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On Earth, these and other conditions in aquatic environments may have supported the emergence of life
billions
of years ago.
What is it that is expected of us by the
billions
of people who live in what Laurie Garrett the other day so appropriately called despair and disparity?
Instead of being made on the face of the cone, it's made at literally
billions
of little independent points along this narrow column in the air, and so when I aim it towards you, what you hear is made right next to your ears.
It insulates and regulates temperatures in a range that is just right for water and for life as we know it, and mediating between the blue ocean and black eternity, the clouds carry all the
billions
of tons of water needed for the soils.
We spend
billions
to detain people in what are virtually prisons who have committed no crime.
And when permafrost thaws and drains, it makes it possible for microbes to come in and rather quickly decompose all this carbon, with the potential to release hundreds of
billions
of metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases.
So every single dive we have gone on, even though we're only down there for a couple of hours, we have found three or four new species because these are places that have been isolated for
billions
of years and no human being has ever been down there to film them or take samples.
To work together to monitor the health of the glaciers; to work together to shape and implement policies to protect our glaciers, and, by extension, to protect the
billions
of people who depend on our glaciers.
A model that excludes
billions
of people while making a handful unimaginably rich?
Billions
of years ago on the young planet Earth simple organic compounds assembled into more complex coalitions that could grow and reproduce.
They were the very first life on Earth, and they gave rise to every one of the
billions
of species that have inhabited our planet since.
We are not the determined product of
billions
of years of evolutionary plotting and planning.
Billions
of years ago and
billions
of light-years away, the material at the center of a galaxy collapsed towards a supermassive black hole.
But the evidence that we used to do that was falling down on every square meter of the Earth for
billions
of years before that, and we'll continue to fall for
billions
of years afterwards.
And according to that theory, it's already too late to avoid a disaster, because, if it's true that our best option at the moment is to prevent CO2 emissions with something like the Kyoto Protocol, with its constraints on economic activity and its enormous cost of hundreds of
billions
of dollars, or whatever it is, then that is already a disaster by any reasonable measure.
It was probably already too late in the 1970s, when the best available scientific theory was telling us that industrial emissions were about to precipitate a new ice age, in which
billions
would die.
We'll be investing many, many
billions
of dollars into these solutions, and they will take decades to get to the gigaton scale.
I am a capitalist, and after a 30-year career in capitalism spanning three dozen companies, generating tens of
billions
of dollars in market value, I'm not just in the top one percent, I'm in the top .01
But it is this behavioral model which is at the cold, cruel heart of neoliberal economics, and it is as morally corrosive as it is scientifically wrong because, if we accept at face value that humans are fundamentally selfish, and then we look around the world at all of the unambiguous prosperity in it, then it follows logically, then it must be true by definition, that
billions
of individual acts of selfishness magically transubstantiate into prosperity and the common good.
We spend
billions
and
billions
of dollars on clothing, on makeup, on the latest trend of glasses, but what we don't spend money and time on is connecting with each other in a way that is truthful and honest and stripped of those visual receptors.
Now, it makes sense on paper, which is why many governments and development organizations invest
billions
of dollars annually on institutional reform and anti-corruption programs.
The sector now supports close to one billion phone connections, it has created nearly four million jobs and generates
billions
of dollars in taxes every year.
We live in a vast universe, on a small wet planet, where
billions
of years ago single-celled life forms evolved from the same elements as all non-living material around them, proliferating and radiating into an incredible ray of complex life forms.
It raises tens of
billions
of dollars per year so you can transition the industry to getting all its plastic from plastic, not from fossil fuel.
We've got enough capital there, we've got tens of
billions
of dollars, Chris, per annum to clean up the environment.
But because there could be, like, 10 molecules with the exact same mass, we don't know exactly what they are, and if you want to clearly identify all of them, you have to do more experiments, which could take decades and
billions
of dollars.
Presumably, there are some more in lifeless locations, but on Earth, evolution created
billions
of different chemicals.
Stars are so simple that we can predict their behavior
billions
of years into the future, and retrodict how they formed
billions
of years ago.
They've been here for
billions
of years, and what they are are single-celled microscopic organisms.
Bacteria have been on the earth for
billions
of years; humans, couple hundred thousand.
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