Our heavy reliance on fossil fuels is causing two serious problems: global warming, and the decline of cheaply available oil reserves. Unfortunately the second problem will not cancel out the first. Each one individually seems extremely hard to solve, and taken together they demand a major worldwide effort starting now. After a quick overview of these problems, we turn to solutions.
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Thanks to help from Trevor Blackwell and his company Anybots, I gave this talk in the form of a robot. I looked like this:
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