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larious Bridget well mr. science guy himself Bill Nye thank you for joining us it's so good to be here all right so your new show on Netflix Bill Nye saves the world yes quite the title no pressure right no it was a half-hour that's enough time isn't it city of the entire world there's 13 of them turn watch them all turn it up loud Bingen so why does the world need Bill Nye to save it now so need it is it is to be hoped that we can make the world better by with a television show now I'm not joking well that's why we're doing it I was a big fan of your show growing up I mean you made science cool and smart yes and you inspired an entire generation but this is 20 years or so later and you're back yes what is your approach differently this time around well we're doing this for it's for older people and the topics are not cut and dried so it is we do vaccinations climate change and video games do video games are they addictive do they rot your brain or do they actually make you think better or do you become a better surgeon by playing a video game about surgery apparently you do and so it's very exciting to be back and we I am hoping to get people to have a scientific perspective about issues facing our society I feel like that's kind of an important mission now when you have so much going on with people maybe denying science you could put it that way yes yeah so like like is there something happening now is there something that that you're kind of trying to address in this show well this is our mission is to enlighten people I don't think this will last the anti science thing and the big example right now is climate change and the people who in this case of climate denier are almost all old there's very few young climate change deniers so these people are gonna age out are we gonna replace them with enlightened people wanna do something to climate change fast enough well let's make a TV show about a dog on it what can we do to help save the world so it vote is what I always say boat but we need big ideas I mean huge huge ideas we need huge wind turbines we need photovoltaic panels everywhere and we need to reconfigure our electrical grid to handle a distributed power generation system rather than concentrated but we can do all that let's go there's a lot of big problems out there what do you think is the biggest right now and three things we want for everybody in the world clean water reliable renewably produced electricity and access to the Internet or whatever the future of the Internet is called and then if we can provide clean water to rural populations in general they will have be able to grow food if you can provide electricity they'll be able to grow food efficiently and then if you can provide the Internet this will enable everybody to get educated especially girls and women when you raise the standard of living of girls and women through education they have fewer kids and the kids they do have have more resources so they are more successful and everyone benefits this is all good let's get her done in people's