Elizabeth rule guess i am russian political scholar and left wing activist who helped to leave russia after the beginning of all of this blood in invasion of ukraine. And its great honor and pleasure for me to be hosting this discussion with bill burr of ga about his new book, the cold of the new cold war. The United States, russia and china from kosovo to ukraine, which were recently published by by kim market and of this research of some very and and the whole topic of the new cold war is not something new for me in fact i remember how we discussed exactly the same of the theme think of the the the common new cold war between russia and us or lets say collective west is as president putin prefers to call cold in mom in december of 2014, when made an interview bell about the cold, which came after the russian ization of crimea after the implementation of western sanctions against against russia and when we broke down and now coming back to this great overview of the russian American R
Leave russia after the beginning of all of this blood in invasion of ukraine. And its great honor and pleasure for me to be hosting this discussion with bill burr of ga about his new book, the cold of the new cold war. The United States, russia and china from kosovo to ukraine, which were recently published by by kim market and of this research of some very and and the whole topic of the new cold war is not something new for me in fact i remember how we discussed exactly the same of the theme think of the the the common new cold war between russia and us or lets say collective west is as president putin prefers to call cold in mom in december of 2014, when made an interview bell about the cold, which came after the russian ization of crimea after the implementation of western sanctions against against russia and when we broke down and now coming back to this great overview of the russian American Relations since since the nineties. My first question will be if these current state of of
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People coming to new york for your book launch. And in this case it is entirely appropriate because this is a really, really important book. Its title is i think exactly right. I think this book will go a long ways towards changing things. And i think thats because, uniquely, naomi has been able to realize something thats hard to grasp, which is that Climate Change is not sort of one more problem on a list of problems that we need to take off and do something about. Its a lens through which to understand the world we live in now. Its a way of grasping what it is that everything adds up to, the power relationships on our planet. The way that wealth and power are distributed. They are all reflected in every cubic meter of air around us. Thats what those numbers mean when we say that the air is 400 parts per million co2. That doesnt tell us that much about the air we scientists have been warning us for, telling us recorder of a century exactly what that means. Want to tell us is a lot. A
Coming up. Theres going to be talk and ceremony and things for the next couple of days, and then on sunday, were going to march in record numbers. The reports coming in are amazing. As of sometime this afternoon there were more than 500 buses of people heading toward new york city. This is going to be not just the largest climate demonstration there ever was but its going to be the biggest political gathering of any kind in this country, and a great many years, and then the next day, and the next morning, people will be down on wall street, flooding wall street, and that will be great and powerful, and [applause] earlier today a reporter asked me, why are you doing all this . And i said, because we have really have to . ÷ give naomis book a great launch. And this is the greatest book authors are forever complaining about how their books dont get a publisher hasnt done enough 200,000 people coming to new york for your book launch. And in this case, it is entirely appropriate because th