The Climate Movement Needs Your Creativity, Not Your Guilt | Deepti Kannapan | TEDxYouth@SanAntonio скачать в хорошем качестве

The Climate Movement Needs Your Creativity, Not Your Guilt | Deepti Kannapan | TEDxYouth@SanAntonio

Creativity can help us respond to climate change by finding more ways for people to get involved as both leaders and as followers, tapping into their joy and fulfillment, and bringing participants to more areas of the climate movement. To be a follower, you don’t have to have perfect consumption habits. Instead, the key is to be aware of the new campaigns, movements, and products that emerge every day, and commit to being an amplifier for positive movements. To be a leader, identify your unique contribution to the climate movement. First think about what you enjoy, and what you're good at. Whatever area it is in, whether that’s art, communication, research, or teaching, I can guarantee the climate movement needs it. Innovation is essential at every stage of the adoption of sustainable products and methods - development, marketing, discovery, use, regulation, and disposal, and each requires different skills. When we do this, we can each be followers and amplifiers of each others’ skills. And when we fully embody our role as both leaders and followers, we can finally feel like we’re doing our part and avoid climate guilt. Deepti Kannapan is an aerospace engineer, artist, and writer. She grew up in New York, California, and Bangalore, India, and received Bachelors' and Master's degrees in engineering design from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. While there, she co-founded the institute’s first student spacecraft project, IITMSAT. She received a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently works as an aerospace engineer and blogs on creativity and climate change. She is an avid volunteer for environmental causes and the author of an upcoming YA fantasy novel. Growing up, Deepti filled her notebooks with facts about wildlife and set herself math problems she couldn’t solve. Coffee and fruit are two things that always put her in a good mood. She loves painting outdoors, taking trains, and falling down research or pop culture rabbit holes. Lately, she reads webcomics, newspaper advice columns, and old-timey mystery novels. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx