the fact of the matter is we are using less fertilizer than we used ten years ago, less fertilizer per unit of corn than we were even five years ago. farmers are becoming far more efficient than ever before. >> those scientists you heard in the report are just wrong? >> i think they're getting one plus one and equalling three. look, we're using more fertilizer on lawns today. mcmansions. there are all associates of reasons why there's -- >> you say lawn fertilizer not the fact that the -- >> my point is there are all kinds of factors. you can't just say that it'sette flol. you can't just you know -- ethanol. you can't point to this cause and say it'sette flol. you can't -- it's ethanol. what are the environmental consequence of fracking? in north dakota? or tar sands from canada or the risk of spills in the gulf of mexico? the real environmental danger of energy production in the gulf is not ethanol production. it's having to deep dig, deep are and deeper in the gulf of mexico. that's the environmental consequence. environmentalists really should be focused on. >> it seems like this wi

nitrate comes from fertilizer, predominantly -- fertilizer and animal waste, including human waste. but there's a lot of agriculture around here, so they fertilize their crops, and it runs off through the surface water into the ground water and then comes out here. you want another one, or is that... the whole area is highly agricultural, so there are cattle feedlots, poultry farms, row crops. the cattle provide animal waste, which are high-nutrient loads, and row crops provide a lot of nitrogen that's not a natural source of nitrogen, through fertilization. moore: human activities basically can degradate the river to the unseen eye, right? to the naked eye, you just look -- it's a pretty river, it flows, it does its thing, but what's going on chemically? and just like if you go out today, you can go out there and see the duckweed and the algae, and these are things that historically have not been there. well, basically, what you have happen is if you get too much of a biomass in there, then you can start destroying the water that way. narrator: increased nutrient levels are a conce

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transforming a barren land into a green and fertile one. the project certainly changed my life, convincing me to become a soil scientist. the lessons i've learned in the last few years have made me realize that many of the human tragedies that we regularly witness around the world, the floods, mudslides, droughts and famines, are not inevitable. here on the loess plateau i've witnessed that people can lift themselves out of poverty. they can radically improve their environment. and by doing so, reduce the threat of climate change. >> [singing] >> when i first came to the loess plateau, i was astounded by the degree of poverty and degradation. and i wondered, "how could the chinese people, the largest ethnic group on the planet, and my fathers, and my own ancestors come from a place that was this barren?" china's loess plateau is a region that stretches for 640,000 square kilometers across north central china. unspoiled valleys in neighboring sichuan show us how it might once have looked. it's the sort of natural abundance that is necessary

at the same time, it was sustain heavy doses of chemical fertilizers. those two things together cause what really were calling the green revolution around the rest of the world. and that's what it was, green revolution. very much was in an evolution agriculture. but we can read the revolution that would have required, which was a very rapid and a vocation of use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. both of those things. i'm also here acacia water. those things came together she really very much in a society impact of agriculture on the environment. one of the results of the green revolution also is economy of scale. so it became much efficient or large-scale. small firms went away. and so, we are typically a farm in the midwest to be a couple hundred acres here among tampa, 500, 600. it's about 3000 acres. generally employs one person. one person is able to take 3000 acres. fewer people live on far. it depopulated the landscape and create a series of very large farms. those are the independent farms. the large corporate farms into hundreds of thousan

this was the peak of fertility in our history. but by 1980, the fertility rate had dropped below 3. before 1979, family planning was not enforced by the government. but the decrease occurred nonetheless." >> renowned demographer liang zhongtang was a strong supporter of china's family planning policy for two decades... until he came to believe it was causing more damage to society than good. >> "it has brought harm to many people. if it is not abandoned it will harm more people in the future. giving birth is a basic right. no one has the right to interfere with it, let alone a country and a government. the government must do everything to protect this basic right. it has no reason to violate this right and force its family planning policy upon its citizens." among critics' main complaints it puts the power of enforcing the policy in the hands of local family planning officials, who often depend on reaching population targets for raises and promotion... a climate they say is ripe for exploitation and abuse... local governments have the authority to slap fines on parents who violate t

