Episode 762 Teaching University Students Peace
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Carolyn Stephenson, Erika Simpson, and Nathan Funk all are professors of peace studies. They discuss the declining numbers of university programs in peace and the impact the movement had in academia.
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Episode 761 Cooling Ecosystems
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Yes, we must curb greenhouse gas emissions, but nature also has other ways of cooling the planet. Rob de Laet reminds of an overlooked one: evapotranspiration of water and aerosols into the air.
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Episode 760 Yes, President Caligula!
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Lloyd Axworthy, Michael Beer, Douglas Roche, and Doug Saunders discuss what to do if your ruler is a madman who appoints his horse to the senate or prepares to end a civilization.
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Episode 759 Global Town Hall Mar 2026
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Talk: from mountain lions to hearing aids to kelp farming to whether the New York Times covered the third No Kings demonstration to whom will the Republicans choose as a candidate: Vance or Rubio?
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Episode 758 What News Gets Covered?
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Aja Romano is a journalist who writes about the news business and cancel culture. We discuss the puzzling question: Why does the mainstream press cover what it does -- and why not about protests.
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Episode 757 Abolishing War
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In his book, Abolishing War, Winston Langley offers several promising suggestions to promote world peace. Lawrence Wittner agrees with most of them.
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Episode 756 Environmental Peacebuilding Law
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Carl Bruch, an environmental lawyer who founded an organization looking into the impact of war on the environment. Alex Belyakov is a consultant producing, with Carl, an encyclopedia on this topic.
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Episode 755 Climate and Insurance
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Sandy Trust has authored studies on the risks of climate change the urgency of preparation by insurance companies. Robert Chase joins to explore the danger that property is becoming uninsurable.
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Episode 754 The War in Iran
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Shahram Tabe, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and professor at U. of Toronto, discusses the ongoing war with Doug Saunders, the Globe and Mail international affairs columnist.
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Episode 753 Climate Hope, Doom, Duty
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Eliot Jacobson thinks the real challenge is to save nature, not human civilization, for we humans are not a uniquely wonderful species. Robert Tulip disagrees, favoring hope as a spiritual asset.
info_outlineBetty Reardon is a professor emeritus of peace education at the Teachers College, Columbia University. Hers was a graduate program, unlike the peace studies undergraduate program that Metta taught at U of Toronto. She notes gladly that the legitimacy of peace as a discipline has been achieved now, and that her graduates have gone on to do professional work in government, civil society organizations, and businesses. Nowadays she is working to help bring educated, professional Afghan women to the US and other countries. Evidently the younger Taliban want to educate girls, but the government is now run by old men who are blocking that change. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and public comments see https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-447-teaching-peace. Then share your own thoughts about this in the comment column.