T. W. Trend forest in the eiffel region of western germany. A forest that harbors dark past. With a legacy still visible in isolated places. From the time when it was dumped a greenhouse. In the closing stages of the 2nd world war it was the scene of money fighting between u. S. And German Forces. The path to the western allies advance from belgium into germany. Lets train through the forest around the village the field again. For locals the battle is still a key part of their history. This ticket will come to mark it was while riding around here on my bike as a teenager that i really came into contact with the history of the herd conformists its Mission Environment on virtue i would suddenly come across ruins among the trees in the park Massive Concrete walls. Of office and when i asked my parents they told me they were the remains of bunkers from the 2nd world war. Ends of a month on when once you know what to look for in this wartime landscape you can also see bomb craters trenches
[applause] in uniform, at the back of the room. And this lecture series which is , about great military events, great commanders and sometimes great controversies in the art of war, has been ongoing since almost the beginning of my tenure 15 years ago. It has been our great series on the library. This is probably my last introduction, because i have been drafted by the president , so if you can identify with that, to go to washington to save the republic, which you know, needs saving. But as i always like to say, the command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is selfcritical, selfaware, it plays no favorites and is the best place to learn from the experience and history of the battlefield and with extraordinary teaching and technology, to learn from todays battlefields and commanders. It is also a school for our allies and partners and the future military leaders from around the world, a place where a future chief of staff of the Pakistani Army might rub shoulders with a
Called the trillion trees act,s an effort that was made more um public by president trumps support of that at the davos World Economic forum. Tell us, congressman, what does this act propose . Well, this is an act that does just what it says, plant trees across the globe by 2050, for the u. S. To do our share oft that. Lott s a whole more, though. Our biggest tool that we have are forestsnd kee as far as mitg climate issues. When we utilize those forests and keep them sustainable and working and active, we royal have the best tool thats out there thats widespread, its natural, and its very economical to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere with fr forests. You come to this as a forester yourself, the only one in congress, a graduate of yale, a masters in forestry there. This must have been music to your ears when you heard the president getting behind this re effort. Yeah,is abo its something t near and dear too me. If you look at the planet, takn theres 3 billion tree the in the pla
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Hello i am a man is a barrel and this is planet s. O. S. The land is one of our best weapons against Climate Change but why are we destroying it Scientists Say humanity is stripping the earth of its ability to sustain life and that extends to the way we produce food but were wasting a lot of it on not feeding all who are hungry we speak to people working to transform our relationship with the land embracing Sustainable Practices and well look at whats coming up at the crop the annual climate talks taking place this year in the trades. We begin with something which quite literally supports us the land we live on its produced much phosphate from it and depend on it for other things such as fuel and clothing it since hegel to the planets carbon cycle drawing Carbon Dioxide down from the atmosphere through plants and trees and storing it in the soil but were destroying it in august the i. P. C. C. Thats the u. N. Body charged with assessing the science on Climate Change found the lands abi