its residues, along with fertilizers, leave more than traces of chemicals in the groundwater. this problem isn't new to the countries around lake constance. the authorities there have long been a testing ground for effective solutions. from this mountain in southern germany, the view stretches all the way to austria and switzerland. as water comes from lake constance. maria and her colleagues have brought it up here from 60 meters below. it provides more than 4 million people with drinking water. the water is good quality, not much needs to be done to make it potable. germany, austria, and switzerland have built a series of purification facilities around lake constance. it's a cooperative effort between three nations. >> water doesn't stop at national boundaries. if flows across borders, so it's important to work together internationally where rivers and water basins are concerned. water providers all face the same problems and worries. >> employees of germany's lakes research institute monitor water quality for all three countries. researchers remember all too well how extrem

crop insurance, fertilizer. >> fertilizer, seed and land, >> fertilizer, seed and land, the herbicide that we put on the the herbicide that we put on the crops. crops. the big ones that we have. the big ones that we have. and unfortunately, you know, i and unfortunately, you know, i mean-- mean-- >> go >> go ahead? ahead? >> well, i mean one of the >> well, i mean one of the things things fertilizer has come down fertilizer has come down in cost. in cost. but our seed costs haven't come but our seed costs haven't come down and land hasn't come down. down and land hasn't come down. that's a concern. that's a concern. it takes time. it takes time. we've had good prices like the we've had good prices like the last four or five years, but last four or five years, but prices follow they will up on prices follow they will up on their input costs. their input costs. >> jim, good to talk to you. >> jim, good to talk to you. thank you for being with us to thank you for being with us to give us insight to this. give us insight to this. jim is a corn jim is a corn and soybean farmer and soybean

total fertilizer use is up. we saw night traits going into public water supplies, where there's an expense, an increase for water users, water bills to if it rate out. we talked to scientists, who say it's part. obviously, this is centered on the hartline but has political implications. >> iowa is incredibly important to the electoral process. the obama administration is backing out. >> new analysis by aljazeera america's judith matlaw shows violence in new mexico are hitting neighborhoods once thought the to be saved. >> 13 people were killed leaving a nice club. this is a zone known for serving rich locals and foreign tourists. untile recently, most of the violence has been in the working class parts of the country, last year, the province right outside of the capital had the highest number of homicides. in the last seven years, drug violence that killed about 70,000 people in mexico, and the violence is creeping into the nation's capitol. part of the reason for this is that there's a higher demand for drugs w

and fertility.ndrea roane takes us to the cancer treatment centers of america where doctors say an early discussion with your cancer team is key to maximizing fertility options. >> air force captain, candace adams was 29 when she was diagnosed with one of the more aggressive forms of breast cancer, triple negative. >> finding out i was triple negative was worse than finding out i had breast cancer. >> in fact, 11,000 women under age 30 prime childbearing age are diagnosed every year with breast cancer. candace underwent chemotherapy first, plus surgery and radiation. treatments that can all negatively affect fertility. >> i want to have a family and show other younger women you can still be a mom. >> and she can, says dr. nicole of the cancer treatment centers of america. as important as early detection is to curing cancer, dr. longo says early discussion between the patient and their cancer team is key to fertility preservation. it's the medical provider's job to think ahead. >> it starts with you

crop insurance, fertilizer. >> fertilizer, seed and land, the herbicide that we put on the crops. the big ones that we have. and unfortunately, you know, i mean-- >> go ahead? >> well, i mean one of the things fertilizer has come down in cost. but our seed costs haven't come down and land hasn't come down. that's a concern. it takes time. we've had good prices like the last four or five years, but prices follow they will up on their input costs. >> jim, good to talk to you. thank you for being with us to give us insight to this. jim is a corn and soybean farmer talking to us from manhattan, illinois. >> dan, good to talk you, you just heard me talking to jim, who sort of, i guess every farmer gets it. they know not just the micro trends but the macro-trends. he was able to address this debate of ethanol, growing demand elsewhere and lowering corn prices. what's the situation from your perspective? >> i think jim got it, and he understands that price versus come down $3 a bush as your headlines suggested. the problem we have is it's really three-fold about what is going to be hitti

