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Your Invitation to Help Build a Sustainable Future | Jim Snabe | TED

“If we want to avoid a climate disaster, we need much more radical leadership,” says Jim Snabe, who knows a thing or two about leadership as chairman of the world’s largest maritime shipping company. In a stirring talk, he encourages companies to take big, bold actions to tackle climate change — and invites anyone to…

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“If we want to avoid a climate disaster, we need much more radical leadership,” says Jim Snabe, who knows a thing or two about leadership as chairman of the world’s largest maritime shipping company. In a stirring talk, he encourages companies to take big, bold actions to tackle climate change — and invites anyone to join the TED Future Forum, a new initiative focused on the role of business in advancing solutions to the climate crisis.

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  1. @OscarBorrem

    April 6, 2024 at 9:17 am

    The level of misunderstanding about climate change in this comment section is quite striking.

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      April 6, 2024 at 10:17 am

      yep it’s clearly just a communist grift

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      April 6, 2024 at 10:21 am

      yes it’s clearly a communist power grab

    • @MrSnivvel

      April 6, 2024 at 10:47 am

      Yeah, the number of people who believe that hoax is still far too many.

  2. @piku5637

    April 6, 2024 at 9:17 am

    My biggest regret about going vegan nine and a half years ago is not having done it years sooner🌱🖤

  3. @piku5637

    April 6, 2024 at 9:19 am

    Why do we as a society globally allow a few oligarchs own and control the means of production, distribution and exchange? Workers make the world run, workers should run the world.🌎🏴

  4. @zeze342

    April 6, 2024 at 9:20 am

    There is no climáticas crises, There is billionaires that want power. Greenland is the name that vikings give to a land of grass.

    • @bartroberts1514

      April 6, 2024 at 10:40 am

      Forbes lists 2,781 billionaires. 12 billionaires’ activities exceed the emissions of 2.1 million people according to The Guardian. Oxfam lists five ways billionaires drive climate change, and WaPo asserts that billionaires control climate policy: not one person has become a billionaire by fighting climate change, ever, and not one initiative of any billionaire has led to a victory against climate change.

      Cut 2% of today’s level of fossil trade per month, down to zero by 2030. It won’t make you a billionaire, but it will lift a billion people out of poverty.

  5. @aminicodemus4686

    April 6, 2024 at 9:39 am

    Holistic and orchestrated approach towards Net Zero. We can do it!!

  6. @remyllebeau77

    April 6, 2024 at 10:25 am

    Sustainable comes with the false premise that the world is over populated from evil globalists that used to be called eugenicists, and who now use a green cloak of pretending they want what is good for the earth to hide their same evil agenda.

  7. @valehua2988

    April 6, 2024 at 10:28 am

    “Courageous leaders” should avoid private jets first, then they come to me and say “please reduce your consume”.
    Or…just stop seeding clouds.
    Everything would be better 🤡🤡🤡

    • @sachamm

      April 6, 2024 at 8:49 pm

      Yeah! How dare someone criticize society while also participating in it! I am very smart.

  8. @bartroberts1514

    April 6, 2024 at 10:32 am

    Leadership means SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely. Climate leadership means CASING:

    Cut 2% of today’s level of fossil trade financing, licenses and permits per month down to zero by 2030.
    Avoid methane emissions by replacing fossil extraction with landfill and biogas as soon as possible as much as possible.
    Scrap fossil equipment to avoid reuse as soon as possible.
    Increase energy efficiency 8% per year.
    New biomass harvesting and planting equal to a trillion more trees’ weight by 2060.
    Guard biodiversity equal to 40% cut in shipping traffic and like terrestrial measures immediately.

  9. @gautamwadhwani4394

    April 6, 2024 at 11:04 am

    EV is not sustainable. Use CBG or Ethanol only. Not to forget the charging wait time in EV and risk of battery explosion. Also low battery life.

    • @sachamm

      April 6, 2024 at 8:52 pm

      Meanwhile in the real world, most of China runs on EVs.

  10. @vmwindustries

    April 6, 2024 at 11:34 am

    We need to realize that we all need to use the systems in place in society. Like planes, and phones, but we also need to move forward and stop using old science. We have new technologies, and need to move forward. Stop letting oil companies run our systems.

