Name: 比爾-克林頓在Zeitgeist'07上的演講 (Bill Clinton at Zeitgeist '07)
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MODERATOR: We now come to the promised surprise

Some you may have heard of or from the speaker we're going

I've talked with him over the years, and I think you'll find

him to be a surprisingly effective communicator.

He's an officially retired man, but still quite

He's spent a lot of time thinking about the issues that

have been on the table through our whole first day of

Zeitgeist this year: issues of corporate growth, of

technological responsibility, and connectedness

Ladies and gentlemen of Zeitgeist 2007, I'd like you to

turn your attention to the screen, because from New York,

we have joining us the 42nd President of the United States,

MODERATOR: Mr. President, thanks for joining us.

We have two microphones in the room, and there's a roving

microphone who can come to you if you can't get to

I'm going to ask one question to start this session.

President Clinton has said that he'd like to

I'll ask one initial question just to give you time to

From that time onward, I'll just call on you.

Here is my initial question for President Clinton: the people

in this room have largely built the latest industrial

revolution for the United States, and for the world.

Most of them are not ready to quit their day jobs yet, but

many of them are in position where they know they can

There are past models of how people did this well, or not

so well: the Rockefellers or the Carnegies are an

You, President Clinton, have been thinking a lot recently

about the right modern models for people to make a mark in

People in this room are still affecting the world through

their work, but are beginning to think about how they

What would you like them to bear in mind about the conduct

WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON: First of all, thank you, Jim.

I want to thank Larry, Sergey, and Eric Schmidt.

I called him a couple nights ago, and got another updated

If I say anything at all about this that you like, I have

If I screw it up, I hope you'll correct me after

Let me say first of all Bill McDonough gave you a terrific

presentation, and I'm very grateful to him for the work

he's doing, particularly in New Orleans, a place where

I think that taking the work Google does now, and the

presentation Bill made, gives me a chance to ask you to think

about how you would spend the rest of your life solving the

world's problems, or easing the world's ills, or giving the

next generations a chance to survive climate change, or

giving poor kids more equal chances in the world.

The way I think about it is as follows: number one, what are

the major challenges to the world as we would like to be?

The first is persistent inequality in incomes,

education, health care, and organized systems which enable

people to be rewarded for the efforts they exert.

The second is the unsustainability looming over

us because of climate change, and the related problems of

resource depletion and population explosion.

Don't forget, even though it's not much discussed, it is

projected that the world will grow from it's current level of

six and a half billion to nine billion within only 43 years.

It took us 150,000 years, give or take, to grow from 1 billion

to 6.5 billion, and unless we do something quick to put all

the girls in the world in school, and give all the women

in the world equal access to the job market, we're going

It makes all these problems even more urgent to solve.

So the question is: what can you do about it, and is there

an inevitable conflict between trying to ease the inequality

problems in income, education, and health care-- particularly

in economics-- and in trying to do something about climate

change, resource depletion and aggravation by

If you just look at the previous presentation-- the

stunning presentation by Mr. McDonough, you see why.

Companies may have spent a little more money doing

whatever they were doing to save the planet, and he

explained how in terms of concrete benefits to employees,

They also created a lot of jobs manufacturing all those

products: putting them up, designing them, and imagining

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