Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans | Kelsey Leonard
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2024
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Water is essential to life. Yet in the eyes of the law, it remains largely unprotected -- leaving many communities without access to safe drinking water, says legal scholar Kelsey Leonard. In this powerful talk, she shows why granting lakes and rivers legal "personhood" -- giving them the same legal rights as humans -- is the first step to protecting our bodies of water and fundamentally transforming how we value this vital resource.
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I saw the title and I just had to click
LMAAOO as soon as i saw the title i laughed out loud 😂
I watch many TED and RUclips videos yet I still get surprised sometimes when I see how many people dislike a video. Just because we still have human rights violations (Native Americans know that better than most), that doesn't mean we should not approve of something like this. We need deep changes in our society, and the way of living. All of that requires a shift in our habits and thoughts. The amount of people disliking this video says that we're not ready for that yet. How sad...
"...water is alive, it can hear, it holds memories, so I brought a water vessel up with me today because I want it to hold the memories of our conversation". When someone says something like that I know that something is wrong.
@@aterer Maybe its a figure of speech? I think that very much is besides the point. I think we should be watching the whole video so we come to a more logical conclusion as oppose to judge the whole talk based off 1 sentence.
I thought it was a ridiculous premise until she reminded us that corporations are people... : /
What an excellent speaker she is. Delivered this talk with such passion and conviction. I dream of a world where water has personhood too. May it be so.
'Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing Cleanse the World. May He keep the World for His people.'
If we give Water the same Rights as humans,
we need to Punish it for all that have drowned.
Billions of life sentences
Ikr?
To think this was once a great channel!
@@solvingpolitics3172 still is just have to look past the rubbish videos like this one
Frio 2000 x CGONTHEBEAT37 Well they seem to be getting more frequent!
If a lake or river is classified as a corporation, it technically has the same rights as a human being. I haven’t watched the video but for those who are unfamiliar with this subject, turning anything into a corporation makes it much more well defined and protected ☺️🙌
How anyone has control over any resource such as water is dumbfounding.
got to watch this in my indigenous studies class and this concept and way to look at the world is truly amazing. I think her message is wonderful and the amount of closed-minded people is just so heartbreaking. its not about truly believing one way if you don't want to, but just being open-minded that people have different ideas and world views thank you do.
There's a difference between open-mindedness and sheer retardation.
Just so we can put things in perspective...
Slavery is still a thing in certain countries.
What's that got to do with the video
MrSamulai Is this true? Let me guess mostly in Arab countries.
Slavery is still a thing in America. We call it the prison industrial complex.
@@solvingpolitics3172 The US has slavery in the form of prison labor. There is no high horse to sit on.
Never forget African Egyptians were the first to have slaves called the Israelites. Slavery was invented in Africa. Africans invented slavery. More money = more problems, more responsibility. What’s sad is the flood of globalization from England and Africa has polluted the water 💦 Blacks/whites/blacks/whites/blacks/whites it’s a chess game. The old Greek pathos to persuade by emotions. Greek is just a row boat distance away from Africa. Stop being polluted by pathological stories about poor African slaves. Don’t buy it. Don’t get polluted. Remember, protect and preserve your indigenous culture, heritage, language, food, land. North American region is the promised land and pathological lies about slavery is the pollution.
Beautifully, clearly, eloquently and passionately expressed. Chi miigwech for this amazing TT.
Thank you Kelsey and all of the Indigenous communities around the globe who put their lives on the line to ensure that such a precious entity such as water is protected. So many of us take for granted that we have access to clean water while so many around the world, especially Indigenous communities, do not. Humanity is nothing without water and it only makes sense that we protect it and care for it as water does for us. Thanks also to TED for providing a platform to such powerful and necessary-to-hear voices and messages like this one.
So how do I get consent from river?
Obviously it will tell you it's ok to drink it🤣
@@brandonvanlieshout7303 I'm about putting myself into river. I don't want to be accused of sexual assault :D
@@lagynas then don't get in river in a canoe. That would be considered a gang bang
@@brandonvanlieshout7303 made my day ;D
Lol
Is it really "an idea worth spreading"?
