Why Water Matters: Natalie Koch untangles the weirdly connected environmental fates of Arizona and Saudi Arabia

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Why Water Matters: Natalie Koch untangles the weirdly connected environmental fates of Arizona and Saudi Arabia

Andrew Keen

Mar 21, 2023

EPISODE 1382: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to ARID EMPIRE author Natalie Koch about the weirdly entangled fates of Arizona and Saudi Arabia

Natalie Koch is a Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. She is a political geographer specializing in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula region, where she has worked since 2012. Her latest book is ARID EMPIRE: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia.

Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

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