Environmental
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You can spray; the problem is there are
environmental
issues.
If you want to take it to the next level, remember, the major culprits in terms of
environmental
damage and health are red and processed meats.
We're not paying the true
environmental
costs of our actions.
Because it's cheaper, because they don't pay the real
environmental
costs.
Also, at Synthetic Genomics, we've been working on major
environmental
issues.
The first story that I did for National Geographic, where I recognized the ability to include
environmental
issues within a natural history coverage, was a story I proposed on harp seals.
But as I got more involved in the story, I realized that there were two big
environmental
issues I couldn't ignore.
The reason many people think that about this picture, and Al Gore has said it many times, actually, on the stage at TED, is that this picture, arguably, was the beginning of the
environmental
movement.
So, in favor of the proposition, possibly shockingly, is one of, truly, the founders of the
environmental
movement, a long-standing TEDster, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, someone we all know and love, Stewart Brand.
Now, from an
environmental
standpoint, the main thing you want to look at is what happens to the waste from nuclear and from coal, the two major sources of electricity.
Focusing on TSI means incorporating social and
environmental
considerations.
All else being equal, companies that perform strongly on social and
environmental
areas achieve higher margins and higher valuations.
And it was an
environmental
improvement, because, for instance, in 1903 they outlawed horses and buggies in downtown Manhattan, because you can imagine what the roads look like when you have a million horses, and a million of them urinating and doing other things, and the typhoid and other problems created were almost unimaginable.
So the car was the clean
environmental
alternative to a horse and buggy.
Consider, the single most successful international
environmental
effort of the 20th century, the Montreal Protocol, in which the nations of Earth banded together to protect the planet from the harmful effects of ozone-destroying chemicals used at that time in air conditioners, refrigerators and other cooling devices.
When the Santa Barbara spill happened in 1969, it formed the
environmental
movement in its modern form.
I mean, we've essentially been exporting oil spills when we import oil from places without tight
environmental
regulations.
And I think the
environmental
movement of which I am a part of has been complicit in creating this vision of the future.
And I think that's what we're doing when we're asking people to engage with our agenda around
environmental
degradation and climate change.
And I think the
environmental
movement has to grow up and start to think about what progress is.
At a business level, you might look at the well-being of your employees, which we know is really linked to creativity, which is linked to innovation, and we're going to need a lot of innovation to deal with those
environmental
issues.
Now, he was a preacher, but I believe the
environmental
movement and, in fact, the business community, government, needs to go to the top of the mountain top, and it needs to look out, and it needs to see the Promised Land, or the land of promise, and it needs to have a vision of a world that we all want.
This is the
environmental
conditions on the planet.
The majority of the
environmental
impacts on the planet have been caused by the rich minority, the 20 percent that jumped onto the industrial bandwagon in the mid-18th century.
And this is the new paradigm, which we gathered two, three years back, recognizing that our old paradigm of just analyzing and pushing and predicting parameters into the future, aiming at minimalizing
environmental
impacts, is of the past.
Now we to ask ourselves: which are the large
environmental
processes that we have to be stewards of to keep ourselves safe in the Holocene?
But it changes fundamentally our governance and management paradigm, from the current linear, command and control thinking, looking at efficiencies and optimization towards a much more flexible, a much more adaptive approach, where we recognize that redundancy, both in social and
environmental
systems, is key to be able to deal with a turbulent era of global change.
There's an
environmental
component.
Most of what you see there is an asthma inhaler, but the top is a very small GPS transceiver, which gives you the date and location of an asthma incident, giving you a new awareness of your vulnerability in relation to time and
environmental
factors.
It's a clinic like a health clinic at any other university, except people come to the clinic with
environmental
health concerns, and they walk out with prescriptions for things they can do to improve
environmental
health, as opposed to coming to a clinic with medical concerns and walking out with prescriptions for pharmaceuticals.
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