[applause] now our guest rebecca is the author of more than 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, paradise built in hell, river shadows and wonder love, a history of walking, she is also the author of men explain things to me on feminism activism and social change, hope and also the crime it crisis. A product is a California Public Education System from can get into graduate school, shes a regular contributor to the guardian. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times bestseller recovery and empathy stands inis the novel. Shes a good tubing writer for New York Times magazine and her work has appeared in publications including in the quarterly review. She directs the graduate Nonfiction Program at columbiaa university. Please help me welcome rebecca and leslie jamison. [applause] before i started im not doing the book signings because its a more Perfect Technology for what people to handle objects and for all the people to handle all the objects a
Coronavirus theres growing criticism over a lack of personal protective equipment. Donald trump countys likely president ial rival joe biden tried to score political points by took on china critics want the strategy could backfire. And feel good welcome to the program so could the coronavirus pandemic be a chance to save the planet from Climate Change well thats a question ministers from about 30 countries have been debating and an online summit in germany and britain hosting this years round of the petersburg climate dialogue german chancellor Angela Merkel said climate protection has to be considered as part of the economic stimulus packages that governments are launching to help industries recover from the pandemic here is the challenge that the chancellor with apology. For the poor picture quality. Look at an issue really good at times the discussion about distribution firms will be extremely difficult when we look at the damage the corona pandemic has done to our National Budgets
Sensed this said he project our or our earth was immediately red flagged as trouble as a place that needed to be cleaned up well this episode needs to be cleaned up so were going to return to this this notion of the space time continuum being broken via derivatives breaking our real world one of the things we saw is like this sudden realization that everybodys going through at the moment for example that hey those wall street 1000000000 years you know that we were celebrating as heroes back in 2008 they were not the heroes if all of the a sensual workers who is essential to our economy were finding our the lowest paid now that is through the Looking Glass thats the mirror image of what you think should happen the other thing is once in 1971 we went off the Gold Standard and we went on to. U. S. Dollar standard well we were no longer able to measure wealth and to create wealth and to understand how our capital was being deployed whether it was being done efficiently and the best use of
A lack of personal protective equipment. Im still going to welcome to the program called the corona virus pandemic be a chance to save the planet from Climate Change a lot of questions being debated in an online summit by ministers from 30 countries germany and britain hosting this years round of the petersburg climate dialogue german chancellor Angela Merkel said climate protection had to be considered as part of the economic stimulus programs that governments are launching to help industries recover from the pandemic. While palins e. U. Is back in business from today climate activists fear that because of the corona crisis politicians may play increasingly hard to get on that climate goals addressing the 1st virtual pieces climate dialogue. Came out in favor of the e. U. Xampp issues climate goals despite the crisis. Well as a vision to go over the phone it will be all the more important to firmly consider climate protection when we agree stimulus packages. We must ensure that were n
Tonight we are thrilled to welcome Rebecca Solnit of the publication date of her new book recollections of my nonexistence. Please note there will not be a signing tonight after the event but Rebecca Solnit did arrive early to sign each and every one of your books. [applause]. And now a bit our guests, Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, a paradise built in hell, rivers, shadows and wanderlust. A history of walking, shes also the author of. [inaudible] a product of the California Public Education System from kindergarten to graduate school she is a regular contributor to the guardian and lid hub. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times just sellers the recovering and empathy exams and the novel the gym closet. She is the contributing writer for New York Times magazine and her work has appeared in publications including the atlantic, harpers, New York Times book review, oxford american and virginia qu