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Silent Scream of Antarctica | Surmai Kaushik | TEDxSVNIT


let’s go south all of you are actually
going south this is the direction of
South and if you go 11,000 kilometers
out of the back of this room you will be
as salt as anyone has ever been I’m on
polar explorer and I’m definitely not a
scientist I’m an environmentalist who is
braved it out in the coldest windiest
choice place along the Antarctic now
here are some dangerous for those I’m
going to show you photos which will make
you realize what a hazardous world we
live in the ice melts from the North and
South Pole we need to listen to what
these photos are telling us I have seen
the impending effects of climate change
head-on and by far the scariest thing
I’ve seen in my life is the making of a
nice book very recently I was invited
I’m selected to be a lifelong member of
the climate force mission 20:41 guru
held by the legendary polar explorer
Robert Swan he happens to be the first
man in history to evolved to vote not in
South Pole the global mission of this
community is to offset 316 million tons
of co2 by 2025 the idea is to create
young leaders like you and me who will
walk the talk in climate activism and
create ripples of change in society in
Antarctica is such a hopeful place it is
protected by the antarctic treaty signed
in 1959 in 1991 of 50 year agreement
entered into which forbids any kind of
exploitation in Antarctica this treaty
is up for negotiation it can be altered
it can be changed it can even be
abandoned starting year 2045 Arctic is
already going through drilling for not
just natural gas and oil imagine
exploding an excavating of plates which
is being under nice cover 400 fifty
hundred thousand years with ice covered
more than forty percent on average by
2030 to 2050 we might not have any ice
in the Arctic by the summer now what is
happening in our pick up north
I hope really really doesn’t happen down
something Antarctica so why did all of
this begin food
I spent three years of my college doing
theater 365 days each year waking up
with a sense of purpose of connecting
with weaker sections of the society
bringing activism and awareness through
theater on cotton on social issues these
three years of my life were
transformative I can go to parties I
bought from social gatherings because I
was busy performing in some remote
lockers and a he will be able to see our
performances they love ignite he learned
and what was the most rewarding thing is
that I could connect with this section
of society at such a meaningful level at
such an emotional level as a teenager I
realized that I wanted to be a person
who does good for people there’s
something called sleeping well at night
I wanted to be a professional who made a
difference of people’s lives since then
it’s been of the right I did my masters
and climate science and policy
I’m a foggy bride so I always had this
innate love for the adventure of the
mountains and furniture
I might deeply
I mean on deciding how is climate
packing glaciers and religion white life
biosphere reserves and post my education
I went on to working in a solar company
on the frontiers of business
sustainability I hate the first crest in
my life when I learned about the
legendary polar explorers mission and a
chance to be amongst global leaders to
accompany him on this mission I applied
I went to three rigorous sounds of
interview and one of these days I’m just
passing time and see a call from an
unknown China number landline number and
obviously legal that I know that that
phone call is going to be a monumental
phone call in my life I hear a woman
speak to uncalculated watski so maybe
you’ve received your application and
you’re going through your profile it
looks really creates your company is the
leader and sustainability and I’m sure
you’re doing all these wonderful things
to make it happen we want to personally
invite you to be a part of the
International Antarctic expedition like
one line and just for that phone call I
was so excited and I just knew that I
was going and I told myself I lied to
myself that no matter what happens no
matter if I have to pull the skies there
were oil hell breaks loose I am going to
be on that vessel that is going to
Antarctica was that three mice
I was just fuming with superhuman
energies like I was of course doing my
routine job I was cleaning before this
expedition I was running full marathons
I was making hundreds of oil calls for
sponsorship I was researching
three months of attempting to raise
funds three months of hearing no three
you minds every single day of my parents
and my friends telling me that I needed
help they used to be gays my eyes to go
and meet people and feel like I’m
talking to a wall
and
in your life when you will have to pull
out every single ounce of determination
into your work that will be days when
the wild will not believe what you see
there will be days when people will not
be by your side what I have learned is
that in those days if you need to be
successful
you have to believe in the power of your
dream no matter how crazy the world
thinks it is so for those three months
every single day I will put one
principle the principle is that if you
want to achieve extraordinary things in
your life you need to make extraordinary
efforts and I did choose that when I
finally had my breakthrough I had my
sponsorship check of 13 lakhs
my fees are my tickets my get my
invitation and I was ready to embark on
a joining of a lifetime for all of you
dreamers out there in this room dreams
big or small if you can do or dream you
can do begin it now for boldness has
genius magic and power words so yes Here
I am
sailing towards the seventh continent
each and every nautical mile taking me
further away from home Here I am
accompanied with 87 other legendary
human beings from 25 different countries
87 of us who became best friends out of
this experience sometimes the experience
in itself is so powerful let it binds
you together for a lifetime it is so
powerful to be in a community of people
people like you and me whose entire
lives are about sustainability is about
reaching sustainability it’s about doing
wonderful things for the environment we
would be sitting together working on
solutions understanding stories creating
the future working on understanding
penguin colonies continental shelves
cooing inciting different whales and
seals and understanding more about the
marine biologist with the experts so I
wanted to keep you wondering for me too
