This was so good. I see myself as a perfectionist too. But i know and listened again from her, it is better to do something than nothing. Act for our world ✊🏼🌎💙
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I love people that laugh at their mistakes, and keep going. The less we take ourselves seriously, the more we can achieve!
How I wish one day I could be one of the speaker who gives encouragement and inspiration to everyone. I feel so proud to all speakers who stands and face the world .
This is very important. The urgency in taking care of the planet can be overwhelming. It would be so good if we focused on doing more - rather than not even try because we cannot do it all. Thank you, Laura!
Our Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for. There is no such place as “away”. When we throw something “away” it must go somewhere. There is still hope for our Earth yet 🖖
@Kalki Avatar Difficult question, but here is a quick one that comes to mind. “Everybody knows that money will not make them happy, but everybody wants to find out for themselves”. Don’t remember who actually said it :)
I think that changing our diet to more plant based or vegan is a more significant change society need to make. We give water and food to the 75 billion land animals for meat, over the 700 million in poverty. Antibiotic resistance may make all our antibiotics useless by 2050, yet I see hardly anyone talking about it. Change your diet, then aim for zero waste. And regarding waste... 50% of oceanic plastic is fishing nets.
I agree, but it's a systemic problem as well. Simply having lots of people change their diets is not enough. There needs to be more regulations placed on large corporate farms, and many reforms as to how animals are handled. That's at least a good first step.
N CG The only way this can end is if we as individuals stop eating animals and their products because laws always lag behind. Systems won’t change if we don’t demand they do. 10 million people are set to die each year by 2050 from antibiotic resistance and that’s no joke. I think swapping out our milks, and eating plant based meat is a compromise worth taking. It’s easier than anyone who hasn’t tried, knows
@@will532 Could you be more specific about the resistance to antibiotics?Do you mean that it is developped by eating meat of animals that have been given antibiotics? Does it mean that végans Don't develop that resistance? Thanks.
@@ievaozolina3926 Essentially, the bacteria evolve through Darwinian Evolution at a very fast rate: When a bacteria with a resistance causing mutation comes into existence, they are able to survive the antibiotic, and divide where the old strain couldn't. If we weren't using antibiotics in excess, the original strain wouldn't have a strong enough selection pressure to mutate. So therefore, the randomly mutated and harmful strain (that is resistant to the antibiotic) wouldn't become the dominant species. But by feeding 80% of our antibiotics to animals, we are creating a strong selection pressure, so the mutated and resistance strains survive. This large of a selection pressure only exists because we pump animals with these antibiotics to stop them dying 'prematurely'. It means that when we eat them, we ingest the antibiotics and this so the ab resistance can form in us, and in the animals before we eat them. As soon as 2032 according to some scientists (although probably more like 2050), all our antibiotics could be useless. This will kill millions of people and is very likely to happen too. So, no. Vegans will not be immune to the mutated species. No-one will. But if we all were vegan. We wouldn't have animals to feed the antibiotics to, and we would use 80% less antibiotics. This would allow us to develop new antibiotics at a rate fast enough to keep up with the mutated strains, and so millions of people wouldn't be killed. I hope this helps answer your questions.
This is so inspiring!!! Too many environmentalists are requiring perfection - which is why environmentalism fails. There is a middle ground that we can aspire for, for now. And a continuous process of adjustment til we reach our goals ❤️
I can so relate to that... I decided to go vegan a few years ago but because I wanted to do it perfectly it spiraled into an eating disorder. Now I'm a lot more relaxed about what I eat. Most of my food is plantbased, but if I crave cheese once in a while I will eat it! I also think this way of doing things are a lot more helpful if you want to inspire other people. Being 100% vegan (or 0 waste) sounds like a daring task and few people feel up for that. But choosing oat milk instead of cows milk? Buying a reusable water bottle instead of the plastic one? Absolutely doable!
The original premise of the story is so important and I can totally relate to it. Being exhausted and hungry for your toddlers activities because you're frugal and have high ideals and being a mom overlooking so many needs we have which come second to sleep activity and eating and playing/reading time and cycles of the kids is so hard, the more you put inthe more they get out of it but then you're the proverbial chopped down shel silverstein giving tree and it hurts. And following your ideals is your wish for a better world and the compromises and not giving eachother and acceptance we will each do it differe tly not come up with rules that mean someone is less than is essential.
OMG this was exactly what happened to me before! I was zero waste & vegan advocate, I was really motivated and inspired to save the world. The next thing I know, I was being diagnosed with anxiety and mild depression. Right now, what Iḿ trying to practice is to consume less waste and trying to be plant based without the pressure of going full blown vegan and starving myself.
Wow that’s really inspiring saving the world / planet if all the peoples like you ma’am. I’d stand to your supporters to that advocacy. All human being should care our planet for new generations
1. What is zero waste? 01:46 2. How to get started with zero waste?03:11 3. Perfectionism in zero waste 08:16 4. Zero waste in summer 09:33 5. Is it worth to keep going with zero waste? 11:00 6. What would you change? 12:16
Going slow also helps with ptsd. Staying calm and not feeling overwhelmed is the only way for continual momentum. Like a trap of naturally produced ptsd body chemicals your only option is to stop and slow down and not worry about the whole thing and not say anything negative to yourself but to feel positively *about getting anywhere at all* .... Siiiighhh.
I have been ♻ Recycling ♻ since 1979 before it became fashionable to so. I was part of a company attempt recycling program it lasted four-month, that when I became with the term Greenwashing by corporations, were recycling the plastic ink cartages, it a large print company that creates photocopies. I was rather disappointed, to say the least. Rather than try the save the world by yourself you become a part group, In my case several. Now, we design and build CLT and passive house certified building and promote EV vehicles and Renewable Energy and microgrids for the local community
Probably only half as many times as you point that out on lots of different videos, as if it makes you somehow better than they are. You are not. In fact, you are not anywhere near as good if this comment is any indication.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 What? This is my first comment on a Ted video. Most of the time I thank people for sharing their knowledge (the last one was a farmer, the one before that was a mechanic...). This speech on the other hand was very self-centered while having a great potential. Anyway have a nice day every people reading all these :).
• 0:00 - That opening and closing noise was horrible, especially loud. 😒 • 0:30 - Cavemen managed to keep tiny humans alive without buying plastic-wrapped junk-food. Modern humans are a failure. • 2:12 - What about repair? • 2:15 - Reduce and refuse are the same and the last three (as well as repair) are the same. There's only two: avoid & maximize.
