Such a very informative talk. Thank you Dr. Rabalais for your efforts, for going above and beyond your responsibility as a scientist - not letting your research findings just be confined in the academic and scientific community but you made ways for these findings to reach the media and policy makers, thereby resulting in ways (or policy making) that help protect and sustain our environment. As a woman of science, I am inspired with what you did and hopefully, I can also make a good impact in the near future with my research.
@HomesteadEngineering6 жыл бұрын
These are a few EASY things I did to save the environment/money: 1. switched from incandescent to LED light bulbs 2. Added additional insulation to attic 3. Put TV's and computers on power strips and turn them off when not in use AND here are some harder things I did: 1. Installed my own solar power system that runs our house 2. built a solar water heater for $40 3. built a solar pool heater AND next I am going to trade my gas guzzling truck for a electric car and drive it for free by charging it with my home solar power. You can save a LOT of money while helping the environment!
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
Every time I swim I release some gas into the water to help the environment.
@shlomosilversteinberg57856 жыл бұрын
You aren't going to save money until about a decade with solar panels.
@HomesteadEngineering6 жыл бұрын
Lorem, Yes, that's about right. So in other words, I'll pay the same as you for 10 years and then all my power will be free.
@trentonpaul63766 жыл бұрын
That payment for solar power is usually a big economic leap. It's hard to simply ease into a solar-powered environment. You're fortunate enough to be able to do that
@HomesteadEngineering6 жыл бұрын
blinkafrootable, Yes, that's true. I had to come up with 26k to build my system and then got 8k back on taxes later. Ironically, there are many things in life that are cheaper if you have money. Cheaper power, cheaper housing, cheaper cars and even cheaper food. By "cheaper", I mean that you pay less for the same thing when you have more money.
@josht95186 жыл бұрын
Next on Shark Week... nothing.
@pinchmesh86424 жыл бұрын
There's also a BIG problem with herbicides, which are also pesticides, but never tested as such. My guess is they are part of the cause. Concentrations of as little as 0.1 PPB of dursban ( a larvacide) can kill 100% of shrimp larva. That's an undetectable trace.
@DMahalko6 жыл бұрын
What we need are artificial wetlands and ponds to collect field runoff, and separate the fields and drainage ditches from lakes and rivers. Collect the nitrogen and phosphorus, then respray it back onto the field on the high slope side. In the long run, this saves the farmer money, by capturing and reusing the escaping nutrients.
@larryloyd29895 жыл бұрын
Dale Mahalko ok well your not thinking of all the toxins from vehicle gas and oil and other ones that we would be eating if you reused that water for that purpose. even if they just feed the animals it we would be still eating the animals and still get that stuff in us.
@georgemcdonald79225 жыл бұрын
We need more hurricanes!
@hectorbb42256 жыл бұрын
I liked this talk and would like to see a follow up on it in the future. It actually got me engaged and curious to learn on the subject. A very important subject and great talk!
@vikkiledgard84836 жыл бұрын
Hurrah for Nancy Rabalaise! What a hero👍❤️❤️❤️
@LoveAndPeaceOccurs6 жыл бұрын
Thank You Nancy Rabalais, for your work and your effort. Would have been nice had you included a rate of "dead zone" growth or expansion" also would have been nice if you might have shared any information about any place (on the planet) that has already stopped or reversed this problem. BUT all effort toward resolving this Huge problem is appreciated. Love & Peace to All
@wokemojo7036 жыл бұрын
Environmental genius. Hopefully her device can reverse what's left of the BP oil crisis in addition to our river pollution. Excellent Talk!
@carterscustomrods6 жыл бұрын
John Con Queso I think she is greatly underestimating the level of pollution that the BP spill (and the other unknown spills) and the pollutants run offs have done to the gulf... my backyard.
@moldoveanu86 жыл бұрын
The planet will still be here even if a comet wipes us all out. Humans aren't hurting the planet, they are hurting themselves. I think if we change how we look at the problem we can get more deniers to see that it's a pretty big deal and last time I checked it was illegal to hurt other people directly or indirectly. I guess what I am saying is hold the polluters responsible for their actions as the consequences are for everyone.
@yvettemeza33844 жыл бұрын
Good Question it is important to know
@Trinhnguyen7142 жыл бұрын
Can bamboo help if planted at strategical locations? Ie Running bamboo shoots?
