Minutes. Good morning. Im the director of domestic policy at the American Enterprise institute and its my pleasure to welcome you all to this event, 30 years of environmental progress, is it time at last to be optimistic in optimistic . In 1968 a book was published called the population bomb. The book repurposed the ideas of 18th century economist thomas malus to argue that population growth would soon outpace agricultural growth leading to widespread famine and other social and ecological crises. These ideas took hold of the American Environmental movement which adopted a broadly , pessimistic view of our planets future. Their predictions do not come to pass but alarmism over the effect of population growth on the environment as well as resource scarcity endures among many on the left. In recent years the notion that americans should stop having children to protect the environment has been promoted widely by academics, journalists and other public figures. According to analysts at mor
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Without her, Dinesh Dsouza analyzing the sociopolitical climate in the u. S. Civil rights scholar charles cobb describes the role guns mayed as a form of selfrex in the 1960 in this nonviolent stuff will get you killed. In big money, on the trail of the ultra rich hijacking american politics, ken vogel, a reporter for politico, reports on the impact the Citizens United decision has had on politics and democracy. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv. Org. Youre watching booktv on cspan2. Heres our prime time lineup for tonight. At 7 30 p. M. Eastern, Cheryl Cashin describes a new vision of opportunity in america. Then at 8 45, mike earp and david fisher talk about the u. S. Marshals. At 10 on after words, susan van hand discusses the aftermath of the Fukushima Nuclear power plant meltdown follow being the the tsunami in japan in 2011. And we conclude at 11 p. M. With doug fine and his book, hemp bound.