Carlos Bautista : The awful logic of land mines - and an app that helps people avoid them

TED 2017

Carlos Bautista : The awful logic of land mines - and an app that helps people avoid them (transcript)

Summary

We wouldn't be able to imagine that there are many places where landmines are still buried.

Conflicts had ended and we thought  landmines were ridden and people are forgetting because they are not there.  

However, only in 2015, landmines were increasing due to wars in some countries.

Although the places are countryside, landmines sometimes explode because people start returning to their lands when wars ended.

Hidden landmines are going to start exploding often on the usual citizens.

The number of  person has been killed is increasing more than the injured soldier.

Ironically. landmines were designed not only to kill but also to maim their targets.

When the speaker knew that many countries have been affected by landmines and by wars, he decided to create an app to help people avoid them. He hopes that all lands and all people can live safely without landmines.

Words in this story
maim /verb/ wound or injure (someone) so that part of the body is permanently damaged.  injure, wound.