@fatimazaim5033 жыл бұрын
If there's an increase in algal bloom, wouldn't that lead to more oxygen formation, more productivity first? And then later becomes harmful when it dies? Waiting for your reply. Thank you
@chiefonelung34166 жыл бұрын
A Wonderful talk. Thanks so much for all your work.
@aracelycastilloreyes29586 жыл бұрын
Hello, Can I use this video for a documentary I'm doing about Dead Zones? thx
@MrMongo3216 жыл бұрын
How do you find non-ethanol treated gasoline?
@erikas15723 жыл бұрын
So so inspiring, thank you Dr. Rabalais
@seanconway11545 жыл бұрын
It also doesn't help that almost all of Americas heavy industries are based on the Mississippi River.
@MrMongo3216 жыл бұрын
If the Gulf of Mexico has the second largest dead zone, what area has the largest
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
Outer space... there's no oxygen there
@tiavor6 жыл бұрын
Gulf of Oman, almost the entirety of the gulf (63,700-square-miles) is a dead zone.
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
Tiavor Kuroma You are smarter than me!!
@alfbeef58806 жыл бұрын
The salt content in the Gulf of omen is too high for anything in grow in..
@floisheremuch6 жыл бұрын
wikipedia says "The cause is a combination of increased ocean warming, and increased runoff of nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers" so i guess still farming, oddly enough
@KUBE.archvis6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this beautiful talk!
@funkyanimaltheearloffunkdo18716 жыл бұрын
What can the farmers use instead?
@merelyc6 жыл бұрын
Her opinion is taking environment to consider, USA's crop is too cheap
@mikeharrington55936 жыл бұрын
Animal manure (regenerative polyculture) and mycorrhizal fungi where crops benefit (not brassicas). There needs to be large scale mycorrhizal powder or pellet production, on a similar scale to fertilizer production.
@moldoveanu86 жыл бұрын
GMO crops that don't need as much fertilizer and water. They are proven safe. But just like anything else people don't understand, there will be those who are afraid to accept it.
@Dimetropteryx6 жыл бұрын
Reduce the use of fertilizer, reduce run-off, reduce erosion, increase the minimum distance to waterways. The states around the Baltic Sea have been dealing with this exact same problem for decades now.
@LauraDFTBA6 жыл бұрын
Couple of months late but, and this comes with a limited knowledge of growing crops, would changing agricultural practices to include companion plants make a difference? Being North America and corn, squash comes to mind from the Native American 'three sisters' planting. Would a companion plant help soak up the excess before it has a chance to reach the water table?
@fatimazaim5033 жыл бұрын
Why is their a limit to dead one, I mean why does it have a specific size?
@reachinghigher42596 жыл бұрын
I'm hardly vegetarian or vegan, but I do have a (what I consider to be) low animal-product intake (not counting cheese, butter, & eggs, though I do try to buy those free range, grass fed, cage free, and organic.) There's got to be a point where the shocking amount of waste we generate (ie: throwing food away because we didn't want left-overs, making portions too massive, offering too much food and throwing away what was unpopular, etc) has to impact the amount of food we produce. I think about how many cattle, fish, pork, and poultry we slaughter and process, and then how much of it goes straight into the trash can. I remember reading that some 30% of all food in the USA is thrown away. Imagine 30% less catch, slaughter, or production...if only people didn't buy what they were going to toss anyway, or if portions were smaller.
@andreaslassen53046 жыл бұрын
1:57 "food web"
@robertmclennan53105 жыл бұрын
The Mississippi River is a Sanitary Canal for semi-treated sludge Northern Cities like Chicago. Red Tide is Man Made!
@element746 жыл бұрын
how many times did she say dead zone?
@innazhurav96226 жыл бұрын
To be less consumptive- golden words!
@robertmclennan53105 жыл бұрын
Hmm you forgot to mention the human Factor! Southside of Chicago on the Banks of Lake Michigan is the Sanitation and Shipping Canal. It runs into the Illinois River and then the Mississippi River. Every city along the way dumps their influent (liquid from municipal water treatment plants) into the rivers!
@dannmarceau5 жыл бұрын
I'm no scientist, (my life long friend Dr.Fred Sharpe is) but I studied marine biology, oceanography, as well as environmental science, better act fast or there will be people coming after your food.
