Carl Gershman was the head of the National Endowment for Democracy for 37 years. In 2004 NED awarded Seymour Martin Lipset a medal for his work on fostering democracy globally. That is when he and Metta Spencer met, so they talk a little first about Lipset. Then they discuss the bright spots that Gershman sees in the contemporary polarized world, though the anti-democratic forces are nevertheless powerful. Can a system of sovereign democracies suffice to bring about the changes required to prevent a global catastrophe? Gershman thinks positively about that. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-521-the-fate-of-democracy
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: https://tosavetheworld,ca/episode-591-new-aerosol-discoveries.
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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-590-global-town-hall-2024.
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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-598-green-economics.
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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-592-tiny-green-things.
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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-588-the-climate-at-cambridge.
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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-5
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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-586-reading-russian-minds
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: https://tosavetheworld.ca-episode-585-ethics-and-climate.
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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-584-transgenerational-trauma
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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-583-governing-by-juries.
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