Metta Spencer

peacenik, editor, writer, emeritus professor

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@frossi_t I want to interview you but can't find. your email addres. See previous 587 one-hour-long videos I've produced: https://t.co/oc29mT4m35. [email protected]

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ETHICS AND CLIMATE
Simon Dalby, Neil Craik, and Byron Williston study the ethics of technological climate solutions. They say this is an emergency but this does not excuse rashness. Video, audio podcast &comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca-episode-585-ethics-and-climate.

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TRANSGENERATIONAL TRAUMA
Vamik Volkan studies the conflicts that are perpetuated over long periods by a tendency to identify with one's ancestral community and its historic traumas.For the video, audio podcast, transript and discussion: https://t.co/gAE5HdG6UT

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GOVERNING BY JURIES
Peter MacLeod leads Masslbp, which organizes "citizens assemblies" – gatherings of representative samples of populations selected by "sortition" – to inform public policies. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://t.co/jJwlAYSKsS.

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EPISODE 582 GLOBAL TOWN HALL JAN 2024
Animal diseases, vaccination, radiation hazards, citizens assemblies, proportional representation, and "Cool Thinking" from Feb. 5, re cooling the Arctic. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments: https://t.co/YT1AQO49V8.

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@petermacleod @GregFergus I sent you a message via MASSlbp's write-back box. Please check it and contact me ASAP. I want to interview you on one of my forums. Call me at 416-789-2294. Or email: [email protected].

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THE WORLD IN 2023 AND 2024
Alexander Likhotal was formerly executive director of Green Cross International, appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev, whom he served as press secretary. We discuss Ukraine and Gaza wars. https://t.co/UUCJZa7zJ7 #war #Gorbachev
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Global warming will submerge most of Tuvalu, but Ambassador Falefou is at the UN, mobilizing support for his country's survival. https://t.co/oFLYWAnplt

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THE TROUBLE IN CAMEROON
Dr. Mukete Tahle Itoe is a judge in Cameroon. There are over 700,000 internally displaced persons there; violence has been going on since 2017 as a result of the "Ambazonian" separatist movement of English-speaking citizens. https://t.co/tbnGdjtLFK...

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EPISODE 577 GLOBAL TOWN HALL NOV 2023

The war in Gaza is going on so we talked most about it. Shane Steinman, Alan Haber, Paul Werbos all want a solution that does not involve exclusive sovereignty. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://t.co/JhuuE4WpgQ.

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Both Konstantin Samoilov and Andre Kamenshikov have left Russia because of their opposition to the war. Jill Carr-Harris is a Gandhian leader in India. We discuss producing forums about nonviolence to Russians. Fhttps://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-576-empower-russian-escapees.

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EPISODE 575 RIVERS AND PEACE
Aaron Wolf teaches graduate students to work out treaties and other agreements among countries with transboundary disputes over water – mainly rivers. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://t.co/fHQmMN2B04.

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EPISODE 574 WATER SECURITY
Leila Harris is a professor in British Columbia who studies the political and social aspects of water. She has spent time in African townships, seeing how the access to water affects the social relationships among neighbors. https://t.co/xAE7yHHnUk

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EPISODE 573 FOOD SECURITY AND CLIMATE
Cynthia Rosenzweig is a professor at Columbia University who studies food security and climate change. The number of hungry people has markedly increased since the SDGS began See https://t.co/6QfpaQUiH9.

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GLOBAL TOWN HALL OCT 2023 Paul Werbos jokes about Shroedinger's cat, Marilyn Krieger tell us about California's cats, Andre Kamenshikov: the present state of the Russia/Ukraine war is like the Western front of WW1 https://t.co/B0n8JfcFTb

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Joel Salatin has turned a degraded farm into one that with 8 percent organic matter in its soil – which he attributes to using perennial plants, which can sequester large amounts of carbon and which are hosts to methanotropic bacteria. https://t.co/TXYhrUOOR0.

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GLOBAL TOWN HALL AUG 2023
Tariq Rauf and Erika Simpson discuss the risks of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the health effects of plastics. Paul Werbos annoyed the Russians by photographing an Arctic coalmining town. https://t.co/DHntm4u0Vq.

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Nandita Basu is a professor at U. of Waterloo who studies the processes on farms and wetlands that affect the pollution of water in lakes. She is a modeller. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and public comments: https://t.co/jZHeZQdPLx.

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Tom Goreau talks about coral reefs and biorock. James Baird a power point about Thermodynamic Geoengineering, which uses the heat differential between top and bottom of ocean to produce "work." For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://t.co/8yhWeiMWBw.