If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott

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Marylia Kelley

This week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Marylia Kelley, the executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs, an organization based in Livermore, California, where she brings 27 years of research, writing and facilitating public participation in decisions regarding Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, nuclear weapons, waste and cleanup. Kelley advises the federal Environmental Protection Agency and state agencies on the Superfund cleanup of toxic and radioactive pollution at Livermore Lab. She has provided input to the National Academy of Sciences on the proliferation risks of the U.S. nuclear weapons “stockpile stewardship” program, and on the spread of contaminants at the Livermore Lab’s main site. Longer show description to follow.

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Bill McKibben

In this edition of If You Love This Planet, Dr. Caldicott interviews Bill McKibben about global warming, alternative energy and the growing need for more localized economies. Author, educator and environmentalist McKibben was described in 2010 by the Boston Globe as “probably the nation’s leading environmentalist” and Time magazine described him as “the world’s best green journalist.
McKibben’s books include Eaarth: Making Life on a Tough
New Planet, Deep Economy, Fight Global Warming Now and The End of Nature. In 2009 he led the organization of 350.org, which coordinated what Foreign Policy magazine called “the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind,” with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. Read McKibben’s August 4 article We’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More: Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming and the October 5 article Here Comes the Sun: White House to Go Solar which refers to 350.org’s recent campaign and includes a photo of McKibben.

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Donna Mulhearn

In this special repeat episode of If You Love This
Planet first aired in June, Dr. Caldicott talks to Donna Mulhearn, an Australian former journalist and political advisor who journeyed to Baghdad in March 2003 as part of the “human shield” movement prior to the start of the 2003 Iraqi War. She returned later to Australia as an humanitarian aid worker to set up a shelter for homeless children and families. Mulhearn is now an independent writer and speaker on non-violence, spirituality and politics. Her memoir of her experiences in Iraq, Ordinary Courage: My Journey to Baghdad as a Human Shield, was published by Murdoch Books in 2010. As background, read Mulhearn’s 2003 piece, Human Shield: Reflections on Iraq.

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David Krieger

Dr. Caldicott speaks with David Krieger, founder and President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, based in Santa Barbara, California. Krieger is a passionate advocate for a nuclear weapons-free world, and is a founding member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, a global network of over 2000 organizations and municipalities committed to the elimination of nuclear weapons. Read Krieger’s September 15 article New START Is a Needed Re-START, his July 16 article The 65th Anniversary of the Nuclear Age and his June 12 article British Petroleum, Imagination, and Nuclear Catastrophe. Longer show description to follow.