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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 699 China in the World 09/08/2025

Episode 699 China in the World Jeremy Paltiel, Ellen Judd, and Jeff Mahon are Canadian experts on China. They worry about the currently changing trade relations among Canada, the US, and China, which are inextricably tied to geopolitical relations. For the video and audio podcast, see /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/38122415

Episode 697 India and Japan at Peace 09/07/2025

Episode 697 India and Japan at Peace John Clammer is a British sociologist who has lived and taught in Asia for many years, dividing his time between Japan and India. He is studying disasters now and teaching a course on solidarity economics. Here he, Jill Carr-Harris, and Metta compare the two countries with regard to peace and energy policies. For the video and audio podcast: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/38122070

Ep 709 Lawmaking Beyond Nationalism 09/07/2025

Ep 709 Lawmaking Beyond Nationalism Alyn Ware a tireless organizer for peace and climate action, is expanding into artificial intelligence. In this episode, he shares recent activities within his group, including parliamentary efforts on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, as well as related discussions on AI governance. Listen to the audio: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/38116060

Episode 694 The Golden Dome 08/26/2025

Episode 694 The Golden Dome Tariq Rauf is a specialist on nuclear weapons at the IAEA. Ernest Yanarella authored a book, The Missile Defense Controversy. They discuss the transition from "Star Wars " Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative -- and Trump's plan for a 'golden dome' to protect Americans from nuclear-armed missiles. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37970990

Episode 693 Turmoil in Georgia 08/26/2025

Episode 693 Turmoil in Georgia Irakli Kakabadze is a nonviolence activist; Arsen Kharatyan is a journalist; Vakhtang Maisaia is a political science professor. They are all appalled by the repressions of the current Georgian regime on the Georgian people. The party in power, Georgian Dream, is now firmly aligned with the Kremlin. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37970570

Episode 705 Famine Today 08/24/2025

Episode 705 Famine Today Timmo Gaasbeek began as an irrigation engineer. His work in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan have familiarized him with the challenges now facing the Sudanese, who numbered 50 million before this war began, and who are mostly now hungry or starving. For the video and audio podcast, see or /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37933790

Episode 704: Trees, Climate, Money 08/19/2025

Episode 704: Trees, Climate, Money Parag Kadam and Theri Reichlin were foresters who work on the preservation of forests for sequestering carbon. They describe their jobs and how they are helping to combat climate change. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37883260

Episode 703 PSTW Members Mtg Aug 17 08/17/2025

Episode 703 PSTW Members Mtg Aug 17 This is a private monthly meeting of PSTW members, this time focusing entirely on the genocide in Gaza. The video has not been edited at all. Member will come back on August 31 for a Global Town Hall Meeting, which is open to the public. Please sign in if you attend. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37855985

Episode 702 Coral Reefs and Beaches 08/15/2025

Episode 702 Coral Reefs and Beaches Tom Goreau specializes in the ecosystem of coastal oceans, especially coral reefs. He shows that the beaches around the world are eroding badly but he has a way of protecting them with electric rods that break up the incoming waves. For the video and audio podcast, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-702-coral-reefs-and-beaches /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37827025

Episode 696 How to Do a Citizens Assembly 08/12/2025

Episode 696 How to Do a Citizens Assembly Marjan Ehsassi practiced law many years and then decided to focus on the relations between citizens and government, where she thinks the big problems lie. So she's been studying citizens' assemblies and whote a Ph.D. dissertation on it -- which became a book. Since Project Save the World is planning an inquiry on zoom that will resemble a citizens assembly (though we won't call it that because we can't recruit by sortition), we consulted her for advice about the design. For the video and audio podcast, /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37768890

Episode 701 Global Views on Geoengineering 08/11/2025

Episode 701 Global Views on Geoengineering Chad Baum is a professor in Denmark who has, with his colleagues, conducted a massive global public opinion survey about attitudes toward geoengineering. It was published in Nature. Here he describes the findings. For the video and audio podcast, . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37765790

Episode 698 Russian Escapees and Deserters 08/02/2025

Episode 698 Russian Escapees and Deserters Ivan left Russia rather than kill Ukrainians. Mikhail Elizbarashvili and Charles Tauber helo escapees and deserters such as Ivan and Konstantin Samoilov,, who escaped to Tashkent and created a breakfast club for people in his situation. For the video and audio podcast, . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37645620

Episode 691 Resistance 07/17/2025

Episode 691 Resistance Stephen Zunes, Jorgen Johansen, and Jill Carr-Harris area all specialists in nonviolent resistance, having worked and studied the history of such opposition movements in many different countries. They agree that it is important to build community but that short-term tctics also should be developed for meeting urgent situations. For the video and audio podcast: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37436155

Episode 690 Middle East Today 07/01/2025

Episode 690 Middle East Today Meir Amor is sociologist and an Israeli peace worker.Paul Meyer is a retired diplomat, formerly Canada's ambassador for disarmament. Jill Carr-Harris is a Gandhian organizer. Maryam Nayab Yazdi is a Canadian-Iranian human rights worker. For the video and audio podcast: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/37232070

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

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