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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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-658-the-world-is-my-country
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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:/tosavetheworld.ca/episode-657-arctic-climate-puzzles
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The insurance industry should be investigating the costs and risks of technological interventions to mitigate climate change, but they are not. Robert Tulip, Dennis Garrity, Brian on Herzen, and Sev Clarke have been planning ways to change the industry's approach. Marilyn Krieger joined us as a Caliornia homeowner. For the vieo, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-655-insurance-and-climate.
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Metta forgot to record the first 25 minutes. Then discus insurance and wildfires in LA, AI, climate, and the use of AI to control weapons, especially nuclear ones. Peter Wadhams, Marilyn Krieger, Brian von Herzen, Peter Wadhams. For the video, audio podcast, comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-654-global-town-hall-jan-2025.
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Laura Kahn is a public health expert and co-founder of One Health Initiativr. Her ost recent book, One Health and the Politics of Covid-19, investigates whether Covid emerged from the wetmarket of Wuhan, China. She concludes not, since there were no Covid antibodies found in any of the 400+ animals tested in that market. For the ideo, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-653-the-politics-of-covid.
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John Washington is a journalist who specializes in immigration issues, which he believes have been made into a "political football" by politicians who misiform people about the dangers that the newcomers bring. In fat, they are an economic asset. For the video, audio podcast and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-651-asylum
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Thomas Hedberg heads, and his old friend Thomas De Laoughry belongs to, an organization promoting the spread of accurate medical information. But they are perturbed to recognize the power of organizations that are devoted to undermining reality and promoting falsehood. For the video, audio podcast, and commnets: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-650-since-goebbels.
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Anuradha Shankar, Hemakumara Gunasekara, Rohan Savarimuttu, and Thayaparan discuss with Jill Carr-Harris and Rajagopal the prospects for reconciliation between Sinhala and Tamil people in Sri Lanka, in view of the election of a new government. For the video, audio podcast and comments see https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-649-sri-lankan-reconciliation.
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David Harries gave a talk recently about accountability and Metta Spencer found the concept helps explain the puzzles about why voters around the world are angry and ousting incumbent politicians. So they talk about how acountability is harder nowadays and needs to be fixed – but how? For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-648-whos-accountable.
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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.
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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: https://tosavetheworld.ca'episode-6 45-georgian-women-talk-democracy.
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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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-644-velikhovs-friends
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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:/tosavetheworld.ca/episode-641-why-trump-won
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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
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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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-643-georgian-resistance
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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.
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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?
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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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-638-douglas-roche-on-peace.
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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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-637-after-the-summit-of-the-future.
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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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-636-governing-geoengineering.
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