Lessons from the past on adapting to climate change | Laprisha Berry Daniels

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Laprisha Berry Daniels' grandparents left the Southern United States and migrated north to Detroit in the 1950s — a move that could be considered a big "climate change." Now, as a public health social worker, Berry Daniels mines the survival strategies of her grandparents to think about how we can all learn from the past to better prepare for current and future environmental climate change.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:10.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:12.9	We often think about climate as weather conditions,
0:15.9	but there's another definition of climate
0:18.4	that gets fewer headlines.
0:20.1	And public health social worker,
0:21.5	LaPresha Barry Daniels, calls on us
0:23.4	to pay more attention to that definition
0:25.8	in her 2023 talk from the TED countdown summit.
0:29.0	Why a different way to think about climate
0:31.1	is crucial after the break.
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0:52.1	Thank you, and welcome to Detroit. Has anyone told you how we greet each other here yet?
0:57.0	What up, though? Not what up dog? What up, do?
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