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Tax the Rich — and Save the Planet | Esther Duflo | TED

Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo brings her data-driven precision to the climate crisis — and the numbers are damning. While world leaders haggle over finances at endless summits, rising temperatures will kill millions in the poorest countries by the end of this century. She calculates the staggering cost of wealthy nations pumping greenhouse gases into…

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo brings her data-driven precision to the climate crisis — and the numbers are damning. While world leaders haggle over finances at endless summits, rising temperatures will kill millions in the poorest countries by the end of this century. She calculates the staggering cost of wealthy nations pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, proving that getting billionaires to pay their fair share in taxes is the best way to cover these damages. (Recorded at TED Countdown Summit 2025 on June 18, 2025)

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  1. @mmdrodrigues

    November 4, 2025 at 3:10 pm

    Lolz if they only knew it’s the very wealthy driving this little propaganda piece.

  2. @Wesley-k4g

    November 4, 2025 at 3:52 pm

    A comment about Karen seems completely unnecessary. Thank you commentators 😂🎉

  3. @Good_guy_111

    November 4, 2025 at 4:59 pm

    Is she or is He ?)

  4. @AgelessStones

    November 4, 2025 at 5:36 pm

    How about, tax the undeservedly rich

  5. @Doubleolseven

    November 4, 2025 at 5:37 pm

    If you want to be a fascist then yes-tax whoever.
    But if you want to live in a democracy, then enforce accountability.
    Even in tax system.

  6. @debrageorge7226

    November 4, 2025 at 5:52 pm

    The rich already pay 95% of the taxes. And ….taxes are unconstitutional!!

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    November 4, 2025 at 7:31 pm

    ❤️🕊️🗽power to the people

  25. @dupreemotorsports37

    November 4, 2025 at 8:29 pm

    you’ve got to be kidding me rite crazy people

    • @misshapenwhale5045

      November 5, 2025 at 4:02 pm

      I know right I can’t believe no one cares about the more frequent droughts, fires, and devastating storms.

  26. @SirGriefALot

    November 4, 2025 at 9:41 pm

    The dictator solution, take what you want from someone who isn’t you.
    ” rising temperatures will kill millions in the poorest countries by the end of this century”
    I’ve been hearing that for 50 years, and the ice caps are going to melt and flood the world by 2005 if we don’t act now. It’s all BS that never actually happens. When all these doom and gloom predictions turn out to be false nobody ever comes back to say they were wrong.

  27. @paulovittorsoaresdesousa2326

    November 4, 2025 at 10:12 pm

    This used to be a good channel, but not anymore.

  28. @paulovittorsoaresdesousa2326

    November 4, 2025 at 10:14 pm

    Why did they choose someone with such a horrible English like that to speak ? They could have provided a translator to her and let she speak in her first language.

  29. @romains8

    November 4, 2025 at 10:34 pm

    If the poorest countries were receiving more income, they would emit more CO2 emissions…

    Being French, I cannot stand behind French’s mentality of redistributing to the World.

    First the (Third) World needs to refrain its child rate not to grow the problem bigger.

  30. @muzzdeni28

    November 5, 2025 at 12:31 am

    Taxation doesn’t inherently equal redistribution.
    It becomes government revenue, which is filtered through bureaucracy, political agendas, inefficiencies, and sometimes outright corruption

    • @bipolarbear7325

      November 5, 2025 at 12:46 am

      I’ve always just called that socialism.

    • @muzzdeni28

      November 5, 2025 at 4:37 am

      @bipolarbear7325 and the mixed capitalist-socialist countries.

    • @misshapenwhale5045

      November 5, 2025 at 3:49 pm

      Then we need to fix these problems and climate change at that same time since it threatens our existence in the near future.

    • @misshapenwhale5045

      November 5, 2025 at 3:49 pm

      Don’t fall for the big oil propaganda and sit on your hands as we all suffer.

    • @Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism

      November 5, 2025 at 6:02 pm

      @bipolarbear7325 That’s exactly what taxes are; socialism. We all pay in collectively as a society to fund public services. Within the US settler colony, we fund a MASSIVE military complex to exploit other countries and have your so called “government” lie and tell you, it’s for “freedom” haha. In a socitey where no socialism existed, there would be no taxes….and no way to fund and support war and Genocide like in Gaza.

  31. @anthonyhope2924

    November 5, 2025 at 1:43 am

    The real problem is the trillion dollar deficit spending by both party government stooges who have put future generations into permanent debt. It will crash our economy eventually.

    • @drizzle424

      November 5, 2025 at 9:15 am

      You do realize that there’s more countries in this entire world than just the United States, correct?

  32. @lucianotarouco9510

    November 5, 2025 at 2:28 am

    Money does not solve the issues of the 3rd world. It only makes it worse. So let’s steel more from those who invert to make the world better and give it to the tyrants of the third world as we always did before.

  33. @lucianotarouco9510

    November 5, 2025 at 2:30 am

    No profit no investment from the so called rich people. Then we will all become poorer, including those poor people you want to save

  34. @alexeykoblik5335

    November 5, 2025 at 6:14 am

    There’s another key issue. We should ban selling all natural resources including a land, instead of officials flirting with the lumpen proletariat.

  35. @MEGHPatel-or2vw

    November 5, 2025 at 6:24 am

    Robert kiyosaki laughing in the corner

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