e a green new deal as many may know what we are currently pushing for although I am not sworn in yet is a select committee to be established to create and really research and develop a green new deal by 2020 so that as we are doing the critical organizing of winning back the presidency the senate and maintaining a house majority in 2020 if we can accomplish that then if our select committee gets established and we get the job done we can have legislation ready to go on day one to save our planet and that is the political strategy that we are going in with but when it comes to the actual content of what a green new deal is all about what we need to do is get to 100% renewable and clean energy within 10 years the IPCC report says we have until 2030 for it to be done not for it to be legislated not for it to be drafted we have until 2030 to get the whole job done and so many people would think of a deadline like that as just a reason for despair a reason to throw up our hands and to say well it is not possible we are all going to die which is pretty much how a lot of people have felt in this presidential administration and what we are here to say is no we refuse to accept that as an inevitability we refuse to accept the current political reality which we know is not working for us and we know is not serving the majority of Americans and we know that we can get the job done ourselves and so a lot of this is comprehensive policy and there are really big bold ambitious ideas that are being discussed and I think that is the part of getting getting this job done we are talking about the potential of implementing a federal jobs guarantee so that we can put all people to work at a living wage and have their health care covered in the pursuit of switching to 100% renewable energy there are ideas being discussed on how we can get pay equity with child care covered with environmental cleanup with expanded industry for labor there are so many ideas at the table and we really need to convene these ideas to distill them and figure out what is workable in order to get our goals just yesterday I was able to meet with Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and he established the first select committee on climate 10 years ago when the house was lost when we lost the house in 2010 one of the first things that John Boehner did was eliminate the select committee and so but before all of that happened Senator Markey who was then in the house established the first select committee on climate and what they did was that they built a trove of knowledge they built a lot of work and a lot of the work has already been done in terms of the nuts and bolts so we're not starting from scratch what we're doing is that we're picking up on a lot of the work that's been accomplished and we're really taking it to a next level making it much more aggressive but one of the things that Senator Markey told me yesterday was if we set the ambitious goalpost it will be met if we set it if it's realistic and when I say realistic I don't mean cynical watered down compromise I mean if it is possible within the scope of reality in terms of our capacity our ability to innovate our technology which is always so much bigger than we think it is if we push ourselves and if we push ourselves to really set goals that have not been set before it will be met and so we saw that when you know over 10 years ago we passed the first fuel economy bill since the 1970s for almost 30 or 40 years we set we set gas efficiency standards for cars to be 23, 27 miles an hour and the 20 something miles an hour per I'm sorry miles per gallon 20 odd something miles miles per gallon range and it stayed that way for 30 or 40 years there was little to no innovation done and you know 10 or 15 years ago when we decided to push that and we said you know what we need to increase these efficiency standards and we set the goalpost to be as ambitious as we could at the time what happened industry innovated and the goal was met and we right now have no choice we have no choice if we're going to survive if our children are going to survive we have to get this done it's simply the mandate of this moment and I believe and it's always been my belief that when this country when us as a nation have faced dire dire threats we faced them many times before we have always found the ability to really rise to that challenge we have innovated we have come together and we have really surpassed all political challenges in order to ensure our survival and also our thriving in the face of that challenge so we're really excited you know this is going to be intersectional legislation this is legislation that seeks to yes get us to 100% renewable energy yes protect our shores from rising sea levels but also to use that economic activity as an engine to introduce social and racial justice in the United States because it is so often and too often that the frontline communities that experience the the worst impact of what is going on tend to be black brown indigenous or poor and so it is unsurprising that some of the worst disasters with the most unjust recoveries have been in places have been in the aftermath of storms like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans or Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico or with the water in Flint or you know or throughout this country and what we need to do is realize that when we legislate with the most vulnerable in mind that is our best way at guaranteeing comprehensive policy this is not about catering to a small sliver of the population this is about addressing the needs of all of us and leaving no person in this nation behind thank you very much thank you very much for that introduction thoughts or questions or comments from the floor you stunned everyone into silence except for Jeff was never at a loss for words and the microphone is coming to him we're thrilled where you are although we'd be more thrilled if you were here today but you are with us and thank you for the message and thank you for the boldness of course and the instruction to the group we are going to be a a national think tank of solutions and that's the purpose of this group which will be put in motion for many years can you give us a sense of what you hope would be a timeline to interact with the nation's universities when the select committee gets established how we might think about our own timeline so that we can calibrate on our end here I appreciate that question really the answer is as soon as humanly possible and one of the things that I think is funny when people say oh it's totally impossible for us to get 100% renewables in 10 years first of all I people said it was impossible for us to go to the moon within the span of one decade and we did it so I'm always skeptical of people telling me that certain things are impossible in the words of Mandela it is always impossible until it is done and the best thing we can try to do is to try to achieve the impossible and the worst thing that can happen is that we still get it done faster than what the reasonable expert said it will take so my answer would be to start coalition building as soon as possible my view on this is select committee or no select committee we will be introducing Green New Deal legislation in 2 years whether it is through an informal coalition of progressive members of congress or whether it is through the actual coalition of a committee this is going to get introduced no matter what and we need to start building those coalitions as quickly as possible and you know so I can say a year we should be seriously start drafting I can say by September but really the answer is if we try to start on day one that is the pace that the planet is really asking for us to do very clear and by the way one of the things when we discussed energy transition this morning we heard from a number of wonderful campuses about the dozens or hundreds of engineers that are on tap actually to do a lot of the heavy lifting of the analytics and the modeling we look down to New York City modeling in great detail you will find it fascinating every building in your district our colleague VJ Modi has the energy use building by building for every building in NY 14 and every other district absolutely so we are going to get this done but I think the urgency and the timeliness for the group is very very clear so we have another question President Cabrera and while the microphone moves I will jump in from the stage to the next question because your point about the goal in politics I am Daniel squadron I was a state senator in NY for nine years from the other two greatest counties lower Manhattan and Brooklyn which were the two greatest in those days and now run an organization focused on state legislatures called Future Now your point about politics the goal being more possible than people realize is so well taken it's impossible it's just every single step along the way that is and so if you could speak just a little bit because I think sometimes in this group there's so many great ideas that are so obvious the moment we're faced with them so compelling when we hear you talk about them but still so difficult how could it be that a select committee is even a challenge I mean you just made the case so brilliantly why would anyone I think