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Unions for Climate Action! | Payton M. Wilkins | TED

In the long term, shutting down a coal mine means cleaner air and a healthier environment — but in the short term, it can devastate a community or family that relied on the mine’s paychecks to make ends meet. Environmental justice advocate Payton M. Wilkins thinks we can protect both workers and the planet with…

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In the long term, shutting down a coal mine means cleaner air and a healthier environment — but in the short term, it can devastate a community or family that relied on the mine’s paychecks to make ends meet. Environmental justice advocate Payton M. Wilkins thinks we can protect both workers and the planet with an age-old solution: unions. He digs into the economic fallout of ditching fossil fuels and shows why unions are well-positioned to push the transition to clean energy and green jobs.

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53 Comments

  1. Dolores Adderiy

    October 18, 2023 at 11:32 am

    Strong video. So much work needs to be appreciated more🥭🥭🥭

    • k m

      October 18, 2023 at 11:49 am

      Environmentalists and cc peep r diff .. cc doesn’t care about environment..

  2. Danny Medina

    October 18, 2023 at 11:32 am

    THRIVE 2 GTP5 ANTIGRAVITY ANTI-AGING FREE ENERGY FLYING CARS STEVEN GREER SUPPRESSED TECHNOLOGY 😊

    • Anthony J. Alibrandi

      October 18, 2023 at 11:39 am

      Steven Greer that’s awesome lol

  3. Jayendra Singh

    October 18, 2023 at 11:32 am

    In before oil lobby fills the comment section

  4. science 21

    October 18, 2023 at 11:33 am

    Climate change is a bg lie.

  5. Waris Ansari

    October 18, 2023 at 11:33 am

    First one here to comment: Climate change issue is most concerning one today and in coming 20 years “MARK MY WORDS”

    • Johnny Shanksalot

      October 18, 2023 at 12:04 pm

      You’ve all been crying wolf about ‘we’re all gonna die in 10 years’ since roughly 1972 though lol, like why would anyone take Chicken Little seriously the 2000th time that he says “the sky is falling?”

    • Greg Bors

      October 18, 2023 at 12:14 pm

      @Johnny ShanksalotClassic and obvious straw-man fallacy

    • Johnny Shanksalot

      October 18, 2023 at 12:47 pm

      @Greg BorsHow is it a strawman if it was mandatory curriculum in schools?
      I do not think that that word means what you think that it means, sir!
      The Manhattan claim is from Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ so do you either reject the claims of that film as untrue or…?
      Science = scientific method so maybe try using it occasionally lol.

    • Greg Bors

      October 18, 2023 at 12:55 pm

      @Johnny Shanksalot First of all, you referred to the OP as one of the “you all” when you obviously don’t even know the person.

      Secondly, you’re now claiming it was “mandatory curriculum in schools” when I went to school in the 1970’s and ‘80’s, and it most definitely was not.

      Thirdly, any errors made by popularizers such as Gore (who is obviously not a scientist) do not refute the overwhelming scientific consensus that AGW is indeed occurring.

      But you know all this stuff – you’re likely just a troll for the oil industry

    • Johnny Shanksalot

      October 18, 2023 at 1:57 pm

      @Greg Bors Yes, ‘you all’ as in the ‘public-private partnership’ that constitutes your modern eco-fascist movement, disagreeing or not liking something doesn’t make it a strawman.
      Yup, I’m either an oil millionaire or a penniless anarchist who sees you for the global apex predators that you are, one of those things is certainly true…
      I will have to go dig up Galileo though & let him know that ‘overwhelming consensus’ trumps his lame old scientific evidence in 2023 so the sun therefore revolves around the earth now & he should probably be censored for misinformation because all of the establishment sponsored ‘experts’ (shockingly) agree that the establishment’s always right!
      The scientific method is about skepticism not blind faith regardless of evidence plus confirmation bias so ‘The Official Science’ ™ has always meant the opposite of science.
      If you were younger then you’d know that Gore’s movie was curriculum in primary & high schools across the west for easily a decade but I myself am born in the 80s & yes, the schools pushed this nefarious Malthusian cult on us from day 1 along with all of the other pseudo religious collective guilt narratives designed to enslave our young minds to ‘The Collective’ & make us hate it’s enemies.

  6. Abdulsamad Bolaji

    October 18, 2023 at 11:44 am

    LIKE OF YOU THINK THIS IS FACTS SPEAKING VIDEO!

