where things are going infil law and where you see things going into law contradicted of his concerns from ten years ago. but i would like to hear what you think about the issue of marriage. >> one thing is michael and i have an exchange coming out next year so you will be able to see that. i think that michael's book is a great and i admire him greatly and we are on the same page about a lot things. i guess i believe like michael that if we were to start de novo the best thing would be to start way back and think which privileges do we want to bundle together? we have a big bundle called marriage where we wrap up decisions about burial, spousal exemption when giving testimony, immigration benefits, inheritance benefits, so it is all in one package and michael nicely points to france where the brother and sister who share a household could give certain tax benefits. i think we should if we were starting all over again that is

what we should do and short of that we should perhaps just get the state to about out of the marriage business and give just the simple package. ..

i think that has not happened because the focus of a marriage made all the rest look easy and when marriage wins, you have everything even marriage loses a of course, we have discrimination and ray have the republicans since 2008 and saying that kind of thing. even the military is backing down today they finally announced prosecution and under "don't ask, don't tell" kennel may be initiated by an admiral or a general so we are getting the of progress so i guess i am not so worried at least about that and night they give way stick up for

marriage as long as we do not deify the house but in lawrence what was terribly ambiguous it is not even what would be considered the right understanding or protected because it is in a protected place we don't want to say the home is sacred. that has been terrible line to take for many reasons because it insulates behavior such as child abuse and domestic abuse and fails to protect consensual behavior which may be in a hotel or a club or another secluded spot. and so the right distinctions the public-private which we have self regarding acts that implicates only the interest of the people involved and others that impinge on the rights of others if you are secluding yourself whether

at a rest off and that should be fine i'm sorry i have been giving false answers. but this will be the last question. i am sorry. >> too much pressure. [laughter] a few quick points to argue that the beginning the animus that individuals feel about a particular act is not a good basis for prohibiting that act? my question is how that relates to animal cruelty laws? said of think there is a fundamental basis in the constitution not a legal framework to protect the animals based on protecting human beings it is our collective conscience that is embarrassed by animal cruelty that provides the basis for those laws in my second question about the fourth argument of the same sex a marriage is not the

law a codification of our collective morality? doesn't require in some sense the majority of people is and that the basis for a state endorsement of marriage? and as that is the case. >> okay. there is no constitutional framework for protecting animals i think there should be but though whole issue of venomous is not related to that. that is the fear or discussed can give you a very weak rational basis for a lot and the president that came before romer v edwards people with mental disabilities where texas one city refused to permit for a

home that house people with mental disabilities and they put forward all sorts of arguments that this places on a flood plain in the event of a flood they could not to get out of the home. they had all of the spurious arguments but the court said that is nothing but a animus so they declare the zoning law last day rational basis. that is the president that they argued before the supreme court argued and got what they wanted. the fourth argument i think the of course, it does have a moral content be cut as my image is one that i took over this one that is the overlapping consensus but let's hope that we overlap into a surgeon's noted base our political principles of that. what is in the zone?

human equality, a dignity equal protection of laws and things like that then working out the implications of that. that means the majority have been very careful that when they bring their preferences forward it is in that zone rather than something outside the zone that they happen to like very much so when they say sunday is the day off if nobody can work on saturday, tough they cannot get unemployment compensation. they say that is like finding somebody for worship and it is the intention of the fundamental idea that to people are entitled to exercise their liberties of they have built-in safeguards for minorities was the majority impose something of the value is said to lie of conscience so

it has a truce to it but not to the whole truth. [applause] >> good evening everybody. it is very nice to see old friends and neighbors.

