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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 646 Enforcing International Law 12/21/2024

Episode 646 Enforcing International Law Rebecca Shoot heads Citizens for Global Solutions nadLawrence Wittner, a professor emeritus of history, State U of New York at Albany, is on her board. They discuss the arrest warrants issued for Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu and the gradual emergence of international law over time. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/34559360

Episode 645 Georgian Women Talk Democracy 12/20/2024

Episode 645 Georgian Women Talk Democracy Shorena Lortkipanidze, Nino Chkobadze, and Nano Saralishvili, activists and scholars in Tbilisi, Georgia, have seen protests for the past three weeks in all towns of their country – reactions against the decision of a newly elected Pro-Russia party to defer entry to the European Union. Jill Carr-Harris, an expert on nonviolent protest, leads this exploration of the crisis. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: 45-georgian-women-talk-democracy. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/34543770

Episode 644 Velikhov's Friends 12/09/2024

Episode 644 Velikhov's Friends As a Soviet scientist, Roald Sagdeev knew Yevgeny Velikhov longest. The American scientists Richard Garwin, Frank von Hippel, and Thomas Cochran worked closely with Velikhov during the Gorbachev years, mainly to demonstrate experimentally how safe it would be for both sids to disarm their nuclear weapons. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/34342975

Episode 641 Metta on Why Trump Won 12/06/2024

Episode 641 Metta on Why Trump Won Trump expresses outrage – but what is it really about? Please send Metta Spencer a video about what makes YOU seethe in daily life. Her theory: Democracy can’t hold people accountable anymore. The US election shows the hostility that most Americans feel toward urban elites, blaming us smart-ass city-slickers for making their lives miserable by running unaccountable corporations, bureaucratic government, big science, and big media with high-tech and digital inventions. The Democrats should have asked Americans what really infuriates them. It’s not about money. It’s about the humiliating inability even to manage one’s own daily life anymore. For the video and audio: https:/ /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/34320510

Episode 642 Global Town Hall Nov 2024 12/06/2024

Episode 642 Global Town Hall Nov 2024 Proposal: Let people appeal to panels of citizens selected by sortition for protection from unjust or unworkable digital tech and bureaucratic rigidity. Metta ranted about YouTube's deletion of years of work and important conversations about climate. Attendees from 5 countries discussed this and COP's failure at Baku. We hope to have the video back on our website in a couple of weeks, but you can watch it sooner on Substack or listen on Libsyn.For the video, audio podcast, comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-642-global-town-hall-nov-2024 /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/34313485

Episode 643 Georgian Resistance 12/03/2024

Episode 643 Georgian Resistance Irakli Kakabadze and Shorena Lortkipanidze are in Tbilisi, watching the uprising being suppressed in the streets, while Konstantin Samoilov describes the situation in Uzbekistan for those opposing Russian political influence. For the video, audio, and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/34264735

Episode 641 Metta on Why Trump Won 11/08/2024

Episode 641 Metta on Why Trump Won Trump expresses outrage – but what is it really about? Please send Metta Spencer a video about what makes YOU seethe in daily life. Her theory: Democracy can’t hold people accountable anymore. The US election shows the hostility that most Americans feel toward urban elites, blaming us smart-ass city-slickers for making their lives miserable by running unaccountable corporations, bureaucratic government, big science, and big media with high-tech and digital inventions. The Democrats should have asked Americans what really infuriates them. It’s not about money. It’s about the humiliating inability even to manage one’s own daily life anymore. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/33844407

Episode 640 Likhotal on the Future 11/03/2024

Episode 640 Likhotal on the Future Alexander Likhotal and Metta Spencer discuss current global affairs shortly before the US election. Likhotal, once Mikhail Gorbachev’s closest aide and spokesman, is now a professor of international relations in Geneva. You can watch this whole video on Substack here: https://projectsavetheworld.substack.com/p/episode-640-likhotal-on-the-future? /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/33766797

Episode 638 Douglas Roche on Peace 10/18/2024

Episode 638 Douglas Roche on Peace Douglas Roche has been Canada's disarmament ambassador and a senator, as well as s leading anti-nuclear weapons activist on the world stage. In his mid-nineties, he continues to write articles and books. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/33520412

Episode 637 After the Summit of the Future 10/11/2024

Episode 637 After the Summit of the Future Fergus Watt has led the Coalition for the UN We Need, which was planning the NGO portion of the recent Summit of the Future at the UN. Both Paul Werbos and David Levai attended and the three people discuss the outcome of the conference. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/33414182

Episode 636 Governing Geoengineering 10/02/2024

Episode 636 Governing Geoengineering 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: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/33294017

Episodeo 634 Land and Climate 09/28/2024

Episodeo 634 Land and Climate 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: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/33240632

