When human rights advocate Manu Peni returned to Papua New Guinea from abroad, he built a home for himself using modern techniques — and promptly learned a harsh lesson on how the newest ideas aren’t always the best ideas. Peni calls for us all to rethink who we consider experts, particularly when it comes to building in the face of climate change, showing how Indigenous wisdom must work in harmony with new science and technology if we want to create a sustainable future.
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January 31, 2023 at 12:01 pm
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Wize Choice
January 31, 2023 at 12:02 pm
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January 31, 2023 at 12:05 pm
To the person reading this message.. don’t worry.. the pain you’re feeling is temporary, close your eyes and remember tomorrow is a new day, a fresh start! Take deep breathes, your gonna be alright! I promise💫 Wishing you a lifetime of happiness, peace, and abundance! Namaste!❤
Christine
January 31, 2023 at 12:19 pm
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Canab muktar
January 31, 2023 at 6:33 pm
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Willene Business & Lifestyle
January 31, 2023 at 12:06 pm
I just wish some parts of the world can be left untouched. I think we as humans have already gone far and beyond to use the world to our benefit. Anyone reading this, let’s try to preserve the few that are left…please. Thanks for understanding 💙
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January 31, 2023 at 12:14 pm
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Willene Business & Lifestyle
January 31, 2023 at 12:19 pm
@Welcome To My Kropy TackleBox! We can’t point fingers. It’s not just a particular race that is causing the harm. I’ve seen even people like us doing worse. Also, most of our very own people make it far easy for these to happen. It’s truly sad and I feel disappointed but we need to reason this out with our minds, not our hearts no matter how hurt we may feel. Bless you fam 💙🙏🏾
kettch42
January 31, 2023 at 9:23 pm
I agree, but there is some nuance to it. If I could rephrase it, I would say I wish people’s unique cultures were held on a pedestal and incentives were stacked toward preserving cultures rather than abandoning them. People abandon their culture’s ways of life for positive and negative reasons. Negative: because of racism, greed, etc, minority cultures are victimized by the dominant culture, and so they can escape some that by joining the dominant culture. Positive: because of the benefits of being part of the dominant culture, like healthcare, security, and wealth, people in minority cultures leave their way of life to join the dominant culture. To say that we must isolate a group of people for their own protection is to take away their agency also. Treating them as equals and as valued guests, seeking to know their culture and listening to their POV and their wants and needs, then they can have many of the positives, less of the negatives, and hopefully retain their culture in a multi-generational way.
Mohammad Reza Mohseni
January 31, 2023 at 12:13 pm
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HFC Radio
January 31, 2023 at 12:26 pm
fascinating
Kate E
January 31, 2023 at 12:43 pm
Great man
Patriot4TheTree
January 31, 2023 at 12:54 pm
When the libtards are finished, we will all be living in caves and mud huts again, eating bugs and chucking spears at wild beasts. How progressive.
Zlatin Kolev
January 31, 2023 at 1:03 pm
So true!
TRC 23 Manitoba Winnipeg
January 31, 2023 at 1:22 pm
Dauphin River First Nation Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
TRC 23 Manitoba Winnipeg
January 31, 2023 at 1:23 pm
Indigenous peoples Indigenous Culture Native Americans ❤️🇨🇦🇺🇸👑🌎
Yash
January 31, 2023 at 1:42 pm
6:40 10:19 ha, Britishers imposed their “civil” behaviour on indigeneous people, and destroyed earth meanwhile.
it’s long call that we all go back to roots, and do away with “unnecessary” parts of modernisation. keeping only those parts which necessary, and blatantly discarding the rest.
Te_le_grqm me @ted023
January 31, 2023 at 1:43 pm
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Timothy Wiebe
January 31, 2023 at 2:20 pm
‘Stop doing what I did’ 👏
Dazarabia
January 31, 2023 at 3:05 pm
Very engaging..didnt expect to stay to the end but glad I did
Travis Wade ZINN
January 31, 2023 at 4:29 pm
Excellent insights – thank you
alkhyari ahmed
January 31, 2023 at 4:57 pm
I wanna work in this platform.
V K
January 31, 2023 at 7:09 pm
Sustainable Brilliance of Indigenous Design- Manu, a brilliant and beautiful talk my brother.
Vadim Medvedev
January 31, 2023 at 8:03 pm
It is not one or the other, we can gain wisdom from all sorts of communities all over the world. A couple of things though, without mining and extraction, we don’t have modern civilization. We can do it sustainably and carefully, but to dismiss it as bad for the earth simply won’t work.
Also, every single human is indigenous to somewhere, so why don’t we just aggregate all knowledge instead of pretending one view is better because of some artificial label.
Every society values human capital and connections. There is no “this culture’s way of knowing” that is only available to them. Everyone can understand everyone else given some effort and empathy.
Lastly, catastrophizing climate change doesn’t help and only turns people off and makes them anxious for no reason. Practical cumulative changes and technology will solve much more than blame, false moral outrage and patronizing rhetoric.
Usha Alexander
February 1, 2023 at 5:08 am
A wonderful talk. I hope more Indigenous voices get amplified to the rest of the world by TED and everyone else who opens their ears to listen. These insights are the best hope for the wellbeing of future generations.
Basim Al-Saleh
February 1, 2023 at 7:44 am
Do not think that you are the only civilized people, all people have different cilizations.
John Gooch
February 1, 2023 at 1:05 pm
This might affect how Africa and South America develop,
and then perhaps in turn one day the rest of the World.
kristianndori
February 1, 2023 at 1:29 pm
Salam dari Indonesian paceh🔥
Lucas Lopes
February 2, 2023 at 9:08 am
Excellent!
Fatıma Yıldırım
February 2, 2023 at 8:37 pm
давайте сначала защитим наш мир, давайте объявим всем после окружающей среды, это важно для нашего будущего, и завтра мы должны позаботиться, потому что все заканчивается на нас, Тед, спасибо