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May 30, 2007
John Doerr's Climate Speech from TED
I've mentioned it here before, but there is nothing quite like seeing the real thing. Yes, it's KP venture guy John Doerr's TED speech earlier this year wherein Doerr issues a cri du coeur about the environment, culminating in ... Doerr crying.Watch the whole thing below -- and it is genuinely interesting and impassioned -- or fast-forward to the end if you're just looking for the gory bits.
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this guy's fuggin' cracked
Isn't this some sign of a market top in global warming over-zealousness?
The first minute is pretty scary - not the global warming part - but the echo-chamber aspect of how he's sure that everyone has seen Al Gore's great talk, agrees that we're all screwed and how logical it seems to him that his daughter blames his generation...
You'd imagine the Doerr had a bit more critical thinking capability. But he's just a tele-evangelist zealot.
The great thing is he's SELLING like crazy. Selling his next big investment play. And he can only sell if he's really a true believer.
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Not related to Doerr per se, but I was watching the BMW ad at the end of this preso wondering how they were going to justify the irony of ending this empassioned call to Green action with driving a big, fat, gas-guzzling 7 Series with it's 14-17 MPG city rating... When lo and behold, it's a BMW 7 Series Hydrogen car. Oh, I see, run your 7 Series on hydrogen and problem solved... Now I can go back to disturbing nature by driving mine through pristine waterfalls.
His daughter lectured him about anthropogenic climate change... so he immediately boarded an airplane and started flying around the world? Isn't that a little like getting drunk to blank out the pain of a substance-abuse intervention?
LOL, Colby. That's what I thought.









Truly remarkable. Thanks for sharing Paul. I have put it on my blog.