  11. @keithnance4209

    April 6, 2024 at 12:13 pm

    Capitalism, not government solutions are the answer for a sustainable future. Sea level rise is a red herring…stop pushing bs

  12. @Someaddress555s

    April 6, 2024 at 12:40 pm

    The only people denying climate change are the same people who it will impact the least, they don’t go outside and they exist online to make everyone feel as alone as they are.

    Climate change will affect the entrie world and coastal communites can’t take more than a few feet of sea levels rising before their citizens become climate refugees.

  13. @Kont3xt

    April 6, 2024 at 1:15 pm

    Let the best ideas win. The best based on not just desire but evidence. Not driven by greed but inspired by wanting to advance humanity. Don’t tell me, show me. Don’t force me, or coerce me, just convince me with proof of concept.

    • @J.Mulleno

      April 6, 2024 at 6:47 pm

      Many advancements start with ideas…no?

  14. @chrisvainio

    April 6, 2024 at 2:06 pm

    I tell people, “I would like to work towards a world where your great grandkids’ kids want to have kids and believe they can have a home.” Greed needs to stop being the sole motivation of this species.

  15. @maikel0245

    April 6, 2024 at 2:13 pm

    I remember when TED was a source of reliable information.

    • @sachamm

      April 6, 2024 at 8:48 pm

      I remember when right-wingers lived in the same reality as the rest of us.

  16. @salesforcerelated2400

    April 6, 2024 at 2:20 pm

    Not sure why I got suggested this video by you tube, I don’t accept this globalist narrative.

  17. @saurovfayzulla

    April 6, 2024 at 2:25 pm

    We need visionary leadership that embraces change to build a better future for the next generation.

  18. @justinanderson267

    April 6, 2024 at 4:40 pm

    You see “The climate crisis needs a courageous leader.”

    I see “The climate crisis needs a fall guy”

  19. @niccolom

    April 6, 2024 at 5:31 pm

    Yes, the climate crisis requires courageous leaders to make the poor people agree to go along with the sustainability efforts.

    Poverty is the main opposing force to environmental sustainability, because poor people cannot care less about the environment. They have way more immediate concerns, and that’s all they see.

    If you want to deal with the climate crisis without first dealing with poverty, then yes, you will need courageous leaders who can still win elections without the support of poor voters.

    I mean, you can see the opposing forces right here in the comments section. There are a lot of underprivileged and undereducated people, who are probably flat earthers, and they continue to deny climate change, due to their tunnel vision and limited cognitive capabilities. You need courageous leaders to get their buy-in.

  20. @El_Guapo98

    April 6, 2024 at 7:40 pm

    A capitalist telling people they just need better leaders. Like bro YOU are the reason this is happening

  21. @cheebawobanu

    April 6, 2024 at 10:08 pm

    The carbon they want to eliminate is YOU.
    DON’T BUY THE CLIMATE LIE

  22. @sn3245

    April 7, 2024 at 1:44 am

    Please count me in to collaborate the sustainable future with all of you.

  23. @kingofhoarbags

    April 7, 2024 at 7:49 am

    So in conclusion folks, climate change is a way to funnel money to the Democratic Party.

  24. @NeonsStyleHD

    April 7, 2024 at 9:00 am

    No one ever talks about what’s being done globally to solve the problem. We get lots of “We should do this…” stuff, but rarely do we get “We’re doing this to solve the problem” that is not just political bullshit to get elected. We need honest education for the people so they know that things ARE being done, so they don’t get dismayed and end up like these protests and riots in other countries because of climate change and the idea that nothing is being done to stop it (even though it is, but they just don’t know what is being done!).

  25. @thoribass696

    April 7, 2024 at 9:03 am

    Where did you get the data, Do you understand climate? I dont think so. This is just random cooking. TS.

  26. @fredzayas1061

    April 8, 2024 at 7:14 pm

    What if climate change is a hoax? What if you can’t get a grant to study climate change unless you add another shrill voice to the fraud? What if the data is cooked? What if the climate models don’t back-test? What if this is just a means of control… to get us into 15-minute ghettos and restrict more of our freedoms? What if there is no courage to expose all this?

  27. @philsandele

    April 9, 2024 at 10:29 am

    The idea that there is a crisis already sets the tone

  28. @JimmyW00ip2

    April 9, 2024 at 10:45 am

    Bunch of weirdos god will judge

  29. @JimmyW00ip2

    April 9, 2024 at 10:46 am

    Radical leadership btw….

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