The Big Five

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What are the five biggest global challenges we face right now — and what can we do about them? This hour, TED speakers explore some radical solutions to these enduring problems. Guests include geoengineer Tim Kruger, president of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband, political scientist Ian Bremmer, global data analyst Sarah Menker, and historian Rutger Bregman.

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:07.0	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
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0:15.0	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:16.0	I've never known that.
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0:19.0	It's a gift of the human imagination.
0:20.0	We've had to believe in impossible things.
0:22.0	The true nature of reality beckons from just beyond.
0:26.0	Those talks.
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0:30.0	From NPR.
0:33.0	I'm Guy Ross.
0:38.0	So, as we start the new year,
0:41.0	there's some good news and some bad news about the future of the planet.
0:48.0	So first, let's do the bad news.
0:51.0	We'll get to the good news in a minute, but let's just get the bad stuff out of the way.
0:55.0	Because the last time this amount of carbon dioxide was in our atmosphere
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