This lecture is awesome, and the guy giving it is now dead (he died a few months after this lecture of an apparent heart attack on a plane). Some of his last thoughts are below:
"What we have to do is convince the bulk of the public, that amorphous middle. We're never going to convince that 25 percent who absolutely believe it's a conspiracy against American religious and economic freedom, and that this is some U.N. plot to take away our hegemony.
"And we don't need to convince the other 25 percent that is already convinced.
"It's that 50 percent in the middle that will listen to an argument, that is not immoral or deeply ideological, but that's a little lazy and ignorant, often quite frightened.
"We have to get to them to create a tipping point for a majority. And that can be done. My fear is that it's going to take a hurricane to take out Miami or fires in the West before they finally wake up.
"I just hope that it's milder crises sooner, and not more extreme events later."
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