approach the architecture and engineering problem of this. i wonder if they will disconnect from the element, the idea we ll engineer our way out of the sea level rise but if we keep doing what we re doing, the sea rise will get higher, right? sea level rise not like you can put a number on it. if we knew that we were going to have three feet of sea level rise, that s what we were dealing with, can we build a city to deal with three feet of sea level rise? that s something engineers can deal with. nobody knows. there is evidence in the history of, you know, 13 feet of sea level rise in a single century and dealing with something like that that, you know, could happen. you don t know. there say question of economics and spending $500 million on pumps and drainage and trying to elevate the city. what level do you do that? do you do it to two feet, one feet? are you engineering for? becomes a very expensive process
with eight level of sea level rise, that s a scary scenario. it was interesting talking to penny today, she acre cements the scientific consensus, noah has a million dollar study. i think, jeff, you re going to see more and more people approach the architecture and engineering problem of this. i wonder if they will disconnect from the element, the idea we ll engineer our way out of the sea level rise but if we keep doing what we re doing, the sea rise will get higher, right? sea level rise not like you can put a number on it. if we knew that we were going to have three feet of sea level rise, that s what we were dealing with, can we build a city to deal with three feet of sea level rise? that s something engineers can deal with. nobody knows. there is evidence in the history of, you know, 13 feet of sea level rise in a single century and dealing with something like that that, you know, could happen. you don t know. there say question of economics
navy. admiral, give us a look inside the head of a ship s captain. this isn t your average ship. we have heard with the fitzgerald, the bridge team lost what is known as situational awareness. i don t know what that means. so i commanded similar ship, the uss barry, the same ship as the fitzgerald and the mccain a couple of years back. i know this ship very, very well. you put on top of the bridge at the very top of the ship, stephanie, about a dozen sailors and officers who are actually driving the ship. when we say lost situational awareness, that means that that bridge watch team probably got focused on some individual problem, maybe even an engineering problem in the ship, and they lost their broader perspective on the overall situation. they lost track of an incoming contact, another ship, that s when you lose your ability to maneuver and avoid it. that is potentially part of what happened here.
forces as well. right. so in the years between say 1945 and 1970 when the glory days of the american manufacturing worker, things of value were not being made in china, vietnam and bangladesh and mexico and places like that. the u.s. was at the head of rebuilding europe and japan and all of that. can we replicate a world in which the american manufacturing worker can create value that justifies a high wage? we can do somewhat better on manufacturing. we can do a lot better on wages. and the secret is to unleash an economic potential. and that means a couple things. one is better enabling conditions, infrastructure, a better tax system, better education, better skill acquisition, better labor retraining and retooling. this is not an engineering problem, ali, this is a political problem. the second element is we need to build a better fiscal context,
change your mind and you have this unsettled inside. i say it to everybody, lets move forward. everybody considers the solutionsproject.org where they have done an analysis where we can power the united states, canada and at least 130 countries around the world renew b ably right now if we just decide to do it. let me ask you as an engineer, rex tillerson, the guy that s coming in to be the secretary of state. he s been at exxon before they admitted there was climate change and said that maybe there is climate change but it may not be human contributor, and tillerson is on the record for saying i think it is an engineering problem.