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Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. What can you do to build a better world? Learn how you can commit (or recommit) to creating big, positive change in your lifetime — and give back more to the world than you take from it. “It is…
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When wildfires rage in California, incarcerated people are often on the front lines fighting the flames. TED Fellow Royal Ramey was one of them. He shares the story of how doing public service in prison inspired him to cofound the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit helping formerly incarcerated people become wildland firefighters —…
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Why aren’t restaurants part of the climate solution? This question inspired chef Anthony Myint to go from opening buzzy pop-ups to pushing for a shift to regenerative farming practices in the food system. He explains how it didn’t go the way he expected at first — and how restaurants are now teaming up with farmers…
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rescue me
September 29, 2020 at 3:14 pm
Ban ear buds or any other electronic listening device from election debate. Joe and Democrats will attempt to rig debate.
Carlton Baggett
September 29, 2020 at 3:21 pm
Sounds like like a socialist ploy to infiltrate the minds of the weak then exploit.
Marco Guidotti
September 29, 2020 at 3:23 pm
Chris Anderson’s wife
أبو يامنة الجزائري
September 29, 2020 at 3:32 pm
A wonderful and varied video channel
أبو عائشة الجزائري
September 29, 2020 at 3:32 pm
A wonderful and varied video channel
Flower Power
September 29, 2020 at 3:47 pm
“We don’t change in the easy times, we change in the difficult times”
Mill Eudic
September 29, 2020 at 3:54 pm
Contraception failure is 2 weeks, not 20 as claimed in India.
Mill Eudic
September 29, 2020 at 4:17 pm
rus -> thank you councelor to UN
Mill Eudic
September 29, 2020 at 4:24 pm
OMA -> I was rapped, all on me finished, what do now?
Mill Eudic
September 29, 2020 at 4:25 pm
bud@ -> Presume washed your self? Give you an morning after, prescription only.
Mill Eudic
September 29, 2020 at 4:30 pm
OMA -> Something failed, have lost ciclus. Shocked still.
Mill Eudic
September 29, 2020 at 4:31 pm
bud@ -> Must let me investigate. And test you. Did you take the pill?
Martin Huber
September 29, 2020 at 4:20 pm
If the modern social “justice” crowd is anything to go by change just requires gaslighting, false framing, Mott and bailey tactics and An MSM juggernaut to push said agenda. If by crying out for justice you mean conveniently ignoring the deaths of several black cops and at least one eight year old black kid being killed by their own supporters and the self admitted Marxist leaders and the now deleted mission statement about dismantling the nuclear family.
Tyler Steele
September 29, 2020 at 4:32 pm
“Cynics don’t create the future” is a reminder I needed. Makes me think of “They don’t build statues for critics”.
We have an excess of hot takes and opinions and moral grandstanding and not nearly enough action. I will try to tune out the noise and focus more on unambiguous positive action.
Dirk Diggler
September 29, 2020 at 4:59 pm
Her organization “The Bail Project” finances the riots in Louisville. So I don’t trust anything she says.
Muppet
September 29, 2020 at 5:10 pm
Beautiful woman. We need more peace and less violence.
Dirk Diggler
September 29, 2020 at 5:25 pm
The Bail Project has paid the bail for thousands of felons. She and her husband run The Bail Project.
Want to know why there’s so much repeat crime in the US? Just look into her and Michael!
John Karavitis
September 29, 2020 at 5:26 pm
Tackle poverty? Tell people who can’t afford to have kids to NOT HAVE KIDS. Poverty problem solved.
Mikayla Deguzman
September 29, 2020 at 6:26 pm
tackling poverty requires affordable education for low income communities, housing for homeless communities who cant afford even feeding their children to focus on school, jobs to help these communities get back on their feet without having an implicit bias that homeless people are incapable. you cant just tell impoverished communities “dont have kids”. use your privilege of having access yo education to educate yourself on these situations & do smt about it.
Ruth Haumba
September 30, 2020 at 3:10 pm
That isn’t how it works. Normally in rural areas, one of the reasons people have kids are so that they can help them do work( e.g Help them with farming so that they can get more money). Multiple times people use their kids to beg for money from strangers or pedestrians walking by because they’re more willing to sympathize with children. I don’t agree of course but you can’t just say they should stop having kids because the sole reason isn’t just cause they want kids but they want more money to get further in life(as well as their children). This isn’t the case for all but this is one reason.
Nemesis Rain
September 29, 2020 at 5:26 pm
What we think they need, is rarely what they need.
It’s hard and troublesome to see the reality of others whitout our’s as a reference. When someone realise this, now the changes are possibles.
Danny Gonxalez
September 29, 2020 at 5:32 pm
woah
Snakeyes244
September 29, 2020 at 5:34 pm
What it takes to make change? Oh not much. Not even high school algebra. Probably jr high
Ruti Lopata
September 29, 2020 at 6:24 pm
This part is true, it all starts with BEING squeal to the person in front of you. In most societies, it means to un-learn most of what we where NOT born with, kindness is innate in humans, in my humble opinion, so, just be kind to the person you face because it is yourself you are looking at.
