ashraf Ghani video? Yesterday they were still on
DeFoInCali
August 18, 2021 at 6:02 pm
He talks about driving down the price of batteries. Well, who is the number one producer of batteries on the planet. China. Who has the most mines? Who is producing the most waist? I’m not a scientist, but I bet it’s China. China gives zero F’s about going green. You want to fix anything start with China.
Carson Fenne
August 18, 2021 at 9:15 pm
No start with the hundred companies causing 70% of emissions.
Koji Kabuto
August 18, 2021 at 7:09 pm
My people, the time of Judgement had finally come. By August 20, 2021 I will execute the First 4 Trumpet judgement, this will be the start of the Great
Tribulation. The First Sign is an earthquake then the eruption of Yellowstone super volcano. The cloud from the explosion will cover much of Canada,
USA, up to the upper part of South America. It will rain Hail and fire mixed with blood and will burn much of foliage therein and there will be massive
ash fall. Within hours a second much bigger explosion from Yellowstone that will throw all land around the volcano into the pacific ocean. Creating a
massive tsunami traveling towards the east of the pacific ocean. When the tsunami waves is near the coast of South East Asia and Japan a Massive
earthquake will occur causing much of South East Asian countries and Japan to sink under the ocean. The tsunami wave will continue on its path and
slamming into much of China and the Asian continent. All this will happen in one day. This would be truly a catastrophic day for the whole earth,
I tell you. BUT don’t be alarmed for there is an escape. Pray with all your heart and ask to be saved and it’s done. It’s that simple, see. All of my Angels
are on standby and ready to sweep you away and take you to a place of safety. Do not fear and try not to escape for it will only cause you trouble.
Just be calm, Trust and have Faith in ME and I will do the rest. All I wanted is to hear your voice, but I hear none of you anymore. You are so busy with
yourselves and other worldly things. MY heart deeply weeps for you have forgotten ME. I’m Sorry, I have to pass this judgement because the whole
earth has become so wicked and GODLESS. Please share this message so many will be saved! This is GOD himself!
Gary W-l-o-t
August 19, 2021 at 12:34 am
Eliminating carbon would eliminate every living being
MooCalf
August 19, 2021 at 1:02 am
In November the UN gonna gather to combat against global warming
Sarah Daniel's
August 19, 2021 at 2:12 am
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Some analysts are optimistic about the long-term recovery in crypto prices, although the pace of the upside will likely slow over the short term.
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August 19, 2021 at 4:09 am
Impressive
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totalfreedom45
August 19, 2021 at 3:11 pm
To meet the worldwide demand of energy without hurting Mother Earth, we need these kinds of energy: wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, tidal, and biomass. But for the next 1000 years we also need nuclear fusion. Someday, however, we will need to get energy from tiny black holes. 💕 ☮ 🌎 🌌
Courtney Bird
August 19, 2021 at 6:35 pm
No such thing as a carbon free world. Unless we were all to die
Paul Meredith
August 21, 2021 at 3:38 am
It’s possible that you may have misunderstood.
Courtney Bird
August 21, 2021 at 7:36 am
@Paul Meredith no I haven’t, I was making a statement in regards to what the elites are striving for. Wasn’t speaking of the video tbh
habaceeba
August 19, 2021 at 8:26 pm
Corporations lobbying congress to get what they want and in turn congress passes and blocks legislation that help corporations make more profits. THAT is the ambition loop that is holding all climate action down. If we don’t stop that ambition loop then we’re doomed.
Granjacia
August 20, 2021 at 1:55 am
HEMP Ten times more efficent than trees, can replace many plastics, bio fuels, building materials, paper etc along with clean the land from toxic metals that many of our so called farmers have destroyed over the last few decades
Chan Aidan
August 20, 2021 at 6:34 am
Summary:
We can trace the pattern of using fossil fuels to the beginning of 18th century
We have to move to a new pattern that are based on clean power
Greenland, Iceland and Patagonia have physical impact of climate change. Ice has been retreated by 15 kilometres.
He is the United Nation Climate Change Action Champion, with the mission to change patterns of the global economy to transition to a zero-carbon future where global warming won’t increase more than 1.5 degree Celsius.
Although it is difficult to tackle this problem due to politics, we can have a different approach, by understanding science of patterns and the underlying rules.
