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Scientists predict climate change will displace more than 180 million people by 2100 — a crisis of “climate migration” the world isn’t ready for, says disaster recovery lawyer and Louisiana native Colette Pichon Battle. In this passionate, lyrical talk, she urges us to radically restructure the economic and social systems that are driving climate migration — and caused it in the first place — and shares how we can cultivate collective resilience, better prepare before disaster strikes and advance human rights for all.
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perfect and powerful speech ,but the solutions are not realistic ,however thank you
They want mass migration and they use climate change to justify it. Bill gates was using TED before the pandemic occurred.
POV: your here for school
There is going to be genocide.
What is usually missing in talks on climate change is the over-population of our planet. Smaller families, fewer consumers, less waste, less pollution, less suffering. Add to this climate-friendly lifestyles and our planet could survive.
All in lies. It’s a power cash pyramid scheme.
This video is full of heart but doesn't provide any concrete answers. "Respect, justify, acknowledge, transform, seek justice. We can do it. We must do it". Okay cool. Now how do we actually do those things, beyond just feeling them?
Sob stories, and no science. Disasters suck but they're not caused by us. The IPCC know it. Sell the lie with depressing horrible stories.
You have "nailed it on the head" on what or rather who caused it. Ego and arrogance, that's so right. We all need to repair the earth. And those that caused thesysten that enabled it should do most to repair it and ALL of us too. Let us hope fixing it is possible and its not too late. We all need to Hope pray and work to fix it. sadly it is too late for many changes that should never have happened to be reversed. Yes we are facing a shift in every aspect of our global reality. Climate change is the symptom, You are so right. Europe is finally feeling the effects now too inways we hadnt before the summers have been super hot and now they are super cool we have been seeing autmn and winter tempuratures in summer and wild swings between normal and summer temuratures in days and weeks. We dont have much time to do what is needed at all. how much who knows.
The people who say we are all going to dies are not neccesarilly right but the truth is they are not neccesarilly wrong either. It depends in which direction we ALL go, and HOW SOON. PREFERABLY NOW. As at 2021 We have already past points we should never have allowed ourselves as a planet to reach. We all have to act now in ways that actually work and people in charge need to make real change for the better to make it something WE CAN ALL DO RIGHT NOW so we can actually make the real changes needed. i hope your message changes things for the better.
Proud of you Coco!!!!
nuuu you cant be a commie thats bad commie kill 100 trillion noooo
hate to inform you you are wrong – sea levels will rise over 70m after the ice melts but thanks for great talk
Thank you
I really like ur voice,🥰🥰🥰
Thank you for this presentation. I'm an old man living in England; never really took climate change very, very seriously until the past 15 years or so; you have to think forward; the ultra rich and rich nations must share their wealth globally – the rich are those who have done the most severe damage to the eco-environment; I live very close to the English Channel and can see the sea from my window; I have left the small wealth I have to the youngest children of my extended family; I have also advised my friends and relatives to do the same. Many won't – some do so.
Great talk…!!!! but needs great action. We move from moderate to extreme climate. We need to prepare.
thanks
The science deniers won’t believe until they walk into Walmart and there’s no more mountain dew
Her hips are so entitled.
An excellent speaker. AND she pointed out what should be more obvious to everyone:
Stop over consumption and no I'm not advocating returning to living like it's the Stone Age.
7:00 statement was emotional.
It hurts and it’s the truth. If you’re here please measure your global ecological footprint.
Very well said, I cringe with what I am about to say, but I think it needs to be brought up. With the force of migration to the interior of land masses population control will become a necessity. If not we will lose our forests to compensate for the need of housing, the infrastructures of all major cities will need billions of dollars in upgrades to be able to handle the influx. Government welfare will be at an all time high do to the lack of jobs in said areas. There will be many hard decisions in figuring this out, but if the above is not figured out the interior land masses will be destroyed at an expediential rate.
If you want to migrate just once from the harshest effects of climate change, and not have to keep moving every time a new latitude becomes unliveable, the best places to go are:
Alaska, the three northern territories of Canada, northern Greenland, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern Norway and Sweden, northern Finland, northern Russia and northern Siberia, Patagonia, Tasmania, and the South Island of New Zealand.
