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
Even being recognized as such its a pretty dramatic time niner the new book the ages of globalization goes right from the beginning of time you yourself have gone through a journey arguably intellectually tell me about briefly about the new book weve 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
A Global Economic catastrophe amidst a pandemic and Climate Crisis will 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 commented on arguably 13000 refugees on the island of lesbos in greece all there are makeshift homes were burnt down somehow an emblematic vision of globalization in 2020. There are a lot of people being displaced and there are a lot of people suffering to right now actually not only do we have a pand
Bundle up. 71 for Mountain View today. Likes a nice day. Temperatures a little bit above average. Hard pressed to find a cloud unless up at Crescent City or points north. 41 napa airport. 41 santa rosa. Low 40s. A few upper 30s woodside, boulder creek, and scots valley. Close for sebastopol and calistoga. Severe, clear, sunny for all. Warmer. Cold lows. Chilly. Warm up pretty quick. Upper 60s to a few low and mid 70s. He is back, he is with ready, and what kind of information . Come good and bad. Okay. The good news, steve and everyone, is that if you notice it just a little bit lighter than usual, its because its spring break for some schools, and that means the traffic is a little lighter as those students are not going to school. They are going somewhere else. Maybe they are in florida or whatever. All right. Lets take a look at what we have at the bay bridge toll plaza. You will see the traffic is backed up for a 15minute delay. No major problems driving into the city. Also looking
We cant simply go on growing the way we are growing. So the idea of Sustainable Development is to overcome what will be growing disasters like our super storms air in cities that we choke on in the major cities of asia, pervasive drought. For example, the megadrought in brazil just now. Some of you may have seen the really frightening but impolite unpredictable predictable story in the New York Times that said and sao paulo now where theres a massive drop that was basically unattended by policymakers for year as it was unfolding. There is now a fever epidemic because water storage tanks were put around the city and lo and behold mosquitoes are breeding in them and disease is soaring and sao paulo. This is a general proposition. You push them out of their normal state. Youre not going to get the one thing going wrong. Ebook it many things going wrong. Its predictable that the unpredictable will occur and thats whats happening in sao paulo. And you have drought, forest fires, mega floods