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EXPLORATION… DÉCOUVERTES INATTENDUES | Nathalie Lasselin | TEDxLaval


[Applause]
do you hear the passing of time
for some it may be even the
torture of gout
I would like to take you somewhere where
time flows tirelessly without
be affected by any of our
perceptions one drop at a time
let’s go to the depths of the earth
in the caves and even in the
submerged caves that have filled
of water when I’m exploring in
the bowels of the earth
sometimes I wonder but what is
I do not just rust in
caves on the planet in general
who has not already asked this
question
maybe even that right now you
you ask it is true anyway
because we are on a populated planet
of difference of antagonism 7 billion
of people and all these differences
which are underlined in grease pencil in
the immediate every day what is it
we all have in common what is
been there since I was a child I
ask all these questions and I do not know
not if it’s because of my readings
but I want to discover something
thing that’s crazy when you’re child’s play
but I want to discover as a
treasure something and then maybe
that secretly I want to be a
superhero it’s not you already
arrived and then you guess what
happened a day ago someone who
told me well let’s see in hockey at
the time I was in France their sap a
summer well let’s see but that was my
poor child it’s impossible
it is crazy still has
someone somewhere or worse we
same to break our dreams and
our quest
so obviously all my dreams have taken
dust and I got to me
to say that all that did not exist that
it was a hallucination and I am
happened to forget them completely
until the day when by chance or almost
finally if chance exists I got
found underground and boom like a
love at first sight
you know when you take out your heart
beat in one instant a single ball
in the bowels of the earth
reviving me all these questions I do not
could not turn a deaf ear
a second time especially now I
am an adult
so here I am going to discover
what happens beneath the surface of the
earth and under the surface of the water not
just in the oceans beneath the surface of
the water that’s locked in the earth imagine
for a moment to float freely without
no resistance in galleries that
no one has seen before you no need
to go on march
galleries like this one there are
everywhere and on every continent
so every dive I discover
formations of stalactites and
stalagmites that I could not have
imagine
formed of mineral deposits calcite
immunity shapes and colors and all to
to form a drop of water at a time I
share my passion with explorers
from all over the world and I’m thinking of
a book that I read my kid from jules
verne trip
center of the earth and I say to myself but is
what in this novel is pure
fiction also eventually somewhere he
there would not be galleries of blades
manager who new would go all
with the others
I do not know maybe fiction reality
edited virtual and when I’m walking
in his galleries all of a sudden I’m
sense connected with the planet with mother
nature and I realize that I am
in a really unique place 70% of
the land is composed of 3% fresh water
in the form of glaciers or whatever and
only 1% and liquid water
potentially drinkable and there at this
moment in this aquifer I’m
in a third of this percentage
I realize that I am in a
place this so unique and so
fragile and I forget the rock yet
beautifully carved and I only see
this water that carries me
this water without whom I can not survive
more than three days maybe five a
day among all my explorations
I find myself in China in a region
so isolated who have never seen
Westerners in the flesh
do you imagine their amazement when I
their announcement that I just browsed
thirty-six hours by plane and car
all this to go for a walk in the
groundwater networks below
their villages they tell themselves they
must we fear that we are
came to steal a treasure in his galleries
worse we’ll angry the god of
the sources are drying up between them and me
there is an abyss between our realities
our daily life a pit especially
when they see me dressed like a
astronaut or an alien like
you want everything absolutely everything we
separates but but thanks to our
interpreter and by force to show the
videos and the pictures we have
underwater
quietly we come to do
to break down the barriers of mistrust and
of our ignorance and at that moment the
magic operates every shipment is
the opportunity to meet again we have arrived
to understand each other and quietly we
has come to appreciate himself to love himself and this
which connects us
these are these underground rivers these
rivers of life because this water
dense and rivers it is precious
only 6% of the water in the network
aquifer will renew itself during
your life I dive into the blue gold the
treasure the most fragile and the most
precious on our planet and at this
moment there are no longer just the
underground rivers that puts me
question
but all sources of fresh water on
the planet at the bottom of the world as at
foot from home
finally I dreamed of discovering a treasure
hidden obviously but I surrender
account he’s right there in front of me at
my feet and all treasure what he
request is to be protected
and yet this water so fragile without
who can not live more than three
days maybe 5
she is overexploited on polluting
agricultural industrial pollution is everything
simply human but how do we
got there
and above all what are we doing
now with all this oh of course he
there is always know this someone who is going
tell you yeah bah anyway we do not
can not do anything it’s too late the
planet it too polluted or worse
yeah well it’s not that bad
it’s cyclical then you do it you can not
do nothing
ah yes really we can do nothing in
listening to the child’s body that nothing
not stop
or almost I finally became
to be an explorer and maybe I
will become a little bit despite myself a kind
of super heroes but do not worry
not a solitary superhero the ex to cap
no no no no a superhero of the
daily to safeguard the quality of
our drinking water but a superhero
among plenty of super heroes besides I
I am sure that among you there are some
already have many among the seven
billion people on this planet
jules verne him in his novel he
wanted to reach the center of the earth
finally he made a junction between
two countries
I wanted to find galleries in
these labyrinths find beautiful
rock formations
but what I discovered is that
through the senses of drinking water
sleep in us a humanity
universal that binds us all
to others good but with all that is
what do we do what do we do to
save that treasure and then not just
water but our living environment our
environment
I do not know by going back to the essence of
life at the source at the base when
I started my odyssey project
aquatic urban
I wanted to look at the river
saint-laurent and see what we could
to do for him as they give us
both because 80% of our drinking water
comes from this river
so I told myself that all together
a step at a time a drop of water at the
time we would get there simply by
reducing our use of plastic
by picking up the waste left in the
spent by reducing our consumption of
pesticides herbicides drugs and
other chemicals that have not been
not necessarily needed
the earth she she will continue
to evolve one water bubble at a time but
what are we going to do
so today I have a question
are you ready to become a
super heroes of everyday life with me for
than ever one having to tell us that he
we only have three days left to
survive thanks the sleeve
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