we had a democratic majority in the house now why is that a challenge well you know it's uh you'd be surprised you'd be surprised that Congress is a profoundly human place as much as as much as media and talk about policy tries to make it seem as this very objective place where everyone checks their egos at the door very diplomatically and we always do the rational and correct thing it's you know we are in America and our democracy is a an experiment in flawed human beings engaging in self-governance and so I think that there are a lot of legitimate concerns in that there are a lot of people who have done a very comprehensive work already and they don't want to see that work thrown away so I think that there are very legit there's a lot there was a lot of legitimate resistance from there I think we've assuaged a lot of those concerns but there's also concerns over jurisdiction and people saying listen I've worked 20 years to chair a committee and now you're going to try to establish another committee that is going to take this slice of jurisdiction away you know I've dedicated my entire career to get seniority which is an issue that Democrats have by the way Republican the Republican party has term limits for committee chairs so their committee chairs rotate very frequently and they don't have to wait 30 years to chair or their entire career to chair a committee but this is a this is part of the Democratic Party rules and so you have people that feel like they put their entire lives into something and they don't want to feel like that work was done and that we're not and that we're starting from scratch and so one of the things that we're really working on and assuaging is that this is not about starting from scratch this is not about throwing everything away but this is about raising the bar and and I will say that I think we are winning I think we are gaining momentum just just about an hour ago or 45 minutes ago Nidia Velazquez came out in favor of the select committee on a Green New Deal she is the first incoming House committee chair to endorse the select committee which is a big big deal so we are now at almost 20 Democrats who have come out in favor of it and it just really speaks to the profound impact of inside out of an inside outside organizing strategy you know it's there's so many folks that come in and certainly after I won my primary there was this pressure of saying come on kid like come in you'll build your relationships you'll take 30 years and then you can be in a position where you can be very effective and we said no to that too because we don't have the time we just don't have the time and so we tried instead of working on building our relationships with instead of working on building our relationships inside the chamber we worked on building our relationships with national coalition organizers and to say hey listen I don't need to go golfing 30 times to get to curry favor with someone we just need to ask their constituents to ask them to hop onto this bill and they will and and that is the beauty of democracy and I think that that again is why it's so important for us to link everything together between the academics and the experts who know the goalposts and know how to get there to the frontline communities that will be able to pressure their elected officials to get it done and to say hey this is something we care about here in our homes it is possible is it wildly ambitious yeah but also you know I defeated a 4 million dollar 20 year incumbent and everyone told me it was impossible too but we can get it done we just need to commit to our community thank you and one last note one last note is that there's always this one of the big pieces of criticism that we always get and certainly that I always get because whatever with the media obsession and the right wing and whatever is that there is this idea that members of congress have to be everything in one person it goes to this like kind of weird false savior idea that we have about elected officials but we're not saviors we're public servants and I remember I remember when I was taking an economics an economics and public policy class when I was an undergrad and so often in these classes you really see this difference between what is optimal and what the actual law is and it's like oh geez like why is this profoundly inefficient rule the rule or why is this very suboptimal thing the actual law of the land instead of the optimal thing and I remember my professor said at that time he said listen as an economist as an academic as an expert my job is to tell politicians what is best it's not my job it's their job to get it done and I think it's important to acknowledge that because my job isn't to have all the answers on my own my job is to listen my job is to listen to you to get the plan about what needs to get done and it's your job it's part of your job along with organizers along with activists and advocates it's your job to figure out what the optimal plan is and my job to take that plan and get it done and I think that we've proven so far that we're pretty good or at least we have a knack for getting some things done but we there's no way that we're going to do it alone it's going to take all of us and I just thank everyone again in the room for being part of that army because that's what it's going to take when we have a global threat we have to answer it with the global ambition so thank you very much for that you do have a lot of folks here eager to be part of the network feeding ideas into the mix we have a question in the back do you have time for one more question we're going to ask each speaker as we go through the rest of the program to introduce themselves very briefly thank you I'm the president of George Mason University just across the river from your new home Bienvenida Washington I look forward to seeing you in our school just a quick question and I love the energy you're bringing to our neighborhood I hope you don't lose it one question any chance this may be a little naive that we can get at least some marginal bipartisan support of any Green New Deal legislation I actually think we can I do think that we can because what this is is the jobs bill this is a jobs and infrastructure bill and the way that we need to message this is the urgency of the bill is coming from the global climate crisis but a lot of the value and the importance of this bill comes from really what Senator Markey calls is a demand for a blue collar revolution what we are asking for is to put hundreds of thousands of roofers of electricians of steel workers to work this is a new deal this is a 21st century new deal and what we need to do is when we message that which has been the historic weakness usually in legislation like this but we are starting to make a lot of headway when we message this as a jobs bill this is a jobs bill first this is a community assessment bill first it is enormously popular and one of the things we are talking about is that frankly the president has no political ideology he has a media objective and personal objectives but he doesn't have a concerted political ideology just bill mckibbin was telling me five years ago he was signing a letter in support of climate change policy and so real climate change policy really when you have a party that is so governed by the whims of whatever the day is if we can control the day then we can control the win and I think that if we if we build the political reality and to really put it on republicans our first goal is we need to get it to pass the house we have democratic control of the house so now that we have democratic control of the house if we can get it to pass that chamber it is actually a lot easier than if we got control of the senate and didn't get control of the house because now that we got control of the senate we have a finite amount of senators that we are going to say that we can go to that are republican or more conservative democrats we can go and say are you going to vote against the jobs bill are you going to vote against the jobs bill are you going to vote against infrastructure and that suddenly changes the political calculus for them that is a lot harder for them to do than to say are you going to vote against climate change it is no are you going to vote against jobs and for those folks once we get legislation passed the house I actually think that there is a decent chance that we can build the political will and political pressure if we message if we are consistent about what this legislation really is Representative elect thank you very much for your support for the sustainability agenda congratulations again on your recent election and we thank you especially for your time this afternoon alright picking up where we left off Daniel could you tell us a little bit more it is an appropriate and painful segue for me but appropriate the same way we started talking about academia and facts and knowledge and global we just heard from just about the most galvanizing and inspiring person elected to congress in a long time with a real vision for this and now we will go from there to the exciting glamorous world of state legislatures but again it's painful you wouldn't want to do it in a class you teach but it is correct because a lot of what congress member elect was talking about there a lot of the SDG agenda and an agenda for sustainability and reasonable development over the next decade is going to be driven must be driven and can only be driven at the state level so you know we are trained and she said it so well we are trained to see individual elected officials as saviors they aren't when they are viewed too much as saviors you see the kind of cult of personality that has some very dangerous undertones in the white house and we are trained to see the federal government as more powerful than any other layer of government well for better or worse that is not really how the framers would have it and even today the state governments have this enormous ability to drive forward policies the policies that you see throughout the sustainable development goals and in fact I would argue there has not been a major federal policy since the 1970s that didn't start at the state level now remember those federal policies or the corporatization of politics and government are the reduction of meaningful or intelligent regulatory regimes but whether left right or center state governments or where federal policies start and whether or not they get taken up by the federal government they have an enormous impact when you look at the size of california's economy or you add up california and new york and florida say or illinois you are talking about major nation size economies and when you talk about structural powers they have clean new deal could be largely not fuel efficiency standards unfortunately but in many other ways largely driven at the state level certainly our education system is overwhelmingly driven and defined at the state level from early childhood through higher ed when you talk about some sort of other basic environmental health and health care issues you know obama care was romney care famously before it was obama care and before that actually i'm glad we have representative gabbard joining us it was actually hawaii care going back to the late 70s where they had largely figured out the challenge state governments are an enormously powerful and completely ignored node of influence not actually completely ignored that wasn't true and i need to be careful what i say in this room they are focused on quite a bit by narrow special interests narrow special interests that have a specific financial reason to focus on state legislatures when you go up to albany which i did and 148 or so miles from here it gets cold the architecture is strange but it's not empty the halls are full but they're not full of the people that congressmember elect ocasio-cortez was talking about the activists and the organizers and the academics they are full of the lobbyists for the narrowest special interests with the most to gain in a narrow financial sense we have left these nodes of influence and power to them and we have gotten the government that results from that not just at the state level but at the federal level today's dominant strain of politics was created as sort of a radical radical move in the 60's started in the halls of academia but it was pretty far out there it became mainstreamed in the 70's through a group called the american legislative exchange council and a number of other strategies focused on the state level well before ronald reagan brought it to the oval office if we want to achieve these goals we have to do at the state level so then the final challenge is how do you take the un sustainable development goals or that way of thinking how do you take really deep thoughtful work that's nuanced and sophisticated and apply it to state government well it's not as impossible as you might think we've actually tried to translate the sustainable development goals into something called america's goals and the reason to do that let's be honest there are some branding challenges when you're talking about local politics with some of these ideas but as we just heard and this is true and we've done the research to show it there is not a substantive challenge when you are talking about the electorate overwhelming majorities of the electorate true majorities of both parties and independence support this agenda the america's goals agenda which is sort of the specific wording that we've focused on but is really a reflection and translation of the sustainable development agenda it is extraordinary because you wouldn't know what you're hearing about politics power brokers the narrow special interests that fund politics are not who I'm talking about but if you want to go directly to the electorate there's no better place than state legislative districts where you can knock on nearly every door in order to win races or not knock on them to lose and it is the place that I believe this can take hold and it will be blocking and tackling clearing the field use whatever mixed metaphor you'd like for exactly the kind of federal green new deal we just heard about so Daniel I would just echo what you said about the opportunity at the state level I've just come from spending three years running Connecticut's department of energy and environmental protection and one of the things we got done was to launch the first in the nation green bank to radically ramp up the deployment of clean energy renewable power, energy efficiency in a range of other supporting technologies and infrastructure investments so I think you can see examples across the country where that kind of activity is paying off by the way six states have now followed Connecticut in developing green banks including the state of New York and about a dozen countries have so it's not only that we can influence the sort of development of policy across the nation we can actually shape it across the world. Can I ask was there big enthusiasm around national media attention covers of magazines that sort of thing? One has to be prepared to receive a reward for this kind of work at a different time and a different place but I think there are many in this room many of us who've chosen life in a university who don't expect adulation of the crowd and are eager and willing to do it just for the sheer sense of achievement that we put down a marker and signal the right way to go and you know we're lucky we're lucky in the world that there are people willing without that kind of personal credit to do the hard work so I thank you again all of you who are part of that think tank in support of sustainability that Jeff has described as network as being. Let's see if there's another thought comment question for Daniel as you might be able to tell I'm filibustering in support of Representative Gabbard getting here right here. Can you talk a little bit about this divide that we see in the urban and rural areas of our states and in the importance that we have on the rural parts of our states but recognizing the work that we have to do in the cities. Sure and North Carolina is a great example of it in fact just a election there that again reflected this divide almost like two states had elections in North Carolina and one side happened to be bigger than the other but you know the city's point is actually a really important one it's a little like the federal government point and you know and I would not sit up here and tell you the federal government's not important most because I want to have credibility with all of you not necessarily because I don't believe that that's somewhat true if not true certainly true relative to the kind of the conventional wisdom the level of focus resource and attention the reason the federal government gets so much focus and attention is its power is obvious I would actually argue that when you look at its obvious power a lot of that comes out of the Department of Defense that actually our vision of its power is social security and Medicare and the Department of Defense one of which are new policy issues and but nonetheless and with cities I think it's because the potential for visible action is just so clear you know you frequently you have governments that are more responsive partially because of a political, urban, rural and suburban increasingly divide partially because that's the work of cities cities are exciting places because they are delivering the services directly to the ones who are getting the solar panels installed and approving the certificates of occupancy for those new energy efficient buildings under building codes but let's remember cities are creations of states they are I mean literally as we know in New York City as I knew during my 25 minute delayed subway ride up here the services cities provide are a lot of them actually provided by states and even when they're not they are provided under rules regulations and corporations that are creations of the state so you know I think that the temptation to work with cities is important I know a lot of great work happens with cities and you know in my time in office actually because of where we were politically I found a lot more success myself even as a state official working with the city and pushing them you know partner two or three times a week about resiliency in my district and therefore around the city around New York City but we need to be able to have state governments that are taking this on partially because the city's strategy to the point you were really making I think leaves out rural communities when you leave out rural communities it's very hard to achieve these goals and certainly whatever goals you achieve you do in a hyperpolarized sort of broken or breaking democratic environment the first reason the second reason is states are where the power is and everything you want to do in that city you can do in the state everything you want to do in the state you can't do in the city and so I think it's really important despite the political challenges that come with it and just the unpleasantness of dealing with state government and state officials present company accepted it's really worth that work but it does require a reorientation alright further comments yes in the back thank you hi I'm Asma Latif I'm with Bread for the World anti-hunger organization based in DC it was really exciting to hear Alexandria talk about the 2030 deadline she was doing that in the context of the IPC report but as you fit engaging folks around that 2030 timeline what has been the reaction to that I mean does it seem does it how do people respond to that what do you associate it with is it the UN goals or is it goal setting in general and how how do people respond to that and then in a related question we've been you know engaging our domestic anti-hunger partners on the SDGs and it's really hard to translate the SDGs in two organizations that have not been familiar with the global context and not familiar with the MDGs and with limited bandwidth they're struggling with how do you adapt this framework and what is the value add of this framework to the work that they do so any insights you have on those questions so I was hopeful because Jeff was out of the room when you first asked I wanted to tell you a secret so he's not listening which is good so and this is around the 2030 questions important one in politics the idea of 2030 the idea of a decade from now is not what I would call a sword it's not what you lead your political attack with but I would say it's a shield because you know what the SDGs SDGs are and America's goals is sort of a simplified or distilled version of it are a bunch of targets that to the presentation we just heard earlier seem unrealistic the biggest issue you know I said they're very popular across political spectrums that's true I didn't say they were very credible across political spectrums in fact as you do public opinion surveys and you go from left to center to right from far left to left to center to far right in fact you see an essentially continuous line of decreasing belief they should happen by which I mean on the far left people say yes not only are these the right goals the only reason they haven't happened to date is political corruption and on the far right aside who has a different view of society and life and death but sort of the right or the moderate right the mainstream right yes these are the right goals this would be a better society but it's pie in the sky it's simply not realistic that credibility issue is the biggest one 2030 is an important shield on the credibility question here's a vision here's a set of goals that would be a better society 70 or upwards of 75 percent of people agree two-thirds of them say but it's not realistic and then you say by 2030 it is and they say aha if you lead with 2030 it feels irrelevant to people's lives right in politics really at the end people are pretty smart about their short-term self-interest in politics in my view and they're pretty good at sniffing out exactly what they're being sold and I would say that's even reflected in the 2016 election and you need to you want to offer them something that will impact their lives in the short term and is also credible 2030 does that second thing is the idea of the UN development goals international norms flies sort of like a lead balloon and but the idea of goals, outcomes and accountability, measurability is really appealing now measurability rubric with 17 metrics each on a 16-point scale is not appealing to people that's just sort of offensive and alienating but specific clear accountability and measurability that people can own themselves is a lot of the appeal of this and I think actually a lot of the genius of going back to the MDGs this whole concept that we'll talk about all moving in the same direction not about a litmus test to get to that direction and to your final question I think that translating them is critical in the American political context I think there are a lot of programs that have been seen to be elite or liberal or even democratic party affiliated all of these do not capture majority of the imagination of this country they certainly don't expand beyond the urban and suburban places that we're now doing okay into other more rural parts of the country so I think that's something that's sort of new and pure and not driven by an interest group so in the state context I talked about the special interests that has a bunch of elites and academics and behind it as opposed to the the same old interest groups even the ones we agree with the ones that we call partners when they're on our side and interest groups when they're on the other I think does have real appeal for folks and that's one of the pure things here this didn't come out of one of the folks who does have a financial interest in state government it came out of this sort of outside behind the curtain very deep analytic framework and I think that's actually helpful not harmful so Daniel thank you very much I think in the spirit of trying to keep the program on time and to ensure a full bit of time to discuss the future of our network which Jeff is going to lead us through will bring this part of the program to a close please join me in thanking Daniel and the representative elect as well I really thank you for having me I will never follow congressmember Acasio Cortes again so forgive me for doing it congressman congresswoman gabbard is on her way so it's just her meetings finishing and then making it uptown so she'll be joining us sometime in the next 20 minutes or so and in the meantime let's get started on brainstorming wrap up by 4 o'clock as promised what do you think what are we going to do let me put a few things quickly on the agenda and then open it up and roving mics for brainstorming first contact information we want to facilitate the networking we want you to bring in others who you think should be part of this other schools or other colleagues of yours or other departments that are really important somehow a quick note of some key places in the university key interests or capacities in your university that you want to really highlight we're really working on x this is something very exciting happening here we would love more networking on so and so we're ready to host a group to talk about this particular issue and so forth so I don't exactly know how to collect that information our team will be collecting that information with you and we will facilitate all of the intergroup contact so that we're not meant to be a filter or a valve or a blockade of the interconnections I want to repeat the idea of your schools taking on the challenge of organizing your states somehow for greater engagement and use the umbrella of SDSN to carry that that comes with certain help I hope and certain usefulness for the other schools that you reach out to by the way technically all your schools need to be members of SDSN so there is a membership process it's not an arduous one there is no financial commitment or anything that is a burden from a university senate or president or any other point of view but it's a registration process so that you're formally membership and just make sure that you get that part done and again Caroline and her team will be facilitating that couple of things that I would like to suggest one is that we have at least another we'll have many meetings but at least another New York based meeting in September for those of you who can make it the September 23 to 28 I think is the general assembly opening week there will be the SDG summit on September 23 24 but that's an inside the house operation of the UN so that's not an open thing for us but there's lots of interesting events going on around that because there will be about 160 or 170 heads of state coming specifically for that as well as for a climate summit that the secretary general has called so you'll find it interesting and we have normally as I said a two day conference international conference on sustainable development which is Thursday, Friday I believe somebody on our team who knows Thursday, Friday which is 26 27 anybody know get out your calendar I think it's the 26 27th of September I would recommend that we have an SDSN USA meeting around that time and then some side sessions you'll go to other things like the heads of state coming to say interesting things when they come up from the UN that day but we'll have our group meet one of those two days and we'll reserve this room or another room like it so we have an SDSN USA meeting but I would like other universities to be hosts of meetings either on specific topics of this group during the year or the following year and right now we're basically kind of on our own financial bottoms on this which is that SDSN will provide thanks to Jen Gross whom you met and other very