How hip-hop can make climate action cool | Samir Ibrahim, MyVerse and Kristen Warren

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Music can amplify social issues and inspire people to care about new (and sometimes unexpected) topics. But can it take something as dire as climate change and make it mainstream? With artists MyVerse and Kristen Warren as an inspiring opening act, social entrepreneur Samir Ibrahim suggests hip-hop and its stars can help us move from talking about the problem to rapping about (and acting on) solutions.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:06.8	Today, how hip-hop can influence behavior that protects our planet.
0:11.2	In his 2022 talk from Ted Countdown's New York session, Climate Entrepreneur Samir Ibrahim
0:16.6	suggests that the powerful culture makers and popular music can move from talking about
0:21.4	the problem of climate change into wrapping about solutions instead.
0:26.5	He's joined on stage by musicians Myverse and Kristen Warren.
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1:05.5	Once upon a time, in a land very, very close to us, there was a planet and that planet
1:12.9	was on fire.
1:15.2	But it didn't start that way.
1:17.3	Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and parts per million for the past 800,000
1:21.5	years didn't exceed 300 parts per million.
1:24.5	And that peak happened about 300,000 years ago.
1:27.2	The annual rate of increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide is measured in parts of, oh,
1:33.2	looks like you've fallen asleep.
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