problem. he says his strict adherence to a paleo diet precludes him from putting barbecue sauce on his ribs. can you tell us there are a lot of things offlimits in the paleo world. including fruit and dairy and bread. salt. first of all, he s all right. as any real texan will tell you, you don t put sauce on your brisket. that s true. but you do have like cheese grits in the south. the top the campaign don t forget funnel cake. these are things people are supposed to eat at state fairs. obviously he s a man of the people. hot dogs burgers, pizzas. can you eat fried twinkies? no. but you can eat a not deep fried twinkie. that s okay. this is my deep food question. the consumption of meat is seen
it s in a position where they can deal with what will be the looming crisis around the food question. are any countries doing it well? yeah, actually, as we looked at and we began to map investments by governments and the kind of the political will that we re seeing of governments to take action, we saw countries like ghana, for example, vietnam, malawi that actually increased their investments in agriculture, increased their investments in agricultural research looking at what kind of crops they might have to be growing if there were climatic changes in their particular national environments, putting in place crop insurance systems, for example, to deal with periodic drought phenomenon. increasing weather forecasting in the country where we have a lot of weather forecasting technology in the united states. every 2,000 square kilometers. in the rest of the world it doesn t exist.
in power. they can use that to plan more effectively. so is there a long-term/short-term horizon problem when we re thinking about the food question? i m wondering if i m hungry today, do i want the investment dollars to be in making sure that i have a pack of food to eat today or do i want the investment dollars to be in climate change mitigation ensuring that there is food to eat ten years from now? i don t fortunately i don t think we have to make that choice because in reality obviously as was mentioned before, there s a billion people who are starving right now. that s mostly not about global warming. that s about getting the people out of poverty. in a slightly longer run it s about increasing yields because if we can increase yields, we can both help all the people who are poor and starving not because of global warming, we can mitigate the problems of global warming in the medium term and it will have a lot of other impacts.
region to focus on the wars we have rather than the wars we want, jenna. jon: michael, the phrase lead from behind, is something governor romney used. he said i m going to throw that out. now the obama administration, and you said that you have not been entirely unhappy with obama administration for ren policy, but they sort of wore that phrase as a badge of honor, especially during the nato bombardment of libya. is there going to be a remarkable change on that score? should mitt romney become president? it s a food question. good question. that is part of what i like about governor romney s tone because i think it will push the debate on both side into a place that is more engaged. you re right the obama administration, may not have come up with that term, leading from behind. it seemed to characterize approach in libya which i thought was actually effective through 2011. but here we are in 2012 and we re in a mode of trying to
streets are almost empty. shopping hours cut in half. i would say many of the stores into which we ve ventured for food and water and the rest, 90% of the shelves are empty. they are having trouble getting things imported. today we are told they are going to get more food and water off ships coming into the ports to the south of us. they believe some of that will cure itself. for today there s concern not just up the coast but here in tokyo as well. sean: you answered the food question. there had been long lines for gas and limits on the amount you can buy. is that still going on? shepard: that s very much the case. many stations here even in tokyo are closed. bottled water difficult to get up the coast. there are many areas to which officials can t travel and journalists can t travel, unless you walk. there are many towns that are wiped out. those areas if there is anyone still behind the night which just ended went into the low