generous supporters of this effort we do have our secretariat our team and operations but generally for meetings we're asking for hosts that can hold the local accommodations and so on on a local budget of some kind and that people travel on their own expense almost always in these matters so it costs something but it's not crushingly heavy and I hope people can make an offer to host such events and we will act as at least a clearing house to help facilitate that we want to add in more members because we absolutely were at 39 states represented among our founding group and I would like to get to 50 states for obvious reason and I think there are a number that said we want to join but the notice was too short and there won't be a problem in doing that but we will aim to do that and we'd welcome your suggestions and ideas and colleagues and why didn't you include so and so forth which would be enormously helpful in terms of what we should do as a group well first one more thing what we should do individually or in small groups think about the cases you heard about the city engagement or the state level engagement I will be happy to do what I can to help you in that and by the way when you want to have an event in your state capital to say our state really needs to get on top of that one of the things our network can do is help to provide some interesting guests or speakers or other suggestions that would be helpful for you and that absolutely is a core part of this you want to launch in your state and SDGs in your state process and it would be helpful to have people coming from around the country to say this is a wonderful thing and why it's important and some good examples that's what the network can do I guarantee it really interesting guests, speakers opportunities that's the fun part that Alejandro was talking about let's have fun with this and consider ourselves supporting and really pick this up and when you go to your mayor and if the mayor says I don't really know about this but what do you think we can get New York City, Los Angeles and others to directly call and say this is a good thing this has been really helpful for us and that's another piece of the connection also for you almost any place in the world where you would like links and where you're working and that to my mind is the greatest thing because everyone wants to make the connections and for our students we saw the wonderful internship programs that Glenn showed us phenomenal we have 900 members all over the world you want to do something name a country, we have a member there almost we're aiming for all 193 U.N. member states we're not quite there yet but that is also what we're aiming for but for most countries I'd say probably covering 95% of the world's population we're there and so that is another kind of service for us to routinely we would like to have a field program in such and such country do you have a good contact for us to why not because we probably do and I know most of the counterparts would be delighted to have that kind of contact I'd like us to do at least two things together I'd like to say again, I don't know how we're going to do it but I want you to volunteer and I want you to volunteer particular subjects that you're interested in because what we'll do is put on an eight week or ten week course where we're five minutes or ten minutes in front of the camera or organizing an hour session on a particular theme let's get that organized and play for it and so on that's not too expensive and we will get that solved I promise as a kind of core function but I love the idea of a course that all our students can take that is not about the SDGs that they can find but of course about the United States and the Sustainable Development Goals and other regions of the country and differences across regions and particular challenges in the arts of the country that we don't have but come on let's do that and then show our congressmen and senators and others as a teaching tool I think that that would be a nice thing to do second I would like a group of us and I hope that means all of us but it might mean some of us to work on essentially the Green New Deal or essentially the energy transition and to take up this challenge as a group because I do regard that as probably the issue that has the highest significance with the highest technical content with the most that still needs to be put on the table for ideas and realism and getting the job done and my suggestion is we are in December December 3 4 December 4 and I think we should say that we will have a report not the definitive everything but we will have a report by June on this issue so that we're not completely out of sync with the political cycle but I think what we heard is that if we have something by June we will be ready for some congressional hearings in the fall and probably the real work of details will be in 2020 in advance of the election cycle and so June will not be a final report but it will be a statement about the core principles and the regional aspects of the energy transformation and the accelerance of the energy transformation and that would be a great thing to do as a group so I'm going to ask you you have to volunteer for that to want to do that and to want to pull in other colleagues on that as well and we'll again be kind of mass communicating back and forth but I would like to put together a group so that we can say to Alexandria and to other congressmen and senators to Senator Markey a good friend we're working on this universities across the country and it is also the case you know it very very well and I want to emphasize something this is not a partisan effort obviously we're coming from all different political places locations, geographies alumni, boards students, everything there's no attempt to force anybody into anything uncomfortable that is for sure nobody speaks for anybody else in this also this is a voluntary organization so do not worry about getting waylaid or pulled into something uncomfortable you will not I promise but I do want to say I believe one of the greatest strengths of this effort could be that as universities we are not partisan and we speak to our local representatives and the representatives are going to be from both parties but wherever they are politically they are proud of your universities they have to be your core constituents for them but they are proud of their universities their children are going to your universities and they're wanting to build your universities so when you give them a message they will be responsive across the board and we have by the way a great excuse for me to shut up now because we have a fantastic representative congresswoman Tulsi Gavard here with us and I could not be more thrilled Tulsi thank you for joining us we just had Alexandria on the line talking a bit about the Green New Deal and you are awaited with phenomenal excitement and I again I want to say on behalf of all of us we're grateful for your leadership because it's very special in congress and we're very very happy that you're here Aloha you're right Jeff we are very proud of our universities and I know we have someone here from the University of Hawaii there she is welcome Aloha I hope your jacket is warm enough these are the things we have to weigh because we're not used to them I'm just so grateful to be here this kind of came about by happenstance I was just passing through New York yesterday I was supposed to be on a train a few hours ago but I saw Jeff last night and he mentioned what you all were doing and gathering here today and I was really thrilled to be able to come and just join the conversation I hear the day has been inspiring to be able to gather the best minds from across the country who are looking at our future the future of our country the future for our people and how we can make sure that it is one that is not only livable but that prospers there's nothing more fundamental to us as people than having clean air to breathe and clean water to drink and a safe place to live these are values and principles that bind us all together that transcend a lot of the differences in the divisiveness that we deal with in Washington and that often get in the way of making real progress on legislation and on these issues even though really at their core they're fundamental to our very existence and so as we look forward I see great opportunity there are great obstacles no doubt but there is great opportunity if we can focus on that existential need that we all have and that we all share in making it so that these priorities are at the forefront and look at the crises that we are facing today on many levels and how we must change we can ask ourselves those tough questions about how is the way that we live our lives impacting our today and our future how is the food that we are eating and where is it coming from and how is that impacting our today and our future the ways that we are working the ways that we are living in our society what this will require the kind of transformational change that we know that we need will require having very clear achievable objectives having a clear vision for where we want to go where we need to go as a country and having a real strategy to affect that change that both addresses are short term needs as