Let's make the world wild again | Kristine Tompkins

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Earth, humanity and nature are inextricably interconnected. To restore us all back to health, we need to "rewild" the world, says environmental activist Kristine Tompkins. Tracing her life from Patagonia CEO to passionate conservationist, she shares how she has helped to establish national parks across millions of acres of land (and sea) in South America -- and discusses the critical role we all have to play to heal the planet. "We have a common destiny," she says. "We can flourish or we can suffer, but we're going to be doing it together."
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[@victoriawilliams3251]

Thank you Kristine for everything you have done here in Chile, I drove through your amazing park in the summer, as we turned every corner of that road you could see all the love and effort that you and Doug put into your project . What an incredible gift you have given this country 🌎

[@freiac4645]

Such an inspiring talk! I really hope that more people will join organizations and initiatives fighting for nature in the future.

[@nothingbutthetruth3227]

Actually she’s hoping billions of people WONT be here. Maybe the next wave will kill enough people!

[@meyburgh]

Love love love. Thank you Kristine and Doug! There is no award great enough to acknowledge your gift to the world.

[@bobrossisgod2664]

This is why I think rich people have a bigger responsibility to protect the planet and our future

[@vitaly6312]

And they do. Studies show the more “well off” you are, the more environmentally conscious you are and likely to participate in environmentally friendly activities (driving electric, recycling, buying more environmentally friendly packaging, etc). The only thing that this didn’t take into account was that people who buy firearms, ammo, and hunting/fishing licenses and gear are the ones who contribute the most to public land conservation, in the US anyway.

[@askcoolest3487]

@@vitaly6312 Give me the source of your study. I want to know if its real.

[@vitaly6312]

ASK Coolest I think you have google but here’s one scholarly article: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963291/

[@vitaly6312]

ASK Coolest if you want a real world example, go to the ghetto and look at the streets, parks, and front yards versus a typical middle class neighborhood.

[@Daudin1]

No, all people are responsible equally!

[@yimber879]

Beautiful Lecture. I've been interested for the last two years in growing more trees in my home country Nicaragua. It has suffered drougths, pollution and deforestation. Unfortunately, local goverment is not interested in a national program/agenda of national environment conservation. I and some friends are planning to start growing more trees in Rivas, Nicaragua. We've noticed the changes in temperature and this can be changed through a responsible commitment. Hopefully this lecture transmit a lot of amazing feelings that we can achieve anything if we work together for a common goal. I hope you read this comment and let's work for a better future for all the humankind.

[@rickybobby6766]

It time to action brother... Cheers from chile

[@yimber879]

@@rickybobby6766 I love Chile. I've read a lot about Chile. God bless bro!

[@diogomatias5375]

Hello Yimber, I'm glad to hear that you have a group of friends working together to do something about aforestation in your country. I often think about doing something similar in Portugal, we have a terrible problem with wildfires and the paper industry. Recently I found out about the Miyawaki Method, it's a faster way to grow small forests and increase biodiversity at smaller scales. It takes a bit more efford because you need to set up a basic ecosystem instead of just planting trees but the result should be more sustainable in the long run. There are several complete and ongoing projects in India from what I've seen, but the method should work for any region. I wish you and your friend good luck! Hugs from Portugal!

[@papajeff5486]

We must find the harmony, the balance, pay the price to honor our Mother Earth.

[@nothingbutthetruth3227]

Perfect. We can live in s m a r t cities with eu gen icists. Funny! Oh look it up.

[@Ssotta]

Lady you have my deepest respect and gratitude. Bless you.

[@daniyalnaqvi2569]

This was a very refreshing talk. Before today, I had no idea about the work you were doing. Excellent! May you find the strength to continue working and making a difference.

[@travelismyhappypill.6623]

Thank you Kristine and Doug!

[@muzashit]

This video clearly reflects our responsibility towards nature... Very inspiring ; yes we can join forces under tough circumstances

[@lorez6063]

I love the enthusiasm, and I love what you are doing. I wish to live in a wild world, but I have to get out of bed in the morning and go to work, earning profits for share holders etc, just so that I can put food on the table. Shareholders who don't care about anything unless it makes them more money. This is the reality of the world we live in. Things will never change while greed rules this world. People are nothing but a commodity to the corporate rule, slaves to give up our time to make someone else wealthy. And nature equals less than nothing to corporate greed. To them, this world is just something to be exploited. As a collective, we have the numbers but we do not have the will to come together and make changes. As individuals we have the desire to see the world made better but we do not have the power. And we constantly let our media and politics drive us apart, instead of uniting against the corruption.

