If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott

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This week, Dr. Caldicott explores politics and media activism with Jules Boykoff, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Pacific University, in Forest Grove, Oregon. In 2006, Prof. Boykoff was an invited speaker at the United Nations climate change conference in Nairobi, based on his research and writing on media coverage of climate disruption. His writing on activism has appeared recently in New Left Review, the Guardian, Oregon Historical Quarterly, the Nation, and CounterPunch. For background, read the article Reheating the Climate Change Story: The media have dropped climate change, with its tricky science. But cast in economic terms, it could recapture public interest.

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This week, in light of the still unfolding nuclear accident in Japan, we play for the third time Dr Caldicott’s May 17, 2010 interview with Janette D. Sherman, M.D. on the long-term effects of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown.
Dr. Sherman translated and edited the book Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and Nature, published by the New York Academy of Sciences in December 2009, which indicates that nearly one million people were killed by the Chernobyl disaster. Download and read the book for free by following the instructions on this page. Dr. Sherman has been an advisor to the National Cancer Institute on breast cancer and to the EPA on pesticides. She is a resource person and speaker for universities and health advocacy groups concerning cancer, birth defects, pesticides, toxic dumpsites, and nuclear radiation. Dr. Sherman is a specialist in internal medicine and toxicology. She has published more than 70 articles in the scientific literature and also writes for the popular press to provide Read the rest of this entry »

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This week, we hear Dr. Caldicott’s recent conversation with Prue Acton, artist, internationally recognized clothing designer and spokesperson for an alliance of conservation groups in Australia called SERCA (South East Region Conservation Alliance). In the 1980’s, Acton became involved with naturalists in Victoria, Australia who showed her the impact of industrial-scale logging and the ever-increasing demand for woodchips for the local and Japanese paper markets. Having since moved to the southeast coast of New South Wales in Australia, within close distance to the Nippon Paper-owned chipmill at Eden, she has increased her efforts toward conservation. Acton addresses how depleting Australia’s forests kills native wildlife and greatly contributes to global warming. Read the March 2010 article Logging starts, koala battle goes on.

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On If You Love This Planet this week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Dr. Gordon Edwards, one of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology, uranium, and weapons proliferation. Dr Edwards is also the co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR). He was instrumental in bringing about a halt to uranium exploration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia. Dr. Edwards was awarded the 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Award in the Education Category, and in 2009 he addressed the annual meeting of Physicians for Global Survival in Ottawa.

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In this episode, Dr. Caldicott interviews Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the Graduate School, City University of New York. Professor Piven is also the president of the American Sociological Association and author of numerous publications, most recently Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters (with Lorraine Minnite and Margaret Groarke, published by the New Press in 2009. Prof. Piven talks with Dr. Caldicott about her lifetime preoccupation with the uses of social science to promote democratic reform. Read the January 23 article Glenn Beck’s Attacks on Frances Fox Piven Trigger Death Threats and the February 8 article The Real Threat of Glenn Beck’s Fantasies: It’s harm not to myself, but to American democracy that I fear from the Fox News host’s paranoid theories of social collapse.

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This week, we hear Dr. Caldicott’s November 2010 address to residents from the town of Port Hope, Canada. Much of Port Hope was built using uranium tailings from the nearby uranium refinery, posing potentially serious health risks for the town’s population. Dr. Caldicott outlines the medical consequences that residents may be facing. Read two Toronto Star articles about Dr. Caldicott’s activism around Port Hope: November 16, 2010: Sue government over toxic town, activist tells Port Hope and February 1, 2011: Activist urges Ottawa to examine Port Hope residents for radioactivity. Also read ‘Barred’ from Port Hope: An interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott.

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On this program, Dr. Caldicott interviews Drew Hutton, an environmental campaigner in his home state of Queensland, Australia. Hutton founded the Greens party in Queensland and was a co-founder of the Australian Greens in 1992. He is an organizer of the Lock the Gate campaign, an alliance of environmentalists and rural landowners opposing the environmental destruction by coal and coal seam gas mining in Queensland. He is also the author, with his wife Libby Connors, of A History of the Australian Environment Movement published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. Watch a 60 Minutes Australia segment on coal seam gas mining (2010, 13 minutes) . This episode also features an excerpt from Dr. Caldicott’s speech in Port Hope, Canada in late 2010. Read two Toronto Star articles about Dr. Caldicott’s activism around Pt. Hope: February 1, 2011: Activist urges Ottawa to examine Port Hope residents for radioactivity and November 16, 2010: Sue government over toxic town, activist tells Port Hope.