Like you I disagree with the attempt to make water have the status of "Personhood". The essence of her point is...
1) Maintain clean water for all the people around the world to enjoy.
2) Make clean water accessible for all people.
3) To not be wasteful of "high quality" water and to not take it for granted.
The point of her talk is to direct the attention towards manufacturing companies, steel mils and many other production companies that commit waste disposal malpractices. Finally she point towards people IMPLICITLY when they go to a beach or camp by a lake and they are contaminating the lakes by leaving trash on the floor.
We either re-evaluate nature, that which gives life or we fail as species
No. We bend nature to our will. It's kinda our thing.
Beautiful talk. Thank you for your work
being ironic?
@@premier69 marginalized people are always doing the protective work, benefiting everyone, including those like yourself who would mock us.
@Leahijk nice attitude, i wasn't mocking you.
TED got trolls.
Do you mean that they hiring trolls to give TED talks?
@@chuxter7 No Trump hasn't given a Ted Talk
Wow the BabylonBee is now doing TED talks. Great Jobs guys totally had me going there for a while
Me: *reads the title and looks at the like to dislike ratio.* _"Yeah that makes sense."_
Me afterwards watch the video: _"Well...she does have a point though."_ 🤔
💧 Thank You!
Since we have polluted out water sources and thus our food sources, I'm all for it.
Water is our most precious commodity. I totally agree with her that each person on this planet should use water responsibly. Polluting water with industrial waste is criminal. FROM CAPE TOWN
One of the BEST water talks I have seen to this point. You are a tremendous leader Kelsey. Please ignore the mindless, heartless, clueless, thoughtless trolls here. You are doing wonderful things and are making a difference to help save our children and their children's children's lives.
Do you vote?
@@deeznuts-xc7mo Deez, I do not have time for your nonsense. Please refrain from posting questons like this from online. No one has time for it.
@@juleswc please refrain from voting
So can we Sue the water for freezing and throwing my car into the guardrail ? Or when it invaded our town and destroyed our homes? If it has rights, it also has to own the responsibilities too.
One Race: Prances, dances, beats on a drum, and prays to a "Rain God" for water & thinks water is ALIVE
One Race: Creates the Industrial Revolution, uses pumps, pipes, and chemicals to distribute and treat their water because they KNOW water is DEAD
Incorrect. Rights are not packaged with responsibility. If we confer more and more rights of personhood onto animals with greater sentience, like say an orca or dog, does this mean we can haul in a killer whale into court because it damaged our boat?
Yeah. That's not how rights work, bud.
@@RashidMBey your kidding, right ??
I do not own a kidding.
Jokes aside. That's not how rights of personhood works. More and more, animals are gaining rights of persons, which gives them more and more protection. Has conferring rights onto animals somehow made parrots vulnerable to SLAPP suits? Or crows to laws against theft?
Conferring legal personhood onto an entity means certain laws on treatment apply; your suits talking point is a "hilarious" non sequitur that doesn't.
@@RashidMBey water has only one right. And that is to do what the Lord made it for. Period.
Water is life. It has the right to be pure, the way God created it. No one has the right to defile it. I stand with the water protectors who are protecting all human life.
A lot of sentient beings don’t have any rights at all...they deserve rights to live and be respected.
Nope.
@@mrivard81 You realize that includes you right? Your basically agreeing that sentient beings such as humans such as yourself don't deserve rights to live and be respected.
I like this talk. Water is one of the most important resources for every single organism. It should be protected.
Half of these commenters probably didn't even watch the video. This is important !
So inspiring, thank you
This person was told a metaphor by her friend and she took it literally.
Is the real Ted talker tied up in his dressing room?
Was this lady escorted out shortly after the cameras shut off?
I certainly hope so .... I`ve heard stupid things in my life, but this... boy, oh boy...
Every nation on this planet needs stronger laws and protections for water.
This was beautiful thank you
TED trustworthiness just took a serious hit!
