Pushing his body through epic cold-water swims, Lewis Gordon Pugh wants to draw attention to our global climate. He’s just back from swimming in a meltwater lake on the slopes of Mount Everest, a journey that taught him a radical new way to approach swimming and think about climate change. Here is what he had to say at the recent TED talks in London:
…Just because we have lived the way we have lived for so long, just because we have consumed the way we have for so long, and populated the world the way we have for so long, doesn’t mean we can continue…What radical tactical shift can you take in your relationship to the environment that will ensure that our children and grandchildren live in a safe world, in a secure world, and most importantly in a sustainable world…Because very very few things are impossible to achieve if we put our whole minds to it.
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