We need to face 'the other inconvenient truth.'

I saw birds that breed in Greenland, in the Gulf.

A temporal anomaly in global consciousness.

We are big people, and we're trying to deal with what's happening in our society.

The future we don't want is coming towards us way faster than anyone predicted.

This is Venice, Italy.

We see it in the Caribbean.

Now the problem with this model is that it's unsustainable globally.

So is this just a story from South Thailand?

The bad news is that's not true.

This technology has become outdated in our current world.

It's a great pleasure to be here, and to have a chance just to meet with you and talk about some very simple ideas about the problems we're facing.

Now, by the time you are doing that and increasing greatly the percentage of bare ground on more than half the world's land, you are changing macroclimate.

Well, what's wrong with Earth?

And the tsunami of problems that we feel we're facing in terms of sustainability questions are actually a reflection of the exponential increase in urbanization across the planet.

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You must have courage.

look at how that translates globally.

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Tonight, I want to have a conversation about this incredible global issue that's at the intersection of land use, food and environment, something we can all relate to, and what I've been calling the other inconvenient truth.

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It's getting more connected.

These gases can lead to global warming.

They had an audacious idea.

Why don't we all team up? Why don't we bring truce to life?

I'm an individual. I'm one person.

But this is a far cry from the intimacy that we feel for our friends.

And that's a serious option.

However, we can slow it down.

The most exciting thing, I would say, about this census is the role of global science.

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We now have a culture of distraction.

As you can see, these are the footprints of the different projects.

We don't have that. So that's one problem.

So you want to learn from large data sets, at least when we can get such large data sets.

local, action based partnerships and cross scale institutional innovations, where local actors, together, can deal with the global commons at a large scale.

Americans on both sides care about global poverty and AlDS, and on so many humanitarian issues,

And that's where these dump designers aren't just causing a pain in our wallets.

Even when they're thinking they're just working on protecting the environment.

This is the Alberta tar sands, the largest oil reserves on the planet outside of Saudi Arabia.

Right?

You think that's not an issue going forward?

And the more we zoom out, the scarier it gets from intersections scale to a larger city scale to a regional scale.

Global warming will change the patterns of the weather world wide.