@arthurlevin5 жыл бұрын
Thank you very educational. What elements of matter can break down the nitrogen and phosphorus in the ocean's dead zone? They are both odd number elements so what even number elements will combine to form a compound element like water one elements of hydrogen an odd number element and two elements of oxygen even number element?
@eleanormattice3598 Жыл бұрын
Big agri-business needs to fix this problem. They profiting from our loss of fisheries and drinking water. We need regenerative soil practices, not chemical fertilizers.
@bobwelch83174 жыл бұрын
Use humate??? 100 percent organic soil supplement that will increase yield by up to ,30 percent.
@mikapeltokorpi76716 жыл бұрын
Elementary. Protective zones of 10 ft to river banks with no farming allowed, better treatment of sewage water. That's it.
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
Genius!
@bkbland16266 жыл бұрын
Real life is rarely simple.
@jesuscardona65906 жыл бұрын
That's an elementary solution. It takes, less fertilizers, less pesticides, soil preservation, and as well as the waste product from farmed foods. We need to make decisions to be less consumptive. We all as humans need to look at this closely. Thank you
@JohnS-sl8sk6 жыл бұрын
Jesus Cardona It’s called the Conservation Reserve Program that is already in place
@arthurlevin5 жыл бұрын
What concerns me most about ocean dead zones is the possibility that they will begin to emit high-level of toxic methane gas.
@emerybegaye94133 жыл бұрын
She lost me for a second when she mentioned the former governor of New Jersey looking at her and said she "was tired of this thing being called New Jersey. Pick another state any state , I just don't want to hear it anymore" Until I turned on the subtitles and found out she was quoting the former governor.
@gigirlp116 жыл бұрын
We can all do our little contribution that will eventually make an impact! I do it and I’m constantly trying to do more thank you for this video! ❤️
@ytSuns265 жыл бұрын
She neglected to mention the contribution from Monsanto . Round up ! May prove to be very , very toxic to all forms of life
@iLoveTurtlesHaha5 жыл бұрын
She addressed that a change in agriculture is needed - this includes Monsanto, and all parties involved.
@cornpuffs96216 жыл бұрын
Do other schools not teach this in earth science?
@gregaaron896 жыл бұрын
Unthinkable that we could have a bipartisan environmental bill passed today
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
"Just plug the damn hole!"
@JustOneAsbesto6 жыл бұрын
Good luck getting Pruitt to do anything.
@reypaulino50115 жыл бұрын
for being called dead zone has anybody made a Garlic Jr - DBZ joke
@aashvii276 жыл бұрын
Listing to the volume 2 of #1neLeVeLUP he's amazing
@namialus13764 жыл бұрын
At 1.5x speed, she sounds like she’s crying.
@carterscustomrods6 жыл бұрын
i want to watch this but its boring me for some reason. I love TED Talks but it just seems slow. Ill download it and play it at faster speed once i get home.
@ManTheManLV2556 жыл бұрын
MrCarter'sRods it's definitely the talker. She's kind of hard to listen to.
@montana_garage Жыл бұрын
This talk really highlights how people that eat plants are creating a huge demand for products whose production is causing an environmental catastrophe. Eat responsibly.
@genericeric01026 жыл бұрын
animal agriculture, that's the reason why I'm vegan
@benc80666 жыл бұрын
eric jones i love eating animals
@dickhamilton35176 жыл бұрын
no, agriculture in general, especially in places that are not too fertile to begin with.
@dickhamilton35176 жыл бұрын
don't expect many more years of that.
@jasona70296 жыл бұрын
is all depends, if you water the crops with water unknowingly contaminated? You could potentially be sick too.
@dickhamilton35176 жыл бұрын
I certainly will, cereal murtherer - I lost my sense of smell, and so, most of my sense of taste, a couple years ago and can really only get salt, sweet, and sour. Eating is no fun, a chore, so I've lost a fair bit of weight. However, it means that when the Great Hunger comes, I'm used to less food and might last a bit longer than those around me. Then I can eat them.
@angelo1000r5 жыл бұрын
“Louisiana America’s Industry Waist Land”
@kerryholbrook17975 жыл бұрын
Good luck with getting fish on the other side of the country to change chemicals. Unless they have the same cost and outcome. I live by the beginning of sciota river. Are river is trash. There's barley any fish besides carp and some blue cats, that I've seen. The only time we get bass and bluegill are spawning season. Then you can see a negative difference in river fish compared to quary. I can think of so many ways that would possibly resolve this. But the problem should be fixed where it's starting first.
