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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 598 More on Iron Salt Aerosol 04/17/2024

Episode 598 More on Iron Salt Aerosol Oswald Petersen is working on an intervention to reduce methane from the atmosphere with iron salt. Peter Fiekowsky, in California, is endorsing this project with enthusiasm. They explain the current plans to climatologist Paul Beckwith and Canadian Pugwashites Adele Buckley and Robin Collins. The new plan is to use airplanes to disseminate the iron instead of their original notion, towers. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30864483

Episode 597 Arctic Climate and Megafauna 04/09/2024

Episode 597 Arctic Climate and Megafauna In this the Paleocene giant animals roamed the earth. Kate Lyons and Alessandro Mereghetti are scholars studying the extermination of those creatures. Some people believe that a way to protect our climate may be to repopulate our arctic with wooly mammoths and other animals. We discuss this. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30752768

Episode 596 Global Town Hall Mar 2024 04/08/2024

Episode 596 Global Town Hall Mar 2024 On this monthly town hall meeting we discussed human similarities to animals and the nature of mind and the management of nuclear waste. To see the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-596-global-town-hall-mar-2024. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30731423

Episode 595 Thinning Cirrus Clouds 04/08/2024

Episode 595 Thinning Cirrus Clouds David Mitchell (and his colleague Ehsan Erfani) are pointing out that the high cirrus clouds are like a blanket warming the planet. If we poke holes in the blanket, we release heat. Likewise, by seeding the cirrus clouds in the winter at the poles, we can release excess heat from our world. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30730573

Episode 594 It's time to Geoengineer Climate 04/07/2024

Episode 594 It's time to Geoengineer Climate Gwynne Dyer's new book, Intervention Earth, is really about geoenginering and the urgency of studying the numerous proposals for cooling the planet faster than by simply reducing carbon emissions. For several years, Dyer and his wife Tina Viljoen have been filming numerous interviews with experts on climate, aware earlier than most other people that the only possible way to avert global catastrophe would eventually depend on the application of some such measures at scale. At last, that reality is becoming recognized by scientists, but much more needs to happen to change public opinion in time. Therefore, Dyer devotes the first half of the book to convincing the reader that, like it or not, we must start iimmediately getting ready. An edited transcript of this conversation will appear in the April 2024 issue of Peace Magazine. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments, see . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30713188

Episode 593 Whales Do Poop 03/31/2024

Episode 593 Whales Do Poop A chat with whale and Arctic experts Edwina Tanner, Krys Chutko, and Joe Roman discuss the impact of the big sea mammals on our environment and the way human activities have decimated them. Surprisingly important is their digestive system, which affects the proliferation of phytoplankton. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30611583

Episode 591 New Aerosol Discoveries 03/10/2024

Episode 591 New Aerosol Discoveries News: Franz Oeste has found several other aerosols that can demolish methane in the atmosphere even faster. Clive Elsworth explains with slides to Peter Wadhams and Adele Buckley For the vieo, audio pocast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30311448

Episode 590 Global Town Hall Feb 2024 03/10/2024

Episode 590 Global Town Hall Feb 2024 Discussing foxes, monkeys, bison, and cats are Bil Leikam and Alexey Prokhorenko. Then we talk about war with Richard Denton and Charles Tauber, and about nuclear waste with Sandy Greer. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30307363

Episode 589 Green Economics 03/09/2024

Episode 589 Green Economics Is economic growth lethal for the environment? Francesco Mellino and Richard Sandbrook discuss the dilemma and a recent journal that Mellino edited for C-40, the organization of mayors around the world who are collaborating for urban sustainability. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and to comment: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30303528

Episode 592 Tiny Green Things 03/09/2024

Episode 592 Tiny Green Things Ricardo Letelier and Peter Fiekowsky know that phytoplankton created the oxygen in our atmosphere. Now maybe they can help us again by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and sending it to the ocean depths. But do phytoplankton respire it out too quickly for that to work? And would a good new volcano do what Mt. Pinatubo did: cool the planet by feeding the phytoplankton and making them multiply and take our more carbon dioxide? For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/30301778

Episode 588 The Climate at Cambridge 02/15/2024

Episode 588 The Climate at Cambridge Shaun Fitzgerald is director of the Centre for Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge, which studies various technological proposals for removing carbon and cooling the planet. We discuss the various options for potentially re-freezing the Arctic and saving ice on Antarctica and Greenland. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29973453

