So, you've got a thing on the left, CO2, that you want to get to zero, and that's going to be based on the number of people, the services each person's using on average, the energy on average for each service, and the CO2 being put out per unit of energy.
So, let's look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero.
Probably, one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero.
Now that's back from high school algebra, but let's take a look.
First we've got population.
Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people.
That's headed up to about nine billion.
Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3.
【覚えておきたい英単語】
●equation= 方程式
●factor=変数
●multiplication=掛け算
●algebra=代数
●vaccine=ワクチン
●reproductive health service =いわゆる中絶のこと
●lower= 下げる
You have been just asked to guide guests from overseas.
You have only one day to show them around in Tokyo.
Where would you take them and how would you introduce Japan?
What would I do? I'm glad to share my recent experience with you.
A good friend of mine in California who is a Taiwanese American woman visited me last week with her 86 years old mother and her childhood friend.
I welcomed them with a big hug (California style...I love it) and we took a bus tour visiting Tokyo tower, Imperial Palace and Asakusa with an English speaking guide.
We got off the bus at Asakusa and explored Ueno area.
ところが中国人の両親に育てられたモニカの友人とじっくりお昼ご飯をいただきながら話していたら、彼女は同じアジア系の人たちと話すときは英語で全然問題ないけど白人と話すと何度も"What?" "Huh? " と言われて”ほんと何度も傷ついたわよ！”( I was hurt many times! ) と胸を押えながら真剣に言っていたので驚き、と同時に親近感がわきました。
そうか、みんな同じ悩みを持ちながら、ここまで来たんだなと。
Isn't it time for us to conquer our fear and move on to the next level of evolution?
I want to find the solutions to the problems.
I want to know the truth for that purpose.
That's why I am learning English everyday.
How about you?
【Transcript】 プレゼンテーションのトランスクリプト
Let's talk about manias.
Let's start with Beatle mania. ysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium. Sports mania. Deafening crowds.
All for one idea.
Get the ball in the net. Okay, religious mania.
There's rapture. There's weeping. There's visions.
Manias can be good.
Manias can be alarming. Or manias can be deadly.
The world has a new mania.
A mania for learning English.
Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.
Teacher: ... change my life!
Students: I will change my life.
T: I don't want to let my parents down.
S: I don't want to let my parents down.
T: I don't ever want to let my country down.
S: I don't ever want to let my country down.
T: Most importantly ... S: Most importantly ...
Most importantly ... S: Most importantly ...
T: I don't want to let myself down.
S: I don't want to let myself down.
Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide?
Two billion of them.
Students: A t-shirt. A dress.
JW: In Latin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China.
If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law.
That's why this year China will become the world's largest English speaking country. (Laughter)
Why English? In a single word: Opportunity.
Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table.
Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days.
Her score on this one test literally determines her future.
She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare.
25 percent of her grade is based on English.
It's called the Gaokao.
And 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test.
The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable.
Unless you witness it.
Teacher: Perfect! Students: Perfect!
T: Perfect! S: Perfect! T: I want to speak perfect English.
S: I want to speak perfect English.
T: I want to speak -- S: I want to speak --
T: perfect English. S: perfect English.
T: I want to change my life!
S: I want to change my life!
JW: So is English mania good or bad?
Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages?
Not likely.
English is the world's second language.
Your native language is your life.
But with English you can become part of a wider conversation.
A global conversation about global problems.
Like climate change or poverty.
Or hunger or disease.
The world has other universal languages.
Mathematics is the language of science.
Music is the language of emotions.
And now English is becoming the language of problem solving.
Not because America is pushing it.
But because the world is pulling it.
So English mania is a turning point.
Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope
A future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.
Thank you very much. (Applause)
