Stewart Brand 3 : 4 environmental 'heresies'

Stewart Brand at TED 2009
4 environmental 'heresies' (transcript)
Summary
The speaker explains 4 environmental 'heresies' in our world. Heresy means belief or opinion that is contrary to orthodox religious doctrine.
Those are cities, climate, electricity, and Geoengineering, so those are not ordinary. He said, "We are as Gods, and we have to get good at it".

Cities go toward rapid urbanization, especially in the developing countries and villages are emptying out. Subsistence farming is drying. Even in slums, there is everything there and people are helping each other solve issues. Then cities luckily stop the population bomb. However, saving villages need our help with a good road and electrical power.  1)

Climate is going to keep getting worse. Drought and flood are caused by climate change and those occur climate refugees, resource wars and chaos wars. In there, many people can't make a living. 2)

Electricity is definitely needed to live. However, hydro maxed out, coal loses the climate. Nuclear might save the climate, but using nuclear leads to nuclear weapons. 3)

In geoengineering, genetically engineered food crops are the most rapidly successful agricultural innovation. It's good for the environment. It can leave good soils, reduce pesticide, keep less carbon dioxide, and people will eat enough food. However, Geoengineering has a moral issue and other problems what facilities decide, who does and how much they do. Then if one country starts to do, it'll lead to war. 4)

Words in this story
establish /verb/  set up, start, initiate, institute, build
discipline /noun/ /dis・ci・pline/ /dísəplɪn/  control, training, teaching, regulation
aggregate /noun/  total, combined, gross
squatter /adj/ short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide.
proliferation /pro・lif・er・a・tion/ /prəlìfəréɪʃən/ rapid increase in numbers.