Why we should all be obsessed with Peatlands. | Ireen van Dolderen | TEDxAUCollege
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2021
- Ireen is an Amsterdam University College alumnus, climate activist, and peat-enthusiast.
As her understanding of the climate and ecological crisis developed during her university studies, her commitment for organising a strong climate movement grew.
Towards the end of 2019, she found out about the power of peatlands in our climatological systems and joined RE-PEAT, a youth-led collective pushing for a peatland paradigm shift.
Since then she has been advocating for peatland restoration, protection, and appreciation by deconstructing current conservation narratives and using a process of reimagining.
During this talk you will be fully immersed into the magical peat-world. Ireen will share why she became a true peatland-activist, and how we can use the collective imagination to think of a world beyond ecological destruction and climate disruption.
Ireen is an Amsterdam University College alumnus, climate activist, and peat-enthusiast. 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
I am ecologist and the majority of my job involved peat protection for renewable developments. The majority of the job involved measuring peat depth and peat quality in the Scottish mountains to make sure peatland isn't damaged when things like windfarms are built. It is a gruelling job but very rewarding too.
Hi Ben! Thanks for your comment. I'm a Brazilian Biologist and and enthusiastic in this peatland conservation topic as well. My group and I have been asked to estimate the amount of carbon stored in a peatland area of around 5 hectares in order to start a new protection project. I've been researching into the methods applied to this estimations but I haven't been successful in finding an applicable one with the tools we've got access to. Do you have any material on this matter that you could share?
This is a really great and balanced TEDtalk! It should be featured at the main event 🔥
Irene, you are absolutely right! Why have I never heard of this??!! WTF??!! This is the most incredible thing! Here in America, many of our wetlands are protected for their unique ecosystem, but I had no idea of the complexity. I bet there is a treasure trove of medicinal substances in there too. What I don't understand is, why so many people that CLEARLY aren't intelligent enough to understand what you're saying, feel the need to leave a comment. Insufferably transparent displays of fear. Remember, the way people treat you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with their relationship with themselves. SPEAK YOUR TRUTH!!!!! What other people think of you after that, is none of your business (Says Lisa Nichols; look her up😘)!! You're amazing and brilliant AND RIGHT!
I'm Sri lankan.
As a sri lankan I'm really worried about our wetlands because our politicians dont care about anything even our country people.
These days they r destroying our lands,forest,wetlands and everything.
It's really dangerous for 🌎.
Although people try to protect our prosperous country politicians act like dictators.
I like to request everybody who is reading my comment please pay attention to our country and if someone or any institution can get leagal action or something like that may be help to protect our mother nature.😢🌴🌴🐦🌱
Like in Borneo and other lowland djungles around the world 🌍
What an inspiring talk!! Loved learning more about peatlands 😍 Good job Ireen ✨
To be completely honest, i too used to think bogs are lands without life and this gloomy feelings i used to get. But after taking the talk in, i feel for peatlands. How a dark looking sight can be so friendly to you and keeps helping you survive being granted by us sadly. Thank you for educating us on this matter.
Ireen, you are another young delight! Whenever i meet the yous of the world, I feel a deep relief! Keep going, peat protector!
Love this! I’m wondering if peatlands can be created/sustained in urban cities. We’re have tons of vacant land and pollution here.
would you like to visit West Wild Wales to have a peak into our best peatlands, supposedly largest remaining in Europe, of Cors Corran near Tregaron, and Cors Goch near Carmarthen, you got me re-peat-edly obsessed with your talk.
Great talk and such an important topic!
Very good presentation. Thank you Ireen. My name is also Irene.
Hi Ireen- what a great talk! You succinctly summed up the importance of our peatlands
Kathrine Geoghegan
love this. clicking like even before clicking play.
god bless you dear how are you
Imagine the sound of one thousand mosquitoes biting you simultaneously
how are you dear
I live next to a peat bog, it's part of my "property" but I think of it as natural, not mine. It's beautiful. Would like to connect with others that have the same love as I do, as Ireen does, for peatlands.
