Don’t Listen To This Guy Because He Ran Citibank. Listen Because He’s Fascinating.

Philip Wollen is the former vice president of Citibank, but this passionate speech barely mentions money or economics. In fact, it barely mentions people, either. But he does mention something we see every day that’s worse than tobacco or asbestos (1:50), the vegetarian population of our planet (3:44), and an unforeseen problem society would face if…

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Carolyn Silveira

Dec 20, 2012

Tip: start watching at 0:30!

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