"Once we understand the scale of the problem we can work out what to do about it - how to spot it, and how to act on it, " he said.

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If there was something on the table that was unlivable then we can work it out.

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But this is nonsense: what we want to know is what is the wealth after we have changed the distribution: only then can we try to work out whether we would like to change it some more.

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If we can think of a possible failure situation, we work on it until it is weeded out of our system before release.

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Work out how they did it, and we can all become nuns and monks.

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It would be better if we can get farmers to work with industry to figure out whether we can use woodchips or algae or switchgrass or other biomass that can create fuel that is competitive with gasoline.

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The right way to deal with it is to work with the providers to figure out how can we make the system less wasteful, more efficient overall.

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