well as what we know are the long term needs how to achieve that long term vision and then to make that investment of the necessary resources to execute this strategy and this is where having all of you come here today and what seems to be a bit of a historic gathering is so critical because this will require harnessing all of the resources that we have in this country harnessing the technology that we have in this country and keeping that focus and that discipline on where we need to go and how we need to get there I think one of the biggest frustrations in Washington these days is we are so reactive there's something new popping up every single day and you turn left and you turn right and you're reacting and you're reacting and meanwhile time passes by and we find ourselves much farther back much farther behind where we need to be and in a much deeper hole we are not making progress we're regressing coming from Hawaii for so many reasons I'm so grateful but one of them is that we have the opportunity to learn from the great lessons that have been shared with us by those who have come before us our indigenous leaders in Hawaii we would call them our kupuna those who in their lives lived in a very sustainable way thinking not just about how to feed their families and their children but how to live in a way that would sustain for generations they provide the model for us as we look at all the tools that we have available to us to develop sustainably but making sure that it's built on that foundation that they have laid down for us and in Hawaii this is called ahupua'a this is something that we've grown up in Hawaii and understanding that protecting our environment is not a conceptual thing it's not a political issue it's a way of life in Hawaii the ahupua'a consisted basically of a slice of land starting at the very top of the mountains and going all the way out to the shore and often following the boundary of a stream drainage these ahupua'a varied in size depending on the different parts of the island or the economic means of those places but really what it was is a belief that the land the ocean, the clouds and the rain that came were all interconnected and all provided the resources that people needed to live and survive and thrive the responsibility that we have to take care of these resources to utilize them not just for the sake of consumption but to utilize them based on the needs of our people and the needs of our society is the framework with which we need to see how we can rebuild our own future in Hawaii we have a number of initiatives that we've been working on most recently the Hawaii 2050 sustainability plan that seeks to do just that build off of the model that was set forth by those who came before us but use the tools available to us to make sure that our home is liveable and thriving and sustainable for generations to come we have our work cut out for us in Washington a lot more progress needs to be made and part of the problem the obstacle that we often face there is people on quote-unquote different sides of issues are not even willing to have the conversation again this is where as Jeff was talking about as I walked in where each of you have such a powerful role to play because you're not coming in the door with a partisan label that often says well you're not on my team so I can't talk to you or we have nothing that we share you already have that open line of communication that relationship that brings with it a lot of power and opportunity and influence to break things down into the basic needs in our communities that we share whether it is from Hawaii or from New York or from Missouri or Kansas or Alabama or any state in this country and that is a powerful opportunity that you can leverage for good to me these conversations have to start on what we in Hawaii call aloha which is respect love and care that we share and I want to close on a quote from Queen Lili Okolani about what aloha really is because to me this is at the heart of what we are all trying to do it is at the heart of this higher level of consciousness with which we are approaching how we need to live our lives and how we make sure that our future exists for the next generation Queen Lili Okolani said and wherever the native Hawaiian went he said aloha in meeting or in parting aloha was a recognition of life in another if there was life there was mana goodness and wisdom and if there was goodness and wisdom there was a God quality one had to recognize the God of life in another saying aloha but this was easy life is everywhere in the trees in the flowers the ocean the fish, the birds, the peely grass the rainbow, the rock all in all the world was life was God was aloha aloha in its gayatee joy happiness abundance because of aloha one gave because of aloha one had mana aloha had its own mana it never left the giver but flowed freely and continuously between giver and receiver aloha could not be thoughtlessly or indiscriminately spoken for it carried its own power no Hawaiian could greet another with aloha unless he felt it within his own heart if he felt anger or hate in his heart he had to cleanse himself before he said aloha during these times where we are seemingly surrounded by hatred and anger and disrespect and bigotry where there is such a lack of recognition of that which binds us all together Queen's words are a perfect reminder of our interconnectedness of that which we share which provides us with that pathway forward on how we can overcome these obstacles and bring that light of love of aloha to the forefront of our work thank you for your service and your leadership in building that path for everyone Mahalo an idea that came to mind in listening to the congresswoman is one thing we might think about in addition to getting together maybe choosing one day where all of our universities and colleges are having an SDG open house across the country and what we're doing is inviting the communities in the political leaders in the mayors the congresspeople in and that it is a kind of national discussion of these issues because this is something else that as a network we could do and that brought that to mind so if I could put that on our agenda for brainstorming as well I would like to suggest that so we have 17 minutes for clarifications and ideas discussion and the floor is open again please whoever has the mic let's hurry and I promise I'm not going to say very much or I'm going to try not to so thanks everyone for inspiring day I'm Jonathan London from UC Davis one of the things that seemed really important about the SDG process in other countries is this really rich collaboration between civil society and the academy and I think we've had some of that represented here I'd love to see for future steps even more of that to really think about that's business community which we have a little bit but NGOs, INGOs also a lot of emphasis in SDGs about youth leadership and really thinking about intergenerational connections that can be really powerful that sort of elder youth alliance and then I think just continued focus with Casio Cortes statement about movement legislation to think about how are universities connected to social movements and needing to still keep our objective rigor on the one hand but also this kind of open university community partnership I think would be a powerful direction thanks a lot hands up great Jeff, thanks again for the leadership and getting us organized just as Romander Andrew Cabera, George Mason University would love to host this group I think the Washington region for all the reasons that now are obvious would be a good place to meet so our house is your house the question about the global dimension you briefly mentioned it earlier just as you know we're working the context of APLEU the association of public and land grant universities we've created a network which is actually in the nascent stages but it's growing we have about 80 universities from all over the world dedicated to global engagement in the spot of that we see aligning our research and service missions with the sustainable development goals although our commitments go even beyond that into really favoring the exchange of people and ideas and students and so on by the way all the universities here are welcome to join the movement it's globally engaged universities there's a website the process of signing is also very very simple but the question and I look forward to exploring this also offline with Maria and Caroline and you but you thought that you may have about what is the global dimension of this and I realize how important it is the local connectedness of the goals but some of us are also very interested in helping students understand the connectivity of the goals on a global level thank you. Thanks a lot and very very briefly could we could we plan on an event either in the spring or fall where we meet at George Mason and then plan actually to fan out to Congress for example for discussions or use the base as the opportunity to have a meeting and an engagement with the Washington politicians I think that'd be fantastic so we'll follow up on that and then this is a global network so we'll connect our network is 900 members now probably significant overlap as we were discussing we'll figure that out but we'll figure out how