I believe with all my heart kindness, which encompasses non biased compassion, is stronger and more constructive then love. True change is possible when we nourish each other with it. Wise people said this before me, i chose to accept it as my truth. It works🕊🌸💫
Kevin M
September 29, 2020 at 8:21 pm
The person who helps is never on the same footing/level as the person being helped. There’s a reason people retort, “Just Let Me Help You!”, When their help is resisted.
The helped must relinquish power/control to the helper, in order for a balancing of power to occur. Unfortunately, equality is not possible to achieve when comparing objects having n-ary attributes, features, etc.
We can however choose to actively, and with vigor and consistency, resist the pressure to engage in irresponsible discrimination.
Choosing not to hire a three-time convicted child rapist and murderer to babysit your young children is an example of responsible discrimination. Choosing not to interview a candidate because of unconfirmed racial stereotypes is an example of irresponsible (and illegal) discrimination.
People or items mustn’t be “equal” to treat each other with respect and dignity. That’s the beauty of life. I’m sure you’ve seen videos on YouTube where hippos fend off large reptiles to allow the safe passing of a young animal through a body of water.
If we consider “who is equal to us” (or not), we engage in discrimination; we start comparing ourselves to others and begin manipulating values relative to our own logic/feelings and THAT is where it starts to breakdown.
The police make it clear, there is an “Us and Them” (Pink Floyd was right)🤔 How you ask? “The thin blue line”. Read into what you will but police value themselves and each other higher than citizens. They will even tell you this. They say o it all the time. Of you’re working a job like that, it’s easy to fall into the mindset of “it’s us against them (the bad people)” easier still to regard civilians they interact with on runs and bad people, worthy of being disrespect and violence, and easier still to be able to justify their own behaviors/actions/cognitions and those of their “brothers and sisters in blue” because after all, it’s us and them. Good versus evil.
It then can follow, “evil must be sought out, identified and punished, even if “the evil” is fictional, was not proven and only alleged against some said officer deems a (bad person), which these days can just mean being black or requestioning officers treat you humanely.
At a high level the police slogans sounds good, but the individual execution, by individual officers, of the mission to “Serve and Protect” is the breakdown.
I believe firmly that consequence must be swift, consistent, and either harsh enough to deter most from receiving it, or positive enough for most to desire it. The problem we face as a human race today is that we choose not to hold people accountable for their actions. We allow feelings of hate, resentment, envy, fear, jealousy, inadequacy, anxiety, etc to allow people and ourselves to justify or marginalize corrupt and agreed-upon (law, regulation, code, etc) illegal actions perpetrates or encouraged/supported by people in “Power”.
Hold people accountable. It makes them better, you better, and the world better.
Bob Frog
September 29, 2020 at 6:35 pm
More whining from TED. Shove your COMMUNISM!
Aylbdr Madison
September 29, 2020 at 6:58 pm
With freedom comes an equal amount of responsibility for the freedom of others.
Kevin M
September 29, 2020 at 7:52 pm
Yes yes yes same old story. White man or woman decides to go to a “poor” or otherwise vulnerable population and create systems that “help empower them”, all while you’re collecting profits off their backs due to their ignorance.
People stop and think for a second why some goes to a disadvantaged foreign country to setup an operation/organization. Only those who have some ties to a larger network of people or organizations could trust/risk setting up a bank in foreign lands.
What disgusts and saddens me most is that these entrepreneurs actually convince themselves that they themselves are doing good and helping when in reality they part of the bigger issues I’m society.
I’m not anti-capitalist and do understand business profits help fund research and development efforts that ultimately lead to new technology, tools, etc. I just want people to stop going to foreign lands and stealing, cheating, deceiving, killing or otherwise taking advantage of the locals, and claiming to be helping.
Ruth Haumba
September 30, 2020 at 2:52 pm
I’m so confused. How are they creating profit from that? Sorry, I’m a bit slow
Dmitri Zaslavski
October 1, 2020 at 9:39 pm
@Ruth Haumba because they give credit with higher rates than usual banks to people who couldn’t get it otherwise. So they make profit.
The Daily Dose
September 29, 2020 at 9:00 pm
Nice piece.
The Daily Dose
September 29, 2020 at 9:00 pm
About a troubled part of the world.
최에라
September 29, 2020 at 9:32 pm
I want to change myself 🙁
Samuel Theil
September 29, 2020 at 10:26 pm
From an American viewpoint I’d think with the Black Lives Matter groups gaining popularity, many of them voicing pride in their ancestral continent; why not volunteer for such missionary work. If Black Lives Matter here, why not everywhere in the world? There’s a quality of life gap and much opportunity for improvement to get involved with something to be passionate about.
