Episode 636 Governing Geoengineering
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Daniel Bodansky and Jesse Reynolds are both professors of international law. Robert Chris is a geography professor and advocate of geoengineering. All three guests worry that there is no strong constituency demanding faster adoption of climate repair, for it is urgently needed. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: .
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Episodeo 634 Land and Climate
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Tony McQuail is an organic farmer in Ontario who also belongs to a farmers group working on climate issues. Alan Slavin is a retired physics professor; Sheldon Harvey is a Navajo artist in Arizona. We discuss the challenge of maintaining food production while reducing the harm done by poor agricultural practices and aks what the optimum plans are for saving the soil. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: .
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Episode 633 Let's Get them Talking
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Wouter van Dieren is a Dutch activist who worked on the Limits to Grwoth book in the 1970s. Viktor Jaakkola is a member of the Finnish youth activist organization Operaatio Arktis, which works on communicating scientific knowledge. We discuss the perilous present climate situation and ways to perhaps stimulate greater public engagement, including with the participation of celebrities. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: .
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Episode 632 SAI or Why Not
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Ye Tao is the founder of MEER, an organization that promotes the potential use of mirrors on land to reflect heat back into space. John Nissen and Herb Simmens are both leaders of HPAC, the Healthy Planet Action Coalition, which considers the possible effects of various proposals for cooling the planet -- especially the Arctic. For the video, audio podcast, and comments:
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Episode 631 Ocean Solutions to Climate
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Kare Moran is CEO of Ocean Networks Canada. Peter Fiekowsky has founded an organization promoting climate restoration. We discuss her organization's task – collecting data about the oceans, especially data that may help clarify the potential value or risks involved in proposed climate solutions. For the video, audio and comments: .
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Episode 627 Stolen Pride
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Arlie Hochschild, professor of sociology U. California, discusses her new book, Stolen Pride, which explains the political shift among white males in a former coal-mining town from Democrat to pro-Trump, who helps them externalize blame for their downward social mobility. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: .
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Episode 630 Fixing Democracy to fix Climate
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David Levai is working with the ISWE Foundation to develop an independent global citizens' assembly to complement the United Nations but represent the whole human population -- the individuals, not states. We discuss whether such a body could work effectively by meeting on Zoom instead of in person For the video, audio podcast, and comments: .
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Episode 628 Beyond Iron vs Methane
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Franz Oeste and Clive Elsworth have been working on methods of removing methane from the atmosphere. Peter Fiekowsky follows and has supported their work, as well as an earlier proposal to use iron salt to oxidize methane – an idea that would still work but may not be as effective as Oeste's new ideas.
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Episode 626 Physicists Against the Bomb
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Stewart Prager is one of the founders of the Coalition of Physicists for Nuclear Threat Reduction. Roohi Dalal is an astronomer who has been a fellow with that organization, through which the members have been reaching out to physicists across the United States and now abroad. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: .
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Episode 624 Sustainable Economies
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Marc Jaccard heads British Columbia Energy Commission. John Feffer heads a project on Just Transition. They discuss whether (and how) resources can be conserved and pollution minimized while economic growth continues - and what such growth would look like. For the video, audio podcast and comments: .
info_outlineMubarak Awad was a Palestinian Christian psychotherapist who found that his clients did not need therapy; they needed freedom. So he founded a center for nonviolence, which the Israeli government did not appreciate -- since it created an effective nonviolent intifada. But the work continues, and Metta speaks with Awad and three other leaders in nonviolent resistance: Michael Beer, Andre Kamenshikov (working now from Kiev), and Yeshua Moser Puangsuwan (working from both Thailand and Canada). At least three of the people are optimistic about being able to continue their work, even in the hard post-covid economy.
This series of weekly discussions is produced by Peace Magazine (see http://peacemagazine.org) and Project Save the World (see http://tosavetheworld.ca). On the latter website, you are invited to comment on this podcast episode and endorse the Platform for Survival, a list of 25 public policy proposals that, if enacted, will markedly reduce the risk of the six most urgent threats to humankind.