An urgent call to protect the world's "Third Pole" | Tshering Tobgay
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- The Hindu Kush Himalaya region is the world's third-largest repository of ice, after the North and South Poles -- and if current melting rates continue, two-thirds of its glaciers could be gone by the end of this century. What will happen if we let them melt away? Environmentalist and former Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay shares the latest from the "water towers of Asia," making an urgent call to create an intergovernmental agency to protect the glaciers -- and save the nearly two billion people downstream from catastrophic flooding that would destroy land and livelihoods.
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We don't care until we are personally affected. Best line - it's heart touching truth
Really
Akshay Shah I think a bigger problem is that caring isn’t enough.
@Mr. & Mrs Smith Cant agree more!
If we wait until we are all affected than all of us will be finished.
@@colino4822 but they can work individually in their country. So, it's not a big problem.
We need leaders like Mr. Tshering Tobgay, who work for the environment and for the world. This is the requirement for the present. Time is running out. We need to act upon the solutions proposed by respected sir. And solve this problem effectively and efficiently.
what does effectively and efficiently means?
@@art.alagna.design it means that we should be able to recieve results in a less cost or time consuming manner. Here achieving the results is more important THOUGH.
@@ankushgupta8977 so....what you do? What to do?
Yes, very true. India and China should come together and take solid measures to cut their carbon emission.
I AM WITH THIS MAN COMPLETELY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THESE OTHER COUNTRIES!!!! TIME IS DEFINITELY RUNNING OUT!!! I AM FROM ALASKA AND I SEE THE WARMING LOUD AND CLEAR!!!!
Did u take any little move like planting tree anything we should take
@@withAj37 planting a tree wont do anything, even planting a billion trees wont slow it down unless we stop emitting co2.
@@howtoandreviews6150 No they are not, planting, a billion trees wont save the planet, reviving ecosystem can help a bit, sure, but it will not save it. Unless we stop emitting co2 planting trees will be like trying to permanently seal a 1m leak on a dam by putting your finger on it.
@@CarlosAM1 Trees and plant life absorb carbon dioxide and revived ecosystems lock carbon into the ground. Hate to be a tree hugger but they are far more powerful than we are.
@@howtoandreviews6150 they absorb carbon dioxide, sure but again, a billion of them can´t even absorb 1/4th of the co2 we emit per year. China literally planted a billion trees a few years ago and do you see any change in co2 rising levels? nope, still going up as usual.
Bhutan is the only carbon negative country in the world. Huge respect!
yeah but with the rest of the world not caring their efforts will amount to little more than nothing.
@@sizanogreen9900 true
I mean, sure, when you're not industrialized and literally one of the last countries to even allow TVs and Internet, sort of an easy thing to do: not much effort required.
Are you advocating for their way of life while you use modern technology that could only have been developed through industrialized societies?
I’m sure if everyone else walked and road horses everywhere then it would be fine. But that’s inefficient.
@KingIceHunter Exactly, because then corporations will not be able to make billions of money and capitalism/greed will not grow as much. We are much happier and successful than people from Bhutan.
Dear mister prime minister
You are one of the most admired person in our region.
Thank you very much for the valuable information which I will share with my friends.
He rocked the Ted last time he visited the stage. Kudos from India !
yes, I watched it when it came out, and then again recently.
The world needs leader's like him!
How about we become like him 😉
Agreed with him
I am from uttrakhand India stay near Himalaya..
Last time I visited with my father at our Forest near Himalaya,
I seen lot of beautiful lake at same, my Father said to me when we was young these lake didn't exist I couldn't understood?
Now we need to work together make our mountain as century ago
This genial monk - earth politician opened my eyes with his talk "this country is carbon negative".. the world needs to study and implement the Bhutan model ASAP! My state Goa has a sacred energyprint like this Himalayan kingdom, but our people have lost the connection to the land, sea, forest and are unable to interpret the warnings from the Universe
Tshering Tobgay is not a monk Environmentalist and former Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay shares the latest from the "water towers of Asia,"
He is neither monk nor earth politician 🤣😂😆anyway he opened your eyes that's good 👍
@@yeshidiondorji "to subjugate your own desires for the benefit of the greater good of humanity". That was spoken by a Bhutanese monk on a DW channel youtube video
He is my new hero... I am so in awe of how he speaks with intelligence and sincerity and he gets the message across, my only hope is that we take his message with all seriousness and see the extent of how global warming threatens our survival as a species not in the future but now and make a collective move to prevent this disaster as global citizens and not as dependents of governments who use politics strictly for the gain of a few!
He is true politicians unlike other fakes politicians
A video worthy of TED after a long time , Still I don't understand who could dislike it?
