global climate change what can we do to prepare our communities for disasters ahead i asked dr michael mcdonald in tonight's conversations with great minds. you need to know this the united states government has filed federal espionage charges against edward snowden snowden the former booz allen hamilton employee whose leaks regarding the n.s.a. surveillance program have reignited the debate about the balance between civil liberties and national security is currently in hong kong where he has been staying ever since leaving the united states last month the government's charges which were filed in a sealed complaint in the eastern district of virginia come just a day after the guardian newspaper revealed yet another set of documents showing that the national security agency has the power to store and use the inadvertently access data of americans it picks up during its surveillance activities what happens next is unclear learned over the past few days that a businessman associated with the leaking organization wiki leaks is prepared to fly snowden to iceland on a private jet if and when that isl

people working hard to ensure that our communities are adequately prepared for the dangers ahead dr michael mcdonald chairman of the global reserve resilience initiatives executive director of health initiatives foundation inc ordinator of. global resilience system michael doll welcome to the program. thanks tom great to be with you thanks for joining us so let's start with you what what sparked your interest in this. well about thirty five years ago we started looking at world models there was a group of eminent scientists and corporate executives. u.n. deputy secretary general and so on looking at what was the world's predicament and where was it going and the concern was that in the twenty thirty to twenty fifty time frame there was the chance of some very serious impacts on populations around the world so i was brought in very early and began to look at how do we build infrastructures that would actually allow us to address and solve some of those problems and so let's let's define terms here what is a resilient community and what is the antithesis of the opposite of a resilient community what w

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