i am suzanne jones and i'm a member of your boulder city council. and, one of the prerogatives of being a local elected official, i get to ask the first question. let me just remind you because we are filming this for c-span, whoever asks a question needs to get to the man with the microphone -- the man with the microphone will get to you when we get to questions. so, i guess, what i mostly wanted to do just to start things off is meryl just flew out provocative ideas. and i wanted to give you guys an opportunity to respond if you would like since we started out with some heavy duty kind of depressing science. and ended on a hopeful we can all solve this together and i want to allow a little inner play here. >> absolutely. and i think that was tremendously encouraging. because i sort of -- i've paid attention to what's been happening. i've been doing this for a while. and the fact this is now emerging with the movement toward sustainability is tremendous. tremendous development. and incredibly encouraging because my personal belief is that people ac

i am suzanne jones and i am a member of your boulder colorado, city council. one of the prerogative of being a local elected official is that i get to ask the first question. let me just remind you whoever asks a question needs to get to the man with the microphone -- the man with a microphone will get to you when we get to the questions. i guess what we want to do as we start things off meryl just throughout some very provocative ideas. i just wanted to give you guys an opportunity to respond, if you would like come since we started off with some heavy-duty depressing science. and ended on a hopeful note that we cannot solve this together. i want to allow little interplay here. >> absolutely. i think that was tremendously encouraging because i have paid attention to what has been happening in the yukon. i have been doing this for a wild. the fact that this is now merging with the movement towards sustainability is a tremendous development and incredibly encouraging. my personal belief is that people actually come despite all the depressing news i just gave yo