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Episode 470 Food
Lori Stahlbrand is a professor at George Brown College. Debbie Field is coordinator for the Coalition for Healthy School Food. Both are deeply concerned about the sustainability of food security. They believe that food should mostly be produced locally, and with reference to the indigenous knowledge of people who have lived in the region for centuries and know the conditions of the soil and ecosystem. But the solution to sustainable food involves many different levels of action, from the personal and individual to the geopolitical. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-470-food. Then share you own thoughts on the comment column. -
Episode 469 Tactical Nukes in Ukraine?
John Manza was Assistant Secretary General for Operations in NATO; Frederic Pearson and Alvin Saperstein are retired professors at Wayne State University, and Erika Simpson is a political science professor at Western University. All are knowledgeable about NATO's nuclear strategy. They discuss the new plans arising from this week's NATO summit and how likely Putin is to use a tactical nuke in the Ukraine war. This is unlikely unless Russia is losing. But this winter, the gas shortage in Europe is likely to weaken the European commitment to sanctions. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comment column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-469-tactical-nukes-in-ukraine. Then share your own ideas on the comment column. -
Episode 468 Global Town Hall June 2022
Alyn Ware, a Right Livelihood laureate, reports that the laureates as a whole are taking climate change and nuclear weapons to the International Court of Justice and the Human Rights Council. Paul Werbos is troubled by the difficulty of getting advanced technical information about energy production to the people who actually can introduce the real changes. Alyn suggests that he send the information to the International Renewable Energy Agency. Charles Tauber reports on his free training online of lay people in Nepal, Sudan, Ukraine, Turkey, and elsewhere as ‘barefoot psychotherapists” for people suffering from the trauma of war and migration. Sandy Greer reports on her campaign against the burying of nuclear wastes in Ontario. Glen Anderson describes similar problems near Hanford, Washington. Rose Dyson reports that the Trans-Mountain Pipeline has been declared economically unfeasible. Alexey Prokhorenko in Moscow worries that there may be a ceasefire that will only freeze the conflict, so that it begins again within a couple of years. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-468-global-town-hall-june-2022. -
Episode 467 Women Senators
Nancy Ruth and Lois Wilson have both retired after serving in Canada's senate. Marilou McPhedran is currently serving there. Nancy worked largely on gender-based issues while Lois focused on human rights and now, in retirement, on a United Church network to promote a guaranteed basic income. Marilou had been an educator about human rights issues and joined us from Vienna where she was attending the first meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comment column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-467-women-senators. After watching, share your thoughts on the comments column. -
Episode 466 Nuclear Winter and War Criminals
David Harries was educated and worked as a nuclear engineer. Leon Kosals is a sociologist professing criminology at University of Toronto, and James Simeon is head of McLaughlin College, York University. David answers Leon's question about whether nuclear winter is a real possibility (yes, but mainly if there is escalation). They both agree with James that war is an existential threat now and must be controlled, which wil involve significant changes in the UN. Though the SDGs are essential, top priority may best be assigned to potential existential threats, which now means that we need means of enforcing international law, especially against leaders who perpetrate aggression against other states. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-466-nuclear-winter-and-war-criminals. Then share your thoughts in the comment column. -
Episode 465 Pre and Post Genocide
Konstanty Gebert is a Polish journalist with a special interest in covering genocide. We discuss the Rwandan and Nazi genocides - the precursors and the circumstances that enabled especially the Germans to become repentant and therefore a moral leader in Europe by accepting over a million refugees. Now Poland is welcoming huge numbers of refugees from Ukraine, and the psychological dissonance is difficult because the EU was punishing Poland for the undemocratic status of its democracy. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-465-pre-and-post-genocide. Then share your thoughts on the comments column. -
Episode 464 Health and War in Ukraine
Richard Denton, Barbara Birkett, and Neil Arya are all Canadian physicians who are deeply engaged in International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada and concerned to end the war in Ukraine. The people they know are overwhelmingly in favor of Ukraine, but now worrying that Russia is likely to win the war and keep Ukrainian territory. We discuss ways of overcoming the Security Council veto so as to impose a globally-satisfactory solution. What would happen if the Security Council did pass a motion requiring Russia to withdraw? Would Putin comply? When then? For the video, audio podcast, transcript and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-464-health-and-war-in-ukraine. Then share your thoughts in the comment column. -
Episode 463 Sports and Geopolitics
