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192 Internet Challenges
Rose Dyson and Charlene Doak-Gebauer are both activist-scholars who work to reduce the societal harm from exposure to negative entertainment, especially on the Internet. Charlene demands that parents supervise their childrens' access and prevent predators from preying on them through pornography sites. Rose is more concerned with the effects of violence, especially in video games, and the desensitizing, brutalizing effects on both children and adults. You can watch this series (or listen to them as podcasts) on our website, then share your own thoughts on the comments column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments . -
193 Why Are There Still Nuclear Weapons?
Lawrence Wittner is a historian of the peace movement. He and Metta share memories of the eighties and compare their guesses about the prospects for nuclear disarmament. You can watch this series (or listen to them as audio podcasts) on our website, then post your own thoughts on our comments column. https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments . -
191 International Cooperation
Michael Simpson is director of the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation, a network of NGOs that are all working one various aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals. He tells Metta that his group has compiled a list of 12,600 such groups in Canada. Now there is a tendency for young activists to want to work inter-generationally. You can watch this series (or listen to them as audio podcasts) on our website, then share your own thoughts about each episode on the comments column. https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/@comments. -
190 Russia, NATO and Risk
Sergey Rogov, emeritus director of Moscow's Institute for U.S and Canada Studies, is an influential leader in Russia's arms control establishment. He has organized a number of prominent foreign policymakers in 20 webinar discussions of the dangers resulting from what he calls “Cold War 2.0”. Here he discusses their recommendations with four Western disarmament activists, Alyn Ware, Erika Simpson, Alvin Saperstein, and Frederic Pearson. They all endorse those recommendations but are uncertain how much the Biden administration will enable them to be fulfilled. You can watch this series (or listen to them as audio podcasts) on our website, then post your own thoughts on the comments page: https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments . -
189 Key Drivers of Global Warming
Craig Smith tells Metta about the changes he observed in a remote Brazilian village over a period of 50 years. Everything about it illustrates the basis for his claim that energy consumption per person X size of population = amount of global warming. You can watch this series (or listen to them as podcasts) on our website, then post your own ideas on the comments column. https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments. -
187 World Peace through Law
James T. Ranney used to be a World Federalist, hoping for a world parliament to emerge and produce firm, clear world laws that all nations would enforce. He now believes more in mediation and compulsory arbitration. -
186 Klein's West Africa
Martin Klein is a retired professor of African history. He has spent years traveling around West Africa - especially Senegal and Mali - and regales Metta with stories about his interactions with villagers, former slaves, and local officials. You can watch this series (or listen to them as podcasts) on our website, then share your own views on the comments column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments . -
185 The Methane Threat
Professor Peter Wadhams is an expert on sea ice at Cambridge University. In this conversation with Professor Franklyn Griffiths, Dr. Adele Buckley, Dr. Pia Wadhams (his wife), and Metta he discusses the alarmingly rapid melting of the methane hydrate crystals (clathrates) at the bottom of the Siberian sea in the Arctic Ocean. These deposits have a permafrost "lid" locking them down, but global warming is puncturing the permafrost and releasing plumes of methane, which is more than 20 times as powerful a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide. Wadhams considers this as currently the most serious threat to humankind's survival. We talk of various proposals for solving the problem, none of which are well established as effective. -
184 The Spanish Flu
Patrick Boyer talks about the so-called "Spanish Flu," pointing out that it did not arise in Spain at all, but in China. It was brought to Europe by Chinese workers and spread rapidly among the troops in trenches, where the warring states did not want to disclose anything about their armies' medical problems. The sick soldiers brought the virus back to Canada, and the government still downplayed the severity of the epidemic, which allowed time for it to spread. In the end it had killed around as many people as World War I, though we hear much less about it. You can watch this daily series (or listen to them as podcasts) on our website, then post your own thoughts about each show on the comments column: https;//tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments . And you can participate in live shows on our Youtube channel at 12:30 weekdays: https://Youtube.com/c/ToSaveTheWorld. -
183 Green Hope
When Kehkashan Basu was seven years old she saw a photo of a dead bird full of plastic. That was the start. Now she is twenty, and the organization for youths that she founded has 140,000 members worldwide. Two of the leaders in that organization, Green Hope, are Pragna Vasupal and Erin Isabel, who join her in describing their work. They offer workshops ("academies") in sustainable development live on Facebook to groups of children and other young people everywhere. You can watch our series (or listen to these daily shows as podcasts) on our website, then post your own thoughts on our comments column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments. -
182 The McIntyre Powder Project
Janice Martell's father was a miner whose employer required him and other miners to inhale aluminum dust before entering the mine. This was meant to prevent silicosis, but in fact caused Parkinsonism, as Janice has spent years proving. Two physicians join her in discussing the human rights implications of such measures, and how to prevent it in future. You can watch this series (or listen to them as podcasts) on our website, then record your own thoughts about each video on the comments column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments. You can also watch our videos 24/7 on our Youtube channel: https://Youtube.com/j/9108970203. -
181 Marching Against Uranium
Neecha Dupuis and her young son marched 28 days across northern Ontario with friends from the indigenous community, informing people along the way about the risks of radioactive contamination. There are plans to bury the wastes from Ontario's nuclear reactors in indigenous territory, but Neecha wants to preserve the forest and wildlife from possible leaks. People along the way came to discuss and learn. They will be marching again in the summer, possibly for the next four years. You can watch this series of conversations live every weekday on our Youtube channel: https://Youtube.com/c/ToSaveTheWorld and send in questions for Metta to ask the guest. If you miss a live show you can see the edited version uploaded a couple of days later on the same channel. To discuss it, go to this comment column on our website: https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/#comments.
