Episode 630 Fixing Democracy to fix 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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-634-land-and-and-climate.

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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-633-lets-get-them-talking.

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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-532-sai-or-why-not/

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: https://tosavetheworld.ca .

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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-627-stolen-pride.

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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-630-fixing-democracy-to-fix-climate.

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.

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: https://tosavetheworldca/episode-626-physicists-against-the-bomb.

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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-624-sustainable-economies.

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: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-623-firepower-and-security.