By the coauthor of this book called superabundance the story of population growth, innovation, and Human Flourishing on an infinitely bountiful planet. Professor fully, what do you mean when you talk about superabundance . Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about what we discovered in our research. The idea of superabundance occurred to us when we were looking at this original bed between julian simon and paul ehrlich in the 1980s. Paul ehrlich had written this book that painted this dystopian future that things were going to crash and england would not exist and we were going to starve. And economists picked up the book and read it. They said initially, this looks like it makes sense. But maybe i should look at what the data says about resources. How abundant the resources are. As economists, we look at the price of resources. You know, if something is money now it should be getting more expensive. What julian simon found is that the price of these things was not going up
The program is about an hour. Was it a chicken in a and that a type of thing . It starts with an interest to look back at the 1970s and arriving at the Environmental Movement what were these successes and accomplishments of that era of Environmental Activism . And what were some of the limitations and constraints . And the backlash against it within the country in terms of clash between liberals and conservatives i thought it was the right story to be told. Host when you look at what is happening currently in congress or out of the Obama Administration what lessons do you think the story of paul erlich and julian simon hold for this generation in today . Fiftyseven. Guest there are one number that may be i should say that first. Paul erlich author of the books the population bomb in 1968 that famously predicted we were in danger of global famine and ecological disaster and warfare and then to question then is that human ingenuity and creativity in markets would allow us to avert these
About a possible blackout months before the super bowl. On cbs this morning. Zbles that he how hard the city of new orleans parties, even their football stadiums blackout. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. We are learning new details about the end of an alabama hostage drama. Fbi agents raided an underground bunker yesterday shooting and killing the kidnaper. The captive a fiveyearold boy ethan is said to be okay. They had to move in because the kidnaper was growing desperate. Mark strassmann good morning. Reporter good morning norah and charlie. Ethan is waking up with his mother for a first time in the week but bomb technicians spent time in the bunker processing the crime scene and looking for improvised explosives. It began asended as violently as it began with a gunshot. Hes a special child. By the grace of god hes okay. Reporter ethan spent seven days underground, the prisoner of jimmy lee dykes, just the two of them inside a bunker four feet wide six feet lon
Life through reading. New editor of the New York Times broke review and has been redesigned and is debuting september 8. Thank you for your time. Thanks so much. Up next on book tv dina cappiello. This week environmental are rare paul sagan. Our gambol over its future. The yale historian analyzes the 30yearold wager between an economist and biologist over the longterm effects of depleting Natural Resources and examines the opposing perspectives at the heart of the clamans is debate. The program is about an hour. Hi. Thank you so much for coming to after words and talking about your book, the bet. I found it fascinating as a reporter that cover the policy of Climate Change. When i was reading the book i could not help but have a sense of deja vu. First, the argument in this current congress. I want to kind of ask you at the beginning, which is, where does the idea for this book come from . Was it an idea that you always had that became right because of the current political context . Wh
Corrupt activity is al qaeda. This is an incorrect notion that has even planted itself in certain quarters of the United States congress. And i think it is well worth keeping in mind that for many, many, many years, ten, to be precise, there has been a network of strong connections between the Syrian Regime and al qaeda in iraq, connections originally used to facilitate the movement of these characters through syria in to iraq, connections which i strongly suspect still exist. With that i want to thank fred and matt. I want to congratulate that once again, i urge everyone here to buy a copy of the book on the way out and really wish this goes to the top of the New York Times bestseller list of what a week is done. Congratulations. [inaudible conversations] to ten. Yet environment reporter. This week Environmental Leadership Program founder paul sabin and his latest book the bet Paul Ehrlich Julian Simon and our gambol over earths future. He analyzes of the 30yearold wager between an ec