The climate crisis is not your fault, but it is your problem | Bruce Bekkar | TEDxNewRiver

[billywalters]

So cool to hear someone in the medical field talking about climate change, I think that's a very real connection which you don't often hear about!

[-Max-]

Pretty strong approach to speak of this as a health crisis and not just an environmental issue. Definitely gives it the weight it deserves.

[milyfetyme]

a very important discussion, I am sharing with EVERYONE I know

[johnkintree]

We should be talking about constituting ourselves as a global digital democracy, based on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter. The existing structure of power favors special interests such as the fossil fuel industry. It won't be easy. People at the top of the existing structure will resist change. Structural change is necessary.

[mattschlegel]

Thanks for talking about this. I like your point about our intimate connection to and dependence on nature and the Earth. I wish we were as fascinated with conserving this planet as we are with trying to escape to another one.

[MichaelWolfe]

Nice talk with a positive note! I liked the phrase "you can't have healthy people in a sick planet". It's a good start but world's problems go beyond climate change... perhaps on that part we might not even have that much say on it... but we are in ecological overshoot goint beyond the 6 of our 9 planetary bounderies which include polution and species extinctions. Add that to our energy overuse and the pretty certain, at least so far, fact that dwindling fossil fuel reserves will force us to consume less where renewable energies won't by a long shot be able to subsitute everything we now accomplish with fossil fuel, have economic degrowth at which point a naturally decreasing population will come as a blessing. If we can deal with all this and watch out for social issues we might just make it fine and adapt to a new and simpler form of existence. Those being born now have quite a daunting but hopefully good future!

[barry]

Thank you, Dr. Bekkar. I'll offer this pointer to another YouTube video entitled "Climate Extremes" by OoS Pictures. It's a well-produced explanation of tipping points and talks about the 'Corridor of Life'. That's a useful concept that I, personally, had not seen previously. I'll try to post the direct link separately -- those often don't come through.

[annettemack]

Move to Missouri. Living there, you will have a greater understanding of the situation.

[scottmurray]

That is a fine REM song. Less fine situation of our interconnected natural world that we humans are part of. The heating of the world we are doing with excess greenhouse gas, mostly from burning fossil fuel, is so damaging and expensive in money and lives. It’s great we have alternatives now, but we need to push the politicians to use the levers that only they have to move the private sector, governments and individuals to solutions available now. The good news is solutions are frequently cheaper and better for our health. Push our leaders.

[acard]

These speeches give hope in these dark times.

[whereproofisproven]

I think it's really cool that he was able to switch to an electric car so quickly! Obviously not something everyone can do but I think if you are able to you definitely should.

[ListHeist]

How do we hold big corporations etc accountable? If the politicians are in their pocket what hope do we have?

[Take-Away-Step]

There is no captain planet to fix this for us.

[barry]

A predictable, steadily-escalating carbon price is the only way to get EVERYONE, at every level, pulling in the right direction

[BobQuigley]

Read Exxon's August 2024 global outlook executive summary. Shocking. Were depleting reserves at the rate of 15% annually 2X faster than international energy agency predictions. Today we're going through 100 million barrels of oil every single day. Before 2050 we will have only 30 million barrels available. We will also be 10 billion humans vs today's 8 billion.

[Tangeirin]

I like his optimism, but it's so hard to get people to care about anything, even when the lives of their loved ones are at stake! They'd rather order fried chicken and watch Netflix than lift a finger to fight climate change.

[nancydaugherty]

Rump is going to put the last nail in our coffin

[OldScientist]

4:45 When you use data from the World Bank and global insurance, and try to measure the cost to society of climate change, you find the cost is minimal and diminishing. Global weather losses as a percentage of Global GDP sank from 0.25% to below 0.20% between 1990 and 2022.
Based on data published in the Lancet in 2019, GDP percentage Climate-Related Disaster Losses have declined in all global income categories, with the most noticeable declines in the lower income countries (Watts et al., 2019).

[leokaloper]

Excellent talk. !
I can only add to this that if you already watch THIS kind of stuff, you ARE an activist, cause your brain is not into Reality shows and other sh.. stuff.
I live in a building with cortyard noone uses. So, I came up with the idea to collect rainwater. The moment a neighbor from above asks you what do you need it all for, your clear and short answer should be *Cause I don't know when the next occasion will be.
I use it for watering plants and for toilet.
It rained yesterday here in Belgrade. Serbia, dry now, but the air is CURRENTLY (it fluctuated on the planetary level) unbreathabale. I better watch stuff here than go out. Fullstop.

[pismopleasure]

A "problem" is an issue that needs to be fixed and can be fixed. A predicament is an issue that looks like a problem, but can't be fixed. We don't have a problem. We are in an predicament. Get real. Elon is trying to build an "ark." I'm not worried even though I'm paying plenty of attention. I'm following the advice of blues singer Mose Allison, "I don't worry 'bout a thing, cuz I KNOW, nothins gonna be alright." Amen bro.