One Planet. One Act. One Piece of Litter. | Ripudaman Singh Bevli | TEDxTSMS Noida Youth

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Standing at 17,500 feet in Ladakh, surrounded by clear skies and a view that made him feel like a speck in the universe, Ripudman looked down and saw trash. That moment, he says, defined the next decade of his life. In this talk he traces the path from a high-flying corporate career: six flights a week, five-star hotels, a multinational sales team to bending down on his morning runs to pick up litter, and discovering that this one small act could turn strangers into community and cynicism into action. He shares the stories that convinced him he was onto something: schoolchildren who cleaned a beach in forty-degree heat, students at a school in Gurgaon who realized cleaning a market wasn't enough until they brought the shopkeepers in, and a village near Udaipur where sharing water equitably slowly dissolved caste divides until a lower-caste farmer led the collective. Along the way he draws a line between the litter on our streets and the litter in our minds — the consumerism, the insta

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