Colorado arizona montana oregon utah and washington what were experiencing this year is simply without precedent the small town of malden in Eastern Washington was almost completely incinerated by a wind driven wildfire authorities are searching the rubble unsure whether all of the towns approximately 300. 00 residents made it out alive in medford oregon a fire swept through of mobile Home Community reducing it to a burned out health scape of an ash and twisted metal resident regina hill lost everything she owned. What youre wearing right now this. Powerful winds are spreading the oregon fires the governor invoked Emergency Powers to marshal more resources in california high winds are also fanning the flames 14000 firefighters are out on the front lines in california. Where 28 major fires have scorched over 100000 hectors tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from several of the largest fires in the States History a big fire in San Diego County is moving dangerously close to
Interrogated killed and dismembered but while 21. 00 men were detained by saudi arabia over his murder and 11 went on trial much of what happened in the courtroom remains a mystery the trial was done in secret and closed trial that there was no International Observers in the hands of the victims or the accused were not published. And theres no more. Appeal possible so the nature of the evidence only in every technical part of the trial or most has been questioned by. Internationally accepted judicial standards last year 5 of them were given the Death Penalty for the killing but thats been cut to 20 years in prison 3 others have been given sentences of saving to teen years and will say is calling a fast i think. The whole verdict seems to me to have been manipulated and i way they used of course they get behind a fig leaf according to practice Legal Practice in saudi arabia and the family has the right to commute any sentence and the family has issued as such they flourish and most prob
In other words will life go back to normal anytime soon and what will the quote unquote new normal even be meanwhile american states have been left to their own devices to deal with this virus in the absence of any coherent National Policy or guidance some states were spared a major outbreak and others have waffled between crippling shutdowns on one hand and flamboyant disregard for the threat on the other so is there a key to getting all of us all 8000000000 of us around the world out of this crisis and if so what is it my guest today has spent his life studying Human Progress the power of ideas as change agents professor paul romer won the nobel prize in economics in 2018 and he was the former chief economist of the world bank he was part of a major Rockefeller Foundation report just released titled a National Testing and tracing action plan he joins us today from his home in connecticut paul thank you so much for joining us as i mentioned the Rockefeller Foundation just issued a rep
Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question what will it take to get the United States back online and back to normal lets get to the bottom line. Americans just like everyone else around the world are wondering about the months ahead should we let our kids go back to school face to face what are the risks how many more will lose their jobs or worse their lives will the stock market crash or most folks going to go back to their offices or their businesses of their colleges in other words will life go back to normal anytime soon and what will the quote unquote new normal even be meanwhile american states have been left to their own devices to deal with this virus in the absence of any coherent National Policy or guidance some states were spared a major outbreak and others have waffled between crippling shutdowns on one hand and flamboyant disregard for the threat on the other so is there a key to getting all of us all 8000000000 of us around the world out of this crisis and if so what is
I must admit. Im eager to get back to traveling again i was sick of it before the pandemic and now i cant get out of california. How are you quick. Pretty good were all doing what we can but even that contagion it really didnt capture the full scope. My first question about the book is apocalypse never its a very definitive statement and it implies a certainty in the world that is interlaced and that is largely unpredictable that complex systems are you confident apocalypse never and of course that depends on your definition of apocalypse. Yes. Thank you i argue in the book its not the end of the world even not the most serious environmental problem environmental activist as for 30 years what im trying to do here is like a cancer doctor a bunch of people say everybody will die of cancer in ten years and then say wait a second i dont like to see that level of exaggeration or extremism or alarmism are there scenarios you can imagine Climate Change destroying human civilization . Sure. Th