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Ursula von der Leyen Stop Economic and Population growth " Limits of Growth" speech: "If we look back, a little over 50 years ago, the Club of Rome and a group of MIT researchers published the Limits of Growth Report. It mapped the interaction between population growth, the economy and the environment. And it came 50 years ago. to address the conclusion. Stop economic and population growth, or else our planet will not cope."
"And as you know, this report has sparked a long controversy. We're developing, through technology, an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint. What does that mean? That's… Where are they traveling? How are they traveling? What are they eating? What are they consuming on the platform? So individual carbon footprint tracker."
"Stay tuned, we don't have it operational yet, but this is something that we're working on. There's going to be people of means who are going to travel. And then there's going to be people maybe who are of lesser means who might actually be able to use an Oculus or a Magic Leap or some other kind of device to travel to the same place but from their own couch."
"But in many ways, it's actually going to create even more distance. between those two people that psychologically, and I think that we've experienced this through social media, in many ways, it's brought people closer in certain ways, but actually created this remarkable divide because it's even more visible, actually, the divide."
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