For example, the global shipping industry involves in 80% of every trade in our planet and has emissions equal to Germany. The emissions are due to chain reactions (customers, shipbuilders and more). This also applies to other networks
Okay sure we understand how the systems work in other industries, but how can we help to form a zero carbon world? There are three simple rules of radical collaboration that if we follow, we can actualise our goals.
1. Drive the ambition loop of every industry.
– For example, if organisations decide to run a carbon free production line, this gives policy makers the confidence to set regulations, which in turn incentivise organisations to innovate environmental ideas.
– Feedback loop: Stories we tell to the future. Therefore he is suggesting us to tell optimistic stories to our future generations to race to zero carbon, inspire collaboration and innovation. Stories we tell people are the stories that will come true.
2. Set exponential goals
– Every technology follow this pattern: Adopting slowly, doubling rate of application and fully used quickly in the end.
– By adapting our renewable energies in this trend we can reach our goals.
3. Every stakeholder following the shared action plan
How to apply these rules? Let’s take back the global shipping industry as an example.
1. We make sure we understand the trading system of our shipping industry
2. We see that we should change 5% of the shipping industry into using our technology by 2030. This will actually follow the technology pattern later on as the average cost will decrease.
3. They are having an shared action plan:
1. Maersk (largest container shipping company) started buying zero-carbon ships in 2023.
2. Juniper (German shipping company) decided to invest in eco-friendly infrastructure
3. Customers cargo owner emission vessel initiative, sending demand signal to container operator
4. Policy makers extend EU emission trading scheme for shipping emissions, putting price on carbon
5. Technology like Green Hydrogen Catapult has advanced, which drives cost of green hydrogen below $2 per kg for next 5 years
6. 10,000 in Netherland protested which leads to the court demanding 45% cut of shipping emissions by 2030
WestonG23
August 20, 2021 at 9:24 am
Humanity is responsible for less than 0.1% of the current Co2 in the atmosphere. Furthermore, in the last 150 years, true genuine and accurate science can only attribute a global temp rise of around 0.1 degree ever to human existence. Ask yourself why an entity such as Ted would be proliferating such a damaging and insidious lie.
Invox
August 20, 2021 at 10:29 am
Too late mate!
Saving the Planet is not Saving the “Economy”. You can’t have both…
But one WILL survive without the other, that I can garantee.
edukid1984
August 21, 2021 at 12:42 pm
Without ‘saving the economy’ you can’t save the planet – or, to be precise, save the sets of natural and ecological conditions that allow ALL of humanity an acceptable quality of life. Billions of people who are living far below the standards enjoyed by Americans (on average) do not care for a sustainable, liveable world that doesn’t provide prosperity for them and their children and future generations. Idealists like you who can’t understand this is holding the pragmatists back and dooming us all.
Invox
August 22, 2021 at 10:01 pm
I’ve sat next to the decision makers of my country (not US btw). I know how they think and they do NOT care about you, let alone your children, let alone the generations to come, let alone the planet. And they will only “save it” if it helps their bottom line WITHIN their life span. It is actually the poor that care most about the future than the rich, cuz… they don’t have one.
I’m not an idealist, I just know better than to leave it in the hands of those people.
Md. Soukat Ali
August 20, 2021 at 10:38 am
Knowledge and education are the same nor separate??? why or why not? please give your opinion .👉👉👉
driverbirch
August 21, 2021 at 10:50 am
I found the carbon free world would limit my ability to record my writing and artwork both of which I use coloured carbon paper with the colours being representative of my emotional well being at the time for this reason I do not support a carbon free world .I do support freedom of speech and expression 🙋♂️🤣
LordLazaruss
August 22, 2021 at 7:11 pm
Everything is fine. No need to worry about anything any more. We are tackling it. We are on the job.
*Amazon rainforest burning in the background*
José Ferreira
August 22, 2021 at 9:18 pm
Ir’s bullshit. Every time you see the word ZERO in an environmentalist movement it’s simply and plainly bullshit. There’s no such thing as a zero-carbon or a zero-polution world. Unfortunatelly this are the people discredibilizing all amazing movements to fight climate change.
Mike Staub
August 23, 2021 at 10:26 pm
It’s way simpler than this. Just tax carbon.