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a Government with honest politicians

that would be nice, wouldn't it?

having good schools and hospital

systems and then the fourth dimension

is the well being of individuals

so that people feel good within

their society and are

perhaps happy even.

Maybe we can become a world

leader if we use our opportunities

we have green energy, we have

opportunities to make our transport system

for example environmentally friendly

by using greener energy

we have the electricity from

the waterfalls etc...

then we have this land

we have great nature reserves

that we can really use

by preserving them.

I think actually, we have the biggest

unspoilt land area in Europe

so that's of course a great treasure for

us in using our green energy

and using this nature that we have

and also in implementing this ideology

and how we run things,

other things as well

The main issue is that we have to

use the green ideology when

doing everything else

because it doesn't work without that

so, you can't just say now

I'm going to do a bit of economics

and then I'm going to

organise the school system

and then we can think

about the green issues,

you have to have the green

issues here all the time

I think our economic system has

not been run in a sustainable manner

so I think we need to use the

ideology of sustainable development

both when we think

about the environment

but also when we think

about the social issues

and how we want to

run our economic life

We can and it's actually my ambition

to make Iceland a sustainable island

we used to live sustainably

on this island

well not quite sustainably

because we cut down our forests

so we weren't very smart about it

initially, but I sense we are now aware

of the danger of soil erosion

we can evade that

and this is what we need to do

because we won't be able to

import all of this

food from abroad

we need to go towards

the culture of enough

I think the best thing is to

work with your local community

get like minded people in your

street or in your close environment

and start having coffee at home

and discussing things

and then take it from there

The balance of power

in the World is changing

there are huge debts on the

Governments that are printing money

and somebody else

has to pay the debts

But this has always been the case

the Roman Empire lasted

for what can we say, 400 years

something like that

100 years BC and 300 After as an

Empire, that was a long Empire time

the 1000 year Reich lasted

from 1933 to 1945, 12 years

and the British Empire lasted

well 100 years almost

We of the West

we have La Dolce Vita

don't we, we complain bitterly,

but we consume

and we rule, conquer and rule,

divide and rule,

but the people of the World

the Third World

share suffering

Unbelievable, unbelievable

Is it the same letters every month?

Yes, most of them

a long time ago I stopped looking at

them and just put them in my folder

I see the number, this is about

that and ok, I don't read it any more

I cannot do anything,

I tried to do everything that was possible

like in the first steps of it

I tried to make a deal with them

and tell them what I can do

what I can pay

and it looks like they weren't listening

and say they have to check it out

but then I never heard from

them again and now

one and a half years has passed

and they are still in the same steps

nothing is going on and

now business has been going down

and I'm just letting it die easy

let the business die

I can build it up, but

that is for nothing because

I don't know after half a year

where I will stay or where I'll be

This is my Peace Globe

about one year ago I made it

when the anger started

to arrive here in Iceland.

I wanted to make some symbol

of my dreams, my thinking

I put all of the religious symbols

around the globe and then

I wrote around it

peace and harmony

can be in all of the world, you just have

to make one person peaceful, yourself.

People can come and put

their peace wish inside

and then they ask their God,

their High or Mighty

no matter what their name is

to help them to let their dream come true

or their wish come true

and when the rain comes

it will rain inside the Globe

and it will melt the ink and the

ink will go into the root of the tree

and into Mother Nature

Even though it is bad to say it

it is the best thing that could happen

to the soul of Iceland

because we had totally lost

ourselves in greed

and forgot what really

matters in life

my chicken

he agreed with me

I would like to see an Iceland

where the intellectual capacity

and knowledge is used

and we're already using it of course

knowledge is the key to

everything and fortunately

we live in a country where everybody

can read and I would really hope that

my beloved countrymen use this capacity

this reading capacity to increase

their knowledge and understanding

of where they are, their values

that can best satisfy us

and we have to take care

of that body which is our country

it has been given to us to take care of

it has been handed down to us

by our forefathers to

take care of and I wish that

my countrymen could see that

The human intelligence is

so great that I don't believe

that it's impossible to

find other ways

than to build aluminium factories

all around the country

It's obvious that this is not

the solution this is our problem

it is our greatest problem today

that we will destroy nature

that is invaluable for mankind

and our descendants

We are on the tipping point exactly

now, things can roll very fast downhill

if we want it to go downhill. It's

a time to be very socially active

and participate in these

brainstorms and really question

if we want to take another

cycle on the old system

I would like to see things

like the Ministry of Ideas

and then this National Assembly

that will be created, to be looked at

as points where we really did

decide to go to another direction

You need to have different people

to share different experiences

there is plenty of space for

everyone to get involved.

If the passion is there

anything is possible

That will move mountains

For our future democracy,

I think there are big opportunities

in crowd sourced democracy

and I think that the wisdom of the crowd

needs to be used, in

terms of decision-making.

Wow, is all I can say

It's all coming together

I welcome you all.

What we will be doing here

today is probably a unique event.

In the beginning we are discussing our

core values, what makes us as Icelanders

and these values will make up the

foundation for the work of the day

in the next phase for this session, we will

go into the discussion on our future vision

of what Iceland wants to stand for and

how we see the country in the future.

All of that work will be based

on the values, the core values.

This today, is like a sern of political

science or social science

we are gathering half a percent

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