A Moral Question

So if we choose to eradicate ourselves from
this Earth by whatever means,

the Earth goes nowhere.

And in time, it will regenerate and all the
lakes will be pristine.

The rivers, the waters, the mountains - everything
will be green again.

It will be peaceful.

There may not be people but the Earth will
regenerate.

And you know why?

Because the Earth has all the time in the
world

and we don't.

So I think that is where we are at right now.

Now as you are coming down the final stretch,

you are racing towards the finish

and there is the stone wall

and you're not pulling your horse.

You're not stopping.

You're in fact accelerating.

I said, "Now that is the way I see the use
of what you call 'resources.'"

You are using them faster than they are reproducing.

And you are headed towards that disaster

and none of you are pulling your horse.

Take the example of a car race.

They have a yellow flag.

When there is an accident or something, a
yellow flag comes out.

Everybody gets into line.

They slow down.

They have sort of a common sense about that at least.

I said, "Do you have a concept of a yellow flag?

Is there a yellow flag amongst your ideas
and your thinking?"

And one of the gentlemen - and they were all men -

he said, "you know, I understand what you're saying,

but to answer your question, 'no, we can't pull our horse'

as you are saying because," he said,

"We have to show a profit.

As the CEO, I must show a profit.

If I don't show a profit," he said, "I'm fired.

Simple as that.

I am out of a job.

I have to show a profit."

I said, "to whom?"

He said, "To you - the stockholder."

I said, "Are you married?"

He says, "Yes, I am."

I said, "Do you have children?"

He said, "Yes, I do."

I said, "Do you have any grandchildren?"

He said, "I have two - two boys."

I said, "When do you cease to be a CEO and become a grandfather?"

There was a lot of silence there because that was a moral question.

And if you don't have a moral question in
your governing process,

then you don't have a process that is going to survive.

That's the governing law - a moral question.

You must have a moral society or you won't have any.

He couldn't answer the question and neither could anyone else because it was a moral question.

That's what we have to get back to.

So they said, "Well -" got kinda heavy silence
there,

so they said, "Look, you're an Indian

and we keep hearing about Indian prophecies.

Can you give us a prophecy?"

Of course, I could have told him a lot because I know a lot.

But at that particular moment, I said, "certainly, I can and I can guarantee it."

They said, "Really, well what is it?"

I said, "Next year you will meet any nothing will have changed."

And again there was silence.

We're moving in a very direct line to that
stone wall.

I do not believe personally that we have past the point of no return.

But we are approaching it.

We are approaching it.

And everyday that you don't do what's right is a day that you have lost an option.

And you are losing your options everyday.

"You are all I got left, honey.

Nothing else matters."