Out a climate agreement on global warming. Now they stand on the outside. Today, we speak with two former climate negotiators. Pablo solon of bolivia and yeb sano of the philippines. Sano just arrived in paris not as a representative of his government but as a member of , the peoples pilgrimage. Hes fasting today along with thousands of others around the world, calling for climate action. [indiscernible] International Community, we cannot afford to delay climate action. Deliver enhancing admission and should muster the come political political will toward peru and paris, it might be said it must be poetic justice, that the typhoon its diameters span the distance between warsaw and paris. That was yeb sano addressing the u. N. Summit in 2013 in warsaw in the midst of typhoon haiyan, which killed thousands and almost took the life of his brother. Yeb and his brother will join us from inside and outside the climate summit. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracy
Leave our phones behind. We live here in california. And so its an station might be to take it to the beach. We live here in california and so the temptation might be to take that phone to the beach but isnt that supposed to be a time away, a time apart, time to think, time to not be interrupted, time to wander. Theres a need for space in our lives, too i guess make room to be surprised by whats in front of us rather than this thing that is sort of telling us whats next. Host is setup to do . Guest oh its hard to separate ourselves from technology. I have an assignment in class where i asked the students to put it away for 24 hours, to have no cell phone use, put away their computers in their laptops in a Television Set and it almost drives them crazy. They are like how can i possibly do this . My parents will wonder what am i doing, where am i . Get what they discover is they might begin that activity feeling very hairy but as they turn off they actually have more space and they sudde
It is interesting. The software forces you to be positive and share something that deserves a thumbsup, a like. Host as a College Professor here at pepperdine, is technology interfering with teaching . Guest every teacher, i think, wrestles with what to do with technology in the classrooms. I mean, the students, if they are taking notes on their laptops they are also getting updates, that twitter feed, you know, so you are constantly competing for their attention. Even in an exam situation, the possibility of students, you know, accessing information via their cell phone underneath a desk is high. And the temptation to cheat his everpresent. So one way i have dealt with it, i am teaching media. Yet i allow no media in the classroom. You know, no laptops, no cell phones. They have to be fully present to the discussion and to each other. I might use media on screen. I might have a laptop bringing up our points and slides and showing videos, but i do not want them out there. When it comes
It is not 20 years away. 510 years. Already being tested in california. The question is, if we are headed toward near zero marginal cost labor what does it say about the prediction . What do we do . How do we define the human journey . Our people employed in this collaborative, and, in a zero Marginal Cost Society . In the short run i think there is a silver lining. I think that we have a 30year and tear interim where we will have to a bill that the internet of things. That is going to be laborintensive. We have to convert our entire energy use from fossil fuel and nuclear to Renewable Energy. That will require millions of jobs, thousands of new businesses. We have to transform the buildings in the world to your power plant said they can generate screen actors in the near building and it becomes our power plants. Were doing that now. We have to store all of that energy. That requires millions of jobs. We have to put in an Energy Internet, transform the entire electricity grid of the wo
To god. Host and you have a quotation from kevin kelly, we tend to see got it reflected in nature, but technology is the better mirror of god and next to that is a picture of jesus. [laughter] host with a laptop. Guest he has a whole world in his hands. Kevin kelly is such a fascinating character. He was one of the early editors of wired magazine. And he also comes from a position of faith. And so i think he has looked at technology and how we organize our lives, how engineers structure things as a way of may be talking about the ways in which god might be the original technologist. And when we look at our dna, you know, which that human genome project with sir Francis Collins , to what degree is the affirmation that we have in our bodies sort of fair reflection . Are we sort of wired or encoded in an organized fashion . And what will what role does god, the technologist, play and all of that . Host are you worried about how much sounder spending with technology from a Christian Point