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Let's save the world by 2030. Our Platform for Survival aims to prevent war and weapons (especially nuclear); global warming; famine; pandemics, massive radiation exposure; and cyberattacks—and adopt “enabling measures” (global economic, security, and governance reforms).

Episode 688 Better World 06/27/2025

Episode 688 Better World Norbert Stute is a retired Austrian hematologist who created a remarkable website directory to hundrds of thousands of organizations that are devoted to making the world better. Rachael Mellor, his assistant, writes updates on the guides to various categories. Jill Carr-Harris works with Project Save the World and Ekta Parishad in India. For the video and audio podcast: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37171500

Episode 687 Migrants and Deportation 06/26/2025

Episode 687 Migrants and Deportation John Washington is a journalist who covers migrants, especially from Latin America. Sheila McManus is a historian at the University of Lethbridge; Petra Molnar is a lawyer at York University and Jill Carr-Harris is a Gandhian organizer in India. They discuss the way international migrants are now being excluded and refused entry in many countries, especially under the influence of Donald Trump. For the video and audio see . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37158750

Episode 686 Corruption 06/18/2025

Episode 686 Corruption Leonid Kosals and Matthew Light are professors of criminology at the University of Toronto. Both study corruption, especially in Russia and the post-Soviet states. Here they report on changes in that region and factors that determine the severity of corruption. For the video and audo podcast: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37064605

Episode 685 Updating Landmines Action 06/05/2025

Episode 685 Updating Landmines Action Erin Hunt and Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan work for Mines Action Canada, which supports the global ban on anti-personnel mines. The Baltic states, with ther justifiable history of fearing Russia, are about to withdraw from the treaty unless NATO countries can talk them out of it. For the video and audio podcast: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36876315

Episode 684 A Pandemic Treaty 05/31/2025

Episode 684 A Pandemic Treaty Rnnald St. John is a retired epidemiologist who worked in government and the WHO to limit the impacts of pandemics. Neil Arya is a family physician in Waterloo, Ontario, who recalls his climic during the SARS epidemic, which St. John was in charge of controlling. They talk about the new Treaty that has been adopted, which is intended to ensure that health resources are distributed equitably in the next pandemic. For the video and audio podcast: pandemic-treaty /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36797460

Episode 683 Academic Freedom 05/28/2025

Episode 683 Academic Freedom Robert Quinn works through Scholars at Risk to protect academics whose search for truth is being constrained anywhere in the world. He helps the to migrate to safe countries. Marc Spooner is Canadian professor of education who also studies the relationship between academic freedom and democracy. For the video and audio, /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36762515

Episode 682 Global Town Hall May 2025 05/26/2025

Episode 682 Global Town Hall May 2025 This month we talked about our own disabilities with words in ageing; about dying and how to use our defunct bodies later, and about Gaza; AI; psychedelic drugs; DNA research; and the future of life after the transition to "stellar" civilization - the thing beyond capitalism. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36711455

Episode 681 Seth Klein and Emergencies 05/22/2025

Episode 681 Seth Klein and Emergencies Seth Klein heads a project that is part of David Suzuki's climate work. It will offer Canadian youth opportunities to work in the climate emergency as intensely as in World War II – a time of extraordinary efficiency. Can we make such a speed-up transition again? What is the main obstacle? We discuss. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36682005

Episode 680 Nuclear Diplomacy 05/21/2025

Episode 680 Nuclear Diplomacy Robia Akhtar, Tariq Rauf, and Earl Turcotte are experts on nuclear weapons negotiations. They are especially concerned these days about the recent military exchanges between two nuclear-armed states, India and Pakistan. They discuss the challenges and the extraordinary importance of achieving global and permanent nuclear disarmament. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36657350

Episode 679 A Paleontologist and Rice Paddies 05/07/2025

Episode 679 A Paleontologist and Rice Paddies Peter Ward is a paleontologist who has described some of the earth's previous extinction events. He's worried about the one we may be creating now – and he worries about the attack on science that is going on in the US today. At the University of Washington, people are being laid off today. We can't save the world without science. For the video and audio podcast, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-679-a-paleontologist-and-rice-paddies. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36478400

