-- and i have been in some polluted plays, shanghai takes the cake. it is staggeringly temperature -- turbid with the most emphysema ridden place in the world, raw,en contained discharge of pollutants and they're bringing tragic problems to themselves. i'm not saying that america that has to look at china and gloat. this is one of the expectations out of easy abundance into other times where we are stewards of our own resources. this, ties is an american tradition. one of the chapters in the book, called american plenty, is about water, and water is going to be an absolutely incredibly major problem for the west in particular. lake mead is running at 50% of capacity. i'm not sure what the snow melt shortfall is this year but i think it was projected to be dire. and when we are filming, when i was researching the book, i went to the place become the most improbable place as a model of environmental stewardship, which is las vegas. one of the most impressive people i ever met in public life is a woman named pat who runs the water authority. the lag afte

shanghai, and i have been in some beleaguered places in the world, shanghai really takes the cake. it is staggeringly turbulent with the most emphysema ridden pollution of any place i have been in the world. it is the most raw, uncontained discharge of pollutants. and they are storing up all kinds of incredibly expensive and tragic problems for themselves. i'm not saying that america has to look to china. but this is one of the transitions out of the expectation of the easier abundance into a time where we are stewards of our resources in a more responsible way. this is also an american tradition i have to say. one of the chapters in the book called american plenty is about water. water is really going to be an absolutely incredible major problem for the west in particular, the lake mead is running just about 50% to capacity. i'm not sure what the snowmelt shortfall was this year but i think it was projected to be dire. when we were filming and when i was researching the book i went to a place, not the most improbable place as a mortal of the environmental stewardship which is, las

recently in shanghai, she said, she would continue to speak for human rights in china and around the world. now, let's welcome the hon. speaker, nancy pelosi. [applause] >> thank you. good afternoon. i think it is now afternoon. thank you very much. thank you for bringing us together this morning and this afternoon. words failed to adequately tell you what an honor it is to be on the same stage and in the presence of so many of the heroes of june 4. to have a message at the same time from his holiness, the dalai lama in solidarity for more openness in china and tibet. we stand here in front of the capital of the united states, a beacon of freedom to the world with a great history of free speech and open discussion. on this side of the capital, we stand with people who tk to heart and to mind the words of our founders, that in our declaration of independence and our constitution, our words that talked about every person being equal and endowed by their creator. in doubt by their creator, but not by the state -- and doubt by their creator, not by the state for life, the lip -- life, li

six years ago, i lectured in beijing and shanghai at the invitation of the chinese communist government. and my subject was american conservatism. but as i explained to my host, i could not discuss the american conservative movement without explaining the centrality of anti-communism to its philosophy. and my host said, ok, we understand. and so i talked about the horrific loss of human life and the great leap forward when at least 30 million chinese and probably more died. that was a serious mistake. my host agreed. i then talked about the great cultural revolution when china was plunged into chaos for a decade. yes, my host admitted that was chairman mau's idea, and a bad one. and then i brought up the tiananmen square massacre of june 1989. and my host fell silent. i waited but no confession was forthcoming. there was no admission that one, two, three million chinese had gathered in that great scare to ask for an end of corruption and movement towards freedom and democracy. my host would not admit that a terrible injustice had been done to the chinese people when ping ordered tanks a

they are developed and some of their major cities, but there is still -- in shanghai and beijing, but they are still developing and still quite port in large and -- and quite poor and large farming countrysides. the world cannot contain climate change and cannot avoid dangerous levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere without very significant action by china. we discussed this point as well as the science behind it in great detail again. it was very helpful. among the issues that i stressed were the need for china to develop a long-term low carbon pathway consistent with what the science is telling us. significant actions in the midterm range between now and 2020 will reduce emissions significantly and will keep china on that low carbon half -- that low carbon path. their actions and the underlying numbers will need to be transparent. this is essentially the question of measuring and monitoring emissions. it goes by the rubric in the copenhagen negotiations. we will be having a very extensive continuing dialogue going forward as any number of points along the calendar

the largest ports and the world are now in the people's republic of china and the busiest port, shanghai, is in our area of responsibility. it is a vibrant, dynamic, living, breathing place in which we have the privilege of working and conducting our business. about a year ago we decided to rewrite our strategy. we've been in the pacific command for decades. the guns have largely been silent in our area of responsibility. for that, we're grateful. it is due to the efforts of several in the room including walter slocombe and the general. we wanted to take what got us where we are and try and catapulted five, 10, 20 years in the future. it is a dynamic aor, as we described. the economic engine is turning. their opportunities and challenges of plenty other. everything about the countries in our area of responsibility, if you think about them and realize how much room there is for growth, how much opportunity there is for, in some cases, a adventurism in korea or in some cases, that behavior. in many more cases than not, cooperating in of collaborating to ensure more peace and stability in t

