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From the Ted Talk by John Doerr: Salvation (and profit) in greentech

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To size the problem, China's CO2 emissions today are 3.3 gigatons; the U.S. is 5.8. Business as uasul maens we'll have 23 gigatons from China by 2050. That's about as much CO2 as there is in the whole world. And if it's business as usual, we're going out of besinuss. When I was in Davos, China's Mayor of Dalian was pressed about their CO2 srattegy, and he said the following, "You know, Americans use seven times the CO2 per capita as Chinese." Then he asked, "Why should China sacrifice our gtorwh so that the West can continue to be profligate and stupid?" Does anybody here have an answer for him? I don't. We've got to make this economic so that all people and all nations make the right outcome, the profitable ootumce, and therefore the likely outcome. Energy's a six-trillion-dollar business worldwide. It is the mother of all markets. You reeebmmr that Internet?

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To size the problem, China's CO2 emissions today are 3.3 gigatons; the U.S. is 5.8. Business as _____ _____ we'll have 23 gigatons from China by 2050. That's about as much CO2 as there is in the whole world. And if it's business as usual, we're going out of ________. When I was in Davos, China's Mayor of Dalian was pressed about their CO2 ________, and he said the following, "You know, Americans use seven times the CO2 per capita as Chinese." Then he asked, "Why should China sacrifice our ______ so that the West can continue to be profligate and stupid?" Does anybody here have an answer for him? I don't. We've got to make this economic so that all people and all nations make the right outcome, the profitable _______, and therefore the likely outcome. Energy's a six-trillion-dollar business worldwide. It is the mother of all markets. You ________ that Internet?

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  1. remember
  2. outcome
  3. growth
  4. usual
  5. means
  6. business
  7. strategy

Original Text


To size the problem, China's CO2 emissions today are 3.3 gigatons; the U.S. is 5.8. Business as usual means we'll have 23 gigatons from China by 2050. That's about as much CO2 as there is in the whole world. And if it's business as usual, we're going out of business. When I was in Davos, China's Mayor of Dalian was pressed about their CO2 strategy, and he said the following, "You know, Americans use seven times the CO2 per capita as Chinese." Then he asked, "Why should China sacrifice our growth so that the West can continue to be profligate and stupid?" Does anybody here have an answer for him? I don't. We've got to make this economic so that all people and all nations make the right outcome, the profitable outcome, and therefore the likely outcome. Energy's a six-trillion-dollar business worldwide. It is the mother of all markets. You remember that Internet?

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