How to Have a Rational Conversation About Climate Change at Thanksgiving | Juan Enriquez | TEDxMIT

Juan Enriquez recommends seven points on how to have a rational conversation about climate change over Thanksgiving dinner. Juan wants people to avoid polarizing the conversation about climate change so progress can be made on combating it before irreversible damage is caused. His seven points outline the most threatening aspects of climate change to our immediate future and focus on building an overall consensus about a plan of action.
The Founding Director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School, Enríquez is also a fellow of Harvard’s Center for International Affairs. His work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, Science, and The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth (Current-Penguin Group, 2015), Homo Evolutis: Please Meet the Next Human Species (TED, 2012), As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth (Crown Business, 2005), and The United States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future (Random House, 2005). He works in business, science, and domestic/international politics. 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

[@robertclark4016]

I love this guy. Very smart, I would pay to see more speeches. This is not my favorite speech by him, but I am a fan regardless

[@robertclark4016]

To add to my previous comment... his speech on the moralities of biological change.... I watched it over 10 times, because I agree with his thoughts, and i would like to gear more on that subject from him(when he decides to speak on that again)

[@andrerutz6978]

The comments section is the new Thanksgiving family table. And even with a clear and sound presentation, it didn't managed to create the needed consensus. At leat he tried... Thanks Juan

[@charjl96]

If you want to bother anybody about climate change, go bother China. Leave your poor family alone.

[@prometheus5700]

I was just think the same thing. This should be titled "How to create an unbearable Thanksgiving dinner conversation, and further alienate your relatives"