The planet does not need salvation. We do.
Alex Găvan |
TEDxBucharest
• November 2019
The race against time of Alex Găvan and his team to save the asprete, the rarest fish in Europe and probably in the whole world, is ongoing. A living fossil aged over 65 million years, the fish was contemporary with the last of the dinosaurs to have walked on this earth. In this powerful speech, Alex urges us to look at how saving the asprete is actually the greater metaphor for saving ourselves and growing into our role of custodians of our planet, responsibly and mindfully. For Alex, one of Romania's leading high altitudine climbers, reaching 8000m summits without supplemental oxygen is also a way of being heard in his actions of advancing environmental and social causes. By using those summits as the greatest billboards possible, he makes the swift passage from the high peaks of the Himalayas to the very bottom of the fairytale-like valley in the Transilvania Alps of Romania where the asprete lives and unfolds a road map for the future where manifesting love is central.