What if the race to save the planet is harming the people who protect it? Indigenous advocate Galina Angarova exposes the hidden cost of the green energy transition, where the demand for minerals like nickel and lithium threatens to devastate Indigenous lands and livelihoods. She calls for a radical shift in mindset — one that centers Indigenous leadership, consent and reciprocity as the foundation of a truly just and sustainable future. (Recorded at TED Countdown: Overcoming Dilemmas in the Green Transition on October 30, 2024)
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@NguyễnThuHiềnền-d2y
June 26, 2025 at 11:02 am
Very interesting topic! I look forward to new videos from you! 🧡💖
@CaoChíCôngng-r7e
June 26, 2025 at 11:03 am
Trying to adult but still giggling at inappropriate moments during serious conversations💞
@SamsungTabletAVed
June 26, 2025 at 11:03 am
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@sooma-ai
June 26, 2025 at 11:10 am
Indigenous advocate Galina Angarova discusses the hidden costs of the green energy transition, highlighting how mineral extraction for renewable technologies threatens Indigenous lands and livelihoods. She calls for a shift towards Indigenous leadership, consent, and reciprocity in sustainable development.
@dr.prof.robtopnotch
June 26, 2025 at 11:16 am
YES!🙌 stop killing the planet! Everything artificial is made from something that was natural! Natural intelligence versus artificial intelligence, it’s a no-brainer! The words renewable, recyclable, and reusable are all different meanings. A lot of reusable is not recyclable and therefore not renewable. That’s the thing they don’t tell us.
@havo5684
June 26, 2025 at 11:34 am
*Anyone in 2343?* 💖
@garethsayers1028
June 26, 2025 at 11:39 am
Most EV batteries will be sodium ion in future, so this content is already out of date….
@roberthughes8513
June 26, 2025 at 11:59 am
That’s tunnel thinking. Extractive procedures apply to many resources.
@Schmidtelpunkt
June 27, 2025 at 7:21 am
@@roberthughes8513 Yes, but it looks like the TED overlords wanted to put a specific spin on the video with their headline.
@jageo48
June 26, 2025 at 11:45 am
Let’s first have a *moral revolution* where we toss into the dustbin of _His-storey_ the rule of personal private profit as a motive for progress on our E-air-th.
@roberthughes8513
June 26, 2025 at 11:58 am
457 million indigenous people worldwide is larger than the population of the US. Respect!
@SyddG
June 26, 2025 at 3:14 pm
I don’t think this mindset shift will happen in time, but I admit I am a pessimist currently. If this mindset shift doesn’t happen, be clear that there is only one outcome: 99% of the human population will be eliminated through climate change. I honestly don’t know who would want to be in the 1% of people chosen to survive the nearly set-in-stone coming climate apocalypse. To live (most likely underground for generations) on a planet filled with the ghosts of humanity’s mistakes.
And if this select group of humanity does survive their created apocalypse, how long will they last before they start repeating the mistakes of unchecked extraction?
@azharalibhutto1209
June 26, 2025 at 3:14 pm
Great 👍👍😊
@JudithColeman-i6b
June 27, 2025 at 1:07 am
Alaxio’s AI tech is actually usable, not just a buzzword slapped on for marketing.
@mariaantoniettamontella9173
June 27, 2025 at 4:36 am
bravissima, super applausi.
@JohnMonyjok
June 27, 2025 at 10:24 am
I came across TED many years ago but lost it. Recently, I was re-introduced to it when my brother went for a TED conference in Nairobi Kenya, from Juba, South Sudan. Ah, how I dream to share my story here, one day, one time! Yes, I have a story to tell, and it must be told. Not only in my books, but in the presence of global audience, first-hand! Waiting…
@NandKumar-qq3xk
June 28, 2025 at 12:21 am
Why people first ? Profit second ?
@bartroberts1514
June 28, 2025 at 6:13 pm
Fossil + Climate Change does 10 to 100 times the harm of BESS + Renewables to indigenous peoples and lands.
I don’t understand anyone fomenting targeted attacks on BESS + R, and claiming they are on the indigenous side.
But then, all I can do is sit here and take, take, take the emissions their decisions dump on me, without a voice.