this is our local bookstore here in washington and real was like to start off every book speed of the right or their friends. thank you for coming out tonight. we appreciate it. let me start on a somber note. that i hope will turn out to be a liberating reflection. i believe we may be at a seminal turning point* in the history of our species, may be. two events in the past 18 months signal the end of the great industrial revolution. by fossil dealers. let's go back july 2008. you recall that peaked at $147 per barrel prices soared. inflation roared and basic

stuff from food to petro may be prohibited. there were food riots in 30 countries. and consumer purchasing power literally plummeted. that was the economic meltdown. the financial collapse 60 days later was the aftershock. that nobody seems to make the connection. what happened in july 2008? to understand why the industrial revolution collapsed that month, we have to go back 21979. we have to look at a steady done at peak oil per capita do not confuse this with the oil production but in 1970 to be distributed all the oil that existed in the world to everyone on the planet at that time that is the most oil each person could have equitably shared we have found more oil in

the last 30 years but population group. fried distributor of the oil reserves today 6.8 billion people it would be less to go around person. when china and india and other developing countries made the bid to bring over one-third of the human race into the industrial revolution the pressure on there reserves was too great in be reached peak globalization a $147 per barrel. you notice the economy is just beginning to grow again. willis up $82 per barrel again and i will suggest it is the end game as we try to regrow the economy and inflation will go up and purchasing power will go down at 147 that is pete

globalization reno the outer limits of how far we can globalize based on the industrial revolution. by fossil fuels and i would encourage it that they cannot be done. password december 2009. we will attempt to look at the revolution based on fossil fuels the co2 in that pushed into the atmosphere over two centuries now the crt at -- asea to the scientists tell us we are at risk. we could see potential mass extinction of life in this country and that our own species is now threatened but when world leaders got together in copenhagen from 192 countries they could not make the deal or find a way

to address what may be the greatest threat than ever faced our species since we have lived on the planet. why is it that i am simply able to have the industrial revolution and they don't know what to do about it. how is it that the world political leaders sat there in copenhagen knowing the threat to save our species and the earth we live been? the failure lies much deeper than simply finding a legislative issues to regulate global markets. it runs much deeper to use a treaty for mandatory gas reduction. i believe the real failure

is that our political leaders and business leaders are relying on old fashioned integrated 18th and 19th century assumptions about human nature and human condition that simply don't fit. they are ill suited for the challenges of the 21st century. for 1500 years and restaurants civilization the church dominated it had the last line with what human nature is all about and theologian said our babies are born in sin, evo, depraved have to wait for salvation in the next world with christ. at the dawn of a market economy hour am i and philosophers took on the church world view.

that shows what human nature is all about and what is our journey about? you recall the grateful that political philosopher of a mike demint said babies are born as a clean slate buy he had a little opening but there is one predisposition l.e.t. to acquire property without human labor so we can become happy. [laughter] adam smith said babies won't were born to be autonomous agents that will pursue their own material self-interest in their market. that is the destiny and the nature. actually babies are born to seek we should -- pleasure overpaid we're utilitarian better nature. dar when he toured it is of six to reproduce itself is about perpetuation sigmund

freud came along and said babies are born with a strong sexual desire them life is about extinguishing the be no. okay. is this who we are after 2000 years? to be evo and awash with seven? are read attached rational utilitarian, interested in is that who we are? if that is who we are, we're doomed likely i don't see a likely scenario in which to have a global economy i see no way to heal the planets in the global biosphere if we're depraved utilitarian

materialistic and pleasure seeking and automous agents. in the last 10 years of the cutting age of evolutionary biology hour researchers have been making discoveries and the discoveries are breathtaking in their imports because they force us to rethink the traditional chivalrous about what human nature is all about. going back to italy a sleepy place they were studying a monkey they put the mri scanner on the brain then they watched the monkey try to open up the nets. and they recorded the narrow connections. by sheer serendipity, a

human trainer walked into the laboratory and happen to pick up the nuts and try to open it as well. he simply stared at the trainer then they noticed on that mri that the same neurons were lighting up when he observed the trader as when the monkey was opening that up himself. they had no idea what they had seen progress shocking. they began to test other primates and then they began to test humans four years. and what they found over and over again is when a human being observed another human being, the same mirage would live up to whether or not the observer was doing the same thing it themselves joy, rejection, excitement, they have mirrored in neurons. some of the primates all of us human being suspect the

