This TED Talk features policy entrepreneur, climate expert, and author Ted

Ted Halsted, recorded live at TED 2017.

I have a two-year-old daughter named Naya, who's under the mistaken impression that this

conference is named in honor of her father. Who am I to contradict my baby girl? As many of you know,

there's something about becoming a parent that concentrates the mind on long-term problems like climate change.

It was the birth of my daughter that inspired me to launch this climate organization

in order to counteract the excessive polarization of this issue in the United States

and to find a conservative pathway forward. Yes, folks, a Republican climate solution is

possible. And you know what? It may even be better. Let me try to prove that to you.

What we really need is a killer app to climate policy.

In the technology world, a killer app is an application so transformative that it creates

its own market, like Uber.

In the climate world, a killer app is a new solution so promising that it can break through the seemingly insurmountable

barriers to progress. These include the psychological barrier. Climate advocates have long been

encouraging their fellow citizens to make short-term sacrifices now for benefits that accrue to other

people in other countries

30 or 40 years in the future. It just doesn't fly because it runs contrary to basic human nature.

Next is the geopolitical barrier. Under the current rules of global trade, countries have a strong

incentive to free ride off the emissions reductions

of other nations instead of strengthening their own programs. This has been the curse of every

international climate negotiations, including Paris. Finally, we have the partisan barrier.

Even the most committed countries, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada,

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