The great majority of the population in the world
don't have the benefit to operate on a daily basis
with infrastructure around them.
There isn't a single country that has achieved equal pay.
There isn't a single country that does not have
violence against women.
We as a global community are losing all that creativity,
all that energy, if girls don't go to school.
Right now nearly a billion people don't have access
to that opportunity that that safe water brings.
As these water shortages begin and as they're already
ongoing it's going to be the communities that are already
at risk that are impacted first and worst.
Our inability to deal with difference is really
destroying all of us and we cannot succeed in a world
where we simply try to wall each other off from one another.
The biggest problem is how media can drive the masses.
How it's used as a tool to brainwash people.
There are people who are sick
and they don't know they're sick because it's all
they've ever known.
The reason human trafficking is thriving
is because traffickers know they can get away with it.
We have 65 million people around the world,
fleeing from danger, terrorism, hunger,
and trying to save their life.
Four million women and children die each year
because of inhalation of smoke from cooking.
The most basic of things that all of us do everyday.
If farmers don't become more productive,
we're going to have to clear more and more land
which will be environmentally disastrous.
We're playing a very dangerous game with nature.
The mountain we have to climb so high
and we still have so much more work to do
and I wonder sometimes if we'll ever actually be able
to achieve our mission.
We are so much more powerful,
we are capable of so much more
than we can possibly imagine.
It doesn't matter how much our problems are.
The determination to overcome them
and hard work is what makes a difference.
I think every social entrepreneur had someone
multiple times tell them you can't do that.
And when people said that to us,
you know at first we're like, "Why not?"
And then we thought well you're just saying we can't do that
because nobody ever has,
and so we're going to,
and we're going to prove you wrong.
Hopelessness is our greatest enemy.
At times there is no hope
but I do believe that you cannot
take out the determination from people
and determination is the concept that keeps us going.
t's hard to even imagine
anything we're doing right currently that didn't stem
from several previous failures.
What would you attempt to do
if you knew you could not fail?
I believe when your passion outweighs your fear,
that's when you have the opportunity
to be successful.
There is a voice that keeps us as humanity
as human kind moving forward,
we have been improving human kind for years.
It is possible to create a world in which we prioritize
every single person.
Don't tell me I can't do it,
don't tell me it's never been done because that's just
and invitation to do it,
and then seeing the magic that happens when you do go
in those uncharted territories.
Look it is possible
to have conversation starters
instead of conversation stoppers.
It's complicated, but it's not intractable!
You've got to shake a system.
And if you keep shaking in multiple ways,
something is going to crack.
Creating change takes a long time.
You don't have to make big big changes.
Each one will add up.
When you put groups of people together,
something greater than them emerges.
Something transformative
that is the most powerful thing I've ever seen by far.
Start by doing what's necessary.
Then do what's possible.
And then you're suddenly doing the impossible!