Ask the question, how do we strengthen not only the quantity of time with people but even more importantly the quality of time . Watch book this weekend on cspan2. Good evening, everyone. And candace, one of the event managers here at town offered on behalf of townhall seattle im welcoming you to tonights lifestream with investigative journalist david wrote an conversation with podcast and radio host [inaudible]. As we get underway at like to acknowledge there are institution stands on the unsuited traditional territory of the [inaudible] people, [inaudible]. We thank them for their uses of their Natural Resources from their ancestral homeland. Were thrilled to be able to present this event virtually with concerns surrounding public health. Were proud to be unity focused organization and where we can sustain ideas and creativity. Like to think david and steve for appearing tonight to help make that happen. For viewers who want to watch this podcast with close captioning we recommend th
Readers. Good evening, welcome to murmur. I am stephanie valdes, coowner of humidity bookstore and m b, its also a hardcore indie bookstore crowd. Tonight were thrilled to welcome Rebecca Solnit on the publication date of her new book recollections of my nonexistence. She will be in conversation with Leslie Jamison area is no that there will not be assigning tonight after the event but Rebecca Solnit did arrive early to sign each and every one ofyour books. So Rebecca Solnit is the author of 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, a paradise built in hell, river shadows and wanderlust. A history of walking. She is also the author of essays on feminism, activism and social change, hope and also the climate crisis. A product of the California Public Education System in kindergarten to graduate school shes a regular contributor to the guardian. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times that sellers recovering and the empathy exam and the novel gin cl
[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
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Will let us meet these strangeg intet, affectionate creatures. Diekmann are you gonna open up for me . Narrator . Before they are lost to the world fover. And by viewers like you. Thank you. O0 c1 narrator pangolins are shy, secretive creatures. Quite unlike anything else on earth. Ei claws can dig through concrete. Their thin, sticky tongues are as long as their bodies. They can travel along on their hind legs. Al these animals haked the planet for ov 40 million years, and there are eight distinct species. Four are found in africa. And four in asia. Pangolins are the worlds only truly scaly mammals. Their scales, just like human fingernails, are made from keratin. But this remarkable natural armor is the cause of their destruction. In the last 20 years, the demand for pangolin scales for use in traditional asian medicines has decimated their numbers worldwide. Today, a pangolin will be taken from the wild every five minutes. [ diekmann speaking native language ] [ man speaking native