  7. 🔴 LISA LIVE

    October 18, 2023 at 11:45 am

    7:11:51 Can we all appreciate how much effort he puts in her videos💕

  8. Johnny Shanksalot

    October 18, 2023 at 11:52 am

    I’m old enough to remember most Ted Talks actually being about topics other than promoting pseudo scientific authoritarian collectivism. Also old enough to remember several decades of ‘we’re all gonna die in an ice age’ followed seamlessly by ‘Manhattan will be under 40 feet of water by 2020 even if we end all emissions today,’ etc. ‘Climate’ restrictions end millions in the 3rd world, pure evil.

  9. Rian Silverstein

    October 18, 2023 at 11:59 am

    Using the words ‘Climate Change’ takes all the focus away from those who pollute the earth. It’s pollution! Climate change sounds like evolution and its out of our hands. Maybe do a talk on why not to call it Climate Change!

  10. Meanderin Oranges

    October 18, 2023 at 12:00 pm

    Unions don’t care about the planet. Or about the employees, or about teachers or students. Unions care only about unions.

  11. Lära McCully

    October 18, 2023 at 12:00 pm

    This talk doesn’t go into any of the details (or consequences) of doing what the elites want us to do. We will have to mine lithium and cobalt which are far more dangerous and will kill impoverished people and further damage the earth. They are already cutting down untouched forests in South America to mine it. Look up the destruction of Lithium mines and how mining it is FAR less green than fossil fuels. Know the answer to global warming? Everyone who reads this comment and gets angry, take that energy and go plant a tree. If everyone in the world planted a tree today, the earth would be far better off. If Covid-19 didn’t open your eyes to what Bill Gates, Claus Schwab and our politicians truly want your future to be like, find out now.

  12. WeKnow

    October 18, 2023 at 12:02 pm

    Suppressed Tech👹Planned Obsolescence hurts Humanity/Planet. I disengage from businesses that dont align with my values. I vote with my money. Weather cycles normal, planet is cooling & WEFelites don’t want you to catch on to the scam.

  13. Adigerla Prasad

    October 18, 2023 at 12:03 pm

    👌🙏🙏👍🇮🇳💐

  14. Murray Rothbard

    October 18, 2023 at 12:05 pm

    Watermelon politicians/activists: Green on the outside, red on the inside.

    • many Sides

      October 18, 2023 at 12:35 pm

      What does this mean?

    • Murray Rothbard

      October 18, 2023 at 12:55 pm

      @many Sides Read between the lines in all environmental politicians/activists speeches and you will see a socialist heart, promoting Marx and Malthus mistaken theory covered by scientificism.

    • Duolingo 055

      October 18, 2023 at 3:06 pm

      @Murray Rothbard Marx and Malthus are very different…

    • Murray Rothbard

      October 18, 2023 at 5:56 pm

      @Duolingo 055 But the watermelon people mix the two: They use Malthus idea to eliminate carbon (aka poor people) using socialist policies.

    • HELENA 3H

      October 18, 2023 at 9:29 pm

      ​@Murray Rothbard that’s The biggest bs I’ve ever read. Congrats on your achievement.

    • Carlin’s Cosmic Soup Kitchen

      October 19, 2023 at 2:57 am

      I’m with Helen. Are you trying to report a Jordan Peterson theory or what? If you breathe air and drink water and eat food environmental health does affect you every second, every minute of your life. And people aren’t fruit. And generalizing like that is in poor taste and incorrect.

    • Murray Rothbard

      October 19, 2023 at 6:03 am

      @Carlin’s Cosmic Soup Kitchen I never said there are no environmental problems. I’ve said politicians and activist use them to promote their anti-human/enslavement agenda. They are all about limiting, fining, restricting regular folks, and giving money to their crony capitalist allies (vide the New Green Deal) – never about creating actual solutions without enforcing their will upon others (vide the backlash to nuclear power).

    • Duolingo 055

      October 19, 2023 at 8:38 am

      @Murray Rothbard Ok. What socialist policies do you mean?

    • Murray Rothbard

      October 19, 2023 at 10:10 am

      @Duolingo 055 E.g. Green New Deal, restrictions on usage of cars, “sin taxes” based on your life style, etc. In summary, aggressions (or threats of) against peaceful individuals in order to compel them use their property differently from their will.

    • Duolingo 055

      October 19, 2023 at 12:17 pm

      How is that socialist? That just sounds like any government ever.@Murray Rothbard

  15. WeKnow

    October 18, 2023 at 12:07 pm

    Blackrock; humanity needs to disengage from; before it’s too late.

