Science & Technology
What to Do When Climate Change Feels Unstoppable @TED #shorts
Clover Hogan is a climate activist, researcher on eco-anxiety and founding CEO of Force of Nature: a youth nonprofit mobilizing mindsets for climate action. Watch her full TED Talk:
Ox Herder
January 11, 2023 at 7:21 pm
For the billionth time, it’s not about personal decisions. A small handful of corps, and an even smaller handful of investors and fossil fuel lobbyists are doing the most damage.
K. East
January 11, 2023 at 11:05 pm
That admonishes you from doing anything, then doesn’t it? What a ridiculous mindset.
Michael S
January 11, 2023 at 7:21 pm
Probably not someone like me; probably a scientist or world leader etc
Long Schlong Johnson
January 11, 2023 at 7:23 pm
You’re saying I should bomb a meeting of exxon-mobil execs? Good idea, thanks for the motivation
İbrahim Öztürk
January 11, 2023 at 7:26 pm
I don’t know who she is but she is clearly a natural speaker. She talked so well with great body language!
Logan Grimnar
January 11, 2023 at 7:33 pm
If you feel anxiety over the weather get help.
SaveDemocracy
January 12, 2023 at 12:07 am
If you don’t know the difference between climate and weather get help
Henry Kober
January 11, 2023 at 7:44 pm
Individuals have almost no ability to impact climate change, it’s all about corporate-scale behavior. This is just another way of telling us to use cloth grocery bags to save the world or whatever. Irresponsible and it just increases guilt.
Dirt Flyer
January 11, 2023 at 7:52 pm
“…from food waste to fast fashion…”
And that’s when I knew this video was a bunch of bs. Eating leftovers and not buying new shirts is not going to stop climate change, and suggesting this as a course of action is completely misguided and deceptive. Climate change is not about the choices of individual consumers. It’s about the choices of governments and corporations, which are practically one and the same in the current reality.
TheFlowMind
January 11, 2023 at 7:56 pm
In my area we had 35 degrees to 45 degrees straight from May to mid September. Nothing like this ever happened. That temperature are typical in July and August. It was scorching.
данил стрельников
January 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm
а можно перевод? что и о чём она говорит?
Simon Beech
January 11, 2023 at 8:14 pm
Great natural speaker but doesn’t actually say anything. Let’s sum it up: people are more anxious about environmental issues. She identifies the ones that are most anxious. Then tells them best way to cope with that anxiety is to find their one contribution to a complex issue with no single solution.
Brilliant.
I can make a cake by cracking an egg😮
Not only will I not have really made a cake but my contribution may well inhibit other cake making activities.
It also does make me less hungry (or anxious). The young feel anxious because they are powerless but are made to feel responsible. Me and my generation are the ones that need to empower them.
Jesus Guerra
January 11, 2023 at 8:19 pm
The solution is stop scaring young people to death. Simple.
Xensonar
January 11, 2023 at 9:27 pm
Yeah… no. That’s not the solution.
Tutatis
January 11, 2023 at 10:59 pm
They got reasons to be scared. It’s the others that have no reasons to not be scared.
Jesus Guerra
January 12, 2023 at 12:53 am
They scaring everyone with global warming, chances are the sun will send a sun burst and wipe us all out. Why worry, if it happens we can’t do anything about it anyway. sun bursts are meaners.
A-man-da 🙄
January 11, 2023 at 8:27 pm
You watch al gore then reposition yourself politically.
Rajveer Singh
January 11, 2023 at 8:52 pm
We just need to stop watching shorts
Danky Skull
January 11, 2023 at 8:57 pm
Global warming Green energy is a scam!
Ben J
January 11, 2023 at 9:07 pm
🥱😴
jo to
January 11, 2023 at 10:34 pm
almost more comments than likes. it tells a lot
K. East
January 11, 2023 at 11:05 pm
It’s laughable that people are so anxious yet don’t do anything significant to help with climate change. Meat eating is a primary driver of global warming for many reasons such as deforestation, methane emissions, pollution, health problems and water shortage. Simply changing one’s shopping list and not paying into this animal agriculture industry would create a massive change but hey! It’s easier to moan about it or berate the very people who do change isn’t it
DeluxeDuke
January 11, 2023 at 11:18 pm
Climate change is impossible to stop and you don’t want to stop it. Carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere is healthy for the environment. How? What breaths carbon dioxide? Trees. Trees will be healthier and grow more. What do trees produce? Oxygen! That’s what humans breath btw. It’s been proven that many years ago the earth was way warmer than it is today and yet plants and animals were larger than anything we see today.
Robert Douglas
January 11, 2023 at 11:21 pm
The climate crisis needs to researched by everyone. My telling you that it is a hoax won’t help unless you find out for yourself.
Stas Kalbas
January 12, 2023 at 12:29 am
lol crisis. I hope you guys realize there’s always a crisis. never ending crisis = money. this lady threw up every buzzword she could think off.