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Dr. Michel Chossudovsky is Dr. Caldicott’s guest this week. Dr. Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal, Quebec. He has been a visiting professor at colleges in Latin America, Western Europe, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Chossudovsky has also served as economic adviser to governments in developing countries, and consulted for international organizations including the United Nations Development Program, the African Development Bank, the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development, the United Nations Population Fund, the International Labor Organization, and the World Health Organization. From October 12 to 15, 2010, Dr. Chossudovsky had several extensive and productive meetings with Fidel Castro, discussing nuclear war. He talks about those meetings and other global issues in this episode of If You Love This Planet. Watch a four-minute segment on YouTube of Castro reading his statement against nuclear war, from the conversations with Dr. Chossudovsky (in Spanish, with subtitle translation).

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This week, a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s September 2010 interview with Daniel Ellsberg. In 1959, Ellsberg became a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation. He was also a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House, specializing in problems of the command and control of nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans, and crisis decision-making. On return to the RAND Corporation in 1967, Ellsberg worked on the top secret McNamara study of U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1971, he gave the Papers to the New York Times, the Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. Read the rest of this entry »

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This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s
July 2010 conservation with Dr. John Church, oceanographer and the world’s leading expert on sea-level rise. The two discuss the urgency of global-warming induced sea-level rise we are facing this century. Scientists predict the oceans will rise by 1 meter (over 3 feet) by 2100, displacing up to 140 million people around the world. Dr. Church is a project leader at the Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. In this program, Dr. Church explains how more frequent storms will create coastal flooding. He Read the rest of this entry »

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Dr Caldicott’s guest this week is Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Between 1983–1998, Gagnon was the State Coordinator of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice, and has worked on space issues for 27 years. He is a member of the National Writers Union, his articles have appeared in many publications and writes a popular blog called Organizing Notes. Gagnon initiated the Maine Campaign to Bring Our War $$ Home in 2009 that spread to other New England states, and beyond. This campaign made the important connections between endless war spending and fiscal crisis throughout the U.S. Listen to Dr. Caldicott’s October 2009 interview with Gagnon.

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This week on the program, Dr. Caldicott has a conversation with Dr. Avner Cohen, an internationally recognized author and expert on non-proliferation issues, focusing on the Middle East. Dr. Cohen is a Senior Fellow with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He is widely known for his path-breaking history of the Israeli nuclear program, and is a consultant to a range of NGOs and governmental agencies. His latest book, The Worst Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb, was published in October 2010 by Columbia University Press.

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Dr. Caldicott talks with Tad Daley, the author of Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World, on this week’s program. Daley is the Writing Fellow with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the 1985 Nobel Peace-Prize-winning organization initiated by Physicians for Social Responsibility, which Dr. Caldicott helmed in the 1980’s. He has written for many publications including the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times USA TODAY and blogs such as Huffingtonpost.com, TruthDig.com, AlterNet.org, TruthOut.org, and CommonDreams.org. Read two 2010 articles by Daley: It’s New START — and a small step — Toward a World Without Nukes and The Grand Bargain of the NPT and the Rules of the Nuclear Game Today.

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Dr. Caldicott interviews Antony Loewenstein, a Sydney-based journalist who has written for publications around the world, including the Guardian, Haaretz, The Nation, Sydney Morning Herald and many others. He is a media spokesman for the campaign to defend Wikileaks, and discusses Julian Assange’s background. Loewenstein’s 2009 bestselling book My Israel Question is a dissenting Jewish view on the Israel/Palestine conflict. His 2008 book The Blogging Revolution is about the internet in repressive regimes. He is currently working on a book about disaster capitalism in Australia and across the world. For more, listen to
Dr. Caldicott’s 2009 interview with Loewenstein.

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On the program this week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Diane Curran, an environmental laywer based in Washington, D.C. Since 1981, Curran has represented citizen groups, state and local governments, and individuals in a wide range of licensing and enforcement cases relating to nuclear power plants, factories, and waste storage and disposal sites. A nationally recognized expert in the field of nuclear safety and security regulation, Curran has litigated the requirements of the Atomic Energy Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, and other public safety and environmental protection laws before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and in the federal courts. Curran’s current and former clients include the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, who won a ground-breaking U.S. Court of Appeals decision requiring the NRC to consider the environmental impacts of intentional attacks on a proposed spent fuel storage facility.

