when i came to congress in 2014 in my first turn agriculture term agriculture income was down from the farm bill that was written. that was 2014. in 2016 the secretaries that there where you all are and i asked him, what do we do about commodity prices? his response was, terrible trade policy. we are getting killed on trade because we are a so called developed nation and our competition is called undeveloped. we lose everything with those folks. i said well we need to fix that. since being in congress i have voted for multiple disaster relief from louisiana, texas, north carolina to mention a few. within a week of the disaster. since 2019 we have been sitting here for what almost 6 months and people say why is this place so dysfunctional. we can't do what is right for the american people. particularly for the farmers that are so critical not only is it the largest industry in the state of georgia, is the largest industry in my district. it is sad, truly sad. hopefully we can fix that this week. of course then we have to get it through the senate. then on the labor issue we were 20 vote

sustainable agriculture is possible it's in the ceci. one solution can be found in perennial crops which reduce topsoil use and are kinder to the land basic perennial foodstuffs are part of our future. well this is intermediate wheat grass which produces the grain current and it is a relative of wheat it's kind of a cousin of wheat. and it looks like wheat but it has a very important difference we eat is an annual that you need to replant every year and has relatively shallow roots kerns has very deep roots and is a perennial sort ringrose year after year after year protects the soil. builds soil or gana matter takes up nutrients very efficiently and provides a lot of carbon or soil or solar granik matter for organisms in the soil to eat by moving the ecosystem the agro ecosystem into a perennial state we think we will not only conserve the sall resource but make agriculture a very very sustainable. one condition for sustainable food production is biological diversity right now and in the future could species which ecosystems the life in

father moved from the precarious world of agriculture. now. joining us for more professor him montreux he teaches economics at harvard university professor good to see you know him yes farming crisis has been going on for quite some time now why has it not been addressed well there are a number of reasons for this but let me just say that. it said in the g.d.p. is now when the us less than less than fifteen question is not in the list of the governments are trying to drive growth for that are compared to other countries but also because the need to difficult it seems to agriculture has become a little bit because of the globalization of the economy that instead of production in the agriculture sector it seems it's become much more cash based though so governments over the years have been not investing as much amount of money as is required for an agriculture which is dramatically in the last twenty to thirty years so i think the combination of all these factors and let the situation that you can use to remain well able to external shocks with

and pharmaceutical business is a very different if they had been a soley agricultural chemical business you could have argued for what we could celebration at the time because the industry was consolidating they needed scale if it were just an agricultural chemical you could have argued that at the time but it wasn't it was america and company and it was a distraction at the time and i think with hindsight this is causing a lot of problems for byron it was not the right thing to do they may have been better off spinning it out at the time when consolidation was hot like that it was the best road in 2015 of course now they are faced with the situation they're faced with now and right now there are many many not one also it's in the pipeline how many will such cases and fines can buy a ford. i think these cases will probably be settled at less than the amounts that are headline when they announce them but even so there's many more to come as the lawyers are saying the lawyers of smell blood and this one will run and run i think you look at a company the size of bio which is in the top 100

agricultural economy. topics include access to credit, international trade tariffs, and labor shortages. this house agriculture subcommittee hearing is about two hours. >> we will come to order. good morning. and thank you for joining us. as we look into this critical aspect of our economy. every one of us seated up here has heard from farmers in our districts about the bad farm economy. commodity prices are low. input costs are rising. and financial pressure is mounting on farmers across this country. while we hear so much about the booming state of the overall economy, our rural and farm economy continues to struggle. we cannot have a successful national economy when such a vital component hurts the way our farmers are currently. the numbers paint a rough picture. usda forecasts net marm income levels for 2019 to be only 77% of the annual average for 2000 through 2017. it's down 50% from 2013 alone. inflation adjusted farm debt is the highest it has been since 1980. and the debt to asset ratio for farmer

we have not managed our agricultural systems. we do not have agricultural industry invested in that model but we know farmers are able to develop that model. it is notuptive but necessarily disruptive to rural communities and farmers in the same way that it is disruptive to agriculture in general. that is part of the rub. >> i was intrigued, delegate hodges of what you were talking about. i do think that we know we have to be careful about how we do coastal resiliency strategies. i would note that the virginia institute of science that you were to coupling with virginia tech did a study of a prior version of your bill that found unintended consequences. i would urge you to keep working on it. i am grateful for your statement that you would support greenhouse reduction. you did notd that support efforts to include virginia in reggie. i hope you will find some that you can put forward and support because we have to work on greenhouse gas reduction and not just resiliency. we are going to try to finish before votes. if you all could

