A Creative Approach to Community Climate Action | Xavier Cortada | TED

When he learned of the threat that rising sea levels posed to his coastal hometown of Miami, Florida, eco-artist Xavier Cortada founded a movement around beautifully designed elevation markers highlighting the risk of flood damage. The collaborative art project quickly mobilized action -- and excited some controversy. Watch as Cortada offers a creative vision of community organizing inspired by art that engages, educates and empowers.
Image credit, 03:41: Florida International University GIS Center & University of Florida Geomatics
Countdown is TED's global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world. Get involved at countdown.ted....
Learn more about #TEDCountdown:
Twitter: / tedcountdown
Instagram: / tedcountdown
Facebook: / ted
Website: countdown.ted.com
The TED Talks channel features talks, performances and original series from the world's leading thinkers and doers. Subscribe to our channel for videos on Technology, Entertainment and Design - plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. Visit TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more.
Watch more: go.ted.com/xav...
• A Creative Approach to...
TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (or the CC BY - NC - ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy: www.ted.com/ab.... For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at media-requests...
#TED #TEDTalks #TEDCountdown

[@yusefmockbil2235]

Kindly reupload William lenneys informative ted talk. Thank you for your time and consideration

[@unknown11215]

Couldn't have said it better my self

[@oajabofficial]

Put back William Lenny’s TedTalk

[@maxverstappening2460]

I need to watch Sir William Lenny's TedTalk kindly do upload it

[@shanayamanning9290]

weres wills ted talk give it back to us

[@unknown11215]

Facts

[@tiernanonyt7471]

Anyone here from willne

[@unknown11215]

Who isn't?

[@btxunofficial1962]

Who is here for Williams Ted talk 🤣🙋‍♂️

[@unknown11215]

Me

[@CanadiaNole]

Upload William Lenny’s TedTalk

[@unknown11215]

Put willine on

[@burymeingarbage]

Give us Will Lenneys and Mikeys Ted talks ya fannies

[@unknown11215]

🤣🤣🤣👍

[@healthfitnesbd7442]

Less carbon please plant more tree save tree save our beautiful planet

[@yizhegao8798]

Thank you for the sharing of you thought. Art is powerful, I am interested about that.

[@vource2670]

When is will lennies talk going up

[@toni4729]

Keep up the good work..... From Australia.

[@l01230123]

People's ignorance of climate change is on full display in the TED comment sections. Whataboutisms, people blatantly misunderstanding the speakers, gaslighting. Listening shouldn't be that difficult.

[@elvytan4682]

They will keep ignoring climate change until the day it affects their lives.

[@yhms7942]

A very merry Christmas, Channel family.

[@TKmotivation-]

I live on the SW coast of FL. I agree this is a major issue. On the bright side, it’s 72 and sunny today 😊

[@vivalaleta]

Sadly the rise in temperature is threatening our local ski hill with permanent closure.

[@arkhelius6096]

Hi

[@Chef-Aziza64]

Please translate it into Arabic in order to understand the meaning

[@lifeinvietnam99999]

TED

[@nathanngumi8467]

Wow!

[@TheGoatfathers]

I feel like this whole video was just a pitch to sell his crappy ice paintings

[@tomcap1327]

Then do your own painting/sign and plant it on your lawn. Easy, no?

[@vivalaleta]

What bullshit. He was showing how local art and industry can get people thinking...some people.

[@TheGoatfathers]

@@vivalaleta I see I have offended you, this is unfortunate. Bless you :)

[@TheGoatfathers]

@@tomcap1327 great idea

[@vivalaleta]

@@TheGoatfathers Just goes to show you can lead a goat to water but you can't make him drink.

[@Sittininthesun]

How’d they all get there? Gas cars. How’s the building heated and cooled? Electricity and or gas. They could have done the whole thing by Zoom - but that wouldn’t make them 💴

[@ligiasommers]

🙏🏻🌹✨🙏🏻

[@aniisuh]

Put Williams tedtalk back on u nincompoops

[@woolam5087]

)He said Art is power what we want and for climate changing action. but actually they doesn't make some eco logical system(? for example, Lose Plastic product or changing electric transport in Miami. Just make a art Network! is not perfect way..

[@mesprojects674]

With so much discussion around climate change over the past 150 years, I feel it’s helpful that we consider how glaciers didn’t exist on the planet until 60 million years ago or so, and that we’ve been in a bit of an ice age since. These coastal areas would likely return to the sea even if humans weren’t present on the earth. Do we have an impact? Sure, but the earth has temperature changes too, let’s not think so big of ourselves to think we’re responsible for everything.

[@Exostin]

Yeah, 60 milion years of ice age... Being undone in 100? 200? years, does that seem natural?