low and how does one really care to
Antarctica I’m sure that question must
have come across in a lot of heads so
the journey to the end of the world is
not an easy one of Jordan Mumbai from
here when I live in Mumbai I took a
flight to Dubai it went to proceed from
the sea like went up your nose areas
which is in Argentina 36 hours of air
time oil packaged food no idea of what
Arizona’s time zones mean like complete
dehydration and I’m finally equal my
last flight out to the end of
civilization which is quite whoosh wyah
the southernmost view of the male I
embark on my journey to Antarctica now
to leach the Antarctic Peninsula
one must cross the tricks passage this
is what the Drake’s passage looks like
Lakes passage makes the bravest men
plead for mercy nothing makes you feel
good not this who this wine is not the
taste you would put you receive the ship
is rolling in bitching and you’re
dancing to the music of the sea you
don’t your own guys know did your
communication no back up beneath your
feet is 90% of the entire world’s eyes
70% of the entire world’s freshwater
you’re on it that is the power of
Antarctica in this expedition we face
the dangers of crevasses intense cold so
cold her sweat turns into ice so poised
the water in your life freezes so call
your skin please and boys and if
somebody looking like that tells you
that they’re cold need definitely are
cold colder then you will ever be even
your
life I want to share another great
experience I’ve hatch from the snow
breaking adventure which is of plunging
into the Antarctic sea yes you are right
sir my caution of questionable sanity
charmed into sub-zero freezing
temperatures of the Antarctic Ocean
while neither penguins looked at me in a
musical event
so yeah this makes the announcement
like child what is the Finns are
supposed to behave themselves mentally
physically and spiritually for this
flesh and I’m just preparing myself a
fetus now I’m going to die even somehow
you know the knife fighting cold is
going to soothe my skin and all of the
spiritual yarn I can give myself nothing
at all prepares you for the Polar Plunge
nothing at all in your life will prepare
you for this but you have to do it you
have to do it because it is a true
testimony to realizing your adventure
and embracing this journey I don’t mean
I’m into the ocean now I am one amongst
them one amongst the seas the Penguins
and the wheels in the landscape they
were just ice boats every single body
that breeds in Antarctica fill me up
with the stories there is nothing more
mesmerizing then seeing or will reach
out the water just having something wean
40 tonnes springing out of water for no
scientific reason whatsoever is the most
awestruck worthy moment of your life
wheels are like an extension of the sea
if you would have fully climb out and
inspect fully go biking we used to just
be electrified and used to fall in love
with each of these features the waves
the Penguins the sea is why we would be
on our zodiac rides on our Continental
shelfs you would just be around there it
was
it was love at first sight climate
change is disrupting this ecosystem
seals whales and penguins of facing the
growth of this climate temperatures have
warmed Antarctica happens to be a
barometer for climate change since 1980
we’ve had a six degree rise in the past
20 years increased co2 has caused our
oceans to become more acidic when the
oceans get more acidic the carbonates
are lost when the by cabinets are lost
then it disrupts the corals lightens of
this marine life imagine having found
hazardous substances in micro plastics
in Antarctica please which has no cities
no ethnic population of chinstrap
penguins has reduced by more than 50%
this is happening because of an 80%
decline in krill biomass krill is what
the Penguins days and seeds eat and in
turn the clearly requires Plankton’s of
food overfishing is idle even more
damage to the current population so
every single activity that is happening
from the human side is causing a chain
reaction and a hammock in these
ecosystems the last white wilderness the
seven continent is shrinking shrinking
at an alarming rate the ice sheets are
breaking and moving further away from
the salads 14 desperate days most
inhospitable place or not and I realized
a reality which is so close to myself
but I still didn’t know that it existed
the ice is melting it’s moving for the
research the world is in a survival
situation and I
feeling has never changed since then the
key to future sea-level rise lies in
Antarctica and if we do nothing about it
it will lead to outcomes like this or
like this now a survivor’s sees a
problem and nothing more whatever a
survivor sees a problem each charge of
it deals with it before it becomes a
threat
we have 23 years to save an article
Antarctica is like a model line on the
ice and on one side of that line we must
fight we must fight very hard you must
fight because we are all responsible for
this nobody owns Antarctica we all own
it and we need to fight very hard and I
know that it is possible and I know that
we will do it now you must be wondering
how does one say when dr. Kyle how does
one make it not worth to somebody go out
there and start doing drilling an
excavation the only way that you can
save the last fight wilderness is by
using more renewable energy in our real
world by switching to alternative
energies are using biofuels by saving
more energy value your lives it is the
road not taken’ and it is challenging
each one of you would feel everything
will be disheartened by looking in the
larger scheme of things we wonder who my
god is really making a difference what I
do to the planet what I do
overwrite what I saved the carbon that I
am it doesn’t really make enough force
but in the largest team of things if we
start keeping ourselves up to date we
engage we measure these targets we
implement our solutions and we report in
monitor collectively the compounding
effect of our savings is not just
satisfied
it is miraculous and if each one of us
sitting in this room who made this
commitment of going dreaming of saving
the planets we will be creating a better
world for the toys I have done my pitch
and thickness time for the environment
they say people with dreams become
people with vision I hope we can empower
each other to carry on such visual
because it isn’t simply enough to just
talk about it one must believe in it and
it isn’t even enough to just believe in
it one must work at it
let us work at it together starting now
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