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🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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What does it actually take to make meaningful change? Conservationist Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and playwright and theater director Amir Nizar Zuabi reflect on the deep connection between human suffering and environmental degradation and the community-building power of art to raise awareness. With equal parts hope and concern for the future, they speak to the urgent need to act now — and emphasize the transcendent power of compassion-fueled collaboration. (This conversation is part of “TED Intersections,” a new series featuring thought-provoking conversations between experts exploring ideas at the intersection of their experience.)

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily,
0:11.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.7	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:16.4	We have just started something special, a new original series called TED Intersections.
0:21.9	It features speakers and experts taking on subjects at the intersection
0:25.7	of their expertise. On this episode, conservationist Christine McDivet Tompkins and theater director
0:31.7	Amir Nizar Zuabi.
0:33.7	The two of them come from divergent disciplines,
0:35.6	but overlap when it comes to the ways
0:37.4	they think about the changing planet and living creatures,
0:40.4	the possibility of systems level change and how to start a movement after the break.
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1:00.3	Amal, which is my first project, was a refugee child that traveled.
1:05.0	She was a puppet, but she was a refugee child.
1:08.0	One of the most beautiful moments from my point of view was recently on the border of Mexico and the United States.
1:19.5	There was a big line of immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees.
1:25.0	I don't want to get into the political titles,
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