Think of penguins as ocean sentinels, says Dee Boersma — they’re on the frontlines of sea change. Sharing stories of penguin life and culture, she suggests that we start listening to what penguins are telling us.
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This only intensified my love for those magnificent creatures <3
if we were harvesting penguins, rhinos, elephants, tigers, etc. then there would be private ownership of them and a economic drive to keep them breeding and living well. Keeping it communal will cause The Tragedy of the Commons.
I think do-gooders like this could do a lot more if they were a bit less idealistic, and used economic principles instead of heartfelt videos to keep penguins alive. I do want penguins to live too. I also want to have the endangered species to live.
@JaredHutcheson1 where’s the negative? isn't negative, is passion, i just love planet earth and everything in it to much
@uberfrozenglow My original comment was employing imagination and theoretical possibility simply to muse about our possible future role in the perpetuation of terrestrial life in general. That doesn't mean that my daily life and concerns revolve around such ideas.
…and then you came along with your negative, misanthropic bullshit.
@JaredHutcheson1 imagination? that was on what your comment rely on? "nature needs us, bcs we can destroy asteroids and bring live to other planets" but in an imaginary world, far, far away? What I didnt agree was you saying that the world wouldnt be better off without us, bcs it would, and who wants to go to another planet? Again, to do what? leave me here with the fields and beach's from planet earth, and like i said domestic animals will miss us and sheeps are considered domestic animals
@planetdarwin no no, bieber has her haircut 😉
@NewtonsStudent That may in part be due to the fact that some people don't want to get bogged down raising kids instead of achieving something for humanity. I don't mean to belittle the occupation of being a parent though. We certainly need good parents out there.
@del4830 You take some comments way to literally and/or you take them to be scientific statements. What he said wasn't incorrect but it also wasn't meant to be all-encompassing or based on empirical data. Come on…
@tedoymisojos Hopefully someday we can alleviate this with a combination of approaches such as tweaking our genome to possibly make us healthier longer (though this certainly won't be the first approach we take), and actually taking care of ourselves! We will learn far more about the human body, mind, and what it takes to keep them both healthy in the coming decades.
@uberfrozenglow …And sheep wouldn't miss wolves, but I don't wish wolves didn't exist. Like I said, humans are screwing things up now and doing horrifying things to each other and other species but there's no law of nature saying that will always be the case.
So don't jump to the conclusion that I don't agree with you about the importance of making this a better place to live.
@uberfrozenglow You're an unimaginative one. I wasn't referring to the technology to today, obviously. I was speaking of human potentiality. The only reason we wouldn't be able to is if everyone believed we weren't able to.
As for other planets, (in the distant future of course) we could plant the seeds of life or any number of other things if its sufficiently like Earth.
I'm also of the opinion that we will never get to that point if we don't sort things out here first.
@JaredHutcheson1 we can't prevent an asteroid to hit earth, we don't have the technology for it, and the history of going to other planets…, to do exactly what? Be in a capsule looking at dust? we already have an amazing place here. i just get f annoyed when i hear some scientists also saying that. go play houses someplace else but 1º solve the s*** were. and yes the animals would be better without us. the only ones that would miss us are the domestic animal and cockroaches.
@azurenex We have destroyed some life, but I don't think there's any reason to think that it is "likely" that we will wipe ourselves and everything else out. This is purely pessimism. Nuclear weapons are the most destructive force we have ever created, but their very presence is also staving off WW3. If we can prevent terrorists from acquiring and using WMDs, we might just be good. Arsenals will be around for a while, but I just don't see a nuclear holocaust happening. I am ever wary though.
@JaredHutcheson1 this is a very nice angle on it. though sadly i suspect the latter is more likely…
@KaylinJH The world wouldn't be better off without us anymore than it would be without any other species, it would just be different. I don't know why you think it did fine for 4.5 billion years… meteor impacts, anyone? Humanity is screwing stuff up now, but we may be the one way mother nature devised for terrestrial life to keep on living. We could prevent an asteroid from wiping out all life on the planet. We could spread life to uninhabited worlds. Of course we could also destroy life.
@gr4ndhustle Well that was a pointless comment. I wonder if that just makes mine even more pointless…
@del4830 birds don't stop and watch sunsets, but i bet my dog thinks it's odd that i don't stop and enjoy the smell of an oncoming breeze. we can't infer that animals of any given species don't have personalities, likes and dislikes, just because they don't tell us about them. so, we can't say that only humans appreciate nature.
There are too many people, not enough free wood chipper rides for people with the useless genes and meaningless IQs.
im sorry to say… i didn't finish watching this talk because i just couldn't keep my concentration. I guess im either not that interested in penguins, or her talk about them. off to the next talk =)
Talk of penguins, and start it with "we need a new operating system"… I bet I'm not the only one who thought Linux 😉
No idea how that would help though, except for the deep lying ideals.
@hiromaru0411
Nature would be sad and meaningless without humans. I am willing to admit, nature would be less polluted without humans. But without humans, who cares. If a tree falls in the forest…
A world without humans, is a world without the only creatures who fully appreciate the mystery and majesty of creation. I don't see cows with clipboards. Birds don't stop and watch the sunset. The very concept of nature is held only in the human mind, and nowhere else in the animal kingdom.
Wonderful lecture! Superb stuff!!!
@NewtonsStudent
You are flirting very dangerously with eugenics here. Your statement taken one step further might become a proposal that only intelligent people should procreate. This notion is even scarier than your misguided observation that only "idiots have children in abundance."(to para phrase your comment.)
@thecoolusernameguy.
Hang on. Are you really suggesting that I limit the number of children I can have? Are you advocating the suppression of my personal freedoms? I'll be sure and tell my children (specifically, my 3rd, 4th and 5th) that there are people in this world who wished they didn't exist. The most basic of human dignities, the right to life, you were willing to deny them.
Fucking brats should have known better. Coming into this world…and messing it up for the penguins.
@TehNewV so are you, but you havent noticed
@NewtonsStudent Too true!
@TehNewV
Humans aren't useful to the nature, neither.
I don't like penguins.
They aren't useful to us humans.
I hate all the movies about them
they are just dumb.
@Frances3654 Nothing better than thinking about sex while learning about penguins..
She looks like my old health teacher!
@1madaboutguitar Mount Kilamanjaro has lost its snow capped peak. In 2007 it was 47 degrees in winter, it felt like spring in Massachusetts. And you deny global warming exist. Do you have any evidence to back this up that it is not occuring, or are you just a Conservative Mouthpiece?
Another Illuminate, climate change disinfo ,de-population pitch on TED!
There is no such thing as over-population! My question to Dee is, "Who would like to exterminate, to help reduce our "population problem"? Where would you like to start?"
@mattbiker419 She went there to do conservation research.
then gtfo
@Trigunflame Brian Jones Rock star, Co-founder of the Rolling Stones. A month after quitting the band Jones was "found" dead in his swimming pool. But there were rumours that he couldn't see the band going anywhere.
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Thank you Tiffany.