  16. Sir Chadius Maximus III

    October 18, 2023 at 12:10 pm

    In 1989, climate activists said the world would be unlivable by the year 2000.

  17. Alexis Despland

    October 18, 2023 at 12:41 pm

    there should be a national plan to fill old mines with wind or solar power production ceners as that is where land is cheapest.

  18. David Brelin

    October 18, 2023 at 12:56 pm

    Unions have always been about people. I think it’s very wise of them to ensure that labor has a seat at the future’s table! I see these comments on here trying to be cute with their negativity but drinking PFAS/PFOS and breathing diesel particulates is no joke when your health or your children’s health is negatively impacted by it. It’s because of unions that we have protections for workers and higher standards for worker safety. All workers benefit from the work that these unions do! They aren’t just fighting for climate justice for themselves, they’re doing the hard work of fighting for your benefit too. So please keep your comments respectful or don’t comment at all. But whatever you do please listen to the plain spoken words of the labor movement because what you hear here today, will be the benefits you and your children will enjoy in the future.

  19. Cheese Monger

    October 18, 2023 at 1:00 pm

    wonderful points, very well said!! As an environmentalist who lives in the heart of the North Dakota oil field, I often feel despair for my friends and neighbors that rely on the fossil fuel industry for reliable income, but i also believe a just transition is possible if we take care of each other.

  20. Free thinking person

    October 18, 2023 at 1:18 pm

    What happen to TED. Did you completely loose your minds?

    • None of your Damn Business

      October 19, 2023 at 3:59 am

      *TED should be called TID (technology, indoctrination, design)*

  21. Greg Byran

    October 18, 2023 at 1:30 pm

    Ich schuldete meiner Bank einen Kredit von 42.000 US-Dollar für die Gehirnoperation meines Sohnes. Jetzt habe ich keine Schulden mehr, nachdem ich 3.000 US-Dollar investiert und in den letzten zwei Monaten mehrmals meine Auszahlung erhalten habe. Gott segne Frau Caitlin Long

    • Greg Byran

      October 18, 2023 at 1:30 pm

      👇Es ist ganz einfach, sie zu erreichen

    • Greg Byran

      October 18, 2023 at 1:30 pm

      Tele

    • Greg Byran

      October 18, 2023 at 1:30 pm

      Gram

    • Greg Byran

      October 18, 2023 at 1:30 pm

      @Expert_Caitlin_Long

  22. Akira

    October 18, 2023 at 3:00 pm

    Ted Kaczynski was sane.

  23. propius ad veritatum Dei

    October 18, 2023 at 5:08 pm

    When are we ever going to address the fact that the US dollar (and other strong currencies) are directly tethered to the physical production of crude oil? Oil is usually leveraged to increase the value of currency since it’s a primary energy source. Until that fundamentally changes nothing else will fundamentally change and egregious pollution will continue. It’s now Economists that need to step up and articulate a climate solution otherwise our dystopian nightmares will absolutely become reality in the next 20 years… Being a climate activist without intrinsic knowledge of how money works only changes perspectives without ever changing our actual reality.

  24. Jay

    October 18, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    Didn’t like this talk at all. A much better TedTalk is the recent one by Coleman Hughes.

  25. Tìm Kiếm Đầu Tư

    October 18, 2023 at 10:44 pm

    Hi🎉So happy to see this video. Thank you very much❤❤❤

  26. DOCTOR HUMANICS~The Original & Still Uncontested!~

    October 18, 2023 at 11:32 pm

    Our species is certainly devolving its standards and TED, through the ads that it earns income from, is certainly NOT going to go against that!
    Professor-Marty.

  27. ÖMER B.

    October 19, 2023 at 4:21 am

    Children are dying, let’s save the children

  28. Pazu 薯伯伯

    October 19, 2023 at 7:32 am

    00:00

    00:08 The Importance of Unions in the Fight for Environmental Justice

    03:04 Coal miners open to exploring climate policies after dialogue

    05:59 Union Negotiates for Jobs and Fair Wages in Wind Energy Sector

  29. cybersekkin

    October 19, 2023 at 10:23 pm

    sounds like empty words. “I care about workers/people” followed by no action, maybe he should be a politician.

  30. Cris_mykr

    October 20, 2023 at 2:05 pm

    Good performance

  31. arquilli1

    October 21, 2023 at 7:24 pm

    Why was Coleman Hughes’ talk censored based on TED censorship and bunk/irrelevant meta analysis? Why did he receive more scrutiny than others?

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