We know how to save lives in disasters - why don't we? | Sarah Tuneberg | TEDxMileHigh
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- "Calling hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and extreme heatwaves 'natural' obfuscates our human responsibility. It lets us off the hook for the death and destruction." By the end of this jaw-dropping talk with disaster mitigation & recovery expert Sarah Tuneberg, you'll rethink everything you thought you knew about so-called natural disasters. Pay attention - it just might save your life. For over a decade, Sarah Tuneberg worked in public health & emergency management in places like South Sudan and post-Katrina New Orleans. She founded Geospiza on the belief that data can save lives. Her interdisciplinary team develops data-driven, evidence-based solutions that reduce risk and enhance resilience, especially for the most vulnerable populations who suffer disproportionately in disaster. When she’s not protecting us from hurricanes, fires, floods, and tornadoes, she’s catching up on the latest celebrity gossip, her guilty pleasure. 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
The plane crash analogy is perfection. Great talk. Thank you.
An excellent talk, thank you! Share share share this everyone!!
Thank you! It's horrendous that people die when migation could save some or all of them. Truly eye opening and thought provoking.
Excellent explanations to understand the natural, thank you.
Kindly please if you can show the subtitles that will be More benefit like me....
Keep going tedx
Just turn on the captions.
@@StandedInUtah What you say..???
For subtitles
this is the greatest talk I've ever heard in my life. thank you, this is so insprirational
Thank you
I can't like this talk enough! She is spot on. This is why society uses science and geographic information systems (GIS) to study and map these hazards and why policy makers should use the data that scientists and geospatial professionals find to prevent these human disasters.
I totally agree, sharing the disaster related data for the purpose of public safety.
Great!!!! Very Brave!!!
Portland makes me want to cry, it's so simple.
That is a good questions
Bless all the communities putting that data to work but still no reason why there should be outstanding catastrophes all over the globe, when we have the technology and will power to take action now!
Its greed that hurts us all.
Godbless us all 🙏
incredible speaker
Excellent talk. But one feels hopeless knowing how money comes before saving lives.
How can I get in contact with her?
Prevention, prevention! Stop causing so much suffering and death.
Great
Damn just those two States I thought It hit many States including one that's not regarded as a state
I loved this TED talk. Really good.
Wow
It's so dangerous and important info
Brilliant, Brilliant, BRILLIANT!! SEND OUT AND OUT AND OUT.... !!!
This deserves WAYYY more attention than it got.
I mean its only been a couple days
Agreed!
We can barely predict the weather one day ahead...........
Hello .
"Budgets and Political Power"
requires to make understand people who are decision makers.
Myself, as a disaster risk researcher using GIS, feel in stuck in middle of the air.
Can a regular citizen get access to the floodplane/hurricane/tree levels data she is referring to? I would like to use them to make sure my future home has an increased likelihood of being in a safe area. Thank you in advance.
The trolls flooded the comments quickly on this one
@@muntingianinja3210
t. climate change denier
@@muntingianinja3210 he meant that the trolls are the climate change deniers. (He's specifying what Priscilla meant by trolls.) Please dont say that calling out climate change deniers is the same thing as insulting someone u disagree with.
Just because they don’t want. Behind this inaction lies often selfish interests, pure malice.
Leave it to a wammin to assert malice without evidence.
@@gamerfortynine the human race is so great powerful and amazing
@@tjguidry7753 could be*. Some are, lots aren't.. You only see the ones that got food from their neighbours.
@@HiFisch94 everyone is great n they own way
I understand what you're trying to say, but we cannot prevent people from building their homes in dangerous locations. Just ask the residents of Pompeii... who decided to build their homes at the base of a volcano. Being enraged at natural disasters is one thing but imagine the Uproar you would get from people when you tell them no, you can't build your house there because it is too dangerous. Is Big Brother watching us now?
that's the first argument I thought of, because u can hardly protect people from their own stupidity. one solution would be education, but that takes generations (because usually u can only educate people, not reeducate them.)
other solutions I thought of are quite inefficient, so I wont mention them here.
I live in Lafayette LA Cajuns city!! Lol we on da map
How was Hurricane Barry? I'm in the Houston area and we didn't get a drop of rain.
Turkish please
:o
Wow, simple but wonderful analysis of disaster awareness. It was Man who caused all these world problems in the first place, not acts of God! Human degeneration began when man turned away from God. God promised that He will restore His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. These technocrats and scientist knows about these disasters but they are too greedy to help people because their diabolical quest... 👽
14:04 "we have the power to change life". We also have the power to preserve life - not only for human beings but also for all other species on earth. Therefore, we must stop slaughtering chickens, sheep, cows, pigs etc. Are'nt we (human beings) a natural disaster for all other species on earth ?
You mean stop owning livestock= let them perish from the earth.
Because currency enslaved the world. While greed enslaved the simple minded. Duh?
pretty much
slavery existed pre-money.
Why don’t we feed the homeless everywhere.
Start buying groceries and cooking...
If they're not starving. They are being fed. I can't tell where you are going with this.
i bet she wants to speak to your manager
Funniest and truest comment. I can't stand busy-bodies like this lady
Who deputized themselves huh? Unprecedented ?
