and to bring the history of the building full circle, bob pollin, irene's son, is here tonight, and we are flighted to welcome -- delighted to welcome another generation of the pollin family. tonight's going to be a lively conversation on one of the most pressing international problems of the day, climate change. it'll be a conversation by two leading global thinkers on the environment and the economy. and this event tonight falls just in time for the u.n. climate change conference happening on november 30th in paris. and, hence, you see c-span is here filming, because it is such an important evening. bob pollin is distinguished professor of economics at the university of massachusetts at amherst, and he is well known as the co-director of the political economy research institute. in "greening the global economy," bob takes on the widely-held belief that protecting the environment and expanding job opportunities are not conflicting goals. and he offers hard numbers and original research from all along the political spectrum to prove it wrong and to offer a bold, new solution. in additi