Been grappling with global interconnectedness for as long as weve been a species this book starts from our ancient past indeed our 1st migrations out of africa as modern human beings and takes us through how technological advances in agriculture in writing with alphabets in ocean navigation with the steam engine and now in our time with the digital age have reshaped this interconnectedness its quite a story of course it is the the history of humanity because we are globally interconnected in fundamental ways whether we have nationalism or not we cant help but having this interconnectedness of course a days before this book was being finalised came the pandemic a so i you quickly scrambled with a preface at the beginning to say well this is quite horrific its not the 1st time pandemics themselves have reshaped our lives as well they are also emblematic of globalisation you know we have government advisers on this show sometimes quite a quite a few but we dont have people who advised mor
A protest against the russian president in the capital minsk. A gold mine collapse in the democratic republic of congo kills at least 50 men. And iran executes a champion wrestler despite local and International Appeals to overturn. And in sport the u. S. Open is set to have a 1st time grand slam champion alexander came from to step down to. The german team in a final. Its been hailed historic moment the taliban and the Afghan Government in the same room facing each other for peace talks there in the cattery capital doha to find a political solution to end nearly 20 years of war. Who is representing the government has called. A humanitarian cease fire as soon as possible for those of we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the negatives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and maybe stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a ne
A preface at the beginning to say well this is quite horrific its not the 1st time pandemics themselves have reshaped our lives as well they are also emblematic of globalization you know we have government advisers on this show sometimes quite a quite a few but we dont have people who advised more than 140 countries around the world to learn u. N. Secretary general is the big question about the pandemic of course is what is your advice to rich and poor countries grappling with a recession a depression maybe the worst in centuries my advice always which politicians dont like turn is for us to understand the situation and look around at whos doing well because in this pandemic there are a few countries that have got good under control chinas one of them. A korea to a large extent Australia New Zealand vietnam among poor countries lot b. T. R. Cambodia really amazing quite poor countries have beaten this virus down and then the United States out of control brazil out of control and so if
Afshin rattansi were going underground or whats supposed to be week 2 of julie the songes london trial from the country with one of the highest coronavirus death rates on earth coming up in the show with nato nations panicking over a Global Economic catastrophe amidst a pandemic and Climate Crisis where the Global Economy ever recover after millions of lost their jobs since the start of the 1st covidien used lockdown could coronavirus mean the end of capitalism and globalization as we know it and are our politicians really fit for purpose joining me now from new york city is the author of the ages of globalization Geography Technology and institutions and director of the Sustainable Development Solution Network professor Jeffrey Sachs of the center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University thank you so much jeffrey for coming on before i even get to the book in the past few days theres been a story that will go and did on arguably 13000 refugees on the island of les was in gre
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