Mar 25, 2019
Harriet Friedmann is a specialist on the world's food system. She and Metta Spencer talk about the importance of diversity for the future of humankind. We depend on an enormous range of species, but many of them are dying out because of industrial agriculture, using monoculture. Harriet has ideas about how to reverse...
Mar 12, 2019
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman reminds Metta Spencer that in previous wars, few soldiers actually fired their weapons. The military learned how to train them to overcome their reluctance by using video games -- the same thing that is training juveniles to kill schoolmates today, with astounding frequency. He advises: turn...
Mar 11, 2019
We have 12 years to save the world from the worst of global warming. Carbon sinks are essential—suck carbon out of the air and sequester it. The British company Carbon Bioengineering is planting trees all around the world with their drones. They expect to plant one billion per year soon. But we'll need a trillion...
Mar 1, 2019
Walter Dorn is a professor at the Canadian Forces College, where he teaches military officers. He also does a lot of work for the United Nations overseas, mainly developing technologies for peacekeepers' use in the field. He and Metta Spencer discuss his work and the prospects for various ways of improving the United...
Mar 1, 2019
Theodore Postol, Douglas Roche, and Sergey Rogov are all deeply worried because the US and Russia have both declared their intention of ending the INF Treaty, which banned ground launched, medium-ranged missiles. It appears that we will have another nuclear arms race, with risks comparable to the Cuban Missile Crisis.