Episode 587 Marine Cloud Re-brightening Feb 02/13/2024

Episode 587 Marine Cloud Re-brightening Feb Brian von Herzen, Paul Beckwith, and Peter Wadhams are climate scientists who generally favor the rapid deployment of marine cloud brightening to the Arctic to cool the planet by increasing albedo. Adele Buckley does not favor that approach because it would be easier to do cloud brightening elsewhere. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29924073

Episode 586 Reading Russian Minds 02/08/2024

Episode 586 Reading Russian Minds Andre Kamenshikov is a Russian peace worker who has lived in Kiev for several years. Boroys Wrzesnewskyj is a Canadian who is very active in the large Ukrainian Canadian community. Both are engaged in supporting the Ukrainians defence against Russia's aggression. Andre is working now to help expatriate Russians inform their friends and relatives at home about the reality they experience in exile. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29851613

Episode 585 Ethics and Climate 02/06/2024

Episode 585 Ethics and Climate Simon Dalby, Neil Craik, and Byron Williston are all Canadian professors in Waterloo who study the ethical and political considerations around the use of technological solutions to global warming. They agree that we are now in an emergency but this does not excuse rashness. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29815533

Episode 584 Transgenerational Trauma 02/02/2024

Episode 584 Transgenerational Trauma Vamik Volkan is a psychoanalyst who studies the psychological dynamics of international relations – the conflicts that are perpetuated over long periods because of the general tendency to identify with one's ancestral community and to refer to its historic traumas to justify its current or recent political or mlitary relations with other groups.His books point out how psychoanalytic patients do change, but usually only after several years of treatment. For the video, audio podcast, transript and discussion: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29776918

Episode 583 Governing by Juries 01/31/2024

Episode 583 Governing by Juries Peter MacLeod leads a Canadian company, Masslbp, which organizes "citizens assemblies" – gatherings of representative samples of populations selected by "sortition" – to inform public policies. MacLeod began this activity when he was a university student and both B.C. and Ontario were holding citizens assemblies to explore electoral reform. His experience influenced Ireland to use that process to decide about abortion and other controversial issues. We owe this innovation to the ancient Athenians. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29740473

Episode 582 Global Town Hall Jan 2024 01/29/2024

Episode 582 Global Town Hall Jan 2024 Marilyn Krieger, Richard Denton, Bill Leikam, Sandy Greer, and Charles Tauber. Monthly conversation time, this one about animal diseases, vaccination, radiation hazards, citizens assemblies, proportional representation, and the abused of migrants by right wing politicians in Europe. Inviting participants to watch the new "Cool Thinking" series that begins on Feb. 5, to discuss ways of cooling the Arctic. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29691193

Episode 581 Global Challenges 2024 01/11/2024

Episode 581 Global Challenges 2024 Jens Orback heads an NGO in Stockholm, the Global Challenges Fooundation, which addresses all existential threats to humankind. This is a get-acquainted conversation with him which compares the positions taken by his group to those that are being explored with high priority by.Project Save the World. They are working seriously toward the Summit of the Future, scheduled for next September at the UN. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29436208

Episode 580 Likhotal on Year 2023 12/27/2023

Episode 580 Likhotal on Year 2023 Alexander Likhotal, now a professor of international relatons in Geneva, was formerly executive director of Green Cross International, appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev, whom he served as press secretary both during and after Gorbachev's presidency. His pessimism about the future is based on the universally shared conclusion that 2023 has been tragic in many countries and for many failures. We discuss Zelinsky's policies in Ukraine, the prospects for an end to the war in Ukraine, and the tragic war in Israel and Gaza. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29242098

Episode 579 The Future of Tuvalu 12/27/2023

Episode 579 The Future of Tuvalu Global warming will submerge most of Tuvalu, but Ambassador Falefou is at the UN, mobilizing support for his country's survival. For a billion dollars or two, it is possible to raise the elevation and enable the society to continue as a sovereign country in Oceania. That is less expensive that removing the whole population to other countries, which may otherwise be necessary. The Tuvaluans plan to become the first "digital nation." /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29237648

