Thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in the lake charles in Cameron Parish and the whole area. I know we were speaking earlier saying, there will probably have many weeks if not months of no power and having trouble with her water system. Even people as far north as shreveport and monroe are still without power. Our thoughts go out to them. Anyway, we are here today with jack davis, will be in conversation with the author and jack is a professor of history specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies. And also the author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning the gulf the making of an american sea. The New York Times book review called this book a beautiful march to a neglected see. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize it was a New York Times notable book for 2017 and that several other this list that you including the washington post, npr and forbes. Jack, welcome. Its a pleasure to have you here with us today. My pleasure to be here. Im going to turn the floor over to jack
Hello. Im ann druyan and the speaking to you from my home in ithaca, new york, and im the author of cosmos possible worlds, deeply truly honored to be participating in events for the library of congress. In the very first cosmos exactly 40 years ago, carl sagan and stephen and i celebrated the Great Library of alexandria. The library of congress means so very much to me because of the democratic ideals of the worlds knowledge belonging to all of us. So its my great honor to be here, and im here to talk about cosmos which is book ive written but also the Television Series i have the pleasure of producing, writing, and directing with my collaborator. So why possible world . Why after 30 years . The first cosmos was an effort to give the broadest possible public, a global public, its coordinates in space and in time. It was carl sagan was dream, one that i completely share, that how we find our way in the cosmos. The great story of the 40,000 generations of human beings who in one way or
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