In a deeply felt, hard-hitting talk, photographer Daylin Paul eloquently articulates the case for a just transition that is more about equality and prosperity than wind turbines and solar panels. He overlays powerful prose with his award-winning images of the suffering that ordinary people continue to endure due to the mindset that has given us our current framework of development and progress. He points out that the world we live in is profoundly unjust, with the situation neither random nor pre-destined. It is, instead, the result of decisions made around the worth of materials, labour, and human lives. The pandemic, the internet, migration, and ultimately climate change are pushing the world into a time of seismic, inescapable shift. This change can follow one of two paths. If we continue to let the powers that be, be, things will get worse: injustice will deepen, and millions more will suffer. We are likely to endure and enter a new golden era of justice, equality, and prosperity if we take responsibility. But we can’t have one without another: there is no survival without equality, no peace without justice. Daylin Paul is an independent photographer, writer, filmmaker and climate change activist. A graduate of Rhodes University’s school of Journalism and Media Studies, he is the 2017 winner of the Ernest Cole Award for Photography for his work on coal mining and burning in the Mpumalanga highveld region, which was released as his debut monograph “Broken Land.” His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, and many other publications internationally. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx