https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org Dr. Helen Caldicott Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:46:01 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 If You Love This Planet with Dr. Helen Caldicott delivers an hour each week of in-depth discussion about urgent planetary survival issues such as global warming, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, deforestation, toxic pollution, ozone depletion, hunger and poverty, and species extinction. Each program features one major topic, allowing for an extended conversation with our guest or guests. Clips of lectures by Dr. Caldicott are also part of the mix. Dr. Helen Caldicott ifyoulovethisplanet.org https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/itunes/IYLTP-logo-itunes.jpghttps://ifyoulovethisplanet.org love, planet, Caldicott, nuclear, energy, weapons, pediatrician, environment, ifyoulovethisplanet, ifyoulovethisplanet.org no Scott Powell sjpowellca@hotmail.com https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6939 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6939#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:02:31 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6939 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6939 Clip 1B Watch on YouTube In this episode, we hear more presentations from the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction symposium held at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City in February 2015. Some of the speeches include visuals which can be seen by watching the presentations in streaming format on the official conference hosting site. Since the conference, U.S. politicians and mainstream media have only amplified the reignited hatred of Russia, particularly president Vladimir Putin, and made nuclear war more likely. Read Demonization of Putin as Personally Behind Clinton Hack Is Old Propaganda Technique, Mikhail Gorbachev: Appears ‘The World Is Preparing for War’ and Thanks, Trump. Doomsday Clock Now Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight. Steven Starr First up is Steven Starr, Associate of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and Senior Scientist at Physicians for Social Responsibility. Hear Dr. Caldicott’s 2010 interview with Starr. Visit Starr’s website NuclearDarkness.org to learn more about the consequences of nuclear war, nuclear winter and how nuclear weapons explosions would irreparably harm the global climate. In Starr’s presentation, Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event, he explains how nuclear war would be the crime to end all crimes, and would mean the end of all human life on earth. Among the issues addressed are the phenomenon of nuclear winter, why political leaders by and large do not discuss nuclear war, and the lack of awareness among todays youth (and most of the public) about the continuing and now increasing nuclear threat. Starr mentions a 2015 article he co-wrote with Lynn Eden and Theodore Postol, What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above midtown Manhattan?. Starr notes that the worlds leading climatologists say that nuclear war threatens our survival as a species. Even a small nuclear exchange would render the earth uninhabitable. Political leaders refuse to meet with scientists who could explaint he consequences of detonating weapons. Read the 2017 article Senator Markey wants to curb Trump’s power to use nuclear weapons and the Peace Action citizen alert to block President Trumps ability to launch nuclear weapons. Starr elucidates the firepower of todays nuclear weapons, and the number of weapons ready to fire in the U.S. an Russian arsenals. Bruce Gagnon The second speaker in this session is Bruce Gagnon, coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons in Space. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts 2009 interview with Gagnon and her three 2011 interviews with Gagnon here, here and here. Gagnons symposium presentation was entitled The Ongoing Dangerous Militarization of Space and Nuclear War. He starts off encouraging people to read the Global Networks newsletter Space Alert Gagnon covers the missile defense systems the U.S. is using to threaten Russia, the U.S. under President George W. Bush having pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty which had limited the development of missile defense, a key component of first-strike nuclear war planning. He also discusses the U.S. Space Commands use of computer war games as practice and how missile defense makes launch-on-warming a more problematic policy than ever. President Obama broke his campaign promise to take nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert. Gagnon notes that the modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal under Obama (who won a Nobel Peace Prize for simply talking about nuclear disarmament at the start of his first term), is causing major instabilities in U.S./Russian relations, in effect representing a whole new arms race. Read The Trillion Dollar Question the Media Have Neglected to Ask Presidential Candidates about Obamas trillion-dollar nuclear weapons upgrade. He discusses the U.S. militarys provocative goal of regime change in Moscow to benefit [...] Clip 1B Watch on YouTube In this episode, we hear more presentations from the Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction symposium held at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City in February 2015. Some of the speeches include visuals which [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6819 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6819#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2016 18:58:10 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6819 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6819 Clip 1A Watch on YouTube Dr. Caldicott addressing the symposium In this program, we hear the first series of speakers at The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, a two-day symposium organized by If You Love This Planet host Dr. Helen Caldicott at The New York Academy of Medicine last year. With the continuing revival of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the presentations are still timely. Read the June 2016 article by Noam Chomsky, The Doomsday Clock: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change and the Prospects for Survival, the May 2016 article U.S., NATO Look to Combat an Aggressive Russia, the April 2016 article Inevitability: Nuclear War is Coming and the February 2016 story Russia-NATO relations have fallen to new Cold War level – Russian PM. Some of the