Bruce Kidd was an Olympic athlete who became an academic scholar specializing in kinesiology and sport. He has been president of Scarborough College at the University of Toronto and advises government and sports associations. We talk about the connection between political and sports rivalries and the ethical standards to maintain when disciplining countries and athletes for cheating. Should countries that have launched aggressive wars be allowed to participate in world sporting events? Should certain sports be banned for being too dangerous to the players? If so, which sports? And what criteria should be relevant in making such a decision? For the video, audio podcast, transcript and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-463-sports-and-geopolitics. Then scroll down and share your thoughts. -
Episode 462 Royalty, Assimilation, Like Button
Liz Carmichael is an Oxford professor who spent the last four days in ceremonies observing Elizabeth's 70 years on the throne. She was moved by it and shared her feelings – though Rachel Small did not see the monarchy the same way, but described them as exploitive of indigenous people, among other bad traits. We talk about the meaning of monarchs as standing outside of politics. Matt Legge thinks the attitudinal gap is generational, for he has no particular feeling for royalty, though his parents do. He holds conflict resolution workshops. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-462-royalty-assimilation-like-button. Then scroll down and share your thoughts. -
Episode 461 Community Based Research
Budd Hall is a professor of adult education in Victoria BC and co-chair of a UNESCO project on community-based research. Beginning in Tanzania in the 1970s, he helps local citizens discover questions to which they need answers and which are "researchable." Often people in the community collaborate with academic scholars to produce reports that are useful to the public. This trend has implications for making universities more relevant to their communities. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and public comment column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-461-community-based-research. Then share your own thoughts on the comment column. -
Episode 460 Famine – Why and When?
Stephen Devereux studies famine. He has developed a scale for assessing the severity of food insecurity and has compared 70 recent historical cases of famine. Many of them are complex situations involving conflict, some actually caused by the political actions of states' policies, as in Afghanistan now sanctions are maintained against the Taliban to pressure them to protect the rights of girls to education, though the effect is to violate another human right-- the right to food. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comment column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-460-famine-why-and-when. After watching, post your own thoughts. -
Episode 457 Global Town Hall May 2022
Dale Dewar and Georgina Bartos discuss Canada' plans to store radioactive wastes near the Ottawa River. Alexey Prokhorenko reports on the state of mind prevailing in Moscow, and Charles Tauber offers to help Russians who need counselling about the war. Leda Raptis tells us about her cancer research and the plight of black male scientists in Canada. Bill Leikam is burning off some karma by looking after grey foxes and George Wilobo is planning a peace conference in Uganda. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-457-global-town-hall-may-2022. Then share your thoughts on the comment column.
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Thank you Metta for convening the Town Hall meetings. My email address is alyn@pnnd.org. Alyn Ware
My first post on this topic was 1/27/21. No rebuttals.
The K-T atmospheric balance diagram and all of its clones require the surface of the earth to radiate upwelling LWIR as a S-B black body to supply the “extra” energy needed by the GHGs to trap/absorb/delay/intercept and “back” radiate/re-emit thereby warming the terrestrial system.
This not only violates the LoT but generally accepted accounting principles.
Anyone who can balance their checkbook and have used a fan and/or water mist to cool some object can grasp how/why separate BB upwelling LWIR is not possible and the radiative greenhouse effect cannot actually function as advertised.
I’ll post the annotated K-T diagram when I know what type and size will work.
Thanks.
We have now a completely new situation, a situation which never existed in the whole of our, of humans history! It’s the threat of an imminent and planetary self-annihilation due to the climate catastrophe, just to mention that in the mean time an – so called – ‘Abrupt Climate Change’, can happen, which can be up to 18°C after a cascade.. Not to mention an ecological breakdown due to other factors of money-driven human behaviour. So factually, we as humanity are now dealing with a very new enemy that is forcing us to unite as a whole world! Which is just one factor why we can’t fight against the catastrophe of likely timely self-annihilation, within and in while maintaining the monetary world system that keeps the world divided. Against this enemy, we must take measures that humanity has never accomplished before, at a speed similar to that of the times of world wars but closely united globally, putting all major conflicts on the back burner.. And which can be carried out only if the world organization of the monetary world system, our present organizational auxiliary means, is transferred at short notice, within months, on global networking prepared for it, even if this is considered illusory, it is in fact the last option left to humanity to save our existence… This is the factual situation for the oligarchies, the financially rich & super-rich, as well as for the financially poorer strata of the world population. To cut to the chase, the… Read more »
My comment, by the way, dealt with tilling of the soil.My father,on his farm,used buckwheat to condition the soil,and manure to fertilize it. Metta has the actual comment.
