Once again stoke inflation. Governments are seeking alternatives, while still trying to balance the short term need for oil. The alternatives could also help tackle Climate Change and keep global temperature rises to 1. 5 above pre industrial levels. Just last week, the International Energy agency renewed its assertion that no new gas and oil projects were needed if the world was to meet that goal. Opecs Secretary General told my colleague, sally bundock, that the group doesnt agree. We have always, at opec, talked about the concern we have for future under investments, as some have called for stopping investment in oil. We believe this is equally dangerous. This will lead to volatility in the future, possibly supply shortages. And therefore, we at opec have always advocated for the importance of continuing to invest in the oil industry, as we also invest in decarbonising the industry and move on to adding other forms of alternative energy, such as renewables. From our perspective in o
Guest thats how its being referred to now in copyright circles. It is really, its become a ridiculous, absurd system. Service providers spend a lot of money on dealing with these notices and from the author perspective dont actually achieve getting anything taken down. So we are asking for a number of change to that part of the statute. Were also looking at collective licenses for books so that libraries can access copies of books and actually pay for them instead of having libraries and the googles saying, oh, we cant possibly license all these books, so it has to be fair use. That takes away a lot of income, ultimately, out of the market and from authors. So those are the big ones, but there are a bunch of issues. Host when you look at where we are in publishing in 2016, has there ever been another period in history where this revolution is happening like it is now . Well, when the yeah. I mean, when the beginning of publishing. It was a huge change in terms of the written word. It w
Said what if nobody comes so its nice of you all to come out. I know that some of you are here to talk about the book but the reality is we are fortunate to have with us two friends of mine, it will be more interesting and probably more fascinating to many of you, Jacob Weisberg who many of you may know as the chairman of the slate group, longtime journalist recently published a book on Ronald Reagan that i cant recommend highly enough, particularly in todays political environment and malcolm gladwell, a writer for the new yorker and a very insightful nonfiction bestseller so we talk a little bit tonight about my new book, the seven cents and one of the things that were going to get him very quickly is one of the big ideas in the seven cents is the idea that theres so many questions to answer that this model of us talking to you is not entirely the light model so we will do that but we also want to open it up for questions and debate and i hope people will talk about the guys that are
Theyve held long, strongheld views, i think their war against dissent and desire to control has never been answer intense as they are today. Theres something fundamentally different and new. Youwalk this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Next, Joshua Cooper ramos coceo of Kissinger Associates talks about this book the seven inflame the seventh sense. [inaudible conversations] hello. Thank you, everybody, for coming. This is great. As a writer for most of the last two months ive been getting up eave morning saying to my wife, what if nobody reads the book . I woke up this morning, what if nobody comes . So its very nice to come out. And some of you are hear to talk about the buick but the realityes wire fortunate to have two friends of mine who i think will be more interesting and probably more fascinating than many of you. Jacob weisberg is a longtime journalist, published a book on Ronald Reagan i cant recommend highly enough, and mall gladwell, a writer and humorist. Nonficti
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