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Intergroup, interpersonal living and still be in the kind of society which we all long to achieve. congresswoman, next saturday, the 50th anniversary, president obama going to recreate that moment, in effect, on the washington mall. how significant is it? i think it s really significant when you think 50 years ago, and i think that, you know, dr. king did have some vision that some day there might be an african-american in the white house, living that dream. and i think the president is going to speak to that. and most importantly, i think he s going to speak to economic inequality. he s done that a number of times over the last several weeks and months. and i think that the speech in washington is actually going to give him an opportunity to follow up on the dr. king dream, say i saying it s social equality. you know, we ve had problems around race relations, but it s about economic inequality. rich lowry, does he use any part of this as a way to challenge republicans to try to ....
On republicans in congress. they don t need an obstructionist agenda. they need some sort of positive agenda, and i think that s why there was some power in what newt gingrich said. so, we re talking about the republican party. we re coming up on an anniversary that is going to give the president an opportunity to highlight some presidential leadership moments. we re talking about the anniversary of the march on washington coming up on august 28th. that s where dr. martin luther king jr., of course, made his i have a dream speech. 50 years ago next sunday, king appeared on this very program. here is some of what he had to say. i think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. i think this is inevitable, and i don t think our society will rise to its full maturity until we come to see that men are made to live together as brothers and that we can have genuine intergroup, interpersonal li ....
And civil wars and intergroup violence and they were saying that that s incredibly unusual that that s like flipping a coin and i m getting heads 27 times in a row which is quite alarming. yeah, but, robin, you said in your article that an increase on average of 2 degrees celsius is likely to happen around the world by 2014 rather 2040. 2040, right. 25, 26 years from now. i mean then we re all going to go and get angrier. the one kind of ray of hope in that figure is that what they didn t necessarily look at was the gradual increase over time. so that is quite a few years from now that several decades, so it s not necessarily saying that over time that that would happen, that 50% increase, right now it looks at if, say, tomorrow there was a 2% increase, then that would be more likely. now, they didn t say that would not happen but something they haven t considered yet which is definitely a study i think they ll look into going forward. absolutely fascinate. robin wilkey and ....
Spike of just two degrees on average could increase the likelihood of civil wars by 50%. can you break that down? right, and, alex, the study wasn t necessarily saying that that would lead to that. it s saying that if trends continue as they have been in the past that that kind of a warming could cause that kind of an increase in violence. okay. it also talks about, though, droughts and floods and tying that to human conflict. is that a fair assessment, robin? right, and i think coral hit the nail on the head when she was talking about that kind of being that final spark. when you already have climate affecting things like farming, agriculture, crops, kind of the economics and that starts brewing, then when you have that rise in temperature on top of that that s when we really have that stronger spike, especially in intergroup violence. for instance, in the research they looked at 27 different modern societies and found that in all 27 cases, there was a positive correlation betwe ....
That s why i went to write the book. i went to grow up in the suburbs of birmingham, alabama, at the whitest white flight suburb with confederate flag flying over the campus. there were no white people there except those bussed in and a couple of middle class black students who had integrated into the school. when you look at the history of real estate segregation and workplace segregation and church segregation which is still as king said, the most segregated hour in the country, it s entirely possible. we put these structures in place to integrate the country in structural ways and look at racial balance of neighborhoods. we looked at it as a quantitative measure. socially we still live in very different w0r8ds. in the book you talk about dr. king discussing intergroup and interpersonal doing and nothing each other on a deep level, socially, on a worship level. that is the key you say to racial progress, right? integration is a qualitative measure of the quality of a ....