avi lewis and naomi klein, it is great to have you with us today together on the u.s. emiere of the film. so talk about this film. you have been on this journey, naomi, writing the book, and now to have the cameras following you and him places you had not even gone, but you had extensively written about and analyzed. talk about what you're going to do with the film? >> the idea was to do things differently. usually what happens, you write a book and the film is made maybe after,, which is what happened with "the shock doctrine." there's something kind of inherently flawed about that process because you are retracing your steps. you're going back to places. in a way, you are him of being -- mimicking this process of discovery. as anyone who has read the book, you have already come to those conclusions. we started working on this together while avi was still working at al jazeera. we cover the bp disaster together, went to bolivia together to cover the people's conference on climate change. ton when he left al jazeera work in this full-time. people who read the book or sk

's is based on naomi klein book.es, we dare to say what the meteorologists over the weekend come all the news reports 24 hours a day that are certainly dealing with this once in a thousand year flood in south carolina don't mention -- the words "climate change." i began by asking naomi klein and avi lewis about extreme weather conditions like hurricane sandy. this is a book from their film. >> but a strange thing happened as the fossil fuel economy spread over the world. the sacrifice zone got bigger and bigger. it started with the places considered the middle of nowhere . day, i watched it come to the place that sees itself as the center of everywhere. >> this was the moment when sandy struck. 90 mile per hour winds slicing through new york's streets. three quarters of a million people have been forced to evacuate. all those years we imagined that we had freed ourselves from nature's bond, that we were the boss. there was a part of the story we could not yet see -- our machines were filling the atmosphere with green