>>in the second part of our interview with director of the earth institute - jeffrey sachs we look at the need to decouple economic growth from carbon consumption. >>if we continue to use carbon through fossil fuels and deforestation the way we are right now. we will wreck the climate and we will wreck the oceans. >>reporter: and big brand bikes mean business in india, as demand for luxury two wheelers revs up >>i walked into the mall and they had this showroom, i saw the bikes and i knew had to get one. >>reporter: hello and welcome. i'm raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. three decades of urbanization and economic reforms have lifted hundreds of millions of chinese out of poverty. the big concern now is how to keep feeding them. changing diet, increasing demand and tightening supply threaten the country's food security. it's a delicate balancing act and one that has implications for commodity markets worldwide. >>reporter: dragon spring village, in the hills above chongqing - where li xingming's family has

we talk to director of the earth institute, jeffrey sachs. >>we need a second green revolution; one that is also ecologically green as well as yield green. >>reporter: we look at vietnam's dramatic turnaround to become a vibrant modern economy. >>i think the pace of growth in vietnam is quite good, with almost 7.2 percent of gdp growth for over two decades continuously. >>reporter: hello and welcome. i'm raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. china's central government is desperate to avoid inflation as it seeks to rein-in growth and rebalance the economy. the trouble is, to succeed; it needs the regions on board. and away from the capital, there's still an obsession with huge projects andboosting gdp. >>reporter: pengshui clearly isn't at the forefront of china's economic boom. but like thousands of other backwaters across the country, it has big plans for the next five years as it seeks to boost incomes by at least 14 percent annually. >>the most meaningful economic

eckart sager sat down with the director of the earth institute, jeffrey sachs to find out more. >>in general the staple foods; rice included, but also wheat, maize and other grains have seen a very significant increase of price in recent years. basically this is rise in world demand pushing against limited supplies; and there's more pressure like that to come. the world's getting richer in income levels, especially with asia's growth. the world's becoming more populous; reaching 7 billion in2011 and a little more than a decade later we'll reach 8 billion, according to the un medium forecast now it could be more than 10 billion by the end of this century. all of this means this challengeis becoming more and more serious; while there still is some productivity growth, it's much slower than it was in the past. the big gains of the green revolution have already been achieved, the ecological cost of the first green revolution are becoming greater and greater. for instance the drop in water tables in places like northern china and in india where bore wells were used to irrigate greenr

lester brown is president of the earth policy institute.ngelman is the executive director of the world watch institution. both are environmental think tanks in washington. lester, i took a walk in central park last night. i was so moist when i came back and dropped the clothes in the corner of my hotel room, they were still soaking. does that have something to do with how many people are on the face of the planet? >> the driving force in climate change is carbon emissions. the more people there are, the more fossil fuels for generating electricity, mostly coal for running cars mostly oil. so as population grows, carbon emissions rise and climate changes faster. so the more of us there are, the more climate is going to change. >> bob, it's a frightening thought when one considers that the world population increased from 3 billion in 1969 to 6 billion by 1999, a doubling that occurred over 40 years. world population expected to grow from 6 billion in 1999 to 9 billion by 2044. that's a 50% increase. >> well, we don't really know what will hap

this according to lester brown, president of the earth policy institute and author of "world on the edge prevent environmental and economic collapse." he joins me now from washington. lester, thanks for being here to talk about just a dreadful, dreadful story. before we look at the larger crisis, let me ask you something about africa. aid organizations estimate we've got about 10 million people now at risk, not just in somalia, but kenya, ethiopia, uganda, and other east african countries. how did a catastrophe of this magnitude, seem to slip up on the world. >> well, tom, you referred to somalia as a country. it is a place on the map, but it's not a country in any meaningful sense of the term. there's no effective government to manage the situation, and we have trends beginning to converge now. somalia has one of the fastest population growth rates in the world. the average woman has more than six children. that's the average. and the resource base -- the forest, the grasslands, the soils are deteriorating. soil erosion is a major problem. we just heard about the dust blowing through th

