Okay, lets start, delighted to have you here, the call of the wild west is what i call this, jack london, rugged individualist or socialist . Turned out to be both. So jack london, the most popular writer of his time, even more popular than mark twain since mark twain was in the twain of his life, jack london was the up and coming major figure and sold a half 1 million copies of books, really a phenomenal character. He was in individualist who spoke out against individualism. He was a capitalist to railed against capitalism. He was a socialist who criticized the socialists. He was a racist who hated racism. So now you know who jack clinton is. A very complex character. And so by the way we are going to have time for questions and answer butmany of you, i have been fascinated with the novels, stories and life of jack london, the most prolific novelist of the american wild west, theres probably no better eclectic writers in london. He lived as a minor, he lived and wrote as a minor, a sa
Banks for coming to this southern festival of books. Were delighted to have you if you enjoyed yourself we hope he will make a donation on our website because this is a nonprofit event we would like to keep a free and open to everyone is really like your donations for that. I am delighted to introduce the professor from Vanderbilt University and specializing of the 19th and 20th century literature with the social critique to Country Music covering a wide variety of topics. In addition to her scholarly work play is welcome cecilia to the podium. [applause] they explore spending an hour to hear about jack london a name that is so familiar but in other ways unfamiliar. Some people they come of surfing with of pioneers loosely we think of the call of the wild these are books that have become classics there are reenlisted junior highs and high schools and and that is the jack london that we think we go. He went for the gold rush in 1897, he found almost as if they but but that cluster of st
Have the real possibility, unfortunately a high probability, that consequences would be vast multiples of the base case. Instead of just being severe, in addition to being severe, in the long run it would become catastrophic. We can expand on that in our conversation. Secondly, i said to a friend of mine the other day who is a wellknown new york this newsman this businessman that i had developed an intense concern about this. He said we can deal with this decades done the road. I said no, the reason, as many of you know, the decay rate of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere is hundreds of years. What we do today will affect us for hundreds of years. Theyre cumulative, they are irreversible, and as a consequence, this is an issue that cannot wait. As hank paulson observed to me the other day, if you look past over the cap past 10 years and see the predictions climate scientist have made, they bring forward the timeframe when the severe consequences occurred. This is an issue that we have
And hope that the allies come along with us. And are willing to fight on behalf of this cause understanding what our own limitations are. A lady in the back there. And this will have to be pretty close to the last question. Having been Senior Adviser and tactical instructor to the u. S. Marine corps on counterinsurgency in both iraq and afghanistan, one of the things that struck me most is we say the right thing as one of the gentleman on the podium said. We very rarely are seen to be doing the right thing. Very often that is manifest in the socalled experts we have sent to particularly around but to some extent in afghanistan and iraq where there are lots of experts with no expertise, confined to mega bases and many cities and dont really know what we are dealing with. We need to be within a community, those that have grudges, grievances, and frustrations. Sadly, we have abdicated that role either being unwilling or unable to tackle how communities think and deal and the vacuum and av
Citizens. Lets let them have freedom of movement and lets give them take there, lets sewage out of their cap met. Lets treat them no longer as criminals. If you look at the 10 points, it reads like americas declaration of independence. In favor of freedom of religion, freedom of the press, all of the things we hold near and dear in america. Why should they not be a friend of america and why should we support them . We expect that of them. After all, america guaranteed their safety and security. We should not say we no longer have a role in that just because we are no longer in iraq. We need to let the Prime Minister know we treat them as if they are american citizens and any attack on them is an attack against america. Host iran u. S. Ambassador was asked about what the u. S. Is and is not willing to do when it comes to iran yesterday on faith and nation. Heres a bit of what she had to say. Secretary kerry said last week in new york that every country has a part in this, including iran