The Beauty of Wildlife | Isabella Kirkland @TED #ted #tedtalks #shorts
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I think of my paintings as
alarm clocks in a way.
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They are reminders of what's at stake.
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The only real problem is we keep
pushing the snooze button.
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I plan to keep documenting, in paint,
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biodiversity that's at risk,
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making a record of it and
advocating for biodiversity as I can.
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But what's probably
more important is
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what is the next message that gets
carried through these paintings
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into the future?
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It's humanity collectively that
will decide that message.
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I've thought it could be: well,
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too bad, these are the ghosts,
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these are what we lost.
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But it would be much
better if that message was,
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this was the moment we
started to take action
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where we really tried to
save life on this planet,
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including our own.
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