Like you I disagree with the attempt to make water have the status of "Personhood". However there is NO NEED to attack the speaker because she is using eloquent words emphasize the water issue. The essence of her point is...
1) Maintain clean water for all the people around the world to enjoy.
2) Make clean water accessible for all people.
3) To not be wasteful of "high quality" water and to not take it for granted.
The point of her talk is to direct the attention towards manufacturing companies, steel mils and many other production companies that commit waste disposal malpractices. Finally she point towards people IMPLICITLY when they go to a beach or camp by a lake and they are contaminating the lakes by leaving trash on the floor.
walnoemis poyt, Both the speaker and I got lost in her spirituality and apparently I quit the video long before she made the points you mention.
I applaud your insight for a way to introduce
a new and intelligent way to encourage us all to see the absolute necessity to put this issue at the forefront of our priorities! Thank you for sharing your insights and their application!!
Bruh
If a corporation can have personhood status, then Water is way more deserving. Water has rights. Water is Life.
Neither should have personhood status. You're being ridiculous.
Ted please just put on scientists...
Apparently race dictates whether or not you can legally buy hand sanitizer, oh wait that's wrong, what dictates if you have access to water or sanitary environments IS IF YOU GET A JOB OR NOT.. TED=foolishness... #blocked
In 2012, Kelsey received a MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management from St. Cross College, one of the thirty-eight colleges of the University of Oxford.
@@Kiirkas if a reserved seat for a shoe allows the shoe to go through college, does that mean the show has a brain or does that mean the college wants to be virtuous?
she is a scientist, as well as a legal scholar.
Okay then, I'll not drink water anymore. Tell my parent I love them.
Eat dung.
BAHAHAHAHA!
One Race: Prances, dances, beats on a drum, and prays to a "Rain God" for water & thinks water is ALIVE
One Race: Creates the Industrial Revolution, uses pumps, pipes, and chemicals to distribute and treat their water because they KNOW water is DEAD
@@ajcook7777 Sensible humans: Water is life, let's do all we can to rectify pollution (which is what most sensible humans are actually doing right now).
@@jhwwebster7273 let's not
Listen and learn
I agree.
Yo this woman took Moana to heart lol
A beautiful lady, with beautiful thoughts heart and soul thanks may many wish born
this is incredible!!
u wot m8
Really Great, and inspiring
Someone has been smoking too much payote
You don't have idea... of what are you saying... I feel sorry for you
@@auroramaria6354 when you can form whole sentences, and articulate your thoughts, leave me a message.
Maybe you should learn to listen. Arrogant free
@@markc6714I'm learning your language besides mine... that is Spanish, also I speak one of the native language of my country... at least I've been out of home to see the reality... Blessings for you
@@LindaMcification I can only assume you were also in the smoking teepee
Why TED Talk’s comment section is so toxic?
why is this video so toxic? stop legitimizing corporate personhood and religious bullshit in the name of environmentalism, you make fact-based environmentalists look bad
HEAR! HEAR!
My Sister!!!
I agree Water 💦 is Sacred
If corporations are legally considered people then lakes and rivers should be too, it'll help protect them
What about air?
I disagree with making water have "Personhood Status." In essence all she wants is for all of us to take better care of the environment. The point of her talk was to expose the companies who are committing waste malpractices that is hurting the Earth which will eventually hurt us humans living on the Earth.
I would like to see filtration plants company's private or commercial or federal make sentation a federal law like it is but to put the water back in these natural Rivers already filtrated to make sure I water is being purified 24 hours a day seven days a week+ 366 days a year that way we know water is being purified all the time and not just for consumption
Love this message so so much!
Agreed, watching people who are high do philosophy is fun
Why ted barely add Arabic captions ? We also want to watch ..
Does your phone have the option to auto generate your language for you?
ajcook7777 auto language generates the language they use in video .. as they speak in English,, there’s Arabic in auto ....
WTF is this pseudosience??
Jesus Christ lmao
how is this pseudosience?
@Jesus Christ how is this religious?
