Wonderful! Mesmerizing, the things he is telling us here. If only we could wake up the politica. The human beings in charge of this world are in dire need of this right now. The sooner the better. It's impossible for the world to continue as is. We are greedy and unbalanced, while the nature we arose from is infinitely balanced. We have so so much to learn...

Simply incredible, orgulho das suas palavras, chega passou a hora de agir com maturidade com uma natureza tão generosa

it was really cool at 14:35 when he switched to english. This is such an amazing talk@!!!!

It's beautiful to see human's consciousness waking up.

I'm writing this guy in for President of the fucking world.

Trees create their own rainwater, food and air, which is also our water, food and air. We need plants to survive.

Antonio Nobre, voce e brilhante. Sou sua fa e agradeco muito a sua genialidade e a sua forma de transmitir conceitos tao importantes para a nossa humanidade. FANTASTICO!!!!

That was fucking amazing.

I want to start a petition or something for awareness on this situation. We need celebrity's on this topic, please, spread the word.

sou do VERDE tenho projeto-individual-sem-terra 2.500 unidades do micro-bioma GUEIROBAS (guarirobas, guerobas) no Cerrado.... ESSE VÍDEO me representa.... muito boa essa desmistificação final do Planeta...

Obrigada!

Someone can help me find the two previously talks that António are referring during his talk.

In Brazil....we have many scientists very worry about nature causes.....but so many people in other countrys want do listen us. Please invite brasilian scientists to speak in your plenary

FANTÁSTICO, PODEMOS RECUPERAR O PLANETA, PRECISAMOS SEGURAR NOSSA DESTRUTIVIDADE!!

Excelente.

Brilliant speak. Btw, the event was held in Brazil, why would he speak english?

@cristiansosa1512

10 жыл бұрын

He just used some expressions in english, happens to me all the time. I'm a native spanish speaker, but there are certain things that come out of my brain more easily in english.

@HenriqueBernardino

10 жыл бұрын

Cristian Sosa i'm brazilian and that also happens to me, Cristian.. But i actually said that because other ppl on the comment section were wondering why wasnt he talking in english, as if it discredits the video someway

@cristiansosa1512

9 жыл бұрын

I see, well the sad truth is that not everybody is capable of learning new languages. We must understand them.

@paulskillman6634

9 жыл бұрын

Ya, me. Why is that? The incapacity to learn a different language. Must be a word for that besides stupidity. That is still no reason not to be interested in what another person is trying to say.

@cristiansosa1512

9 жыл бұрын

paul skillman Maybe laziness bro. One usually pursues what interest him or her. I enjoy understanding other cultures, and learning new languages comes in handy.

Muito Muito Muito Muito Muito Muito Muito Muito Muito Muito Muito BOM!

6:24 Three Gorges Dam is the biggest

To suggest a tree through evaporation pumps 1000 litres or one cubic meter per day is a slippery suggestion. What about all the other factors that are fundamental to formation of clouds that are integral to cloud formation, which affects the climate? It's all a feel good delivery.

@antoniodonatonobre4615

5 жыл бұрын

You can calculate yourself Ivan. Several crosschecked methods have measured evapotranspiration over the Amazon rainforest to vary between 3.6 to 4.0 mm/day (equivalent to 3.6 to 4 liters per square meter per day). A large tree, like a Sumauma, can have a crown with up to 20 m in diameter. You can calculate the area in square meters, and there you will have the number I cite.

Enorme alegato

Comment accéder à ces enregistrements en français svp

Sooo, how can I watch this in English?

What language is this?

@matheuslemos2356

10 жыл бұрын

It's portuguese (brazilian accent).

the Amazon brought me my groceries

Doesn't the hurricane free zone seem to be much more related to the Equator line, since it doesn't seem to be centered on the forest but rather going along the Equator. If so, are not the inexistence of hurricanes along the equator as well as the emergence of equatorial forests within a certain range of latitudes just two aspects of grander fact, that is that the Earth is just hotter there? Second, I don't quite share this view whereby the indian people already knew it, this is demeaning to science itself, I believe. Let us never forget, that there's nothing to be held as ideal in a lifestyle so restricted by the forest. To manipulate our environment gave us freedom. If you and your ancestors were indian, then knowing that where there's forest rain is more dense and abundant than in open field, is just the sort of thing you would know, if not from own experience than from ancestral built up knowledge. Finally, what is that against the Hubble? I believe we should not moralize science. Instead, let's engage more on grounds we believe are less explored. Brazil, as it seems, really could deliever more research focusing the Amazon. Let us, cause I am brazilian too, be inspired by hubble, and build our own hubbles pointing towards us. That, I suppose, is a fair point.

Like!

Amanozia is alive because of Andes mountain. it serves as a wall wich doesn't let the humidity goes away. Remove the Andes then Amanozia will die within 10 years.

O regador do jardim do Éden? Que analogia terrível

This guy is very biased in some ways but other than that, it was a decent presentation.

So...can we turn the Sahara into a rainforest?

@cristiansosa1512

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, with lots of efforts and hard work, yes we can.

@kusotarre

9 жыл бұрын

But we can turn the Amazon into the Sahara just by driving to the supermarket for cheetos and ice cream. That seems way easier.