0:33 "36 people died" 7:55 "46 people died that didn't have to".
I think the first is regarding Huston and the second is regarding California wildfires
Yeah 10 people died because of her ignorance.
What is not natural about a hurricane?
the severity of them. we study hurricanes even on different planets that are insane. the way our planet is tilted in gives us 4 seasons and our weather you can say is sort of regulated because of that fact. but because of climate change our weather is getting more extreme and disasters like hurricanes more frequent. so she's saying these storms aren't natural, instead they are abnormal when you take account our contributions to it
@@jamesm1114 You drank the kool aid. These cycles come and go...read some real opposition research.
@@3lightsteps hahah what does that mean. anyways yeah I got more from comparing what I learned in astronomy, but yeah you're right there are cycles. what are some links you recommend
. . . a 100-years storm nowadays occurs every ten years - why? because of anthropogene global warming (climate change) !
Stop using "fossil fuel cars" as start.
do u support nuclear power?
@@lokeshchandak3660 No! Do you need nuclear power ?
I lost interest and any credibility for the presenter when she said climate change and natural disasters are caused by humans.
"Developers explicitly built ... " ... but buyers explicitly bought ... in flood plains and next to forest ground ... and supported " No Burn " policies. Blame everyone else = pass the buck ... YOU choose location. You don't buy .. they won't build.
Not really, Developers build expecting people to buy. Even if people don't buy the homes. The homes are still built and cause funneling of water into floods.
@@MasterGhostf if there are many projects that find no buyers, they will stop sometime. But yeah, people should think about what they are buying as much as developers should think about where to build.
@@HiFisch94 I do agree buyers should be concious, but we can't expect an uninformed public or an apethetic public to not buy it. Instead it is far easier to punish and stop construction in the first place.
There is no God btw.
i could agree with some of the points in her lecture, but the fact that she speaks with borderline "uncontrolled" emotion is disturbing. Natural disasters are not human disasters sorry, cant agree with you on that. Theres a difference between wildfires caused by lightning, and a mass shooter incident, bombing, or 9/11.
it think the poor people have way too many kids they can not take good care of. they don't think about the hard life their kids are gonna have. giving them food they breed more and more. and more and more people to feed and care for
If you look at the visible evidence you can see that the more developed a nation is the less babys are born per person. Development is the best way to lessen human populatiob
Emergencies happen cause of people... tell that to the giant spinning death ball youI live on. How arrogant that you think mankind controls the weather.... we can't even control ourselves.
@dev0n james I'm still waiting for the killer bees who were going to kill anyone who started a lawnmower or walked their dog. Every decade has it's new hysteria. The Y2K computer issue was going to take down the grid. Wipe out our bank accounts and cripple modern life. Not even a burp of trouble. The Great Recession was going to cause the collapse of the US and civil war in the streets. Now, new records in home retail values and stock market last week along with world-beating low unemployment and productivity across all racial and financial demographics. Hysteria sells headlines and brings in government funding.
Start off by asserting that foul weather is climate change, and the rest of your credibility is shot. Had I been in the crowd I would have been screaming insults.
Wow. How condescending can she be? She didn't even mention personal responsibility. Or the benefits of living in a disaster prone area. Lame
Another jealous unemployed nutter cult cimmebt....
Well, yes! Begs the 800 pound gorilla's question of what's so special about Houston.
It isn't the climate, and it isn't the topography. It isn't even the construction boom of the previous decade. Houston's real problem is its repugnance for responsible governance. Sensible regulation of development, even in su h s fragile ecosystem.
There's an elaborate support system behind the Houston way of doing things , to make sure power and money have the maximum impact. Mitigation would be the fruit of a very different political system than we have in Texas. To claim the problem is a lack of mitigation is a form of intellectual dishonesty, and will not help anyone.
Ew lies
This is just to get your private data and to get you to see only ups not downs
Why do so many female TED talkers sound like they're reading a story book for children?
Because society caused your brain to associate women with child-rearing. Men speak in the same way. We just don't respond the same way because their voices are deeper, and instead of seeing them as 'busy-bodies' or school teachers, we see them as clear, confident, and self-assured. This woman is all 3 of those. Her voice just has a higher pitch.
@@DeeAreDee "Society" caused my brain to associate women with child rearing?
Not the fact that women gestate and breastfeed babies?
Her vocal pitch has nothing to do with it. She lacks confidence.
@@ConradSpoke Of course it did. Men can raise children just as well as women. And the gestation and breastfeeding process have nothing to do with how we dole out the responsibilities of teaching and educating children. But those roles are expected to be filled by women.
Sarah doesn't lack confidence- I've listened to numerous podcasts and lectures that she's participated in, and she is the picture of confidence and competence.
There absolutely is inherent bias in how we react to women when they are in stereotypically male roles. Tons of studies have shown this.
What are YOU doing to eliminate abortions which are done behind closed doors and are ALWAYS 100 o/o fatal to the unborn human being who is being killed???!!!???
im not doing anything to prevent it...because im a biologist who understands how unforgiving life can be to a child born before its time :)