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The Zeitgeist Movement - The Transition

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    When we physicists look in outer space for alien life
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    we don't look for little green men.
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    We look for type 1, type 2 and type 3 civilizations.
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    A type one civilization has harnessed planetary power.
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    They control earthquakes, the weather, volcanoes.
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    They have cities on the ocean.
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    Anything planetary they control, that's type one.
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    A type two civilization is stellar.
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    They've exhausted the power of a planet
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    and they get their energy directly from their mother star.
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    They don't just go and get a sun tan on a weekend,
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    they use solar flares.
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    They use the power of the sun itself to energize
    their huge machines.
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    Eventually they exhaust the power of a star
    and they go galactic.
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    They harness the power of billions of stars
    within a galaxy.
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    Now, what are we on this scale?
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    We are type zero.
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    We don't even rate on this scale.
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    We get our energy from -- not from stars or galaxies --
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    we get our energy from dead plants: oil and coal.
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    Historians will look back and say:
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    "Holy shit! They were making materials, selling them
    for corporation profit
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    over and over and over and over again with absolutely
    no reference to what the planet had
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    and recycling protocols and everything else.
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    They were burning fossil fuels at a million times
    the rate of their actual renewability.
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    They're gonna laugh at us, wondering what the hell kind of
    a primitive dumb-ass species we actually were.
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    If we even survive to reach that point.
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    From an extra-terrestial perspective
    our global civilization is clearly
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    on the edge of failure in the most important task it faces:
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    preserving the lives and well-being of its citizens
    and the future habitability of the planet.
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    This transition is also the most important because
    it's not clear if we're gonna make it.
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    When we look at outer space we see no evidence of
    type 1, 2 or 3 anywhere.
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    No evidence whatsoever.
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    The mathematics say that there should be thousands
    of type 1, 2 and 3 civilizations in the galaxy.
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    We see no evidence of any whatsoever. And why is that?
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    Because the transition from type zero to type one
    is the most dangerous of all transitions.
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    We may not make it.
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    I hope everyone out there will understand that either
    we change or we die.
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    War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering
    will not change in the monetary system.
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    That is, there'll be very little significant change.
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    It's going to take the re-design of our culture and our values
    and it has to be related to the carrying capacity of the Earth.
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    Not some human opinion or some politicians' notions
    of the way the world ought to be
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    or some religious notions of the conduct of human affairs.
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    So again, the generation now alive and our grandchildren are the most
    important generations ever to walk the surface of the Earth.
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    We are the generations that will determine whether we make
    the transition from type zero to type one
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    or we destroy ourselves because of our arrogance
    and our weapons.
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    Now, every time I read the newspaper I see evidence of this
    historic transition from type zero to type one
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    and I am privileged to be alive in the most important era
    in the history of the human race:
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    the transition from type zero to type one.
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    The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism
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    and to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work.
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    A new consciousness is developing which sees the Earth
    as a single organism
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    and recognizes that an organism at war with itsself
    is doomed.
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    We are one planet.
Title:
The Zeitgeist Movement - The Transition
Video Language:
English
Duration:
05:19

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