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Ella Lagé on “What One Person Can Do About Climate Change” at TEDxHamburg (http://www.tedxhamburg.de)
Ella grew up in Germany, Italy, the U.S. and Israel. At 17, she received the Bavarian Environmental Award for significantly lowering the water consumption of her home town.
As part of Fossil Free Berlin, she is campaigning for the city of Berlin to divest its capital reserves from the fossil fuel industry. In 2016, she funded an association and recently launched a platform for members of German pension funds to demand divestment of their pensions.
Divestment fills her with hope to tackle climate change: As a pragmatic environmentalist, as a responsible parent, as a hands-on optimist. Ella carries a communication design degree and a Master of Art. She started out with a four letter yahoo email address and helped shape the advance of digital services in agencies in Hamburg, New York, Berlin – and at betterplace.org. She has tought in several media schools, such as the Springer Akademie and the EMS Babelsberg. Today, she works as a Berlin based expert on service strategy and design.
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This was such a good Ted talk – I can´t believe it hasn´t more views. We are facing a crisis, and we need to change systems. Part of that transition definetely needs to happen in finance and what we are investing in.
….at the Same time we started burning Coal…. we proliferated Iron Plow Tillage…. agriculturally disrupting photo-synthetic carbon sequestration…. effectively Doubling the Damage…. we MIGHT be able to turn THAT around faster than anything else we can do…. EXPONENTIALLY increasing Soil Carbon Retention by adopting UBIQUITOUS no-till organic agricultural methods…. MANY beneficial 'side'-effects here… MO' Bettah Food/Mo' Bettah Money (at the GROUND-level…. where LongGreenMoney makes Mo' Bettah Benefits) & LESS money for the Manufacturers of Agri-Toxins…. where it does little but make Profit$forPoi$on…. and THERE's your trouble…. NOW we know why it's so hard to even TALK about making beneficial changes much less understanding the root Need for so doing…. even WITHOUT climate crisis…. these agri-poisons cause Air/Water/Food AND Health Pollution…. so if you should find yourselves mentally incapable of grasping a Wider Scope for this Impending Horror… understand clearly NOW…. that carcinogenic agri-chemical residues are CURRENTLY doing to your body & being what the manufacturers of those chemicals are doing to all Life in and ON Earth. It is Time to Change….
If you are looking for a way to help the environment you can use ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees with their profits
People don't understand that climate change is a fabricated crisis. A hoax which started within think tanks (social engineering) …. ..and was force fed/propagandized through the establishment mass media to the public.
Climate change is interest/power driven, not a science based crisis !
The hypocrit gravytrain science community, which knows better, is pressured and blackmailed to play along !
Every dissident scientist is muzzled and censored by the bought and paid for establisment mainstream media and academia. Their psychopathic billionaire overlords seek to make even more money, rule out competition and roll out their fascist oppresive agenda 21-30 on the world !
IN Searching For A New Enemy To Unite Us, We Came Up With The Threat Of Global Warming” | Climatism
“IN Searching For A New Enemy To Unite Us, We Came Up With The Threat Of Global Warming”
“The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself.“
– Club of Rome,
premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?
Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?”
– Maurice Strong,
founder of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP
it is a cult !
she's talking about global warming. Change the title, it's misleading.
The confusing part is there is no point in getting rich any more since there will be no use for the money to travel or fly etc which is all fossil fuel based. Even Bitcoin runs mostly on coal in China so all money leads to fossil fuels. Basically the only carbon reducing thing to do is buy a huge piece of property (somewhere with adequate rainfall) and plant thousands of native trees on it. Buying a car or plane or anything is all carbon intensive because even electric vehicles use tons of fossil fuels to make the steel and battery.
Promising title. Poor content.
If all you do is send emails to companies, you're not making yourself truly responsible.
Greta is.. your Mirror! 4ever!
Four years since this show, almost nothing done to tackle climate change. Guy Mc Pherson with "only love remains" got it right we are gooners.
The fact that its 2021 and still not many people try to do something and some don’t even care about climate change breaks my heart
If the rest of the solar system is warming at the same pace as the earth then would it not be reasonable to assume that carbon dioxide is an effect of the warming and not that the warming is an effect of carbon dioxide.
It doesn't have many views because rational people don't believe the lies of climate change. A carbon tax is just a money grab. Tell me exactly what this money will be put to to help so called climate change.
In the 70s scientist said we were heading for an ice age . A decaded later its global warming.
I hope little by little we all can make a change by replacing our toxic habits and realising what's truly important. Amazing video.
Fossils fuels zombies EVERYWHERE. Cleaning their pickup trucks with clean water… Consciousness is a commercial. Humanity is deeply disrupted, minds are outdated
Divestment mainly targets private oil companies, wouldn't this cause them to cede their market share to national oil companies which are far more polluting, thus increasing their carbon footprint even more? Surely stopping fossil fuel subsidies and heavily taxing carbon would be a better alternative as it could generate enough funds to scale-up renewables and encourage energy storage.