to put these efforts to merge them or not merge them but connect them closely so that your effort is I hope given a boost by this and also more connections but we'll make that alignment work please yep and then we'll go around. Hi there Ben Packard with Earth Lab at the University of Washington and I'd just like to put a plug we heard about the importance of governors, mayors and CEOs and the global compact seems to be continuing to grow momentum in the corporate community and all of us to make this local need the relevance of the corporate community in our respective geographies so I'd love to hear in future meetings more about how we can work together and in sync with the global compact. Wonderful and just a very quick mention of that I mentioned this morning Jackie Corbelli she'll be working with the global compact and making that connection Lisa Kingo who directs the global compact close colleague of mine at the UN will make sure that that connection works and actually also helps to support business communities throughout the country and so it's a very good idea and we'll follow up on that. Hi I just I love all the work here and all the connections we've been making in addition to the policy work and the research I'd also like to encourage us to think about actual actions so projects we can do between universities and cities that are actually going to sort of further either what we're doing build the next generation of leaders are actually that prove out our methodologies. Do you have some suggestions you want to make right now? Cross-clinic ones like homelessness would be a particular interest but also Mayor Garcetti co-chairs the group of 420 climate mayors so if we wanted to try something very specific with all of the energy around climate I think that would be great. Great thank you very much. Helen Pickett Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences this has been a very inspiring day and in the spirit of let no gold be left behind and being I think the sole person attending who works on the ocean I will volunteer my services over the coming year to help fill the gap in the US report. Wonderful. On oceans I also. Helen is one of the world leaders in marine ecology and in complex marine food chains and why unidimensional models of fisheries don't work and she gave me a great education in this many years ago and this is a perfect time to integrate this into the planning and thinking of this network. Thanks Jeff I also thought that maybe for the meeting in September SUNY Global has a great facility much closer to the UN and we could look into using that as a base for our conference it's on 55th in Lexington and I would love to work with those of you in New York on a New York based plan. Thanks. Thank you Wonderful. So I just wanted to reiterate the fact that all of this is going to need some funding so one of the things that I want to introduce yourself to everybody Yes, so I'm Maria from the US National Science Foundation but more importantly I'm actually from the Belmont Forum and that is a group of 29 other NSF like organizations that have come together to support inter and trans disciplinary research solutions oriented research we've had lots of different calls for proposals right now we have one that's open on ocean sustainability so have a look at that food security and safety is coming up so for the food security group but we are also looking at putting together a call for proposals in the next let's say 15 months or so that will focus on pathways and earth system targets for the SDGs so I wholeheartedly expect that this group will coordinate with their researchers in your universities to get them to work with their international counterparts to have fantastic approaches for this so I just want to say that there are groups out there that have heard this we're not, you know, we don't have the billion dollars yet but we are able to put things together and I do want to encourage you to not underestimate the convening power but the voice that you have to bring to your national funders okay, don't underestimate that that's a great idea thank you over on the other side of the room thank you Paul and then we'll go to the then we'll go over here thanks Jeff and also thanks to Maria and Caroline and Giovanni and your whole team for a very exciting day of conversation I'm particularly excited about the third element that you had mentioned in your opening remarks about the USSR having the convening power to support a political process in transition to sustainability I think that's where the biggest value add can be done and after hearing Ocasio-Cortez and Tulsi Gabbard I'm more convinced that this is the moment if we just create a network that is doing things in the sustainability field without a distinctive character we're probably going to not get noticed there are already at least a dozen that are floating around in my head people mentioned Ashi and Global Compact and you know the dozen so how do we distinguish this network in terms of its implementation power I think we need a focus and I think the focus could be we take Daniel Squadron his idea seriously then trying to do something at the state level or maybe have a few foci state could be one cities could be another maybe there are a dozen teams for dozen teams but I would be very interested because my university having 23 campuses across Pennsylvania is a natural place to implement SDGs in our campuses we are committed to it we are doing it we are bringing together a number of other local networks but we need support you mentioned the SDS and USA being able to draw new types of talents well I would like to see a structure that allows us to focus on these few themes and we would be happy to contribute to the state level implementation of SDGs excellent thank you very much this perfect ideas oh yes please Paul Perrin with the University of Notre Dame one of the activities that we've done with our students is as we present each of the SDGs is they start to articulate and identify not only the synergies between them but also the potential conflicts between them and I wonder if there isn't an opportunity for us I think that we ignore the tensions and the conflicts and the synergies between them at our own peril if we can't find a way to articulate these as an ecosystem and not as 17 individual goals and one way we might start to do that would be to start to do a more formal mapping we saw pieces of it but formal mapping of the tensions and the interconnections so that when we meet with decision makers we're not going in with idealism which I think is warranted in a lot of cases but in this case I think we really have to be able to help them think through the pros and cons and the different interactions there great thank you there are some good analyses of this which I'll both share and think about what that might mean for our group also please sure let's all be brief and we'll try to get all the comments in very brief Jean Morse University of Buffalo representing the SUNY Global Health Institute just two quick things from NIH perspective I think the Fogarty Center has a really nice model of trying to figure out how to bring together academics with government with communities through their application process because you can't get funded unless you bring all of those together I think in the US we're not as good at that and the other thing is that the NIH has re-engineered all of clinical research through the clinical and translational science institutes making implementation which is really the thing that's been staggering for example most clinical trials don't enroll people to study what we're trying to study so they reorganized everything very good models there through NIH I think will complement the NSF perfect thank you please Clayton and then 1, 2, 3, 4 and that 5 and then that will finish it no more hands thanks professor Clayton for our executive director of ideas for us in your opinion what is the number one thing that we need to collectively accomplish by 2020 in order to achieve the goals by 2030 the clarity of what to do by far the actual what to do not the motivation for doing it not why it's so important but the actual what to do this is what is fundamentally missing and this is fundamentally what serious science, engineering, implementation science is about the actual what to do okay John O'Keefer from Auburn University Alabama the proudest things that Auburn University does is we have this international quality of life award that was launched back in 1994 in conjunction with United Nations international family of the year actually as a matter of fact yesterday evening at the United Nations some of the individuals who have actually worked so hard to promote the quality of life at the global level were recognized yesterday so for the past 25 years we have been doing that one and we are very proud of that I thought that would be a good practice for other universities phenomenal thank you very much and we'll make that known when we get our website up and I think that should be featured and explained please who's next? one, two and then one, three three more okay thank you I'm Tim Jockner from University of Cincinnati where I've just taken up the deanship of the college of design, architecture, art and planning and I notice there are at