That nobody useless into and case the agreement falls apart and we have lots of cases where that is an example appeared north korea and another example of the Different Levels of the iraq issue in the bush and obama in frustration. Obama in many ways executed the drawdown plan but the seniorlevel engagement nobody watched the issue were a few years. This matters a lot. Also another example is the clayton Bush Al Qaeda here this is a problem in the u. S. Government we have and have to deal with. I just end i just had to point out one other thing. We talk about risk of the p5 1 die. The iranian have cheated on their treaty obligations for 30 odd years. It is not at all outside of their capacity to cheat intentionally, have somebody do some and theyre not supposed to do and become a bigger problem. A variety of things that never inside that can make the deal fall apart too. Theres to be noted we were thinking more about her own perspective but certainly we have to make sure they do their
Good luck. Guest thank you. Next eric or nelson and andrew mcabee talk about the technical advancements taking over our lives and our economy and suggest ways to harness those advancements to benefit society. The conversatconversat ion is about one hour. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california the place where you are in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at Common Wealth club. Org. I am Andrew Leonard from salon. Com your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is eric or nielsen and Andrew Mcafee who are business researchers at the m. I. T. Sloan school of management. Eric is the director of the m. I. T. Center for and enters the principle for research science. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with eric selfpublished book race against the machine which coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They follo
Cappiello Associated Press energy and environment reporter. This week environment a Leadership Program founder paul sabin and his latest book the bet paul ehrlich, julien simon and our gamble over earths future. And it the yale historian analyzes the 30yearold wager between an economist and biologist of the longterm effects of depleting Natural Resources and examines the opposing perspectives at the heart of the Climate Change debate. The program is about an hour. Host paul sabin thanks so much for coming to after words and talking about your book the bet. I found it fascinating as a reporter that covers policy politics and Climate Change i could not help to have a sense of deja vu. I have heard this argument before and i have heard it numerous times especially in this current congress. I wanted to start at the beginning which is where did the idea for this book come from . Was the kind idea that you always had that became right because of the current political context . Was it a chick
There is a reason that they are called the business plan. I just came from a panel there and there were three other economists and they were pointing out some pretty good statistics. As you may know, the Median Income is the 50th percentile is lower now than it was in the 1990s. In the employment to population ratio has plummeted. Some of the members are little bit better recently, but it keeps people dropping out of the labor force and not new job and how can these two groups be a very different perspective with one right and one wrong end if you look deeper there are some impressive numbers that match up with the optimism of the technology and there are record levels of productivity and gdp and all of those numbers are growing quite deeply. And the other statistics about the Median Income are also exactly accurate. And it is happening on the situation simultaneously. And it does create more wealth. And that is that there is no economic law that will help others benefit from the techn