we haven speaking with thomas lewis, author of "brace for impact survived the crash of the industrial age by sustainable living. >>> it gives me great pleasure and i know you all share my pride to welcome here tonight the administrator of the environmental protection agency and champion of our land, lisa jackson. [applause] >> thanks, bob. what an intro. you can introduce me anytime. [laughter] any time. well, i'm not going to take a long time this evening i just want to do a couple things. the first is to think you, bob and frances for the honor of addressing the crowd. some difference, so many people who have been working on these issues for such a long time on clean energy, on climate. but not just on clean energy and climate. the reins of issues which we agree it thankfully sometimes don't agree because we need you to continue to push us and make sure we are thinking of all vehicles and considering all of the health and environmental impact are so broad at this time and so it is lovely to have a few minutes to address you here. i would be remiss if i didn't remind everyone of a co

. >> we're at frostburg state university speaking with thomas a. lewis author of brace for impact.om, to start off with, what do you see as the major threats to our current way of living? >> well, that's the content of most of the book. it's a long list. what i did was organize it into the threats that i see gathered against our systems that sustain us. i look into food, both the food that we grow and the animals that we raise. i look into water, the supply of water and the treatment of wastewater. and energy. oil and electricity. and each of those categories is of a system that has been increasingly industrialized and is increasingly in peril of failing. mortal stress on all of those systems. and usually people don't look at them all at one time. you get people specializing in electricity. well, one of the things about electricity is that it takes three times as much water to get you the electricity to your home that you use than it does the water that you use, you know? so the electricity has an impact on water. so i tried to gather in one place these threats and their dimension.

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