People are interested in making money. This greed will destroy all civilisations and likely make humans extinct, slowly and painfully… We richly deserve the coming misery.
Sad to come back to this and realize not much has changed since '16
Great talk and no listeners, we can imagine how serious we are. Dangerous.
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Thanks for sharing your ideas with us. Keep up the good work!!
I hope Americans won't vote for Donald Trump until he educate himself about global warming….
Firstly, as an American and to whom it may concern, thanks for the Hamburg-er (although lately I've learned eating them might not be great for the planet)…
Secondly, I want anyone reading this to remember that we still have the opportunity to prevent the worst of climate catastrophe if we, as a society, act in time, and to make life better for many people in the process. In the USA, where our per-capita emissions are among the highest in the world, even if it's hard and impractical to live a zero-emissions lifestyle, you can get involved in several different organizations, with political flavors to choose from.
There's:
Citizens' Climate Lobby (personal favorite)
350
Extinction Rebellion
Sunrise Movement
RepublicEN
American Conservation Coalition
Climate Leadership Council
and literally dozens more, which you might find just by Googling "American climate organizations"
Also, check out the Podcasts "How to Save a Planet", "No Place Like Home", "A Matter of Degrees", "Outside/In" and more available on Spotify, if this is really your beat!
We can do this! We must.
Although the global warming problem seems impossible for any of us to do anything, there is something practical that all of us can do. Our addiction to beef is contributing even more than fossil fuels. How is this? To begin with: we have 19 Billion cows on the planet today. Its not only their methane exhalations, they also use the majority of farmland for grazing or feed production. And as for water! don't get me started… The Amazon has been a real victim of this. If we simply give up meat and dairy, we can have a direct impact on the climate emergency, one by one as we persuade our friends and relatives….
So whats your email? Contact?
Ban pesticide spraying worldwide !
Sadly people are only interested in Entertainment channels and not these kinds of videos. I wish people become more aware!!
5 years later, Germany gets flooded and south Europe burns…. This video should get more views
Nuclear is the future! Or atleast a big part of it
If you want to fix this problem stop making so goddamn many people. Why does no one want to discuss this? CO2 is not a pollutant. And that BS propaganda is diverting your attention from the genuine pollution problems that exist. And for god's sake.. educate yourself about Thorium power.
Why don't Climate Alarmists lead by example? Turn off your devices. Stop using central air. Walk to school, work and the grocery. All you Leftist expect someone else to sacrifice.
It's truly sad that such an intelligent person has chosen belief in climate crisis over a serious review of the observational data. In our time, with unprecedented ability to protect ourselves from the everlasting hazards posed by nature and with lengthening lifespans, most of the well-educated have unquestioningly fallen for lies and failed to search for truth. With such a gloomy perspective, it's no wonder that she almost cried.
Refrigeration, population, deforestation, electricity production, food consumption. Improving these issues will go a long way to solve the climate crisis.
The Earth's climate has fluctuated to large and small degrees over time long before humans were here. These climate fluctuations will continue long after we are gone. It is interesting that people who opposed nuclear energy in the past now protest fossil fuels. Hey, we needed to build more coal and gas fired plants in order to meet the demand since nuclear plant construction halted. I agree less CO2 is a good thing. That is why I continue to support nuclear and renewables. The people that protested against nuclear are partially responsible for the increase in CO2 levels.
“There are three types of lies…lies, damn lies, and statistics.” Attributed to Benjamin
Disraeli or Mark Twain, take your pick.
Propaganda needs to be included, which is defined as; chiefly derogatory information,
especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular
political cause or point of view.
“Global warming, climate change”…What we have here is failure to communicate…facts.
The “green scheme” is rife with disinformation (propaganda). Consider the literally
hundreds of inconsistent, often contradictory, hyperventilated (and heretofore failed)
claims of earthʼs demise broadcast with regularity (and unassailable certainty) for over
FIFTY years, intended to instill guilt and fear in us (the trembling masses) resulting in
capitulation to demands of the all knowing “town criers.” Where is a Ministry of Truth
when you really need one? How come the facebook and youtube independant fact
checkers havenʼt deleted these fictitious claims? They are easy to disprove, right? Are
the coastal cities underwater yet? Nope.
Iʼm gonna get a baseball cap with the phrase stitched across the front…”I Ainʼt Buyinʼ It.”
Iʼve learned too much to be fooled. Read “Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of
Doom” by Patrick Moore (co-founder of greenpeace) and “Green Murder” by Ian Plimer,
or YT videos by same and William Happer, Don Easterbrook or Richard Lindzen. Youʼll
then know too much to be fooled too.
As Bobby McFerrin sang; “Donʼt Worry, Be Happy.”
CO2 ainʼt the problem, propaganda is. This woman is preaching economic blackmail based on a fraudulent claim.
Hoax climate change … the new tool to control you
The fault lies on the 1% rich.
