New avenue for agriculture, it could open up an environmentallyfriendly way to produce all of these products that we use on a daytoday basis. Is that part of what drives you . Do you look at the world just differently as a result of knowing how sugar could be substituted for these petroleumbased products . I dont know if i look at the world that differently. I have a very good hammer and so i see a lot of nails. And i see that we could use this tool that we have, this capability, to make lives better and so i think its, its one of my goals. Is to try to make the world a better place. By reprogramming cells to produce cleaner, more efficient versions of fuels and other chemicals weve all grown so dependant on, jay keasling has opened the door to a brighter, more Sustainable Future and thats what puts him on the next lis. Im dr. Sanjay gupta. Hope to see you back here next sunday. A cringeworthy calendar in washington. The small thinking about big problems continues. Welcome to your mone
After losing 9 million jobs in the great recession, our businesses have now added more than 5 million new jobs over the past 2 1 2 years. Manufacturing is at its highest level since the 90s. Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level since i took office. Home values and home sales are rising. Our Assembly Lines are humming again. We got a long way to go, iowa. But we have come too far to turn back now. We cant afford to go back to what got us into this mess. We have got to stick with policies that are getting out of this mess. Thats why im running for a second term as president of the United States of america. All right, so, again that was the president in iowa addressing supporters there. Meantime, our jim acosta is also traveling with those who are on the campaign. Hes in the battleground state of nevada. Take a look at how close the race is there. A new poll giving president obama a slht edge with 49 of nevadas likely voters. Romney close behind with 47 . And well within the polls
Jonathan, welcome. This is a very meaty book. Theres a lot going on in here. The main thesis is falling birthrate re problem and what are the causes of those birthrates and the consequences . Along the way touch on many topics including the changing role of the women, sustainability and social welfare programs, religion and population aging. Well get to all of those during the next hour. But first, why dont you answer for me the question that ever reporters asked by his or her editor and reporter purchase of purchased with a story idea. Why does this matter . Why is it important . And matters because fertility rates and demographics or what my friend phil long in town here at the new America Foundation says its like the tectonic plates shifting beneath the earth. Demography isnt quite dead to me, but its close. Are we talking about a year, a few years, a decade, centuries, where is it happening . Host so the phenomena has begun in the west, it began around 1970. To back up quickly. The
They all wear the foot soldiers as you well. They were all the legal arm of the sabar is so just as the sabar Rights Movement was getting going in the 50s and 60s these particular lawyers were really at least of their careers and they became the evil arm of the sabar Rights Movement. Kenneth author of the new book representing the raise the creation of the civil rights lawyer published by University Harvard press. Up next on booktv after words with this weeks guest dvera cohn. What to expect when no ones expecting americas coming demographic disaster. A in it mr. Last discusses the population implosion in the u. S. And its impact on the economy culture and politics. This program lasts about an hour host jonathan welcome. This is a very meaty book and theres a lot going on in here. The main thesis of course is the falling birthrate problem and what are the causes of those falling birthrates and the consequences. The rising individualism and and american lives in the sustainability of re
And when they cover something the community doesnt want them to cover the journalists are ostracized, the local towns also pull out their advertisements which is their economic base and the newspapers to get tremendous risk to write about something that could be a scandal or something important because the community doesnt care about that and when they hear the Public Service it is a Recognition National recognition of the importance and it provides the same kind of umbrella protection the Nobel Peace Prize does they still affect our lives and just like a child may recognize a manner as some from their father and mother you suddenly see them just like my mother we as a culture need to understand that we have today come from people that came before us you begin to understand the traits we have about consumption thats understanding the news as a form of entertainment and these are radical notions from his time that we inherited and had taken on to build our society. The other thing that