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Marcelo Mena, the former environment minister of Chile, is on a mission to create a zero-emission economy in his country by 2050. In a conversation about climate action, he discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing Chile’s ambitious plan to tackle climate change — and explains why the green recovery needs to be powered by both political leaders and citizens alike. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and global curator Bruno Giussani, was recorded on May 26, 2020.)
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Chris The Impaler The Impaler
June 29, 2020 at 12:48 pm
Way to go, Chile! Guess your people heard the wisdom whispered by those 3,000+ year old trees in the Patagonian region. Problem is, nature isn’t selectively purging the vermin; she’s poised to swat away entire populations when pushed any further. I fear human beings have overstayed their welcome in this beautiful blue oasis
Adox Artist
June 29, 2020 at 12:52 pm
Agreed. Mother Nature is exterminating the human infestation. Sadly, the good bugs are being killed off with the bad. That’s how it goes.
Chris The Impaler The Impaler
June 29, 2020 at 1:02 pm
@Adox Artist Nature is older and wiser, she knows the amount of energy ( collective consciousness + life force) is constant in a closed system..life will continue even after this generation is culled, maybe a people/ species more worthy of sacred earth’s hospitality will take our place
Goy Goddess 2
June 29, 2020 at 1:11 pm
Chris The Impaler The Impaler
June 29, 2020 at 2:45 pm
@Goy Goddess 2 there are theories after theories but the fact remains that higher consciousness is NOT equitably distributed, not among three dimensional beings, at least
Bobson Bobby Bobson
June 29, 2020 at 3:16 pm
Everything a human does is “natural”. I dont agree with our over consumption of fossil fuels, butbarguing that what we are doing is not “natural” is illogical.
Jade Choi - Million Dollar Challenge
June 29, 2020 at 12:56 pm
The audio quality of TED videos got so much better!
Honest Person
June 29, 2020 at 1:00 pm
“To get rid of that consensus” lol, I think you were right first time.
Muhamad Abu_muhamad
June 29, 2020 at 1:04 pm
I want to learn English …
what are you suggesting, my friends
Tally Elizabeth
June 29, 2020 at 1:47 pm
Like learn grammar or speaking English in general?
how's the weather outside? it's sunnnyyy!!
June 29, 2020 at 7:14 pm
Listen to tons of music, read books and easy TV shows, like Friends and stuff, so that you first learn the basics. Learning English is mostly having a strong base. From that, you’ll just go up and learn new things with daily life and the stuff you usually have access to.
Jeremy quiring
June 29, 2020 at 1:07 pm
No ones buying this crap
Goy Goddess 2
June 29, 2020 at 1:09 pm
AGENDA 21/2030. Removal of all private ownership of everything. World government will distribute all assets as it sees fit. Dystopian technocratic dictatorship.
Lisa Love Ministries
June 29, 2020 at 1:41 pm
Develop a personal relationship with Christ our LORD and Savior.
John 14:6
Tara Janes
June 29, 2020 at 1:43 pm
As if. These ppl take our money, it will be wasted. Do not trust governments or nwo to actually spend the stolen funds on climate. IT will be spent on the elite and new ways to track and control the cattle (people).
Sannidor
June 29, 2020 at 2:10 pm
Yes. And the trick is to not hide with this fraud at all. People will police and shame each other into supposedly “eco friendly” but genuinely wasteful lifestyle.
cycling of life
June 30, 2020 at 7:31 am
We must LEAVE government ALONE, that is STOP PARTICIPATING IN THEIR GAME. If they want play the game, fine but as soon as they have NO PLAYERS they will be left to be forgotten! We must stop CALLING things differently but FACTUALLY doing the same we need a NEW WAY OF BEING NOT SPEAKING. THE SPEAKING WILL FOLLOW AND THE DOING ALSO. GREAT COMMENT FORCE TO ALL OF THOSE WHO THINK IN THIS WAY! THE EARTH WILL BE OURS AGAIN! AHO!!
Honeybee Warrior
June 29, 2020 at 1:43 pm
Let Canadian hostages go China.
