And doesnt look great for the environment. We have a president elect who says that Climate Change is across from china. Do you have any encouragement i dont think we can talk to this mean about anything. I dont know how you feel about that. Im not the only one. We see that his appointed people in big oil fracking, quail we have made big progress in the past few years i imagine that some of that will continue but we have somebody who is really appointed everybody who doesnt believe in that. I just want encouragement sykes stop crying. I have a few days of crying. Its a very good question. We can all cry in our beer forever or we can pick up and do something and find ways to work with it. I had been working with the Environmental Organization for 50 years now. Weve always been working on our own for a long time. Working to continue. And i have to say its all about finding best practices in sustainability together. The market will take care of the whole business with oil in drilling. It w
Much for being here and i hope you have taken advantage of all of the perks available to you and those who are not book fair members as yet i know you are considering becoming members so thank you very much. Acknowledges miamidade college, the convener of this outstanding book fair and many thanks to our students, faculty and staff are giving up their time to make sure this book fair is the caliber that it is today and has been for the past three decades so thank you to miamidade college. [applause] lets get right on with the show. I would like to bring on Mister Eldridge Birmingham for questions, he is the chief science officer, thank you. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. It is a great pleasure. I have lived in miami several years, this is my second presentation. The first was with Richard Dawkins and im equally fortunate to introduce james glieck who is one of the great science or historians of science ever. I thought what i would do was read a brief statement, some of you know c
To show how that works over the rebbe. They can modify and expand on. Facebook is a platform that is owned by a private company and yet it is the size of the internet or the web in many ways. When we want to change something and want to make Something Like facebook less vulnerable to fake news its going to the last week or two. You can ask facebook to change it. Its not an open standard that we could change. Thats something that would have to wrestle with over the next few years. We have a president elect to likes his twitter account. I had been a longtime user of twitter. I think there is an argument that without twitter he wouldnt had one. He may not had been able to one the republican race. It just gave him in many ways he decided he doesnt. And what happens in the white house as can gonna be fascinating. There are parts of the race where the people took the phone away from him so he could tweet anymore. Apparently he is just to keep tweeting from the oval office. And he puts it in
We can cut down on the amount of meat. Find Common Ground and you can always do it. I have many meetings with jesse helms. And it was very much against what was going on at the National Endowment for the arts. But he and i found a way for it to be a really find such southern gentleman. There were some things that never changed. However, i try to look at every human being as i try to look at every creature on the planet. Sme to great we Work Together now. I would have a very tough time with whats going on. But i will find Common Ground somehow. Its important to protect the wildlife of the world right now. And they have to do it as much for their kids in the generation that follows. Im not to let these elephants go on my watch. [applause]. Thank you very much for being here. And doesnt look great for the environment. We have a president elect who says that Climate Change is across from china. Do you have any encouragement i dont think we can talk to this mean about anything. I dont know
[silence] good afternoon again. Come on in, please have a seat. We are ready to begin. As you see, we have been on time all day long and i know that you appreciate that, thank you. Welcome to this next session. I am Mary Lou Harrison and it is truly a pleasure to have you here at miami book fair. We have many, many sponsors as you heard throughout the morning, but we want to really acknowledge them because without them this affair would not take place. Many thanks to the foundation, to the bachelor foundation, the the grout foundation and all the other sponsors. I also want to recognize again and again and again the friends of miami book fair, thank you so much for being here and i hope you have taken advantage of all of the perks available to you and those who are not book fair members as yet i know you are considering becoming members so thank you very much. Acknowledges miamidade college, the convener of this outstanding book fair and many thanks to our students, faculty and staff a