of the cityty has d doubled i ie last years in united states anad it ldsds to tytype 2 diabetes, n enormous public health problem. it kills a quarter of a million people in this country every year andnd costs the economy $ 0 billion. we have no i idea how polar beas prevent becomiming diabetic, evn though thehey are massively obe. we to understand that. wewe have to study ththem in the wild. they do not hibernate in zoos or in laboratories. polar bears have secrets to teach us. if people understood those connecections better, i think ty would have a much greater valuee to biodiversity, to ecosystems and individual species. >> we both have to understand what science is telling us. we are losing this diversity of life. that loss isis directly influencining our ability to led healthier lives. >> if we expropriate the whole earth and try to take o off, soe are the lords of crcreation -- e are not. we are one of millions of animals. to think ofof it as planet the ocean. we have to live within our means. living within our means applies to ecology just as much as it applies to budgets. >> it does

unions have tytypically been organizations who make it possible for workers, instead of bargaining individuallythe employer, to get particularr conditions of work. the union bargains for t the workers collectively. collective bargaining. and so it enters into a negotiation with an employer to get a contract that covers all the workers in a workplace. what unions do. and they try to get better wages than the workers have been able to get, better working conditions, and so forth. well, imagine now the following: the union sits down and bargains for the workers, but it doesn't just say, "hey, we would like higher wages or better working conditions, and if you don't do that, we may strike" and all the usual that i think you understand. but now they have a new weapon, a new chip, if you might say, to play. "if you don't come to a reasoonable agreement with us abouout wages or w working conditions, we have another plan. we may withdraw the workers from your plant and set up our own." what? that's never happened before. what an idea. indeed, the union might begin to develop small enterprises that do t