In a world with finite resources, how can we make the most of what we have? iStockphoto hide caption
Finite
In a world with limited resources, can we find ways to salvage what's disappearing? Can we innovate our way out of a finite landscape? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about living with less.
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"There's a saying in Suriname that I dearly love: 'The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask.' But as you all know, it's rapidly disappearing."--Mark Plotkin Ryan Lash/TED hide caption
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"We've under-priced water, we've over-exploited it, we don't regulate how people pump groundwater out of the ground.... we just use too much."--Jonathan Foley Courtesy of TEDxTC hide caption
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"What has happened in the last ten years, has been a remarkable increase in actual number of people who are dying or are not able to get better because they carry a resistant infection."--Ramanan Laxminarayan Courtesy of TEDMED hide caption
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"Our degree of oil dependency is our degree of vulnerability."--Rob Hopkins James Duncan Davidson/TED hide caption
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"When you put a limitation on resources, you remove the limitation on creativity because necessity is the mother of invention."--Navi Radjou James Duncan Davidson/TED hide caption
Friday
How do you channel mass chaos into order? Joos Mind/Getty Images hide caption
Thursday
"Those early experiences are very powerful and can be very determinative that you end up developing an image of yourself, and image of what your strengths are, an image of your weaknesses, an image of the ways in which the world is going to limit you." — Andrew Solomon iStock hide caption
Friday
Can we improve technology and preserve human dignity? Thinkstock hide caption