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This week, a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s October 12, 2009 interview with award-winning journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk. Nikiforuk discusses his recent book: The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent, published by D&M Publishers and winner of the 2009 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award. He is also the author of a novel called Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil. For the last two decades, Nikiforuk has written about energy, economics and the West for a variety of Canadian publications, and received seven National Magazine Awards from the Association of Canadian Journalists. The development and exploitation of Read the rest of this entry »

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This week, we hear a repeat of Dr Caldicott’s May 17 program featuring an interview with Janette D. Sherman, M.D. on the long-term effects of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown. Dr. Sherman has recently completed the translation and editing of the book Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and Nature, published by the New York Academy of Sciences in December 2009, which indicates that nearly one million people were killed by the Chernobyl disaster. Download and read the book for free by following the instructions on this page. Dr. Sherman has been an advisor to the National Cancer Institute on breast cancer and to the EPA on pesticides. She is a resource person and speaker for universities and health advocacy groups concerning cancer, birth defects, pesticides, toxic dumpsites, and nuclear radiation. Dr. Sherman is a specialist in internal medicine and toxicology. She has published more than 70 articles in the scientific literature and also writes for the popular press to provide information to the concerned public. She is the author of Life’s Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer, and Chemical Exposure and Disease. As background for this interview, read the article Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People: New Book. And read the review by Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D. of the Chernobyl book.

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This week’s program was first aired on August 9.
Dr. Caldicott talks with American journalist, author, and war correspondent Chris Hedges about military culture and the consequences of combat. Hedges, a Senior Fellow at the Nation Institute, specializes in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies, and his most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009). He is also the author of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, What Every Person Should Know About War, and When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists. In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He also received in 2002 the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University. He currently writes a weekly column for Truthdig.com. Read his latest columns and his earlier work here. Particularly relevant to this program is Hedges’s article, The Pictures of War You are Not Supposed to See. Read the rest of this entry »

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This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s May 31 program featuring her interview with Phil Radford, the Executive Director of Greenpeace USA. Radford and
Dr. Caldicott discuss the state of environmental activism and many other issues. For six years, Radford was Greenpeace USA’s Grassroots Director. During that time, he created a $9 million Grassroots Program which greatly expanded Greenpeace USA’s on-line, grass-roots and student organizing and training, as well as street and door-to-door canvassing. Recent corporate targets of Greenpeace campaigns include Kimberly-Clark, a major tree cutter, and ExxonMobil, a major polluter and global-warming denier. Greenpeace is largely sustained by hundreds of thousands of small monthly donations. Radford earned a Bachelor degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998, and holds a certificate in Non-profit Management from Georgetown University.

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This week, Dr. Caldicott interviews two guests. First, she
chats with Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen, one of the international group of expert reviewers of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (”IPCC”). van Leeuwen is a senior scientist at Ceedata Consultancy in the Netherlands. In this conversation, van Leeuwen discusses the CO2 output of nuclear power production. Read the report by van Leeuwen and Philip Smith, Nuclear Power: The Energy Balance.

In the second segment of the program,
Dr. Caldicott speaks with Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam about the push for a nuclear waste depository in central Australia. Listen to Dr. Caldicott’s earlier conversation with Sen. Ludlam, recorded in August 2009. Read a November 11 media release by Sen. Ludlam, Greens condemn deal to sell uranium to Russia. Read the June 19 antinuclear.net news item, Senator Scott Ludlam raises nuclear problems in Senate Estimates. Longer show description to follow.

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Greg Mello, this week’s guest, is the Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group, based in New Mexico. The Study Group, which Mello co-founded in 1989, is a non-profit organization for the purposes of policy analysis and education regarding nuclear weapons policies and institutions, particularly Los Alamos National Laboratory, and other energy and environmental issues. Dr. Caldicott first interviewed Mello in May. In this second conversation, they dig deeper into the new generation of bombs under development at U.S. nuclear weapons labs. They also cover Mello’s role advising government and sounding the alarm to educate journalists, scholars, and citizens. As background, read the October 8 blog item It’s Not Nuclear Weapons That Need “Modernization,” But New START and the Study Group’s October 1 press release Huge “emergency” funding increase for nuke labs today. Check out Massive giveaways to weapons manufacturers that will occur after the Senate ratifies the New START to hear a November 4 interview with another Study Group expert, Darwin BondGraham. Read BondGraham’s Oct 29 article START: Arms Affirmation Treaty. Longer show description to follow.

