Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the world's biggest problem: 'If we don't address climate change, we really will be toast'

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the world's biggest problem: 'If we don't address climate change, we really will be toast' (via CNBCMakeIt)

Eric Schmidt delivers the closing keynote speech at the 2010 IFA technology trade fair at Messe Berlin on September 7, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.has focused his energy on tackling big global problems — and none, he says, are as pressing as climate change.

"If we don't address climate change, we really will be toast," Schmidt, Google's former CEO and chairman, tells "If you look at the rate of melting in the Antarctic ice sheet as well as in Greenland, it's quite concerning.", to support big-idea research in fields like artificial intelligence, biology and energy. Over the past five years, he says, he's learned that climate change isn't just a long-term problemOnce those ice sheets melt, it will take "a million years for them to get recovered," Schmidt, 66, says.

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