But its obviously hard to know for the individual case. But thank you all for listening, we truly appreciate it. Ladies and gentlemen, please take all your personal items [inaudible conversations] next up from the Rancho Mirage writers festival in california is a conversation between dave barry and carl hiaasen on life and politics in florida. [applause] what was your name again . [laughter] its hiaasing en. Carl harrison couldnt be here, but im in his place. Carl would be famous if he had a normal spelling. [laughter] anyway, first of all, thank you recall for coming. Thanks to jamie for putting on this incredible writers fest. [applause] and what we thought we would do in the few minutes we have left [laughter] is, were both going to just briefly talk about our newspaper careers. First, though, we have to thank the festival for fitting a million and a half people into this room. [laughter] it is really an incredible crowd. Thats the National Park service estimate. The National Park s
In case we spoke too fast. How are you doing. Im pat morrison. I couldve said anybody could nine. You think of a good one and ill be that for you. The environment of course as a topic that would take more than 50 mormons or any city. But i think a lot of it has to do with the kind of well that we have to deal with the problems that are at hand. If you look at it through rose colored glasses the Environmental Crisis can if we look at it in those terms be a moment for ourselves we have conquered nature in the past. We can heat the arctic. The question now is what we can do with what is confronting us and whether we are willing to do it. Science has always come to our rescue in the past. We have vaccines that make people able to live to 80 who used it die at the age of 30. We made at the perrys in the deserts into agricultural fields and we made the urchins into our own fish ponds but if you remember the commercial from the 1970s nice its not nice to fool mother nature. More important tha
A novel. They have to be in the screenplay. We are at a time. Thank you all for coming out. And thinks for waiting for us. [applause]. That was carl hudson and dave behr. The writers festival continues now with a panel the panel on the environment. With douglas brinkley. And Theodore Roosevelt the fourth. The great grandson to resident teddy roosevelt. In case we spoke too fast. How are you doing. Im pat morrison. I couldve said anybody could nine. You think of a good one and ill be that for you. The environment of course as a topic that would take more than 50 mormons or any city. But i think a lot of it has to do with the kind of well that we have to deal with the problems that are at hand. If you look at it through rose colored glasses the Environmental Crisis can if we look at it in those terms be a moment for ourselves we have conquered nature in the past. We can heat the arctic. The question now is what we can do with what is confronting us and whether we are willing to do it. Sc