presentations include visuals which can be seen by watching the presentations in streaming format on the official conference hosting site. In her introductory remarks, Dr. Caldicott tells the audience how her concern about accidental nuclear war was raised by reading a 2014 article on advances in artificial intelligence in The Atlantic Monthly, But What Would the End of Humanity Mean for Me? Preeminent scientists are warning about serious threats to human life in the not-distant future, including climate change and superintelligent computers. Most people dont care. Also read Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind. Dr. Caldicott mentions that conference presenter Janne Nolan of the Elliott School of International Affairs said that the conference was the most importance conference taking place in the U.S. today. Dr. Caldiicott also refers to corporate greed, particularly on the part of weapons makers, as part of the renewed anti-Russian stance of the U.S. government. Read Game On: East vs. West, again by Andrew Cockburn, Meet The Big Wallets Pushing Obama Towards A New Cold War, The US Is Pushing Toward WWlll, A Former Reagan Administration Member Speaks Out and Russia, NATO, and the Hubris of the US Political Establishment. Dr. Caldicott notes that Vladimir Putin has raised the nuclear weapons alert level. President Obama never fulfilled his 2008 campaign promise to de-alert nuclear weapons. Read the June 2016 article by Robert C. Koehler, Hair-Trigger Alert: On Bombs, Guns, and the Failure of America. Ted Postol Next, we hear the symposiums first presentation by Theodore Postol, a professor of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Postol was a guest on If You Love This Planet in 2008. Postol covers the technical issues which greatly increase the risk of accidental nuclear war. He states that the danger of nuclear war is now higher than during most of the Cold War (1947 to 1991). Among other issues Postol covers are the fragile Russian early warning system and how little U.S. leaders have done to address what should be the most urgent international priority to safeguard the planet. Max Tegmark The next presentation is by Max Tegmark, physics professor at MIT and one of the writers with Stephen Hawking of the 2015 warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Tegmark, concerned about nuclear war since his teens, delivers a cosmic perspective on the need to take our heads out of the sands and remove the nuclear danger from all of our lives. He addresses the folly of increasingly allowing computers and robots to make decisions for us. Tegmark praises retired Soviet colonel Stanislav Petrov, who as a thinking human was able to save the planet from nuclear war in 1983. Alan Robock The last speaker in this segment of the conference is Alan Robock, professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. Robock was featured as a guest on If You Love This Planet in 2008 and 2011. Robock focuses on the risks of nuclear winter and nuclear famine, not only from a U.S.-Russian exchange but also from a war between [...] Clip 1A Watch on YouTube In this program, we hear the first series of speakers at The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction, a two-day symposium organized by If You Love This Planet host Dr. Helen Caldicott at The New York Academy of Medicine [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6709 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6709#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:00:33 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6709 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6709 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Bob Herbert and Dr. Helen Caldicott on Nov. 8 (The New School) Renowned journalist Bob Herbert interviews Dr. Helen Caldicott at The New School in New York, November 2012. Dr. Caldicott discusses her latest book, Loving This Planet (The New Press, Oct. 2012) which features 25 interviews from If You Love This Planet, as well as the state of the earth and U.S. presidential election (held two days before this interview). Among the topics covered are the urgency of addressing global warming, permanent-war mentality in the Pentagon and how the American public no longer thinks of peace, the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, Hurricane Sandy, the 1980s nuclear weapons freeze movement spearheaded by Dr. Caldicott and Randall Forsberg, and the study Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts interview with study author Dr. Arjun Makhijani. Dr. Caldicott explains how nuclear power contributes to climate change and mentions her book Nuclear Power Is Not The Answer . Herbert asks Dr. Caldicott about her interview with filmmaker Michael Madsen and the problem of nuclear waste. They also discuss Fukushima and what it would mean for Japan if the damaged Building 4 collapses, and how one million people have died as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts interview with Dr. Janette Sherman-Nevinger. Dr. Caldicott mentions her forthcoming trip to Japan. Watch a short video of her November press conference in Tokyo. Herbert mentions Dr. Caldicott’s conversation with Maude Barlow about the problem of global water supplies. Herbert and Dr. Caldicott also touch on Americas weaponization of space to dominate space. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts interview with Dr. Craig Eisendrath. Dr. Caldicott talks about how American culture and corporations have taken over the world and destroyed healthy cultures. Herbert points to the fantasy thinking and lack of political engagement among American citizens. Dr. Caldicott also mentions the problem of plastic waste polluting the oceans. Listen to her interview with Capt. Charles Moore. Relevant to this interview is the December 2012 article US War Machine Leaves Ugly Imprint in Afghanistan. Watch the complete conversation between Dr. Caldicott and Herbert here. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts 2012 interview with Bob Herbert here and her 2009 interview here. