We all share one planet — we breathe the same air, drink the same water and depend on the same oceans, forests and biodiversity. Economist Naoko Ishii is on a mission to protect these shared resources, known as the global commons, that are vital for our survival. In an eye-opening talk about the wellness of the planet, Ishii outlines four economic systems we need to change to safeguard the global commons, making the case for a new kind of social contract with the earth.
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You can not believe how not onteresting that is.
reaction time, not interested in your ego, it would seem that you have totally missed the point of this ted
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You can not believe how not onteresting that is.
no you’re second.
protecting the planet from what? thee biggest polluter is govts…FACT
Is this comment for real? Get this mindset inside your head: There are no villains in the real world, nobody want’s to be the bad guy. There is no thing as an evil government, they are run by people just like you and me with their best intentions in mind, and the only job of a government is to take care for it’s country, you cannot differentiate a government from it’s population, all of the pollution of a government is the pollution of the country. Your comment is saying: just get rid of the entire country, its polluting!
IamCancer624 no, the biggest polluters are the fossil fuel industry, and other similar industries. Industry is to blame not government. The government doesn’t control enough but it is not their fault. It’s not a fact. Although the more I think about it, your comment is probably ironic and a joke because it’s worded exactly like a stereotypical conspiracy theory… Haha
+Iron Platypus ***no, the biggest polluters are the fossil fuel industry, and other similar industries.***
these companies have been given monopolies and subsidized by Govts…FACT
***Industry is to blame not government.***
I prolly wasn’t clear in my last statement, but govts claims ownership over ALL the natural resources and they give out monopolies to certain companies/corporations to use the land for devolpement/resources/etc…FACT
***The government doesn’t control enough but it is not their fault. ***
Thee US Govt clams ownerships over ALL 50 states, its resources, water, air, land, etc….FACT
***Although the more I think about it, your comment is probably ironic and a joke because it’s worded exactly like a stereotypical conspiracy theory***
“stereotypical conspiracy theorist” is not an argument…FACT
+IAmCancer624 I don’t get the point of your comment. You start by implying “the planet” doesn’t need protection, and then in the next sentence you say it needs protection from the government.
Saying “[two to four periods] FACT” after every sentence doesn’t add more weight to your statements. Actually, most of what you said is false where it relates to resources. The US government, for example (examples will very from country to country) doesn’t claim ownership of physical air (your oxygen and nitrogen); typically they claim the space in which resources dwell, but not the specifically the resources (water space, but not water molecules). Most US forests are privately owned, and so it goes with many other natural resources. https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/inf/nrs_inf_31_15-NWOS-whoowns.pdf
Stop China and India and Africa procreating. Job done.
Eugenics are necessary
educating women and girls leads to lower birth rates
Chaosflower: You realize that Paul Erlich wrote a book in the 1950’s advancing this exact hypothesis and that it has since been debunked to death, right?
Jayraj
Google the JOBS sucked up by China et al. Your mum is a twot.
Chaosflower Yeah, cause it’s better and guess what? CHEAPER!
India and Africa consume less resources than the western world where as the China and US are major contributors to pollution and degradation of the environment
Green consumption and clean energy production is our answer!! Great talk!
5/10 you tried
DeoMachina I did. Now you do the missing part for your satisfaction.
Not you, the troll
DeoMachina oh, well leave the name tag next time. And I respect his views as they were honest and thoughtful. Please be nice.
+Han Swolo — We need switchboards. Think of all the phone operators who would be unemployed!
People can always go work doing something else. Does green energy demonstrably require less workers? Can these people not retrain to do something else, or even use their skills in a different but similar field?
Stop animal agriculture and fishing. Around 90% of deforestation is produced to feed livestock and specialist predict that by 2050 there will be no more fish in the oceans. Going plant based is the only real way to save the planet.
Han Swolo first of all it is having an effect. Also profits of vegan companies and new vegan products of non vegan companies tells you that people are changing their diets.Even fucking Mc Donalds has released a vegan burger.
If we really have evolved to eat meat then why meat eaters have more risk of cancer, heart disease and so on.
jero pons veganism is a fad. It’s hip. Nothing more. Meat has been our main source of protein and nutrition since day 1 and is part of the reason why we became so intelligent. It’s in our DNA to want meat and nothing will change that.
@Han Swolo, I wouldn’t be so sure, considering that major meat and dairy corporations are investing in plant-based options as well as lab-grown meat. Appealing to evolution is pretty silly, by the way. Our consumption of meat nowadays is mostly a product of culture and social conditioning.
+Han Swolo So your plan is to not try to change it – or to resist the change because you don’t want to feel like a bad person because you end the lives of other feeling organisms for sensual pleasures – and continue using huge amounts of resources to the detriment of entire species today and risking extinction in the future. Good plan.
I can hardly understand her…but since she’s asian, maybe she can talk about how much pollution China and India dump in our oceans and put into our air? A seriously large amount of dirty pollution is coming from these 2 countries which have over 1/4 of the entire worlds population, and which have some of the most corrupt leaders on the planet.
Sounds like they need some freedom
Michael F but she’s Japanese. Anyways if China didn’t output so much co2, America would do it for them. China depends on exportation, and that means other countries depend on its products and its co2. Same logic for India. If American demand changed then their co2 will too.
Use the subtitles.
Come to true.
In normal circumstances, human being is busy with either good deeds or bad deeds in the absence of anybody around him or when he thinks he is seen by nobody. We cannot know what he does is good or bad.
