1 00:00:03,310 --> 00:00:04,845 Well, as many of you know, 2 00:00:04,869 --> 00:00:07,251 the results of the recents election were as follows: 3 00:00:08,220 --> 00:00:10,836 Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate 4 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:12,756 won a landslide victory 5 00:00:12,780 --> 00:00:14,860 with 52 percent of the overall vote. 6 00:00:15,580 --> 00:00:17,836 Jill Stein, the Green candidate, 7 00:00:17,860 --> 00:00:20,460 came a distant second, with 19 percent. 8 00:00:21,140 --> 00:00:23,596 Donald J. Trump, the Republic candidate, 9 00:00:23,620 --> 00:00:25,900 was hot on her heels with 14 percent, 10 00:00:26,740 --> 00:00:30,156 and the remainder of the vote were shared between abstainers 11 00:00:30,180 --> 00:00:33,220 and Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate. 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:37,890 (Laughter) 13 00:00:38,420 --> 00:00:42,340 Now, what parallel universe do you suppose I live in? 14 00:00:43,820 --> 00:00:45,836 Well, I don't live in a parallel universe. 15 00:00:45,860 --> 00:00:48,660 I live in the world, and that is how the world voted. 16 00:00:50,220 --> 00:00:52,860 So let me take you back and explain what I mean by that. 17 00:00:53,860 --> 00:00:55,076 In June this year, 18 00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:57,260 I launched something called the Global Vote. 19 00:00:57,860 --> 00:01:00,940 And the Global Vote does exactly what it says on the tin. 20 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:03,356 For the first time in history, 21 00:01:03,380 --> 00:01:06,116 it lets anybody, anywhere in the world, 22 00:01:06,140 --> 00:01:09,140 vote in the elections of other people's countries. 23 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:11,386 Now, why would you do that? 24 00:01:12,180 --> 00:01:13,796 What's the point? 25 00:01:13,820 --> 00:01:16,156 Well, let me show you what it looks like. 26 00:01:16,180 --> 00:01:17,580 You go to a website, 27 00:01:18,860 --> 00:01:20,146 rather a beautiful website, 28 00:01:20,900 --> 00:01:23,716 and then you select an election. 29 00:01:23,740 --> 00:01:25,780 Here's a bunch that we've already covered. 30 00:01:27,020 --> 00:01:30,156 We do about one a month, or thereabouts. 31 00:01:30,180 --> 00:01:32,996 So you can see Bulgaria, the United States of America, 32 00:01:33,020 --> 00:01:35,516 Secretary-General of the United Nations, 33 00:01:35,540 --> 00:01:38,476 the Brexit referendum at the end there. 34 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:41,276 You select the election that you're interested in, 35 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:44,556 and you pick the candidates. 36 00:01:44,580 --> 00:01:47,516 These are the candidates from the recent presidential election 37 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:50,636 in the tiny island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, 38 00:01:50,660 --> 00:01:53,036 199,000 inhabitants, 39 00:01:53,060 --> 00:01:54,441 off the coast of West Africa. 40 00:01:55,580 --> 00:02:00,076 And then you can look at the brief summary of each of those candidates 41 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:02,596 which I dearly hope is very neutral, 42 00:02:02,620 --> 00:02:05,436 very informative and very succinct. 43 00:02:05,460 --> 00:02:07,780 And when you've found the one you like, you vote. 44 00:02:08,700 --> 00:02:10,236 These were the candidates 45 00:02:10,260 --> 00:02:13,116 in the recent Icelandic presidential election, 46 00:02:13,140 --> 00:02:14,426 and that's the way it goes. 47 00:02:15,980 --> 00:02:20,700 So why on earth would you want to vote in another country's election? 48 00:02:21,780 --> 00:02:24,876 Well, the reason that you wouldn't want to do it, 49 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:26,116 let me reassure you, 50 00:02:26,140 --> 00:02:30,036 is in order to interfere in the democratic processes of another country. 51 00:02:30,060 --> 00:02:31,716 That's not the purpose at all. 52 00:02:31,740 --> 00:02:33,156 In fact, you can't, 53 00:02:33,180 --> 00:02:35,636 because usually what I do is I release the results 54 00:02:35,660 --> 00:02:39,196 after the electorate in each individual country has already voted, 55 00:02:39,220 --> 00:02:42,036 so there's no way that we could interfere in that process. 