Episode 678 People First and Russia 05/06/2025

Episode 678 People First and Russia Oleksandra Romantsova, Dmitry Gurin, and Sergey Davidis talk about their new organization, People First, which seeks to protect prisoners of conscience in Russia who oppose the war against Ukraine. Their primary objective is to establish that, when a peace agreement is reached, the prisoners and Ukrainian children who had been abducted and placed in russia foster homes will be the first to be released and sent to their original homes. For the video and audio podcast, . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36447960

Episode 675 Global Town Hall April 2025 04/28/2025

Episode 675 Global Town Hall April 2025 Victor Kogan Yasny joined us from Moscow and told us that the military economy was booming but not business. Also, we talked about the strange shift of young American males toward Trump. The main explanation was Rose Dyson's: the profitable business of violent video games, which trains males to kill effectively. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36332695

Episode 764 Progress in the South Caucasus? 04/24/2025

Episode 764 Progress in the South Caucasus? There is one surviving branch of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly: in the south Caucasus. Arzu Abdulleyeva, Natalia Martiroosyan and Alexander Russetsky belong to it, and in the Netherlands, Marten van Harten. They discuss the Nagorno Karabakh war and the new peace agreement, yet to be signed. Jill Carr-Harris steers the conversation. For the video, audio podcast and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36288905

Episodeo 673 Black Glaciers 04/17/2025

Episodeo 673 Black Glaciers Ulyana Horodyskyj Pena was recently in the Arctic and the Andes looking at glaciers, which have turned dark from falling soot and fabric particulates. She shares experiences with two senior Arctic scientists, Maria Pia Casarini and her distinguished husband Peter Wadhams. For the video, audio podcast see . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36214480

Episode 672 Cyber Peace 04/15/2025

Episode 672 Cyber Peace Jessica Walton works with CyberPeace, an NGO based in Geneva that offers free cyber security advice to civil society organzations worldwide.to protect themselves from crooks on the Internet. W discuss the merits and disadvantages of keeping information private. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36173750

Episode 671 Indigenous Health Perspectives 04/10/2025

Episode 671 Indigenous Health Perspectives Qjiel Mariano is a young indigenous man from the Philippines whose studies at York University's program in global Health is supported by Pegasus, the organization that Neil Arya founded and now chairs. Here Neil interviews Qjiel about several topics, especially the indigenous medical systems that Qjiel is studying. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36077820

Episode 670 Religion and Climate 04/05/2025

Episode 670 Religion and Climate Frances Flannery and Elizabeth Blackman are two of the three co-founders of an organization called "Bio-earth" which discusses some of the philosophical traditions that influence the kind of actions people take in the physical world, especially regarding climate. For the video, audio, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/36013275

Episode 669 No First Use 04/04/2025

Episode 669 No First Use Aaron Tovish is a livelong peace organization leader. For several years his primary goal has been to promote a policy whereby the nuclear nations would all adopt a treaty promising not to be the first to attack another country with a nuclear weapon. The next step would be to disarm the existing nukes. Here he argues the case. For the video, audio podcast, and comments, . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35999125

Episode 668 Global Town Hall Mar 2025 03/31/2025

Episode 668 Global Town Hall Mar 2025 Peter Carter, Lyn Adamson, and Brian von Herzen agree that the most effective way of addressing global warming might be to cut the $3 trillon annual expenditures on subsidies to fossil fuel industry. Since Elon Musk has promised to end all subsidies, let's challenge him to eliminate the ones to fossil fuels. The challenge is in finding a way to present such a demand with organized impact instead of separately and being ignored. For the ideo, audio podcast, and comments; /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35933015

Episode 667 Know Your Bio-region 03/25/2025

Episode 667 Know Your Bio-region /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35848740

Episode 666 The EMP Bomb 03/20/2025

Episode 666 The EMP Bomb William Forstchen is a military historian who has written 50 books, including a novel about the aftermath of an electromagnetic pulse bomb. John Hallam is an Australian peace activists who has worked for nuclear disarmament since 1977. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35784550

