India, turkey, across europe and kansas city. He most recently finished the coeditor of the coeditor of First World War. And doctor t keller is a National Certified instructor. When you ask those questions, make sure they have a question mark at the end of them. Now, please help me welcome him. [applause] good evening. I am thrilled to be here and happy you could join me. I will talk about my current research, a Global Environmental history of the First World War. I am interested in Energy Geopolitics that link the battle lines on the home fronts with agricultural and industry in ways that fundamentally shaped the 20th century. So i will talk about the main battlefield many of us are familiar with, then hop, skip, and jump around the globe to point out areas that had an incredibly profound Environmental Impact. Now, few human endeavors have altered the Natural World as much as agriculture industry and warfare. In 1914, these came together in ways that were incredibly destructive. When
Speaker, he is a certified instructor. When you ask those questions, make sure they have a question mark at the end of them. , please help me welcome him. [applause] good evening. I am thrilled to be here and happy you could join me. I will talk about my current research, a Global Environmental history of the First World War. I am interested in Energy Geopolitics that link the battle lines on the home fronts with agricultural and industry in ways that fundamentally shaped the 20th century. So i will talk about the main battlefield many of us are familiar with, then hop, skip, and jump around the globe to point out areas that had an incredibly profound Environmental Impact. , few human endeavors have altered the Natural World as and as agriculture industry warfare. Together inse came ways that were incredibly destructive. War, theyne mentions think battlefields, and soldiers did change environment on every battlefront. Military planners took the environment into account, considering cli
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Security Energy Project there. For iraq and afghanistan and has been working on this book for several years and why he decided to write the book. Thanks for spending your time with us. Looking at this intersection with energy so thank you very much for that. Bringing back directly to iraq but after my time how the world needs to be understood by the Foreign Policy lands. From that time i was working in government from the form policy perspective in to meet those saudi officials and i tended to look at that. That seems to be working now. I cannot take any credit for that. We saw the saudi resistance to the regime in baghdad clearly that was some of it with that crisis we can fully appreciate the high eight whale prices they had no rivals in that department becoming challengers 12 Million Barrels a day eventually and from that the need to look at a Foreign Policy lens. At that point there wasnt all energy windfall. What do you mean by the windfall . I wanted to call the book originally s
Business molds designed to lift poor communities out of poverty. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Ing television for serious readers. They are running the Global Security project there. The Deputy National security assistant for iraq and afghanistan and spent some time as an advisor in iraq. And has been working on this book for several years times change while you had been working on them. Maybe will talk about how you decided and why did you write the book what keyed it off. Let me begin by saying good afternoon and thank you so much for spending your lunch hour with us in a special thanks to dan for doing this. He has been a source of advice, support and inspiration as i have really moved into this world in looking at this intersection. Thank you very much for that. My impetus for writing the book its almost on reflecting after my time in iraq as to how much the world needs to be understood by a foreignpolicy lunch an