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Chris Hadfield

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

But if we wait for everything to be perfect, we'll never do anything.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

And we have to somehow do the amazing things while allowing for the imperfections of human behavior.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

Right.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

Well, it's much like how can you be a climate activist and invest in some other industry?

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

Of course, none of the space industries are based in space.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

All of the industry and investing happens here on Earth.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

And so if you look at a company, for example, like GHGSAT,

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

GHG stands for greenhouse gas.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

And what they developed is a really clever little sensor that specifically looks for the gases like methane that contribute most to changes in the chemistry of our atmosphere and therefore the greenhouse effect that leads to global warming.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

And GHGSat is a very successful company.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

And

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

And they're leading the world.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

And what they do is they orbit the world and constantly, 24-7, look for unknown sources of big methane leaks and then inform the person that owns the pipeline or the plant or whatever.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

There's a company like Planet that has hundreds of satellites up that are imaging the world down to very fine resolution every day.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

And they do a lot of what you would have to call altruistic work to try and

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

let everybody see the actual health of our planet and what's going on.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

And so it's a big enough industry, multi, multi-billion dollar industry, that there's lots of different areas in it that you can choose to support by investing in certain companies.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

I'm a semi-autonomous rover myself.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

Yeah.

TED Talks Daily
This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

One of the first ones you touched on, Whitney, which is reusable rockets.