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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.
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
The Global Town Hall, Jan 31, 2021 Chat Box
“The World in January 2021”
14:11:28 From Adam Wynne : http://www.youtube.com/c/ToSaveTheWorld
14:12:50 From kathrin : nofighterjets.ca I would like to share this website.
14:15:12 From Volker Beck : zoomfusion
14:15:14 From Marie-Laure Collet : There is an Arctic Council that has existed for quite a while, it might be a good contact.
14:17:35 From Past. Joseph : Joseph , I also have a really network problem I miss a lot words
14:17:42 From Glen Anderson : Glen Anderson invites all of you to sign up for my next series of workshops about Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing. They are FREE and ONLINE. I’ll offer them again during the spring. Contact me at (360) 491-9093 glenanderson@integra.net
14:19:06 From kathrin : Please take a moment to sign this petition: It is open until Feb 6. https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3028
14:19:06 From Rose Dyson : On the issue of dealing with climate change in the Artic, any reactions to Biden’s recent initiatives on Climate Change?
14:24:32 From David Millar : Re Rose Dyson’s question about Canada’ climate action. See the info from 350.org and Climate Action Network at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AGDjF_pVrDMD-so4VXCBj6Z6hwWbkQ4gxtKVEr95aLs/edit?usp=sharing
14:24:43 From David Millar : on Bill C12
14:25:17 From Garth Bulmer : ROSE, do you have contact with lynn macdonald? I would like to reconnect
14:31:03 From David Millar : Betty Anne raises good questions. See a fairly good overview in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
14:36:49 From Glen Anderson : We really can abolish nuclear weapons!
I posted to my blog my February 2021 TV program about the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. It is a fascinating, informative, upbeat interview with an expert. Also I typed up and posted a thorough summary (with links to additional information).
SEE THIS BLOG LINK: http://parallaxperspectives.org/the-treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons-is-a-powerful-step-toward-peace
14:38:17 From Rose Dyson : Just Earth and different climate activist groups we work will regularly protest against subsidies to oil companies. http://www.can-rac.com
14:38:52 From Rose Dyson : p.s. (Climate Action Network)
14:41:29 From David Millar : A Leap to an Ecological Economy
Third edition
By Dr. Derek Lever Paul – at https://projetnavigation.com/livres-multimedias/a-leap-to-an-ecological-economy/?lang=en
14:46:09 From David Millar : Not just monarchs are pollinators. See https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/butterflies.shtml and https://www.fws.gov/pollinators/
14:49:05 From Adam Wynne : Metta – you have some plant pots on your balcony – I can grab some seeds for the spring.
14:53:11 From Barbara Birkett : regarding fossil fuels , a positive sign is that one of the major oil companies is investing heavily in charging units for electric vehicles.
14:55:04 From Rose Dyson : I remember fondly my participation in an ecotourism trip to Mexico which included the Monarch butterfly reserve. I learned a fair bit about their journey from Canada, about the spiritual implications of their sense of direction etc. Evidently they reproduce along the way in their migration as their life span is short and doesn’t survive the entire time involved for the trip.
14:55:28 From Charles David Tauber : cwwppsummer@gmail.com www.cwwpp.org
14:55:51 From Adam Wynne : Do the algae blooms in Lake Erie have any impacts on Monarch Butterflies? I remember hearing that Pelee is a major stopover for the butterflies on their migration.
14:57:22 From Volker Beck : vbeck@online.de
volker.beck@h-da.de
http://www.volkerbeck-psychotherapie.de
14:57:43 From David Millar : Re claimed “greening” by oil’s, there is a lot of hype, but some critical pro-capitalist analysis in https://www.bloomberg.com/green and the Economist https://www.economist.com/ – but you need to look up critiques by ecological sources, not believe everything.
15:01:31 From Adam Wynne : Natavan – are you in Azerbaijan?
15:01:33 From Rose Dyson : Any comments on the growing trends regarding divestments/investments within the financial community on ESG (Ethical, Social, Governance)?
15:03:14 From Marie-Laure Collet : Metta, you can put your videos in order of priority, I could help you with a couple of these. Contact collet.ml@gmail.com
15:03:49 From Rose Dyson : Black Rock (The largest financial institution in the world I believe) initiatives etc. It was announced last week that the Ontario Securities Commission will be revised to require, among other things, indications of climate accountability
15:09:33 From Barbara Birkett : Don’t Bank on the Bomb was I believe begun by Pax Chrisiti and has been very active re the TPNW.
