The Climate Change Conspiracy... Conspiracy | Anjali Appadurai | TEDxSurreySalon

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Published 2024-04-17
Anjali Appadurai recounts a profound realization during a focus group with a young mother, highlighting her guilt over her contribution to climate change despite limited choices. The talk delves into the historical deception by petroleum companies regarding climate science and introduces the concept of "the new climate denial," acknowledging climate change but advocating for more fossil fuels. The speaker urges viewers to challenge this denial by envisioning bold climate solutions that benefit society as a whole. By rejecting incremental solutions and embracing transformative action, the talk inspires hope for a sustainable future, emphasizing the need for collective action to combat the climate crisis and create a better world for future generations. Anjali Appadurai is a climate justice organizer and campaigner. As a young activist, she worked with youth movements from around the world to build a strong civil society voice at the UN Climate Convention and to ensure that social movements' demands were heard in the halls of power. She runs the Padma Centre for Climate Justice, a project that brings together diasporic communities to build power around issues of climate and economic justice, and she works as Campaigns Director at the Climate Emergency Unit. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

All Comments (21)
  • Listened to the first 3 minutes. Stopped to avoid throwing up at this chunderous agent of politicisation and misinformation!
  • The climate change conspiracy conspiracy is a conspiracy 😂😂. The world has changed forever and keeps changing adapt
  • @ericknava713006
    Everyone! why? because everyone wants to be right but no one wants to do the RIGHT thing when they're wrong.
  • The only obligation that a corporate business has is to maximize the profits for it's shareholders. It is the shareholders that we must change.
  • @liqueweave
    It's going to be extremely difficult. Climate change was already noticed when we were just 1-2 billion. Now we're 8. Even if our carbon footprint would be 15% of what it was 100 years ago - without cars, electronics, travel - we'd still stay on trend. We need 8x as much mining, 8x as much furniture and heating. More, in fact, since we don't live in multi-generation cottages, and we renew and replace our homes every so often. We insulate better but also heat more. (25°C is the minimum expected in offices, malls, homes.) It all begins by shaming the Economic Growth. Which is difficult because public debt is designed with it.
  • @dannyhunn8752
    It is disappointing that with such wisdom and knowledge the world gets stuck with the kind of idiots that we have in parliament.
  • @tidtidy4159
    The science is done, now its about the politics.
  • If she is in Southern B.C., why did she not go to the Columbia Ice Field nearby at the Banf National Park. The Glacier at the Ice Field retreats since 1840. CO2 Emissions from combustion engines are blamed for the warming up of the atmosphere. Gottlieb Daimler, Karl Benz and Rudolf Diesel have invented the combustion engines only about 50 years later. QUESTION: How can this be explained?
  • @TennesseeJed
    I have been hoping so long to no avail I am thinking that hope might not be the way to anything.
  • @trainman2860
    We have not studied the earth's long tern natural cycles to know if we have any effect. We know there was an ice age 6000 years ago and the oceans were hundreds of feet lower. We are going the other way. The First Nations of the world picked up and moved as the oceans rose as the ice age melted. We have to move as the natural world channges.
  • @z.z.onichi5365
    mild winter? depends where, come to Quebec City lol -25°C at least+ windchill hehe
  • @user-le6zd4rx5t
    A powerful, intelligent and detailed talker. 10/10, a true professional
  • @gonavy8167
    She has not looked at long-term warming and cooling cycles of the earth. We are in a warming cycle at this point.
  • @grahammewburn
    I read one of Carl Sagan's books. In that book he claims cosmologists discovered global warming. Venus is many times hotter than Earth. Cosmologists were trying to understand why. They decided the cause was carbon dioxide. They noted that Earth's carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere were rising. Cosmologists rang the global warming alarm bell. Carl Sagan was an eminent scientist, whom I trust.
  • @simpledragon
    Because we live in a democracy the economics weighs heavily on getting votes. Big money has immense power over politicians and false narratives. Putin has a stranglehold over all oil resources and economic sectors. What level of control are we under compared to Russia? How do we stop our politicians from speaking from the power and oil industries perspective? Who stopped Alberta wind expansion? The ideas and possibilities to expand green power technologies must be encouraged by our Alberta Premier not stifled.
  • Please read, Kenneth E Boulding's poem, A Conservationist's Lament, it's as relevant now as it is when it was written in 1956.
  • @Clint-stanley
    Early part of this had some good content. Never mentions Solar and Battery as it is the cheapest way to product Electricity period. Costs will drive more change than her two ways out. We are in a great time where there are now good options. Options that cost alone will drive positive climate change.