Climate change deniers would be my guess.
Those who don't care, and now are pissed for he made them bad conscience.
understand western cryptocracy, satan worshipping masons
He is talking from a human viewpoint. Global warming is happening, yes, but how much of it is man made? Ask a geologist. Look at carbon deposits in limestone, geological records of co2 and temperature levels( not directly correlated) in our world's 4.5 billion(!) Year history. Then ask a botanist: At what lowest co2 level is plantlife still sustainable? Then ask an astronomer about space weather, planetary warming in our solar system and solar activity records. Now connect the dots and you might find a sensible answer to your question: "who would dislike this video?"
@@SynomDroni Shut up you dumbfuck and ask a geologist yourself. Yor surely haven´t done that yet.
TED talks should be aired live on UA-cam
Nobody would pay attention, they’d be too busy chatting.
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Well I usually like a good debate on interesting topics
Internet is usually not a boring place
Live on TV
@@zelenplav1701
youtube is TV
live (cable) TV is a tiny minority of viewers. More people watch twitch than all live TV. More people streamed LoL than the superbowl.
Mr Tobgay, this is so far the most relevant spiritual message for humanity in the 21st century.
Thank you.
Being a Indian, I hope we take this message seriously & get the team together to collaborate with Bhutan & other SAARC countries.
The best group to take part in this from India would be Sadhguru’s team
Yeah right ! 2yrs later I can vouch against that motorcycle riding pseudo guru.... SaveSoil by burning more fuel on that bike of his 🤦
@@stk6997 another cry baby hi cry baby how are u????
As a bhutanese i have experienced changed in the climate as now every year the weather is getting hotter...Now i see less snows on the moutains as i used to when i was a kid.. Itrs really changing guys we should protect our nature we should make this world a better place for future generation people to live a better and healthy life
"We must think globally and act regionally... " surely this man deserves to be called 'Leader of the Century'... We must think of what we all can contribute to save planet earth and ourselves... My contribution may be small but i know there's some change that i can and should make after hearing this... So instead of pointing finger, lets join hands and make the change
Yep dear
I’m from Nepal and I don’t just want to blame the corrupt government for not caring about the environment. It can’t be solved by the government while the intelligent people are not even in the country, every youths who are highly educated are in Australia, USA or other “LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES”. Everyone must stand together we all can help minimize in a huge amount, just using electrical vehicles would make a great difference. So people, it now is not a thing about nations, it is about the WORLD. Stand together and fight along everyone🙏
Mr Tshering Tobgay is what is called a Prime Minster, a person who listens and actions on behalf of his country. We have egoists leading other countries but what Tobgay commits is convincing. It's an urgent message that many haven't understood still today - because they don't care. Now we have with Mr. Tobgay a person that commits with a global voice - I am deeply impressed by his speech! Thanks
I hear you... I admire your courage to come out, to stand and deliver! May we all unite for this cause..Save Planet Earth.😊
I've heard many things like this before and I've never acted on it because like he said it didn't personally affect me. But, your words moved me. When you talked I had goosebumps. Because what you said how you said your emotions match mine because now I'm affected personally
He is an intellectual person who can represent Bhutan 🇧🇹 at global level and convey the best message for the entire world on environment and its issues
I wish all world leaders where shown this TED talk
Asher Selig especially the US where I live. All they care about is money instead of humanity.
Why? He admitted it himself that China and India need to step up. They wont. The planet could go green tomorrow but it won't make a difference if the highest polluting countries continue as usual.
@Super Saber You are forgetting the fact that you can't dictate what other countries do, for the most part.
The world is far from a global hive mind. To think otherwise is naive. Global action on emissions will do nothing unless the biggest polluters come to the party. Newsflash, they aren't.
@@justinm2697 Solution is to advance so far ahead with alternative energy sources that they can not compete with out changing as well. Doing nothing helps no one. But using economics and jumping ahead through technology is our best shot at effectively leaving those countries no choice.
@@loganskiwyse7823 So.... change or suffer the consequences economically? What if they still refuse to change? What would be the consequences then?
This Mister talks real talk. And his delivery is so great that people (at least for someone easily distracted as me) ends up listening attentively and absorbing carefull hia words. Amazing man! I hope more politicians speak as truthfully as him.
After 100's years later in future ,people will be watching this and say if only we had listen to him. 🙏
You are great sir!
Myself being a student of Environmental studies, i know how Catastrophic it is
Thank you so much for saying this a loud... I wish your voice reaches each one and every1 and take steps locally! Your voice has urgency and pain and a determination to save this planet
Money is the root of all problems and education is key to solve all problems.