they produce more done than needed to fertilize fields. they can harness from the local water provider is sounding alarm bells. excess nutrient matter is contaminating groundwater carmen says farmers need to be monitored more closely and he's calling for a moratorium on new biogas students bought enough for you to know him well after many years and with help from farmers we succeeded in reducing nitrate levels in the groundwater. the other rising again. they've gone up significantly in the past four or five years of schools in that violates the european water framework directive and indeed the measurements taken by a healthy wholesome and her colleagues are alarming. it is. nitrate levels that half of the measuring points in lower saxony exceed those recommended by the eu chinese question neighbors the netherlands has similar problems so i'm hoping is working together closely with scotch college. she's even learned. i know all of these info. what a quality protectors on both sides of the border have been cooperating for decades support fro

many say you save money on fertilizer but in fact keeping them away without fertilizer is very difficultnot? >> it is, what we started 17 years ago. we were certified in 2002. david: by whom? >> by ecocert in europe. these are difficult certifications to get. the wine is really made in the way it was made a couple hundred years ago. it really goes back to the original, and you can taste the wine, the product is alive. for instance we recommend opening the bottle 24 hours before you want to drink it and leaving it on the counter because it is a live product. liz: i love how this was described at least one of them said it was smoked beef spite cabinet and hint of bacon fat in a full body gorgeously proportioned syrup. david: bottom line is it is a great drink. great stuff. could some of the largest cable companies be headed toward consolidation? it looks like time warner is the number one takeover target right now. details on what is coming next right after this. liz: what happens when your favorite shoe gets discontinued? it quickly by a couple of hundred pairs. that is what one famous ch

that is believe it or not more and more americans are cashing in on everything from blood to hair to fertile legs we'll give you the numbers on what sells later in the show. it's tuesday november twelfth four pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching our t.v. well edward snowden's bountiful n.s.a. leaks are far from over at least according to glenn greenwald greenwald is the former guardian journalist responsible for breaking the n.s.a. surveillance story and he says there are indeed more damning documents to be released only this time it will be about our neighbor to the north canada recently greenwald spoke to the canadian broadcasting corporation's radio station take a listen to what he said the documents are quite complex there are a lot of the there is an enormous amount of reporting to do in canada one of the most active surveillance agency countries in the world because of how closely they work with the n.s.a. greenwald also took the opportunity to respond to claims that publishing the classified government documents harms people. i think not publishing the leaks

that is believe it or not more and more americans are cashing in on everything from blood to hair to fertile eggs will give you the numbers on what sells later in the show. it's tuesday november twelfth five pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching our t.v. while edward snowden's bountiful n.s.a. leaks are far from over at least according to glenn greenwald greenwald is the former guardian journalist responsible for breaking the n.s.a. surveillance story and he says there are indeed more damning documents to be released only this time it'll be about our neighbor to the north canada recently greenwald spoke to the canadian broadcasting corporation's radio station take a listen to what he said. the documents are quite complex there are a lot of them there is a normal announcer reporting to do in canada one of the most active surveillance agency countries in the world because of how closely they work with the n.s.a. greenwald also took the opportunity to respond to claims that publishing the classified government documents harms people i think not publishing really puts pe

today people want i'll copy of the to a fertility rate of more than one child. like a puppy the fertility rate the average number of children born to one woman in her lifetime. the figures actually at one point five to one point six children the cute teapot conducted to go. the high fertility rate measured which seven point five in early nineteen fifty three. before the faulty traffic measures have been taken to import of poultry which admittedly the more controversial. at the birth rate is still above one that obviously had expected over the years. according to a study by the tiny demography position. mostly when the country one point eight the defenders lower the labor force acting to be too small. the figures that are moving too much pressure on the centralized control of recourse the central government expected to optimize the demographic structure. i would clean up the one tell policy that the labor force that can work up the deck of an aging population. permitting damaged building one child parent to have a second child could put the ring for three in the