@Jesus Christ wanting to protect something is to worship it?
@Jesus Christ i only skipped through the vid, but ye it sounds bad.
thoughts; instead of giving water human rights. instead ask, Is water a human right? If water is a human right, then shouldn't the human that consumes the water have a responsibility to protect the water?
Water still deserves to be protected.
I tried, I really tried to watch this with an open mind. With TED being the TED I respect, I thought it was going to talk metaphorically about human rights for water, as in how we should respect this precious resource like we respect our fellow man. But when I hear "...water is alive, it can hear, it holds memories, so I brought a water vessel up with me today because I want it to hold the memories of our conversation", how can I take this seriously?
This is straight up Phoebe Buffay thinking that her mum is alive and well living in the form of a stray cat. Had to stop at the 3 minute mark as I felt that both my IQ and my respect for TED was declining with every minute I was watching this video.
She gave literal metaphors and analogies...so you got exactly what you wanted. So why are you upset? I can see why your IQ started to decline...sorry 😂
Water 💦 is Alive
Hello
@@tmdseries8113 Hello to you too. listen
Not after you chlorinate and dechlor it to disinfect.
We, the Dutch, bullied a sea so hard it dried up.
And the hate comments, begin!
Who is about to start paying minimum wage to lakes?
Not mentioning pension and student loan fee. Oh wait, we need to send it to schools. It？
someones been watching frozen too much
Like you I disagree with the attempt to make water have the status of "Personhood". However there is NO NEED to attack the speaker because she is using eloquent words emphasize the water issue. The essence of her point is...
1) Maintain clean water for all the people around the world to enjoy.
2) Make clean water accessible for all people.
3) To not be wasteful of "high quality" water and to not take it for granted.
The point of her talk is to direct the attention towards manufacturing companies, steel mils and many other production companies that commit waste disposal malpractices. Finally she point towards people IMPLICITLY when they go to a beach or camp by a lake and they are contaminating the lakes by leaving trash on the floor.
Clean Water Act of 1972..
And how is that working out?
The point is every nation on this planet needs stronger laws and protections for water.
@@Rhyswithoutherspoon lol
@@Rhyswithoutherspoon sorry I should elaborate. I am laughing at the idea that new laws will do anything different. If the current laws are not being enforced than new ones won't be either. I laugh because people always ask for new laws, but it doesn't change enforcement. Not laughing at you or your opinion, it's good you care.
I wonder what's wrong with those 600 people who disliked this!!
I'm one of the 600 people who disliked this.
@Char Aznable We are too wise for you to understand
Time to re-educate water that orange man bad
isn't he?
Sarcasm shows only ignorance about the issue. Imaging you are in the situation of severely degraded water quality and water quantity, would you still disagree this lady’s proposal? It takes courage to deliver this unpopular but advanced concept. Peace, be nice to me and the lady. :)
yes I would. the problem is too much capitalism not the lack of this superstitious nonsense. she even mentions corporate personhood as a justification, there's your problem. at the very least companies should be forced to give workers half the board seats, like in germany. strengthen the EPA, overturn theocratic rulings like the hobby lobby case which she also mentioned. all water sources should be publicly owned, no more private property.
It's worth mentioning that most people that clicked thumb down do accept corporations as a person, protecting the decision makers from being liable... but water? Thats bonkers!
For your information us Natives didn't dance to make it rain. It was the Caucasians that first came here who made it into a racist joke. You should think of your words they can hurt people I don't know what you been through that has made you so cruel and disrespectful but I hope that you can overcome that and find something positive and some type of happiness in your life. Have a good one 😊
1:40 There is the equivalent of two Olympic pools of Gold (mined) on earth, water would only become more expensive than Gold when there will be more Gold than water i.e less than two Olympic pools of water on earth. Yeah if an asteroid hits earth and wipe it out, it will eventually happen.
They have more people defending them than 99% of people on this planet
who?
Can we still pee in a river? Asking for a friend.
Would you have someone pee on you? Whatever your response may be, there's your answer.