the department of agriculture said. while another billion and a half set aside for commodity purchases and marketing efforts and "business insider" said the package mirrored a $12 billion aid package announced last year. it's set to be made official this afternoon by the president. that should get under way shortly here at the white house. we also know the president agreed to the disaster aid package with congress. $19 billion disaster relief. the bill should be passed by the senate in the chamber this afternoon. that's over on c-span2. and the house in tomorrow morning for a pro forma session. so we will likely see it taken up by unanimous consent since most members of the house are out of town or heading out of town for the memorial day break. >> on the far left of the screen there is mike conaway of texas, the ranking republican on the house agriculture committee. sonny perdue, the secretary near the podium there, and a number of american farmers, ranchers, waiting to hear from president trump and his announcement of

agriculture yields and coastal damage. integrating cross the sectors suggests that each one degree celsius of warming is likely to result in damages exceeding 1% of us g gdp. with poorer counties suffering the most. further, in my reercht with professor marshal burke also at stanford, we found that holding global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius could reduce kumtive economic damages in the united states by $6 trillion relative to the 2 degree c target. across the country. we're already experiencing rising economic costs from extreme events. in my home state of california we have personsed a remarkably costly series of extremes over the past seven years. from drought and heat waves to flooding and mudslides to wildfires and smoke plumes. these events have caused billions of dollars in damage killed tens of millions of trees. cost tens of thousands of jobs. left thousands of residents without running water, and claimed hundreds of lives. and many other parts of the country have experienced similar impacts. one reason that the

nearly seventy percent of india still relies on agriculture for a living. experts say there's a lot of political rhetoric around this huge voting block. but little will to tackle the underlying crisis. what india needs to do what political parties need to do is to go into the root of the a gradient crisis on how farmers and farming can become the crucial engine of economic growth in india that's where the solution is for now there's no sign of that at the local wholesale market farmers have come in from surrounding areas to sell the grain and vegetables the government sets fixed prices for certain commodities to incentivise production. but farmers here say they're not getting those prices the overriding view here is that farming simply isn't viable. the prices of fertilizers and seeds has gone up there's no reliable electricity to run water pumps are cops get damaged. politicians praise farmers as food givers but they do nothing for us all the benefits go to the traders. and patel to there's little hope left the kids will change he sees no future in farming

as you said, two main sticking points, agriculture, which injapan has sticking points, agriculture, which in japan has very strong sticking points, agriculture, which injapan has very strong lobby groups over the farmers, and also the auto set. president trump has threatened to raise tariffs, on $50 billion worth of cars and car parts in 2017 -- billion worth of cars and car parts in 2017 —— auto sector. if he goes ahead with it, that will definitely have a huge impact onjapanese companies. all right, sensitive trade talks continuing. thank you for that update from tokyo, the bbc‘s mariko oi. moving on to fear chrysler, and it has pitched a merger of equals with rival renault, that as it faces regulatory changes in creating the world's third biggest carmaker. if the deal goes ahead, the $30 billion plus tie—up would alter the landscape of the industry. i asked the editor of automotive news how it could impact renault‘s relationship with rivals mitsubishi and nissan. it is hard to say how it will impact both of these japanese partners but it really seems to sideline them and put

they called from a wilderness an empire of agriculture and industry. they set for themselves new and higher standards of living. and, yet in one of the great river valleys of america something went wrong. in the tennessee valley, three centuries later the descendants of the pioneers were a neglected people living in a ruined land. for these children the hope and the promise were dead. for them the only future was poverty, ignorance durjry. the struggle to scratch a bear living from the reluctant soil. even the older men had forgotten that the valley had once been brighten with hope, horace huggins was one of many who had given up the fight. what's the use, he said. you fill up the gullies and the first rain washes it away. it is the same with all the land around here. it may have been good land once but it is bad land now. bad land hopeless land henry clark wondered. erosion the scientists called it, the eating away of the soil a destruction that begin innocently when the early settlers cut down the forest, when the farmers, out of ignorance plowed str

