Elise Hu

In this talk and performance, London-born rapper and musical ecologist Louis Vi argues that humans are hardwired to nature's many sonic languages, yet modern life has drowned them out.

While recording rainforests from the Amazon to the Caribbean, he discovered the overwhelming chorus of aliveness, as he puts it, that we've stopped hearing.

He shares why this crisis of inattention is at the heart of rising anxiety and the planet's climate breakdown, and why relearning to listen isn't a luxury, but essential to our collective survival.

That was Louis V.I.

at a TED Countdown event in New York in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund in 2025.

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Despite unprecedented advances in climate prediction and the data we have access to, farming communities around the world face the same devastating crises over and over.

In this talk, food security specialist and TED fellow Catherine Nakalembe explores why knowing what will happen isn't enough.

She explains what she views as the critical missing link between technology and real-world action that's keeping millions of farmers vulnerable and what we need to do to break this cycle.

That was Catherine Nakalembe at a TED Countdown event in New York in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund in 2025.