Eliminate them; eliminate climate change.
Enough talking; start eliminating the 1% rich!
Thank you for this Ted Talk. Recently started investing in my Roth IRA and was informed that a lot of companies are fueling fossil fuel companies. Now I try my best to research companies that have no to very little funding in these companies. I think a lot more should know they can help with climate change by how and where they invest. Also, changing banks is a huge step.
The answer to the title is essentially zero. Human effects alter the Earth's energy budget by 1%, maybe less. There is no climate crisis. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past. It also warmed faster in the past. Globally the ACE index (accumulated cyclone energy) 1980-2021 shows no increasing trend. Global Hurricane Landfalls 1970-2021 (updated from Weinkle et al, 2012) shows no trend. Satellite data since 1980 shows a slight downward global trend for total hurricaine numbers with 2021 being a record low year. The IPCC reports in AR6, chapter 11, "The total global frequency of TC [tropical cyclone] formation will decrease or remain unchanged with increasing global warming (medium confidence)." Multidecadal variability in Atlantic hurricaines is most probably related to the AMO (Vecchi et al, 2021). NOAA data 1851-2021 shows no trend in number of hurricaine landfalls with the record high being 1886. What the data from NOAA SPC shows about tornados: EF1-EF5 (1954-2022) no trend; EF3-EF5 (most destructive) (1954-2022) 50% decline. No EF5s in US since 2013 (a record absence).
The Global Land Precipitation Anomaly from AR5 will disappoint with deviations from the average increasing by 0.2% per decade, but if you look at the actual data, it's just very variable over the decades.
Drought appears to be decreasing (Watts et al, 2018) measured by SPI 1901-2017.
Deaths from natural disasters are about 0.6% of what they were a century ago.
What else? Oh, deserts like the Sahara have shrunk considerably and the Earth has greened by 15% or more in a human lifetime (NASA).
On extinction the rate is very low: 900 known lost species for 2.1 million known species in 500 years. At that frequency it will take nearly 190,000 years to reach 15% extinction i.e. a mass extinction.
There is no climate crisis. This video is anti-humanist.
STOP THE Bs! shut down developed countries factories and power plants; shut down production of war weapons; shut down manufacturing of luxury yachts/ cruise jets cars; …
It's great idea
In the beginning i thought the cliff is a mere type as usual. But upon listening, I felt i would have lose much had i snubbed it. Its inspiring and I think i can spare my time to join the 350 org in Nigeria if its arm is extended in developing countries.
This is pitiful. Global warming paused at 1.1°C in 1991 and has not gone higher by 2023. Earth's greenhouse effect is held in high saturation by the strong greenhouse gas water vapor to add 10°F (5.55°) to earth's average temperature and would be the same if water vapor were the only greenhouse gas in the atmosphere or the noncondensing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, were increased many times from their current atmospheric concentrations. All the far-inferred electromagnetic radiation from earth's surface, that is the energy in earth's greenhouse effect, that can loosely interact with the lumpy electrostatic fields of greenhouse gas molecules is considered to have been completely absorbed within 20 meters of the surface.
The UN IPCC science reports when less than 200 pages long were clear and transparent provided you read the entire report they took their greenhouse gas samples at 20 THOUSAND meters altitude far into the stratosphere were water vapor is near zero. That discloser protects the authors from charges of criminal fraud from people that misuse the conclusions of these reports not realizing as any good high school science student would that at 20,000 meters altitude those gas samples are far away from where earth's greenhouse effect takes place within 20 meters of the surface from water vapor. This makes the UN IPCC a scam rather than fraud because reading what is typically called the fine print it reveals they are not dealing with active greenhouse gas behavior taking place in earth's greenhouse effect. The cause of global warming in 2023 is not known. It is unlikely to have emerged from changes in the well known and study characteristics of earth's atmosphere or from a great of studies that have been focus on changes to the earth's surface done in the early 2000s. For practical purposes global warming has been around 1°C for the last thirty years prior to 2023.
Pay lots of taxes?
My question would be: what would be the next step? If fuel companies all die what's the alternative of producing, transfering, travelling, heating, cooling, building… in the world? How we can use their money to change the world? I mean this presentation seems too simple and too nice to me. I would love this solution if I could see what happens next?
That's a very brave talk she just gave. What a hero!
One of the ways we can be part in slowing down climate change is when we stop our behavior of IMPULSIVE SHOPPING (Shopping for greed and not the need). It takes 2700 litres of water to manufacture a T-Shirt. Hold the fashion industry accountable, STOP THE GREED, STOP IMPRESSING PEOPLE AROUND YOU WITH IMPULVE & IRRESPONSIBLE SHOPPING.
thank you so much. Knowing and learning by you.
This didn’t age well. Now Germany is an energy crisis because they foolishly went green even though all the MATH said it wasn’t possible!
Just stay home, learn to enjoy the beauty of everything around you and care for it. Want not waste not.