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Sue Everatt - Resource-Based Economy
at TEDxPasseigDesBorn

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[Applause]

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♫ Money makes the world go around, the world go around, the world go around.♫

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Yes, sadly today, it is money that we allow to make the world go around.

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But imagine for a moment, being washed up on a desert island.

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No matter how many hundred-dollar notes you have, if you've no food,

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no water, and nothing to build a shelter with,

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your hundred-dollar notes aren't going to save you from anything.

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So what is it that we really need?

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Is it money? or is it access to the necessities of life?

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Now, you look like a very clued-up audience, so I'm going to assume

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that you all already know how money is created through debt

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and that it can be used, and in fact it is used to create artificial scarcity,

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by speculation with food prices, for example.

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Scarcity: when there isn't enough of something for everyone.

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We've always lived with scarcity, and that's basically why money was invented,

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because it got too complicated to carry things around,

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like chickens and tomatoes in exchange for things,

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especially when talking about exchanging chickens,

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or tomatoes, for something like a house.

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We've always lived without enough,

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so there's always been people that have had to steal;

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there's always been a reason for corruption.

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The system we have today has corruption built into it because of scarcity.

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And most of the abberant behavior we see today

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comes from an environment that leads to it

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through a lack of access to what we need to survive.

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Scarcity today is manipulated as well,

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so as to create a 'need' for something, like

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when the latest electronic gadget is brought out,

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and it's made in a limited edition,

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or when farmers are paid not to plant crops,

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so that the markets can maintain their prices, or raise them.

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In a monetary system, it's not interesting to have an abundance of anything,

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because the more there is of something, the cheaper it becomes.

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And feeding us a mentality of exclusivity, or being the first and the best

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to get something before anybody else

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just provokes competitive value memes that are very harmful.

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But that's the past, or it could be.

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Money has become an all-powerful tool, it's true,

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but it's become a manipulative and destructive one

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that is no longer helping the planet, quite the reverse.

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But I'm here to tell you that we have much more powerful tools

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all around us, yet we don't give them the value that they deserve,

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because we think the use of money is obligatory.

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These tools are science and technology.

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I'm here with my Powerpoint today, thanks to the technology that allowed me

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to communicate over long distances, with a fabulous team of people

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around the world who created these designs and these images for me.

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Thank you, I love you guys.

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And we all came here today by car or in an aeroplane,

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and when we go home tonight, our homes are full of technology that helps us.

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How many of you got the latest cell phone in your pocket?

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Your cell phone contains more processing power

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than all of the huge computer systems used to send the first man to the moon.

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So you see, it's not Wall Street executives, and it's not politicians,

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and it's certainly not bank managers who make your lives better.

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These people have got no idea how to solve world hunger;

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they don't know how to make more

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environmentally-friendly infrastructures for our cities.

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It's the scientists and engineers who discover new cures for illnesses

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and who create robots to automate boring and repetitive jobs;

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these are the people that make our lives better,

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safer, and more comfortable.

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How much more advanced as a species could we be

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if science and technology was not being held back by lack of funding,

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or having funding, but with vested interests?

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It's solutions we need to create,

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by using science and technology wisely and humanely.

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These tools are only as good, or bad, as the motive behind their use.

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With the technological knowledge we have today,

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we could create all we need to live on the planet and eliminate scarcity.

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Look at the factories that are able to produce, practically without manual labor.

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Technology is bringing us automation, whether we like it or not,

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and it's here to stay. And you know what? In a monetary system,

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robots are always going to be preferable to human labor because,

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robots don't take holidays.

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They don't get sick, they don't join unions,

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they're much more productive and far cheaper than human labor.

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Even the service sector is becoming automated now.

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And here's a few very simple examples

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that perhaps you don't even think about as being 'jobless' creation.

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Gasoline stations with no staff,

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automatic supermarket cash points,

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purchasing online, all these mean jobs lost.

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We're even seeing robots now that can be waiters.

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So you see, there's very little that's immune

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from becoming automated nowadays.

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Eventually, everything will be automated, and we really do need to think

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how we're going to manage in a monetary system, if nobody has any work?

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How are we expected to purchase the goods that are automated?

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The robots sure aren't going to want to buy any!

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Even if money no longer existed, we would be able to produce,

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because we have the factories, and we have the resources.