Episode 633 Let's Get them Talking 09/23/2024

Episode 633 Let's Get them Talking 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: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/33178002

Episode 632 SAI or Why Not 09/18/2024

Episode 632 SAI or Why Not 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: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/33116552

Episode 631 Ocean Solutions to Climate 09/10/2024

Episode 631 Ocean Solutions to Climate 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: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32997707

Episode 627 Stolen Pride 09/10/2024

Episode 627 Stolen Pride 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: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32986827

Episode 630 Fixing Democracy to fix Climate 09/07/2024

Episode 630 Fixing Democracy to fix Climate 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: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32952227

Episode 628 Beyond Iron vs Methane 09/05/2024

Episode 628 Beyond Iron vs Methane 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. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32904232

Episode 626 Physicists Against the Bomb 08/27/2024

Episode 626 Physicists Against the Bomb 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: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32768192

Episode 624 Sustainable Economies 08/19/2024

Episode 624 Sustainable Economies 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: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32647102

Episode 623 Firepower and Security 08/13/2024

Episode 623 Firepower and Security Simon Dalby, a professor emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University, discusses the importance of fire for human security, previously mainly because if the use of combustion for weapons' firepower, but now for its causal connection to the climate crisis. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32553452

Episode 622 Grandparents and Climate 08/08/2024

Episode 622 Grandparents and Climate Carole Holmes is the current co-chair and Lorraine Green a previous co-chair of GASP, while Janet Hudgins is active in Seniors for Climate. These are two of the 52 organizations in Canada for people who work to keep this planet in livable condition for their grandchildren by blocking climate change. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32492857

The Sometimes Icy Clouds 08/06/2024

The Sometimes Icy Clouds Cloud physicists Diego Villaneueva and Jasper Kok explain the potential and also the risks of a new method of climate interventions: the thinning of mixed-phase clouds, which are sometimes made of ice and sometimes water. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32460057

Episode 619 Global Town Hall July 2024 08/06/2024

Episode 619 Global Town Hall July 2024 Climate experts Peter Wadhams and Brian von Herzen discuss hydrogen energy and kelp with Katia Emami and Mohammed Haque, who worry about brutal governments in their homeland, and Sandy Greer, who worries about the rights of indigenous Canadians. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32459912

Episode 621 Oceans and Spray 08/06/2024

Episode 621 Oceans and Spray Jessica Wan models climate processes. She explains to Patricia Quinn and Robert Tulip that the effects of marine cloud brightening may be beneficial today, but not by mid-century, when the climate will be warmer. Such an intervention done locally will have global effects that are hard to predict, so it is important to do research now about these processes. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32452987

Episode 618 Combined Ways of Cloud Cooling 07/23/2024

Episode 618 Combined Ways of Cloud Cooling Franz Oeste keeps coming up with new discoveries about cooling the planet. Now he says that white clouds produce OH radicals, which destroy methane. Clive Elsworth works with him. We dscuss it with a financial manager, Sander Epema, Robin Collins, and David Price. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments; . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32255727

Episode 617 Ocean Fertility 07/16/2024

Episode 617 Ocean Fertility Robert Tulip is a leading member of the climate change webinars Healthy Planet Action Coalition. Robert McNamee is founder of Lucent Bio, an organization that produces a soil amendment from rice husks. He had been actively engaged in the experiment led by the Haida tribe on British Columbia to increase the population of salmon with iron fertilization of the ocean. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32154437

Episode 616 Russian Escapees Talk 07/12/2024

Episode 616 Russian Escapees Talk Konstantin Samoilov, Roman, Maksim, and Nick are all Russian men who fled from their homeland to avoid being sent to kill Ukrainians. They are all finding it difficult or impossible to immigrate to another country of their choice. This is typical; most escapees are treated with suspicion in Europe, North America, or indeed most other countries now when they apply to immigrate. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32118562

Episode 615 Thinning. Icy Clouds 07/10/2024

Episode 615 Thinning. Icy Clouds David Mitchell is a climate change scientist who is exploring the possibility of reducing global warming by seeding cirrus clouds at the poles during the winter months, thereby allowing some of the infrared radiation under to atmospheric blanket to escape into outer space. Paul Beckwith is a climatologist who holds regular video lessons about developments in global warming. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32074807

Episode 612 Whales, Dolphins, Monkeys 07/03/2024

Episode 612 Whales, Dolphins, Monkeys Heidi Pearson is a professor marine biology at the University of Alaska Southeast, where there are lots of whales. She is concerned about them, since they are injured and traumatized by the noises of ships and sonar. She studies dolphins too, and compares them intellectually to other land-based animals – especially primates. One indicator of their intelligence is the existence of brain cells that are known tospecialize in empathy — imagining the experiences and thinking of others. For the video, audio podcast, transcript or summary and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/32000332

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