frances moore lappe. [applause] >> thank you so very much. thank you to the odyssey bookstore especially the students i have the pleasure of meeting via skype just a few days ago and fired me up. thank you for being here tonight. i would like to begin my talk with the words from d. hawke the says things are far too bad for pessimism. that is the spirit of "ecomind" that is the spirit i try to maintain when i get up in the morning. i would like to begin the journey that brought me here on this treacherous drive from boston actually began 40 years ago when i sat at the uc-berkeley agricultural library as a 20-something with this intuition that food is so basic. if millions that are eating what is more important to them back? of i could just understand why is there hunger in the world that would unlock the mysteries of politics. and experts were telling us we run out of food and is it true? i sat there literally putting two in two together very soon there is more than enough food for all of us. true than and even today but were southern we're ac

frances moore lappe. [applause] >> thank you very much, odyssey bookstore. thank you especially the students i have had a pleasure of meeting via skype a few days ago. just really fired me up. thank you for being here tonight. i would like to begin my talk tonight with the words of the hawk in his book the seniority cage. it is too late and things are too bad for pessimism. that is the spirit of pico mind and the spirit i try to maintain when i get up in the morning. i would like to begin with the journey that brought me here on this treacherous drive from boston. actually began 40 years ago. it began when i sat down at the berkeley agricultural library at the 20 something. with this intuition that oh, food is so basic. everybody has to eat and if people aren't eating, what is more important than that? if i could just understand why there is hunger in the world that would begin to unlock the mysteries of economics and politics. so the population bomb that exploded that experts were telling us we had run out of food and i wanted to know is that true? so i sat

. >> up next, frances moore lappe rgc pushing me pessimistic about solving problems.this is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> good evening. my name is tim farnum and director of the miller warley center for the environment at loyola coll