the man i want to listen to that's why it's an item pleased to have here in the studio with me dr lester brown welcome. approach my pleasure it's actually not dr ok lester brown cause me and i got honorary degrees together once an ohio state really and he of course being an actor wouldn't have a ph d. and i have a head research institute for thirty five years would have in reality bill cosby does have a p.h.d. in education university of massachusetts i don't have a state for the record right but it's clear we have what your books i will say in fact it was a book or article you wrote we will feed china when i was writing my starvation some like that it was an article that became a book that broke so deeply influenced my thinking and in the writing that is that you have influenced so many people in so many ways over so many years. and we have a feeling quotable civilization. would indicate how do you know if you're failing we've not had that experience before i mean the samarian side of the mayan side it made you know all along the way but not now recent centers so now we're a global civilizatio

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