narrow circuitry from their neurons is also an elephant may be an dolphins because they can self identified in the mirror test. but what we're finding now is that we are not wired for aggression and violence we're not wired for utilitarianism we're not wired to be simple and evil we're wired to be and have said. the press calls them of the neurons renown know that human beings and primate friends we actually can experience biologically somebody else's plight, their condition, a feeling some emotion that is wired into our biology. that is extraordinary. think about a somebody and mentioned to this to me in the seventies it is a breakthrough. we know when you put a little baby and a nursery with little babies if one baby starts to cry the

others will as well. that is called primitive empathic distress. but the maturity of empathy is the emotional and positive and two 1/2 years of age when a child can identify himself in a mirror, then they know there is amy and of you and begin the process of being impacted because the developments self goes with the development of the but the the more we develop our self the more we empathize with others. at seven or eight of the child begins to learn about birth and death and where it comes from that and they will not always be hear that is a big lake board on the empathic scale because it has the celebration of life and also the death think of when we empathize with someone misunderstand their fragility and one and on the life and their moment in

time and we know they have a birth and a history and the death and the existential sense of who we are allows us to deepen empathize with another person. we brewed for that and celebrates and hope that they flourish. that is what empathy is all about. empathy is a very complicated the human emotion. so the question is if they are wired for an empathic distress biologically predisposed to connect to the social and seek companionship and reciprocity and affection, and we know this is right because what is the worst thing you can do to someone? ostracized. we are a social animal that is what we used to reach out to another and communicate. if someone can't empathize

they cannot be social if we think of a narcissist or folks better sociopathic they have no ability to feel another person's experience as if it was their own. so if we are wired or predisposes for empathy is it possible we could extend empathic consciousness to the entire species? and all fellow creatures? is it possible to imagine that? i know it this point* we were thinking. he has gone over the deep end. [laughter] we can't even pass health care reform for god's sakes. [laughter] he is asking us to make a global leap to empathic consciousness. what is going on? it does changeover history. the way we're wired today is quite differently than the medieval serves in the tenth

century and the way they comprehend reality was completely different than a forgers 20,000 years ago. the question becomes what is the mechanism or process by which consciousness extends itself over history and it expands to larger domains? if we study the process, maybe we can get a clue as to whether we can make the leap. if we can make the leap that i don't see any scenario of plan b where we will save ourselves our fellow creatures of the ears. not if human nature is the way we saw it in the past. i believe the great changes in consciousness of history occurred is when humans change the way we organize the energy of the planet and secondly when we change the way we communicate to organize new energy regimes. when energy revolutions

converge with communication revolutions, those of the pivotal points in history to change human consciousness in the process. let me give you an example parker everyone here to decline anthropology class you study and mesopotamia and ancient iraq and the reason we carry-- care about the syrians there were the first to capture the sun photosynthesis with the stored grain into energy to build population and the urban environment. they were the first to create high end hydro agriculture this was very complicated before that time people lived in small villages was small garden agriculture zero 1/7 for the first time thousands and thousands of men taken out of the villages and put to the task of building irrigation canals then they said of specialized craft skills to make the dikes to

put together a good distribution system and create urban life this was so complicated hydraulic agriculture they had to have a new communication revolution to communicate if they invented writing. everywhere they were created in the middle east, the yanks the river in china and in mexico is fascinating independently human beings figure out some form of writing to manage stored grain with communication energy proposed with me. 19th century. another convergence of communication and energy the print press has been around and the chinese had it been in the 19th century introducing steam technology into print we could mass-produced print very quick and cheap and efficient her around the same time about 1830 we

introduce mass public schooling in europe and mass literacy and greeted the first generation work force that was print literate to match coldest team and rail try organizing that first revolution with the oil it could not have happened. the 20th century another convergence of communication first generation of electricity the telegraph and telephone become the management tool but later cinema and empty be the marketing tools to go to oil and the combustion and then the second is sun setting in fret -- infrastructure is on life-support the meltdown is here. the interesting thing about these communication revolution is not only have energy regimes but also change in the process. let's go back to the forgers

placed under societies prepare every forger hunter society their consciousness was mythological. when we go to the great hybrid got-- hydrological civilizations we go to script and then we go to script and retain consciousness becomes the logical the abraham religions a judea's and christianity and islam and the people of the book even confucius in the first industrial revolution, we shift to print communication and usher in the ideological consciousness. my great grandparents had ideological consciousness in the 20th century we negative iran electricity as the communication vehicle and lo and behold we become psychological and therapeutic my grandparents could not think psychologically we think