as you know, the train in shanghai runs at 268 miles per hour. the japanese bullet trains are at 170 miles per hour. the french t.v.g. is at 160 miles per hour. we can't be content to just build out an ordinary system. what will high speed rail do for us in addition to moving passengers and helping our climate control? it'll create jobs for our citizens. jobs in building out the system and orders for american factories. let me stress the importance of that. in pennsylvania alone, we have general electric transportation in erie and most of these factories tend to be in hard-hit areas of the country in erie, pennsylvania, they employ over 4 hourks people, -- 4,000 people, they are ready to build the next generation of high speed locomotives. in harrisburg, the biggest steel company in the world has a plant that build railroad tracks with 400 workers. with just this $13 billion investment, they intend to increase, maybe double or trip they will size of their workforce in doing such. t.g.v., the french rail system, is run by a c

there are regional initiatives that the initiative that is called the shanghai initiative in asia. at the meeting in new york there was discussion from the -- those in latin america creating a regional reserve system in latin america. so the reality is it's coming. and the question is how we go about managing it. and i hope, i hope that the united states takes some leadership and says, you know, we have allowed globalization to proceed. it's benefitted us, but it's also had some costs, particularly to developing countries, innocent victims of this crisis. let's try to address the problems of the global reserve system and let's try to create something that is of benefit to us all. >> joseph stiglitz, former global world chief bank economist and "toxic message" column in the july issue of "vanity fair" and a hyper link through our website, c-span.org is our website and you'll find that article hyper linked there. ben on our line for democrats, go ahead, please. caller: good morning. thank you for your time. and being on the program. mr. stiglitz, i have couple things. one, whatever h

largest ports in the world are now in the people's republic of china and the world's busiest port in shanghai. it's a dynamic breathing place in which we have the privilege of working and conducting our business. about a year ago, we decided to rewrite our strategy. we'd been in the pacific, the pacific command, for decades. the guns have largely been silent in our area of responsibility. for that we are grateful and it is no accident and it is due to several in the room including walt slocombe and general brent scowcroft. but we wanted to take what got us where we are and try and catapult it 5, 10, 20 years in the future. it's a dynamic aor as we described, the economic engine is churning. there are opportunities and challenges aplenty out there. if you think about the countries in our air responsibility -- and we'll walk around here in just a minute, but if you think about them and realize how much room there is for growth, how much opportunity there is for in some cases adventurism or korea in some cases bad behavior but in many more cases than not, cooperating and collaborating to ensure

the maglev train in shanghai runs at 268 m.p.h. the japanese bullet trains are 170 m.p.h.. we can't be content to build an ordinary system. what will high speed rail do to move passengers and help our climate control, it will create jobs, building out the system and orders for american factories. let me stress the importance of that. in pennsylvania alone we have general electric transportation, most of these factories are in haunted areas of the country, in the erie, pa. 4,000 people are ready to build the next generation of high-speed locomotives. a little town across from harrisburg, the biggest steel corp. in the world has a plant that builds railroad tracks, it has 400 workers. with $13 billion investment, they intend to increase, double or triple the size of their work force. tgv, the french rail system, is run by a company called national rail company sncf. they employ a thousand people in good paying jobs. just imagine the number of jobs, permanent jobs in this system, as well as all of the construction jobs and orders for the factories in building the system itself

some of you may know that china has opened up a high-speed train linking lhasa and to get to shanghai and other cities ahead of schedule three years ago and most tibetans ino were up in arms say and this is the last nail in the coffin of the country. this is a way for beijing to flood with chinese and essentially make obscene minority in our own country and many people of china said no,@@p see how moment by moment basis his largest living his principles but i think speaking for certain large principals the peace trying to share and i remember a couple of years ago i was with him in japan and we were climbing a steep slope where there was a small tibetan temple and as we were walking up suddenly a young woman stepped forward and said dalai lama i need to talk to you, and of course the bodyguards sprinted away and we continued decline and the dalai lama went to sit in the temple quietly for about ten minutes and as we were sitting there we could hear her shouting and shrieking out side. in the minute he said with outside the temple to descend the mountain he called the security to him a

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