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Nowhere else in the world has community-adopted conservation at this
scale.
It's a kind of mechanistic world that we'd all love to live in where, effectively, it sits very nicely on spreadsheets, everything is numerically expressible, and the amount you spend on something is proportionate to the
scale
of your success.
If you do a large
scale
expansion of nuclear energy across the world, and as a result there was just one nuclear bomb created that was used to destroy a city such as Mumbai or some other big city, megacity, the additional death rates due to this averaged over 30 years and then scaled to the population of the U.S. would be this.
And those who scored high on the ESP scale, tended to not only see more patterns in the degraded images but incorrect patterns.
And the
scale
and the speed of this system is truly breathtaking.
They're ocean-based and
scale
animals who are communicating over much longer ranges than we had anticipated.
It's an amazing shift, induced by humans over this large scale, in both time and space.
Even when business is booming, CSR just isn't designed to
scale.
And on a wider scale, it amazes me how people go through life just scratching the surface of their potential, just doing three or four or five percent of what they're truly capable of.
So, on a wider scale, I hope that this journey was a chance to inspire other people to think about what they want to do with their potential, and what they want to do with the tiny amount of time we each have on this planet.
I've been sending out valentines on a fairly large
scale
since 2005.
And finally, they have a different model of scale, and it's a Chinese restaurant model of how to
scale.
And that's desperately what we need again on a global
scale.
The first is to plan retrofitting much more systemically at the metropolitan
scale.
We wanted to be able to make anything on any length scale, all in one place, because you can't segregate digital fabrication by a discipline or a length
scale.
A laser cutter to do press-fit assembly with 3D from 2D, a sign cutter to plot in copper to do electromagnetics, a micron scale, numerically-controlled milling machine for precise structures, programming tools for less than a dollar, 100-nanosecond microcontrollers.
More of problems are global in
scale.
More of our economics is global in
scale.
Of course it's a logarithmic
scale
here, but our concept of economy is growth with percent.
I won't talk a lot about most of them right here, but the one on the west coast, that's in the box, is called the regional
scale
nodes.
It, however, is enormous in both
scale
and importance.
And the differences in
scale
between this tiny sea dragon and this enormous humpback whale was like something out of a science-fiction movie.
This, dear friends, poses a human pressure on the planet of momentous
scale.
We're not doing that at any
scale
on governance.
Elinor Ostrom, the latest Nobel laureate of economics, clearly shows empirically across the world that we can govern the commons if we invest in trust, local, action-based partnerships and cross-scale institutional innovations, where local actors, together, can deal with the global commons at a large
scale.
Now, science indicates that, yes, we can achieve a prosperous future within the safe operating space, if we move simultaneously, collaborating on a global level, from local to global scale, in transformative options, which build resilience on a finite planet.
So I want us all to picture it for a moment, really picture what this could mean: [New energy ecosystem] an energy system that's not just about subsistence power, getting the family off the kerosene, but it's actually the full suite of appliances and tools and productivity that we've all gotten used to, so actually energy at a
scale
that can drive industrial development.
And they are the places where artists who deserve and want to work at a certain
scale
of resources will find a home.
And be able, on a large scale, to monitor an impending epidemic with very minimal input from people.
And so we need to do more, we need to do it differently, we need to do it in ways that are affordable and accessible and can be taken to scale, which means it can be done everywhere.
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