[@jorgeromera3861]

What a fantastic comment!

[@justine8558]

perfectly said! and the oh so wonderful irony in all of this is that those same greedy shareholders pray to their gods who call greed a sin. they need a hard look in the mirror and a long walk in their landfills.

[@AngeluszM]

And yet.. time and time again, humanity has shown that we are able to change. Peoples have risen up against governments (revolutions), natural disasters, infections.. we've surmounted all the challenges that have been put on our path until now. The proof is in the fact that we're all still here. Instead of defeatist talk, be an agent of change. Don't comment negative thoughts and emotions on KZbin, go out into the world and help people understand better and make better choices. Be the change you wish to see in the world. And if you personally don't have the willpower to do so, fine. No worries. But don't go around and tell everyone the future is hopeless. It is not.

[@lorez6063]

@@AngeluszM You are right. I agree with your sentiment and I wish to spread hope. We all have good things in our lives to be grateful for. But my worry is not so much for myself. It is more for the people who are below me in the "food chain". What about all the people starving in shanty towns and poor families living in run down areas, who struggle to provide for their families, and put food on the table? Hope and a positive attitude isn't going to change anything for them. It may just help them continue on and not give up. But that actually helps the greedy bastards on top, because the system that makes them richer and us poorer, just continues and perpetuates, with people who are going to keep struggling on, just to make ends meet. The disparity between the lifestyle of the rich and poor is what irks me. That some people are born into suffering, whilst others are born into financial freedom. I rail at the injustice of a system that counts some as being worthy of freedom, whilst so many are condemned to suffering. My comment comes from my own feelings of powerlessness to change this fact. I want to be an agent of change, and for the most part, I do try to go through my life spreading joy and gratitude. But my positive attitude, or yours, does not change the fact that I am a slave to system not of my choosing. And I am dependant on that system to live. Good vibes are not going to change anything. They only serve to perpetuate the current status quo. Only decisive and sever action will bring about the changes we need. The good vibes can only be real, and realistic, after the dirty work has been done.

[@CHR15333]

I think the individual, "that what cannot be divided", has much more power that what we, as a collective, think.

[@rickybobby6766]

I worked at park patagonia in chile summer 2018 such a wonderful experiences change my life forever , i meet personaly many times with kristen she is and angel a real global Mogul for conservation... We love you doug and kristen tompkings.

[@LANZAROT999]

Yesterday (May 18, 2023) I saw a movie about the Tompkins at the cinema. WILD LIFE - is a great documentary that you must watch to learn more about Tompkins' history and see these landscapes.

[@adityabagdi1178]

I can say that people will like nature more now cause they have been in their house for too long. At least I hope they do...

[@aborworld3509]

Massive massive respect.

[@Rileybenitezz]

She just donated over 300 million dollars to give wild land back to South American countries! Thank you Kris! Love from south Texas

[@EasychannelIndia]

My Depression story! . . I am qualified CA CS and LLB holder.... My gf was doing the same with me but she qualified RJS too and appointed as addtional district judge. so here this status/financial difference ruin my relationship and she brokeup with me. although im hard worker but at that time it was hard for me to bear this pressure and i recognise myself in deep depression and mood disorder so I quit these profession... now for my self satisfaction, I have started easychannel for Govt schools. Now im happy with my life. . I just want to say if you find something improper related to your mental health thn please take quick action.. and work hard for satisfaction not for success . . thanks.

[@nancyhalley79]

As a high school teacher I am interested in what Kristine would tell teens about the moral imperative to protect wild beauty. How can we reach them? Most teens in the U.S. are completely absorbed in fast fashion, video games, consumerism and resource entitlement (using excessive amounts of water, idling their cars while listening to music before school starts etc...). While working with students outside yesterday, I asked, "would you rather stand here on the grass or on the concrete?" They answered, "On the concrete, the grass is wet." I replied, "It is not wet, it is green." ....and these are kids in Hawai'i. help!!!

