please help me welcome to the stage iv betsy reed and naomi klein. [applause] >> welcome. it's wonderful to be here with you in this beautiful space. i can imagine a better more important moment to be having this conversation and i can imagine a better person to be talking with than my old friend and colleague naomi klein who i worked with for many years at the nation before the intercept and it has this fantastic new book out naomi klein -- "on fire" the burning case for a green new deal. i have a video which naomi conceived along with the artist molly crabapple. we needed dose of hope in a dark time. her book "on fire" i just want to congratulate her because it's a fantastic achievement and it was reviewed today in "the new york times". the reviewer wrote probably the dream sends an author would want in the review if i were a rich man i would buy 245 million copies of naomi klein's "on fire" and hand deliver them to every eligible voter in america. [applause] [applause] naomi i'd like to start by asking you to set the scene for us because it really does feel like a momen