and the director of the earth institute, dr. jeffry sachs. how are you all doing? >> great. >> the mets are hot. >> on fire. >> i'll be there on sunday. >> country is on the verge of economic break, but you need to take a break. take a break and rest. >> and do what? >> watch baseball. >> a fun weekend in baseball. dr. sachs, how are you? >> blasted republicans for not making a deal. now, the republicans are striking back. the push for raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. republicans say this is not an option, slamming the president on capitol hill yesterday. >> what i would like to see them do is agree on the outline of a ten-year plan. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. that was the wrong soundbyte. >> that was bill clinton -- >> tj, did my phone call to you this morning shake you up a bit? >> yeah, i was thrown off. i apologize. >> maybe you should have started your fourth of july weekend yesterday. >> i'm going to leave now. >> all right. we have the soundbyte. >> do this. okay, press the button that says i'm the right button. all right, here it is, go. >> congress isn

we have the director of the earth institute at columbia university, dr. jeffrey sachs and richard haas. is this a cfr meeting? >> on camera. >> awesome. >> michael? >> i vice president paid my dues. >> former governor howard dean. good to have you on board this morning. >> thanks, mika. >> there's so many headlines, news of the world going down and what it means or if it will or if it will be rebranded. one thing we'll be talking about. in yemen, the president was seriously wounded in an explosion. he made an appearance. very awkward looking, very different and what it means. we'll talk about that as well. i want to bring this up because it plays in the budget. sorry, where is my obesity story. >> i had a thing about a 20-pound cat. >> that's stupid. obesity rates rise 90% since 1995. this is incredible. each of these states look at how much is spent on obesity related illnesses. medicare and medicaid spend 20% of their budget to treat illnesses and these numbers are staggering. it plays into the debate we are having in washington. >> this september in ne

for the international space station once it's retired and comes back to earth. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, according to the national institutesth. this s >>> welcome back. a universal flu vaccine could be here within the next five years. that's according to the national institutes of health. this comes as washington debates whether to slash the agency's budget. experts say about 200,000 people are hospitalized with the flu every year and thousands die from the virus each year, as well. >>> this morning a possible solution to that age-old problem of getting your kids to eat their vegetables. researchers at penn state university found kids got more daily greens when parents pureed them and snuck them into the meet. they ate twice as many vegetables and took 20% fewer calories. they say the technique works well on other stubborn children, you know, husbands. >> really? >> i heard you can puree spinach and put it in brownies. >> if you juice things you can't even taste them. >> we'll see. >>> there is a new study that may reassure some parents about their children's use of cell phones. it's good news. researchers in switzerland f

earth. we get an explanation from mike brown, a planetary astronomer at the california institute of technology. so tell us a bit more about a trojan asteroid. in this case it's held in the gravitational pull between the earth and the sun? >> that's right. it's not between the earth and the sun, it's actually in the same orbit as the earth so it goes around the sun in 1 year just like the earth goes around the sun in 1 year. and on average it's about the same distance from the sun as the earth is. so we're really just following it along in its orbit around the sun. >> if it's relatively close, and how close is it exactly, why is it making so long to see? >> it's close and it's so close that on average we overtake its position about every two months. so in two months from now we will be where it is right now. the reason it takes so long to see, the reason it has been so long to find one of these things is because most of the time when we're looking for asteroids or anything else in the solar system, we look out beyond the earth. we look into the night sky. to find these things that are actually

attempting to hijack the sovereignty of individuals institutions and the world at large with more force coercion and manipulation used against the peoples of earth the stronger wiser and more aware the people of earth become and those in power truly wish to stop anonymous all they need to do is step down and let the world be responsible for itself once again and i had a blast on the show friday discussing neuropsychologist james prescott's paper of body pleasure and the origins of violence and hylas just read the entire thing it's only twenty five pages easy to find by google or on the show's facebook page where ninja chick clancy writes it's crossed my mind that there's a link between lack of physical physical pleasure and tendencies towards violent behavior i mean look at congolese or rice and how dark or countenance an energy fields are she seems like something wretched from tales of the crypt when i look at her and an aging darkness i think quote damn she must not have had an orgasm in decades this has nothing to do with race just her dark countenance ok conny dark in wretched sure but crypt keeper. ok i kind of see the resemblance the real

