Retelling the story of humans and nature | Damon Gameau | TEDxSydney
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- čas přidán 15. 09. 2022
- Ecological collapse is one of the greatest challenges of our times. We've long looked to science, politics and business for solutions, but perhaps we also need to be looking to storytelling. What role do stories play in addressing climate change and biodiversity loss? Can we tell a new, but old, story about humans and nature that will reshape our world for the better? Damon’s film, 2040, is an innovative feature documentary that explores what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet. His first feature length film as a director, THAT SUGAR FILM, won Best Documentary at the Australian AACTA awards and became the highest grossing Australian documentary of all time at the cinema. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Thank you Damon for this moving gift to humanity.This is the most uplifting storytelling of reality on our fragile planet. Humans are not seperate but part of nature. Let's act accordingly and tell the story that maters most.
Amazing performance and inspiring talk. Thanks for articulating this message so clearly and poetically. Let's get back to a state of reverence for Nature. 🙏
Thank you Damon - this is what so many of us are working towards and you talked so beautifully and eloquently. I'm sharing this everywhere I can and will keep making art, working and acting everyday to build this new narrative for my children and all the other generations of future humans. I will keep finding joy in the flowers, insects, birds and all other creatures who walk alongside me - this awe and wonder drives my hope and energy.
"Remember what is real and what we dream is love alone." ~ Achinoam Nini/ Gil Dor/ Nicola Piovani
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another." ~ Thomas Merton
"The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon." ~ Steve Maraboli
“Love and faith, always lived.. and will never ever cease to live -- forever... and forever....” ~ Paul Jung
@@pauljung3534 thank you for these quotes 💚
"I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused - a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love - then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate." ~ Rachel Carson
Well said. Thank you. I agree with you. I am 70 years of age, born in Ireland I cling on to Celtic times.
This is an amazing talk - I’m currently in Peru and learning about (and bringing to life) my sustainability knowledge and the Peruvian’s respect for the land - I’m going to share you talk far and wise thanks so much 🙏
Mind blown ! You have articulated in the simplest and most eloquent of words the most profoundly complex tale of our time in a way that has the power to dissolve every single barrier that paralyses humanity's 8 billion-being mass from the collective transformation we need to protect this miraculous planet. I challenge you to share your extraordinary creation across the word, translated into 1 thousand languages. Imagine !
My eyes welled up right along with yours as your story turned to the future. Thank you for this Talk and for your magnificent, powerfully-delivered story; you told it so, so well. Let's hope enough people will hear it, enough to have this story stop being a story and become the new reality.
Very moving - and true story, thank you Damon, for your passion and willingness to change the story, which will be as easy as changing the course of a river with our bare hands. I have no doubt we can do it.
Damon such a beautiful story to hope for, I know we can do this.
The best story of all Damon! I'm (already) in...
WE LOVE YOU DAMON!! FROM WA!!
I love the way you described this Damon. It's easier to digest as a "story" and makes it personable to hear Nature as an entity😍
This is one of the most wonderful stories I've heard.
Your delivery was spot on, well done mate. It's always powerful when so much passion drives your very being.
Thank you, Damon - well said,
very powerful and inspiring 🙏🏻
This was amazing!!! Thank you, Damon. I wanna be a part of this new-old story, I will write it along with you and many others. ✊💚
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So powerful! I'm not crying, you're crying! ;(
Thanks so much Damon; game on ! Inspiring comments below also. I think, though no scholar, that Patriarchy, the sad sad story of brutalization and desensitization generation after generation corrupted Religion. The heart of Christianity too is love, gratitude and response-ability and care to all, what people have responded to mostly. Nature will wake us up to respect and love for Her by force if necessary, but can yet be more generous than fierce. I heard again the Andean prophecy that Eagle and Condor will fly together in this time, science and ancient Earth sense wisdom flying together, a new understanding. Divine Feminine qualities arising again. Balance will come. A new era. May we make it as gentle as possible. Love to all.
Thank you! Such a truth. It made me cry..
Beautifully articulated and presented. Thank you!