56 00:02:42,060 --> 00:02:43,436 But more importantly, 57 00:02:43,460 --> 00:02:45,036 I'm not particularly interested 58 00:02:45,060 --> 00:02:47,316 in the domestic issues of individual countries. 59 00:02:47,340 --> 00:02:48,900 That's not what we're voting on. 60 00:02:49,740 --> 00:02:53,676 So what Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton proposed to do for the Americans 61 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:55,716 is frankly none of our business. 62 00:02:55,740 --> 00:02:58,756 That's something that only the Americans can vote on. 63 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:02,316 No, in the global vote, you're only considering one aspect of it, 64 00:03:02,340 --> 00:03:05,540 which is what are those leaders going to do for the rest of us? 65 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:09,196 And that's so very important because we live, 66 00:03:09,220 --> 00:03:11,636 as no doubt you're sick of hearing people tell you, 67 00:03:11,660 --> 00:03:15,900 in a globalized, hyperconnected, massively interdependent world 68 00:03:16,940 --> 00:03:19,676 where the political decisions of people in other countries 69 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:21,916 can and will have an impact on our lives 70 00:03:21,940 --> 00:03:24,180 no matter who we are, no matter where we live. 71 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:27,356 Like the wings of the butterfly 72 00:03:27,380 --> 00:03:29,676 beating on one side of the Pacific 73 00:03:29,700 --> 00:03:33,236 that can apparently create a hurricane on the other side, 74 00:03:33,260 --> 00:03:35,916 so it is with the world that we live in today 75 00:03:35,940 --> 00:03:37,636 and the world of politics. 76 00:03:37,660 --> 00:03:41,860 There is no longer a dividing line between domestic and international affairs. 77 00:03:42,980 --> 00:03:45,396 Any country, no matter how small, 78 00:03:45,420 --> 00:03:47,476 even if it's São Tomé and Príncipe, 79 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:50,036 could produce the next Nelson Mandela 80 00:03:50,060 --> 00:03:51,260 or the next Stalin. 81 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:56,676 They could pollute the atmosphere and the oceans, which belong to all of us, 82 00:03:56,700 --> 00:03:59,620 or they could be responsible and they could help all of us. 83 00:04:00,660 --> 00:04:03,756 And yet, the system is so strange 84 00:04:03,780 --> 00:04:07,476 because the system hasn't caught up with this globalized reality. 85 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:10,716 Only a small number of people are allowed to vote for those leaders, 86 00:04:10,740 --> 00:04:12,796 even though their impact is gigantic 87 00:04:12,820 --> 00:04:14,020 and almost universal. 88 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:16,516 What number was it? 89 00:04:16,540 --> 00:04:19,076 140 million Americans voted 90 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:21,356 for the next president of the United States, 91 00:04:21,380 --> 00:04:24,315 and yet, as all of us knows, in a few weeks time, 92 00:04:24,339 --> 00:04:26,956 somebody is going to hand over the nuclear launch codes 93 00:04:26,980 --> 00:04:28,180 to Donald J. Trump. 94 00:04:28,780 --> 00:04:31,596 Now, if that isn't having a potential impact on all of us, 95 00:04:31,620 --> 00:04:32,820 I don't know what is. 96 00:04:33,580 --> 00:04:39,300 Similarly, the election for the referendum on the Brexit vote, 97 00:04:40,260 --> 00:04:43,676 a small number of millions of British people voted on that, 98 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:46,396 but the outcome of the vote, whichever way it went, 99 00:04:46,420 --> 00:04:48,116 would have had a significant impact 100 00:04:48,140 --> 00:04:52,556 on the lives of tens, hundreds of millions of people around the world. 101 00:04:52,580 --> 00:04:54,460 And yet, only a tiny number could vote. 102 00:04:55,020 --> 00:04:56,500 What kind of democracy is that? 103 00:04:57,660 --> 00:04:59,396 Huge decisions that affect all of us 104 00:04:59,420 --> 00:05:03,276 being decided by relatively very small numbers of people. 105 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:04,636 And I don't know about you, 106 00:05:04,660 --> 00:05:06,820 but I don't think that sounds very democratic. 107 00:05:07,420 --> 00:05:09,196 So I'm trying to clear it up. 108 00:05:09,220 --> 00:05:10,676 But as I say, 109 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:12,556 we don't ask about domestic questions. 