i think it s completely crazy we re doing substantive work on the 17th of december. i can t imagine we re holding real conferences here right the week before christmas, but we are, but that s because there s so much to talk about, and i m so glad to have you all come. thank you, thank you all for being here. my name is john hamre, i m the president at csis. i wanted to say special thanks to julio friedmann who is a friend. we have known each other for many years. he s fortunately in town serving in government more directly. he s a government guy, he s out at lawrence livermore labs but we re so pleased he can be here leading at a crucial time when we need to be thinking through a lot of important issues. for a very strange reason, recently i have been doing some personal reading on the history of philosophy, and i was recently reading about thomas robert maltous, a british cleric who in the early 18th century who was a very provocative philosopher because he had very dark vi
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President Biden’s climate law is funding “green ammonia” projects in hopes of using the chemical to more cleanly power the grid, fuel cargo ships and make fertilizer