Planet
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Why would you have this escape trip off to another
planet?
And this does not subvert making our
planet
here better and doing a better job taking care of it, but I think you need multiple paths to survival, and this is one of them.
Mars is fine, but it is a fixer-upper
planet.
You have one of the most amazing jobs on the
planet.
And then what happens is there's enough dust left over that it doesn't ignite into a star, it becomes a
planet.
It was first excavated in 1961 as they were building LAX, although scientists believe that it dates back to the year 2000 Before Common Era, when it was used as a busy transdimensional space port by the ancient astronauts who first colonized this
planet
and raised our species from savagery by giving us the gift of written language and technology and the gift of revolving restaurants.
The consequences of a
planet
with 7 billion people and counting.
Just being able to visit places in different times, you can explore this for hours, literally hours on end, but I want to show you one thing in particular, so I'm going to open up the destination tab, spacecraft outer
planet
missions, Voyager 1, and I'm going to bring up the Titan flyby.
There are still dozens and dozens of uncontacted tribes living on this
planet.
This is the most successful order on the
planet
by far.
Something between 20 and 25 percent of all life forms on the planet, including plants, are beetles.
Years later, the boy from that cramped mud hut would grow up to be the man in that cramped capsule on the tip of a rocket who volunteered to be launched into outer space, the first one of any of us to really physically leave this
planet.
What this means is that if you could shrink the Earth to the size of a billiard ball, if you could take
planet
Earth, with all its mountain tops and caves and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls, fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea, you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball, it would be as smooth as a billiard ball, presumably a billiard ball with a slight bulge around the middle.
For example, in my first TED Talk, I did propose that we should spend 21 billion hours a week, as a planet, playing video games.
It's basically what was the system or the paradigm before the industrial revolution is now re-happening in a whole new way in small digital shops across the
planet
in most developing countries.
Now, I have to say, I had a "Lonely
Planet"
guide to Ukraine and in it, it gave some advice.
We have local numbers accessible to three quarters of a billion people on the
planet.
If it did, we'd be on a much warmer
planet.
And the economy has become incredibly degenerative, rapidly destabilizing this delicately balanced
planet
on which all of our lives depend.
I think it's time to choose a higher ambition, a far bigger one, because humanity's 21st century challenge is clear: to meet the needs of all people within the means of this extraordinary, unique, living
planet
so that we and the rest of nature can thrive.
But, and it's a big but, we cannot let our collective resource use overshoot that outer circle, the ecological ceiling, because there we put so much pressure on this extraordinary
planet
that we begin to kick it out of kilter.
So this double-sided challenge to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet, it invites a new shape of progress, no longer this ever-rising line of growth, but a sweet spot for humanity, thriving in dynamic balance between the foundation and the ceiling.
The World Health Organization estimates that there are nearly four to five hundred million people living on our tiny
planet
who are affected by a mental illness.
Those small organisms have been around for millions of years and there's thousands of different species of microalgae in the world, some of which are the fastest-growing plants on the planet, and produce, as I just showed you, lots and lots of oil.
When people talk about the need to increase global food production to feed those nine billion people that are expected on the
planet
by 2050, I always think of these graphs.
But what we have to recognize now is that we are reaching the ecological limits that our
planet
can bear, and when we chop down forests, as we are every day, to grow more and more food, when we extract water from depleting water reserves, when we emit fossil fuel emissions in the quest to grow more and more food, and then we throw away so much of it, we have to think about what we can start saving.
For the sake of the
planet
we live on, for the sake of our children, for the sake of all the other organisms that share our
planet
with us, we are a terrestrial animal, and we depend on our land for food.
It has truly revolutionized the way we communicate on the
planet.
I spent that last two years scouring the planet, looking for different ways that people have answered this question.
I'm very confident we're going to learn to live more lightly on the planet, and I am extremely confident that what we're going to do with our new digital tools is going to be so profound and so beneficial that it's going to make a mockery out of everything that came before.
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