@joannot67066 жыл бұрын
And people still make fun of vegans.
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
No... only the vegetarians.
@joannot67066 жыл бұрын
mhtinla You haven't stayed long enough on the internet if you think people don't make fun of vegans.
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
I'm a carnivore and I don't make fun of vegans. Therefore it must be vegetarians making fun of vegans.
@goku41176 жыл бұрын
What veganism has to do with this "dead zones" issue, exactly? edit: nvm I was still in the middle of the video
@joannot67066 жыл бұрын
Goku I was as surprised as you when I heard that animal agriculture had such a bad impact on environment. They all tell us about cars, planes and all that like one of the biggest threat we face while animal agriculture emits more green house gases than all transportation combined. If you are interested about environmental issues, you may enjoy cowspiracy (which is becoming outdated, things are worst today).
@thatsme84336 жыл бұрын
Nice
@mwj53686 жыл бұрын
Great ideas we so need, but was saddened as never once did I hear the word, ORGANIC.
@LeonidasGGG6 жыл бұрын
"sneaking into Texas" ...like a Mexican? #pun #shotsfired And I don't know how old this woman is, but she is delivering KOs left and right. #og
@cpt01182 жыл бұрын
Pollution has killed the Gulf of Mexico
@AtheistEve6 жыл бұрын
My mini-steps are: being vegan; not having kids; not flying for fun; car-sharing; not buying superfluous rubbish; recycling and composting everything I can.
@ps2003066 жыл бұрын
America's problem is not too many kids. It has an incredibly low population density compared to many other countries. The problem is both kids and adults consuming too much stuff.
@muddibat995 жыл бұрын
We are dooomed!!! She is awesome but her information is incomplet! 70% of the polution that we make today is due to animal agriculture! The food is beeing procesed in a wrong way, it creats a loot of health isues for people, and the enviorment, she scraped but the surface! The fact that we humans think that we need meat to thrive is not true!!! Its a bad habit like smoeking and drinking boozz till you fall down. Iron, b 12, vitamin proteins come from the plant kingdom. They nurish the people the best, and easyest for the enviorment, wild life, forest and also human health!! The fact that we have to ciccle our food intake trough another being is not needed. A wholesome plant based diet is what the human. Tribes best on. Remember the ocean dead zones, water pollution come from you being a slave to the current sistem. No one wants to plant trees or live with his farm because we city folk we don't know how! Please do some research or ask me personally about this topics. CowSpiracy, what the health and forks over knifes are the best focus to watch go gwet what's happening today! If you don't watch the documentations ask me for more Info's
@eastgreenlander50166 жыл бұрын
Sad.
@matwilliams46086 жыл бұрын
To help the fish have 1,000 ships pump air in to dead zone sea before it become a completely dead of all fish , Instead of just talking about it
@xavierdavidlluesma80306 жыл бұрын
No meat?
@AtheistEve6 жыл бұрын
Javier David Lluesma No eggs and dairy either.
@xavierdavidlluesma80306 жыл бұрын
JE Hoyes I'm already vegan :)
@Pueblomanvideo5 жыл бұрын
VOTE!!!
@lukeboshier6 жыл бұрын
contain and reduce by lifting fixed carbon levels
@a1hardwood6 жыл бұрын
holy Toledo
@AgitatingBastard6 жыл бұрын
If you want to convince farmers first you need to be able to understand agriculture. Many environmentalists do not understand the basics of farming crops or livestock and make obvious (to an agriculturalist or farmer). I would also include environmental scientists with no cross disciplinary education. For example she mentioned perennial wheat crops as an an alternative. Thats embarrassing as there is no perennial wheat as a viable commercial crop (research into developing that crop has been going on but all have failed in commercial application, e.g yields 1/3 that of conventional). She briefly mentions targeted fertiliser, which is leaping ahead. As for "not feeding the world", all bar ethanol she lists are food. Bizarrely being proud of not using ethanol (instead using more fossil fuels) is counter productive for our oceans as it only increases the rate of climate change. Not using a oil with one of the highest production per hectare meaning more land must be converted to oil crops (palm oil is great yea?) is equally counter productive. As an agriculturalist with an environmental background, I can tell you farmers and agricultural scientists are doing far more in a day then all her suggestions will do. They are trying much harder to "translate scientific research into the real world" than these suggestions or lobbying. But you'll never hear a TEDtalk about it (and no before someone says neither Savory or Salatin are what I'd consider significant in this area)
@SoulJiuJitsu6 жыл бұрын
As a nation, we throw away over 35 million tons of food every year, much of it meat. Maybe we just need to properly adjust the supply.
