2025-10-16
27 分钟Mercury was used back during the gold rush to extract gold, unknowingly releasing dangerous toxins.
Today, many artisanal miners still mine for gold using this method,
unwittingly harming communities near and far.
Gold is valuable, but you cannot eat it.
You cannot read it, and you cannot drink it.
Ted Fellow,
Claudia Vega studies the effects and works with the people living and working in the Peruvian rainforest to better understand them.
Some of the mercury goes into the river,
it goes to the air, and it can be transported long distance.
In another episode of Ted Fellow Fridays on TED Talks Daily,
hear more about how Claudia Vega was led to this work in the rainforest and more,
only on TED Talks Daily.
Hi listeners, we want to share something special today.
It's an episode from Ted's newest podcast, Speed and Scale.
Something we always think about on our show is how to be a better human when the planet is facing an existential climate crisis.
This show, Speed and Scale, is not your average climate podcast.
Anjali Grover and Ryan Panchatram are sharing the stories of climate solutions that are actually working right now to address the climate crisis.
They go beyond the, hey you individual consumer, have you heard of recycling?
beat we always hear.
And instead, talk about the big ideas that scale up to change how our entire world works.