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What a Living Whale Is Worth — and Why the Economy Should Protect Nature | Ralph Chami | TED

How much is one living blue whale worth in the fight against climate change? A lot more than you may think, says financial economist Ralph Chami. He explains the value of bringing the language of dollars and cents to conservation — and offers his vision of a new economy that would profit off regenerating nature,…

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How much is one living blue whale worth in the fight against climate change? A lot more than you may think, says financial economist Ralph Chami. He explains the value of bringing the language of dollars and cents to conservation — and offers his vision of a new economy that would profit off regenerating nature, not extracting from it.

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103 Comments

  1. 隨天議

    December 9, 2022 at 12:03 pm

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    December 9, 2022 at 12:22 pm

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      December 9, 2022 at 1:08 pm

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    • Vesa Wuoristo

      December 9, 2022 at 2:14 pm

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  5. Dr. Ricco Lindner

    December 9, 2022 at 12:32 pm

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  8. Sibylle Leon

    December 9, 2022 at 12:41 pm

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  9. Bastien Mnd

    December 9, 2022 at 12:46 pm

    What about corruption that is struggling these countries ? Valuation of nature won’t be making advantages to the powerful and the richs (as always) ? This idea seems to be a smooth utopia so far…

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    • Pedro Carvalho

      December 9, 2022 at 12:54 pm

      That’s a good point. If the revenue goes to the goverment (which owns that land) but this gov is corrupt then it will not increase the standard of living for the pop., just for the power elite

    • King B

      December 9, 2022 at 4:12 pm

      Well because the creators whole goal is to protect nature and reduce carbon, so they probably care about corruption and misuse of funds and fully intend on mediating misuse of funds and then you get governments involved who are putting money into who can also help with fund transparency.

  10. krux02

    December 9, 2022 at 1:10 pm

    Meanwhile quite close to where I live, villages are getting torn down to dig up the coal under them.

  11. 1goldinga

    December 9, 2022 at 1:15 pm

    Economy is a made up word describing a counties commerce. It has no effect on military sonar. No effect on pollution from the navy, beaches, ships, etc. Nor does it stop cloud seeding whose materials trickle into the oceans. You stop this by actually wanting to stop pollution. Not by taxing an unrelated element that makes up nearly all living organisms on the planet. Or by forcing regular Jane’s and John’s to pay for it through bs economic sanctions.

  12. joe smith

    December 9, 2022 at 1:18 pm

    fact one whale will feed 10,000 Japenese, and they actually hurt the environment by the amount of krill they eat because the krill eat so much plankton with uses carbon dioxide

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    • Elvy Tan

      December 9, 2022 at 3:00 pm

      People don’t need whale meat to survive. Eating whales is just plain wrong and illegal.

    • joe smith

      December 9, 2022 at 4:42 pm

      @Elvy Tan tell that to the Japenese

    • Darth Binks_83

      December 9, 2022 at 9:29 pm

      @joe smith cool story…so therefore kill all the whales so there is none left…whales damage the environment what BS…

  13. spijkerpoes

    December 9, 2022 at 1:55 pm

    Putting men centre stage and putting ecology in ‘service’ of that and to monetize all that does not sit right with me at all. Whales and elephants and oceans were working to balance the liveable earth for millions of years. We are now in the situation, 96% of mammals are human and their livestock. 4% of mammalian biomass is wildlife. No f-in way the 4% will repair our damage whilst the full 100% is needed just to keep the balance without Anthropocene. Sorry, but this is just a false narrative. What needs to be done is very clear, but a big taboo. Degrowth and a few decimations of human populous in a painful short time span. The longer we will ignore this, the more it will hurt.

  14. Vesa Wuoristo

    December 9, 2022 at 2:13 pm

    We are destroying the oceans , no saving whales if we don’t stop.

  15. Vesa Wuoristo

    December 9, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    That is an idea , although we don’t need economy to protect nature. Just protect it.

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    December 9, 2022 at 5:08 pm

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    December 9, 2022 at 6:43 pm

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  22. Tama

    December 9, 2022 at 10:37 pm

    Sad modern society only knows the language of dollars. Can’t recognise the intrinsic value of nature, our symbiotic relationship and justs sees it as a resource. Great talk.

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    December 10, 2022 at 12:03 am

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    If this helps save both Elephants and Whales , I would be most pleased , indeed .
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    December 11, 2022 at 12:50 pm

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      December 11, 2022 at 12:51 pm

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      December 11, 2022 at 12:51 pm

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    December 11, 2022 at 1:42 pm

    Instead of focusing on mission mars, we should primarily focus on our mother earth…

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    December 11, 2022 at 3:08 pm

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    December 12, 2022 at 8:41 am

    Thnx

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    December 12, 2022 at 8:43 am

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    December 12, 2022 at 9:40 am

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    December 12, 2022 at 11:05 am

    Just commenting to get this video more attention.

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    December 12, 2022 at 2:27 pm

    誰か日本語に翻訳してくれ!!

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    December 12, 2022 at 5:17 pm

    Incredible interesting theme

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  41. Виталий Ермаков

    December 12, 2022 at 5:43 pm

    He looks like the one ruusian doctor: Alexander Myasnikov.

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  42. Rachael B

    December 12, 2022 at 6:17 pm

    This is amazing! Spread this video!

  43. Jaime Gutierrez

    December 13, 2022 at 12:14 am

    Are this numbers taking into account the CO2 exhaled during the entire lifetime? I have no idea if it´s much or not, but just wondering

  44. L.T. V3nom

    December 13, 2022 at 5:41 am

    Nature is everything

  45. Moorthi Mutheesvaran

    December 13, 2022 at 11:51 pm

    That’s wonderful and directly hit at the head when you put it in dollars. Yes, we need to think how to invest in places like Gabon to curb carbon emission instead of wasting money in luxury meetings and conference.

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