that way in the 20th century so consciousness changes mythological mythological, theological and ideological and psychological. each maurer sophisticated communication revolution to organize more sophisticated energy receipt -- regimes brings more diverse people together and the more integrated poll. i don't know if any of you happen two countries where they still have some tribe left but in all cultures the central nervous system does not extend beyond the shouting range. and that happens it is a very small playing field but when they go to script and print and electronic culture the communication allows us to broaden our central nervous system to communicate with more people over time and space which gives us a bigger playing field for people to come together and become impact

it. this changes the range of empathy very genetically. hunter gatherer cultures we may talk about going back to primitive times this is where i take exception with some of the 19th century romantics sympathy never would relations end of locality when we get to the great hydraulic agriculture civilization and theological consciousness the blood ties start to unravel slightly and people begin to individual associate around religious soul of the jewish star to empathize with the jewish because they are looking as the extended family and so are christians, muslims and muslims. the extension of empathy and the process. and the 19th century when we went to the modern market economy and a nation state the first industrial revolution, print technology

had empathy extend itself? to the nation state. broader boundaries of the central nervous system so america start to empathize because of the extended family and the french started to empathize with the french and so on. actually, and with the we can see evolving trajectory from blood ties to religious ties, national associations. is it a big leap forward to unimagined in the next generation we can lead to the biosphere? i don't think it is that big of a leap or if we can get there. there is a paradox in history which forces me to pause here. you might not like this paradox. my sense is that when new energy consuming civilizations come together with new communications they

do bring a lot of people together heightened cosmopolitan nature of life and extend a but they no doubt about it. to extend the central nervous system but there is a bill. more entropy of to this point* the more complex energy civilizations were created extended of the the at the expense of greater use of energy. we can see it right now we live in the most complex, interdependent globally connected civilization in history and at the far reaches we now can extend our empathy to the globe. when the first video showed up of a polar bear and backup isolated on the ice floe the empathy of the human race exhibited itself we can now connect to the entire plan and begin to think of graphically but the same technologies and structures that are connecting nasser using vast

amounts of him in energy resources and planetary resources. it is a bitter irony when you think about it may be a fiction writer should spend time on is but we may be at the bittersweet moment where we just beginning to glimpse the biosphere consciousness right at the time were the same civilization that gives us that opportunity takes us to the brink and possibility of catastrophic destruction to the ecosystem to sustain our life. how do we break the paradox? i believe we're on the cusp of a third industrial revolution. a new convergence of communication energy that is already here. we have a very powerful internet revolution personal computer and internet over the last 20 years the new communication revolution

first generation communications and electricity top down. the new communication revolution is open source, flat, peer to peer and global and here is the key term, it separates from the older forms of communication, not centralized. the new revolution is distributed, distributed, a 2 billion people can do their own video audiotext and then share it with each other at the speed of light in debt distributive fashion. this distributed i ct revolution is beginning to converge with the new energy when distributed teethree communications and technology has a very third powerful industrial revolution that could connect to the human race and maybe give us a shot to hit the biosphere consciousness.

is it distributed by a communication? we know what the leaked energy czar. coal oil and natural gas and uranium are the least because if you go home tonight it is a chance to not find any of those in your backyard. they are only found in certain regions of the world and require a huge military investment to secure them and political investments to manage them and massive capital to organize them and the clear the fossil fuel first and second industrial revolutions were buy far the most centralized revolutions in all of history. now they are sun setting those energies and the infrastructure is clearly on life-support with the economic meltdown. what are distributed energy's? go home tonight you have all of the energy you need in your backyard. the sunshine also -- the sun

shines all over the world and the wind blows we have red-hot geothermal collor ready for energy of the municipal garbage can be recycled back to energy we have a voice that could be transferred on a coastal regions which most of the year been population does the ocean tide comes in and out every day and if you have water you have small hydroelectricity. i advice to the european union rehab established a third revolution game plan with a four pillar infrastructure endorsed in 2007 now moving across the 27 member states. maybe some of you know, president obama or people in congress and can give them a heads up. the e.u. has committed itself 20% renewable energy by 2020 one-third of the