Incredible talk Damon, you really got at the root of all of the symtoms the environmental movement is fighting. Let's get this meta-story out far and wide.
I thought I'd share a poem I wrote along similar lines.
The earth is a living thing
And we are it’s organs
We are all but one being
Separation is the ultimate diversion
From the reality that cannot be seen
It can only be felt by immersion
The rainforests are our lungs
The rivers our arteries
The air and water is our blood
We poison to our collective misery
Nothing in this world can forever grow
Everything exists in cycles
Including our economic show
Hence our shared debacles
Our task is to learn from nature
And spread her ancient wisdom
Build a mutually thriving future
Rejoin the animal kingdom
Beautiful!
Thank you, Damon, to speak up so clearly 🥰🙏Thanks for guiding me with your email to this soul talk🦋it helps me to get on my feet again and continue to co-create our fundamentally new story together with the earth , nature, animals...everything that already was alive before us...remembering... reconnecting..honoring life itself🙌🙋♀️Joy
Damon this is bloody awesome, love your work!!!
Well put! retelling an old story to imagine our collective future.
"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth." ~ Rachel Carson
"Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences." ~ David Whyte
"The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the
artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found." ~ Terrence McKenna
"Whatever lessens suffering in yourself and others, that is right. Whatever increases suffering, that is wrong. The answer is within you. When you are free of pride and prejudice, when you are calm and attentive, a light will shine within you. Through meditation and through being mindful you will find your own knowledge of rightness. You will be your own light." ~ Satish Kumar
"Psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan uses the term intervulnerability to describe the need for this mutually held space. When asked about this idea in an interview, she replied, When I say we are “intervulnerable,” I mean we suffer together, whether consciously or unconsciously. Albert Einstein called the idea of a separate self an “optical delusion of consciousness.” Martin Luther King Jr. said that we are all connected in an “inescapable web of mutuality.” There’s no way out, though we try to escape by armoring ourselves against pain and in the process diminishing our lives and our consciousness. But in our intervulnerability is our salvation, because awareness of the mutuality of suffering impels us to search for ways to heal the whole, rather than encase ourselves in a bubble of denial and impossible individualism. At this point in history, it seems that we will either destroy ourselves or find a way to build a sustainable life together." ~ Francis Weller
"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change." ~ Brené Brown
"It’s 3:23 in the morning and I’m awake because my great great grandchildren won’t let me sleep. My great great grandchildren ask me in dreams: What did you do while the planet was plundered?; What did you do when the earth was unraveling?" ~ Drew Dellinger
"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure." ~ Paulo Coelho
"It is, what I cherish most about life, that chariots me away from my troubles, & chariots me back to face them." ~ Paul Jung
Great talk! Spreading the word right now.
Great story and beautiful message. Thank you Damon!
One of the most powerful TED talks I have ever heard.
Brilliant!!
utterly brilliant. thank you so much Damon.
Thank you for your powerful words Damon.
Thank you, Damon, for reminding us. In the Indian Sanatam dharma, we have been taught the same thing some 5000 yrs ago before modern-day philosophers n scientists existed!! Need people like you to rekindle the fire again!!
Thank you-wonderful story
This great man deserves much more public attention 👍👍👍
I like the end of this story 🙌
So inspiring!! Thanks!
Outstanding
We need to collectively figure out how to circumvent this corporate system set up to benefit the already-wealthy. We were sadly born into it, and few of us realise how backwards it is, how desperately we need to return to kinship, and how to live on this earth in the correct way. Open to suggestions! Amazing speech, and loved seeing you speak at the Mullum community gardens last month :)
Oh lets share this amazing eco-storytelling
AMEN!
goosebumps.
Phenomenal Damon.
beautiful
We need Solarpunk stories!
❤ wow!
If you wish to talk with nature, listen 👂🏽
We are an animal only and so belong to the universe. Our home must be protected and loved ❤
So true.