@captainandthelady6 жыл бұрын
I agree with what she says but we need those chemicals to grow food to feed the world. So, I'd say that the primary problem is over population. Lower the population and you'll lower the need to grow food. Then you'll need less chemicals.
@MIKOOL132 жыл бұрын
You first.
@captainandthelady2 жыл бұрын
@@MIKOOL13 Not to worry. I married a widow with two kids and we decided not to have any our selves... not for a lack of trying mind you😁.
@cudatom92903 жыл бұрын
Stop subsidizing corn.
@fatimazaim5033 жыл бұрын
Why many phytoplankton die?
@3tapsnu0ut875 жыл бұрын
"we can do better than this" . . . we sure can! Back in the day we used to FIX THINGS! Try and find a small appliance repair shop now. If you do . . . you may well hear "it's cheaper to buy another one" . . . . . . OH REALLY!!!!!!! Taking the profit out of capitalism and replacing it with equal value would put all the world's super rich into bankruptcy immediately.
@barekomaba43836 жыл бұрын
Dead zone I thought that wasn't canon. Where my dragon ball z fans at
@reroman39505 жыл бұрын
All the likes are from Leviathans
@RawDoggg6 жыл бұрын
Going vegan is a good place to start
@davidmeehan44866 жыл бұрын
You know, I think integrating animal and plant agriculture, and managing runoff is going to be the way forward. I agree that we should consume less anormal products, and good for you for all you're doing. I just don't think we should be as absolute as to go vegan.
@joanosman83126 жыл бұрын
OK
@hectorbb42256 жыл бұрын
JOAN OSMAN I saw you praising the girl in yesterdays talk (the one with the useless inventions) and this talk, an actual good and informative talk, gets just an irrelevant comment? OK
@joanosman83126 жыл бұрын
Héctor BuBa Do you know me?
@hectorbb42256 жыл бұрын
LOL Aviri... I just disliked how much support the weird girl in yesterday's upload got in contrast with the support I see here. Now, don't get me wrong, I see some positivity. Just not as much. I mean... Definitely got way ahead of myself, I get that, but still... Isn't it kind of annoying for you? They keep uploading weird talks and the ones that actually try to objectively and quantifiably to improve the world just get buried under the pretty girl with the "useless inventions"
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
I see it as a bad pick-up line. Don't be too serious.
@a_plus_content83216 жыл бұрын
Second ...idk maybe ...I hope
@a_plus_content83216 жыл бұрын
Nvm third
@alia49764 жыл бұрын
Yet so much food grown here is gone to waste =/ ....Americans
@juancarlosmartinez17186 жыл бұрын
And this is important because...
@johnnybunch18495 жыл бұрын
Cut the River s off gulf of Mexico
@youj2526 жыл бұрын
Well if there wasent 7 billion people we would not need so many farms
@peggyharris38156 жыл бұрын
youj252 ...YOU could help the cause...leave. (YOU are part of the 7b.) When YOU want to reduce the population to make the world more pleasant for YOU by eliminating others...know this: they want to eliminate YOU as well. Namaste baby.
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
Peggy Harris Nobody wants to eliminate the other 6,999,999,999 population. We just want to neuter them.
@peggyharris38156 жыл бұрын
mhtinla ...lol. Well...ok. I have helped with that one, married, no children.
@mhtinla6 жыл бұрын
Peggy Harris You can have one and still be helpful.
@ratatataraxia6 жыл бұрын
You mean Corpus Christi?
@drzoidberg8446 жыл бұрын
Mark Nicholson what?
@heyitsmemarcus20826 жыл бұрын
first
@SamTheMan6 жыл бұрын
How can you say it is not natural when it is caused by human activity!?!?! Do you not understand the definition of the word natural??? ARE WE UNNATURAL!?!?!
@aaronrosenberg66336 жыл бұрын
Good point. Not the best word choice, but she only meant "caused by human activity."