Accounting for externalities | Dee Boersma | TEDxRainier

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this important, informative and impassioned talk, Dee Boesma makes the case for considering the costs that other species and our environment bears in exchange for much of the profits our companies make. Dubbed the “Jane Goodall of penguins” by the New York Times, seabirds are Dee Boersma’s passion. She considers penguins “marine sentinels,” sounding the alarm on environmental threats to ocean ecosystems. For over 30 years, she has been the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s study of Magellanic penguins at Punta Tombo, Argentina, home of the world’s largest colony of Magellanic penguins. Boersma and her students follow the lives of individual penguins, monitor the colony, and develop the data needed to plan effective conservation efforts. In the Galápagos Islands, she is building “condos” to increase the Galápagos penguin population. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)