all the way in the back. okay, all right. be seated. we have a few stragglers coming in. that is all right. i am icao, my job is to welcome you to left for him 2016. thank you all for coming. i am sure this will be a wonderful for him. i attended my first forum in 2010. i saw doctor cornell west go below the podium when he was so animated. i knew it was something i wanted to be part of in that moment. when i started my doctorate i joined up with the forum. we were talking about occupy wall street, in 2016, talking about a democratic socialist gaining millions of votes throughout the country. times are definitely changing. one thing that has definitely changed, not for the better, the prices in new york city ravage the working and middle classes and the left for him as well. when i was an intern we were upset when people asked what my compensation was, i said an infinite supply of pretzels, was letters, that unfortunately is still the condition we are in today so all of you ar
they just do not have at the same level. partly because i have grown up tied to one another was social media. they do have an experience of reality that is in part much more community-oriented then some of this in the older generation. to that extent they are more focused on issues of justice that they are on issues of self opportunity. that gives me reason for hope. so i think that sense to the extent that science is a force for justice and to the extent that being pro- science and be in a nerd is cool especially in that young generation, i think we have a lot to look forward to. join me and giving a warm thank you. [laughter] [applause]. it please thank al frank as well. [applause]. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] he just asked if i would sign it, actually i will just, here they have some for sale outside and hopefully they will have enough if not i think you can preorder it. i will certainly sit here and sign any copies that you have. thank you again for coming
projections is the power of life, the power of the biosphere. so we shouldn t dismiss it, but we need to heed that power and support that power. and now i can close with that quote that i really like. as i mentioned that the friend in texas who gets all their water from dew, she what she says is we can be the beavers on the landscape. we can be the restorers of the water cycle and all that that goes with it. so there we are. it s a choice we have, and i know it s really, really hard, and sometimes i think that all of kind of the craziness that is going on right now, you know, politically and in all kinds of ways, that somehow that s like, it s like a deep concern. it s almost like sparks out of some, like, very profound malaise and not knowing what to do. but i do feel very strongly that, a couple things, that what stands in our way is imagination , and also that it s how we talk about these challenges. and that s why i make a point of let s kind of reframe climate change,
so what i was finding the necessary format to this? is there a half hour reading and q&a? we will do some q&a and not as many of these in the past, the q&a seems to stretch out a long time. the reading i did in the city, my brain still works so i can write to facebook as i speak. the best passages that most wanted to be read, and and it gets shot down, the famous sexist paragraph that will go on my tombstone, and quoted in every review completely out of context and what surprised me was the facebook by guy, weird mafia boss i ll meeting and the story where i. up the plumbing. any other seen somebody wants a reading? some characters in the book are standing here by the way. the last reading, british trader was there, my kids were there, chose not to out themselves. the israeli with a face like that sheet of plywood. he interviewed me at facebook and made the decision, i got hired. anyone else have a passage you really want me to read and willing to raise your hand and say
political unrest prime minister says he will dissolve parliament and call for early elections. netanyahu fires two of his ministers saying there was opposition within his own government. andrew simmons with more now from jerusalem. what he is trying to get out of this is a cabinet that can agree on things. he has effectively made the sackingses after the event. because it was monday night that he confronted in the first time, he wasn t even speaking to the finance minister, they wrote down all together in terms of very real dialog. he had a meeting with him on monday night, listed five demands a range of issues from a bill which was really intended a jewish state bill, which has been heavily criticized both internationally and israel because it effectively makes palestinian citizens second class citizens, that bill was controversial, he wanted support on that, from la pead, and la pead did want that sort of bill, but not under the terms that the prime minister was suggested.