Lilith Isop
June 29, 2020 at 1:57 pm
Kudos for any climate action, though carbon net zero by 2050 isn’t ambitious enough. I do hope they update that goal for it to be by 2030 like they mentioned. Climate “mitigation” path is already gone. I wish they’d stop saying it. There’s no “saving” or “fixing” or “solving” climate change. Not anymore. We’re already irreversibly committed to a dangerous over 2 degree Centigrade global warming regardless of what we do (so the Paris Agreement with its 1.5-2C aim is also a lie). At least 2 degrees is already locked in: the oceans have absorbed most of the heat, the soil will start releasing additional carbon once it warms, the load of methane being released from the melting permafrost, the fact that even if we stopped all emissions tomorrow the last 10-30 years’ CO2 will still come through and start heating the planet LATER due to “carbon lagging”, and the fact that if we stopped the fossil fuels and the air pollution clears, more sun rays will shine through, etc. The IPCC report upon which the Paris Agreement leans does not take any of this into account. And There is no “carbon budget” left. It’s already overspent. We have to stop all emissions. Stat. Industrial-growth-based civilization as we know it is at its end.
Here’s a climate scientist’s academic paper on how social collapse at this point is inevitable where he also reviews the dire climate science of the last few years upon which he made this conclusion:
Here’s another climate scientist’s explaining what sort of climate action we need and why if we kept ON the Paris Agreement trajectory, we’d be heading towards 3-4 degree global warming and this civilization is finished. He’s with the Extinction Rebellion.
Please stop the lies.
Bobson Bobby Bobson
June 29, 2020 at 3:25 pm
Policy doesnt save the planet, technology does. Pumping in more research money to companies hoping to find the right tech is the key.
Sannidor
June 29, 2020 at 2:01 pm
Good God, people are getting fooled by this nonsense and allow being shamed by frauds and their useful idiot puppets alike.
ZERO evidence of man made climate change, ZERO evidence we can counter nature’s cycle.
Bobson Bobby Bobson
June 29, 2020 at 3:23 pm
We are nature’s cycle. There is also plenty of evidence for man made climate change. Would you like me to provide you with sources?
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June 29, 2020 at 3:28 pm
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William su
June 29, 2020 at 3:42 pm
Only White here to listen the speech?One thing I want to know that how many guys here have ever been to China or just listen to the online speaker?
Dwayne Blaine
June 29, 2020 at 3:43 pm
The rich will get richer, that’s the benefit!!! Piss off!!!
kk jj
June 29, 2020 at 3:43 pm
Hi, I am a Japanese high school student. My cousins who are American and Japanese half live in America now. And one of them is doctor, so he treating coronavirus patients everyday. I hope this disease will dissppear soon.
Hambo
June 29, 2020 at 4:11 pm
From what I’ve seen, among Latin Americans, Chileans definitively have english tamed the best, accent and grammar wise. Mexicans tend to have very iffy english, with very ñoor pronounciation, Colombians I’ve met are decent, but the Argentineans are abismal at it. I’ve gone entire conferences where a single word couldn’t be understood from the Argentinean guest and even in Spanish I’d rather get anyone else, since it is it’s own sort of dialect and accent (yes, I genuinely preffer the Chileans and their garbled up Spanish). Point is, Chile really is an example to follow after in Latin America.
cycling of life
June 30, 2020 at 6:51 am
Thing is I am a CHILEAN and this man on the video is not representative of the MAJORITY of Chileans, and Argentinians well that’s a whole another story! Hahahaha Chileans have improved their English after decades of I doctrination on American culture, CHile now is a little “US”, beginning before Pinochet but consolidated by his dictatorship with the financial and logistic support of the US. So no wonder that “Chileans” now look more like “Chicanos” than Chileans, or more like Puerto Ricans than Chileans… It is very weird the hybrid that came out with Chilean men… With the mix of Europeans, American culture and MAPUCHE genetics… Weird specie indeed…
watercup123456
June 29, 2020 at 4:14 pm
Destroying our economy for fool’s errands is beneficial now???? Climate changes, humans are not causing global warming, and green energy IS A FARCE. There is no such thing as green energy. Nuclear is bullshit. Wind is bullshit. Solar is bullshit. ITS ALL BULLSHIT.
