Finally, we believe grand experiments are needed to share knowledge with society at large. One idea would be to develop a global network of Earth Situation Rooms—physical or virtual—where citizens across the world could follow, in real time, what’s happening to the planet. Picture a wide circular room, surrounded by large video screens connected to the world’s most advanced Earth-observing satellites and monitoring systems. Here, in one place, citizens could catch up, in real time, on the environmental state of the planet, as well as regional trends, with respect to all of the planetary
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