in total it's more fertilizer going on to cornfields and the fertilizer runs off into streams used for water supplies, into the rivers where it helps produce the dead zone. yes, per acre, it is more efficient. but bottom line, is we're planting a lot more corn. i mean had this announcement came out today, bob derks 19 of the renewable food association said we have farmers out there in this country that planted 93 million acres of corn in preparation for this fuel source going up not going down. >> sreenivasan: what about some of the environmental groups now today trying to push back and say this is one of the cornerstones to fight climate change? you can't roll back on this. >> i think what the concern is, is corn-based ethanol was always viewed as a bridge. and the administration has long said-- they've been steadfast in their support for this law even though, obviously they, didn't sign it, but they were steadfast it was a bridge to a cleaner, greener fuel which is a celusoic from waste products. i think the concern of the environmental community is not getting rid of corn ethanol, w

there are hundreds of invitro fertilization centers now across the country, and in in vitro fertilization, you'll see that the likelihood of success after a woman goes -- well, a couple go for to try to get pregnant, the likelihood of success with in veto fertilization resulting in a successful pregnancy is about 5% to 75% depending on what institution you go to. and the average is 45%. it's a bell curve. i could give you lots of examples like this across all different walks of medicine, and what you see is the same pattern, a wide difference between the top and the bottom and the shape of the curve where most of us are grouped in the middle. but the one that really fascinated me the most was cystic fibrosis. and that's because cystic fibrosis care works the way we want all of medicine to work. so, you know, for hernia repair, for example, the ones who are grouped toward the top seem to be the ones who have the most experience. but in cystic fibrosis care, this is a condition that children inherit. it's genetic, leads to the clogging up of the lungs, difficulty with digestion of foods, an

you don't pollute the streams from pesticides and fertilizers. so, there is hope. while human activity can influence the expansion of arid lands on a short-term basis, more powerful geological forces are at work to change the shapes of deserts over long periods of time. global climate changes, still poorly understood, have caused the edges of the earth's deserts to shift by hundreds of kilometers over the past few million years. 18,000 years ago, for example, the deserts of africa were much smaller than they are today. but while the size of the world's deserts has fluctuated throughout history, one factor has remained constant-- deserts have always been regarded as hostile, extreme environments. as a result, we have tended to overlook the great beauty, wonder, and potential value of these unique regions. there is more to the desert than geologic processes. deserts have a surreal quality that has captured the human imagination throughout the ages. perhaps this is because deserts are places of extremes, of contrast. this stark, seemingly lifeless expanse of bare rock

the poop-related item was a fertilizer. >> low, i love that.love thisdea of selling dog treats made out of barlee made from a year. i can see a great ad where we show bunch of dogs walng around and having these great snsnacks. melissa: that will be good. what else jumped outs you. >> the whole litter box problem. i love that one. i think you could do great stuff with that. this one you can really hit the3 are strings of americans because we love to see the tvails of farmers be due to a day in the life and show our it is, getting a break of dawn, milking cows, backbreaking work. we have reduced one of the problems. you can come to the farmer, take a ) of h nose becauseewe have odor-free fertilizer. i love that. melissa: that is great. >> when i heard locally later was thinking of businesses in my office that have nothing to do with chickens are eggs or breakfast. exactly. but basically what you're doing here is running a spot for chickens. allhese chickens in this great environment laying in theun. working in the tourism industry, take some of t

the policy comes as china currently maintains a low fertility rate of between one point five to one point six. experts say to ensure courting a good economic and social development. i should keep its total fertility rate at around one point eight china's family planning policy was first introduced in the late nineteen seventies to wane in the surging population however the policy has often been blamed a foot and leaking many social problems tender flavorful and seek ways to buy over three point four million year on year in twenty twelve liking the first apps and antique lace. they allow the country's calling elderly population is forecast to exceed one third of the population in twenty fifty. we'll be in a commune in the us clients whom you can also use direct dvd and cd or dvd release in the future to process each new reversible. harvard the adjustment of one tell policy. tony bates and aging process and ease pressure on the psyche to solve this problem. we need to do to improve the social security system and the old aged care system the adjustment of the one child policy with a couple p