Smartest post here. I said the same thing myself just before reading your post, except I used the word capitalism instead of money.
Money was neither problem the problem is with humans they don't like to see everyone equal some want to play godhood
@@rogerlow9107 Bullshit. Money is always the problem on so many levels. Money has destroyed our democracy. It has destroyed the economy via killing competition by putting 'kings of the hill' corporations in place of mom & pop shops. It is polluting the air, land, and oceans by the dumping the insurmountable waste that capitalism creates. Amazon is burning because of lust for money too.
This is very similar to the gun argument that guns dont kill people, but when we regulate or ban guns, the killings decrease substantially. I say in the same way we need to ban the access to guns, so too should be ban money.
Proof of my claim? Fundamentally, for the longest duration of our human existence, we had no monetary system, compared to a mere blip of our Evolutionary background showing the usage of money, and the whole world is in free-fall decline in cut-throat societies everywhere we look.
People don't want to be educated. They want to FEEL GOOD.
@@rogerlow9107 Absolutely I do agree, but what makes the difference between an economic slave and master? Money.
The average CO2 emission for living of a person is much more higher in the west than in the east. Yet we suffer the impacts. If we think together as mankind, limit our pp CO2, stop the greed of corporate, focus together to invent renewable energy and elect those political leaders in power, we can save the mother earth. But things are happening in reverse, countries are choosing more nationalistic and ignorant leaders. We will find so many patriots in the world but find very few earth lover as a whole. We are divided for the interest of corporate and political leaders. May be this the beginning of the end...or not?
Md It WAS on course in the 1970's. We WERE using Green Energies, cars, construction, industry, so many things were going toward a healthy planet, with healthy people and animals, and the forests and plant-life would now be thriving instead of dying. The Reagan Error/Era killed all perks and rewards for going Green. Reagan/Republikans killed Green to support the Petro Industry.
They block any invention that they can not make money from. The stock market and dividends are a disaster.
Excellent Mr.PM Tshering Tobgay wish India had leader like you. Thanks
Please share this TED talk as more people need to see evidence of climate change and so many of us are in disbelief of the subject.
You have really opened my eyes. The world must wake up and take this message seriously!
I wish everyone is as concerned as Our ex PM. Well said la Dasho.
We should give more efforts in spreading climate change awareness across the globe.. Sadly, media does not seriously relay the threats and problems that humanity will have to face in the near future.. It may not kill us yet in our lifetime, but it could be life threatening to our children and our children's children. We have been so abusive and hungry for power and wealth. If we won't stop, who will save us?
Only bhutanese ppl will know
We are protecting our forest
We care all people on world
Only BHUTANESE people will do this.🙏🙏🙏🙏🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹
Eww, shame on the 150 people who disliked this. Tshering Tobgay is AMAZING
Respect & honour for Mr. Tshering Tobgay & Bhutan. We must hear & follow for the survival of earth, for the survival of human civilization.
Glacier lakes can really wreck havoc. This is so true. Flash flood caused due to a similar lake near the sacred temple Kedarnath in india has taken lives of thousands of pilgrims. Being a native of the Himalayas, I know how majestic and fragile these mountains are. This is so tragic that to make a few people super rich, whole world is bearing the concequences. This needs to change. Help save our earth and our Himalaya.
One of these glaciers is the sacred gangotri from which river ganga originates. Ganga is the lifeline of India, center of the oldest culture alive. And gangotri is melting in a really high speed.
I am from India..and I am so disappointed that the government here has not taken the issue seriously . RESPECT AND SUPPORT TO BHUTAN🙏
I tried to sleep listening to his vioce like my normal nights with other videos, but no, he speaks in a circle and once you get his point, you flow to the next and the next and the next, I've never met a speaker/politician like him.
Huge respect from India, we need leaders, businesses and people who cares about the world and people.
The one country that comes between Bhutan and Maldives and Bhutan and Nepal is India whose politicians wouldn't even have noticed what happened
They're more concerned with whether a Masjid was built at a site or a temple was built.
Thats an ignorant statement mate.
@Yousaf Awan busy fighting **Jihadis
@Yousaf Awan yas killing beautiful Kashmiri not innocent
Indian prime minister recently said he doesn't believe in human caused global warming and won't change coal etc usage
Well said we must understand sense of urgency over these promblems ..# lots of love from India ❤
Being an Indian I feel ashamed that my Govt is not so thoughtful like Bhutan's. If every President or Prime minister of all the countries of the world come together and think plus act like the Bhutan, then will change be brought together.