15:09:35 From David Millar : On how to structure ESG, my friend Robert Howell in NZ has just written (and is now rewriting) an excellent 6 page paper. His address is Robert Howell <rhowellnz@gmail.com>
15:09:45 From Volker Beck : https://www.dw.com/en/sipri-germany-significantly-increases-military-spending/a-53250926
15:11:55 From David Millar : See the site https://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/
15:14:45 From David Millar : https://www.uri.org/who-we-are/cooperation-circle/reach-unreached-millions-worldwide
15:15:00 From Adam Wynne : Reached Unreached Millions
Rev. Joseph Cimpaye reachunreachedm@yahoo.com
15:18:35 From Adam Wynne : Ellen Thomas – are you the Ellen Thomas associated with the White House Peace Vigil?
15:22:02 From Past. Joseph : Joseph, second one is. visionafrica2030@gmail.com
15:24:09 From Rose Dyson : Ellen, Has John Kerry been approached on your initiative?
15:24:27 From Ellen Thomas : http://prop1.org tells you about the “Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act” which will soon be reintroduced into the House. We need cosponsors. There’s a letter at https://bit.ly/propositionone
15:24:51 From Ellen Thomas : If you have questions, contact Ellen Thomas at et@prop1.org and 202-210-3886 (cell)
15:26:00 From Ellen Thomas : You can see and share the 2019-2020 bill, HR-2419, at https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2419/text
15:27:54 From Charles David Tauber : Sorry, I will have to go now. A client has just told me that he wants to speak. Have a good meeting and see you all soon.
15:29:57 From Glen Anderson : Ellen mentioned the Armed Serviced Committee, which is often a dead end for peace-related legislation. Now the U.S. House Armed Services Committee is chaired by Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State, who has been very good on some peace issues. He is approachable. We have talked with him.
15:31:10 From Hannah Hadikin : From Hannah, Thank you for an inspiring and informative meeting. I have to ‘ jump ‘ on another zoom call. Will complete viewing the balance on the recorded session. All the best
15:34:21 From Past. Joseph : These are the most important projects .
15:34:30 From Rose Dyson : Not sure what is meant by “incrementalism”. Getting back to John Kerry, he was pretty firm about us only having 9 years left to act. Didn’t sound to me as if he was going to take his time in his new assignment
15:35:07 From Volker Beck : Dear all,
15:35:54 From Volker Beck : thanks for the very interesting Meeting: I have to leave for an urgent phone call: see you next time
take care
15:39:57 From Glen Anderson : In response to Rose’s chat about “incrementalism,” we need to see that politicians shy away from taking bold actions. They like to take incremental step-by-step actions that are actually timid — TOO TIMID to solve the problems. Greta Thunberg has spoken eloquently and repeatedly about world political and economic leaders who say nice things but refuse to take the necessary actions. Our “leaders” limit themselves to what they think is “politically feasible.” OUR JOB IS TO SHIFT PUBLIC OPINION to significantly change what is “politically feasible. Then public pressure will move politicians to do what we know is actually necessary.
15:44:32 From Ellen Thomas : You might be interested in following NucNews on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/nucnews/
15:45:45 From Ellen Thomas : There is a fascinating article by the Rand Corp that I posted today from Bruce Gagnon: Rand Corporation study (remember them for The Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War) outlining US-NATO plan for regime change in Russia. Includes heavy dose of internal destabilization.
Last week the US Embassy in Moscow published a list of protests inside the country on its web site. The CIA, USAID and other US agencies are known to be funding much of the protests inside Russia in recent years.
Washington complains about alleged Russian interference in US elections – but this study (and the actions now taking place) are clear evidence of US-NATO direct interference in Russian affairs.
Great way to start WW III.” https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html?fbclid=IwAR3zpCH4i7ZrO9QfA5CkL6nZDy1GFigOnJ91aD0KKDbacOVic_ad2DBdlqI
15:45:47 From Adam Wynne : https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/27/philly-fighting-covid-vaccine/
15:49:45 From Glen Anderson : Trump really was a fascist. He really did instigate a fascist coup to overturn the results of November’s election. Trump is gone, but about 1/3 of Americans are loyal “true believers” in the Trumpist cult of fascism, racism, and truly crazy conspiracy theories. We need to not only stop them but also promote real healing. We also need to practice therapy for those folks.
15:52:26 From Glen Anderson : Thanks for this conversation. I need to step away in order to finish preparing for the workshop I’ll be conducting now in just a few minutes. See you next month!
15:56:00 From Rose Dyson : In today’s NY TImes there is a feature article on “THe Knowledge Coup” written by Shoshana Zuboff. She writes about the way governments have sold out in recent decades to the digital giants who now run the world with surveillance capitalism and their algorithims that determine peoples’ likes and dislikes..
15:57:52 From Barbara Birkett : I must leave, I’m afraid. Thanks all,Barbara
16:04:39 From Ellen Thomas : https://tosavetheworld.ca
16:05:02 From Adam Wynne : Yes – that is correct.
16:05:22 From Marie-Laure Collet : Thanks Rose, the GAFA are indeed a major threat
16:05:37 From Adam Wynne : http://www.youtube.com/c/ToSaveTheWorld
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
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