Hour. Welcome, everyone. Thank you, thank you. Welcome to the American Association for the advancement of science or triplea s as we call it and welcome to our kickoff event for the historic march for science tomorrow. Im the chief operating officer here at trip willing will s. On is the professor of Environmental Science and policy in the department of earth and planetary snszs at harvard university. In 1995, john gave the acceptance speech for the noble peace frooiz prooiz on science and world affairs. And International Organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in various leadership positions. More recently, for the last eight years, john was president baen obamas science adviser and director of the White House Office of science and Technology Policy. Where he was my boss for a while. John is the longest serving president ial science adviser in the history of the position. His portfolio included all science and Technology Issues including economic competitivene
Hour. Welcome, everyone. Thank you, thank you. Welcome to the American Association for the advancement of science or triplea s as we call it and welcome to our kickoff event for the historic march for science tomorrow. Im the chief operating officer here at trip willing will s. On is the professor of Environmental Science and policy in the department of earth and planetary snszs at harvard university. In 1995, john gave the acceptance speech for the noble peace frooiz prooiz on science and world affairs. And International Organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in various leadership positions. More recently, for the last eight years, john was president baen obamas science adviser and director of the White House Office of science and Technology Policy. Where he was my boss for a while. John is the longest serving president ial science adviser in the history of the position. His portfolio included all science and Technology Issues including economic competitivene
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His speech is about half an hour. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, my goodness. Thank you. Thank you all. Please be seated. Lieutenant governor kegel, speaker ralston, speaker pro tem shaffer and speaker pro tem jones, members of this great general assembly, constitutional officers, members of the consulate corps, and my fellow georgians, in 1944, georgias own Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics of a song titled accentuate the positive. The most memorable lines from that song are, youve got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative, dont mess around with mr. In between. Now, that was great advice for our nation as world war ii was drawing to a close. And its great advice for all of us today. For the past six years, ive had the opportunity to report to you on the state of our state. And i do so again today. The first year was 2011, and i was just entering the office of governor. Our state was s
Welcome, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome to the American Association to the advancement of science or sss, as we call it and welcome to the kickoff event for the historic charge for science and were at aaas. Its our distinct pressure to introduce our speaker dr. John holdren hes the professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of government and a professor of Environmental Science and policy in the department of earth and Planetary Sciences at harvard university. In 1995 john gave acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the pugwash conferences on science and world affairs, an International Organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in various leadership positions. More recently for the last eight years, john was president obamas science adviser and director of the office of science and Technology Policy where he was my boss for a while. John is the longest serving president ial science adviser in the history of the position. His