About the far right, white supremacist, from the streets to the white house, we will spread out globally we will be looking at it historically, well probably deal with terms like fascism and populism and nationalism. Before we do that, i want to spend just a moment talking about what we are going to do with the technology. Number one, we are asking all the videos stay off. So we dont get video bombed and that we use all of our bandwidth for the conversation as opposed to video. Number two, to ask questions rather than doing it orally, what we are going to ask you to do is to type your questions into the chat box, to do that if youre familiar with resume if you run your cursor across the screen you will see at the bottom of a box that says chat, click on chat and you will see off to the right hand side of your screen a line at the bottom where you can type it in your questions and comments. As we go through this discussion with Larry Rosenthal if youd be good enough to type in your ques
Series. These are made possible by more than 200 sponsors and more than 1000 local aa special thanks to the arizona daily star, university of arizona in tucson medical center. The festival three present expenses. Todays conversation is presented by western notion ab and sponsor of the National Experience pavilion at the tucson festival of books. To keep uptodate with the festival live events and sign up for the festival newsletter visit tucson festival books. Org. Joining me today is bryan walsh kebab ryan is. He signed the awardwinning egocentric blog and has reported for more than 20 countries on science and environmental stories like stars, Global Warming at extension. He is the founder and editor of technology and science 10 his book is end times. Bryan, welcome, thank you for being with us. This book is about existential risks, risks which could illuminate all of humanity or enough of humanity survivors would not be able to rebuild society to what it is now. Hence end times. Lets
Them abe and baba. Were the first eight or so years of your life like . Peaceful. I had a really enjoyable childhood. I grew up in a household where we had not just my siblings and my father but my extended family lived with us, my uncles and aunties and grandfather. My greatgrandmother was always around it was a very loving environment. I was raised by educators so education was a huge part of our life and we all loved learning and we were very curious kids. My grandfather and father encouraged discussions and debate and curiosity. I was known as the why kid when i was little. I had a lot of intimate time with my grandfather and father because i was always around them asking questions. As a mother now i know how annoying that could be at times but they never let on. It was a very protective enriching environment to grow up in. And that was in the ab somali area cannot. The capital city. A very different place at that time than it is now. It was very culturally enriched environment. My
Discussion or save them for the q a at the end of the event, so i just want everyone to know that before we get started. So as i said, this, of course, could not be a more important or more timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd in Police Custody last night. We have seen nationwide unrests, we have seen protests not only here in america but internationally. Weve also seen a certain narrative take hold. It start with the assumption that the only way to properly view George Floyds death is through racial lens. In fact, all of encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly view this way. Its a narrative of Derek Chauvin and that george floyd is every black man in america. That blacks essentially leave the house each day worried about having a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which faces very little pushback, very little skepticism and it leaves with us with the impression that the biggest probl