Listen Again: Our Relationship With Water

TED Radio Hour

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Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science, Technology

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Original broadcast date: August 7, 2020. We need water to live. But with rising seas and so many lacking clean water — water is in crisis and so are we. This hour, TED speakers explore ideas around restoring our relationship with water. Guests on the show include legal scholar Kelsey Leonard, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier, and community organizer Colette Pichon Battle.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's ManuShir, and I've got a quick programming note for you.
0:04.3	So last week we put out an episode called A Love Letter to the Sea.
0:08.2	It's all about the miraculous world that lives beneath the waves.
0:12.4	Side note, I had no idea that marine biologists could be so funny.
0:16.8	Anyway, next week we'll have part two of our series. We'll explore saving RCs.
0:23.2	The team is hard at work putting this second also excellent episode together.
0:28.5	And so meanwhile, this week we wanted to stay on theme by revisiting one of my favorite episodes
0:35.4	of 2020. It's all about water, how we live with it, our relationship to it, and the good,
0:42.6	and bad things that can happen when we submerge ourselves in it.
0:47.2	I hope you enjoy this one again or for the first time.
0:50.8	Thanks so much for being here. I'll see you next week.
0:52.8	This is the Ted Radio Hour. Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
1:00.4	Our job now is to dream big.
1:01.8	Deliver it at Ted Conferences.
1:03.6	To bring about the future we want to see.
1:05.6	Around the world.
1:06.6	To understand who we are.
1:08.6	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
1:13.7	You just don't know what you're going to find.
1:15.6	Challenge you.
1:16.4	We truly have to ask ourselves why is it noteworthy?
1:18.8	And even change you.
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