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Sep 25, 2020

William Fletcher and Craig Smith are co-authors of an optimistic book arguing that it's feasible to reduce carbon emissions enough to prevent a global catastrophe, using known,...


Sep 18, 2020

Seth Klein, formerly director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, discusses his new book. It shows how Canada mobilized for World War II with astonishing rapidity, and how the lessons learned from that experience can be applied now to handle the climate emergency.


Sep 10, 2020

Jonathan Love and Satya Robinson explain to Metta that "drawdown" refers to the point where the greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere start lowering. With great commitment, the world can reach drawdown by the mid-2040s--and save something like $70 trillion in doing so. Project Drawdown has done the research...


Sep 1, 2020

We chat about being jailed for opposing the Vietnam War; whether to build railways on permafrost; why they bombed Nagasaki instead of Kyoto; how to revive networks to solve climate problems cost-effectively; whether genomics undermines bigotry; how Covid is worsening poverty in Nepal by unemployment; and whether hope...


128 The World in August 2020

Sep 1, 2020

We chat about being jailed for opposing the Vietnam War; whether to build railways on permafrost; why they bombed Nagasaki instead of Kyoto; how to revive networks to solve climate problems cost-effectively; whether genomics undermines bigotry; how Covid is worsening poverty in Nepal by unemployment; and whether hope...