Being a big nation we have to cator to greater need and thus we cannot be like them. We're a country of just 60 years of freedom and still are in developing phase. And we do our best. India is moving towards the renewable energy sources very fast. From biggest solar energy plant to 2nd largest DAM in the world. Plus we have the greatest reforestation percentage.
The countries from EU and America should be the one to do more of these things cause they're fully developed.
Bhutan one of my best countries. ❤️
Tshering Togbey a great mentor. ❤️
This is heart breaking. I totally agree with him. We don't have time. All the powerful people in the world should take this seriously and implement policies which help fight climate change.
We need more forests, way better drainage systems and processing facilities before exporting waste to our waters, use public transport over personal cars, more plant based food over meat and no plastic.
#bhutan #globalwarming
Personal cars are more reliable than public transportation. We're not going to solve this issue by being authoritarian.
@@afabuloussentientbeing8112 I disagree with you. You are underestimating the impact of public transportation. It is one of the most effective ways of solving lots of problems, cars don't solve those. Also as the matter of being authoritarian, I think asking people to do something and helping them by providing a relevant infrastructure is not authoritarianism.
One of the best Ted videos for me😍
PROUD TO BE A BHUTANESE 🕊️
Did u hear what he said ?
We must come together, only together we can. 💯
"I fully agree with this man!" they said, while sitting in their chairs comfortably and awaiting doom, watching UA-cam all day. Sad truth.
That hit me home hard
Facts
Omggg this message moved me. I promise I will do my best.
Good prime minister of Bhutan
I wish everyone can watch videos like this instead of "trash vidz".
I wish your call will be heard and every leaders out there will emulate the best practices from your beautiful country Bhutan. God bless you Sir.
What about these climatologists with about 40 years of experience saying our climate, droughts, floods, hurricanes etc. was way worse in 1950, and even worse in 1930, but the current stats go only back to 1960.
“Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.”
― Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
We need to hear more from this man.
Still nothing happens. My own country (Germany) keeps failing to get anywhere concerning climate change.
Even though we are fully capable dealing with the problem.
It is just one big mess and I fear it is going to end very bad for everyone.
They want more moneeeeey! Narrow thinking will bring us down!
And they keep eating all those sausages
I feel like we should set up a Company that should be used to develop and protect environments: (Can be named) EDP: Environmental Development and Protection. Could be used to help protect countries in environmental problems and Terraform planets. Mixing the 2 would be great because the Protection side can share info with Development to start up terraforming which they test plants and animals that live extreme conditions and make an environment. We need to research Water Bears more.
India, Pakistan and China to work together to save the Himalayas... well my bets are on the glaciers becoming completely non existent. and that's sad
What a touching speech!
Get this man together with David Attenborough asap
I wish we had politicians like him in the US
STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS/ COAL.... Pressure governments EVERYONE. We need to come together. For our children, for nature, animals and insects. We are all connected.
Stop driving your car
Such a great speaker and an inspirational man
Melting of the third cap also effects the albido of the planet and absorbs more heat and is a planetary issue.
In the US, Glacier Natural park has already lost over 100 out of approximately 125 glaciers. I think ( do not quote me on this ) in total the lower 48 has lost over 65% of total glaciers and roughly over 80% total ice stored there. ( I would have to look up the current numbers and it's 1 am so that's not happening till morning ). And we have so much push back against the science that we elected an idiot as president. Sighs.
We Indians want it to
But the problem is
We have a good gdp
If we stop it all of it cars , factories ,bikes ,trucks , trains
Ee can also be carbon neutral
But then people will lose jobs
Then they will not earn money
How will they buy things like food , home , land ,dress.
If we have low gdp and somehow have the tribes to help us with food
We have political enemies like xhina , who will use their military to take over us and do the same thing we are doing now
Basically we have bad luck
Either save ur people
Or save the other people
Both can't be done simultaneously
It's like
Either lose father or whole family
"Elementally beautiful. Elementally, worth preserving."
"Protect what matters most: Mother Earth, and all the beauty and life she has born. Mother Earth, the elemental basis of all our lives, and all our loves."
"My fealty is to the mountain. Majestic it stands, above all, to see all, to support all, to sustain all. I subject my heart, to its heart."
"In Nature, and in human nature,
mountains come to be. Especially now, I bow to those standing tall... for all."