[@ligiasommers]

Thank you for being such an inspiration and making a difference in a needy and hurting world 🙏🏻💖🌷

[@dzikrinasaira3475]

Thank you so much for the work that you've been doing. We all really appreciate it ❤🙏

[@jaapongeveer6203]

I read the National Geographic article of her husband Doug and her efforts to rewild areas in Chile and Argentina. Love this!

[@jamess.2649]

Amazing god bless!! Just in tears

[@elusion2012]

Came here for the thumbnail, stayed for the Talk.

[@lip8781]

Very inspirational talk. Thank you, I really enjoyed it!

[@adityabagdi1178]

So real life heroes do exist, your story was so good to hear😊

[@julietran6373]

What you have done is so inspired and impressed

[@muskansangwan187]

Wow! Damn dat thumbnail.

[@hellihello2333]

Such a beautiful picture right?

[@TheAcc7080]

thank you for your working

[@jennifera4350]

So inspiring your story, the movie about it, and especially your work preserving this wonderful wild place and all the inhabitants. Thank you with all my heart!

[@strixcz]

Thank YOU - people like you restore my (sometimes almost lost) faith in humanity

[@omkargadekar8581]

We all are with you..For the better future of mother earth.

[@itouchtheskyslowlifeitaly]

Thank you so much for sharing your personal lovely childhood and talking about on how to conserve our amazing environment and world. I agree with you, each of us, we can give our part to do so. I am lucky living in nature, on the top of the mountain in Italy. Thanks to technology, KZbin and Ted, I can watch and listen to you over here. It's cloudy and foggy at this moment, It's 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I just finished also doing video editing of my videos that I share on KZbin, I have to go down now in my sustainable garden and harvest some vegetables and small fruits.

[@LuisGGomezPhoto]

Great story. Thanks!

[@bwielgus]

If they were able to do this with Patagonia profits, imagine what Jeff Bezos could do

[@benmat]

The profits of Patagonia (14 million CAD of valuation), AND The North Face (24 billion USD of valuation). The profits are more likely from The North Face :)

[@shading_and_art]

Yet he didn't top even in philanthropy.....it would be nice to see him doing something on this large scale for nature..

[@novelistusonthewater]

Jeff Bezos ? Thats the guy who just skimmed another 30 billion $ personal wealth of the COVID misery from mankind. He and Zuckerberg are the biggest sociopaths the corporate world has ever created. Don't count on them to do any good for anybody but himself and own families.

[@hellihello2333]

I made 2 presentations in school about the pumalin-park and I just fell in love with it so much. Hopefully I'll be able to visit it one day!

[@rickybobby6766]

I wanna go pumalin too .. i have being in Park patagonia only .. Let me know summer 2021..

[@hellihello2333]

@@rickybobby6766 haha I would if I had money

[@elizabethashley1436]

This was incredible. I try to do what I can, but to hear all the work being done to help our planet really gave me strength in a time when sometimes it's difficult to believe we can do anything to stop the destruction

[@LSAworship]

This story is amazing. Cnn wonder years was the place I heard about this effort.

[@timsmith6675]

Great talk! We, as a species, have gotten to this high level of civilization by cooperation among many different people and groups. Wildlife influences a lot more of the earth's systems and need protection from our own ignorance.

[@mrmike2119]

I'm all for managed conservation (in the tradition of TR). The most significant problem: How do we properly relate to the earth and protect it (in balance with corporate activity) until we can prove successful getting along with one another as a human race? Good, thought-filled commentary, Kristine Tompkins.

[@lorrainewelch5176]

May God bless you 100 fold 🦋 love will guide us.

[@alysonmaxwell1991]

Thank goodness for people like her

[@Ashley-ku7is]

Thank you

[@mysticsoundwave6620]

Wild at heart, peace in mind.... 🌿🌿🌿🌿

[@nielsblume]

Brilliant and inspiring. More wealth should be used for good like this. More humans should think like this.

[@SarfarazAhmad89]

kindness just oozes out of her. amazing

[@Daudin1]

Kristine Tompkins is Joy Adamson of South America.

[@sanjakarinmusic]

What an amazing person!

[@avenordogu9443]

Thanks a lot for your amd late husband's extraordinary efforts to rewilde the erath. I have been inspired by your amazing example. Thank you.

