TED Prize 2007 My with: Let my photographs bear witness

TED 2007
TED Prize 2007 My with: Let my photographs bear witness (script)
Summary
Every picture has a powerful influence on people.
By using the pictures, we can show another opinion to politicians or military leaders.
The images also have resistance to war and racism. They not only record history but they can  also help change the course of history.
The pictures become part of your collective consciousness.
This evolves into a shared sense of conscience and changes impossible to possible and inevitable.
It means that society's problems can be identified and solved by only showing the pictures. So visual journalism can reveal the true face of war. It can show anti- war movement and lead to a factor in conflict resolution. There's a vital story that needs to be told.
Photographers want to tell us them. They seek your opinion...
They seek your opinion because you take part in is important. These photos and you can appeal the refusal that someone accepts the unacceptable. For the speaker, continuing to take pictures means to continue wars in the world which might be a far place from where you live. However, people are still struggling. The problem might not be solved if you don't identify it. The war is also the same. There must be some ways to identify this if you forget it in the digital era.

Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color

TED2016
Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color (script)
Summary
Being not part of the foreign countries with mixid races, I thought that everyone there was close, even if they had different skin color. The world abolished slavery 128 years ago. Then African-American Civil Rights Movement occurred 53 years ago. However, there are still some places which different skin color and hair are not accepted. It's not only about the places but also about people who do not accept. The speaker herself sometimes gets used to it and sometimes accepts it.
Have you ever seen the industrial palette, Pantone?
 In the world, there are lots of kinds of colors and in the Pantone all slightly different colors are very beautiful. So in the world, there are many kinds of skin colors as much as the Pantone has, and all skin colors are beautiful. Then the world should be a place wherein everyone can feel proud of their own skin color. They have to be able to love their own color. The speaker tells us that the discrimination won't disappear by itself.  She continues to take portraits as a photographer to abolish it, and she makes us realize the beauty of human skin in every color.
Words in this story
abolish /  put an end to, get rid of, scrap, end, stop

TED Prize 2017 winner Raj Panjabi Four difficult truths highlighted by the Ebola epidemic

2017 TED Prize winner Raj Panjabi
Four difficult truths highlighted by the Ebola epidemic (script)
Summary
The Ebola is a very serious infectious disease with fever, bleeding inside the dody, and it leads to death. Due to incubation period whcih is three weeks, it's difficult to know who is infected with. This is a zoonotic disease meaning that it can spread from animals to humans but touching dead body is also dangerous.
The speaker looks back at the Ebola epidemic. He was born in Liberia. Fortunately, he could attend medical school in America, in 1990. It's because of a civil war, though. He returned Liberia in 2005. In 2007, he founded the nonprofit: Last Mile Health to serve as a physician in rural areas. In 2014, the Ebola erupted in not only in a rural area of Guinea where a boy died of Ebola but also in wide areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and other areas. He faced them and fought the Ebola disease with the government. Although in 2016, the Ebola was put no longer an international public health emergency, he said that we have to prepare for the next epidemic or other diseases.
From this his experience, he gave us four lessons. 1) We can't create areas which there aren't doctors. Placing them all area might be high cost though it's too expensive and too difficult to save patients after a disease epidemic. 2) You don't have the despair and fear to fight a disease. If you close doors, the epidemics doesn't solve. 3) Creating good health care community is important. Then people can learn about diseases. 4) In usual lifestyle, health care system should work.

Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust

TED2009
Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust (script)
Summary
Boom-and-bust cycle refers to economic fluctuations that the expansion is rapid and the contraction is severe.
The speaker is an architect and he was rewarded with the TED prize in 2006. His wish was to help more people to improve global living by connecting and working with designers around the world. He really supports the designers and construction companies though he knew the issue of workers rights in the construction industry. In the UAE, for blinding skyscrapers, many migrants went there to make money for their families, but now more than 300 skyscrapers have been put on hold or cancel. When some constructors have gone bust by the financial collapse that happened, the workers lost their all lives, documentation, passport, and tickets for going home. There is no way to come back home. In fact, before when they have worked there, they had to live in poor areas where there is no water, no air conditioner and even no payment of wages.
And then, he surprisingly said that on this issue, there's no other road. We have to think about the new system that they can work well like you worry about your job. They are paying the price of this financial collapse. We shouldn't forget it.

Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the landscape of oil

TEDGlobal 2009
Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the landscape of oil (script)
Summary
"Do you know how we use the land?" The speaker said and he showed us his pictures which no one can have never ever seen. We could see it at the first time.  They can't be said that we used the land. We have broken but destroyed it. In the world, there were many beautiful landscapes but they started to be completely transformed by people who use car, planes, tires but they are wasted.
They are the results that are our large industries using oil. However,  its speed has gathered momentum. It can show us its end. This is the reason that there are his photographs here which teach us it. Oil comes from the ocean and phytoplankton but it takes for a long time.
Probably, we spend it all only 45 years. His photographs are powerful enough for us to deal with that more seriously.

TED Prize 2005 Edward Burtynsky: My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green education

TED 2005
TED Prize 2005 Edward Burtynsky:
My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green education (script)
Summary
We have opportunities to see beautiful pictures of the landscape a lot. Everyone probably likes it. However, the beautiful natures that we saw are starting to change by our hands. There are many landscapes which were completely transformed by people who created the big highways, mines and piling a lot of tire and garbage. Unfortunately, we have to involve in them to live. For this reason, they should be sustainable. We have to pay out redemption and know reality more. The speaker continued to take photos which have beautiful aspects have dirty sides. Its meaning includes scary or horrible.
He showed us some pictures of China which were like a bombed out landscape. Dams, nuclear power stations, and coal burning furnaces, we need them though they have problems you know. So we have to understand that craving energy, seeking labor market, creating skyscrapers and moving into urban lifestyle are horrible things.
He wishes us to see them with Imax film to solve those problems.You can be largely influenced by his film that is worthly. It would lead to getting new ideas.
He also wishes to gather solving ideas from young kids with contests and to be read his blog that is about how to positively change our world in a better way quickly.
In this TED, they're incredible pictures that make our acts sad. However, we have created those manufactured landscapes. Thus we should watch them, know them and change them to sustainable things. We have to start the green education immediately.
Now, ten years have already passed.

TED Prize 2006 Cameron Sinclair: My wish: A call for open-source architecture

TED 2006
TED Prize 2006 Cameron Sinclair: My wish: A call for open-source architecture (script)
Summary
What you design is not what you design a jewel that you try and crave only yourself. The speaker started an organization to get architects and designers involved in humanitarian work. It's not only about responding to natural disasters but also involved in system issues. Additionally, it can be collected ideas, resources including money and knowledge. The design should be innovative and sustainable design and can really make a difference in people's lives.
In the world, there'er many people who have the issue of housing crisis even without Africa. By using the internet, he embraced an open source model to join anyone,  anytime and anywhere in the world. After the disasters, the organization could raise funds and started projects immediately.
The housing issue means not only emergency shelter or transitional shelter. Mobile health clinics, the clinic within the community or theater, telemedicine center,  a utility room which elderly people can walk, and the best designed toilet etc. ideas aren't going to end. The internet would be put where places are slums in poor severity. It leads to innovations. The design with open source can help more people to improve global living by connecting and working with designers around the world.

Words in this story
humanitarian / man of virtue.
crave / hope. carve / marked
scarce / poor