Common Sense
January 12, 2023 at 12:48 am
First scare everyone. Then worry that everyone is scared.
MU
January 12, 2023 at 12:53 am
The solution delivered by I, is to stop watching Ted Talk Shorts to reduce the energy waste of batteries.
Bob Herk
January 12, 2023 at 12:59 am
🌎👍🙂
finn mcgrady
January 12, 2023 at 1:03 am
Big nothing sandwich
Saeed
January 12, 2023 at 1:10 am
😂😂😂😂 eco anxiety!!!
Really?
What’s next vegan anxiety? And veggie-phobia
For An Angel
January 12, 2023 at 4:51 am
It is not MY responsibility to fix the climate crisis. Stop trying to all of the responsibility on the little guy. People in power need to fix this.
Markus Dammasch
January 12, 2023 at 4:53 am
Thanks Greta, you’ve not done anything positive except just scare people… so the next generation who should be happy, healthy and working in the solutions we need, instead they are cowering in the corner with “eco-anxiety”
Don Doodat
January 12, 2023 at 4:31 pm
Utter nonsense.
awesome surgeries
January 12, 2023 at 5:42 am
Just stop
Daniel Mendez
January 12, 2023 at 6:51 am
She’s a matrix bot
Gaara5daime
January 12, 2023 at 7:25 am
The solutions are already there! 🙄
The problem is that politicians don’t want to implement them because they’ve been corrupted by rich and influental companies/individuals.
THAT’S why we feel powerless! Because we actually are.
Alexandre Neto
January 12, 2023 at 7:43 am
Not affected at all LUL
Zeno
January 12, 2023 at 8:29 am
too cute, can’t focus on the words
AaronGrooves
January 12, 2023 at 8:38 am
The only real solution is to transition out of capitalism, which requires inequality, competition, scarcity, and infinite growth amid finite resources. It does little to ask individuals to take responsibility for systemic design that incentivizes unsustainable and deeply inhumane behavior.
Levi Efrauim
January 12, 2023 at 12:04 pm
spoken like a true socialist
Austin Denotter
January 12, 2023 at 7:53 pm
so go back to the stone age? you first? doubt it.
AaronGrooves
January 13, 2023 at 5:25 am
@Levi Efrauim Hmm…I tend to avoid politically charged terms that are often used in a derogatory way. But I’ll bite lol. How do you define socialist?
sigmattew
January 12, 2023 at 9:43 am
AHAHA yes we feel anxious because not only past generations fuked up, but they are still doing it while not giving us room to improve the situation. Putin is a clear example, Brazil ramping up the Amazon deforestation? another example,and i have many other examples…
Everton Gomes
January 12, 2023 at 10:58 am
Call avengers
Mark Marecki
January 12, 2023 at 11:25 am
Dangers that people don’t realize are dangers:
Pesticides
Plastics
GMOs
Childhood Vaccines
Air Fresheners
Birth Control
Processed foods
Electrical Pollution
Pharma drugs
What did I miss?
Don Doodat
January 12, 2023 at 12:10 pm
It’s not what you missed, it’s what you added in.
Austin Denotter
January 12, 2023 at 7:54 pm
@Don Doodatsuch as?
Troy
January 12, 2023 at 12:17 pm
Ted’s become too woke and it’s such a shame. It’s no wonder youth has these problems when everywhere they turn is propaganda and misinformation telling them to stop eating the nutrients their body needs and to follow a recycling program that is all BS.
ronkirk50
January 12, 2023 at 1:34 pm
And yet in the recent U.S.midterms, the 18-29 age group had a pathetic 27% voter turnout. If they’re concerned about their future and the future of the planet, why don’t they vote for the political party that acknowledges the climate change problem (Democrats and Progressives) and is enacting the legislation necessary to mitigate the problem. Unless you engage in the political process and vote for candidates who share your concerns, you get the future you deserve and it is nobody’s fault but your own.
Dickard The Wizard
January 12, 2023 at 2:35 pm
Read some Bjorn Lomborg.
Ryan S
January 12, 2023 at 2:42 pm
Lies. Propoganda.
Nolan Paul
January 12, 2023 at 3:48 pm
There is about a trillion dollars worth of incentive for the problem not to be solved. And the populis just doesn’t have that purchasing power. Climate change isnt going to stop. Get used to it. Our years are numbered on this planet
jorge
January 12, 2023 at 4:52 pm
Seek Jesucristo, it’s the only answer to all the problems
I hate👽
January 12, 2023 at 5:02 pm
70% 🤣🤣
nbyrum1975
January 12, 2023 at 5:43 pm
The question is how do you tell people we are all going to die soon anyway, then motivate them to action. Nobody is interested in telling the truth regardless of where on the spectrum of severity that falls, only extreme ideological “positions”. It seems to me the environmental movement backed themselves into a corner where they motivated people to go from “Hey we can actually do something.” to “If the world is going to end soon anyway, why bother.” The key to shifting out of despair is to admit that humans have damaged the climate, and that it is serious, but that it may not quite be the existential doom story everyone seems to believe. But to do that, people on the right would have to admit they underplayed it, and the left would have to admit they may have overstated the case a bit. Balance is the key, rather than justifying exaggeration and hyperbole on grounds of ideology. Seek the truth, not power.