[@novelistusonthewater]

Inspiring. And good to know that there is as many rich folks out there with a conscious than without.

[@xkcd000]

Thank you.

[@classified2715]

Hopefully, the fires won’t be too wild again in the forests though

[@nothing-hc1kj]

Forest fires are a natural part of earths cycle

[@Jesse-2531]

@@arickle becors we dont stoping mesing with natur. most fierers are man made.

[@shading_and_art]

@@arickle That's because of Climate change

[@shading_and_art]

@@Jesse-2531 Yes ,be it directly or indirectly

[@annikruby2715]

Thank you

[@ShinyCrystalArt]

Very impressive ! save nature 🌳

[@saurabhlad]

You're an inspiration

[@raymondjones7489]

Your presentation is wonderful.! Well read and well informed ,I absolutely commend you for a job well done! You ARE my heroine.. I am now in that last one third of my life. .I dare to say I'm am equally passionate about the cause you represent...I would be honored to meet you one day. Please consider it!...thank you for your very gracious contribution to protecting this...most beautiful of all places in the universe...thank you !!! ❤❤😊😊

[@thebeelight]

beautiful!

[@BitcoinSLU]

love this

[@davidchang7500]

Beautiful wildness! When will the whole Earth becomes? Will each one of us connect with Nature?

[@tanviohol6807]

Honestly though, can anyone tell me what success actually means? Are you successful if you make a good impact in the world, enjoy your life with riches or just live wild? Edit- you guys, this is what i mean. Look at these comments. So many people with different answers. Why can't there be just 1. Also I AM ASKING THIS TO YOU ALL BECAUSE I CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT AND IT FEELS LIKE NOT KNOWING WILL EAT ME UP ALIVE

[@classified2715]

The definition of success is literally how you define what success is! Don’t let anyone persuade you to buy into their definition of success. Follow your heart instead so long as you don’t infringe upon the hearts of others. Great question though!

[@FreelancerAutoBidder]

Succeed doesn't happen , you can't succeed without preparing!

[@johns8065]

ouf good question. I cant answer it though. I think this it what you to figure out by yourself. Nobody can tell you how to life, wouldnt it be pointless then? So I guess, its about enjoying what you do. In terms of not wishing to do something else.

[@goo6]

that's for you to find out

[@fokjohnpainkiller]

Success is living happily and benefiting your community. Honest work and character. The rest is bs

[@MySigger]

Does such good stories

[@maxone981]

I agree with the comments below about who should have more responsibility then other but I'll like to say that everyone can make a change. Every single choice you make will affect the life where you live into. Food, clothes, technology, household, car and so on. Yo can direct the "supply and demand", every single of us. I'd suggest to every one to be more responsible when you buy: sustainability, origin, quantity, disposing. Please keep in mind we are all the same and we are all connected to each other, to animals and to the earth.

[@user-ci2lg1lw5b]

우리는 발전을 중요하게 여깁니다. 그로인해 혹독한 대가를 치르게 되죠. 환경을 가꾸고 보호하는 현실적이고 실천할 수 있는 여러 방안대해 생각해 보는 좋은 시간이었습니다. 멋진 강연 해주셔서 감사합니다.

[@germansoto1738]

Mi admiracion al matrimonio Tompkins

[@now1176]

Beautiful.

[@yatendranegi9836]

I love the title...

[@metalnideth]

as a chilean, but most important, as a human, i cannot thank you enough

[@alldaeiam]

🙌🙌🙌

[@garrygballard8914]

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 BRAVO 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 ✌ to all on 🌎 & 💚

[@nceep]

When we protect the wild, the wild protects us. Totally agree, Political will, Power and Wealth are the catalysts but along with self-commitment to do something that has nothing to do with 'ourselves' but rather with those things that are true in this nature, we can change the world. I am committed, No second word.

[@anuraguprety8448]

A thing of beauty is wild forever

[@marcoasilvar8712]

Este video deberia tener infinitos likes. This video should have infinite likes

[@user-oy3ct6dm7k]

💖

[@MrDemonious]

It's so inspiring to watch this at 1.75x speed

[@krakrakakakakahah241]

Very inspiring! My own vision dor the future is that will become the caretakers of the Earth. The time will cone people will realize what is really important.

[@VishnuEaswaran]

Salute!

