This talk helps you accept the things you cannot change and gives you the courage to change the things you can by coming to grasps with the effects of unsustainable global practices our economies have adopted and placing the ball in your court so you can act.

Corey Dickinson spent his childhood years on several Native American reservations around the southwest United States before moving to Massachusetts when he was 15. While a student at Clark University, he has become passionate about geography and about large-scale interfaces between human beings and their environment. This passion has led him to design a research project around the south pacific island nation of Nauru, where he recently traveled in order to conduct his research. This experience, among others, has helped him understand some of the widespread patterns that exist in our civilization and how these relate to individual human beings. He hopes to help make global scale issues palatable for all audiences, and in doing so work towards improving our relationship with the earth and by so doing save the world.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx