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Deforestation causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all trains, planes and automobiles combined. What can we do to change this contributor to global warming? Suzanne Simard examines how the complex, symbiotic networks of our forests mimic our own neural and social networks — and how those connections might make all the difference.
Talk by Suzanne Simard.
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Too much huggy kissy and not enough science! This talk comes across more as a political statement than an educational piece. Explain how you determined that they were a "tree family" and how you determined what the fungi and tree's worked together in a symbiotic relationship. It wouldn't hurt to add credibility by explaining the non-symbiotic fungi relationships like root rot that actually kills trees. Lots of feel good fluff and very little substance.
nice concept "wired for healing" 😉
I really enjoyed that.
I don't think she is an expert on greenhouse gases (Neither am I, and I agree with her on the effects of human produced CO2 on the Earth's climate, but there are far more potent greenhouse gases than CO2, such as methane) She was very involved with the hand movements (too involved I think) and although she tried hard to reach the obvious younger audience with references to family and social networking, her topic simply isn't something that would reach to kids (If she had given the talk to an adult audience or even a teenage audience she could've made the very same topic 10 times more interesting, but no, she gave it to kids). What I did like was her passion for forestry and the environment, and I'm sure that she put a lot of effort into her research, but this talk was so uninteresting it literally would have caused the crickets to cease chirping and the room go silent.
Anyone reminded of the trees in Avatar?
Pandora bullshit.
Fungal Biology, By J. W. Deacon, Page-266 – Fungal Networking
http:// www. publicaffairs. ubc.ca/2011/07/07/ at-the-root-of-the-problem /
For people with disability in finding information on the internet, try Google. 😛
Unless we stop using paper, recycle all cardboard waste etc. There's not really a solution. We are the ones causing deforestation, eventhough we're not physically cutting down the trees.
The number of consumption must go down dramatically for them to reduce the rate of deforestation. Just think about the packaging you buy and furniture, flooring, decking etc. Rather plant trees then put dead ones all over your house.
This subject is tragic and the fact we think we need these wooden items is the problem. They are our life, the air we breathe and the beauty of the world. She was annoying really.
What amazing networks formed by overground trees and underground fungi and the symbiotic exchange between the two for the benefit of both.
In fact these networks are studied to find out the shortest and best ways, most economic ways, to serve the furthest away trees/fungi and how to do so if main nodes are down. Man does learn from nature.
Reduce the rate of consumption to reduce the rate of deforestation!
We´re wired for healing, hubs wiring, wired as you do. Thank you.
Damn… she's pretty built…muscularly.
The chemical transfer of communication and networking that the trees perform with other parts of its environment are pretty amazing.
Great speech! The only thing I disagree is the naiff way she thinks we can protect forests.
We need to build molten salt nuclear rectors en masse pronto.
This video was great .
Mother Trees? No "male"trees in this speech.
That some species of fungi are parasitic and not mutualistic does not undermine the abundance of species of fungi and plant-life which are engaged in a complex mutualism, much of which we depend upon for our global environment to be livable at all. Even the parasitic species inhabit their own ecological niche, and were they to disappear, despite their visible damage to certain species w/in that same local environment, could induce a trophic cascade that threatens the sustainability of the whole of the local ecosystem itself. She certainly left out much of the background science, which would have been helpful communicating her point (though there were time constraints), as well as oversimplifying some conceptual errors with equating the Earth's fungal network to our brain activity, but there really is excessive deforestation occurring, and it really is amazing that the beauty and complexity of these forest systems, which it took the Earth billions of years to form and upon which we very much depend, is being deincentivized and destroyed in an instant so readily by industry-first ideologies. Her emotional charge here, despite being a scientist, is not misplaced.
ASSHOLE CHRISTIANS!!! seriously you took 2014 number of years to discover this ???
Hindus have done it long ago and kept on shouting to teach you and you simply behaved arrogant as to why to listen to others? Height of ego!!!
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KEEP IN MIND, YOUR EGO is roadblock to knowledge of all sorts and will also block MERCY TOWARDS EVERYTHING.
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Jai Shri Ram
I see nothing here. I appreciate and understand the main message – protect forests. I agree, but I don't see any science here and absolutely no research just hippie mumbo jumbo . I certainly don't appreciate a Ph. D. using the the phrase "magical symbiosis".
MARAVILHOSO…
thanks Dr Simard and i like this, except, the biggest greenhouse gas is not CO2.
H2O is the major greenhouse gas which contributes to the warming on Earth.
H2O is not mentioned as the major greenhouse gas because it is not poisonous to breathe, as is CO2.
Increased CO2 results in more H2O gas= warming.
My target is to plant 20000 trees. If many people aimed to plant 50 trees/ yr, for 20 years, we could capture a lot of CO2.
Ocean acidification is an EMERGENCY, caused by CO2 absorbed in the sea water= Carbonic acid.
Doing our best here in North west Tasmania. See La Poinya forest defence.
Suzanne Simard you are amazing!
Those kids look bored as hell. Anyone else noticed this? Just look at their faces. I don't think it's the particular speech because I've noticed this already in many TED talks with school kid audiences. I'm not sure. There seems to be something wrong with this. The strategies of education in general? Maybe. Certainly very different to your ''classic'' TED talk, where what you have is (I'm assuming correctly, I think) a mayority of people personally interested in the subject matter, being scientists and what not. Not so, not at all with these kids. Will they take something out of it? Sure, it's possible. But is this the only way education can work? Even the comfortable seats don't seem to help, they are helping them fall asleep. They are certainly not engaged. Maybe one or two of them, sure, but not in general. With kids it should be interactive, that would help them engage, well it would probably help any age engage. Ok, I could go on and on I guess, so I won't. Obviously you need to do some actual research on this matters, otherwise you are left just with hypothesis, naturally. But again, they sure don't look like they want to be there. To any educators reading/watching this: come on people, we can do better than this. TED talks used to be fascinating (to the audience, I mean, and not just the presenter). Let's not settle for boredom. Otherwise you might just as well let them go out and play. They would be better off.
Thanks to Suzanne Simard. Thanks to Ted-Ed for the posts.
Awe-inspiring talk, you can tell how much she loves her work – and nature.
Hemp can replace lumber in every arena. Grow hemp and allow the forests to recover.
chillin in her class watching her ted talk
ted talks really beat around the bush. to save the forest the earth needs to go vegan, this women know it, but her audience can't take it
FUNGI
Suzanne: thank you
I just heard this on NPR, and I googled her because the segment sounded extremely unscientific, and I cannot find any information on her formal education, undergrad degree major or graduate degree. Has anyone found otherwise?
Does that mean we only need to water one tree
I'm a mother tree
What boggles my mind !! Is people wonder why this generation is so sensitive and entitled !!. They cant even listen to a science presentation unless they have bean bags and blankets that nana gave them .. wtf ?? Laying down and so cummfy!! Are f@#+g kidding me?
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Fascinating Stuff~~|!!
Yes … as is the product of intelligent design she studies.
But to remain in the club and be credible, deference must be given to the dogma of faith in blind evolution.
U go girl
Thank you ! thank you ! thank you thank you !
Save our world with your wisdom. thank so much
She is a lovely person and teacher.
Avatar is real