Episode 665 Rotarians on Peace and Environment 03/14/2025

Episode 665 Rotarians on Peace and Environment Kathi Futornick and Mihael Caruso are Rotarians in Oregon, especially interested in environmental degradation caused by militarism. Kathi shows some slides that she'd used for a talk in Istaenbul recently, when thousands of other Rotarians gathered to discuss the same issue. For the video, auto podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35681270

Episode 664 Peace and Health in Congo 03/08/2025

Episode 664 Peace and Health in Congo Pakisa Tshimika is a Congolese public health doctor in Kinshasa, where he heads the Mama Makeka House of Hope. Neil Arya is a aily physician in Waterloo, Ontario and the founder of Pegasus, an institute for health care workers and social scientists. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35589070

Episode 663 Mary Kaldor's New World Order 03/06/2025

Episode 663 Mary Kaldor's New World Order Mary Kaldor, a retired professor at LSE, has been one of the leading peace researchers and activists in the world since founding the Helsinki Citizens Assembly at the end of the Cold War. She is on th UN Commission on Disarmament now and is writing a book about the world order. She gives Metta a peek at this big work and together they speculate about the kind of institutional lgoal changes that are coming. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35554665

Episode 662 Pugwashites Discussing Wars 03/01/2025

Episode 662 Pugwashites Discussing Wars Canadian Pugwash members Paul Meyer (former ambassador for disarmament), Adele Buclkley (firner member of Iternational pugwash's council), an Robin Collins (long time officer of the Canadian branch) discuss yesterday's conflict between Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy and speculate about the outcome of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. For the video, audio podcast and comments; . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35494995

Episode 661 Censorship 02/26/2025

Episode 661 Censorship Mickey Huff is a history professor at Ithaca College and director of Project Censored, and organization that originated in Sonoma, California. We tallk about the need for citizens to have access to information that, too often, is suppressed in the regular press. Huff does not blame the government so much as corporate interests, though he points out that the US has interfered with elections in other countries for decades, so it is hypocritical to complain about disinformation campaigns from abroad now. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https:/. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35434735

Episode 660 Marine Permaculture 02/25/2025

Episode 660 Marine Permaculture Brian von Herzen, the CEO of the Climate Foundation, describes his project – the development of large seaweed farms in the oceans around Asia (their first one is near the Philippines). The algae are anchored to a circular platform that is lowered at night so the algae can absorb the nutrients that lie in the deeper levels, and then is raised in the daytime to use photosynthesis and provide food for the increasing human population. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35419525

Episode 659 Global Town Hall Feb 2025 02/24/2025

Episode 659 Global Town Hall Feb 2025 This open conversation has Tom Hedberg lamenting the stat e f US democracy and blaming Fox news. Moji Agha proposes a solution involving small groups. Charles Tauber's solution is therapy to deal with past traumas. James Thring wants quicker action to stop the bloodshed while it is ongoing - especially to protect the Palestinians. Meteeta likes the idea of therapy for millions by "barefoot therapists" on Zoom, but agrees with Thring that the urgent matter is to stop the violence immediately; she would institute stronger measures for the UN to require countries led by aggressors to replace their government with one that will comply with international law. For the video, audio podcast, aand comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35403330

Episode 658 The World is My Country 02/11/2025

Episode 658 The World is My Country Arthur Kanegis and Melanie Bennett produced a film about Garry Davis, who declared himself a world citizen but a citizen o no other country. Now they run a series of meetings developing a world citizenry. or the video, audio podcast, and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35233370

Episode 657 Arctic Climate Puzzles 02/10/2025

Episode 657 Arctic Climate Puzzles Climate scientists Tom Goreau and Peter Wadhams are puzzled about two new events in the Arctic: On February 2, the North Pole was melting. And earlier there was a sharp increase in a number of gases and aerosols -- all except methane, which you might expect. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https:/ /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/35216460

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