The Ohio State University and senior fellow at Cato Institute. Finally, Jackie Schneider at stanford university. Thank you very much for the introduction. I am grateful for events hosted back in the before days. I was able to meet with colleagues and talk about ideas that make their way into this book eventually. Im grateful to be on our panel like this, i think i cited most, if not all of you in this book. It is my privilege to share this with you. This book comes out of my personal experiences in uniform in the u. S. Navy so i thought i would start with this. The first is back in 1999, my first job in the navy, i was a targeted officer working at the u. S. Headquarters. A short air campaign against the modern state ended with no fatalities to a lot of people, this looks like a big Success Story for technology, new american way of war. Revolutionary wars but we made a lot of mistakes including blowing up the chinese industry. This was a mistake that was coordination failures, lots of
Paleontologist over the last couple of decades we often started looking backwards in time. One by one we are becoming forward facing individuals, thinking about what they have learned about the past and how it informs the future. Thats the thrust of the recent Strategic Plan we have put out for the Museum Published a couple weeks ago, Natural History of the time if he was there isnt that how we and gym about the Natural World from all our study of the last couple hundred years and played up forward. We are sitting on this incredible moment in human history, been around for 200,000 years and plans on this generation to watch the population curve go to the sky and watch all of the impacts of that Large Population play out around the comments. A lot of us are used to think about what happened 70 million nurses who are now what about the next 70 . Interesting. One of my guiding lights is this guy tim flannery from australia to ive been following for 25 years. Issue of South Australia. I ne
We are in a good position to start cutting down emissions hard and fast. I think that paris will help. We know that the trajectory we are on at the moment with the Greenhouse Gas emissions will land about four degrees warming by the end of the century. We will alter the trajectory so we will be aiming more likely that about 2. 7 degrees. Its not enough but its good, but good start. We know we want to stay down below two degrees. How are we going to do that . I started thinking about the drawdown from the atmosphere and i met Richard Branson in 2007. He invited me to his home in the British Virgin islands and he had his we start but the problem. Richard expressed skepticism that humans could act fast enough to reduce emissions. He just thought it was a good happen. He thought what he could do was offer a prize to help Foster Technology and would have the potential to draw at least one part of carving out a deficit every year. We start this thing called the virgin challenge. I sit on the
Dodd, considered the best up-and-coming player on the U.S. national men's team, has his sights on a CIF-SS title this fall and the Paris Olympics next summer.