Generally, we haven't got ourselves into this mess through big disasters.

We need some alternatives for oil.

But something happened

And then it turns out we're not very good at figuring this stuff out.

For reference, fact one

So he was defending the Exxon Valdez thing.

The parts we throw out, we call introns.

This is it.

And this was the entire food web for the sea ducks.

And the day after he resigned, he went to work for Exxon mobil.

This is an Exxon slide showing what happens, the scenario and the trade off.

One of the places we put in a big oil project in Chad, with Exxon.

Acumen came in with the patient capital, and we also helped to identify the entrepreneur that we would all partner with here in Africa, and Exxon provided the initial resin.

Second fact the President's new budget for renewable energy is barely a billion dollars in total.

The petrochemical industry, the hydrocarbon industry spends a lot of money advertising.

These images of Bangladesh came out of a radio program I was listening to.

So the U.S. taxpayer paid for it the World Bank, Exxon paid for it.

He would be found lying on his back on his bed with a copy of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and an unfinished letter to Exxon protesting the cancellation of his gas credit card.

We train pharmaceutical technicians for the pharmacy industry, we train medical technicians for the medical industry, and we train chemical technicians for companies

Some of the greatest densities of, some of the most iconic and threatened species on the planet, and yet there's a proposal, of course, to build a pipeline to take huge tankers, 10 times the size of the Exxon Valdez, through some of the most difficult to navigate waters in the world, where only just a few years ago, a B.C. ferry ran aground.

When one of these tar sands tankers, carrying the dirtiest oil, 10 times as much as the Exxon Valdez, eventually hits a rock and goes down, we're going to have one of the worst ecological disasters this planet has ever seen.