brings in $2.2 trillion every single year, having access to more money than perhaps any other institution on earth ought to be able to operate with a budget. it ought to be able to pass a budget. it ought not be operating on auto pilot so as to insulate itself from critiques justifiable and unjustifiable alike, from those who would say why are you doing it this way? why are you doing it that way? it ought to have the debate and discussion that is necessary, that necessarily surrounds the budgeting process in any legislative body, in any republic around the world. in the process of operating on auto pilot, we're severely exacerbating our deficit problem with our national debt now totaling nearly $15 trillion. what then is the solution? i believe that the solution to our current problem, especially as we approach the debt limit, involves the cut, cap and balance approach, including passage by both houses of congress of the cut, cap, and balance act, one that would require, in addition to our making immediate short-term cuts and adoption statutory spending caps designed to place us on a firm, smooth

was the case, that researchers who had violated earth thinks -- ethics laws were allowed to continue conducting research for a privately-contracted institutionersus on a university campus? >> well, nobody really knows. that's, that's the difficulty. because there's no one keeping up with this information. the reason he was able to do this is simply that nobody was watching. and still nobody is watching. you know, you have state licensing boards, but they're not responsible for clinical research. you have local institutional review boards, these are the ethics committees that are supposed to be overseeing clinical research, but now these are largely private, for-profit boards paid by the sponsors of the research. and if they don't like the answers they get, they can simply go to another one and another one until they get the answer they want. the fda, which is supposed to be nominally interested in protecting summits of research -- subjects of research, only inspects about 1% of trial sites, so 99% of trial sites go uninspected. for that reason, i can't answer that question.

the american people are looking at this institution right now and they're asking, what on earth are you thinking? they're sick of these games and they're sick of us. they want this default crisis reduced, resolved now, they definitely don't want to repeat it six months om now and they understand that a real solution means a real compromise. our constituents have made it clear they want shared sacrifice where millionaires, billionaires and oil companies contribute their fair share. they want their social security and medicare benefits to be protected, but this bill, the republican default agenda, does none of that. in fact, this reckless bill is actually a stealth attack on medicare and social security because it requires large cuts next year that can only cut -- come from those programs. the boehner plan would increase borrowing across local and state government and citizens, producing essentially a back door tax hike on the american people. it does damage to seniors and the we are going to run our country in the ground, failing to respond to the crisis. the american people are demandin

the american people are looking at this institution right now and they're asking, what on earth are you thinking? they're sick of these games and they're sick of us. they want this default crisis reduced, resolved now, they definitely don't want to repeat it six months from now and they understand that a real solution means a real compromise. our constituents have made it clear they want shared sacrifice where millionaires, billionaires and oil companies contribute their fair share. they want their social security and medicare benefits to be protected, but this bill, the republican default agenda, does none of that. in fact, this reckless bill is actually a stealth attack on medicare and social security because it requires large cuts next year that can only cut -- come from those programs. the boehner plan would increase borrowing across local and state government and citizens, producing essentially a back door tax hike on the american people. it does damage to seniors and the we are going to run our country in the ground, failing to respond to the crisis. the american people are demand

the american people are looking at this institution right now and they're asking, what on earth are you thinking? they're sick of these games and they're sick of us. they want this default crisis reduced, resolved now, they definitely don't want to repeat it six months from now and they understand that a real solution means a real compromise. our constituents have made it clear they want shared sacrifice where millionaires, billionaires and oil companies contribute their fair share. they want their social security and medicare benefits to be protected, but this bill, the republican default agenda, does none of that. in fact, this reckless bill is actually a stealth attack on medicare and social security because it requires large cuts next year that can only cut -- come from those programs. the boehner plan would increase borrowing across local and state government and citizens, producing essentially a back door tax hike on the american people. it does damage to seniors and the we are going to run our country in the ground, failing to respond to the crisis. the american people are demand