The Importance of Big History

At the large scale, there are new things to see. This is a big problem because if you don't look at those large scales, you won't see them and you may be convinced tonight but I've been told this by some people. And what you need to see is that what's happening right now is new on a scale of 4 billion years. So any scale less than 4 billion years is too small to understand what's happeningright now. Unless you never make the effort to stand back, you'll never see that. You'll never understand the urgency of doing something about building a more sustainable world. It's like saying these are things we desperately need to see, to not see