Tusen tack Damon Gameau
Cultural Change - The most Bitter Sweet story ever told. What story are you telling yourself change your paradigm and stop destroying everything... Let's Save Nature and Save Ourselves xxx Don't live the same year over and over and call it a life xxx
Nothing new was said here but still: 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
As Fritjof Capra reminds us, 'humans and nature' is a phrase that makes no sense. We are part of nature... language is everything...
Chronicles what Regenerative Leadership is building on to reshape how organizations and people can find new ways to shift and change.
Yes, we need to redesign our economic system, so that it is no longer based on exploitation of nature. We need economic systems based on balance with nature, not a profit-based economic system.
"By trying to feed the Holy in Nature the fruit of beauty from the tree of memory of our Indigenous Souls, grown in the composted failures of our past need to conquer, watered by the tears of cultural grief, we might become ancestors worth descending from and possibly grow a place of hope for a time beyond our own."
"Everything in Nature ran according to its own nature; the running of grass was in its growing, the running of rivers their flowing, granite bubbled up, cooled, compressed and crumbled, birds lived, flew, sang and died, everything did what it needed to do, each simultaneously running its own race, each by living according to its own nature together, never leaving any other part of the universe behind. The world’s Holy things raced constantly together, not to win anything over the next, but to keep the entire surging diverse motion of the living world from grinding to a halt, which is why there is no end to that race; no finish line. That would be oblivion to all."
"We must as individuals and communities take the time necessary to learn how to indigenously remember what a sane, original existence for a viable people might look like."
~ Martin Prechtel
"Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her." ~ Williams Wordsworth
Be a good Hooman!
Dear Mr. Gameau,
I am not sure whether my comment would reach you, but in any case here goes.
You mentioned Christianity and how Christian Value System has influenced the environment, so I would also like to share just a few facts.
- The very first Early-Christian communities had almost full communal ownership of their material belongings, so it seems that materialism was quite low on their value list.
- The Holy Fathers from the first few centuries AD recommend that out of the 365 days a year, at least around 200 of them should be days of fasting, meaning that no animal-based food should be consumed in those days.
- Many of the Holy Hermits, filled with God`s bliss, who dedicated their lives to prayer and lived in dry deserts or thick forests had wild and, according to the most of us, dangerous animals living by their side - St. Gerasimos of Jordan and a lion and St. Seraphim from Sarov and a bear, just to name a few.
- Man is the crown of all of God`s creations, but this means also the highest level of responsibility for mankind - To whom much is given, much will be required, as the Bible says.
I hope that this will be of some of help and service to someone.
God bless you and everybody!
Thank you for telling the story. I do however object to the exaggerated blame placed on Bacon and Descartes. We also shouldn't require science to tell us about the wonders of nature. They have been known for eons before science appeared on the scene. Nature is also more a being than a system - which might be another name for a machine.
🙏🙏🙏🌷👩🎨❤
It is unbelievable that most don't listen to these words.
Wonder if he has connect to veganisum in the same light..
The biggest issue with this speech is singling out the Christian faith as primarily respond for the state we’re in. I don’t think they are. I think people fall into two camps: raper/pillager/opportunists and people who are community minded and want to live harmoniously within their environment. Once we all start to feel resource shortages and it becomes hard to subsist, the polarisation of those two groups will become even more pronounced. We need to unify people not divide them and going by the comments here, Damon, to borrow a Christian phrase, is “preaching to the converted”. Someone needs to have a voice that unifies and binds all of us into the common goal of preventing a mass extinction. I don’t think that person exists. Just look at the chop and change of governments worldwide to see.
Lovelock is right. Earth will heal and carry on without us.
Thank you so much. May I translate this in Dutch and make it a story , maybe even a book? To be shared for free off course. let us all tell this story. Use other pronouns for plants and animals (he and she in stead of it) Learn to be curious in stead of pretending to know the truth. May I use your words?
Mmm, well written and well spoken but beware of the ‘story’ you are telling Damon. It may seem that the cause of the earth’s environmental demise is simple, but I would be careful of oversimplification.
He was limited by TED’s 14 minutes to tell his take but 🤷♀️
Damon is con artist!
why?