If we live in a democracy, why should I have to be approved?
I have made my comment to Metta personally.bja
Re video number 246, Scrubbing Methane from the Air Hi, Renaud and Oswald: I have been thinking about your ISA plan, which will take several years and at least $25 million to test. I don’t think the world can wait so long, and I don’t think that much money is required in order to test your notion. Wheat farmers are using drones for crop dusting nowadays. Drones vary in price enormously. You can buy a mini one for under $100, and the ones they use for crops for $5,000, though these only stay up for about 20 minutes at a time. But they are developing drones that can stay up 25 hours. I bet you could hire a housewife or unemployed narcotics trafficker in the Caribbean for $15 per hour who would spend every day keeping, say, four or five drones in the air at all times, spraying stuff in every direction. I don’t know how much of the ISA you were planning to spew out of your smokestack-tower per hour, but I bet you could emit that much for $200,000 per year, starting within six months, if the ISA itself isn’t too pricey. Is the machine expensive that you’d need to monitor your results? Some cities have laws now restricting the heights that drones are allowed to fly, to prevent collisions with planes, but I doubt that every Caribbean island has such laws. Unfortunately, I can’t see how you would make that into a profitable business. You have stockholders in AMR. What do they… Read more »
Dear Metta,
we think about a public trial which will cost 1.5 million USD only. It will feature a small tower of around 50 m height. Drones are not apt for ISA dispersal because they use lots of fuel and can carry only very small payloads.
With regards to profit please refer to our website http://www.amr.earth/income where we explain how methane removal certificates would work to ensure that a methane removal plant can indeed be turned into a profitable business.
Regards
Oswald
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I wonder whether this is American-oriented or suitable for people in Europe and South America.
To summarize, there are 3 methods, I worked out thanks to Adam’s guidance. 1) Comment in Youtube under the numbered video if you have immediate resources, recent news reports or personal observations. I did this for videos 174 and 200 because Metta had told me my emails to her would be more useful if added once the videos were uploaded. What seems to be impossible is to publish comments on the https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments or https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos pages contrary to what the the boxes say. I strongly suggest rewording the boxes: “Then you can discuss by posting your comments on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/ToSaveTheWorld/videos 2) If you have longterm bibliography or other resources, comment under individual topics listed in the OVERVIEW PAGES. I will probably do this for one or two areas where I am knowledgeable, such as Famine — Metta already suggested I do some rewriting there. 3) If you have longterm analysis with bibliography that is not related to any of the OVERVIEW PAGES, it is possible to start a new topic with a Subject stated in boldface following the directions in “To Post a Comment” but this would not be easily read by users of the videos despite what that box says. It would land unread amid a general catch-all of Town Hall chat. At the moment I can’t think of any overwhelmingly important new topic, that is not covered in method 1 or 2. And if I ever use method 3 I will probably just make it a one-para abstract of a much more thorough Google doc (with tiny.url link), where I’m not restricted by WordPress coding. I’ll… Read more »
David, I was able to get to this and post it here. The problem is, it puts all of the comments about different videos into one column. I think we need to have a way to tell which video a comment is referring to.
Visions of resilience: https://tinyurl.com/yb9zq7k5 is a compilation of several hundred NGO and ecologists’ proposals, mapped on the SDGs (UN Sustainable Development Goals). Not because the SDGs are the best answer or a final one, but to allow meaningful comparison. At the beginning, I have added a new goal 0: a culture of resilience: work by artists, psychologists, activists and NGO researchers, which SDG4 (education) does not adequately cover. Visions was drafted during the UN debates of 2010-2015, revised several times since. This is a collaborative document. Readers are invited to add to it; I have avoided duplicating entries of ideas that crosscut a number of SDGs, but you the reader are welcome to do add or duplicate any item you think important. You are also invited to compare it with tosavetheworld.ca‘s Platform for Survival. There may be items missing from one overview that complement the other, such as the Platform’s planks on war, radioactive, and cyber risks.
