Feb 24, 2021
Michael Simpson is director of the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation, a network of NGOs that are all working one various aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals. He tells Metta that his group has compiled a list of 12,600 such groups in Canada. Now there is a tendency for young activists to...
Feb 20, 2021
Sergey Rogov, emeritus director of Moscow's Institute for U.S and Canada Studies, is an influential leader in Russia's arms control establishment. He has organized a number of prominent foreign policymakers in 20 webinar discussions of the dangers resulting from what he calls “Cold War 2.0”. Here he discusses their...
Feb 20, 2021
Craig Smith tells Metta about the changes he observed in a remote Brazilian village over a period of 50 years. Everything about it illustrates the basis for his claim that energy consumption per person X size of population = amount of global warming.
Feb 20, 2021
Binalakshmi Nepram founded a humanitarian organization to aid women and children survivors of violence in her home state of India, Manipur. Many people there are murdered, raped, or disappeared. Walter Dorn, a professor specializing in peacekeeping discusses his concerns about making monitoring available so the rest of...
Feb 20, 2021
James T. Ranney used to be a World Federalist, hoping for a world parliament to emerge and produce firm, clear world laws that all nations would enforce. He now believes more in mediation and compulsory arbitration.