Thank you. Your book is a major accomplishment. It is a significant scholarly work. I think its fair to say you moved the seal. Thats a tremendous thing to hear coming from you david, thank you so much. How does it feel . Like a big relief. Its been 10 years in the work to make this book so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to talk about it. Talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. Three Major Writers spent their careers studying writing about tobacco and the cigarette. Richard kruger, when the Pulitzer Prize for ashes to ashes. Amazing book. Really a page turner. Alan brandt, the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette century. And robert at stanford about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation when you started . You have three giant books out there. And you took a risk. I really feel as though with those free books, ashes to ashes, cigarette century and Robert Proctor is whole corpus of work. The biggest of which is called golden h
[ music ] welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. In recent years more and more armed forces and strategists are thinking about what happens when aqua fers dry up or rains are unreliable, does it make a place more vulnerable to conflict, regional, international or ethnically based. In some places the ability of a place to support a nation is diminished by the water supply. Think sudan and other areas. There were ongoing conflict, but when farmers found it impossible to farm, when herdsman had to range further from home to water cattle it ratcheted up tensions there and fanned them into a fullblown armed conflict. The vulnerability of the maldives a string of islands in the indian ocean threatened with sea level rides, may show up in the chronic instability there. Its tough to make a good life for millions of bangladeshis, as they cling to a smaller territory thats not under threat of floods. All this month on Al Jazeera America we are doing special programs and reports called fragile p
Raising the chances for conflict, instability. Military is adding the concern about water insecurity and Climate Change for strategies in understanding conflict. The coming water wars inside story. Mousse [ music ] welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. In recent years more and more armed forces and strategists are thinking about what happens when aqua fers dry up or rains are unreliable, does it make a place more vulnerable to conflict, regional, international or ethnically based. In some places the ability of a place to support a nation is diminished by the water supply. Think sudan and other areas. There were ongoing conflict, but when farmers found it impossible to farm, when herdsman had to range further from home to water cattle it ratcheted up tensions there and fanned them into a fullblown armed conflict. The vulnerability of the maldives a string of islands in the indian ocean threatened with sea level rides, may show up in the chronic instability there. Its tough to make a g
[ music ] welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. In recent years more and more armed forces and strategists are thinking about what happens when aqua fers dry up or rains are unreliable, does it make a place more vulnerable to conflict, regional, international or ethnically based. In some places the ability of a place to support a nation is diminished by the water supply. Think sudan and other areas. There were ongoing conflict, but when farmers found it impossible to farm, when herdsman had to range further from home to water cattle it ratcheted up tensions there and fanned them into a fullblown armed conflict. The vulnerability of the maldives a string of islands in the indian ocean threatened with sea level rides, may show up in the chronic instability there. Its tough to make a good life for millions of bangladeshis, as they cling to a smaller territory thats not under threat of floods. All this month on Al Jazeera America we are doing special programs and reports called fragile p
[ music ] welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. In recent years more and more armed forces and strategists are thinking about what happens when aqua fers dry up or rains are unreliable does it make a place more vulnerable to conflict Regional International or ethnically based. In some places the ability of a place to support a nation is diminished by the water supply. Think sudan and other areas. There were ongoing conflict but when farmers found it impossible to farm when herdsman had to range further from home to water cattle it ratcheted up tensions there and fanned them into a fullblown armed conflict. The vulnerability of the maldives a string of islands in the indian ocean threatened with sea level rides, may show up in the chronic instability there. Its tough to make a good life for millions of bangladeshis as they cling to a smaller territory thats not under threat of floods. All this month on Al Jazeera America we are doing special programs and reports called fragile planet.