Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing
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http://www.ted.com With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer companies find their fates intertwined in the intriguing century-old tale of Prickly Pear Creek. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.
Kommentare
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.
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Assume: there are 10 people and well which produce 20 liters water a day in RBE everyone will survive and have plenty of time to dig another one well ore search for the water. In monitory system one guy owns 50% of water and rest of will be slaves for water, 4 of them work as a guards of well, other 4 try to steal in order to survive and one probably suck dick for glass of water.
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Do you realize how much energy and recourses is wasted for profitable activities like war, military, jobs which produce nothing to sociality accept garbage and pollution. People go hungry not because it is not enough fore everyone, but because 1% of population keep more than can eat ore use per entire live. Money keeps as back as species from development. We can’t apply newest technology and science (excuse no money).
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@Elmgren76 Yes, because you know when I said "don't turn every inch of our planet into privately owned property" what I really meant to say was clearly, "Long live Stalin!"
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@BoStevoD Yea, why not. It's working really well in Africa, Cuba and North Korea...
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@BoStevoD brilliant
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Anyone else looking forward to Peter Joseph presenting a resource based economy on TED soon?
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@dragonofthedarknight If we're talking about drinking water, that's a negligible cost. The real issue here is industrial and agricultural use of water, and that's where the issue of drawing rights becomes incredibly unfair and inequitable.
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@Slampropp What is the market mechanism, though? There is no feedback. This is less an example of capitalist exchange and more of an example of philanthropy. You are right, of course; the answer to the "why" in my question is as you (almost ) say altruism. I'm just saying that I sincerely hope there aren't any righties watching this saying "SEE! The free market WORKS!" cuz that ain't the market. NO! YOU'D make a terrible businessman! YOU would! *weeps bitterly*
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Boring... He repeats himself too much.
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The one thing I don't get is why the beer company pays the farmers to leave the water in the stream... because they "are concerned about their water footprint?" Why? Isn't it so that in a market based economy the only driver is self-interest and the bottom line? If I own a beer company in Montana I say let the streams dry up.
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Water holders? What a bunch of bullshit
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@Expostulating LOL I thought it was just my internet connection or my computer but I guess the actual video is screwed up......
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@bluefootedpig To day we spending a lots of money and resources to things which are absolutely irrelevant to life quality, fore example only military costs will be enough to cover medical care and education all over the world. Banks, stock exchange, cashiers, politics governments, judges lawyers, insurance companies, advertisement…. They don’t produce any good ore useful. So we get better economy by skipping bull shit false value. ansver is: work fore it as we do today.
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@Expostulating all we know is it was amazing!
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everyone, even more so if you have netflix, watch "tapped", it is in the documentary section.
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@sylve6 Ah yes, yet another RBE supporter. Maybe you can answer this question. How does a RBE handle scarcity? Current system allows the value of scarcity to fluctuate and thus limit itself to only those that can afford it, but what do you do when you have more demand by the public than what can be produced?
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Kinda like carbon caps
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lol infomercial much?
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Money is false value, water is real. Who you trying to full? Water as a property will cause conflicts, makes people unequal and in slave those poor ones. All earth fruits belong to all people and earth to no one. You can be the owner only of your own ass. The Venus Project has solution for every one, not only for group people on others expense.