However, when a sufi or darweesh thinks that there is somebody who always monitors him, he would behave differently as it is in double split experiment, and he would fix himself to do always the one which is good.
The saying or hadith of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) that “Even you cannot see Allah, He always sees you” has a lot of meaning in this sense in our philosophy of life.
In conclusion, if human being knows that Allah always sees him does not do wrong things.
Daha az göster
YANITLA
It is time to become vegetarians!
Being a vegetarian doesn’t help at all unless the amount of animal products consumed in the diet are decreased. If you are simply switching steak for cheese, you are still contributing equally to the strain on the environment. Eating vegan, or as close to vegan as possible, is the only way to ensure you are doing your best, and even then there are things to consider (oat milk is better for the planet than almond milk, etc). It is almost impossible to be perfect, but it’s always possible to do our best.
The easiest ways to fix climate change are controlling our population and going vegan, right? er no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwejlpXK7ls
Sardines and crickets are fast and easy to grow with a big nutritional value. Is amazing that human empathy can go as far as to not want to consume the essential nutritional value that we need to survive in order to protect it all but we still need vitamins 12 in our diets.
B12 doesn’t come from animals, it is from bacteria that exists in the soil, and vegans get plenty of it from something delicious called nutritional yeast.
We do not need to consume crickets or sardines or any other creature to survive. Not in the developed world anyway. All essential nutrients can be found in plants.
cant agree more
Her intentions are just and her vision is probably not far from correct, but other than spreading general awareness there was no real point to this tak, the things she said have been known by everybody for decades. There is no fault in repeating a dogma, but a more concrete message is due.
Let’s keep things vague and moral so no one can criticize our ideas
Han Swolo: Did you actually have a suggestion, or are you just inserting yourself?
I’m personally against most gov sanctions like the failed Paris Accord
Han Swolo: Well, I can’t argue with you on the Paris Accord. It’s been shown to be pretty worthless, and won’t really do any good. And I think you’re right about gov sanctions and policies. Usually quite ineffective.
This video had no solution. It’s analogy of local actors comin g together to solve the tragedy of the commons was simplistic and historically inaccurate. That only works at the smallest of scales without government intervention. There is no “world government” to broker or enforce a deal. The solution is hope new technologies are cleaner and replace wasteful older technology or wait till problems get so dire that governments put military to enforce agreements. Without enforcement nothing changes.
How about we stop using economic incentives and do things logically?
It’s unavoidable. It is human nature and it is game theory. All rational agents try to do what is in their best interest. Not what is in the best interest of everyone. Economic incentives (greed for resources) are necessary.
It’s unavoidable because of the systems we’ve allowed to continue unnecessarily. Don’t act like our current market system is some kind of all perfect eternal thing.
DO U KNOW THE ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT
mobilemarshall I think you mean scientifically, not logically. Classical logic studies say that we should protect the environment, for reasons such as tragedy of the commons which aligns with economic reasons. Economic IS logical, classical logic doesn’t line up with science because logic says we should progress our own species and ourselves, so yea.
What’s not logical about economic incentives?
why would a family choose an alternative for the greater good if the greater good leads to them loosing their jobs or at the very least soem income? Greater good is not the best motivator
It’s ironic that this talk is from an “economic” perspective
because destroying the commons will NEVER lead to the family having a better outcome in the long run
I can’t understand her
CC for the hearing impaired.
Use subtitles.
Capitalism is literally killing the planet y’all
THE TRIFORCE
start by not supporting factory farms and buy less animal products. especially products like beef and fish.
Also stop wasting resources, land, water & polluting said land by making soy and corn products. Plus all the packaging and processing needed to put that all on the supermarket shelves.
could you start with something easier? like not having kids or not heating homes in winter? /s
666Tomato666 isn’t changing your diet like the easiest and most effective way to help this diet and your health?
+Autum n exect that Katie is asking for rather dramatic change to nearly everybody’s diet. And it’s not only a problem of ease of access to those veggies and “free range beef”, there’s also economic issue – it’s certainly isn’t cheaper.
the reason why so many Americans are obese is the abundance of easy access to food that contains a lot of animal products, and it’s _cheap_
666Tomato666 veggies and basics like rice and noodles aren’t cheap? If you handle it the right way it certainly isn’t expensive and even if you’ll have to pay more, it’s for a healthy diet; it all pays off afterwards (especially since Obamacare will be abolished right? But that’s an other topic) because animal products are just unhealthy. Yeah that might trigger a lot of people but that’s what I learned and also experienced first hand. And that a diverse range of companies want you to be obese because it’s just profitable for them shouldn’t be the excuse for something you by yourself (bzw. the american/human whatsoever) have to take care of. Yeah it’s a bizarre world but seriously, leaving animals products off your plate is the best choice you can do right now to improve your health, take care of the environment and the population in general. It’s all connected and somehow the worst things humans can do to this planet are all bound to the way we treat animals; those who are the most vulnerable in this society and world.
We have done a lot to our mother earth. And we still do. But I’m optimistic. More and more people all around the world start to scrutinize their lifestyles and are willing to make a change. I’m absolutely sure, we will stand together and and save our home.
AT AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL UNFORTUNATELY NO ONE CARES……Empowering and thought provoking message……It’s too late now……STRICT LEGISLATION & ENFORCEMENT & PENALTIES is the only way out….Awesome and Many thanks Naoko
That was absolutely amazing, everything she said rang truth and I learned. This women is so intelligent and strong, her English is so eloquent as well. I absolutely loved this.
I don’t know if I didn’t understand because of her accent or because she couldn’t express her idea correctly… Either way, I didn’t understand.