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So, if we have the factories, and we have the resources,

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could we not look to outgrowing the use of money?

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We already produce enough food

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to feed many of the millions of starving people out there.

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But it's thrown away, thousands of tons of it daily,

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due to criminally inefficient distribution methods and controlled prices.

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And what about electronic goods?

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Things that we throw away without even having used them,

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or things that break down shortly after the warranty expires.

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Wouldn't it be logical to have things made to last?

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Using technology, wisely,

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we could create efficient and total city systems, rather like this one.

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And here, I'd love to be able to credit myself with these ideas,

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but they are the life's work of a man called Jacque Fresco,

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who lives in Venus, Florida, and who for the past 70 years

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has been working on the concepts of what he calls

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a Resource-Based Economy.

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This is one of the designs for one of his cities.

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Let's see if I can explain, very briefly, a little bit about it.

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The central dome ... or 'theme center'

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would house the core of a cybernated system

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that could manage and distribute the goods and resources,

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without vested interests, and equitably.

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Does it make you nervous

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to think of machines in control of something like that?

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Have you ever seen anybody hooked up to a life-support machine in a hospital?

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We need the same sort of idea, but extrapolated to planet size.

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Imagine, a web of sensors around the world

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after a natural disaster somewhere,

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telling us what is needed, where it's needed, when it's needed,

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instead of politicians saying "I'll send so many millions of dollars"

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and the money never getting to its final goal.

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The buildings surrounding the central dome

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can provide the community with a variety of cultural activities such as

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art galleries, concerts, music, arts, theater and so on.

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You'll notice there's a lot of lush, green landscaping there.

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This will be very important in the cities.

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As we move out, these buildings here

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can house the design and development centers.

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The cities would also be built with their own production and distribution

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installations in place, so as to avoid having to transport

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goods and resources from thousands of kilometers away.

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The residential area can have a lot of different

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free-form architectural houses, which can be built

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practically without manual labor, by using contour crafting.

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These houses can produce their own energy,

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they can recycle their own waste,

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and they would require a minimum of maintenance.

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Some people might prefer to live in skyscrapers or apartment blocks,

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and these would be very community-focused.

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There would be communications and networking systems in place,

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education facilities, health care and child care.

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And for those of you that don't want to cook, we can even have dining areas

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where you can go, get anything you wish made for you, by a robot, of course.

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Depending on the geographical area where the city is built,

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one of a variety of different alternative energies could be used,

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and areas would be set aside for the production of alternative energies.

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It might be solar energy, it might be wind generators, it might be geothermal.

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There are many different kinds of alternative energies.

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Imagine cities run entirely on clean, renewable energies

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instead of being condemned to use fossil fuels.

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Not long ago, I read an article in a magazine where a politician was saying

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that alternative energies are more expensive.

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Of course they are, in a monetary system.

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But, the wind doesn't charge us per gust,

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and the sun doesn't charge us per sunbeam.

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We don't have to transport the sun from one side of the planet to the other.

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We don't have to invent wars and kill innocent people to obtain its heat.

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We don't have to carve into the earth's surface and plant pipes

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to transport the wind,

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and we don't have to pollute the oceans and the seas

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to gain energy from the tides and the waves.

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We think we are so smart and civilized,

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yet we actually pay to live on a planet that gives us everything for free,

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and we're in debt!

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We think we're so smart and civilized,

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and we keep using the same methods over and over and over again,

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trying to fix things.

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Isn't that Einstein's definition of madness?

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We could have an agricultural belt, where organically produced food

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can be offered to everybody without the use of pesticides.

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One of the ways that this could be grown is in hydroponic towers

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similar to this one, and these are actually already being built

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around the world; Singapore has a fantastic one.

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This would allow us to produce locally and again,

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avoid transporting from thousands of kilometers away.

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Today's system produces such ludicrous results, as it's cheaper

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to bring lemons and oranges from the mainland of Spain to this island

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than it is to grow them here, when for hundreds of years

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there were lemon and orange trees all over the island. It's crazy.

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A circular waterway would surround the agricultural belt

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for filtration and irrigation purposes.

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And then the outer perimeter (I'm getting good with this gizmo),

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the outer perimeter can be used for a variety of recreational purposes,

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whether it's riding, biking, hiking, whatever, and also sports and so on.

