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And here is a Stone Age version of his story, although he told it in
terms
of trade between countries.
The first thing you have to consider is that there are parts of the world that are dark spots in
terms
of attention.
Mauritius was the first country to get away with trade barriers, and they could sell their sugar, they could sell their textiles, on equal
terms
as the people in Europe and North America.
And let's compare it to the rest of the world in spatial
terms.
It may be the next rainforest, in
terms
of pharmaceuticals.
We create mortgage
terms
that we can't actually deal with.
One is that we have a really hard time thinking in absolute
terms.
Instead, we find it very easy to think in very relative
terms
as options change from one time to another.
This is crazy because it suggests that the monkeys too are evaluating things in relative
terms
and actually treating losses differently than they treat gains.
When you're watching your stocks plummet into the red, when you're watching your house price go down, you're not going to be able to see that in anything but old evolutionary
terms.
A zeptowatt, if you put it in similar terms, is if you take just one grain of salt and then you imagine a tiny, tiny, little ball that is one thousandth of the mass of that one grain of salt and then you drop it one nanometer, which is a hundred times smaller than the wavelength of visible light, once per day.
I was curious about this, so it led me to the work of a Danish physicist called Tor Norretranders, and he converted the bandwidth of the senses into computer
terms.
I love taking supplements and being fit, but I can never understand what's going on in
terms
of evidence.
Now, Rick Warren uses scientific
terms
and scientific factoids and information in a very interesting way.
The oil industry is like a huge, gigantic octopus of engineering and finance and everything else, but we actually see it in very moral
terms.
Why are we not thinking of the progress of nations in these terms, instead of just how much stuff we have?
When it has a scarce resource that it wants to turn into a desirable outcome, it thinks in
terms
of efficiency.
It thinks in
terms
of how much bang do we get for our buck.
In Hobbesian terms, life is short and brutish there.
And immediately, a lot of different responsibilities, in
terms
of my education and so forth, were heaped upon me.
But nevertheless, there's no real sense of separation from me in my heart, in
terms
of the love that I feel for these people.
And in
terms
of other things that I wanted to share with you, in
terms
of ideas, I think it's wonderful to have a situation like this, where so many people from different backgrounds and places can come together, exchange their ideas and form relationships of friendship with each other.
We talk about things in relative
terms.
So we talk in
terms
of what we call task-shifting.
In the simplest of terms, it's about having the spaces you inhabit reflect back your value.
The irony is, though, that we have cashed-out prosperity almost literally in
terms
of money and economic growth.
What I'll try and do, is I'll try and paraphrase it is sort of human
terms.
This is a strange, rather perverse, story, just to put it in very simple
terms.
TJ: I would still want to know that you could do that and get below zero by the end of the century, in
terms
of taking carbon out of the atmosphere, and solve the problem of biodiversity and reduce the impact on land use and do something about the erosion of topsoils and the quality of water.
These are young sunflowers, and what they are doing cannot be described with any other
terms
than playing.
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