“Fossil” fuels are the cheapest. cleanest. most efficient form of energy we have, and we will be using them for the next 200+ years unless we actually develop technologies that work, like fusion.
And then if the idea of making a mini sun on the planet that can’t be shut off doesn’t scare you…. Remember just like nuclear it can blow up and cause more devastation than 100 nuclear blasts or 1,000,000 nuclear power plant meltdowns.
Utopia
June 29, 2020 at 4:15 pm
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Monday PositiviTea
June 29, 2020 at 4:15 pm
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Way To Programming
June 29, 2020 at 4:31 pm
Makes sense. These videos are helping me keep sane.
cycling of life
June 30, 2020 at 6:37 am
Perhaps what men thinks of sanity is in fact insanity… And getting out of insanity into sanity makes one feel afraid…
John Quest
June 29, 2020 at 4:37 pm
Climate crusaders need to stop using fossil fuels every day – what HYPOCRITES! stop driving stop flying stop heating cooling no luxuries.
Christopher Gruenwald
June 29, 2020 at 5:32 pm
4th gen nuclear energy is the only way we will save our planet.
Niklas Pallari
June 29, 2020 at 9:00 pm
Christopher Gruenwald Can you make arguments that support your statement. Is there really no viable options other than this ”4th gen nuclear energy” to save our planet?
cycling of life
June 30, 2020 at 6:43 am
Who said the planet needs to be saved by a tiny species? Just remember how long the planet has been here before you and how long it will be after you, does the planet need saving?? PPFF hahahaha megalomaniac delusions od men!!! Men are ants in this planet and universe, and they are going to “save” the planet??! Pphahahaha what an out of touch statement….
cycling of life
June 30, 2020 at 6:44 am
@Niklas Pallari not possible, just repeating what is said by others… Not real fruits on that tree, I am afraid…
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June 29, 2020 at 6:39 pm
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d s
June 29, 2020 at 6:44 pm
Ted, if your an educated, sophisticated liberal, how come you do not know MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING is a HOAX?
cycling of life
June 30, 2020 at 7:26 am
And that is TRUE! It is in fact NOT MAN MADE, yet that DOES NOT MEAN the climate IS NOT changing… That’s a big difference!! But the blind cannot see it…
Hiker SanDiego
June 29, 2020 at 10:14 pm
How the cost of energy doing, dude?
Bob Frog
June 30, 2020 at 12:01 am
Dig DEEP, you SINNERS! Rev. Al Bore of the Climate Cult needs ANOTHER mansion on the CA coast!
cycling of life
June 30, 2020 at 6:09 am
PPFF who is this guy? UNDERSTAND THIS, there cannot be solutions OF ANY KIND, when the bottom line is always MONEY AND PROFIT!, so the only motivation that this man and others like Piñera, is only money and how they become richer while others do the actual work for them while they only grab the money. MAN KIND MUST STOP THINKING EVERYTHING IN FINANTIALLY TERMS! AND HOPING, AS IN WAITING FOR SOMETHING SURE TO HAPPEN, THAT NATURE PUTS AN END TO MENS INSANITY, WHERE FOR A WHILE NO ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES WILL BE POSSIBLE! SO MEN CAN REALIZE THAT IT IS NOT IN HUMAN NATURE TO BE ONLY AND ALWAYS MOTIVATED BY MONEY. TED S BEING ABSOLUTELY DISAPPOINTING LATELY, NOT A SINGLE INTELLIGENT SPEECH… WHAT HAPPEN TO TED? WAIT IT GOT SOLD…
ITouchTheSky 8GladysWorld8
June 30, 2020 at 8:31 am
Thank you so much for talking about conserving and protecting the environment using clean energy. Lovely watching and listening to both of you here on the top of the mountain of Italy.
Trung Pham
June 30, 2020 at 8:55 am
Difficult to hear
Carla Castiajo
June 30, 2020 at 10:52 am
Go ahead Chile!
Sophe Abdulrahman
June 30, 2020 at 11:37 am
Thanks TED ❤❤❤
Manuel mateo Silva correa
June 30, 2020 at 12:02 pm
el unico que habla español viendo esto jajaejejje
Manuel mateo Silva correa
June 30, 2020 at 12:15 pm
esta linds la morena igual :v