@5to22a

9 жыл бұрын

kusotarre What do supermarkets and processed foods have to do with deforestation? You can have all of those things with sustainable farming of trees and hemp...

@cristiansosa1512

9 жыл бұрын

Dark Day Ministries I think he referred to a "way of life" many people have these days.

@5to22a

9 жыл бұрын

I don't think Consumerism necessarily means a lack of ecological sensitivity. In fact, market demands cause businesses to be far more considerate (and quickly) compared to state-funded programmes.

Nadine Guedes isso ai girl S2

I like the overall sentiment of this guy and his way of opening your eyes to the "sky river" is wonderful. But I think is has gone a little far when he talks about gardening biodiversity by turning deserts into forests. By doing such a thing we would be causing the same widespread extinction as we already are when cutting down forests. Deserts such as the ones in this talk have formed and evolved over time spans equally as long as the Amazon, the species within them are as unique as any butterfly and it would be folly to blindly assume you can save the planet by turning the Sahara into the garden of Eden.

@chromanin

9 жыл бұрын

It's not the planet that needs saving really, it's us. So if it's between us and some sand critters, start planting :) That said, there wouldn't be much point to converting far inland deserts so there'd still be plenty of desert habitat I imagine.

@feygan

9 жыл бұрын

chromanin That is a short sighted and illogical approach to take. By "us" I assume you mean the human species, in which case the only way I can think of as humans needing to be saved is down to what always comes down to a population issue. We currently cut down forests so that we can either harvest natural resources within them, or so we can use the land for food production and human habitation. If we were to convert deserts to forests to use the same way then it would not solve our problem and infact amplify the issue. For a short time we would have some nice new areas to exploit while our population grew to new limits. Then you would end up with 40 billion starving humans at each others throats instead of 20 billion. Deserts provide a unique part of the ecosystem and control weather systems around them, the speaker in this talk knows this all to well since he uses a lot of climate references. If deserts were to vanish it would in turn effect all the temperate zones north and south of them.

@chromanin

9 жыл бұрын

Oh no not at all... I am entirely against mass/reckless deforestation, especially of forests so diverse as rain forests. That would indeed be idiotic. As this talk demonstrates, they are so beneficial to us in the long term. Now I'm not certain of the specifics, but if it's true that we can counteract man-made climate change to some degree with a forestation program, that's something we should consider, cause global warming is going to cause a lot more destruction than the loss of some coastal deserts. Just as an aside, there's a cool project on kickstarter 'Rainforest Connection' that uses recycled cellphones to monitor for illegal logging. It's brilliant. The backing campaign is over but you can still help them out!

@feygan

9 жыл бұрын

You seem to have missed the point, you cannot blindly wipe out deserts in favour of forests without causing potentially as much harm as the initial problem of deforestation. In the current model of the planet, a desert plays as much a role in the climate surrounding it as a forest does. Sadly the maths simply does not work with a simple equation of (individual numbers + diversity = better). That is before even pointing out the big ass grey thing in the corner with population written on it's rump.

@levelacres2003

9 жыл бұрын

feygan Amen to your comment!!! Humans are the most invasive species on this planet. Also, they are the only animal that hunts/kills for sport.

Agora estou em dúvida?? A amazônia é o pulmão do mundo?? Se ainda é... ela vai deixar de ser um dia,pois o homem está acabando com ela...#desmatamento #poluição e etc.. :'(

@antoniodonatonobre4615

5 жыл бұрын

Patricia, porque a Amazonia responde à concentraçao atmosferica do gas carbonico (CO2) se houver mais deste no ar-como ocorre agora com as emissoes humanas- mais fotossintese fazem as plantas, e mais oxigenio produzem. A Amazonia representa sim um tipo de pulmao planetario, mas tambem um figado (limpa polutentes do ar) e tambem um coraçao (por conta do bombeamento dos ventos). E tem outras funçoes tambem.

The amazon is on fire😬

They named a river after Amazon? LoL

TEDx, seriously?

Funny how English people like this more than they should because he's not speaking English... What is that phenomenon?

@alexpl9475

4 жыл бұрын

they are not English people, they are Americans. They don't even dare to learn any foreign language.

english please I thought they had that in the requirements even the african dude who never went to school held his speech in english

@RSP13

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah, unfortunately I have to agree. Even knowing he's a specialist on his area most people would prefer to hear from a less qualified english speaker.

@bicyclethief

10 жыл бұрын

how hard is it to read subtitles? it's not like you're watching a film with visuals you may be missing while reading the subtitles. it's just a guy talking with a few slides.

@kreaturen

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, how dares he speak Portuguese and not English in friggin Brazil?!

@RSP13

10 жыл бұрын

***** Portuguese IS my native language.

@RSP13

10 жыл бұрын

***** Entendo...

One of the worst TED talks I've ever seen. He is so vague, so imprecise. Everything he said about Amazonian weather cycles could be said in less than 7 min. However he keeps getting lost with pseudo-philosophical rants. He has a very dramatic tone of voice though: he speaks with much emotion; he sounds marvelled. It makes you "feel" like he is saying important things. It's an empty smoke-screen though.