110 00:05:12,580 --> 00:05:15,636 In fact, I only ever ask two questions of all of the candidates. 111 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:18,156 I send them the same two questions every single time. 112 00:05:18,180 --> 00:05:19,596 I say, one, 113 00:05:19,620 --> 00:05:22,756 if you get elected, what are you going to do for the rest of us, 114 00:05:22,780 --> 00:05:26,196 for the remainder of the seven billion who live on this planet? 115 00:05:26,220 --> 00:05:28,156 Second question: 116 00:05:28,180 --> 00:05:31,396 What is your vision for your country's future in the world? 117 00:05:31,420 --> 00:05:32,980 What role do you see it playing? 118 00:05:33,620 --> 00:05:35,740 Every candidate, I send them those questions. 119 00:05:36,420 --> 00:05:38,516 They don't all answer. Don't get me wrong. 120 00:05:38,540 --> 00:05:40,316 I reckon if you're standing 121 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:42,716 to become the next president of the United States, 122 00:05:42,740 --> 00:05:45,116 you're probably pretty tied up most of the time, 123 00:05:45,140 --> 00:05:49,196 so I'm not altogether surprised that they don't all answer, but many do. 124 00:05:49,220 --> 00:05:50,716 More every time. 125 00:05:50,740 --> 00:05:52,796 And some of them do much more than answer. 126 00:05:52,820 --> 00:05:55,956 Some of them answer in the most enthusiastic and most exciting way 127 00:05:55,980 --> 00:05:57,196 you could imagine. 128 00:05:57,220 --> 00:05:59,716 I just want to say a word here for Saviour Chishimba, 129 00:05:59,740 --> 00:06:01,156 who was one of the candidates 130 00:06:01,180 --> 00:06:03,436 in the recent Zambian presidential election. 131 00:06:03,460 --> 00:06:07,996 His answers to those two questions were basically an 18-page dissertation 132 00:06:08,020 --> 00:06:11,676 on his view of Zambia's potential role in the world 133 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:13,716 and in the international community. 134 00:06:13,740 --> 00:06:16,180 I posted it on the website so anybody could read it. 135 00:06:16,980 --> 00:06:19,300 Now, Saviour won the global vote, 136 00:06:20,020 --> 00:06:21,900 but he didn't win the Zambian election. 137 00:06:22,380 --> 00:06:23,756 So I found myself wondering, 138 00:06:23,780 --> 00:06:26,716 what am I going to do with this extraordinary group of people? 139 00:06:26,740 --> 00:06:29,596 I've got some wonderful people here who won the global vote. 140 00:06:29,620 --> 00:06:31,316 We always get it wrong, by the way. 141 00:06:31,340 --> 00:06:32,556 The one that we elect 142 00:06:32,580 --> 00:06:35,460 is never the person who's elected by the domestic electorate. 143 00:06:36,700 --> 00:06:39,620 That may be partly because we always seem to go for the woman. 144 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:42,596 But I think it may also be a sign 145 00:06:42,620 --> 00:06:46,196 that the domestic electorate is still thinking very nationally. 146 00:06:46,220 --> 00:06:48,356 They're still thinking very inwardly. 147 00:06:48,380 --> 00:06:51,876 They're still asking themselves: What's in it for me? ... 148 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:53,996 instead of what they should be asking today, 149 00:06:54,020 --> 00:06:55,780 which is, what's in it for we? 150 00:06:57,060 --> 00:06:58,276 But there you go. 151 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:00,436 So suggestions, please, not right now, 152 00:07:00,460 --> 00:07:02,460 but send me an email if you've got an idea 153 00:07:02,484 --> 00:07:05,736 about what we can do with this amazing team of glorious losers. 154 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:06,836 (Laughter) 155 00:07:06,860 --> 00:07:09,316 We've got Saviour Chishimba, who I mentioned before. 156 00:07:09,340 --> 00:07:10,716 We've got Halla Tómasdóttir, 157 00:07:10,740 --> 00:07:13,636 who was the runner up in the Icelandic presidential election. 158 00:07:13,660 --> 00:07:16,356 Many of you may have seen her amazing talk at TEDWomen 159 00:07:16,380 --> 00:07:17,596 just a few weeks ago 160 00:07:17,620 --> 00:07:21,196 where she spoke about the need for more women to get into politics. 161 00:07:21,220 --> 00:07:23,740 We've got Maria das Neves from São Tomé and Príncipe. 162 00:07:24,580 --> 00:07:26,196 We've got Hillary Clinton. 