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And all of these areas would be easily accessible,

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thanks to clean, efficient, fast and safe transport, such as Maglev trains.

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Or how about a carpool of GPS-guided, self-driving cars

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that come to you when you want one, take you to wherever you want to go,

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and then return to the carpool.  How great that would be,

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not to have to drive around looking for parking anymore,

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no huge parking lots with cars sitting there for hours a day.

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Now, how stress-free would it be to live in such a society,

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with everything provided, and yet no incentive for corruption,

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but every incentive to grow and change with the times?

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How different would our values be as human beings

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to live in such an environment?

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A hundred years ago, we weren't crazy consumers,

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running around, buying this or that product, trying to make ourselves happy

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and more successful by doing so.

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Our values are inculcated by the culture that surrounds us,

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and, if we are bombarded by advertising that manipulates us

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to become good little consumers (and it works),

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so can we be educated to understand the natural laws of the planet.

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To understand, not like today's education that seems to teach us

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we're somehow superior to nature.

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[But] to understand that we must live within the carrying capacity

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of what the Earth can give us and not take more and more until there's nothing left.

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To appreciate and desire goods that are made to last,

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instead of this use-and-throw-away economy

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that we have today, that money obliges us to keep the economy going.

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We need to have an education that teaches us

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to: the better we make society for others,

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ultimately the better we make it for ourselves

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and then gives us the tools with which to make that,

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which would, in great part, be science and technology.

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We need to understand that frontiers are false.

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They create divisions, and we're all one human species.

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Next time you fly, see if you can see from the plane's window

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a line in the earth that says

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"This country starts here, and this country starts there."

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I don't think you're going to see it.

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It's of no importance where we were born,

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what god we were taught to believe in, what customs we learned.

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People of any nationality would love the chance to live in peace

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and with all the necessities of life provided without a price tag.

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Our problems are global problems,

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irrespective of the political party running the country.

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Therefore, the solutions must be global.

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If the root cause of this is scarcity and poor distribution of resources,

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we need to share the resources.

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We need to take the management of the planet

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and its resources out of the hands of a few nations and corporations,

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and get it into the world heritage.

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The example of lemons and oranges in this small island

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is just a very small drop in the ocean of,

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the huge ocean of political 'don't know how' we see in place today.

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This is what I mean when I say "Politicians don't know what they're doing."

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They're not architects, doctors, teachers, agronomists, environmentalists.

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Why are they making the decisions in these areas then?

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Can you see that we're running the planet basing our methods on money

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and on opinions made by people whose capacity is really highly questionable?

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Let's give the scientists and engineers the really dire problems we have to solve.

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Let's allow them to work without monetary pressures to create a world

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and use the scientific approach to create a world without war,

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poverty, or deprivation of any kind.

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Science comes closer to solving problems than anything else,

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and there's no right-wing way or left-wing way to conduct it.

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When we reach a time that we can unleash science and technology

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to improve everybody's lives, we will see exponential results,

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and that will be the beginning of a civilized world.

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The sum Resource-Based Economy is the sum of all the wonderful ideas

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that we've heard about today and that other people talk about on TED Talks.

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It's a very holistic idea.

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It's the sum of all the promises

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for a better after-life that the holy books give us.

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The best thing about it is, that we could have it now

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and not wait to die to get it.

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We have the technical personnel and the resources

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to create that paradise on Earth.

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But what's missing is a feasible and attainable direction to work towards,

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and a Resource-Based Economy offers that by

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looking at the root causes and solving those problems.

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It's the spiritual acceptance that we are all one family,

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on one little planet, under the same sun,

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and in the same danger of obliteration

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if we don't radically change how we manage the planet.

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It's the sustainable and ecological green point of view.

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It's collaboration instead of competition.

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It's technology and the scientific approach to improving everyone's lives,

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empathy in the place of profit and monetary greed,

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and it's humanity in the place

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of these little pieces of paper we call money.

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What I've spoken about today is just a very, very short and small part

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of what is a much larger idea.

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It's impossible to fit it into eighteen minutes.

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I do hope that I've given you enough information to pique your curiosity,

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so that you'll keep looking into and finding out more about

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a Resource-Based Economy.

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Thank you.

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