~ Paul Jung
I salute Mr Prime minister's farsightedness.when all the developed countries focus on the financial issues and busy to establish their supremacy above others, then, only PM of undeveloped country talks about the upcoming water crisis and several natural calamities which could be the result of glacier's melting. He call the big giants of Asia especially China and India, to come ahead for the rescuing ours natural resources. This is the need of this time to think about the unimaginable destruction which lies ahead, if, we ignore the present scenario.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. --Voltaire
those who can apply a functioning comprehension of epistemology
don't receive airplay
'Put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it' M.M. Elliot
Everyone cant do everythings,but everyone can do somethings.We are connected with nature !! Save our planet..Peace with Love🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾
All countries must work together now to prevent the planet from getting warmer. We all have to work together, all governments, all citizens, we all have to protect our climate, our environment, and our planet. We have to do everything in our power to prevent disasters caused by global warming from happening. We must save and protect our planet which is also our home. There is no planet B.
INDIA is in a weird position , having 132 cr population it produces 7 to 8 % of the total CO2 emission , China with similar no. of population produces 30 % of total CO2 gases and USA with a meagre 35 cr produces 25% of CO2
I always like the smile in his face it makes me happy too 😊
he is true 👏
And he was the prime minister of Bhutan, If he lasted longer, that would've been great!
Huge respect from Vietnam
God in heaven heard him and hence the current pandemic will help restore the glacier.
If there are people who are worthy of talking about climate change, its the people in Bhutan. Cuz their country havent is the only carbon negative country in the world.
Excellent.
Thank you.
"A balance between sustainable ecology and sustainable human life, on the one hand, and the unfettered drive for profit, on the other, is just an oxymoron." ~ David Suzuki
"There is no health, without honesty. There is no humanity, without heart. There will be no humankind, without both." ~ Paul Jung
"Live by truth or suffer. It’s that simple." "The end of separation is the salvation for all." ~ Adyashanti
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure." ~ Paulo Coelho
Wish the Presidents of the countries who are part of the Amazon would do the same thing.
Politics and money manipulations get many country leaders in line or they will be assassinated and they know it. History. The carrot or the stick?
"I agree with you and will fight by your side!" Said the person who would not remember a single word from this video 1 week later.
11:40 "Because thinking globally acting locally does not work"....Means we all should look for long term effects of our behaviour and with a vision as the Bhutan to save mother earth as continued to gnaw(tore) by humans.
India needs to stand up to protect Himalayas
my country Nepal and his Bhutan can't do nothing but complain and sit because of all these nuclear power and industrial countries sorrounding us. such a sad reality
We will act on the verge of lost of humanity, because of ego and development
eye opening, improvement of micro climate could contribute a micro part for its restorement by reducing refraction, and reflection of light.
We need no speach we need actions
But i Respect and love this man becuase he is the only man i saw doing their duties he work socially than politically
This world must no longer have a love of money but a love for humanity.
Good luck.
tl;dr: the "Third Pole" refers to the Hindu Kush Himalayas because it's the third largest repository of ice, thanks to all the glaciers there
What an incredible speaker
whats messed up is someone out there is thinking of weaponising these things
We can not stop climate change. The only constant in Earth's history and life itself is change.
Reforestation is a great idea. Building new forests is a great idea. I would note that ice/mud cores dating back over 600,000 years shows carbon is not the biggest issue. Even Dinosaurs had more carbon yet lived in a green world. There is a natural cycle that takes place involving the sun and the grand solar cycle of around 25,000 years. Even global disasters that caused the climate to change rapidly and violently occur fairly often, long before people were ever an issue.
Bottom line. We can maybe hold it off, but we cannot illuminate it. Desalinization of ocean water on a massive scale is likely the best way to keep water supplies stable. If we blocked out the sun, less plants would grow. More carbon would build up as a result of slower plant growth. Destroying the meat supply would only ruin the natural fertilizer supply furthering this crisis.
The real solution is advancing technology that accepts the inevitability of climate change. Historically we are at a very low carbon point in the last several million years. What is unnatural is thinking this brief window we live in is something we will be able to hold onto forever.
Lots of love for Bhutan and all its doing. It's doubtful it will ever be enough though. They are making better choice than our greedy and power-hungry leaders ever will. Freedom to farm and raise your animals is essential.
I do respect and care your wise concerns and foreseeing wisdom.
This is the real issue.
People are busy with fighting each other and bullying and exploiting less privileged fellows humans or animals alike and the environment.
They are challenging the Nature.
Nature get back at them not only them but others who do not harm.
I truly hope something could and WILL be done regarding this... but it starts from us...we are all buying too many things! That’s why that many things are produced (and the production sites are releasing the most CO2)
“While the political issues swirling around Tibet and China are complex, there is no denying that water plays a role in China’s interest in Tibet,” said Peter Gleickz, co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California and one of the world’s foremost authorities on water.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 we must come together ..
watching this on 14th June 2022, only 0.164 million views till now. Don't where we are heading today?
His voice will stay unheard as the Oil companies and Western powers won't let this happen