>> yeah, we're listening into a conference call earlier today liz when the department of agriculture sort of laid all of this out obviously when you were talking about a massive amount of money which $16 billion is by any stretch of however you want to value something, there are going to be different ways of going about it, different ways to distribute it how you go about that for which products, agriculture laid all that out so the folks within that community know how to go about and get it, it's a lot of details in all of that to sort of just go through it one by one but yes, the department of agriculture has already laid out exactly how to go about distributing the 16 billion and i should note, liz the first batch of it will be coming july-august i believe they said, so let's just put it out this summer and the hope is according to ag officials there's a trade deal with china at some point by late summer so that they don't necessarily need to get into the second and third form of this to get to the full 16 billion but if it doesn't get to that point, usda is ready to sit there and

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harcourt morgan, president of the university of tennessee, who had worked on an agricultural program for the whole valley. an administrator and champion of legislation for cooperative electric power. george noris, a great american statesman who long dreamed of regional planning, of setting up a national experiment in one region which could serve as a yardstick for every region. this was the plan, to chain the river to a series of giant dams, checking floods. to open it to navigation from its mouth to its headwaters. to give the farmers the benefit of modern science and research, to help them control the water on their land and restore the fertility of the soil, to reforest millions of acres on the ravaged hillsides, to exploit the mineral resources of the area, to use the electric power generated by the dams to develop and rehabilitate industry in the cities. to electrify the farms, through rural cooperatives. above all, to prove that human problems can be solved by reason, science and education. the tennessee valley was to be pioneering again, this time to be developed, not plundere

iscourse, this agriculture keen on using technology. how will we use all the martin -- modern things to get productive agriculture, and you need internet. you get the private sector and there are several companies doing that. i was talking about the minister of science, who happens to be an astronaut from nasa, to expand that and relying on the private sector. education two things, and private sector. in education, the main thing is to ensure that you have a good syllabus, and that the syllabus is really implemented. the way to do that is through regular testing, and then remediation. two, connectivity. this is where you get all of the gains where you get some of the digitalization that was mentioned. shery: looking to the future, we will have to leave the conversation here and thank our panelists. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

but in this age of industrialized agriculture. has this work cut out as he tries to explain this concept to farmers. today he's meeting with a new client whose farm covers 1200 hectares. explains why it's important to sow strips of metal and every 200 or 300 metres he points out the government subsidies may be available for the project. i have environmental sort of wish list in my head but i also have a big degree of nervousness with getting involved in anything at this stage. because the invite because the uptake has been good for the current schemes because it breaks it. a number of british farmers are concerned about the u.k. leaving the e.u. another costly thinks this concept might work in this 20 hector wheat field. part of the field is filled with rocks so al brooks decided to just leave it as it was because he sees it as an opportunity to test his concept here. everything behind me you're making money yes you've got to go out there and losing money yes maybe and it will take time it will take work maybe that becomes environ

in the uk, a programme, the jeremy kyle agricultural heartland. in the uk, a programme, thejeremy kyle show has been pulled from itv. just explaining this for international viewers. it is similar to thejerry springer show which many may be familiar with around the world where members of the public come on and they are grilled about the private life. tragically, one of the people who was on the programme one week after he was interviewed and asked to ta ke after he was interviewed and asked to take elijah take the test he took his own life. consequently the programme has been pulled. there is big debate about reality television and whether these programmes really expose vulnerable people to the world of the media and the spotlight of celebrity and theyjust cannot cope with this. the duty of care on the part of broadcasters to look after them. i think there is something interesting here as well which is you have the television channels doing deals with the devil because these programmes make a lot of money. the problem is that there is absolutely a

in my agricultural area of california, we have a severe labor shortage. previously, much of that labor was from illegal, undocumented mexico.ts, workers from what we need here in the case of sanctuary cities and of illegal immigrants and the like, we need a comprehensive immigration reform. in that reform, we need to provide opportunities for california businesses and other employers around the nation to have an adequate workforce. right now it is a fact that some of trump's properties are hiring a legal workers -- illegal workers, men and women who are here without documentation. perhaps notunusual, unusual for trump, but not unusual across the nation, all of which speaks to the reality the 535 of us in congress have not successfully passed a comprehensive immigration reform that would address all these issues. from the asylum-seekers, to those who are here illegally, meet the legitimate employment needs of agriculture and other industries. so we got to get with it. host: before i let you go, the house leadership and the president talked about infrastruc

