Andrew Revkin

Every death is terrible.

But it's like 123 deaths.

And it's not just because of wealth.

It's because people know what to do.

It's because there's cell phones.

It's because they have elevated platforms in many communities in the floodplains there that you know to get to.

So they went from hundreds of thousands of deaths in a cyclone to 123.

And when I was talking about social innovation, the other hour, there's a model emerging in Bangladesh for farmers to move from raising chickens, poultry, to ducks.

And it's working.

And ducks actually fetch a higher price at the market.

And guess what?

When you get flooded, you can still have your income and your future.

Totally.

And to me...

there's never been a better time to be effective as a young person because the internet connectedness, you can brainstorm with someone in another country just as easily as you can brainstorm with someone down the block.

When we were kids, as I said earlier with my, my, my pen pal was letters and taking weeks to come.

And so the key properties, ideally that young people have,

would do well to cultivate are, well, certainly adaptability, because change is changing, not just, you know, the rate of change is changing.

These layers of change are all piling up on each other.

Having an ability to understand the information environment