Sustainable development: what, where and by whom?: Kitty van der Heijden at TEDxHaarlem

Sustainable development has been the red line in Kitty van der Heijdens'carreer. After working for the UN, she is now director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ambassador for sustainable development. She will represent the Netherlands in the upcoming Rio plus 20 earth Summit in June 2012. An international conference organised by the UN 20 years after the first UN conference on sustainable development in Rio. At TEDxHaarlem Kitty van der Heijden will take us on a journey through international sustainable development conferences.

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[lodewijklangeweg]

“Rosa Koire. UN Agenda 2030 exposed”
Just copy paste that title in the YouTube search bar.

[malinsvenssonvalhallaqueen]

Let's just all go back to the 1750 Kitty!!! Do your research about the UN. If you like you can eat IN bugs instead of

[chuckwwillingham]

Equitably, you mean global socialism...

[SaneMillennial]

What she says about animal agriculture being the biggest polluter and contributor to global warming is true as well.  I became vegan a year and a half ago because it just makes sense for all reasons: for the environment, our own health, and to save the animals from suffering needlessly for our selfish traditions (not to mention all the wildlife and rainforest destroyed in order to make room for grazing animals or to grow GMO seeds for these animals to eat to get unnaturally fat for our gluttony).  Everyone should watch Cowspiracy the Sustainability Secret documentary and everyone should research The Venus Project, which has two documentaries on youtube.  These are the answers to all of our world problems.  We just need to wake up, reject the current systems in which we live and lead ourselves and each other in a better more logical direction.  We are not above other species, and many times we prove we are stupider than them by our foolish actions.  We need to evolve into the people we're meant to be and stop acting childish. 

[graveseeker]

Sorry, Babe, but you're not going to reduce consumption while simultaneously increasing population and demand. Waste of words.

[timobrienwells]

How can her talk be 'inspiring'?She didnt offer anything even approaching a solution.The reason is ofcourse because she does not understand the problem in the first place.

[stonecrazzombies]

me: Is she selling control over people or control over environment?
UN: yes

[Kadejones]

Anybody who makes the statement; "Bill Clinton was right" is talking out of their ass... and this is big talk.

[Eric-tqvn]

"We have a bloody long agenda of unfinished business." I bet...

[malukc]

“In searching for the 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... The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”     — Alexander King and Bertrand Scneider: The First Global Revolution, report for the Club of Rome, P 115.

Sustainability has nothing to do with ecology; it is about global domination. If the UN cared about the environment they would sanction multi-nationals instead of the people. Just like Terrorism, Sustainability will be used to rob us of our liberties and rights

[timobrienwells]

Climate change denier??No I am not.I dont deny that the climate changes, it has been doing that for millions of years.Even in the last 8000 years we have seen warm periods and cold periods, mild weather and extreme weather, droughts and floods.For the last 200 years we have had a mild warming[.75 C], and that warming appears to have stopped around 1998-2000.The cause of both is largely unknown.Care to add anything?

[timobrienwells]

Now, now, there is no need for hurtful language.The cheap emotional stuff was the little card she held up, the references to reproductive rights, and the children dying thing.She should rather talk about HOW and WHY all those issues are better now and are continuing to improve.
We need to protect the environment!!
Her left wing delusions are about the environment, multi-nationals, biodiversity, climate change, fossil fuels, and ocean acidification.She is wrong on all of them.

[tommychoppa]

"I wanted to make sure that these sausages would end up in the right mouth"

[youbringlightin]

An excellent synthesis of the global issues we face today.  Ignorance is no longer an option; the facts will remain the facts whether you have the blinkers on or not.  Skepticism for skepticism's sake will also get us nowhere.  We as a species have just enough time left to take a good, honest look at ourselves and our impact on the world and each other.  Procrastination is not an option.

[mfngaming]

As soon as you say it'll hit the poor the rich take a big sigh of relief. You gotta start saying climate change will effect their slaves. Gotta speak in commodified terms they can understand.

[mikefranz]

The population must be controllably and naturally reduced by a factor of 3-4 in a few generations.
Consumption must be cut: in US, Canada, Australia by 30 times; in EU, India and China by 20times.
If we don't do that by selves, wars and calamities will do it for us. We can't rely on technology and R&D.
It's that simple.
People of all levels of affluence and wealth are incapable to absorb this simple truth to the actionable degree of emotional intensity.
And the richer people are, the more cancerous to Earth they become.
We are doomed.

[jokotadearinolaking]

what is the benefit of stakeholders from planning sustainable development from government to nation, regional and to local levels

[phunsukhwangdu]

Not so much of a public speaker, she's trying so hard 😛

[demstar]

People here saying she isn't giving credit to capitalism are horribly under educated. Capitalism is the reason half the world lives in poverty. For capitalism to work it has to be constantly fed with resources. Resources is something most rich capitalist countries do not have in abundance but guess which countries do...we have stopped other countries industrialising to make sure we can continue to live the way we do. 

[goldenchristine]

Here in Septemeber 2021 and I completely agree with Kitty van der Heijden. Good work. Also, before you come for me with any negative comment, review your goals on sustainable development first.