[@JadeTrading]

Seriously, who’s sick of this quarantine? Because I am.

[@petrolmonkey1973]

we all are, but we cant stop until its safe enough mate

[@derekmiller8564]

❤❤❤

[@johnchristopherlayton1325]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@MySigger]

Never been so early

[@brandond5441]

Have you seen Seattle?

[@luise213]

did you even watch the video

[@Derftastic0204]

I wish there was a way to live with nature, just modernized. Like we should have local produce and livestock farms. we should be focusing on our planet because without one we would not exist. This ted talk definely helped me!!

[@madcoolclips2800]

Cool

[@ironplay6080]

I miss the crowd

[@KootFloris]

"The insensitivity required to be part of the system is unsustainable. Without sensitivity to life as a whole, everything starts to die." ~Charles Davies This TED talk fits everything, from systemic racism, to cutting down forests because it makes money. And we all sell out to fit in, thus we become complicit in the systemic hurting of others and nature. How crazy we are? As long as our current economy and the growth model take precedence over life, humanity & nature, and as long as we clammer to fit within that crazy greed system, we'll keep harming ourselves and our home. Or as the Native Americans say: ""Whatever we do to the web of life, we do to ourselves." This also goes the other way around. "Whatever harm we do to ourselves, will hurt the web of life."

[@sourovdas7883]

we all are wild

[@justine8558]

these comments help me know I'm not alone. we are a community of environmentalists. we can make a change.

[@MySigger]

How

[@sergeyalekseev3291]

My life is quite wild despite the ecology

[@melissiacharles5229]

Freedom

[@fussel895]

This is so true... I live in France, we have a few parks here and there but wildlife in our imagination is equal to pretty little parks with birds and bees. We used to have wild horses, deers, freaking lions, wolves, the first time I saw a deer up close is when I was called to witness one being gutted upside down. I have nothing against hunters, because we made such a mess invading wild animals’ space for the last millennial (if not more) that now, we have to « regulate » their population...

[@menateshome3185]

How can we make it better tho?

[@freiac4645]

The most effective way to help is by joining and being active in an organization! For instance Greenpeace, WWF, or a more local organization:)

[@Gigus6969]

This woman and her husband are remarkable people and have done so much to help the planet. By no means, what I say is meant to belittle or deter from the messages that she speaks and wishes to instill in a younger generation. But as someone of this younger generation with the decided life purpose of wildlife conservation, should we not question why we have to privatize nature in order to protect it? What should be something no human has the control over? I understand why this is necessary, the human world is decided by money and you can hear the heaviness of the words she speaks when she talks of the use of wealth and privatization of land as the "chess move" to make in order to protect the planet. The reality of this age is that money and ownership is the only way to protect the planet fast enough with the ever decreasing time window we are given to do so. In addition ownership of nature is the only thing stopping those who would benefit from destroying it, so believe me I understand why this is so. That doesnt change that I think it is wrong and several of my generation do as well. The notion that spoke the most to me and what all environmentalists share is that the first step for change is believing it is possible, no matter how small of a possibility that may be. I think that even when nature is preserved there will still be problems the next generation will have to solve, that being the world view of nature and its importance. We are a part of nature, not apart from it.

[@DPR1DEWANPANGKASRAMBUT]

Like 172

[@vitaly6312]

If you’re looking for a place like this in the US - it’s called AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE.

[@MySigger]

Ted

[@theresechiq]

I love that you care a lot about nature and the animals. Maybe a piece of that land can be used for shelter of refugees and in return they could help look after it.

[@iceylore7767]

ey!

[@invox9490]

The best thing we can do to save our planet is not to "do" something, it is to just... STOP! 🌍

[@rj9955hi]

2020 is doing it for you lady

[@christianwilliams1136]

It would of been nice for her to expose more of the truth on what is currently the number one driver of deforestation, species extinction, ocean dead zones, and that takes up 45% of all of the space on all of the continent on this planet. This is all driven by one industry that everybody is participating in 3 times a day on their plates, this industry being the animal agriculture industry. Meat, dairy, fish, shellfish and eggs are the number one destructive force on this planet. It contributes to more greenhouse gasses than all of the transportation sector, meaning cars, boats, trains and plains combined. If we stoped eating what we are not designed for we could re-wild 75% of the land on this planet.