Now on cspan2s book tv. Television for serious readers. Hi, everyone. On the executive director of the Harvard Law School library. I can vaguely see you in the distance. A great lineup of authors, we are super excited to share the work we do. I just want to share a few housekeeping items. We are recording this talk and will post it on our Youtube Channel next week. I hope you will check out online to find out more. Thank you for the support for this Book Talk Series and a big thank you to our team, parker and teresa for helping put this together in this remote space. We welcome your questions and we invite you to use the q and a teacher throughout the talk. For our sponsor. I encourage you to local bookstore, visit the harvard life very library. It is my great pleasure to introduce the Robert University professor at harvard. Director of the program on the economic Public Policy possible. In 2019, the pies from the government of norway, sometimes described in the equivalence of the nobe
Poet and educator in seattle and the author of free poetry collections including 2012 room. Also the New Washington poet laureate 21222014 and currently serving on the board of jack straw a local studio. Here today talking about the apocalypse factory. Please join me to welcome steve olson. Thanks. As you know kathleen published a book of poems in 2012 and all of those are about hanford. And then she will we eat paul from her new book of poems entitled post romantic coming out in october from the university of washington press. So to make sure my slides will work i will project her words onto a screen. Banks. And to say before i read the poem how im pleased to be a part of this evening and its wonderful to celebrate the publication of this book not just because i have poems in it but they are not told us much as i think they should be and then to get the story out i have learned all kinds of things from it and out there for people to read. This is the poem and its called stories that w
Now moving on to our feature presentations my honor to introduce veteran journalis journalist, scholar and bioethicist darius washington. To win the National Book critics circle award a terrible thing to waste over environmental racism in the assault on the American Mind presents research to how harmful environmental factors disproportionately impact marginalized communities and those that expose the chilling reality for the damage and environmental racism. So please join me to welcome to the podium harriet washington. [applause] im very excited to be here. Its very exciting for i have a lot of things to say and the slides i want to show you. Can you hear me now . I dont have time for all the slides i would love to show you if i skip through we will talk about it with q a. But this is fascinating as well as very important. The Environmental Justice movement i thought i was. Can you hear me in the back . The Environmental Justice movement 1982 the people who live there became victims of
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To the epicentre of a political debate. Carbon pollution is co2, and thats really not a polutant its a plant food. We go to the front lines of a debate that may not be decided. Theyre gonna raise the sidewalks. That must be what two feet . Until its too late. As mayor, i dont have the liberty or time to debate why Climate Change is happening. Dr. Shini somara is a mechanical engineer. With all of that innovation do you think its actually going to solve the problem. Lindsay moran is an excia operative and analyst. Why is this issue political . Dr crystal dilworth is a molecular neuroscientist. Why does a small segment of scientists not believe . Im phil torres. Im an entomologist. Wow that was something else, i mean it was a real rush for me. Thats our team. Now lets do some science. [ ] hey guys welcome to techknow, im phil torres joined by Lindsay Moran, dr. Crystal dilworth and dr. Shini somara. Its a debate that somehow is still raging on is the climate changing, is man to blame and