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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.

Eliot Jacobson thinks the real challenge is to save nature, not human civilization, for we humans are not a uniquely wonderful species. Robert Tulip disagrees, favoring hope as a spiritual asset.

Paul Zeitz is a "node" in a social movement to save democracy from authoritarianism if Trump, as expected, invokes the Insurrection Act to grab permanent power.

Rajagopal and Jill Carr-Harris are activists who run Ekta Parishad and Jai Jagat, two organizations that promote Gandhian approaches to peace and development. At the World Social Forum this summer in Benin, they will teaching Gandhian methods to 50 African youths from situations of conflict.

This conversation was about displacement. Marilyn Krieger told us about a young mountain lion she had met in her canyon who was found in San Francisco and relocated to the Santa Cruz mountains. Charles Tauber told us about the trafficked Nigerian women and Russian deserters who are unable to make a home anywhere.

Dennis Garrity's and Robert Tulip's professional careers addressed development problems, including the prospect of global famine, which the Green Revolution postponed. Now the planet's heat threatens to reduce food production, so they promote quicker solutions – especially atratospheric aerosol injection.

Daryl Kimball, Tariq Rauf, and Paul Meyers are diplomats with expertise on Arms Control. They lament the refusal of Trump to renew the New START treaty, which limited the nuclear arsenals of US and Russia. Both countries now may proceed to a new arms race.

Dr. Neil Arya hosts a conversation with two young African men who will participate in the up-coming Pegasus conference. Unfortunately, the wars that send people to these camps often follow them there.

Patrick Bond reminds John Feffer of an alliance that began when Obama "barge into" a meeting of "semi-peripheral" states and convinced them to continue promoting the use of fossil fuels.

A tip from three experienced therapists: Don't over-inflate the importance of trauma. Recognize your clients' resilience and encourage them to find support in their own communities.

Peter Fiekowsky, along with Brian von Herzen and Robert Tulip, favors research into spreading iron into the ocean, thereby getting phytoplankton to increase and remove CO2, cooling the planet. 

The Indigenous social and climate change activist Jacob Johns and host John Feffer discuss the impact of fossil fuel power and the solidarity witnessed at the COP meeting. Johns holds out a vision of eight "hubs" for future templates of teaching farms around the world where ecology can be defended.

Valerie Percival has worked helping refugees in conflict zones. Michael Lynk was UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Occupied Palestine. They discuss Gazans' deprivation of the right to health.

Alan Gadian discusses early Marine Cloud Brightening research by John Latham and Stephen Salter. Robert Tulip and Peter Wadhams are also engaged in this research.

Lloyd Axworthy, along with Allan Rock and Fen Hampson, had initiataed the proposal to use Russia's in vestments in Canada as reparations to Ukraine. So what happened to that idea?

This episode discusses the costs of transitioning from fossil fuels with Tom Athanasiou and host John Feffer, suggesting a 'Fair Share' approach for emissions accountability.

In this episode, Jose Pablo Baraybar and Apostolos Veizis discuss the plight of individuals who have fled their countries seeking safety but faced tragic outcomes. For the video and audio podcast, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-735-persons-missing-and-on-the

Jenn Bonilla and Hugo Hinrichsen are creating a cruise company to visit waters where whales were once abundant. The passengers will compensate for some much needed but scarce whale products. 

Jeremy Paltiel, Ellen Judd, and Jeff Mahon are Canadian experts on China. They worry about the currently changing trade relations among Canada, the US, and China, which are inextricably tied to geopolitical relations. For the video and audio podcast, see https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-699-china-in-the-world

John Clammer is a British sociologist who has lived and taught in Asia for many years, dividing his time between Japan and India. He is studying disasters now and teaching a course on solidarity economics. Here he, Jill Carr-Harris, and Metta compare the two countries with regard to peace and energy policies. For the video and audio podcast: https://tosavetheworld.ca/india-and-japan-at-peace.

Alyn Ware a tireless organizer for peace and climate action, is expanding into artificial intelligence. In this episode, he shares recent activities within his group, including parliamentary efforts on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, as well as related discussions on AI governance. Listen to the audio: https://tosaveworld.ca/episode-709-lawmaking-beyond-nationalism

Tariq Rauf is a specialist on nuclear weapons at the IAEA. Ernest Yanarella authored a book, The Missile Defense Controversy. They discuss the transition from "Star Wars " Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative -- and Trump's plan for a 'golden dome' to protect Americans from nuclear-armed missiles.

Irakli Kakabadze is a nonviolence activist; Arsen Kharatyan is a journalist; Vakhtang Maisaia is a political science professor. They are all appalled by the repressions of the current Georgian regime on the Georgian people. The party in power, Georgian Dream, is now firmly aligned with the Kremlin.

Timmo Gaasbeek began as an irrigation engineer. His work in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan have familiarized him with the challenges now facing the Sudanese, who numbered 50 million before this war began, and who are mostly now hungry or starving. For the video and audio podcast, see https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-705-famine-today or https://projectsavetheworld.substack.com/p/episode-705-famine-today