Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

Building back better why tackling the climate crisis is at the heart of a more just an equal world.

Former head of the EPA, Christine Todd Whitman joins us.

Plus, which politicos will meet this moment of hope for change, what the latest primaries mean for Democrats and Republicans?

Then, massive unemployment and structural poverty because of the twin

pandemics of racism and coronavirus. Economist Glenn Hubbard tells our Walter

Isakson he has a plan to fix it. And finally, making and illustrating history.

I speak to Kadir Nelson, the artist behind some of the defining images of these times. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpore, working from home in London.

Now, there are any number of political sayings around the idea of turning a crisis into an opportunity.

So the triple calamities slamming the whole world right now should be very fertile ground for resetting and building back better.

The inextricable link between the coronavirus pandemic, the economic catastrophe and

violent racism has finally made the strongest case for more equality and

more social justice.

Climate is key of course, but after a brief respite from carbon emissions under lockdown, they're back as the economic engine

turns on again.

Recent polls, though, show that two-thirds of Americans, as well as majorities in Europe

and many other parts of the world, consider climate a key election issue.

So will the leaders step up?

Christine Todd Whitman is the former Republican governor of New Jersey and she also was the head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W Bush and she's joining me now from home in New Jersey.

Welcome to our program, Christine Todd Whitman. Can I just

ask you whether you agree with the premise that in your area of work, which is

climate, you see this plus, you know, the pandemics, sort of creating an opportunity, perhaps once in a lifetime opportunity, for real serious addressing these issues?

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