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156 Art Hunter on Living off the Grid
Dr Art Hunter is an engineer who has turned his home into a laboratory to experiment with efficient energy use. He shows Metta how he has managed to live off the electric grid for the past 300 days, both by conserving, storing, and generating energy in the household. -
171 Electric Grids
Engineer/executive Craig Smith explains to Metta why great improvements in electric grids will be necessary to accommodate the sustainable sources of energy. These changes include the use of high voltage direct current grids, increased storage capacity, and micro-grids for remote localities. Federal coordination may be necessary but much of the funding can come from private sources. -
165 Citizens Climate Lobby
Mark Tabbert and Philip Chipman are active in Citizens Climate Lobby, an NGO which has been quite effective in working for carbon taxation. They show Metta a remarkably tool that enables one to explore the interactive implications of changing various factors that influence the global temperature. Clearly, carbon taxation is the most effective achievable method of limiting global warming. -
157 Maria Puerta Rivera on Hispanic
Maria Puerta Rivera is a political scientist from Venezuela who lives in Florida now and studies the voting patterns of various immigrant populations in the US. She and Metta discuss the support of Trump by many Cuban and Venezuelan immigrants. -
170 Farming in India
Jill Carr-Harris is a Gandhian social organizer in India who has worked with farmers demanding land reform. Doug Saunders is a Canadian journalist who studied village and urban slum life in India. Now that there is another farmers' protest movement in that country, they consider the nature of reforms that are required. -
169 Political Communication
Angel Alvarez is most optimistic than Metta about the prospects for enabling citizens to know about the inner workings of their governments and keep them accountable and transparent, partly because of improvements in technology. They discuss privacy and the need to governments to have access to the social media accounts of citizens. -
168 Nuclear Waste and Indigenous Land
Lorraine Rekmans is a journalist and member of an indigenous band in Ontario. She surprises Metta with her account of the way uranium tailings are dumped into lakes, contaminating the water and surrounding environment. She maintains that the planning for disposal of nuclear wastes should be done by the Canadian government, with full participation of all stakeholders – certainly including the people whose land may be polluted. -
167 Meet Our Team
Metta introduces the viewers to Project Save the World team members: Ken Simons, managing editor of Peace Magazine; Adam Wynne, her technical assistant; Dr. Adele Buckley, a physicist and member of the steering committee; and Subir Guin, a long-time member of Peace Magazine's editorial committee. We discuss plans, including transcripts of the talk shows and a digital online version of the magazine. -
166 Rotary and IPPNW
Richard Denton,M.D. is internationally engaged as a leader of Rotarians, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and several other peace organizations. He tells Metta about the Rotarians' campaign against polio (and how their experience can be useful in ending Covid-19) and the IPPNW's work with ICAN to create a treaty banning nuclear weapons. -
155 Populism, Reaction to Globalization?
Berkeley sociologist Ann Swidler, Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders, and Focus on Foreign Policy editor John Feffer join Metta in a conversation about the societal changes that lie behind the rise of right wing populist movements. Ann blames "localism" (as opposed to cosmopolitanism), which is a version of the theory that it is a (justifiable) reaction against globalization. -
151 Climate Tipping Points
William Fletcher tells Metta about five tipping points -- hypothetical moments when a linear rate of change breaks and a grave irreversible trend begins, such as a movement of the Gulf Stream, which changes the climate of Europe, or the breaking off of ice shelves in Antarctica, which enables ice on the continent to slip off into the sea and raise its level. Bill and Metta disagree as to whether the reduction of greenhouse gas emission can suffice to bring climate change under control. -
154 Ethnic Conflict
Paul Copeland, Martin Klein, Louis Krieger and Doug Saunders discuss with Metta the challenge of protecting human rights in situations of ethnic conflicts around the world--currently especially in Myanmar, the Caucasus, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and even (with respect to indigenous rights ) in Canada, New Zealand, and the US.
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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
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
Useful Information from the Chat Box of “140 The World in November 2020”
• From Glen Anderson : I invite YOU to take my FREE ONLINE WORKSHOPS about “Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing.” I’ll offer the series again from mid-January to late February. If you’d like to find out more — and possibly sign up for the workshop series — contact me at (360) 491-9093 glenanderson@integra.net
If you want to find out about our 4-session course about “Nuclear Weapons Nowadays: What You Can Know and Do,” contact me at (360) 491-9093 Since 1987 I have produced and hosted 400 TV programs about peace, nonviolence, social justice, etc. The most recent 30+ are posted to the “TV Programs” part of my blog, http://www.parallaxperspectives.org. I invite people to copy the links and share them with your networks of friends.
• From abraham Weizfeld PhD :
The Federation of Palestinian and Hebrew Nations
https://www.academia.edu/38380122/The_Federation_of_Palestinian_and_Hebrew_Nations saalaha@fokus.name
• From alanhaber : On January 25th there is a call for NO to the War in Yemen from many Peace organizations
• From alanhaber : Alan haber. megiddo@umich.edu. odile hugonot haber odilehh@gmail.com
Peacetable.org
• From Richard Denton : RDenton@NOSM.Ca
From Richard Denton : IPPNW-Canada, IPPNW, ICAN are all planning a celebration on the 22 January.
• From David Millar : Just read WSM post about Dennis Brutus (who would have been 96 today) by Prof Patrick Bond. Here’s an earlier bio https://www.counterpunch.org/2009/12/28/the-life-and-death-of-dennis-brutus/
• From Hannah Hadikin, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. vowpeace.org
• From kristine karch : the Website for the World Social Forum is https://wsf2021.net/
The Network No to war – no to NATO is no-to-nato.org and it has a subpage for the Air Base Ramstein https://www.no-to-nato.org/en/stopp-air-base-ramstein/
• From Mange Ram Adhana : Good night for all from Mr. Mange Ram Adhana President Association for Promotion Sustainable Development from India
Email apsdhisar@gmail.com
• From Adam Wynne : The name is Kai Brand Jacobsen and PATRIR is the organization.
https://patrir.ro/about-us/our-team/ General E-mail: info@patrir.ro
Kai Brand Jacobsen E-mail: jacobsen@patrir.eu
• From David Millar : See Visions of resilience
https://tinyurl.com/yb9zq7k5 for a compilation of NGOs, faith and peace groups – mapped on the UN SDGs but in many ways going far beyond those limited goals. The peace goals in To Save the World overlap much of this. fdmllar@gmail.com
• From Charles David Tauber : http://www.cwwpp.org’ cwwppsummer@gmail.com
• From Andre Sheldon : A Global Movement of Nonviolence is tentatively planned to begin June 21, 2021 and the announcement to begin is hopefully planned for February or March. Please contact me for more information. Andre@GlobalStrategyofNonviolence.org 617-413-9064
• From abraham Weizfeld PhD : saalaha@fokus.name
• From David Stoney : Re social contacts, check out Humanity Rising. It meets weekdays 11:00-12:30 EST – https://humanityrising.solutions
15:50:35 From David S : sstoney39@gmail.com
• From Hannah Hadikin : h_hadikin@yahoo.ca Welcome any contacts from this group