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Alerted the officials almost a year ago of the danger. we have the latest from cnns matt rivers. we have learned that the acceleration of the urbanization made it impossible to keep up with the trash it was developing. do you think we will find out anything about it? >> reporter: that is a very good question. in china, that is a question that we really cant answer. the things we find out are really because the chinese government wants them to be found out. that said, that report about the compan...

You see in in uzbekistan. it hasnt reached the proportion of open conflict, but its certainly a threat. and if this resource now becomes more and more scarce, we will be faced with a choice of either cooperating or fighting about it. the fighting about it is definitely a lose/lose proposition. >> and the two big forces that seem to be at work here are the increasing demand, as people are moving out of poverty in large parts of the world, they want and need more water. the second is global warmin...

In quite some time. theres anecdotal statements from the 1800s that there were 40-foot waves. but its not something that we would have predicted. the problem comes with how we are dealing with the likelihood that some of these large storms might become more frequent in the future. and what we can do to mitigate so we dont see this extreme flooding, we get people out of harms way faster. >> what can be done to mitigate this? especially as there was some evidence potentially of -- in the 1800s whe...

So its not just rebooting the economy and urbanization model. they already have 650 million people in the cities. the next 300 million in the coming 25 years will be a huge economic event, need to clean up the environment, modernize institutions of government change the relationships between the central government and municipal governments, modernize the military modernize the legal system. all this through a a party rife with corruption. >> hank paulson, the book is "dealing with china", thank ...

Seed of a weed that grows here in the desert. this is obviously happening here in the middle of the desert. what you are trying to prove is much bigger. >> globalization is the key to the future. we have to understand how to build cities that are low cost. thats why it is such an important contribution to globalization and urbanization. >> something. back here at home the u.s. mens nationals team is in the world cup knockout round. bosses, listen up. here is a management tip from cnn money. do...

M.i.t. to develop new renewable energy sources like making jet fuel from the seed of a weed that gross grows here in the desert. this is obviously happening here in the middle of the desert. what youre trying to prove is much bigger. >> absolutely. globalization is the key issue for the future. not only because cities are going to attack global warming, we have to understand how to build cities that are low carbon. and thats why this city is such an important contribution to globalization and ur...

Groups and something that was an important part of kind of overcoming the white efforts to keep groups divided. >> thats exactly true. there was a great migration to cities in the 40s and 50s in south africa. it was the thing that radicalized and revolutionized nelson mandela. one of the kind of parts of the evil genius of apartheid was a system which was basically trying to move africans out of the cities and back into these remote rule areas where the government was trying to re-create these a...

Bachman was bragging, that perhaps it was inappropriate, the fact remains that these reserves are set aside for hunting. theyre professional hunters that often accompany hunters from the united states. big game hunter whos pay a lot of money to these reserves. sometimes these reserves even have lions for hunting. to theres those kind of examples. there there is this sort of balance. are they threatened, are they endangered in theyre not under their endangered spies list in terms of being critica...

Im interested about what is happening in colorado this week. colorado is a perfect example of what triggers this reaction, a renaks red state america. colorado, democrats finally got control of the governorship they got control of the legislature and started passing progressive agenda items. one of them in particular gun control. you saw the reaction of the rural counties in northern colorado, we dont want to be part of this anymore. >> i dont think north colorado, it is not going to happen, wou...

Nullification and destructive tactics is growing stronger at a time when so many of the trend lines in american life are moving sharply against the south. the increasing urbanization of america and ourty klining rural population. and the browning of america, which is moving us unquestionably toward a minority/majority nation and the declining place of religion in american life. all of those are challenges to the souths power and is way of life. all of them disadvantage the south, which used to b...