control of the most fertile bottom lands brought great power to the lords. here on the acropolis, that power was expressed in grand temples and palaces, a carefully constructed stage for royal display. in the maya, we see a pattern of cultural evolution found throughout the world. in the old world, all the great civilizations resulted from efficient forms of agriculture and the monopolization of that wealth by a few. as archaeologists delve ever more deeply into our shared human history, they are discovering that complex civilizations independently arose in similar ways throughout the world. the advent of agriculture propelled many new world societies to greater heights of culture. 300 miles to the west of copan, in mexico, the kingdom of the zapotecs emerged at about the same time as the maya. on a towering hilltop, monte alban became the capital of an opulent civilization of kings and nobles, writing and art. this was the home of the zapotecs, a separate ethnic and cultural society, contemporary with but distinct from the maya. monte alban grew to be much

at the same time hit would have sustained heavy doses of chemical fertilizers.wo things together caused really where what we call the green revolution around the rest of the world. it was a green revolution, very much a revolution in agriculture but we can read that revolution by what is required which was a very rapidly intensification of the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. both of those and also irrigation water. these things came together to very much intensify the impact of agriculture on the environment. one of the results of the green revolution also is the economy of scale so it became more efficient to grow on large scale, smart fought dubdadash small farms went away. typically a farm in the midwest would be a couple hundred acres in montana, 500, 600. that is more than double now. a typical farm in montana is 3,000 acres. three thousand acres generally employed one person. one person raise a crop of wheat from it. us income is based on the subsidy system that has been since world war ii. it was designed with the best of intentions by a very

clinics use for in vitro fertilization between two thousand and two thousand ten and a healthy head of hair can demand a thousand dollars or two online as the sale of human locks has become a humble tight end in dollar industry. silly or hair that this is illegal in the united states settling in for good is not according to the us department of health a hundred twenty thousand people in the last meter for kicks let's say i do one a monetary incentive. after all on. my body. my organs. i need to kidneys but feel like doing me no way to get myself through college. for some laws and moral second as the government have any rights to stop me from doing this. no easy answer according to this college ethics professor who says there's a thin line between legality and more. then again he cctv. los angeles. now before we got it up take you t tf tattory that w bsed two explosions apparently arge the abianas in the laneseital beirut have killed eighteen people. security sources say the explosions of them is only six buildings in the embassy cpoun. one source says the boss will call was fine to

probably the most important invention in history was the invention of artificial nitrogen fertilizer. which is put it this way forty percent of us would not be on this planet without it because we now can create much more plant life than nature was able to create. there were only a few plants really that to fix nitrogen in the soil before but now. we can do it almost infinitely except it's made out of fossil fuels takes fossil fuels to make the. for the energy to make it and there's a downside to fertilize eating oil a process emitting carbon dioxide yeah. so. at a certain point we run into these limits and. it proved to me like the mouth is actually wrong possibly they didn't get the timing of it right but now we're in a situation where the world seems to be bursting that it seems toward the end of the book you suggest i think it might have been in the author's epilogue that if the entire world were to go one child policy. within a human lifetime for generations roughly eighty to one hundred years or. that we would have a population of a little over one i think you said one point sev

all of our own animal manures to fertilize the field. >> movable fences for the animals.hat's key, movable fences. we move our fences around a lot just so the animals have fresh pasture regularly and then they leave behind what nurtures the field. >> good rich soil makes good strong plants. good strong plants can fight many, many diseases on their own. there's netting on the bottom because they will burrow out. come on out. we're fairly well self-sufficient feeding ourselves and friends and family. we'd like for it to pay the bills so i can quit my day job and putter here. and we'd like for it to, you know, help feed good food to our community. >> i say to the young people, don't get into this with the idea that you're going to solve all the problems even in your lifetime. the important thing to do is to learn all you can about where you are, and if you're going to work there, it becomes even more important to learn everything you can about that place to make common cause with that place and then resigning yourself, becoming patient enough to work with it over a long time

one hundred dollars for beautiful long hair ponytail you could expect two hundred dollars and for fertile egg that's the big money maker there's a potential to rake in approximately seven thousand dollars clearly this is not chump change i was joined earlier by robin hanson associate professor of economics at george mason mason university to talk about this very nice market and the potential for its growth going forward i first asked robin to take a look at some more numbers that are. very telling of what's going on now visits to blood banker dot com which is a cash for plasma website are up by fifty percent this fall the hair trader dot com has seen about twenty percent more traffic and a shady grove fertility center where women are donating eggs has seen of thirteen percent increase in applicants just since last year i then asked robin why this is such a viable form of income right now. people want and need money people are hurting sometimes and these markets are getting easier it's getting more flexible easier to trade these things and people get value out of the other end of the deal

