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When is something sustainable? Is better good enough? In this talk, Anjila Hjalsted answers that question with the newest research on Absolute Sustainability. Anjila argues that a solid, science based definition is important to avoid misleading claims and confusion about what sustainability means, and to make clear what we should be aiming for to achieve a sustainable future. Anjila is a Danish environmental engineer and anthropologist. Her research at the Technical University of Denmark has led her to publish a paper in a peer reviewed journal on the emerging topic of absolute sustainability. Here she presents a methodology to define when something is actually sustainable, rather than just more sustainable than something else. Since its publication in 2020 her work has already been widely cited, and Anjila is passionate about clarifying what it means to be sustainable to help us focus our sustainability efforts where they matter most. Anjila works as a sustainability consultant for an international consultancy focusing on climate change. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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Great to hear a sustainability leader of the present – and the future!
Insightful Presentation
It's fabulous that younger generations are working towards being more sustainable.
It's a great plan to define sustainability in absolute terms and create a system by which everything can be measured.
I was hoping she was going to tell us what our planetary limit is and how that breaks down to each person.
How much can I sustainably consume?
Where should I draw the line?
What areas can I do better in?
Where am I doing a good job now?
Loved this Ted Talk, congratulations Anjila!
I loved it! It would be useful to share some examples of the results you got from the calculations – how big are the shares – for everyone to get a feeling.
Absolutely insightful!
Absolute sustainability begins with water 💦. You can't do anything without water. You can grow, create, filter, provide, and survive. Just like every ancient civilization used aqueducts, and farming to build great cities and economies. It's absurd to think that the Earth will provide all of mankind's needs for fresh water. Let's break it down. How did these ancient times create these great feats and civilizations? Water, water distribution, economics, and creating something out of nothing. Like ancient societies, we need to create these things. Within all that is the answer.
Can you share with us the mathematical eq in a separate video?
If organic farming is done correctly, it certainly does NOT use more water and actually absorbs carbon. I don't like misinformation.
Very insightful .. let us continue to keep caring..
This "new definition" promotes excess emissions, which will still slowly cause temperatures to rise
Great talk. Just a shame that political and business leaders care too much about exponential growth without considering sustainability, and there’s an army of morons that don’t believe in the climate crisis
S u s t a i n a b l e = the new Code Word for G E N O C I D E !!!
Oh my gosh and three seconds, and I already can’t stand the propaganda
It’s a great pleasure for me to participate of this class from Sustentability from you !!
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Paulo Vinicius Vilela de Mesquita
Brasil 🇧🇷
What is "really radical"? The goal of absolute sustainability includes the poor?
I loved it! It would be useful to share some examples of the results you got from the calculations – how big are the shares – for everyone to get a feeling.
This is the right path, finally something actionable. However, an activity cannot be defined as sustainable in isolation. The ceilings of resources are determined by its cyclical supply and also but the other activities that are already occupying/consuming a piece of the resource budget. If we are at the edge of all budgetary limits any activity is likely to be unsustainable, that is where deciding what activities are worth the movement of materials becomes critical. Nonetheless, this is a much more productive conversation already than companies randomly saying they are sustainable and all that useless talk.
Am I wrong or does she completely neglect social sustainability? Sustainability is not just about natural resources, a cake to be shared.
Also the Brundtland definition is not defining sustainability, but sustainable development.
11:24 minutes in and i still don't have a quantifiable definition of sustainability.. What is so great about this??? Utterly useless
hi, i know you may have not been expecting this but
Jesus loves you and he died for you so that you and I may have eternal life, the thing is that no matter how good we may think we are,we are all sinners that deserve an eternal punishment cause we sinned against an eternal God. But Jesus Christ came into this world as a man to take the punishment that you and I supposed to take. To receive God's gift of eternal life you have to believe in he who he says he is, not just a good man, a great teacher or a big prophet but the way the truth and the life and you must confess with your mouth that he is lord come to him the way you are and let him change you, I am not here to force any religion.
If you would like to receive him you can pray this prayer ( remember it is not a prayer that saves you but your faith in Jesus)
Jesus i accept you today as my lord and personal saviour
i believe you died and rose again, i choose to forsake the world to follow you
change my heart and make me who you want me to be
in Jesus name i pray amen
Thank a lot for reading and for your patience, have a wonderful day ☺ ☺
remember that this Is the First step but you should Always draw closer to God and depart from sin
Bravo! Your language is pure gold! ❤
Totally loved this. Really revolutionary and would need to have lots of conversations around it, obviously very lengthy and with radical approaches. 💚
Totally loved this. Really revolutionary and would need to have lots of conversations around it, obviously very lengthy and with radical approaches. 💚
It is not clear enough for me what "absolute sustainability" is. What the answer of the third question. How can we determine that "Yes or no" result. Can anyone trying to clarify it?
Communism.
i advise you to watch this video
Change is the law of nature, so there is no absolute sustainability, only thing that will matter is positively the change is occurring to fill out the gap to be normal natural
Far too vague to be useful. I didn't leave with an understanding of what absolute sustainability is, nor did I understand the equation you are using to get a yes/no. Also, the safe and dangerous rates of those various elements is not agreed upon.