163 00:07:26,220 --> 00:07:28,276 I don't know if she's available. 164 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:29,500 We've got Jill Stein. 165 00:07:30,540 --> 00:07:33,396 And we covered also the election 166 00:07:33,420 --> 00:07:35,900 for the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. 167 00:07:36,525 --> 00:07:38,716 We've got the ex-prime minister of New Zealand, 168 00:07:38,740 --> 00:07:40,836 who would be a wonderful member of the team. 169 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:42,356 So I think maybe those people, 170 00:07:42,380 --> 00:07:45,036 the glorious loser's club, could travel around the world 171 00:07:45,060 --> 00:07:46,436 wherever there's an election 172 00:07:46,460 --> 00:07:49,836 and remind people of the necessity in our modern age 173 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:51,476 of thinking a little bit outwards 174 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:53,691 and thinking of the international consequences. 175 00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:57,396 So what comes next for the global vote? 176 00:07:57,420 --> 00:07:59,196 Well, obviously, 177 00:07:59,220 --> 00:08:03,676 the Donald and Hillary show is a bit of a difficult one to follow, 178 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:06,636 but there are some other really important elections coming up. 179 00:08:06,660 --> 00:08:08,476 In fact, they seem to be multiplying. 180 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:11,636 There's something going on, I'm sure you've noticed, in the world. 181 00:08:11,660 --> 00:08:14,900 And the next row of elections are all critically important. 182 00:08:16,340 --> 00:08:17,836 In just a few day's time 183 00:08:17,860 --> 00:08:20,916 we've got the rerun of the Austrian presidential election, 184 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:22,716 with the prospect of Norbert Hofer 185 00:08:22,740 --> 00:08:24,716 becoming what is commonly described 186 00:08:24,740 --> 00:08:28,220 as the first far-right head of state in Europe since the Second World War. 187 00:08:29,340 --> 00:08:30,756 Next year we've got Germany, 188 00:08:30,780 --> 00:08:31,996 we've got France, 189 00:08:32,020 --> 00:08:34,156 we've got presidential elections in Iran 190 00:08:34,180 --> 00:08:35,380 and a dozen others. 191 00:08:35,979 --> 00:08:38,116 It doesn't get less important. 192 00:08:38,140 --> 00:08:39,739 It gets more and more important. 193 00:08:41,460 --> 00:08:45,236 Clearly, the global vote is not a stand-alone project. 194 00:08:45,260 --> 00:08:46,739 It's not just there on its own. 195 00:08:47,820 --> 00:08:49,076 It has some background. 196 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:53,116 It's part of a project which I launched back in 2014, 197 00:08:53,140 --> 00:08:54,700 which I call the Good Country. 198 00:08:55,500 --> 00:08:58,060 The idea of the Good Country is basically very simple. 199 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,356 It's my simple diagnosis of what's wrong with the world 200 00:09:02,380 --> 00:09:03,580 and how we can fix it. 201 00:09:04,860 --> 00:09:07,276 What's wrong with the world I've already hinted at. 202 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:10,036 Basically, we face an enormous and growing number 203 00:09:10,060 --> 00:09:13,236 of gigantic, existential global challenges: 204 00:09:13,260 --> 00:09:15,916 climate change, human rights abuses, 205 00:09:15,940 --> 00:09:20,140 mass migration, terrorism, economic chaos, weapons proliferation. 206 00:09:21,140 --> 00:09:24,316 All of these problems which threaten to wipe us out 207 00:09:24,340 --> 00:09:26,476 are by their very nature globalized problems. 208 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:30,900 No individual country has the capability of tackling them on its own. 209 00:09:31,820 --> 00:09:33,556 And so very obviously 210 00:09:33,580 --> 00:09:37,196 we have to cooperate and we have to collaborate as nations 211 00:09:37,220 --> 00:09:39,078 if we're going to solve these problems. 212 00:09:39,620 --> 00:09:41,980 It's so obvious, and yet we don't. 213 00:09:42,940 --> 00:09:44,820 We don't do it nearly often enough. 