The bottom of your window and we will get to as many as we can. Second, we encourage everyone to purchase the book the next grade migration which you can do in the chat that i just posted. So with that science journalist and prizewinning author with human rights has appeared in the new york times, wall street journal and Current Affairs among many others. Also featured with her talk to the reasons why we still havent gotten rid of malaria. Other books including fever and pandemic. Tonight she talks about her next book that has an indepth overview of migration and the negative responses it provokes. In that response to environmental change it makes the case that migration is not to see on a source of fear but hope. Without further ado. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us tonigh tonight. I wish i could see you in person. And the background of when i came to write this book, my last book was called pandemic. And before that i had which in other books about malaria and other aspects o
I said something along the hines of, you know, what are some of the worst effects of the migrant crisis, in your opinion. Something like that. And he stopped and he said there is no migrant crisis. And i was quite puzzled, and i said, well, theres all this tumult, and theres, you know, people are dying and drowning, and people are getting stuck in refugee camps and everyones upset, so, you know, whats happening then . If its not a migrant crisis, what is it . He said its not a crisis of migration because there are plenty of jobs for these people if they wanted to take them, theres plenty of room, theres and, in fact, what i learned about the disease status is that there were no disease outbreaks except for the ones caused by the conditions that these people were being kept in. So they were being detained in, you know, unsanitary camps, makeshift they had squats in abandoned schools and stadiums and things like that. And just by virtue of those conditions, there were some outbreaks of t
Can do via a link in the chat which i just posted. We support our authors. With that out of the way, i welcome sonia shah the science of journalists and prizewinning author. Her writing on science, politics and human rights has appeared in the new york times, wall street journal and Foreign Affairs among many others and has been featured on a radio lab fresh air and ted. Com. With her talk, three reasons why we have not gotten rid of malaria. Also author of the 70 several books including pandemic. Today we will talk about her new book, the next great migration which provides an overview of migration and often the negative responses it provokes. Some may claim its a Destructive Force that she argues migration is an ancient lifesaving response to environmental change in the book makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of a fear. Without further ado, here is sonia. Hello and thank you for joining us tonight. I wish i could see you in person , but im tired we can do
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