Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development
www.ted.com Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com
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@majinspy I’m actually a liberal and I’m all for minorities getting what is necessary. But the elimination of the rich will be quickly followed by the elimination of the poor. If you kill off all the people who produce, who will produce what you want to redistribute? There has to be a balance.
You are the one threatening violence, and accuse me of being a scumbag.
This is the story the GW lobby has been trying to mess up. We need locally sustainable economy in stead of bankers trying to centralize everything far away.
@majinspy You are confusing rich and intelligent. Our smart people are currently enslaved in order to create a bigger more profitable mess. so much as try to change any part of their game and you will be purged.
This is why there is no more innovation in fascist amerika. For example, the rest of the world is building windmills but the projects in the US had to wait for a license for 10 years while being screamed at by unproductive bully monopolists and petrowarmongers
@koren1124 If you tell people things they already know they will say you are smart. Johan Rockstrom scored a lot of points :D
@CRAPCANNONS Most people haven’t heard of argument from ignorance, so I rather doubt it is a cliché. And there is nothing odd about it. I’m not an atheist either.
But you obviously are a tin foil hat wearing, religious conspiracy theorist and albeit I like wasting time on youtube as much as the next guy, discussing anything with you would be a futile exercise since you obviously are not capable of fully rational thinking. Bye bye, dear.
The video title says “Johan Rockstrom” while the text in the video spells “Johan Rockstroem”. What a bummer!
#FAIL
Beautiful……
@HarveyMushman85 thats not neccisarily true. now that the western world has laid some of the ground work contries like china have seen the problems caused by industrializing and are working dilligently to do it a manner that leaves the envrionment intact. now sure they’re not perfect at it but they will only get better and better
@Darc1228
China is not a 3rd world country. They are even helping some african nations with their developement, for resorces of course. I am talking about poor african countries, some south american countries and most of the middle east. (The -stan countires) If the developed part of the world would actually build infrastructure and facilities like plants, schools and hospitals where it is needed, poor countries would be able to help themselfes. Donating money won’t get them far…
@quathar
People like you use ‘idées reçu’ thinking others haven’t heard them. It explains this tin-foil cliché as well.
The only conspiracy theory here, dear, is alarmism propagated by frauds like the lecturer and loons like you.
“GIM owns a 2.98% stake in the Climate Exchange, which in turn owns the Chicago Climate Exchange. This gives Al Gore a financial bias towards promoting global warming control through the trading of carbon credits.”
/watch?v=C28avoSrYyQ?
Conflict of interest much?
I don’t see what he said new here that we haven’t heard 100 times.
this guy sounds like arnie
I wish TED would post more HD movies.
@jimius wtf do u need HD for ?
@s0m3w0n2 Don’t ask man, people are fucking obsessed with this shit now. I personally don’t care so long as the video isn’t laggy or too pixelated. This looks great even on my 47″ Sharp LCD TV…
@DawnOfEos do you have any idea how much environmental degradation went through to make those pixels… watching HD or not, as long as you indulge in big stuff, you’re equally worthy of a “wtf do you need X” statement, environmentally speaking. Hypocrisy…
@Shaunt1 watch tedtalks about happy index… you don’t need to have a great impact just for your well being.
@L02T Look, my point was, we all want stuff, I got mine at my expense knowing full well what it is, I paid a good amount for my TV for the sake of selfish entertainment.
Its a different thing to DEMAND something from what is being provided freely. I am not saying I am environmentally friendly and I don’t appreciate you putting words in my mouth. My point was don’t demand ridiculous shit from something that is being provided for free. Please understand my point, prior to refuting it.
@L02T Now you want to talk about environmental degradation? Yes I am very guilty of being a nuisance to the environment. I don’t have all Energy Star approved appliances and I don’t drive a hybrid. I don’t do it out of spite…I just don’t have the money. So yes feel free to criticize me for my lack of environmental sensitivity. But my point regarding desires remains since we can fulfill our desires via our resources, but we cannot demand others to do so without justifiable compensation.
@28kb
I think he is from Sweden, his mother tongue is Swedish which is Germanic language as well as Arnie’s German.
The thing that annoys me about these environment talks is that they talk forever about things that we have all heard that now have a lessened effected. But what I want to know the most is exactly what I can do to help the planet. And I don’t mean, “Switch to CFLs.”
@s0m3w0n2
Because it not only looks better, it’s actually more comfortable to watch, especially on my high-res screen. Also not like it’s a big effort to do it.
I don’t even own or watch TV/blu-ray, so i’m not a mediateinment junkie anyway.
Ever notice that most Environment talking heads have more than the US 1.86 average kids per household?
Hypocrisy?
Al Gore Has 4. How many greenhouse gases are these little bastards spewing each day?
Make less kids!!!
@mmsayre
Have a look: The sun will shine for a long long time, therefore we will e able to produce food for as long as the sun shines. The earthly cyles – water and wind – arent called “cycles” by chance… That which makes up your physical body was once dust – therefore you dont have to worry about scarcity.
Obviously we cannot sustain everyone at the current level of america — the earth just can’t handle such a DREAM lolol…
The basics will be meet – we’ll make sure of it.