214 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:49,276 Most of the time, countries still persist in behaving 215 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:53,956 as if they were warring, selfish tribes battling against each other, 216 00:09:53,980 --> 00:09:56,716 much as they have done since the nation-state was invented 217 00:09:56,740 --> 00:09:58,316 hundreds of years ago. 218 00:09:58,340 --> 00:10:00,476 And this has got to change. 219 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:03,836 This is not a change in political systems or a change in ideology. 220 00:10:03,860 --> 00:10:05,796 This is a change in culture. 221 00:10:05,820 --> 00:10:07,820 We, all of us, have to understand 222 00:10:08,700 --> 00:10:12,716 that thinking inwards is not the solution to the world's problems. 223 00:10:12,740 --> 00:10:16,716 We have to learn how to cooperate and collaborate a great deal more 224 00:10:16,740 --> 00:10:19,140 and compete just a tiny bit less. 225 00:10:20,260 --> 00:10:22,636 Otherwise things are going to carry on getting bad 226 00:10:22,660 --> 00:10:25,860 and they're going to get much worse, much sooner than we anticipate. 227 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:28,716 This change will only happen 228 00:10:28,740 --> 00:10:30,476 if we ordinary people 229 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:33,316 tell our politicians that things have changed. 230 00:10:33,340 --> 00:10:35,876 We have to tell them that the culture has changed. 231 00:10:35,900 --> 00:10:38,476 We have to tell them that they've got a new mandate. 232 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:41,396 The old mandate was very simple and very single: 233 00:10:41,420 --> 00:10:43,596 if you're in a position of power or authority, 234 00:10:43,620 --> 00:10:47,236 you're responsible for your own people and your own tiny slice of territory, 235 00:10:47,260 --> 00:10:48,476 and that's it. 236 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:51,196 And if in order to do the best thing for your own people, 237 00:10:51,220 --> 00:10:54,276 you screw over everybody else on the planet, that's even better. 238 00:10:54,300 --> 00:10:56,036 That's considered to be a bit macho. 239 00:10:56,060 --> 00:10:59,436 Today, I think everybody in a position of power and responsibility 240 00:10:59,460 --> 00:11:01,076 has got a dual mandate, 241 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:04,076 which says if you're in a position of power and responsibility, 242 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:05,956 you're responsible for your own people 243 00:11:05,980 --> 00:11:09,220 and for every single man, woman, child and animal on the planet. 244 00:11:10,340 --> 00:11:12,716 You're responsible for your own slice of territory 245 00:11:12,740 --> 00:11:16,436 and for every single square mile of the earth's surface 246 00:11:16,460 --> 00:11:17,836 and the atmosphere above it. 247 00:11:17,860 --> 00:11:21,196 And if you don't like that responsibility, you should not be in power. 248 00:11:21,220 --> 00:11:23,276 That for me is the rule of the modern age, 249 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:26,676 and that's the message that we've got to get across to our politicians, 250 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:29,996 and show them that that's the way things are done these days. 251 00:11:30,020 --> 00:11:31,700 Otherwise, we're all screwed. 252 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:34,716 I don't have a problem, actually, 253 00:11:34,740 --> 00:11:37,676 with Donald Trump's credo of "America first." 254 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:40,116 It seems to me that that's a pretty banal statement 255 00:11:40,140 --> 00:11:43,316 of what politicians have always done and probably should always do. 256 00:11:43,340 --> 00:11:46,780 Of course they're elected to represent the interests of their own people. 257 00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:50,516 But what I find so boring and so old-fashioned 258 00:11:50,540 --> 00:11:53,276 and so unimaginative about his take on that 259 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:55,820 is that America first means everyone else last, 260 00:11:57,340 --> 00:12:01,516 that making America great again means making everybody else small again, 261 00:12:01,540 --> 00:12:02,740 and it's just not true. 262 00:12:03,700 --> 00:12:06,596 In my job as a policy advisor over the last 20 years or so, 263 00:12:06,620 --> 00:12:10,236 I've seen so many hundreds of examples of policies 264 00:12:10,260 --> 00:12:13,796 that harmonize the international and the domestic needs, 265 00:12:13,820 --> 00:12:15,796 and they make better policy. 