Episode 761 Cooling Ecosystems

Carolyn Stephenson, Erika Simpson, and Nathan Funk all are professors of peace studies. They discuss the declining numbers of university programs in peace and the impact the movement had in academia.

Yes, we must curb greenhouse gas emissions, but nature also has other ways of cooling the planet. Rob de Laet reminds of an overlooked one: evapotranspiration of water and aerosols into the air.

Lloyd Axworthy, Michael Beer, Douglas Roche, and Doug Saunders discuss what to do if your ruler is a madman who appoints his horse to the senate or prepares to end a civilization.

Talk: from mountain lions to hearing aids to kelp farming to whether the New York Times covered the third No Kings demonstration to whom will the Republicans choose as a candidate: Vance or Rubio?

Aja Romano is a journalist who writes about the news business and cancel culture. We discuss the puzzling question: Why does the mainstream press cover what it does -- and why not about protests.

In his book, Abolishing War, Winston Langley offers several promising suggestions to promote world peace. Lawrence Wittner agrees with most of them.

Carl Bruch, an environmental lawyer who founded an organization looking into the impact of war on the environment. Alex Belyakov is a consultant producing, with Carl, an encyclopedia on this topic.

Sandy Trust has authored studies on the risks of climate change the urgency of preparation by insurance companies. Robert Chase joins to explore the danger that property is becoming uninsurable.

Shahram Tabe, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and professor at U. of Toronto, discusses the ongoing war with Doug Saunders, the Globe and Mail international affairs columnist.