in agriculture the figure is around $32000.00 tons. in france a number of farmers have already reduced their use of pesticides. all of us here but i'll. take a look at this. you know it's full smear job. so i have to get rid of it my hope it doesn't spread. so that's i think a. flaw then is an agricultural engineer who advises wine growers in the region on how to cut down on the use of pesticides. flown home works for an association that's helping nearly 3000 farmers around the country. help us in our city and i want to check the vines and we've discussed which product to use and how much of it. these are very specific measures tailored to the client to optimize the use of pesticides. pesticides are by definition dangerous for insects. last summer france became the 1st country in europe to ban councils from using 5 pesticides that are considered particularly harmful especially to pieces but these chemicals are widely used in france as wine growing regions. produces white wine grapes in his vineyard which covers 20 hector's he can't swi

slaves for the couple of the agricultural businesses and the system to give off it's not right that goods harvested this way end up on consumers plates will be portable we at this produce every day europe needs to put a better monitoring system in place for agricultural production needs to be monitored and certified give out. this get out as known as a model matter no no. it's right next to an official refugee camp it's a bizarre juxtaposition of worlds and one refugees are waiting to find out if they can stay and then the other others his asylum applications were turned down. the squalor the shocking. oh my gosh. right well there are 3 toilets for everyone it stinks. oh my god. but the man still shaves here even though there's no running water. and. there's nothing to harvest these days. so the migrant workers spend all their time hanging around and i guess are. those who live at the edge of the camp of the lucky ones. the 20 people shared this stone building it's no right left. how does it do you think the east too weak live none at all been lost by instead of a man gone and the e.u. is

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and similarly the emergence of agriculture over the last 10,000 yea rs agriculture over the last 10,000 years did not depend upon brands or an individual leader. it depended on the availability of wild plant and animal species for domestication. but to come back to the question you raised, which is a key one, what impact can lead to have today... in that context, the big picture determinism is valid. in that context, what role is therefore human agency, and in particularfor leadership? for the emergence of agriculture 10,000 years ago, for the settlement of exit and the polarisation in the united states today, a lot. what is lacking in the united states today is a leader who focuses on unifying us rather than dividing us. what seems to be lacking in britain today is a leader who will deal honestly with the issue of britain's identity. if remaining separate from europe is so important that you are willing to make economic sacrifices, fine, but be frank about the economic sacrifices. in the case of the united states, what we need is a leader who, instead of dividing us, talks about the th

along with the agriculture director chris chin. thank you, chris. great job. also with us several of our nation's greatest farmers, including american farm bureau president. thank you. i appreciate it very much. along with members of the farm group representing producers of soybeans, corn, wheat, pork. for years, our politicians allowed other countries to steal our jobs, punish our workers and target american industry and american is just democrats, but in particular the democrats have done absolutely nothing about this. from the year 2001 when china joined the world trade organization which was a disaster, until the year 2016, the united states lost more than 60,000 factories and millions and millions of jobs. china imposed massive barriers to american farm products. you people know that very well, right? very well. engaged in theft of trade secrets from american agri business. we racked up nearly $4 trillion in trade deficits in goods with china during those years and the numbers are absolutely astounding what's been happening over the last ten years in part

herd which has in turn reduce demand globally for animal feed joining us now to discuss all things agriculture and food is fred kaufman all star of that's the farm welcome back fred so 1st of all let's get your take on corn corn futures are up 14 percent for the month of may hitting a 3 year high at midweek the wall street journal today cites figures from the agriculture department showing significant delays in corn planting while extreme weather related to climate change may hurt yields and flooding could taint grain or ease what should our viewers know about the situation and how serious is it. well it's been an extraordinary week in the problem with corn is only about a little more than half of it is in the ground now when in fact usually we're almost at 90 percent so there is just a tremendous amount of uncertainty plus added to the mix a lot of the short sellers are settling their position but the fact of the matter is this is a fairly serious situation and in fact there are about a 1000000 open futures contracts right now to the extent that chicago board has asked that people increase th