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here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what is going to emerge. i like this thing where you put your foot on his back. let's keep it. were your mind is is how you build your life. if you put it in steel or in failure, it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that was taken away, artists would still do their art. it is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. how could that be? it is the relationship that you have

and at the same time, it would sustain heavy doses of chemical fertilizers.s occurred in the green revolution around the world. it very much wasn't a revolution in agriculture, but we can read up by what it required, which was a very rapid intensification of the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and irrigation water and those things came together to really intensify agriculture on the environment. one of the results of the green revolution also was the economy of scale and it became much more efficient to grow and small farms went away. typically the farms in the midwest would be a couple hundred acres, 500, 600, the typical wheat farm here is about 3000 acres and that generally employs one person is able to take that and raise a crop of wheat from it. the other thing that happened is fewer people live on the farms and on land and they populated the landscape and created a series of very large farms and those are the farms that are important. these go to hundreds of thousands of acres and profitability of farming is really a very interesting question

. >> reporter: fertility clinics use pgd to select traits for some invitro babies. but intentional manipulation might create ethical nightmares, such as in the sci- fi film gatica. >> a world of haves and have nots. >> reporter: you may know the bay area's 23 and me for its $99 genetics test. what you may not know is they have been awarded a patent to pick the genetic traits of your next child. we investigate how close that science fiction promise is to reality. >> right now, people are using genetics when they think about having a child. >> reporter: emily connolly says for most traits, genetics is more complicated than a single gene. it compares how it results in desired traits. we look closely at the patent. parents who want a baby to live longer pick donor x. the company decided against using it in fertility clinics for now, instead, putting it online for quote fun. >> we created a tool that lets two people look at, if they were to have a child together, what are their odds that a child would have blue eyes vs. brown eyes, or be lactose intolerent. >> law in sev

and having, then, having a fertile mind and imagination, i thought, well, nobody's here, why don't igo down to the west wing. so i went downstairs, and i went to the west wing. i'm resplendent, i'll have you know, in my dress blue uniform, very official. and armed with a, more than a little bit of curiosity and courage, i went down to the west wing and went inside, and, expecting the secret service or the cia or somebody to leap from behind the curtain and grab me, but nobody was there. so i turned down the hall to the oval office. and i could see the door was open, and there was the blue carpet. and this will say something about my upbringing in east texas. then that i could hear my mother's voice say, it wouldn't be right to go into the oval office, wouldn't be right. it would be voyeuristic. anwent about halfway down the hall and i thought i can't do it. i can't do it. my mother would not approve. so i backed out, went back down the hall. i did go into the cabinet room. and once again, there's a door from the cabinet room. you can see the blue carpet in there. there were the big c

and in china, they get to a point where there are a lot of forces that are reducing fertility other than government policy. so this will lead to more children, but many people, you know, especially in the city, just know that the cost of educating your child and such, they don't want to have necessarily everyone having a second child. >> what do we -- first of all, what are labor through reeducation gaps and what does it mean that they are closing? >> the labor through education camps have been around since the late 1950s. and what they basically turned into is an opportunity for local officials to detain and arrest people without children for up to four years. and it's been a mechanism by which not only petty thieves and others can be put away, but also political dissidence and people who complain, petitioners who complain too loudly and cause problems for local officials. so they've had at least, somewhere, maybe 310,000 people reportedly have been in these labor reeducation camps. i mean, sometimes they say as many as 2 million have been detained. >> so a step forward again, this is b

