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It's good to be the king?
During Wednesday afternoon's discussion about restructuring the global economy, one member of the audience asked panel speaker Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute what he would do if he were king. Brown, after hesitating for about a second, quipped, "King, which is different from being president?"

The comment got a fair amount of laughs from the room, including actress Glenn Close. After the laughter died down, Brown went on to say that more adults need to be educated, particularly about the effects that the U.S.'s dependence on oil is having on the nation and world at large. Brown said that the U.S. has to invest in alternative forms of energy, even going so far to suggest that lowering income taxes while raising energy taxes could be one way to wean the nation off of oil and fossil fuels.
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