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We have maps of Venus, but not of the western territorial trust.
The history of Western culture is full of language that equates love to mental illness.
What I already knew, what was very obvious already, was that religion, politics, Europe's colonial baggage, also Western foreign policy failures of recent years, were all a part of the picture.
And 2016 is the moment when a very large segment, even of the Western world, stopped believing in this story.
The simple answer is: no one has developed this kind of a drug yet, at least not one that conforms to the Western regulatory standards that set the norm for so much of the world.
So we started to forget about phages, especially in Western medicine.
I travelled for a month in Nepal with our good friend, Matthieu Ricard, and you'll remember Matthieu famously said to all of us here once at TED, "Western science is a major response to minor needs."
Then an academic, a Nigerian woman told me that feminism was not our culture and that feminism wasn't African, and that I was calling myself a feminist because I had been corrupted by "Western books."
And I remember I stumbled into this image of this Japanese basket and thinking our Western notions of perfection need to be challenged, that this wonderful silhouette of this basket, this wonkiness, and that it has the kind of dimple of what you might imagine a shoulder or the cheekbone, and that kind of organic form.
Let's say you despise Western democracy.
You can call out the hypocrisy and failures of Western democracies and explain how your way is better, but that's never really worked for you.
I wanted to bring an Eastern concept, like the chakras, to the Western world of superheroes.
It's a test of us in the Western world of who we are and what we stand for.
The reason that refugees have rights around the world is because of extraordinary Western leadership by statesmen and women after the Second World War that became universal rights.
BG: Those are strong suggestions and your call for individual responsibility is very strong as well, but I'm troubled by one thought, and it's this: you mentioned, and these are your words, "extraordinary Western leadership" which led 60-something years ago to the whole discussion about human rights, to the conventions on refugees, etc. etc.
Based on climate data projections, we are exploring a future where the Western world has moved from abundance to scarcity.
If you look at Western cultures around the globe, those living in cohousing are just a fractional percent.
Look at the wildfires up in northwest US and in western Canada.
I'd like to put you in the shoes of my Irish niece, Marlene McCormack, standing on a cliff edge on the western coast of Spain, overlooking the broad Atlantic.
Today it is mostly cultivated in the western part of the Sahel region, from Senegal to Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Nigeria.
It's just so Western.'
It's kind of my western landscape panorama.
She looks much like her grandmother, although she looks so Western.
I'm born in the Western Congo, in an area around here, and then went to university in Kisangani.
In 2011, the World Health Organization estimated that 1.6 million healthy life years are lost every year due to exposure to environmental noise in the Western European member states alone.
And they live up on the Chang Tang, the Tibetan Plateau, way in the western part of the country.
As you've probably noticed, in recent years, a lot of western forests have burned in large and destructive wildfires.
Megafires are the result of the way we've managed this western landscape over the last 150 years in a steadily warming climate.
I've spent my entire career studying these western landscapes, and the science is pretty clear: if we don't change a few of our fire-management habits, we're going to lose many more of our beloved forests.
Thankfully, panoramic photos were taken in the 1930s from thousands of western mountaintop lookouts, and they show a fair approximation of the forest that we inherited.
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