The re-peat website is not working, would like to know of a website that may have replaced it. Can't find a way to message Ireen. Anyone know how to reach her? I don't use linked-in and that's the only contact point I can find.
i'm fall in love
nice share
wohoo go Ireen!! great talk
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney.
Ironically Disney transformed 25,000 acres of swampland in Florida in 60s into the world's leading theme park resort. This resulted into a development boom in the ‘70s and ‘80s, mostly composed of tract housing and planned communities.
@@sdwagers wow thank you so much for such great information god bless you stay bless
greatfull , we are from indonesia...
👍🏼
Thank you, Ireen!
I think "For Peat's Sake" would have been a better name :P
Yes ! We must save the peatlands because , 🙄 they are the restoration of our home earth.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Peatland shouldn't be mixed up with bogland that should be reforested !
These people in the comments should not be on ted talks youtube
Because they have a different opinion than yours?
Lots of peatland in the west of Ireland!
For a sec I thought she was Justin Bieber 💀
2 be honest the only reason I enter Thais vídeo is because the speaker looks like Justin Bieber
Thought this was Justin Bieber ngl
How to end an argument on carbon? Easy, remember the classes we used to have about the Carbon Cycle. Yeah, the one similar to the Rain Cycle, one you still remember and didn't vanish from one day to the other from the schoolbooks.
Ireen класс👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
🍁In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul.” Psalms 94:19
Hey bro. I like your Psalm. Christianity + ecological conservation + sciences = awesomeness.
Powerful 🙏
We have in Hinduism,
that the Lord is the Life in all creatures and He is the Seed as well as that which enables things to move
Om Tat Sat
3% of land holds 30% of Carbon….
in Peat Moss!! Carbon Trapping SuperPower
CatTails and (Water Sponge/Filters) Peats for all 🦸🏼♀️ 🐈 🧽 💧
Uhhhh
*_You're cute and I like hearing you talk. 🤔_*
Meh. I'm done being obsessed.
Indeed, being obsessive is tiring.
@@hypnotoad28 I'll leave the obsessions for the super religious folks, the super environmentalists, the super SJWs, the super COV!D fearful, etc. They're all being manipulated by demagogues.
Agree 🤪👍😅👋🎵🎹🎤🎼
Noooo not the peets!!
I'm obsessed with peatlands. Everyone should be obsessed with peatlands. But I'm not gonna tell you what they are and talk about about them for too long while you have no clue what I'm talking about for the first 5 minutes. So at that point, you're so annoyed, that you're not even going to care what a Peatland is even if it was free gold that you can mine from your own breath....
I agree. Some TED Talks take pretty long to get to the point. I think Peatlands can be used as a sustainable biofuel (ie, produce methane from decomposing plant/peat materials), if one can have artificial peat lands located near a city
@@thatguyalex2835 I agree. It's like having an intro paragraph that's three pages long. I'm giving up as soon as I realize it doesn't even end on the second page lol
@@jeffreysmith7473 People are a bit to overenthusiastic nowadays, even though I have only lived in the early 21st century (and a small fraction of the 20th). I myself can be overenthusiastic, but I try to get to the point quickly. :) Lol...
Hi
4th comment😆
LOL as if Ireland has a shortage of peatlands, damp wind swept uninhabitable god forsaken places. This girl is nuts.
Liberals have destroyed TedX. I’d be ashamed to be on that stage.
Poor trolling
You're welcome to leave 👉
Liberals have also destroyed comments sections and real life interactions, feel free to not partake in those too
careful she might get triggered if you are muscular
Lmao yeah that is tricky I always upset those kind of girls despite trying not to
Hi. I'm Elaine and I'm a leftard
I pity you
Screw peatlands, all my homies hate peatlands
no thanks. you worry about the pea lands i’ll worry about important things