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Let's start with the global challenge of urbanization.

Look at the murder and mayhem in Mexico, Central America, so many other parts of the planet, the global black market estimated at 300 billion dollars a year, prisons packed in the United States and elsewhere, police and military drawn into an unwinnable war that violates basic rights, and ordinary citizens just hope they don't get caught in the crossfire, and meanwhile, more people using more drugs than ever.

Which is why it's particularly galling to me as an American that we've been the driving force behind this global drug war.

So think about our global drug war not as any sort of rational policy, but as the international projection of a domestic psychosis.

I mean, look, the markets in marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine are global commodities markets just like the global markets in alcohol, tobacco, coffee, sugar, and so many other things.

Which is why putting criminal laws and police front and center in trying to control a dynamic global commodities market is a recipe for disaster.

Millions have lived, and global health has been transformed.

It's a global issue affecting both rich and poor countries, and at the heart of it, you might say, well, isn't this really just a medical issue?

Now, it turns out that there's something fundamental about antibiotics which makes it different from other drugs, which is that if I misuse antibiotics or I use antibiotics, not only am I affected but others are affected as well, in the same way as if I choose to drive to work or take a plane to go somewhere, that the costs I impose on others through global climate change go everywhere, and I don't necessarily take these costs into consideration.

We live in a world where GDP is the benchmark of success in a global economy.

And with this detailed information about the real quality of life in this part of the country, Imazon and other partners from government, business and civil society can work together to construct a development plan that will help really improve people's lives, while protecting that precious global asset that is the Amazon Rainforest.

In fact, I believe that we are in the middle of a global epidemic of a terrible new illness known as MAS: Mindless Accept Syndrome.

Actually, I have evidence to prove that MAS is a global epidemic.

And if the numbers — there are a million views and it's being used by all these companies — aren't enough proof that we have a global problem with meetings, there are the many, many thousands of comments posted online after the video went up.

Week four, global — BBC, Irish Radio.

Just 600 cities, including 30 megacities, account for two thirds of global GDP.

That's 23 times the global average.

We've heard extraordinary activities of civil society groups who are engaging in local and global collective action, and this is leading to digital protest and real revolution.

But we're facing a stark dilemma where some cities are going to thrive and drive global growth and others are going to stumble and pull it backwards.

By 2030, we will face a global workforce crisis in most of our largest economies, including three out of the four BRIC countries.

Or in other words, will technology help us to solve this global workforce crisis?

To find out, this year we conducted a global survey among more than 200,000 job seekers from 189 countries.

And now, our global workforce crisis becomes very personal.

We will face a global workforce crisis which consists of an overall labor shortage plus a huge skill mismatch, plus a big cultural challenge.

And this global workforce crisis is approaching very fast.

I said that livestream could turn the web into a colossal TV network, but I believe it does something else, because after watching people using it, not only to cover things but to express, to organize themselves politically, I believe livestream can turn cyberspace into a global political arena where everyone might have a voice, a proper voice, because livestream takes the monopoly of the broadcast political discourse, of the verbal aspect of the political dialogue out of the mouths of just politicians and political pundits alone, and it empowers the citizen through this direct and non-mediated power of exchanging experiences and dialogue, empowers them to question and to influence authorities in ways in which we are about to see.

Whale carcasses are also known to transport about 190,000 tons of carbon, which is the equivalent of that produced by 80,000 cars per year from the atmosphere to the deep oceans, and the deep oceans are what we call "carbon sinks," because they trap and hold excess carbon from the atmosphere, and therefore help to delay global warming.

Now China has the opportunity to become a global environmental leader.

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.

In terms of wind power, China has a third of the global capacity.

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