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Something happened in the 70s that is sometimes referred to as "the software crisis," where suddenly, computers were getting more complicated more quickly than anyone had been prepared for, from a design perspective.
And the other big story of the year: the political crisis, the political earthquake in the Middle East.
Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage
crisis.
If you have followed diplomatic news in the past weeks, you may have heard of a kind of
crisis
between China and the U.S. regarding cyberattacks against the American company Google.
One in three houses foreclosed is not a
crisis
of personal responsibility; it is systemic.
Do you remember the subprime
crisis
that took place in the United States?
I guess you could say I had an identity
crisis.
We've got a climate
crisis.
For this climate crisis, we assembled a network, really, of superstars, from policy activists to scientists and entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Now, you may ask, John, what has this got to go with green and with climate
crisis?
I can't wait to see what we TEDsters do about this
crisis.
This came out in 2008, which was, of course, around the time that the banking
crisis
had shown that we had lost financial capital of the order of two and a half trillion dollars.
Take the last financial
crisis
after the Second World War.
There was one interesting thing that happened in December of 2016, when due to the overdose crisis, the government of British Columbia allowed the opening of overdose prevention sites.
While unintentional overdoses are not new, the scale of the current
crisis
is unprecedented.
If we truly want to make an impact on this drug crisis, we need to have a serious conversation about prohibition and criminal punishment.
In 2001, Portugal was having its own drug
crisis.
And today, I think it's even more important than ever if we want to address rising inequality, climate change, the refugee crisis, just to name a few major issues.
And I think particularly now, as we see ourselves in a time of environmental crisis, we can learn so much from these people who have lived so sustainably in this ecosystem for over 10,000 years.
And a story that actually deals with new issues like the environmental
crisis.
Speaking of the environmental crisis, I think a big problem has been in the last 10 years is that children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs, they haven't been able to get out.
But it is also time that we ended our denial and recognized that we're not acting, we're not close to acting and we're not going to act until this
crisis
hits the economy.
The
crisis
is now inevitable.
That's why we need to feel our response now while the lights are still on, because if we wait until the
crisis
takes hold, we may panic and hide.
The only thing they're missing is that it takes a good
crisis
to get us going.
We are smart, in fact, we really are quite amazing, but we do love a good
crisis.
We need to be as good as the breast cancer campaign to address this
crisis.
So more people, eating more stuff, and richer stuff, and of course having an energy
crisis
at the same time, where we have to replace oil with other energy sources that will ultimately have to include some kinds of biofuels and bio-energy sources.
A global
crisis
in agriculture.
And so what we've created as a world has become a life-and-death
crisis.
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