Many that they would not even have a refrigerator to keep supplies called particularly plasma and certain medicines. The two panels will examine the National Programs to like electrical power in africa and the future of energy is brighter than it has been in the past. So now i yield to my good friend and colleague. Thank you, mr. Chairman for your leadership when you say the prospect of energy in bright in africa is brighter it has a lot to do with you for your work and convening this hearing. Is very obvious the lack of power available throughout the continent has many negative consequences as it constrains growth and undermines Resource Development with the quality of life progress so the impact on the Economic Prosperity as well as the ability to make the challenges is compromised by the lack of energy and this gives us the opportunity to assess both of inspect to elect a friday africa and now i defer to the ranking member. And now you may present your opening comments. On several c
Llima posting you in our building but please, yes six sits down. We are doing renovations. We hope that in a couple of years when you come back you will be able to drink the water and not worry about your health. The building is undergoing renovations but its great to welcome you here and far end mostly far. I know you are a little sleepy. We are so blessed to have your presence with us today. Thank you. In the spirit and strength the strength of the Obama Administration to the country the opportunity for all 566 federally recognized to come together to have a facetoface meeting with members of the president cabinet and Vice President. And i will tell you there is a lot of work that goes into preparing this. So before i see a few more thoughts but i would like to do is recognize a few people that have been amazing. Jody does incredible work alongside us and her partner at the white house the associate director for Intergovernmental Affairs lets give the white house folks a round of app
I think the crisis above all else is a clarion call for changing our relationship with one another and the planet earth. Why is the extinction crisis in the clarion call . Because it is loud and clear, as all clearing call clarion calls must be. For those willing to listen, it is almost deafening. With each passing there is a celestial bell that rings endlessly in the heavens marking the passage of the another miracle. It is certainly clear it provides clear evidence, unequivocal evidence, that something is amiss. Sweep,ful, over the long billions of years of multicellular life, there been five events that rivaled the extinction crisis that we are in today. If that is not evidence that something is amiss, i dont know what amiss means. We understand the cause of the extinction crisis. It is humaninduced habitat degradation, modification, invasion of species, overexploitation, and over the last few decades, Climate Change. Now for a portion of the the American Noble Energy Institute Summ