Ruth Haumba
September 30, 2020 at 3:01 pm
I agree with your point. From someone who lives outside the US, I thought black lives matter was just to fight against the racial discrimination black people experience in America. If I’m correct (on what black lives matter stands for) then are you suggesting that they expand that to help other black lives all over the globe regardless if its racial discrimination or lack of education etc?
Samuel Theil
September 30, 2020 at 4:19 pm
@Ruth Haumba Yes, there’s a lot to do with the political climate of the U.S. as an internal matter. It is that I wish the U.S. wasn’t so U.S. centric minded.
It’s a touchy subject here but from my understanding with the police treatment & measure of discrimination it has a lot to do with the fact that many persons involved had criminal histories; yes this is mediated by ethnicities being through the penal system in greater numbers as a starting point. However these treatments are usually not for first time offenders if one looks at the cases involved (I’m not saying always it is such a case, but I’ve noticed a distinct trend).
It doesn’t pique the ears as a slogan to say “Criminal Lives Matter”, and it stands to help no individual group that isn’t so internally divided and marginalized as to not think of themselves as worth more; as a great swath of the American demographic are of the thought that one does give up intrinsic portions of their rights over their actions, but situations are involved across all ethnicities here.
Second, it’s often someone much like the speaker in this TED talk doing this kind of work in Africa, perhaps my particular vantage has been biased to what I have seen but it seems to me as such.
I would find it a progress of the times to see more black individals involved in such work as to not give the international impression of white privilege. This is likely do to those in such positions having the resources to do so, whereas this isn’t the case across the majority of the class who make up Black Lives Matter: yet, if all this charity funding, grant money and NGO infrastructure could focus on these marginalized segments of the black community in first world countries such as ours, and allow them a respite from the conditions of the Americas they find so lacking in government respect even to the point of oppression: for a trip to better themselves and strengthen their heritage in the process. They might return with a skill set, résumé and experience to help them prosper beyond what gives them motive to find complaint with their vantage point of their living condition back home generally.
Mika Hwanq
September 30, 2020 at 1:25 am
These days, I have struggles with my orientation about career in the future. I want to clarify the path, then going for study, and ask about ppl who have experience in the field.
But Im currently stuck. I didnt change my mind, my viewpoint, my perspectives so I dont really have motivation to keep up. I think I will act and take action. Then along the way, I could myself learn and experience and then it raises my motivation.
Brian Wright
September 30, 2020 at 1:26 am
I chose one of the only self sustaining drugs in the world that I should be able to grow in my backyard, literally moved from one coast to another coast where it’s legal to grow only to find out I can’t afford to live here. Meanwhile it’s a billion dollar industry that only hires minorities as security guards. Life must suck for you people!
MARIAM AYOUB
September 30, 2020 at 1:55 am
AMEN to EVERYTHING YOU SAY! 🙏
jparkerwillis
September 30, 2020 at 7:30 am
Don’t try to change the world, but try to change the world for just one person.
Dirk Diggler
September 30, 2020 at 2:01 pm
I find it tunny that I get a notification on my phone that someone liked my comment. I click on it and it takes me to my comments below, but yet they both show no likes! WEIRD!
Dirk Diggler
September 30, 2020 at 2:06 pm
They removed one of my comments that contained the link to Tucker Carlson’s youtube video of his show where he explains about The Bail Project and all of the felons that they bailed out who killed people and committed many other crimes. You can find it if you search for it.
Nice Job YouTube sticking up for your rich, Liberal buddies and hiding their shady underbelly.
Jaeyoung Cheon
September 30, 2020 at 2:57 pm
Changing myself…🤭🤭
ITouchTheSky 8GladysWorld8
September 30, 2020 at 3:56 pm
Thank you so much for sharing your experienced in Africa. and
Aman Al niamat
September 30, 2020 at 5:02 pm
Thank you in Arabic
Nimmy R
October 1, 2020 at 3:39 am
Thank you for such an amazing talk Jacqueline.
Jock Campbell
October 1, 2020 at 5:31 am
No, not a fan. Start with a roof that insulates the interior from the heat. These corrugated itron roofs are the worst possible roof in a sun-baked land. They radiate heat into the homes. Just turf the roofs and see a huge difference. And/or open the walls just below the roofline to let hot air escape and cool air to flow through.
Touch the Earth
October 1, 2020 at 2:49 pm
Thank You !
sm foo
October 1, 2020 at 7:35 pm
Only a change can drive a change.
Arrival of new information may be a change.
The main issue is sustainable change.
Lisa Love Ministries
October 3, 2020 at 10:04 am
Seek God’s will daily.
Proverbs 16:3
Mysterious pot
October 3, 2020 at 10:19 am
How to change?
Confidence, belief, persevering.
Bring up habits, changes take places
Syeda Sumaira Bukhari
October 3, 2020 at 2:12 pm
I was touched by the stories..Thank you for your amazing talk.
Randy and Dawn McMannama
October 3, 2020 at 8:52 pm
Very interesting.