266 00:12:15,820 --> 00:12:19,396 I'm not asking nations to be altruistic or self-sacrificing. 267 00:12:19,420 --> 00:12:20,756 That would be ridiculous. 268 00:12:20,780 --> 00:12:22,180 No nation would ever do that. 269 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:26,716 I'm asking them to wake up and understand that we need a new form of governance, 270 00:12:26,740 --> 00:12:27,940 which is possible 271 00:12:28,700 --> 00:12:30,516 and which harmonizes those two needs, 272 00:12:30,540 --> 00:12:33,580 those good for our own people and those good for everybody else. 273 00:12:34,580 --> 00:12:36,796 Since the US election and since Brexit 274 00:12:36,820 --> 00:12:39,196 it's become more and more obvious to me 275 00:12:39,220 --> 00:12:41,836 that those old distinctions of left wing and right wing 276 00:12:41,860 --> 00:12:43,156 no longer make sense. 277 00:12:43,180 --> 00:12:44,820 They really don't fit the pattern. 278 00:12:45,820 --> 00:12:48,116 What does seem to matter today 279 00:12:48,140 --> 00:12:49,756 is very simple, 280 00:12:49,780 --> 00:12:51,956 whether your view of the world is 281 00:12:51,980 --> 00:12:55,676 that you take comfort from looking inwards and backwards, 282 00:12:55,700 --> 00:13:00,420 or whether, like me, you find hope in looking forwards and outwards. 283 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:02,796 That's the new politics. 284 00:13:02,820 --> 00:13:06,460 That's the new division that is splitting the world right down the middle. 285 00:13:07,860 --> 00:13:10,756 Now, that may sound judgmental, but it's not meant to be. 286 00:13:10,780 --> 00:13:12,716 I don't at all misunderstand 287 00:13:12,740 --> 00:13:16,860 why so many people find their comfort in looking inwards and backwards. 288 00:13:17,620 --> 00:13:20,116 When times are difficult, when you're short of money, 289 00:13:20,140 --> 00:13:22,236 when you're feeling insecure and vulnerable, 290 00:13:22,260 --> 00:13:24,756 it's almost a natural human tendency to turn inwards, 291 00:13:24,780 --> 00:13:26,796 to think of your own needs 292 00:13:26,820 --> 00:13:28,916 and to discard everybody else's, 293 00:13:28,940 --> 00:13:32,676 and perhaps to start to imagine that the past was somehow better 294 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:35,100 than the present or the future could ever be. 295 00:13:35,780 --> 00:13:38,236 But I happen to believe that that's a dead end. 296 00:13:38,260 --> 00:13:40,516 History shows us that it's a dead end. 297 00:13:40,540 --> 00:13:42,676 When people turn inwards and turn backwards, 298 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:44,476 human progress becomes reversed 299 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:48,060 and things get worse for everybody very quickly indeed. 300 00:13:49,780 --> 00:13:51,196 If you're like me 301 00:13:51,220 --> 00:13:53,916 and you believe in forwards and outwards, 302 00:13:53,940 --> 00:13:58,636 and you believe that the best thing about humanity is its diversity, 303 00:13:58,660 --> 00:14:01,436 and the best thing about globalization 304 00:14:01,460 --> 00:14:05,756 is the way that it stirs up that diversity, that cultural mixture 305 00:14:05,780 --> 00:14:08,796 to make something more creative, more exciting, more productive 306 00:14:08,820 --> 00:14:11,756 than there's ever been before in human history, 307 00:14:11,780 --> 00:14:14,300 then, my friends, we've got a job on our hands, 308 00:14:15,220 --> 00:14:18,116 because the inwards and backwards brigade 309 00:14:18,140 --> 00:14:20,676 are uniting as never before, 310 00:14:20,700 --> 00:14:22,636 and that creed of inwards and backwards, 311 00:14:22,660 --> 00:14:25,220 that fear, that anxiety, 312 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:27,916 playing on the simplest instincts, 313 00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:30,476 is sweeping across the world. 314 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:32,436 Those of us who believe, 315 00:14:32,460 --> 00:14:35,196 as I believe, in forwards and outwards, 316 00:14:35,220 --> 00:14:37,100 we have to get ourselves organized, 317 00:14:38,140 --> 00:14:41,780 because time is running out very, very quickly. 318 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:44,516 Thank you. 319 00:14:44,540 --> 00:14:46,492 (Applause)