electricity went ahead of everybody else. color #2, buildings. buildings are the main cause of co2 but also the solution. what we envision is every single existing building converted to a power plant every home office factory technology, every building your own power plant. you can collect your own energy on site to the wind the heat under the ground and the sun on the roof. builder iii that you committed itself 8 billion euro rollout of public-private funds to put them ithe form of hydrogen because the shun -- the sun doesn't always shine you have to have a storage then on tiller for this is where the distributed communication the convergence with the new distributed energy to create the third industrial revolution transformed the

power grids of europe american a shot all of the continent's to those that act exactly like the internet. sell millions of buildings produce just a little of their energy on site it is stored in hydrogen like we store digital media and is shared across hard grids that move across regions and continent's this is what we are laying down on the deal with the third industrial revolution. we overuse this a 1968 but the younger generation does not know about it so we can bring the term back. [laughter] the third industrial revolution allows us to rethink our relationship to each other because when everybody is responsible for one swap of the biosphere of

where we live and we harness the renewable energies and then share it with others across regions and continent's them have taken the ultimate responsibility that each of us it is responsible to steward the energy that sustains the life of everybody. and that it takes us to the edge of the biosphere consciousness. i believe it comes with the ultimate. i guess the ultimate right we have been espousing rates since world war ii but there is a fundamental right that comes to the floor as a move toward the third industrial revolution in biosphere age that every human being here today and not yet born, and every single creature here today and not yet born, each one has a fundamental right

to their fair share of the energy of the earth that sustains all of life. make sense? we human beings are one-half of 1% of the animal biomass on earth. that is all we are we now use 24 percent of all voters of this this that is unsustainable. -- photosynthesis. we know that is in our heart we don't need a statistic to see that is happening. can remake this leap? let's get down to reality of 50% of the human race wealthy consumers with high up on the chain. unsustainable. i am a part of the process. we have a very heavy kerr been footprint. of the bottom 40 percent makes $2 per day or less with a very light carbon

footprint butter barely able to survive. so the real question is if we want to move from geopolitics to biosphere politics, how do we make sure the wealthiest on the planet establish a new dream that is based not so much on individual opportunity to succeed but quality of life so the bottom 40 percent can't get up to the threshold? have to redo this? we have to revisit what makes people happy. looking at the happiness steadies it is fascinating. is i opening and revealing. the indictment philosophers said the more wealthy acquire the happier you become. because you are the island to yourself you have autonomy and mobility that is why relive the automobile. but the happiness and steady say if you are really poor and barely able to survive you have very few emotional

reserves to think about the polar bears and the penguins on the other side of the years but as you get more wealth, you get happier they say there is a threshold for the basic comforts of life are mack and that is the fee can as we get wealthier each increment of wealth makes us a little less happier than we reached a point* where we are one house because our positions end up possessing us. we imagine a society that is complex and integrad and a society in which the gap between the haves and have-nots has been narrowed and the soho when that have this tax themselves with a loss of income and tax themselves for the whole community does not depreciate their happiness as much as it increases the happiness of those that are brought up. follow me? if we can meet debt that

threshold it is a new dream not the opportunity to succeed but we need a broader dream which is the quality of life. we are impasse that being said that is to we really are, and all of the other drives are secondary aggression and violence because we did not get what we really needed but if we could acquire the dream the port could give up to the threshold of comfort to and we can live more sustainably it is difficult for me it is easy to talk it but a lot harder to walk about it beds if we can do that we may have a shot to get the biosphere consciousness and less than a generation and i don't think we have more than a generation and there is not a plan be. let me leave you with a hopeful sign hiring of this will happen?

