Why we can’t fight climate change but can tackle the climate crisis | Susana Hancock | TEDxGeneva

TEDx Geneva2021 – The Tide Is Rising

What does language have to do with the climate crisis? Can we change our reality by simply changing our words? How have global institutions, like the UN, called for urgent ‘code red’ action for decades without meaningful response? Cognitive linguistics is a branch of linguistics that combines knowledge from neuropsychology, cognitive science and linguistics to understand how language interacts with …

Reach for the sun: the bacteria way | Dimitrios Terzis | TEDxGeneva

TEDx Geneva2021 – The Tide Is Rising

Millions of years ago there existed some bacteria which tried to reach for the sun. And they made it. Living in deeper waters they photosynthesized under very low sunlight. So, they tried to get closer to the surface, where there’s more sunlight to harvest. And during their efforts they developed mutations to produce minerals and build rocks that would bring …