least a few others from the creative professions broadly defined on the fringes here I noticed a few on the fringes of the Habitat Conference in Quito in 2016 we take part in these UN events but I think it's I would like to encourage those in these professions to help move our professions a bit more to the center of the discourse there's a lot of knowledge coming from the scientific from the economic from the political directions I think the design professions broadly defined as going from art through design architecture to planning have potentially a lot to contribute to this so anyone immediate invitation introduce yourself to me before leaving the room but I would be very interested in being a part of this in the long term fantastic one thing we'll do is suggest some thematic groups and thematic efforts for people to indicate participation in those we had a long discussion yesterday with some wonderful architects actually coming from France about exactly these issues also so we said we would try to have a conference in the spring on urban design quality of life and probably in New York but we'll also try to get a thematic group around this idea for the US yeah please thank you very much for a wonderful meeting I learned a lot from both listening to people around listening to people at the table but also talking to people during the meetings I wonder if it's possible to organize a significant part of the next meeting around ideas that come from people who are in the room and that they submit as things on which to act because there is so much knowledge and so much experience in this room it would be a shame to not benefit from it during our next meeting and to organize a significant part of the event around what people here would like to do wonderful and again I hope we can use a website and active contact so that we're not waiting between meetings but we're actually brainstorming actively and I think final speaker so please Hello I'm Vera Mitzner from the National Council for Science and the environment I'll be very brief so we are a Washington based non-partisan not-for-profit organization and we advance informed political decision-making on environmental issues through science so we have around 100 universities in the US as our members and many of these universities are representatives of these universities are in this room today I just wanted to underline that we are a great resource and very happy to ally with you and anyone here because we talk to policymakers and we talk to researchers and we really work hard to establish this bridge so that's our mission and you can please come to talk to me if your university is not a member or you want to engage somehow thank you very much ladies and gentlemen we've come to the end of a marvelous opening day I feel like we have a lot more to discuss and a rich agenda I apologize for not having as much discussion as we need but we packed in a lot today it's only the beginning people traveled a long way and I'm really grateful for that I hope you feel that it's something exciting to continue I'm very very excited myself about what we're going to do together and I look forward to the very active continuation we'll figure out how to use all virtual means to keep us connected in between the real gatherings when we are together we have a person we have a date in Washington we have another date in New York we have invitations in other parts of the country we have the launch of the Mexico network in March for those of you who may have particular interests or desires to be present there I would like us by next year to produce a MOOC I would like us next year to produce a MOOC I think maybe next year let's say not maybe let's aim to produce one national SDG day on our own campuses if we could aim to do that next fall probably in a year's time but all across the country that this is put on the agenda and ladies and gentlemen I apologize for finishing three minutes late but thank you very very much safe travels home


This is stock number 9836. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used light duty truck headquarters. Remember we are the guys with the trucks on 41. Today we are checking out this super clean 2017 Ford F-150 SuperCab Short Box. This truck has the 5 liter V8 motor. From this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean inside and out. Race red is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now. Because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me. It comes with the factory chromed alloy rims. And it has some really nice BF Goodrich All Terrain LT27570R18 tires with about, I'd say 80 to 90% of the tread left. Frame and underbody. Very clean on this truck. Driver's side front fender, no dents, no dings, no scuffs, no scrapes. Headlight lenses are nice and clear chrome trimmed grille. 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When the trailers for this movie were coming out, there were people talking about, well, we've always kind of wanted to see what a visual interpretation of this would be like. Like, man, well, not at the beginning of Call of Duty Ghosts, kind of. Obviously with guns, but, you know. Heh, Star Wars. Hey guys, this is my review for ISS. This is one of the January dumps of the year, and technically speaking, it absolutely deserves to be here, because this movie is kind of really boring. The film follows a crew of American and Russian astronauts on the ISS, two new ones and acclimating to the environment, having all nice ha-ha-ha. And then about 20 minutes in, they see that nuclear war has begun on planet Earth, and both the Russian and the Americans get secret communique about having to take control of the ISS. Now, there's two ways this movie could have gone. There is the more philosophical way that this could have gone in terms of that these guys are scientists first, and political instruments second. Being that their moral conundrum would have been, do we care more about what the purpose of the ISS is in terms of helping better humanity rather than the mundane conflict that is clearly destroying the planet below us, or do we just kind of make this a generic sort of thriller about, who should I trust? I really thought they were going to go into a moral conundrum about it. The movie starts even with a goddamn dialogue block about what the importance of the ISS is, and they say it. Throughout the beginning of the movie, talking about what each experiment means, and there's some that are just very heavy-handed, and there's a few that you feel that they are meant to be red herrings, but in the end, they are almost inconsequential because of how dull the plot is. It doesn't help either that the performances from everyone in this movie aren't really great. Ariana DeBose, who plays the lead, she's more so from theater, and not saying that theater and musical actors can acclimate to film well, but she is meant to be the main character of this movie, and she's just kind of there. It doesn't really feel that her plot elements are of more interest, or of equal interest to that of the other characters, because there are a few here that have some moments, like probably the best person in this movie is Alexi. He is the character that is going through the moral conundrum that I was hoping this movie would do, because there's other actors in this, like John Gallagher Jr., who I like, but he is almost a comical character in terms of his hysteria. And then you've also got the guy who plays Nikolai, Constan Ronan. He goes cold-blooded villain, quite quick. Now, I understand that there would be maybe one or two people on the ship that would have been the country first, everything like that, but his transition is so rapid that you don't even get to truly see how he came to that conclusion. As I was saying, the guy who plays Alexi Pulio-Lazbek, he is the best person in this movie. He's the one who goes through the moral conflict of what is the right action in this movie, because the script written by Nick Safry is probably a little bit more up his own butt than he actually thinks. The film is not as smart as it thinks it is.   It doesn't help either, too, that the director, Gabrielle Cowper-Thwight, is a documentary director, first and foremost. Again, not to say that people of the industry can switch genres and switch styles, but it does take a bit, and there are some shots that do feel like it's out of a documentary in terms of the passive observer. Making a documentary film is having the story be told to you and putting that into a story to then be given to people. Whereas a film, you are making the story to give to the people, and I feel that this film suffers from it. It also does seem to be a trend. I still do not understand why this new Ray movie is being filmed by a documentary filmmaker.   Either way, that tangent aside, ISS is boring, predictable, nowhere near as smart as it thinks it is, and it wasted a moral dilemma story that could have been really well done if it was executed correctly. So in the end, I'm gonna give ISS A2 out of seven. Anyways, guys, those are my thoughts about this movie. Very interesting to see what you guys would say. Please let me know in the comments below, and we'll see you guys on the next review. And if you liked the video, please leave a like. And until then, see you guys next time.