Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson : How we can turn the tide on climate

Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson·Countdown

How we can turn the tide on climate

Summary

This was a countdown campaign held last year to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, by spreading coronavirus, this year, on October 10th, 2020, they couldn’t gather like this video, though, a lot of new messages were posted. It’s because our actions can’t delay and it’s an emergency. 1.5 degrees Celsius will bring more extreme weather, rising sea levels, water shortages in some regions, threats to food security, biodiversity, and etc. It’ll spread all around the world. Now, changing our actions and customs is not sacrificing something but it’s about co-creating a much better future for all of us, thus we have to change. This understanding has to be known by all people. The event hopes that many people know about the reality, join, and act with them.

P.S. I was really glad that I could watch a Japanese man who is, Hiro Mizuno, introduced as the world’s largest pension found for the program with other great members who are Al Gore, Yuval Noah Harari, etc. Our earth should be beautiful forever for all creatures can live safely and securely and for this, it's needed our actions and money.

Words in this story

tide / a powerful surge of feeling or trend of events

initiative/ the ability to assess and initiate things independently

Colombe Cahen-Salvado : A global movement to solve global problems

Colombe Cahen-Salvador·TED2020

A global movement to solve global problems

Summary

This was a great message.

The words “No one does” that the speaker said in the last were strong and it has been running around in my head after reading this. It’s because the speaker is French and was devastated by the UK’s decision.

The speaker tells us that we need to change the way we think about the world. It’s still more global, 1) unite beyond borders, 2)and have courage. 3)

How is a global tax system?

Can you think about stopping global hunger for one year, giving vaccines across the world fairly, protecting Hong Kong, standing up meaningfully, and democratically to China? Those are urgent issues. Political parties cannot operate and collaborate with those globally and often.

On a global scale, we have to work together across borders. Create innovative new ways for the world to be truly one.

Lisa Jackson : Apple's promise to be carbon neutral by 2030

Lisa Jackson and Liz Ogbu·Countdown

Apple’s promise to be carbon neutral by 2030

Summary

Carbon neutrality refers to balance carbon dioxide emissions with carbon removal or simply eliminate carbon dioxide emissions (l can’t agree with carbon offsetting.)

Apple is on target to become carbon neutral across not only Apple’s entire business but the manufacturing supply chain by 2030. The company is already running on 100 percent renewable energy for its corporate campuses, stores, and data centers. And then, they started to try the energy change that their customers use to charge their devices to clean energy and recycle materials.

The UN says 2050carbon neutral, but Apple tries to challenge a higher goal.

We shouldn’t attack climate change. The center should be a discussion of the solution. It’s important to start it.

Jessy Kate Schingler : Civilization on the Moon — and what it means for life on Earth

 Jessy Kate Schingler·TED2020

Civilization on the Moon-and what it means for life on Earth

Summary

I was surprised at the title because on the Moon, people haven’t lived yet. Last year was the year when fifty years passed from hoisting the US flag on the Moon, A lot of things are researched and our technology is growing rapidly, thus the speaker tells us that in the next decade, we could see people starting to live and work on the Moon. And then, there has seemed to be the Outer Space Treaty since 1967. It’s the defining treaty governing activities in outer space, though, it says that a requirement for free access to all areas of a celestial body and the Moon and other celestial bodies are not subject to national appropriation. Well, what do those mean and how do we manage, for example, resources when the traditional tools of external authority and private property don’t apply? If there are no rules on the Moon, people must think that they can end up in a first-come ad first-served situation. However, if we use the same rules as the Earth, l think that wars and climate change will happen soon on the Moon. The speaker suggests that it’s easier to create something new than trying to dismantle the old. It must lead to a world where there are no borders and fight for territories.

I’ve heard that even on the Earth, the notion that this is our country will disappear in the future. People can cooperate and don’t fight for energies and territories.

John Biewen : The lie that invented racism

John Biewen·TEDxCharlottesville

The lie that invented racism

Summary

The expression: Racism didn’t start with a misunderstanding, it started with a lie was really new and surprised us, though, I was sorry that it didn’t make me refreshed. It’s because I think that people must want to know about a stronger solution that many people can take action.

The speaker is a white person whose parents worked with Martin Luther King to be able to have the civil rights for all people. However, the media recently seemed to tell that it’s strange and the reason that all white people were racists against black. It leads to that white people think that they don’t want to be racists and they don’t relate to racial problems. However, even among all white people groups, there are problems about themselves being divided. It’s by religion, tribal groups, and languages. People in the past had no notion of race, though, the world has swayed about white and black too much.

It’s just a lie, swayed, a tool, and invented. We don’t need to feel a lot of guilt, and history isn’t our fault or yours. As the same humans, we have a responsibility to do something.

To stop showing up grudgingly for the diversity and equality meeting and being a real accomplice to colors. Creating a society that is not built on the exploitation or oppression of anyone is important.

Xiye Bastida : If you adults won't save the world, we will

 Xiye Bastida·TED2020

If you adults won’t save the world, we will

Summary

This was a letter that the speaker wrote for her grandmother. When grandmother was born, there must have been a lot of nature around the world, though, oceans and sky are now polluted but we still use much energy. It leads to climate change and we cannot see that adults try to save the world. However, the speaker and students learned that the earth has the power of resilience. The speaker and children love not only the earth but parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends, they are appropriate for being born and all things that passed down to them. Thus she participated in the event and strikes to save the world. She said that she didn’t know what to do at first, the world is so big, and it has so many bad habits. However, she thought she had to try and she said when businesses turn sustainable, the power grid runs on renewable energy, people use a reusable bag, our consumption doesn’t harm the earth, and taking care of the Earth is part of our humanity, it should be our normal life and children and students can study without strikes.

She wants to sing, dance, study, and meet her grandmother more than being full-time climate activists.

For that, we who live in the world have to cooperate with her to save the world. This was the great letter to not only her grandmother but us.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries : Why we must confront hard historical truths

Hasan Kwame Jeffries·TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Why we must confront hard historical truths

Summary

This story has a strong message. The speaker is a black man who is a historian and has children. Now, it’s spreading inequality in the United States. Furthermore, people are forgetting histories, are not teaching it correctly, and there are people who don’t do anything about it.

To know about the history of white and black is difficult and painful. People want it to be turned into nostalgic memories.

It doesn’t mean to rationalize, avoid or forget about slavery, James Madison, Jim Crow, and etc. People might think that not remembering it is not repeating it.

The speaker suggests that it’s wrong. If people don’t remember the past, they will continue it. It creates inequality and injustice in the first place. He tells us that what we must do is we must disrupt the continuum of hard history. It’s seeking and speaking the truth, confronting, magnifying, and teaching hard history to children. Acting on truth to create a fair and just society seriously.

Words in this story

enslaved / held in slavery

confront / face

emancipated / e·man·ci·pate / liberate, free, release, unshackle

quintessential /quin·tes·sen·tial / typical, prototypical, stereotypical

marginalized / keep a person or something away from the center of attention or power, isolate, cut off, shut out