consciousness can change sometimes just a little invention. some of you have traveled to venice or you go to where they make glass. in the 14th century they began producing year's mass production but this is a breakthrough before that people did not get a good idea of the casscells. you could see yourself in a piece of metal or at pond of water people did not spend that much time looking at themselves when they began to reproduce mirrors they provided them with the books it was a pastime to look at themselves. [laughter] not only because they thought looked at me but it was interesting to them. self reflection. the mayor's reflect we became introspective and dug down deep and created a more individual identity by

becoming more of a self we can empathize with another. this is what is the difference between right and left where conservatives say that is just:for liberalism and the liberals say you care about individuals but you have to have a well-developed sense of selfhood to field another person's plight and condition to be sensitive to them i should say the third industrial revolution breaks the old right to left scheme in a fundamental way the new divide is generational. it is not right to laugh but those who take in the old fashioned centralize pager go way that a great hydraulic civilizations with first and second industrial revolution and parenting models and education and business models that go with it vs. the gingrich generation growing up on the third connected technologies of open source.

they are engaging collaborative social spaces it is a different frame of reference. when the apollo spaceship took its last dive across the dark side of the moon you will recall some of the older folks, it came out on the sunny side and there was the sun is shining on the planet and the young astronauts took photos of the earth in color from outer space. how many of you put those on your wall? that was the out of body experience we said oh my god here is the planet it is beautiful but small but almost claustrophobic. today our kids that wire in their brain is already there. the young kids go on good google maps every day millions of over the world and zooming down 30,000 miles away right into the doorway or window of

somebody else from outer space down this changes the way the brain is wired. fundamentally. again the great communication revolution they change consciousness and reality. lest we think it is impossible to get by as their consciousness i think it is a general mission i don't believe every human being, i am not utopia and we still have our flaws. but lest we think it is not possible remember what prince -- remember when princess diana was killed? within 30 minutes all over the world to years. 2 billion people attended the funeral on the internet and television. empathizing with the $0.2 as a follow the casket to the chapel remember after the iran elections the violent protests in the streets?

one premed college student was gunned down and somebody took a home video of it and within 30 minutes on twitter every young person in the world was empathizing with what happened. tell me we can't get there. remember that little science fiction story of the 1920's there was a story about people who got together speculating in the future we would connect the human race that we're only 6 degrees of separation? a couple of years ago microsoft research looked at massive amounts of emails and we're 63 separated from one another we now have the technology the communications and technology and energy technology distributed to connect that with the brain of communication and the

brain body with the energy to sustain our life. kimmie get there? i will read -- can we get there? my wife and i and and laws took our national geographic genetic migratory test. how many have you have taken this? you give "national geographic" website $100 they said you a kit we take dna out of our cheek and send it back to the genetics lab. they analyze the dna and send you back into a where your family migrated from. about what is more interesting is something else i will save everybody $100. [laughter] apparently, 175,000 years ago in the red valley of africa there are about 10,000 anatomically human beings walking the grasslands the geneticist tell us they have located at

database of one woman they call her the mitochondria dynamo heard jeans past everybody in this room tonight and everybody on the planet. they located a database from the y chromosome madam a very potent to die apparently. [laughter] his genes faster every single person in this room and everyone on the planet today the other ones did not make it. here is the news. we are all family. the bible about this one right. we're all connected it could have been different but here we are with our diversity and fighting over so many things like gender preferences come in national boundaries, sexual preference and i literally believe we're at a sum of turning point* sometimes it

sounds so dramatic but we need to say it. if our scientists are right, we could be facing mass extinction at -- mass extinction by the end of the century as a result of climate change and we need to be clear we only have five waves of biological extinction and every time there was a wipe out it took 10 million years to recover. we've only been here 175,000 years. our species is in peril perk we're living under assumptions of two centuries-old we had better hope these are right. i don't think they are i think every parent can prove this that has a baby. it does not say i of evil, watch out. [laughter] or i am a utilitarian itself

interested autonomous agent who would like my pleasure mack and also to distinguished by the bidault and have a sexual arousal. that is not what is going on with babies. if we understand there attain the baby looks for reciprocity belonging and connection we have a possibility i think to leap forward with the third industrial revolution and began the process of biosphere consciousness. the question we have not asked is whether redoing? what is the purpose of the backstage of dust emitted energy and communication? up until now the reasons we have given to have a global connection have been pretty faint of more information. , our entertainment hard the transcendent to globalize the economy and have more

