There aren't many people in the world who have any idea of what's going on in Yemen, for example.

But every civilization reaches a crisis point eventually.

We're in a crisis.

Everyone was in danger, and I was the only one that could save them.

He is in grave danger.

This is a dangerous situation, Your Highness.

The federal budget is out of control.

You also realize he's a major liability.

And in recent years, more and more of our food is coming from abroad.

His planet is in crisis.

Now the day after we arrived, a new crisis began to unfold.

Remember the images I showed you of how few doctors and nurses there are in Africa.

puts black into a desperate plight...

We were desperate.

The conversation turned to global warming, and everybody agreed, there's a real problem.

This is a sexy situation.

In the poor world, we have to integrate the responses to poverty with the solutions to the climate crisis.

That's no longer the case. Logging roads provide access to urban areas.

This economic crisis look like a cancer.

The situation is hopeless.

This is a temporary situation.

It was under these circumstances that the constitutional crisis began.

Yeah. Well, there was a landmark legal case

The man extricated Ellie from a dangerous situation.

They explained that the Galvao bird is a rare and endangered parrot that's in terrible, terrible danger.

A religious fit, they say.

You have as much at stake as we do.

And it's an idea that I think is very prevalent at these TED Talks, the idea that we can invent our way out of a profound economic and energy crisis, that a move to a knowledge economy can somehow neatly sidestep those energy constraints, the idea that we'll discover some fabulous new source of energy that will mean we can sweep all concerns about energy security to one side, the idea that we can step off neatly onto a completely renewable world.

Archie was suffering from this illness himself.

We need a CO2 tax, revenue neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck and some things have changed since the 19th century.

In this situation you're putting your pilots at risk.

The situation appears desperate.

How did this dangerous state come about?

The general situation is advantageous to us.

What about your personal finances?

So we're taking this machine and recreating some of the operating theater crises that this machine might face in one of the hospitals that it's intended for, and in a contained, safe environment, evaluating its effectiveness.

This is what the law calls an exigent circumstance.

I skied on for a week past the Pole.

But for certain, Senator... in grave danger you are.

Tom was in trouble financially.

I know this doesn't make any sense to you.

We must forget our emotion.

I'm not talking close scrapes, I mean... when you're in a bad situation... and you know this is it, there's no way out... and you have time to think about it.

Circumstances?

Okay, so the bad news first