of course. >> .rachel carson, stewart udall the important interior secretary. >> and you'll do seven books in total then? >> .yeah i'm going all the way through up 'til.i don't know the exact cut-off point now but the one after that is a texas book 'cause it's gonna be about lyndon and lady bird and beautification, conservation. >> really? >> yeah. that will be after the. >> oh wow. >> .silent. >> and you intended this back when you did the tr book that it would be a part of this? >> i did. the danger you have.this book flies on its own. my publisher, harper collins, gets nervous about multiple volumes 'cause sometimes people will say, "oh my gosh i didn't get one. why would i buy two." >> well this is not exactly like lord of the rings. i mean. [laughter] >> yeah i know. it is.it's not linked that way but they worry about things like that; it's a tough book. >> yeah. >> .marketplace. but i've put a lot of narrative research and writing. >> yeah. >> i lived in homer, alaska with my wife and kids. we went up there. >> but you were not the one who lived next door to sarah palin a

one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he wrote the end of nature in my opinion the heir to rachel carlson carson's silent spring and since then gone on to write more than a dozen notable books about the environment and our human impact on he's the co-founder and chairman of the board of the grassroots organization climate change organization three fifty dot org which is coordinated fifteen thousand rallies in one hundred eighty nine countries since two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten the boston globe called in the nation's leading environmentalist and time magazine described him as the world's best green journalist and recently he was elected a fellow of the american academy of arts and science his latest book. earth the double a making a life on a tough new planet as a guide to living are fundamentally altered. bill welcome good to be with you as always thank you great to have you with us first off you're in d.c. this week for a very special event or we've been no perhaps special hardware to so many of these we've we've been coordinating this week and next the largest civil disobedienc