efficient commerce and trade if that is all we use this tremendous technology revolution four, we will down down consciousness and go the wrong way. is it possible to use this new global wavy interconnected communication revolution of mind and body that we participate with the biosphere to have communion with our fellow creatures, a drop the temperature of the earth, save our species, replenish life. thank you. [applause] would someday like to ask a question or make a comment

orajel made to check and some are. [laughter] >> you talked about the steps of the european union taking with your help to further the consciousness. what is the next up the you see here in the u.s.? >> and not sanguine with what is happening in washington i think there are good things happening in the pockets of the country but what we're doing in view it day she was different than what is imagined in washington. you have heard there is talk of renewable energy and money being spent and retrofitting buildings and a smart to grid but what is interesting when they talk about smart grids are renewable energy the idea is to have centralized smart grids to harness solar parks and the west and then send it back to the east in a centralized fashion that is old 1,920th century

thinking with also the will see a grab them than to send them to everybody else by another post to wind and solar centralize parks and in their transition but if it is found in every proportion every square inch of the water or kurzweil would be only collect and a few central point*? it is about job down centralize power or distributed power and democratization of energies of young people can't advance the pursuit of a different future. i tried to imagine in 2053 generations of kids who grew up on the internet being surrounded by a nuclear coal-fired power plants with a disconnect. we need to have a robust conversation we are far behind the european union which is why the talks collapsed the u.s. was willing to go up 30% and nobody would even do 20 and the clear president obama's said it was a success but it

was a failure and collapse there was no agreement now nobody is talking about it. we're in a desperate race against the clock i would suggest we not only have to think about our future in terms of energy but also the rest of our live let's look at parenting style. mass advertising that disconnects the parents from their good parenting styles because we have a generation of parents bringing up the babies to be empathic but the rise by media telling them they have to have this or do that to create a consumer out of them when the parents tried to create the empathic relationship reform the curriculum so padded progeny or the open source we used to call that cheating collaborative and distributed so young people can learn to be empathic with critical thinking skills and learn to respect

other points of view and think in a way that distributes knowledge. there is a lot to be done. we have a global team the third industrial revolution and roundtable made up of major renewable energy company is. some of the major european construction companies and real-estate companies and chartwell education group three i gen and cisco systems, i am, they just joined us how old cover most of the morale europeans better relayed the master plan we just did san antonio the seventh largest city and just finished roehm if you look in "the financial times" the greatest city of civilization which is formally announced in may but we are working on it now. we think we have to get to

the task of turning despair into opportunity we're tired of hearing the politicians talk so it is time to get out there with civil society and local government to lay down the infrastructure. i really hope america does this a really hope we do this. >> thank you very much. have given a brilliant context whitewater has been so -- why twitter is outrageously popular and it is an important tool to form the consciousness that you talk about. i spend a lot of time in eight and twitter when i was recovering from an illness the two things sereno were the was the tremendous amount of the but the from people and the sense that you met people after interacting with them it was like you already knew them. it is a different kind of

human interaction and also i remember a one point* feeling like i have a web of people around me of a couple hundred people that were in my life even though they were not. it is an extraordinarily powerful tool and has gotten locked in the press because it does not make sense in the old context but i would encourage, i hope you make use of torture in your book promotion. >> we are. >> good. i hope people will pick it up as an operating tool for helping on individual basis. >> i have to tell you something funny i am old fashioned the young people of my staff said this book has to go onto the internet. view sought today on having to post, i did a blog but we put out the introduction of chapter one, a 44 pages out

there for anybody in the world and it is interesting to watch the comments back and forth. you are crazy or you may have a point*. i watch the commentary move all day. but i want to caution. the new technologies to communicate across time and space but there is a caveat. that is every to medication revolution up to now has increased our ability to use metaphors so we could express ourselves and feel other people as if they are us too deeply get into each other. oral cultures are formulaic if you try to find out what they're thinking about the rich and cultures give you more languish to express individual feelings and conditions. electronic can do it but here is the qualification. studies showing vocabulary is decreasing precipitously even as the t