That is unless you yourself don't identify as either a human or a river, then your opinion is invalid.
@@pkbeast I identify as a river. I am just under deep cover as a person.
Like you I disagree with the attempt to make water have the status of "Personhood". However there is NO NEED to attack the speakers argument with a joke because she is using eloquent words emphasize the water issue. The essence of her point is...
1) Maintain clean water for all the people around the world to enjoy.
2) Make clean water accessible for all people.
3) To not be wasteful of "high quality" water and to not take it for granted.
The point of her talk is to direct the attention towards manufacturing companies, steel mils and many other production companies that commit waste disposal malpractices. Finally she point towards people IMPLICITLY when they go to a beach or camp by a lake and they are contaminating the lakes by leaving trash on the floor.
While i disagree with some of the things said - like having a vessel of water on the podium to keep the memories - many things that she said were correct.
Water should have the right to non-exploitation. It should be illegal to just put whatever pollutants into water that you want. And YES, it should be very illegal that Nestle is starting to buy rivers and bodies of water to have exclusive rights. This is not okay. Water is the single most important thing for life on earth. We need to realize this and stop polluting it and make clean water for everyone one of the Top priorities in fighting the climate crisis.
Well she's got a point but, it needs to be more, better? if that's a valid expression
I don't think that River Ganges is a good example, for a clean river
Water is liquefied atmosphere
It's the combination of levity and gravity
Well said.
"You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you."
TED is losing it
I can give a talk if they are really this desperate
They are not desperate...they are crazy.
Like you I disagree with the attempt to make water have the status of "Personhood". However there is NO NEED to attack the speaker because she is using eloquent words emphasize the water issue. The essence of her point is...
1) Maintain clean water for all the people around the world to enjoy.
2) Make clean water accessible for all people.
3) To not be wasteful of "high quality" water and to not take it for granted.
The point of her talk is to direct the attention towards manufacturing companies, steel mils and many other production companies that commit waste disposal malpractices. Finally she point towards people IMPLICITLY when they go to a beach or camp by a lake and they are contaminating the lakes by leaving trash on the floor.
ממש כך
for people saying humans are far more important than nature:
"It seems very unlikely that 200 trillion trillion stars have been made for us. In a way, it feels like the cruelest joke in existence has been played on us. We became self-aware only to realize this story is not about us"
(Kurzgesagt, 2017)
and? we should still use nature to our advantage and attack the problem capitalism instead of introducing superstition
@@shway1 superstition or not, we can only use nature if we give back to nature to continue to use it "to our advantage "
@@skylarsa yes, and this video isn't helpful
@@shway1 we should go watch anime while we can, eventually, we will die anyway
@@nicojoshuas wtf are you even talking about? did you read both my comments?
Yeah, my Italian Grandmother used to say it was bad luck to open an umbrella in the house, when I got a pimple, she said "it was the devil coming out of me", she believed her spaghetti sauce was the cure for all that ails you, and we all sung the trope "step on a crack, you'll break your mother's back" when skipping down the sidewalk to school. . . . luckily, for me anyway, I knew she was just being a superstitious whimsical Grandmother - I guess no one told this lady her Grandparents were just telling her tales and whimsey. I hope she gets the help she needs.
Lunacy
Like you I disagree with the attempt to make water have the status of "Personhood". However there is NO NEED to attack the speaker because she is using eloquent words emphasize the water issue. The essence of her point is...
1) Maintain clean water for all the people around the world to enjoy.
2) Make clean water accessible for all people.
3) To not be wasteful of "high quality" water and to not take it for granted.
The point of her talk is to direct the attention towards manufacturing companies, steel mils and many other production companies that commit waste disposal malpractices. Finally she point towards people IMPLICITLY when they go to a beach or camp by a lake and they are contaminating the lakes by leaving trash on the floor.
THAT's my FAVORIT subject!!!
😘 - THANK YOU!!! 💗
And it is a linguistic subject too - I think.. - we have a.. notion (in Russian for ex.) - 'Living' and 'inanimate' (/'un-living'.. ) Nature... - when it is a nonsense: all Nature can be only 'living'..
