Chasing Corporate Polluters and Protecting our Future | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | TEDxHudson
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2024
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Empowered by little known and previously never used arcane bounty laws, a group of working class generational fisherman on the Hudson uncovered a way to prosecute polluters. Decades later their heroic efforts ripple now across the waters of the globe. This engaging and charming and visionary speaker, long associated with River Keeper, charts the course forward for preserving our environment and ensuring a healthy future.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes for the Planet” for helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. The group’s achievement helped spawn over 185 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe. Kennedy serves as Vice Chair and Chief Prosecuting Attorney for Riverkeeper and Chairman of Waterkeeper Alliance. He has worked on environmental issues across the Americas and assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada successfully negotiate treaties protecting traditional homelands. He is credited with leading the fight to establish the NYC watershed agreement, which is regarded as an international model for sustainable development. Among Kennedy’s published works are The New York Times’ bestseller Crimes Against Nature (2004), The Riverkeepers (1997), two children’s books, and numerous articles in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, and many other publications.
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I’m voting for Kennedy in 2024!
God bless you, Kennedy!
Kennedy 2024 🇺🇸- save America🙏
The pure humble nature of RFK is remarkable. This man's will to protect the people, the planet, and our constitution is exactly what we need in the White House.
I can not wait to vote Kennedy in November!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Amazing man! I have his books too!
He is my hero! ✨
RFK Jr. 2024! ❤️🤍💙
RFK Jr. for president!! He's always had our country's back.
RFK Jr. 2024!
RFK all the way!!!!
This is a great message by a great man! We must protect our precious environment!
Hallelujah Praise be. The Dems want to call this man a whacko. I can't help but think anyone that believes that would have to be one. We are so lucky there's someone left with refinement, intelligence, character and compassion. Thank you Bobby. Sincerely, I thank you for looking out for our dear treasure, the environment.
100% agree!
100 agree. He saved Baja California Sur from Narco Poachers, Mitsubishi, etc. etc. I live in an area where he has walked and protected. The sport fishing, commercial fishing, surfing, eco tourism is BETTER THAN EVER. He is my generations last chance. We will never have another. Vote the guy for president.
Democrats should all be backing the greatest living environmentalist.
For the algorithm. Rfk Jr 2024!
RFK!!!
Please please elect this man. An environmental advocate as President.
Community advocate.
He will make a wonderful president
RFK 2024
Vote for RFK Jr President 2024!
❤RFK jr
How am I only seeing this now
He's been censored for decades until he ran for president and they're still trying to
Still being suppressed. Ridiculous.
How can this have so few views. All his videos have low views. He must not be silenced! Crazy manipulation of algorithms. Great presentation ❤️❤️❤️
RFK 2024! Love seeing all the comments here. TedX would bring him back off on if they had half a brain.
I love the story about the White House visit. I'm almost a strange kind of jealous that you actually got to meet Rachel Carson. I remember the world before Rachel; it's like the world before Martin Luther King. A sea change it is called. I hope they clone her and she becomes the first American female President after your eight years. Truly inspiring. Thanks again!
RFK Jr has been doing the work for years. Which other candidate running for president has the environmental resume that RFK has?
"We can generate an instantaneous cash flow. We can make a few people billionaires while impoverishing the rest of us-but our children will pay for our joyride; and they're going to pay for it with denuded landscapes, poor health, and huge clean up costs that are going to amplify over time that they'll never be able to pay. Environmental injury is deficit spending. It's a way of loading the cost of our generation's prosperity onto the backs of our children, and one of the things I've done over the past 30 years as an environmental advocate is to go around and confront this argument that an investment in our environment is a diminishment of our nation's wealth. It doesn't diminish our wealth, it's an investment in infrastructure. The same as investing in telecommunications and road construction. It's an investment we have to make if we want to insure ourselves, and our children, a vital and robust economy; and that they will have the same opportunities of dignity, good health, enrichment, and prosperity as our parents gave us"
I have missed someone with a true vision so much over the last years in American politics. Bless him. RFK 2024
RFK is a gangster for truth and justice!! Wish I was half the man he is.
Well said, Psalm 45....
Thank you Mr. VINCENT KENNEDY for your sacrifice to our Nation. We pray the Lord's goodness surround and overtake you every day.
BLESSINGS always
Vincent?
America would be crazy to vote for Biden or Trump instead of Kennedy.
40 million subscribers 4.3k views in 8 years this video has been suppressed like no other lol
Go get em kennedy
RFK JR 2024 ❤🤍💙✨