About
What if ancient myths are warnings for the future? Contemporary folklorist Lauren Fadiman explores how the Norse tale of Ragnarök may stem from real climate catastrophe, revealing how folklore preserves lessons of resilience and can guide how we adapt to our own time of crisis.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TED Countdown: Overcoming Dilemmas in the Green Transition
- Speaker
- Lauren Fadiman
- Year
- 2024
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Earth and environment, History
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
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