Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by bnsf railway. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the Public Schools across los angeles went dark today shuttered by the fear of a terror strike. It came in the form of an email that warned of mass violence. The threat brought the Los Angeles Unified School district covering 600 square miles to a halt. All 1,200 schools were shut down before classes started for the day. Many of the 640,000 students were forced to turn around and head home. And superintendent Ramon Cortines hastily convened a News Conference. I think it is important that i take the precaution based on what has happened recently and in the past. Ifill cortines was referring to the ram
Have this conversation. [laughter] [applause] [laughter] thank you. And linderman was not a top ranking scientist but he was, of churchills social class and political convictions, and most usefully he was skilled in the art of flattery. When criticized for his unhealthy closeness to linderman, churchill responded love me, love my dog. Even so, churchill always retained a healthy skepticism. In a 1937 article published oddly enough in the news of the world, the article titled live in a world controlled by scientists, churchill wrote, there are secrets to mysterious man in his presence taken no. Secrets which once penetrated may be fatal to Human Happiness and glory. But the busy hands of the scientists are already fumbling with the keys of all the chambers hitherto forbidden to mankind. I think the words have a very contemporary relevance. While perhaps not all would today concur to churchills conviction that our rooms best left a lot. I think most would agree with him that moral develo
Next david keith and Clive Hamilton debate the idea of scientifically manipulating the merman to address the threat of Global Warming. This is about an hour. Many thanks scott for that introduction and for the invitation to come and debate climate engineering with david here today. I want to talk a little bit about some of the implication but more about the social and political meaning of what it would mean to have a geoengineered planet and i want to draw on a bit of historical experiencexperienc e to get some idea of what that means. Now david has become the foremost advocate of geoengineering in response to Global Warming and in his new look a case for climate engineering if you put forward an innovative approach to solar geoengineering, that is the use of a fleet of planes to inject sulfuric acid into the upper atmosphere, the stratosphere to create a layer of tiny particles between the sun and the earth and i should point out that today we are going to be talking about this form o
Exploited because, of course, you cant get it through our heads that these people are entitled to a regularized status so that both the farmers and the farmworkers are not placed in jeopardy. Farmworkers are placed in jeopardy because they can be exploited. The farmers are placed in jeopardy because, quite frankly, they are always in need of great be assured theyre hiring from the pools people that the law says they can. You have to make the law capable of being fulfilled. A law that is incapable of that, where you in fact state something in the law that cannot be reached, like pretending you can sign away the lives of 12 million people, then you make a mockery of the law, you bring scandal to it. So, theres lots of things to do, good things to do. Host lift if are up your hearts the name of the book. Doug kim maybe is the author. The tragically killing your friends and the life that remains. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. There is a Nonfiction Author or book youd like to see feature
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