. >> reporter: fertility clinics use pgd to select traits for some invitro babies. but intentional manipulation might create ethical nightmares, such as in the sci- fi film gatica. >> a world of haves and have nots. >> reporter: you may know the bay area's 23 and me for its $99 genetics test. what you may not know is they have been awarded a patent to pick the genetic traits of your next child. we investigate how close that science fiction promise is to reality. >> right now, people are using genetics when they think about having a child. >> reporter: emily connolly says for most traits, genetics is more complicated than a single gene. it compares how it results in desired traits. we look closely at the patent. parents who want a baby to live longer pick donor x. the company decided against using it in fertility clinics for now, instead, putting it online for quote fun. >> we created a tool that lets two people look at, if they were to have a child together, what are their odds that a child would have blue eyes vs. brown eyes, or be lactose intolerent. >> law in sev

that it will be there not more and more americans are cashing in on everything from live daycare to fertile eggs will give you the number somewhat south later. michelle a fan it's due in november to help the key and washington d c time in your and a bit when you're watching our tea while edwards noted down to fall and as the weeks are far from over at least according to glenn greenwald greenwald is a former guardian journalist responsible for breaking the nsa surveillance story and he said there are indeed more uncanny documents to be released only this time it'll be about our neighbor to the north canada. recently greenwald spoke to the canadian broadcasting corporation's radio station cyclists know what is sad he got his bike box there are a lot of them. there is enormous amounts of reporting june in canada one of the most active surveillance agency countries in the world because of how closely they work with the nsa. greenwald also took the opportunity to respond to claims that publishing classified government documents harms people. think not publish a new lease of people in danger beca

women controlled their own fertility and they -- the native women referred to european women as those who die in childbirth. they were appalled at these women who came from the worst stage of patriarchy and couldn't decide when to have children. we're walking around on a history that we don't know. and there are many women trying to bring it back. and there's a friend whose work you should look up as well. who has written a book called everything we want once was here. and that's not only true of native cultures in this country, but also of cultures in southern afterry car, who will take you out into the desert and dig a hole and show you what they use for contraception, for headaches, migraines. it's true of the original cultures of 95% of human history. don't let anyone tell you that it's human nature that we live this way. no, it once was different, and it still could be. native women are very funny about it, you have to have a sense of humor, given what they've gone through. what did columbus call -- primitive, equal women. >> we are almost out of time, we have one more question.

that strikes me is in asia as people get -- as women get more educated and people get rich, the fertility rates really drop off and stop having babies. south korea, japan, singapore, drop-off is dramatic. >> singapore went to overnight switching women to have more children and in china as elizabeth says they reached a point where there are a lot of forces reducing fertility other than government policy. this will lead to more children but many people, you know, especially in cities just know the cost of educating your child as such they don't want to necessarily have a second child. >> china may still face that demographic challenge. what are labor through reeducation camps and what does it mean that they're closing? >> they have been around since the late 1950s. and what they basically turned into is an opportunity for local officials to detain, arrest people without trial for up to four years. and it's been a mechanism by which petty thieves and others can be put away but also political dissidents and people who complain, petitioners where people reportedly have been in labor through re

fertilization. fertilization. are there limits are there limits that the that the religious preferences that an religious preferences that an prosecutor can do? prosecutor can do? >> of course there are limits. >> of course there are limits. this is the law thatber' talking this is the law thatber' talking about, the law the supreme court about, the law the supreme court is going to be examining, it's a is going to be examining, it's a balancing test. balancing test. you have to balance the damage you have to balance the damage to religious to religious freedom against the freedom against the government's interest, what it's government's interest, what it's trying to regulate on the other trying to regulate on the other hand. hand. in this case it's very strong in this case it's very strong because you're talking about because you're talking about very large fines and penalties very large fines and penalties if you do not comply with this if you do not comply with this mandate and the government's m

to the tainted water supply from the extra fertilizer to grow up. say it's a case of a green agenda backfiring? >> yes. if you don't rely on free people making free choices this is what you get. germany elec ris rate is three times our own. this is a political pay off. if you see green, see red, red in anger and red ink. >> we did this segment just for you. j you did this just for me? i'm touched. i am. i am not a fan of ethanol. it's not new how it affects the food prices but there is no up-side to lump it in with renewable fuel. i understand you have problem with government subsidiaries for these things, different conversation. who can be against renewable fuels? it's just a good thing. >> i think mike is one and go ahead. >> for me this is personal. this is a large kickback to farmers, david, which is why steve will never when iowa. >> for me this is more personal. this is terrible for engines. us destroyed the snow blower and the lawn engine. how am i supposed to do my lawn work? >> nothing against the farmers, usually the farmers getting the mo