i've reached out to the united states department of agriculture and secretary sonny perdue. asanng the secretary what he do to help farmers like myself in a situation. that request has fal deaf years. in the past, those doors have always been open for both republican agriculture secretarieand democrats. this administration from a farmer like myse gets an f. an f right now, because we are hurting, and t playing footsie with china and not helping u.s. farmers here. laura: john boyd, jr., thank yoo much for sharing your story with us. john: thank you for having me. i really appreciate it. laura:ou in other news from the world, the italianavy says it h rescued 36 migrants off the coast of libya, but off the coast of tunisia, a migrant boat capsized killing people. 65 the stricken boat set off om libya. state media said6 people were rescued by fishermen. french regulators who spent six months mon within the company are calling for more intervention. the interim report w released as president macron met the founder mark zuckerber it says self-regulation lacks credibility. zuckerbe

along with missouri agriculture director, chris chen. thank you. also with us, several of our nation's greatest farmers including american farm bureau president zippy duball. he's been so good to me. thank you, zippy. along with members of the farm groups representing producers of corn, soy beans, wheat and portion. for years, our politicians have allows countries to steal our jobs, punish workers and target an american industry and american agriculture. i can't say this is just the democrats, but in particularthi. from the year 2001 when china joined the world trade organization, which was a disaster, until the year 2016, the united states lost more than 60,000 factories and millions and millions of jobs. china imposed massive barriers to american farm products. you people know that well, right? very well. and engaged in theft of trade secrets from american agri business. we racked up nearly $4 trillion in trade deficits in goods be china during those years and the numbers are absolutely astounding what's been happening the last ten years in parti

i've reached out to the agriculture secretary and to the president and asked for a sitdown meeting. and the secretary of agriculture told a reporter that, oh, he meets with black farmers, when he's passing them and meeting them at certain venues. but he needs to meet me in an official capacity. and answer questions about what is this administration going to do to assist farmers like myself, right now, who haven't received payments. and who need government assistance but not getting them like other farmers are. >> yeah. >> these are things i would like to talk to the president and the agriculture secretary about. it's semit msemantics. >> i understand you've met to all the presidents dating back to the carter administration? >> that's right. from the carter administration, both democrat and republican. it's almost common courtesy, when a new agriculture secretary comes in, they meet leaders like myself. at the farm bureau. the president has been at the farm bureau and spoken there. why can't they meet with leaders like myself and find out what needs the african-american farmers have

how mexican tariffs have agriculture. let's start with you >> as opposition grows from the allies in the business community as well as capital hill, we learn more about how that opposition played out here at the white house behind the scenes privately by steven mnuchin and robert lighthizer, both of whom oppose the president's decision to put forward tariffs on mexico in response to an immigration problem. i should note the usdr and treasury say both of these officials support the president's position but told by three sources that opposition was raised behind the scenes so who supported this policy and where did it come from i'm told by multiple sources that the leading advocate for a harder line on mexico was steven miller, the president's senior adviser and immigration hard liner who had his ear during the trip over the weekend to japan and i'm told by one source that the president returned from that trip riled up. a second source described miller as having poured gas on a fire lit by conservative commentators over the

and so we want to do more for american agriculture. that's why i think they were benefitted by the dairy situation in canada. that's our objective and our agreement with japan, we went into a bilateral agreement with japan which will aid our beef producers particularly and lower tariffs for japan and products. >> this is the republican line. gary you're next up. >> caller: i got a question about the stuff from china, they don't go along with the deal, the trade deal, and stuff like that, and of course, most of the junk they make here is made, from china, and i was wondering if their proises go up, like in the store, i was wondering, i'm a veteran, so i was wondered if i would get a bigger cola in my check next year for that. >> well, thanks for your call. yes, i will say that on your question about your cola for your own veteran-related payment, if inflation goes up, which i think is a distinct possibility if we have imbedded long-term impact from tariffs, and i'm sure that would affect in the out-years your cost of living adjustment f

etc and agriculture development and these have direct negative consequences for nature and and so you know this is a quality of life issue and that in this an issue of of of doing and having this quality of life in a in a sustainable way and there haven't really been sufficient checks and balances in the past trying to do this in a responsible way forward i think we have the information now the science is there to guide us moving forward to make the right decisions and to make sure that we minimize the impacts on the environment while we do kind of the necessary extractions to support the economy joan weans i've heard an argument i want to put it to you nature adapts it changes with the environment that it's and and all of this talk of climate change and all of this talk of a million species being extinct surely we're treating nature with kid gloves it's a lot tougher than we give it credit full well it's if you sort of say nature in general is sort of nature will survive but we could still nature could still survive but we could still lose millions uses and seriously damage our quali

