Some of the problems are solved just by having a more informed populace.
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Hank Green
William Henry "Hank" Green II (born May 5, 1980) is an American entrepreneur, musician, educator, producer, and vlogger. He is best known for his YouTube channel Vlogbrothers, where he and his brother, John Green, regularly upload videos, as well as for creating and hosting the educational YouTube channels Crash Course and SciShow. Green co-created VidCon, the world's largest conference about online videos, with his brother John, and created NerdCon: Stories, a conference focused on storytelling. He is the co-creator of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012–2013), a web series adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in the style of video blogs. He is also the founder of the environmental technology blog EcoGeek and the Internet Creators Guild, and co-founder of merchandise company DFTBA Records, crowdfunding platform Subbable—acquired by Patreon in 2015—game company DFTBA Games, and online video production company Pemberley Digital, which produces video blog adaptations of classic novels in the public domain. 2Early life Green was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and his family soon moved to Orlando, Florida, where he was raised. He graduated from Winter Park High School in 1998 and then earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from Eckerd College and a M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. His master's thesis was entitled "Of Both Worlds: How the Personal Computer and the Environmental Movement Change Everything". 2Vlogbrothers 3Brotherhood 2.0 (2007) From January 1 to December 31, 2007, Green and his brother John ran a video blog project titled Brotherhood 2.0. The original project ran every week day for the entire year, with the premise that the brothers would cease all text-based ("textual") communication for the year and instead converse by daily video blogs, made available to the public via their YouTube channel Vlogbrothers and on their websit
We basically need every person on Earth to know about these goals because they are achievable and we can do this, but only if people hold their governments accountable, only if we care!
I want to be angry that children are dying, that gender inequality exists pretty much everywhere on Earth, that six million people will die this year because they don't have access to clean water! The world is messed up. But we have a plan.
We are cognitively biased to be both disinterested in and kind of skeptical of good news. Especially when that good news is so large scale that we can't really get emotionally involved in it.
The other day at Taco Bell, the woman was like, 'Good morning'. It was like, four o'clock in the afternoon, and I was like, 'Not quite.' And then I felt a little bad about it 'cause she looked kind of embarrassed, so I was like, 'Well, don't worry about it, when I'm leaving, you will say, 'enjoy…
If you wanna get an accurate picture of the kind of quality people exist, you gotta talk to strangers! Which is not normal advice. Don't get in their cars or anything.
It has to be a mixed of dissatisfaction with the way that it is, and what could be better, and we have to work for that; and also recognizing that we've done a great deal of remarkable things, as a species and as individuals.
Maybe it's beautiful that we move on from our successes and immediately fret over the next giant, magnificent problem that we have to overcome.
Maybe that's good! that we're not designed to say, 'Well, I guess we've done pretty well. Might as well stop progressing.'
What did one eye say to the other eye? Between you and me, man, something smells.
How often do I make Chemistry jokes? Periodically. I actually told one the other day... There was no reaction.