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This week, Dr. Caldicott discusses the relationship between permafrost and climate with Dr. Vladimir E. Romanovsky, a Professor in Geophysics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, where he heads
up the Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory. Dr. Romanovsky’s research specialty is permafrost geophysics, with particular emphasis on the ground thermal regime, active layer and permafrost processes, and the relationships between permafrost, hydrology, biota and climate. In the interview,
Dr. Caldicott mentions former Soviet colonel Valery Yarynich. Col. Yarynich, Bruce Blair of the World Security Institute and others co-authored the article Smaller and Safer: A New Plan for Nuclear Postures, in the September/October 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs. As background on permafrost, read the September 20, 2010 article Artic Ice
in Death Spiral. Also see the September 7, 2006 article Scientists Find
New Global Warming ‘Time Bomb’ . Longer show description to follow.

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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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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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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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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.

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This week, Dr. Caldicott interviews Jane Swanson, a mother and grandmother who has been an active member of the California antinuclear organization Mothers for Peace (full name San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace) since its formation in 1969. In 2006, the group challenged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in federal court and won. The court determined that the NRC was wrong to not take into account the possibility of a terrorist attack in creating the Environmental Impart Statement for a dry cask storage project that PG&E will install at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear facility. Swanson says, “Our 2006 victory in the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of appeals opened doors for activist groups living near the other 103 nuclear reactors. We hope to achieve a second favorable ruling in 2010.” Diablo Canyon is on more than one major earthquake fault. Read the March 2010 article The Uncertainty Factor: Does a New Fault Line Discovery Put Diablo Canyon Power Plant in Jeopardy? Longer show description to follow.

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Dr. Caldicott chats with John Warner, president and chief technology officer at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, and president of the Beyond Benign Foundation. Warner has published nearly 200 patents, papers and books and is co-author with Paul Anastas of Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington DC, and has received many awards, including the 2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring from President Bush. In this interview with Dr. Caldicott, he talks about how chemicals affect the body, and why he is trying to ‘green’ global chemical industries. Longer show description to follow.

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This week, Dr. Caldicott explores the issue of industrial contaminants in the environment with her son William Caldicott, Director of Business Development for ISOTEC,
a company that treats organic contaminants in soils and groundwater. William was also an environmental consul-tant at Geomatrix Consultants, Inc., Oakland, CA. He has
a Masters degree in Environmental Science from Yale University in the U.S. and also was graduated from Southern Cross University in Australia. Near the beginning of the program,
Dr. Caldicott mentions a report released in May 2010 by the President’s Cancer Panel in the U.S., Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now. She says the public is not aware of how ubiquitious toxic chemicals are. When asked what spurred his concern about environmental Read the rest of this entry »

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Dr. Caldicott interviews Daniel Ellsberg this week. In 1959, Ellsberg became a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation. He was also a consultant to the Defense Department and the White House, specializing in problems of the command and control of nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans, and crisis decision-making. On return to the RAND Corporation in 1967, Ellsberg worked on the top secret McNamara study of U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1971, he gave the Papers to the New York Times, the Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. His trial, on twelve felony counts posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on Read the rest of this entry »

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In this episode, Dr. Caldicott interviews Ralph Nader, one of America’s most effective social critics. Named by The Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century, his documented criticism of government and industry has had widespread effect on public awareness and bureaucratic power. Nader is an American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and four-time candidate for president of the United States, having run as a Green Party candidate in 1996 and 2000, and as an independent candidate in 2004 and 2008. For over four decades, Nader has exposed problems and organized millions of citizens into more than 100 public Read the rest of this entry »

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On If You Love This Planet this week, Dr. Caldicott interviews Diane D’Arrigo about the massive and ongoing problem of nuclear and contaminated waste. D’Arrigo is the Radioactive Waste Project Director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS). D’Arrigo, who has been with NIRS since 1986, has a degree in chemistry and environmental studies and has closely followed so-called “low-level” nuclear waste issues for decades. Relevant to this episode, read the 2007 NIRS press release New Report
Finds Nuclear Weapons Materials Released to Landfills Pathways Open for Reuse and Recycling. Read the report written by D’Arrigo and Mary Olson of NIRS, Out of Control — On Purpose: DOE’s Dispersal of Radioactive Waste into Landfills and Consumer Products. Read the rest of this entry »