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two years in a row, i flew west to the far east and transferred planes in Hong Hong.. flights were hard to find and seats were very full. My seat mates told me that they were culturally oligate to come home for new years. most come home for the mothe. this is the end of jan to the end of feb basicaly. all forms of ground transport in China nearly grinds to a halt with th pressure of all this travel. Yet China was fully aware of an infection in Nov. prior, and did not stop travel, and all these north americans came back before travel was stopped… I am not blaming the individuals. we are encouraged to take a multitude of vaccines prior to travelling…but we pop here and there with no health concerns in a normal year,… im just saying travel is not a privilege to be taken lightly, and should be given quarantine etc time going forward.
I think everyone should be expected to carry evidence of being vaccinated now that vaccine is available. Nobody should get on a plane without proof that they are safe.
The US, Brazil, India, Mexico and Peru accounted for almost half of the global C-19 deaths.
The UK, Italy, Russia, France and Columbia rounded out the top ten leaders in C-19 deaths.
These TOP TEN accounted for almost TWO-THIRDS of the global C-19 deaths.
What is their special talent? Or is it just crappy healthcare?
Densely populated Japan has less than 14,000 C-19 deaths. What do they know and do the rest of the world does not?
How is that a widespread, contagious, lethal pandemic?
Is China is lying by undercounting its 4,600 deaths?
Or are the US and Fauci lying by overcounting and conflating comorbidities?
Government + MSM = lying.
Almost 30% of C-19 deaths occurred in residence, hospice or nursing/eldercare facilities.
86.4% of C-19 CASES were among those UNDER 65.
80% of C-19 DEATHS occurred among those OVER 65+.
30% of C-19 DEATHS were among those OVER 85 with only 2% of the population.
Over the past 18 months there were 4,670,000 DEATHS from ALL causes. At 583,000 C-19 deaths were only 12.5%.
Over 70% of ALL deaths involved those OVER 65 years of age. That demographic is only 16.5% of the population.
NEWS FLASH: OLD PEOPLE DIE!!!!!!!!!!
Mother Nature and her good buddy Grim Reaper were just doing their duty, culling the herd of the too many, too old, too sick, too crammed together in badly run (BLUE) elder care facilities.
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Further evidence to back up Franklyn’s concerns about methane
https://thebulletin.org/2021/01/broken-record-the-planet-is-getting-hotter-and-hotter-and-hotter Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate not just in the Arctic but off the West Coast and subject to release by earthquakes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions methane release already underway, not from clathrates but from tundra
Off the West Coat too? Really! I hear that the depth of the ocean is crucial.Where it is deep the methane cannot reach the surface. It is absorbed on the way up. But in Siberia off the coast, the water is very shallow, so it is coming up in plumes.
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Re Farming in India
So there’s a big parade of tractors owner by the protesting farmers in New Delhi. Obviously, these are not landless peasants who use water buffaloes to pull ploughs. They must have a pretty decent income if they can afford to drive a big tractor hundreds of kilometers. These guys are all wearing turbans. Must be Sikhs, right?
— Clayton Wells
these farmers are having the screws to them, because the laws coming forward will increase monoculture, not permaculture, and insist that fields be planted with stuff like monsanto grain, which cant be saved from crop and must be purchased… and on and on. why cant they wear turbans? why cant they be middle class and still be prosecuted like our farmers wereyears ago here in canad. now it is imposible to family farm in canada; only mega farms survive with these policies
Global Warming and Albedo (For Craig Smith’s video)
https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AAUvwnipZxMEgUrREGfa2kWiI8N3t8fVKx336dWNlg=s48-c-k-c0xffffffff-no-rj-mo
Nick Schroeder • 17 hours ago
1) By reflecting away 30% of ISR the albedo, which would not exist w/o the atmosphere, makes the earth cooler than it would be without the atmosphere like that reflective panel set on the dash. Remove the atmosphere/GHGs and the earth becomes much like the moon, a 0.1 albedo, 20% more kJ/h, hot^3 on the lit side, cold^3 on the dark. Nikolov, Kramm (U of AK) and UCLA Diviner mission all tacitly agree.
2) the GHG up/down welling, “trapping”/”back” radiating/delaying, 100 % efficient, perpetual warming loop requires “extra” energy which it gets from
3) the terrestrial surface radiating that “extra” energy as a near ideal .95 emissivity black body which
4) it cannot do because of the non-radiative heat transfer processes of the contiguous atmospheric molecules.
1+2+3+4 = 0 Greenhouse Effect + 0 Greenhouse gas warming + 0 man caused climate change.
All science backed up by experiment, the gold standard of classical science.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nicholas-schroeder-55934820_climatechange-greenhouse-co2-activity-6749812735246254080-bc6K
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