huge swaths of agricultural land being purchased by gulf agricultural interests. how does that play out in the future? how do these states see the role on these large agricultural investments in terms of their own security? and also how did it appear to people in the region? i think that there's been some controversy,le are, about the significant of selling agricultural land. so yasmine, alana, ganul, michael? >> the idea it's the bread basket of the gulf goes back to the 1970s. several funds and institutions were developed to channel money and invest in the agriculture for food security, especially for gulf countries. this result in the first arab african summit in 1977. do you know when second summit about this took place? in 2010. to me -- it has been -- ever since. it's remarkable that -- as we take a place between sub-saharan sbavg the gulf countries. it took place in kuwait. it will take place in saudi arabia. it's going to have its own side for the gulf countries. it has its own special inquiry. the idea, again, of this basket or food security of the gulf c

the role of leaders have nothing to do with the origins of agriculture over the last 10,000 years. that had to do instead with the availability of wild wheat and barley within those individual regions. well, this is when you get described as the determinist, the geographical determinist or the environmental determinist — a word which i think you get sometimes extraordinarily irritated by, but nonetheless a word which does capture the degree to which you do say, in the broader sweep of history, you can explain huge things, the nature of development in different continents, by a simple, deterministic relationship with the forms of agriculture, the geographical position of those places. that is determinism, isn't it? and it's completely true. that's determinism where it is valid. there are some things that are determined by geography, and some not. if you would go to the north pole in january and try to stand there in a t—shirt and shorts, you will discover that clothing in the north pole, for the inuits, is geographically determined. and similarly, the emergence of agriculture ov

agricultural exports to china now the trumpet ministrations officials have pretty clear that it's not about soybeans it's not about even the trade deficit anymore they want to dismantle the whole architecture i'll chime in as state capitalism. we know that trump is the best sick person but don't you think that's why even for him well it's very ambitious but i also think it's very appropriate i mean look back in 2001 when china joined the world trade organization it agreed to things it agreed to open its markets trade in tariffs so most favored nation status goes along with. membership and the 2nd thing it agreed to was what's called national treatment that country of companies from foreign countries would be treated exactly the same way as domestic companies in the chinese market now we've got the tariff reductions that went along with the view cio membership but we didn't get the national treatment and we've been waiting for that i mean china had a 5 or 6 year phase in period depending on the industry but that period is long since over by 2007 china was supposed to be extending natio

well as you can imagine the agricultural industry goes beyond just the food that we in the companies that build machinery so that food can be created for us one of those companies is john deere are here in company they have gone beaten down in the past couple of weeks we're going to bring you up a chart just so you can see what that actually looks like and it's quite frightening i mean this company the stock fell more than 20 percent below the 52 week high which there was this april the stock was at over 169 bucks than a dip down to one under 135 a couple of fridays ago now it's recovered slightly hovering around $139.00 now john deere says this is due to the escalating trade war between the u.s. and china if u.s. farm goods are not being bought by china obviously u.s. farmers don't have money to buy the equipment that they need or to upgrade their equipment total trump tweeted a while back and said you know what just buy more american if americans buy americans you don't have to worry about the tariffs well it's hard to buy american when you don't have money in your pocket specially

for the emergence of agriculture, 10,000 years ago, zero. for the settlement of brexit and the polarisation in the united states today, a lot. what is lacking in the united states today is a leader who will focus on unifying us rather than dividing us. what seems to be lacking in britain today is a leader who will deal honestly with the issue of britain's identity. if remaining separate from europe is so important that you're willing to make economic sacrifices, fine, but be frank about the economic sacrifices. in the case of the united states, what we need is a leader who, instead of dividing us, talks about the things that unify americans, and of which americans can be proud. what about inequality in all this? because you talk — we — i led you to talk about the role of the internet and changes in communication over the years, through technology. but what about the corrosive impact of what many studies suggest is widening inequality in developed, industrialised societies? that's true, and it's even something that i discussed in my book.