Episode 578 The Trouble in Cameroon 12/26/2023

Episode 578 The Trouble in Cameroon Dr. Mukete Tahle Itoe is a judge in Cameroon and the leader of a humanitarian organization that seeks to provide security for the refugees and migrants in his country. There are over 700,000 internally displaced persons there, victims of the violence that has been going on since 2017 as a result of the "Ambazonian" separatist movement of English-speaking citizens. Some 80 percent of Cameroonians speak French and have created a unitary system of government that is opposed by the English-speaking 20 percent. Itoe himself is seeking harmony, not secession, and wants the situation in his country to be better-known in the rest of the world. /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/29235063

Episode 577 Global Town Hall Nov 2023 11/27/2023

Episode 577 Global Town Hall Nov 2023 The war in Gaza has been going on all month, so we talked most about it. Shane Steinman, Alan Haber, Paul Werbos all want a solution that does not involve exclusive sovereignty. Andre Sheldon and Alastair Farrugia both promote changes in process. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/28798613

Episode 576 Empower Russian Escapees 11/22/2023

Episode 576 Empower Russian Escapees Both Konstantin Samoilov and Andre Kamenshikov have left Russia because of their opposition to the war. Jill Carr-Harris is a Gandhian leader in India. We discuss the possibilities and risks of producing educational forums about nonviolence to millions of expatriate Russians. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/28761343

Episode 575 Rivers and Peace 11/10/2023

Episode 575 Rivers and Peace Aaron Wolf is a geography professor at Oregon State University. He heads a program teaching graduate students to work out treaties and other agreements among countries with transboundary disputes over water – mainly rivers that run through their lands. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/28590318

Episode 574 Water Security 11/09/2023

Episode 574 Water Security Leila Harris is a professor in British Columbia who studies the political and social aspects of water. She began with a dissertation on the methods of irrigation in Turkey and more recently has spent time in African townships, seeing how the access to abundant clean water affects the social relationships among neighbors. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/28574188

Episode 573 Food Security and Climate 11/06/2023

Episode 573 Food Security and Climate Cynthia Rosenzweig is a professor at Columbia University who studies the connections between food security and climate change. She reports that the number of hungry people has markedly increased since the Sustainable Development Goals were promulgated, promising to reduce it. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/28538084

Episode 502a Indigenous Medicine 11/03/2023

Episode 502a Indigenous Medicine Nicole Redvers was invited to discuss her book about indigenous medicine, The Science of the Sacred, which is described by Amazon: “Modern medical science has finally caught up to what traditional healing systems have known for centuries. Many traditional healing techniques and medicines are often assumed to be archaic, outdated, or unscientific compared to modern Western medicine. Nicole Redvers, a naturopathic physician and member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation, analyzes modern Western medical practices using evidence-informed Indigenous healing practices and traditions from around the world–from sweat lodges and fermented foods to Ayurvedic doshas and meditation. Organized around various sciences, such as physics, genetics, and microbiology, the book explains the connection between traditional medicine and current research around epigenetics and quantum physics, for example, and includes over 600 citations. Redvers, who has traveled and worked with Indigenous groups around the world, shares the knowledge and teachings of health and wellness that have been passed down through the generations, tying this knowledge with current scientific advances. Knowing that the science backs up the traditional practice allows us to have earlier and more specific interventions that integrate age-old techniques with the advances in modern medicine and technology.” /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/28511753

Episode 572 Global Town Hall Oct 2023 10/31/2023

Episode 572 Global Town Hall Oct 2023 Paul Werbos jokes about Shroedinger's cat, Marilyn Krieger tell us about California's cats, Andre Kamenshikov describes the present state of the Russia/Ukraine war as like the Western front of WW1 and Gordon Edwards reminds us that Canada was first to practice vitrification of nuclear waste. What a Global Town Hall! For the video, audio podcast, transcript and discussion: . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/28469681

Episode 571 New Weapons and Ethics 09/27/2023

Episode 571 New Weapons and Ethics Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff is a retired US military officer who was responsible for new technological means of intellligence-gathering. Now retired, he teaches a course every year at his alma mater, Notre Dame University, focusing on the ethical issues and principles governingn the use of such new weapons. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and public comments, . /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/28161944

Episode 570 Global Town Hall Sept 2023 09/25/2023

Episode 570 Global Town Hall Sept 2023 Bill Leikam and Marillyn Krieger update us on the work of California naturalists -- re beavers and butterflies. After that, there was usually strong disagreement among participants about the Ukraine War, with some placing much of the blame on the US, but Andre Kamenshikov replying eloquently from Kiev. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: /episode/index/show/projectsavetheworld/id/28138580

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