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>> This generation, unlike any other generation in history, could, if
we choose, end the most terrible forms of poverty.
>> It's only by raising the standard of living in the poor countries
that we will ever be able to increase the educated status of women,
reduce population growth, decrease deforestation by poor farmers, and
globally move towards cleaner and more efficient technologies.
>> It may be good to give countries grants and financial incentives
for reducing their population and creating a sustainable economy.
>> Can we not create a single common second language.
>> Actors in the developed world must assume responsibility for a
century of dumping and use the wealth we amassed to avert disaster.
Actors in the developing world must take a long view of economic
development and should bravely lead their economies forward in a
sustainable way.
>> Giving the entire world access to the internet.
>> We can now make very inexpensive computers to run internet and
consequently new levels of education to some of the most remote
countries in the world.
>> To begin a global conversation that connects us as citizens of the
world regardless of our geographic boundaries. Communications and ongoing dialogue breaks
down some of the -- some of the philosophic boundaries that separate us
as a people in societies and cause a lot of conflict in our world.
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