So, all the living 'things' - (it is also a wrong expression(( - not 'things', but... 'essencies' .. /'entities' .. - 'natures'.. - Should have equal rights for defence of their existence and.. a well-being .. ✌️💗🌞🌈🌊🌱💚💕🙏
P.S. - I said 'linguistic' - I did mean a matter of the MINDSET indeed...
So, mindset - is first.. But changes in linguistics when we 'talk' about Nature are necessary - the way we talk - is subconscious, but it influences our conscious way of thinking much... - I think this could be the 'turning' point... 🙏🌈💦🌱💚🌍💗
TED's April fools joke has come early.
Like you I disagree with the attempt to make water have the status of "Personhood". However there is NO NEED to attack the speaker because she is using eloquent words emphasize the water issue. The essence of her point is...
1) Maintain clean water for all the people around the world to enjoy.
2) Make clean water accessible for all people.
3) To not be wasteful of "high quality" water and to not take it for granted.
The point of her talk is to direct the attention towards manufacturing companies, steel mils and many other production companies that commit waste disposal malpractices. Finally she point towards people IMPLICITLY when they go to a beach or camp by a lake and they are contaminating the lakes by leaving trash on the floor.
My water has the right to leave my body when I pee!
companies < H2O
neither should have personhood
Things were optimal when the natural world was in some way respected.
I agree that, in principle, neither should have had the terminology applied. But, as companies already have done... that sentiment is completely useless.
Enshrining protections into law for our future generations...what exactly is your point here?
@@jetstream222 My point is you can have protections that actually make sense. It's not a useles sentiment to not want to legitimize corporate personhood and religious lunacy. Also things were never optimal and nature wasn't respected we just didn't have the ability to exploit it at this scale.
Shway The odds of successfully stripping away corporate personhood at any level as opposed to dragging well-founded concerns into the light of modernity makes any dangers of possible “legitimization” a fundamentally moot point.
Taking our society’s past and current ecological track-record into account. Harkening back to a time when the innocuous local river held the same essential permanence and recognizability as the McDonald’s logo, or any legally respected entity, may just impart the modicum of “religious fanaticism”, held by the like of Apple vs Android fanboys, necessary to address an increasingly important and pressing issue.
So unless you’re great-grandchildren can afford a SpaceX ticket to Mars my point is that one supports billions of years of needful biodiversity and the other drives profit. Otherwise, my bad, and tell them to sell their property near the coastlines.
@@jetstream222 False dichotomy, I already said you can have protections that actually make sense. Also, was that a reference to hbomberguy? good channel.
Wait...so water evolves?
Money evolves?
They don't ? Well let's make it right his time ...
Skipping stones is assault
The quality of these talks has seriously degraded.
What has degraded is the quality of the comment section.
@@oekalaboekala 🤦♂️
Don't forget corporations
Nice speaking TED
I'm gonna go to a lake and get a plastic straw and drink the water if it's clear. Anyone in🙋♂️
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All of this will be made NEW! The heavens and the earth will pass away but the words of Jesus WILL NEVER PASS AWAY and MOST unbelieving humans will not be in eternity enjoying our inheritance of the NEW EARTH with JESUS ruling and reigning. He's coming as a THIEF in the night and taking His faithful few OUT with His light for a season and DARKNESS will flood the earth. That time is almost here. JESUS said BE READY. The Bride makes herself ready, watching and praying always that she may be accounted worthy TO ESCAPE (Luke 21:36), as did Noah and the rest of the EIGHT total people who were saved. Jesus said FEW there are who will be saved! Thankfully, there will be more than 8 this time, but the question is-- will you be among them?
This is why i take TED talks with a grain of salt.
Wut...? 🤦🏻♂️
Ffs...
Oh good grief. Next time I go to a swimming pool I'll try not to splash too hard 🤣
How bout NO
Ignorance at its best!! Why wouldn't you protect something that keeps you alive! I hope you live long enough to run out of water, then you'll see how essential she is.