Episode 630 Fixing Democracy to fix Climate

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.