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If you looked at the buildings together with the associated transport, in other words, the transport of people, which is 26 percent, then 70 percent of the energy consumption is influenced by the way that our cites and infrastructure work together.
But again, you can see Detroit, in yellow at the top, extraordinary consumption, down below Copenhagen.
If you take China, and you just take Beijing, you can see on that traffic system, and the pollution associated with the consumption of energy as the cars expand at the price of the bicycles.
And you can measure the performance, in terms of energy consumption, of that building against a typical library.
And again, we can measure the reduction in terms of energy consumption.
They had zero impact on energy consumption.
The people who received this message showed a marked decrease in energy consumption simply by being told what their neighbors were doing.
We deliver personalized home energy reports that show people how their consumption compares to their neighbors in similar-sized homes.
And gasoline consumption, or production, will reach its limit in about ten years, and then go down, and we wonder what's going to happen with transportation.
So humans are turning more towards animal consumption.
So you think about, these Nike shoes have got sensors in them, or you're using a Nike FuelBand that basically tracks your movement, your energy, your calorie consumption.
So we've spent a lot of time and effort in turning the data into stories to be able to tell, what's the state of the engine, how are the tires degrading, what's the situation with fuel consumption?
Today, less than two percent of the world's energy consumption derives from advanced, renewable sources such as solar, wind and biofuels, less than two percent, and the reason is purely economic.
If we can't throw out the old stuff, we have no room for the new stuff, so then the engines of the economy start to sputter when consumption is compromised.
The third thing I want you to remember is that even though we're more comfortable with this idea of "them," a set of bad guys separated from us, we are actually accomplices to them, either through our direct consumption or through our acceptance of the inconsistency between our policies of prohibition and our actual behavior of tolerance or even encouragement of consumption.
It's particularly a cultural crisis, a crisis of the institutions unable to reimagine the stupid ways which we have been growing, unable to challenge the oil-hungry, selfish urbanization that have perpetuated cities based on consumption, from southern California to New York to Dubai.
I want to say this and emphasize it, because this is the only way I see that can enable us to move from urbanizations of consumption to neighborhoods of production today.
It is said about this consumption that our age is materialistic.
Environment includes energy consumption, water availability, waste and pollution, just making efficient uses of resources.
There have been many years of consumption growth across China's major cities.
Automotive energy consumption and air pollution will be cut dramatically.
When these warnings were put on cigarette packets in Canada, [Tobacco can make you impotent] the first response of smokers was to give them right back to the salespeople and say, "Could you please just give me the ones that say they'll kill me?" (Laughter) Regulation gets noticed, regulation reduces consumption, and we have 180 countries committed to more regulation.
Seventy-five percent of global energy consumption occurs in our cities, and 80 percent of gas emissions that cause global warming come from our cities.
Drugs are cheaper and more available than ever, and consumption has risen globally.
This is just archaic, primitive common sense, and by using common sense, we went from 120 kilowatts per square meter per year, which is the typical energy consumption for cooling a glass tower, to 40 kilowatts per square meter per year.
China has more coal-fired power plants than any other country in the world, about 40 percent of the global total, and it's because of this fact that China's government has decided since 2014 to wage a war on coal, shutting down small coal mines, setting limits on coal consumption, even canceling an Australia's worth of coal-fired power plants.
By 2020, China is on track to generate Germany's entire electricity consumption from just wind and solar power alone.
If we look at some of the data, we can see that China's coal consumption may have already reached a peak as early as 2013.
This reduction in coal consumption is also directly driving improvements in air quality across the country, as I've shown here in blue.
So in other words, because of the lights and the projectors that are on in this room right now, the CO2 that is going into our atmosphere as a result of that electricity consumption lasts a very long time.
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