Alan Haber was the first president of Students for a Democratic Society; William Geimer was a lawyer who defended some of the leaders of that 1960s movement against the Vietnam War. They worry about the descent of the US into Fascism. Doug Saunders and Oswald Petersen tend to agree that the support for democracy is on the upswing in Europe and will win every election that is honest; the right is winning only by twisting the voting system. Petersen's own work is the removal of methane from the atmosphere with the dispersal of nanoparticles of iron salts. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-403-climate-and-fascism/.

Vasily Yablokov is a staff member of Greenpeace in St. Petersburg. He notes that there has been a significant change in Russian public opinion about climate change during the past two years -- but that nevertheless the majority of the population remains rather oblivious to the issue, though Russia is the country that already is suffering most from it. There are only 30 monitoring stations along the long Siberian coast. Greenpeace may be doing research with Sergey and Nikita Zimov, the Siberians who maintain Pleistocene Park and who are concerned about the emissions of methane from thawing permafrost. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, or comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-402-russian-greenpeace/.

Sandra Leigh Lester advises architects about ways of making buildings more sustainable, healthful, and beneficial for the wider community. Claire Adamson is a retired architect in Montreal. They both have issues with the fashionable ways of renovating homes. Adamson dislikes the trend toward "open kitchens." Lester says some of her clients want granite countertops and other things they don't need; they should pay more attention to such things as valves to keep sewage from backing up into their basements. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comment column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-401-sustainable-buildings/.

Ashrith Domun in a chemical engineer working on the de-carbonization of vehicles. Craig Smith is a retired engineer who served as president of a construction corporation and more recently cao-authored a book with William Fletcher: "Reaching Net Zero..” Ashrith reports that the larger the vehicle, the more difficult the challenge in making it move sustainably. But trains are fairly easy to decarbonize; they just change over to. green hydrogen, and this can be done within the next five years. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comment column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-400-tomorrows-transport/.

Michael Lynk is a law professor and the current Special Rapporteur on the situation of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. For almost six years he has observed the plight of that community, but without visiting the Occupied Territories at all; the government of Israel refuses to allow a representative of the United Nations to enter Israel or the Occupied Territories. Only a few other countries maintain such a rigid control over a community (such as the Rohingya or the Uyghurs). Lynk maintains that the government of Israel will never relent in its oppression of the Palestinians unless the international community intervenes with strong demands, but he reports that almost all countries maintain a willful blindness about the illegality of the Israeli occupation. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-399-occupied-palestine/.

Tom Green is the leader of Vesta, an organization that is planning to grind olivine down to sand-size, then sprinkle it in the oceans just off the beaches, where water is not deep. The waves will roll the grains of olivine around and hasten its dissolution into the water. This will change the (now excessive) carbonic acid bicarbonate, an alkali. By doing this on a large scale, the overall acidity of the oceans will be slightly reduced, allowing the water to accept more CO2 from the atmosphere. For the video, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-398-how-to-make-the-oceans-less acidic/. Then scroll down and add to the comments column.

Doug Saunders is back from Europe, well recovered from Omicron, and talking about his research on neighborhoods. Brennain Lloyd is busy in North Bay, Ontario, defending us from the Canadian government team that is looking for a place to bury nuclear waste. Dr.Richard Denton is perturbed by the failings of our political system to protect human security, which would certainly not involve the purchase of fighter planes. Doug opens the biggest controversy at the end of the show before leaving: his endorsement of the use of reprocessing as a source of material for nuclear power in the future. This issue will be addressed another time! For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments column: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-397-nuclear-waste-inter-alia/ . After watching scroll down and post your response on the comment column.

Vandana Shiva holds a Ph.D in particle physics, but is best known for her work as an advocate for the protection of nature against commercial exploitation. She joined the Chipko movement to protect forests in India, gradually earning what she calls her “second Ph.D." from those brave women, who know so much about the diversity of planets and animals in their region. She runs a farm that develops organic methods and participates in regenerative agriculture movements worldwide. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-396-saving-trees-seeds-and-earth/ . After watch, scroll down and share your own ideas in the comments column.

Davidson Akhonya in Kenya described the plight of the desperate displaced persons he is trying to assist, and requests help from us in the West. His email address: [email protected]. Andre Kamenshikov, who lives in Kyiv, was visiting his sister in Russia. He theorizes about Putin's motives for massing troops on the Ukraine border. Because Elizabeth Renzetti was experiencing Omicron, we talked about Covid, but Metta consulted Dr. Ronald St. John to clarify some of the issues we did not fully understand; his remarks are available at the end of the show. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-394-or-challenges-in-2022/. After watching, add your thoughts to the comment column.

Oleg Kozlovsky works for Amnesty International in Moscow, researching the cases of individuals in his country whose human rights may under attack by the. state. He explains how the vague laws are used to suppress dissent among citizens. And these repressive and unjust measures have taken their toll; it is harder now to organize a street demonstration, for example, when people know that they may be jailed or fined for showing up. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, or comment column, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-395-foreign-agents-for democracy-in-russia/ . Then scroll down to the comments column and share your own information and ideas about the subject.