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And right now, that independent republic of the supply chain is not being governed in a way that would satisfy us, that we can engage in ethical trade or ethical consumption.

So if a third of the world population is going to increase its meat consumption from 25 to 80 on average, and a third of the world population is living in China and in India, we're having an enormous demand on meat.

So today I'm going to talk to you about the rise of collaborative consumption.

I call this "groundswell collaborative consumption."

Now before I dig into the different systems of collaborative consumption, I'd like to try and answer the question that every author rightfully gets asked, which is, where did this idea come from?

Now I'd like to say I woke up one morning and said, "I'm going to write about collaborative consumption," but actually it was a complicated web of seemingly disconnected ideas.

So my co-author, Roo Rogers, and I have actually gathered thousands of examples from all around the world of collaborative consumption.

So I want to just give you an example of how powerful collaborative consumption can be to change behaviors.

And this reputation capital will determine our access to collaborative consumption.

Currently, 20 percent of California's energy consumption is used to pump water into mostly Southern California.

So ultimately, 20 million square feet of asphalt was replaced or avoided, and electrical consumption for air-conditioning went down, while employment for people to maintain those grounds went up, resulting in a net-savings to the system, but also healthier students and schools system employees as well.

Now the brewers in Montana have already done a lot to reduce their water consumption, but they still use millions of gallons of water.

But the total energy consumption will increase to 22 units.

So the overall consumption of energy is about 25 watts at takeoff and 16 to 18 watts in flight.

Part of what we're finding with this is that what we thought was the major point of manufacturing and consumption, which is to get a bunch of stuff, is not, in fact, how we really live best in dense environments.

They committed that they're going to take their existing stores and reduce their energy consumption by 20 percent, and their new stores by 30 percent, and do all that in seven years.

Think about the poster child for conspicuous consumption.

And you can see here the Keystone Pipeline, which would take tar sands raw down to the Gulf Coast, punching a pipeline through the agricultural heart of North America, of the United States, and securing the contract with the dirtiest fuel in the world by consumption of the United States, and promoting a huge disincentive to a sustainable clean-energy future for America.

As the world becomes wealthier as well as more populous, we're seeing increases in dietary consumption of meat, which take a lot more resources than a vegetarian diet does.

But consumption was where it started getting really enjoyable.

Fundamentally it's a consumption issue.

So you start really understanding that you can have diseases, toxins, a need to balance your diet, and once you start looking, and from that point on, everything I have done in terms of the consumption of information, the production of information, the preparation of information, I've looked at from the viewpoint of food.

It's as if we've all got 125 lightbulbs on all the time, 125 kilowatt-hours per day per person is the energy consumption of the UK.

Up and to the right: bigger population density and higher per capita consumption.

So we're a picture, if you like, of what the future energy consumption might be looking like in other countries, too.

Those are lines of equal power consumption per unit area, which I measure in watts per square meter.

So, for example, the middle line there, 0.1 watts per square meter, is the energy consumption per unit area of Saudi Arabia, Norway, Mexico in purple, and Bangladesh 15 years ago.

What this means is, even if you covered the whole of the United Kingdom with energy crops, you couldn't match today's energy consumption.

So that means if you wanted, literally, to produce total energy consumption in all forms, on average, from wind farms, you need wind farms half the area of the UK.

And that means, if you do want renewables to make a substantial difference for a country like the United Kingdom on the scale of today's consumption, you need to be imagining renewable facilities that are country-sized.

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