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And I thought
to
myself, in the middle of the night, in the middle of the Atlantic, what in the world could be wrong in Washington?
But what it turned out
to
be, was that my staff was extremely upset because one of the wire services in Nigeria had already written a story about my speech, and it had already been printed in cities all across the United States of America.
I was going
to
talk about information ecology.
But I was thinking that, since I plan
to
make a lifelong habit of coming back
to
TED, that maybe I could talk about that another time.
Al Gore: I want
to
focus on what many of you have said you would like me
to
elaborate on: What can you do about the climate crisis?
But these are the recapitulation slides, and then I'm going
to
go into new material about what you can do.
But I wanted
to
elaborate on a couple of these.
First of all, this is where we're projected
to
go with the U.S. contribution
to
global warming, under business as usual.
Consider this: Make a decision
to
live a carbon-neutral life.
Those of you who are good at branding, I'd love
to
get your advice and help on how
to
say this in a way that connects with the most people.
You can very precisely calculate what your CO2 emissions are, and then you will be given options
to
reduce.
And by the time the movie comes out in May, this will be updated
to
2.0, and we will have click-through purchases of offsets.
Over time, people do what you pay them
to
do.
And if they judge how much they're going
to
get paid on your capital that they've invested, based on the short-term returns, you're going
to
get short-term decisions.
A lot more
to
be said about that.
Many of you here have the opportunity
to
ensure that a lot of people see it.
Consider sending somebody
to
Nashville.
And so I'm going
to
be conducting a course this summer for a group of people that are nominated by different folks
to
come and then give it en masse, in communities all across the country, and we're going
to
update the slideshow for all of them every single week,
to
keep it right on the cutting edge.
Where did anybody get the idea that you ought
to
stay arm's length from politics?
This used
to
be a bipartisan issue, and I know that in this group it really is.
Make our democracy work the way it's supposed
to
work.
Once it's a closed system, you will have legal liability if you do not urge your CEO
to
get the maximum income from reducing and trading the carbon emissions that can be avoided.
We have
to
change the minds of the American people.
Because presently, the politicians do not have permission
to
do what needs
to
be done.
We have
to
buy a lot of those ads.
Not just this, but connected
to
the ideas that are here,
to
bring more coherence
to
them.
And what's happening is that there's a globalization of illness occurring, that people are starting
to
eat like us, and live like us, and die like us.
And in one generation, for example, Asia's gone from having one of the lowest rates of heart disease and obesity and diabetes
to
one of the highest.
So there's a critical window of opportunity we have
to
make an important difference that can affect the lives of literally millions of people, and practice preventive medicine on a global scale.
What's really concerning
to
me is that diabetes has increased 70 percent in the past 10 years, and this may be the first generation in which our kids live a shorter life span than we do.
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