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So all the way over on the left of this graph, what you see is many OECD countries saving over a quarter of their GDP every year, and some OECD countries saving over a third of their GDP per
year.
Five percentage points of your GDP saved per
year.
What I'm going to show you, though, is something that I've been engaging in for a year, which is trying to gather all of the largest datasets that we have access to as economists, and I'm going to try and strip away all of those possible differences, hoping to get this relationship to break.
Yes, futureless language speakers, even after this level of control, are 30 percent more likely to report having saved in any given
year.
Just last
year
we realized that you don't even need to have a robotic device.
He came home once a
year.
I'm going to pause here and bring in something I saw in November last
year
at Wall Street.
And I made a Freedom of Information application in May this
year
to the Ministry of Finance.
I was elected in 2002 and, at the end of my first
year
in office in 2003, I got a call from one of my staff members, who said, "Gov, we have a big problem.
He wants Congress to adopt a clean energy standard of 80 percent by 2030, in other words, that you'd have to get 80 percent of your energy from clean sources by the
year
2030.
To tell you just an example, an anecdote about their rarity, I was going to this place every
year
and would do fieldwork here, and the assistants, of course, helped me do the surveys.
We have environments where humidity is guaranteed throughout the
year.
And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares of grasslands, and almost nobody is talking about it.
It has just come through four months of very good rains it got that year, and it's going into the long dry season.
They put 25,000 sheep in one flock, really mimicking nature now with planned grazing, and they have documented a 50-percent increase in the production of the land in the first
year.
But many years ago, we took the worst land in Zimbabwe, where I offered a £5 note in a hundred-mile drive if somebody could find one grass in a hundred-mile drive, and on that, we trebled the stocking rate, the number of animals, in the first
year
with no feeding, just by the movement, mimicking nature, and using a sigmoid curve, that principle.
Seems like every school has an arsenal of names getting updated every
year.
And we think of this as our system of ethics, but what we don't realize is that this system has a powerful side effect, which is: It gives a really stark, mutually exclusive choice between doing very well for yourself and your family or doing good for the world, to the brightest minds coming out of our best universities, and sends tens of thousands of people who could make a huge difference in the nonprofit sector, marching every
year
directly into the for-profit sector because they're not willing to make that kind of lifelong economic sacrifice.
Meanwhile, for the same year, the average salary for the CEO of a $5 million-plus medical charity in the U.S. was 232,000 dollars, and for a hunger charity, 84,000 dollars.
Now, there's no way you're going to get a lot of people with $400,000 talent to make a $316,000 sacrifice every
year
to become the CEO of a hunger charity.
2002 was our most successful
year
ever.
We netted for breast cancer alone, that
year
alone, 71 million dollars after all expenses.
Net income for breast cancer research went down by 84 percent, or 60 million dollars, in one
year.
That's about 300 billion dollars a
year.
But if we could move charitable giving from two percent of GDP, up just one step to three percent of GDP, by investing in that growth, that would be an extra 150 billion dollars a
year
in contributions, and if that money could go disproportionately to health and human services charities, because those were the ones we encouraged to invest in their growth, that would represent a tripling of contributions to that sector.
Now, this photograph I took of him last
year
at the Smithsonian, he's looking down at Martha, the last passenger pigeon alive.
You want to work on getting the market for ivory in Asia down so you're not using 25,000 elephants a
year.
They're increasing in population by three percent a
year.
Since the
year
2000, since the turn of the millennium, there are eight million more AIDS patients getting life-saving antiretroviral drugs.
For kids under five, child mortality, kids under five, it's down by 2.65 million a
year.
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