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Could actually do -- for every dollar spent, that could bring in 30 and $40 worth of good. it would preserve biodiversity and help global warming. >> we have 30 seconds, ray, but i want you to -- if i had the ear of congress for 30 seconds and there was one take away from the oxfam report, what would you want the u.s. congress to do about this international issue? >> i think the u.s. has a particular responsibility to think about the fact that we are, as you said earlier, a major emitter of this. we have a moral and political responsibility to think about this and what it means for our nationa...

Productivity, i think one of the things i'd say is we need to be thinking about increasing our ability to grow crops on marginal lands. i think what will change in the future is where we can grow food and under what circumstances. >> thank you, ray. up next, a rarity for nerdland. a report on the royal family. prince william and kate middleton and what it tells us about global responsibility. first, as we go to break, some more music from aiden, our foot soldier of the week. ♪ ♪ aflac. ♪ aflac, aflac, aflac! ♪ [ both sigh ] ♪ ugh! ♪ you told me he was good, dude.

Imperial nations relative to the nations that they helped to economically under develop initially in the 20th century and 19th, is there a responsibility of what we used to call the first world to the developing world as we start to try to plan and mitigate for climate change? >> absolutely. i mean, it's not only about that, it really is a global issue. there's a reason we were calling it global warming even though people kind of bristle to that term these days. climate change affects us all around the world. whatever we do here will affect them. there is a responsibility to take some action. ...

A holiday in maldives. they left baby george at home. white sands, waving palm trees, crystal clear waters, only for the people who actually live in maldives, all of that water isn't a paradise, it's an impending problem. as the lowest country in the world, the maldives is a test case for the energy crisis. it's having rising sea levels and temperatures. their predicament shows how this global crisis has the most severe outcomes. i'm sure i'm hating on the fact that the middletons get to get away and go do something fun, but it does feel maybe like there is a global responsibility of what i wi...

Responsibility, period. even if we want to be completely u.s. centric, what we do here is affecting us all so we need to take action here. that's why president obama's climate plan is so critical. we need to act on carbon and that sets us on that right path. >> david, let's go all the way back to the start of the show because you've been here since we started. if this is the discourse, if what disaster and climate change do is to reveal to us the pre-existing inequalities as we saw in sandy, as we saw in katrina, then i really am not very confident we're going to make policy around it. we spen...