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Shweta Narayan: It’s impossible to have healthy people on a sick planet | TED Countdown

The doctrine of “first, do no harm” is the basis of the Hippocratic Oath, one of the world’s oldest codes of ethics. It governs the work of physicians — but climate and health campaigner Shweta Narayan says it should go further. In this essential talk, she highlights the interdependence of environmental and human health and…

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The doctrine of “first, do no harm” is the basis of the Hippocratic Oath, one of the world’s oldest codes of ethics. It governs the work of physicians — but climate and health campaigner Shweta Narayan says it should go further. In this essential talk, she highlights the interdependence of environmental and human health and emphasizes the necessity of placing health at the heart of all climate solutions.

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  8. Ryan

    February 13, 2022 at 9:19 am

    I agree with the general sentiment of the video, but I just can’t help but think about George Carlin’s save the planet bit when I hear her line about how it’s impossible to have healthy people on a sick planet. Lol, there’s nothing wrong with the planet, it’s the people that are f*&ked. HAHA

  9. Rose

    February 13, 2022 at 11:06 am

    Thank you for her sharing. But i wonder, climate change affects our health, and first, “do no harm”. Is it practical ? I don’t know but we talk about enviroment problem a lot, but I don’t see any project or method practical and effectively …….

  10. Self-Law

    February 13, 2022 at 11:19 am

    The planet is fine overall. Its sick in the head people that are the problem.

  11. Wilderness Life Ideas

    February 13, 2022 at 11:29 am

    Amazing speech support you

  12. Donald Hobson

    February 13, 2022 at 11:51 am

    The “first do no harm” doctrine was used to stop human challenge trials, and to recall vaccines with tiny risks of blood clots. (Blood clot risk far far smaller than covid risk)
    “First do no harm” privileges doing nothing.
    Pick the action that overall leads to the most good. Sometimes avoiding any chance of doing any harm just means a greater harm of inaction.

  13. Aisha y Ange

    February 13, 2022 at 12:58 pm

    what he says is very good, but caring for the environment and also for health is something that should be given as a subject in primary and secondary schools, that is the problem, today in schools people are programmed to that they are employees of these polluting companies, the fight against them is

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      February 13, 2022 at 5:17 pm

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  14. Muthulakshmi S

    February 13, 2022 at 1:37 pm

    It’s impossible to have healthy people in sick planet =} there is a deep interconnection between Health of planet and health of human beings
    It’s time advancement of civilization ( whatever great civilization may be ) to be measured through the metrics of HEALTH rather than metrics of WEALTH

  15. kuwar Anand chandel

    February 13, 2022 at 1:54 pm

    This is a good speech and got me lot of information

  16. Donald Hobson

    February 13, 2022 at 2:23 pm

    “Its impossible to have healthy people on a sick planet”. On the contrary. We can build a world where every building has an air filter. A world where you can’t go outside without a full decontamination suit. We can even dome over cities, and have pretty parks in our greenhouse. While poisoning the outside. A bubble of life and health and green, surrounded by a polluted wasteland. Or maybe we start genetically engineering people to be immune to industrial pollutants. Our rivers flow with all sorts of toxins. Any unenhanced animals who drunk it would quickly die. But the humans have been so enhanced that they are not harmed at all.

    You may not like these options. But they are options.

  17. Donald Hobson

    February 13, 2022 at 2:39 pm

    “Bad, wrongful, harmful and unjust behaviour needs to stop”. What a surprising and profound insight. I always thought Bad, wrongful, harmful and unjust behaviour needed to continue. (Sarcasm)

    But seriously, this talk took the almost tautological “good things are good, bad things are bad”, and tried to make it sound like a novel insight.

    The tricky questions are ones with a tradeoff. You have a fresh human heart, and a transplant patient across the country. You can charter a private jet to get it their now. Or put it on already flying passenger planes, and it will arrive a bit slower. You have a chart showing the heart has a 10% chance of rejection if fresh, and a 30% chance if less fresh. They don’t say how to trade good healthcare vs pollution. They don’t say how to trade off people not having electricity vs pollution.

  18. Richards Family

    February 13, 2022 at 3:02 pm

    WE UNDERSTAND W.H.O. SUPPORTS FLYING IF WE HOLD OUR BREATH OR STICK OUR HEAD OUT THE WINDOW OF THE PLANE.
    WHICH IS SAFER?❤️🙏

  19. Björn Alvinge

    February 13, 2022 at 3:31 pm

    Planets aren’t healthy, because planets aren’t living beings. I agree we have sustain the planet for the sake of the living, but we can’t sacrifice human progress and growth. Only human ingenuity can extract sustainable resources, and that ingenuity itself requires resources. Knowledge is the real resource on this planet, because that is what creates resources in the first place. It is incorrect to think that our resources are limited.

  20. Nraug HmoobUsA

    February 13, 2022 at 3:49 pm

    Greed will continue to be a catalyst of destruction on the surface of this planet.

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    February 13, 2022 at 5:14 pm

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  22. iloveyouamberappel

    February 13, 2022 at 6:16 pm

    Yeah you are right. People should think about do no harm before buying goods and services from businesses.

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    February 13, 2022 at 6:26 pm

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    February 13, 2022 at 7:26 pm

    WE NEED THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND TO BREAK HER SILENCE AND SPEAK AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU. JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS WASTING ALL OUR RESOURCES AND TAXPAYERS MONEY USING FEAR AND EVIL WORDS TO DESTROY THE SPIRITS AND SOULS OF THESE PEACEFUL FREEDOM TRUCKERS. WHY WOULD YOU NOT STEP UP AND TELL J. TRUDEAU TO HAVE A DIALOGUE WITH THE PEOPLE. IT IS ABOUT TIME. THESE PEACEFUL PEOPLE CAN LEAVE ANYTIME ONCE J. TRUDEAU DOES WHAT IS RIGHT. THANK YOU , BELOVED QUEEN, YOU MAYBE OUR ONLY HOPE AT THIS TIME OF NEED. JUSTIN TRUDEAU HAS TO STOP. GOD BLESS YOU OUR QUEEN. THANK YOU.

  25. Shaun Rankin

    February 13, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    Absolute bs. These liars will try to spin anything. The only plague on humanity is the devil.

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    February 14, 2022 at 7:56 am

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