How to find your voice for climate action | Fehinti Balogun

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🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Actor and activist Fehinti Balogun pieces together multiple complex issues -- climate change, colonialism, systemic racism -- in a talk that's part spoken-word poem, part diagnosis of entrenched global problems. Seeing the connections is a way to unlock collective solutions, he says -- and you have the power to reimagine what you think is possible.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hume.
0:07.4	What if climate change and racism and a lot of the oppression we see in today's society
0:12.3	are just symptoms of a much bigger problem?
0:15.8	Actor and activist Fainty Baligan can piece these seemingly disparate issues together
0:20.4	in his 2022 talk from Ted Countdown London.
0:23.6	He says seeing the connection points is a way to effectively tackle the structural problem
0:28.1	underlying so many others.
0:30.2	Here from him, after the break.
0:51.6	These haunting, bizarre, sometimes ethereal noises are just cascading throughout all
0:58.4	the plans around us.
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1:20.6	I think about this sometimes, myself.
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1:28.1	convert her empty barn space into a one bedroom Airbnb.
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1:43.6	Listen, I'm British born and by an Ijurian raised, there were expectations, different ways
1:53.2	I was supposed to go.
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