scupakus
January 12, 2023 at 5:51 pm
And all thanks to green commies
Christopher Plata
January 12, 2023 at 8:15 pm
🤮
Phuk Rnd
January 12, 2023 at 8:53 pm
unfortunately its justified cuz the truth there is nothing can be done about it at this point… being positive is pointless and actually little detrimental even.. it would feel good to hold some of the worst individuals who stood in the way when action could of helped responsible in a very public and vicious act of punishment…
Coltgov191145
January 12, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Well… firstly everyone could stop lieing about how “climate change” is something we created or can really change in any real way and stop creating this false fear that the world is going to end in a ball of fire if we don’t “do something now” to stop it and start telling people the truth that the planet goes through climate parabolas on a regular basis naturally…lets start with that…. also throw greta thunberg off a bringe… just for funzies
Connor McDonogh
January 12, 2023 at 9:35 pm
Bla bla bla bla word salad. Bla bla bla bla
W T
January 12, 2023 at 11:22 pm
70% of 18 to 24 year olds that you studied. Don’t go saying it’s all of them
Absolute Truth
January 16, 2023 at 12:44 am
It’s only the ones with multi colored hair
Blue Steel
January 13, 2023 at 1:47 am
I would rather it get warmer than colder.
we are 1,000 to 3,000 years overdue for another ice age, which could be upon us, if it weren’t for mankind’s activity.
Jack Daum
January 13, 2023 at 2:02 am
I think the biggest problem is figuring out her accent
George Orwell's Ghost
January 13, 2023 at 8:25 am
One Generation had the H bomb…next gen had nuclear war…this Gen has climate change. It was ALWAYS about control of the population.
TheSlimeyLimey
January 13, 2023 at 12:38 pm
Simple. Stop the relentless baseless fear mongering and young people won’t be so fearful of the weather.
Question authority
January 13, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Climate change is cyclical read about the ice age, think for yourselves
Brian Everton
January 13, 2023 at 4:04 pm
where did 70% come from?? I’m 19 and I don’t think anyone I know is eco-anxious or whatever.
Alexander Waters
January 13, 2023 at 8:01 pm
Eco anxiety… sounds so stupid. I belive in climate change to an extent. Certainly believe in the loss of animal life and fertile soil.
Mina Han
January 14, 2023 at 3:49 am
First scare everyone then they will willingly accept the “solution”
Stickman
January 14, 2023 at 5:22 am
Climate change is just a springboard for the new world order. Or the “Great Reset” as the World Economic Forum calls to it. It’s all propaganda designed to make us willingly accept the totalitarian global communist system they’ve been strategically laying the framework for for decades now
Monang
January 14, 2023 at 12:01 pm
The best things about human nature is v always find way to how to adjust with problems rather to solve it !, So technically humans do not have problems at all , v r fine as usual :),.. don’t mind ,but yes it is collective efforts ,.
Ell Kir
January 14, 2023 at 6:47 pm
I ask the Climate Change Enviro Nazi’s a simple question: So, According to scientist it’s commonly accept that the world has at least five ice ages. If that’s so, we must of had at least 5 warming periods right. So, what caused the previous warmings?: Mammoth farts instead of cow farts?
JSH
January 15, 2023 at 12:37 am
Eco-anxiety resulting from a fraudulent belief that trace amounts of CO2 trap heat in the atmosphere from an invisible, unmeasured, unobserved Greenhouse Effect.
This has evolved into a cult and Clover is one of their priestesses.
Paul
January 15, 2023 at 5:06 pm
Does this mean I have to stop burning tractor tyres in my garden ?
Ognjen Jokic
January 15, 2023 at 7:37 pm
I heard your story, but my God,😂 you didn’t say anything..
Absolute Truth
January 16, 2023 at 12:42 am
Stop lying. I have 3 teenagers. They aren’t eco anxious at all. This is nonsense. Young men aren’t thinking about the climate. They are thinking about girls. And girls are thinking about their Instagram accounts.
Sabin
January 16, 2023 at 3:53 am
Eco-anxiety has just one cause: ecological fear-mongering. Young people are the most affected because they are the most impressive and vulnerable to it.
Rose Pursley
January 16, 2023 at 10:54 pm
LOL you can not stop the prophecies of God…His Word never changes.
Andrew
January 17, 2023 at 2:49 am
Hmm what can I do to make a change?…
Ok I won’t leave the TV on standby overnight. But then again that would just be the equivalent to taking a small dustpan and brush to help with the cleanup at the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s not going to make much of a difference, is it?
jason mccool
January 17, 2023 at 2:47 pm
Talking jibberish causes me anxiety