More people need to watch this.
lower overpopulation.
Excellent presentation and profound words. Thank you for leading. 100% agreed
Where will 320 000 000 US americans migrate to when the USA has become a desert. All to Alaska. Have a couple of Hamburgers Lady and dream on,
African leaders should listen to this and bring Africans up to same page the world are .
Just watched this with my students. Honestly, just awful. This is a political speech betraying a one eyed and frankly utterly biased view. Gentrification? What has this to do with climate change? Over policing? What has this got to do with climate change? Climate migration? There is no truth here, very little supporting data. Just more left wing buzz words mixing apples and oranges. Human rights? More buzz words, little real content. Shame on the teacher that recommended this nonsense to other teachers and students without actually vetting the content. This is a political rant in front of an undiscerning audience offering no solutions. Gentrification? Black and poor? Typical rhetoric. No white people are poor, are they?No Jews. Just an implied slur to support a childish rant. But hey, plenty of deluded fans for this claptrap who recommend this kind of stuff without scrutinizing what is said.
We have the prerequisites technologies to enable us build gravitation electric power stations for families globally.
Well, it seems the thing we need to do for the poorest people in the world is to help them take advantage of fossil fuels so they can have AC, irrigation, and life-saving advantages of energy. We have done this in other countries like the USA. In the USA, we grew the population in hotter and dryer areas because of the use of fossil fuels. We created AC for cooling and pumps for irrigation and improved everything from healthcare, jobs, technology, and more because we had fossil fuels. I think we are confusing climate change, something it has done for millions of years. We can protect ourselves from the climate if we take advantage of fossil fuels, especially in the poorest populations. Unfortunately, too many have been sucked into a non-problem and are attacking the most helpful resources (fossil fuels) to protect human life. It is inhumane for wealthy countries to keep fossil fuels from the poorest population. We should focus on bringing more energy to the world, and fossil fuels are the ONLY way to do this ASAP. Solar and wind are nowhere close to being able to provide this level of energy to the world. The world has such an abundance of fossil fuels if we keep the academics from destroying our ability to provide them to help the rest of the world. I hear all these catastrophizing alarms, but we don't talk about what we can actually do to manage the climate. Something we have been doing for 200 years using fossil fuels. More people die from cold than heat, but we have shown we can manage this climate challenge with fossil fuels. We can destroy ourselves by keeping ourselves from using fossil fuels, which is the biggest danger. Think about it: if we take fossil fuels away, we all suffer and die. But if we take advantage of them, we all flourish. We all need to stop and really think about what we are doing. This temperature alarmism is so crazy and sad. The world has had a lot more CO2 in the world than we have now, and what was the condition of the world? Well, it was super green, and more plant life. To say the world will collapse in a few years is crazy unless we do it to ourselves because we don't take advantage of fossil fuels. We need to focus on mastering the climate using fossil fuels than taking them away and creating a worldwide disaster due to a lack of life-saving energy. In short, we can either be problem solvers or ignorant sheep. If you would like to learn about the facts, I recommend reading the book: "Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less" by Alex Epstein.
When the rich are eaten most sources of carbon pollution will be eliminated. -Jello Biafra
Logic <3
Beautiful ideas. Unfortunately, human nature can never live up to them, especially in this country. Selfish individualism is in the American DNA.
This is a pipe dream. No such utopia will happen, it will be everyone for themselves.
WOW. Well said. a shame these baboons we call leaders knew about this decades ago. We all must get it, that WE ARE ALL ONE!!!!!!!!
I'm looking forward to the world will be peaceful someday.
This was 3 years ago
Now 2023 do u guys agree to her ?
What utter nonsense. Climate change may impoverish people, but how will they then pay to move? And then what? This is merely xenophobic bullshit.
As she preaches about over comsuption, she might need to set the example and stop over consuming (food). How many kids starved to death because she ate their food.
you cant run from diabetes
Lie