Amanda Little presented a TED Talk discussing the dangerous effects that global warming and climate change are having on the world in recent years. She puts climate change and global warming into perspective through the use of discussing the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little presents pictures which depict the state of our food and show how the change in climate not only affects the Earth and its people, but also the food which we consume.
The main point of Little’s TED Talk is the emergence of the third way to food production. This third way is a synthesis of the traditional way to produce food and the radically new way to produce food. She discusses the merging of traditional farming and technological farming in order to sustain producing food for the large population of the world as the Earth’s temperature levels rise.
During her presentation, Little shifts the discussion of climate change from saving the planet to adapting to the new temperatures. This is a very controversial shift because the democratic party is fighting to end climate change. The republican part argues that climate change is just a hoax, and Little is helping to boost this argument by telling the world to just go with it. She discusses the controversy with merging the traditional way to produce food and the new technological way to produce food. Instead of fighting climate change, she argues that we should just allow climate change to occur as it naturally will and change how we react to it. Little suggests that we should adapt.
During her presentation, she doesn’t choose a side in the argument of traditional farminf versus new technological farming; however, she stays in the grey area of the argument. She leans more towards robotic farming, however, this is not the problem with her paradigm shift. The issue that the emergence of a third way to produce food creates is that it stops the fight to end climate change. Now that we have scientific proof that we will be able to adapt to the new temperatures of the Earth, her presentation suggests that there is no need to continue the fight against it.
Little presents her TED Talk inside of a kitchen. This is a strong point in the presentation because she discusses how climate change has now shifted to be fought in the kitchen. By discussing this in the exact setting of the issue, she draws and keeps the attention of her viewers. She uses a lot of pictures throughout this presentation, which is the exact thing that changes it from a speech to a presentation. Speeches are more often than not presented without the use of visual aids.