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Renowned journalist Bob Herbert interviews Dr. Helen Caldicott at The New School in New York, November 2012. Dr. Caldicott discusses her latest book, Loving This Planet (The New Press, Oct. [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6694 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6694#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:00:06 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6694 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6694 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Helen Caldicott, M.D. (nuclear-free.com) This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicotts March 31, 2011 lecture in Hanover, New Hampshire, three weeks after the Japan earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Fukushima nuclear power plant. She discusses the dangers of radioactive elements and the future of the planet. Note: Dr. Caldicott is convening a two-day international symposium on the medical and ecological effects of Fukushima on March 11 and 12, 2013 at the New York Academy of Medicine. The public is welcome. Details at nuclearfreeplanet.org. At the start of her lecture, Dr. Caldicott refers to the book Radioactive: Marie Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout. She also mentions her appearance on Democracy Now, debating George Monbiot, after Fukushima. Later in the talk, she refers to her still-relevant book about the present nuclear danger, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bushs Military-Industrial Complex and her latest book, If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth. For background on this episode, read Dr. Caldicotts recent articles on Fukushima, Unsafe at Any Dose and How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation. Watch her April 9 presentation at the recent Chernobyl conference in Berlin [note: about three minutes of the beginning of the speech are missing, and there is some occasional cross-talk from translaters at the beginning]. See her press conference in Montreal about how Fukushima will dwarf the Chernobyl catastrophe. Listen to her debate about the ramifications of Fukushima with George Monbiot and Laurence Williams. Read her interview with CNN: Nuclear radiation the greatest health hazard. For the very latest on Fukushima, read Fukushimas Apocalyptic Threat Demands Immediate Global Action and watch this May 17 TV interview with Professor Christopher Busby from the European Committee on Radiation Risks, Situation at Fukushima Out of Control. For more background on the hazards of nuclear power, read Dr. Caldicotts book Nuclear Power is Not the Answer and visit NuclearFreePlanet.org and BeyondNuclear.org. And also read the article 417,000 cancers forecast for Fukushima 200 km contamination zone by 2061 and Life in the Zone: What we’re still learning from Chernobyl (this article requires payment). And be sure to listen to Dr. Caldicotts interview with Janette Sherman, M.D. about the 2009 New York Academy of Sciences report which documents that nearly 1,000,000 people have died as a result of the Chernobyl meltdown (Dr. Caldicott refers to the report in her speech, and it can be downloaded for free here). Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicotts March 31, 2011 lecture in Hanover, New Hampshire, three weeks after the Japan earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Fukushima nuclear [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6683 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6683#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:00:11 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6683 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6683 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. S. Banerjee (Jon Chase / Harvard News) Subhankar Banerjee is an Indian-born American photographer, writer and activist. Over the past decade he has been a leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous human rights and global warming, and over the past five years he has also been focusing on forest deaths from global warming. His photographs and writing have reached tens of millions of people around the world through exhibitions, publications and public lectures. His new book is called Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point. At the start of this interview, Dr. Caldicott refers to a September 2012 report of a massacre of members of the Yanomami Indian Tribe of the Amazon. A week after this program was recorded, the report was found to be false, yet the general situation of native peoples being displaced or killed when they stand in the way of resource extraction is an increasingly widespread scenario. Read the September 11 article, Campaign group retracts Yanomami massacre claims. Among the topics discussed in this conversation are Dr. Caldicotts trip down the Amazon river where she witnessed tribes uncorrupted by western civilization, Banerjees work with indigenous communities in the Arctic, how the mining industry and other corporations are harming native peoples globally and these crimes will increase to maintain an affluent western standard of living, the tremendous expansion of Earth-destroying mining for coal, uranium, and irone in Australia, and catastrophic forest fires and droughts induced by global warming. Read the September 2012 article Australian mega mine plan threatens global emissions target: Unprecedented increase in the scale of Australian mining would nullify an internationally agreed goal, Greenpeace warns. Dr. Caldicott mentions her book If You Love This Planet (revised and updated in 2009). Dr. Caldicott mentions Banerjees writings on the Arctic such as Ignoring Protest and Warnings, Obama Ushers in Era of Unprecedented Arctic Drilling, Shell Game in the Arctic and Resource Wars Connect Yanomami Massacre and Shell’s Arctic Drilling. Dr. Caldicott points to how oil drilling in the Arctic will cause even more global warming. Banerjee mentions his important 2010 article Why We Cant Have Another One Hundred Years of Fossil-Digging in North America which covers five projects that he says would completely destroy the earth. Relevant to this interview is the January 2013 article Smoking Gun: Tar Sands Report Eviscerates Industry Claims. Dr. Caldicott and Banerjee also discuss why Obama capitulates to polluting industries on nearly every environmental front, including his support for the Keystone XL pipeline. Related to this point is Obamas role as warmaker. Read Glenn Greenwalds article The War on Terror - by Design - Can Never End. Banerjee discusses the fall 2012 Smithsonian conference, The Anthropocene: Planet Earth in the Age of Humans about the unprecedented destruction our species is now causing on the planet. He also mentions Prof. Richard Muller of UC Berkeley. Read The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic. Also referenced is Michael Klares book The Race for Whats Left. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts interview of Klare. Dr. Caldicott remarks on her attendance at a 2012 conference in Freiburg, Germany where she heard about the potential global temperature increases that may occur this century, and the implications for human life. Banerjee discusses Obamas involvement in Arctic Ocean drilling. Read the July 2012 article Obama Is Fast-tracking an Environmental Disaster to Please Big Oil. Banerjee announces that he and global-warming expert James Hansen will give a presentation in February 2013 in Santa Fe. Later in the program, Dr. Caldicott and [...] Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Subhankar Banerjee is an Indian-born American photographer, writer and activist. Over the past decade he has been a leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6651 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6651#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:00:56 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6651 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6651 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Marion Pack In this conversation recorded in June, Dr. Caldicott talks with California anti-nuclear activist, Marion Pack. Pack is one of many members of the Orange County community who highlight serious safety issues with the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, located a few miles south of San Clemente, California. If San Onofre were to melt down, it would contaminate Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, and make large regions of southern California uninhabitable forever. As background, read Shut down San Onofre: The continuing nuclear threat to southern California and Bad Vibrations: San Onofre steam generators cannot safely be repaired – new Fairewinds video and report. Topics addressed in the interview include nuclear waste, the 1980s Nuclear Freeze movement, the present public apathy toward nuclear war, and the many recent safety risks and radiation leaks at the San Onofre nuclear plant between San Diego and Los Angeles, where whistleblowers have been threatened. They examine a terrifying close call which brought the plant close to a major accident, and how San Onofre’s position on three major earthquake fault lines, right on the coast, makes it a sitting duck for a major meltdown like Fukushima. Later in the program, Dr. Caldicott stresses the urgent need for civil disobedience around nuclear issues and global warming, in the face of political inertia. She refers to Kumi Naidoo, head of Greenpeace. Read Civil Disobedience Needed to Win Action on Climate Change, New Greenpeace Chief Says. She also refers to Peter Finch’s famous scene in the film Network in discussing the level of outrage the public should exhibit toward threats to the planet. For a recent update on San Onofre, read the November 30 Friends of the Earth press release: San Onofre: Laguna Hills meeting no substitute for formal court hearings about the local utilitys plans to restart one of the crippled reactors. For more information, see sanonofresafety.org. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this conversation recorded in June, Dr. Caldicott talks with California anti-nuclear activist, Marion Pack. Pack is one of many members of the Orange County community who highlight [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6629 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6629#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:00:16 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6629 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6629 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Tom Engelhardt This weeks guest is Tom Engelhardt, creator of the TomDispatch.com website, a project of the Nation Institute, a non-profit media center based in New York, where he is a fellow. Englehardt is the author of two collections of his TomDispatch columns: The United States of Fear and The American Way of War: How Bushs Wars Became Obamas, as well as The End of Victory Culture, a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War. Another of his recent books Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare 2001-2050, which he co-authored with Nick Turse. Note: This particular interview was recorded in summer 2012, before the November election. Topics discussed include the Department of Homeland Security, the continuing epidemic of gun violence in the U.S., Americas use of drones and sales of drone weaponry to an expanding number of nations, the constantly looming threat of U.S./Russian nuclear war, how politicians use fear and paranoia to control the public, Afghanistan and weapons in space. Check out Engelhardts December 2012 article Dreams for Obama: From Community Organizer to Robot President: The updated story of a president in a straitjacket of his own making. Also related to this interview are the articles Revealed: US and Britain Launched 1,200 Drone Strikes in Recent Wars, Decade of US War on Terror Yields More Terrorism: Inaugural study says that terror attacks worldwide have grown rapidly in the years since 9/11 and spiked during the US occupation of Iraq, and Pentagon, CIA Lines Blur as US Wars Step Further into Shadows: New Pentagon strategy reflects the Obama administration’s affinity for espionage and covert action. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This weeks guest is Tom Engelhardt, creator of the TomDispatch.com website, a project of the Nation Institute, a non-profit media center based in New York, where he is a fellow. [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6594 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6594#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:00:54 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6594 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6594 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Holly Barker This weeks guest is Holly Barker, author and teacher at the Anthropology Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. Barker worked for the Republic of the Marshall Islands Governments Embassy in Washington D.C. for 17 years, helping conduct research in the Marshall Islands about the effects of nuclear testing from a Marshallese perspective. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Marshall Islands from 1988-1990, and lived on a remote outer island with a Marshallese family for two years while teaching in a local elementary school. Barker is the author of Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World (which just came out in second edition), and co-authored with Dr. Barbara Rose Johnston an award-winning book called Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report. During the interview, Barker mentions the activism of Dr. Neal Palafox. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts 2011 interview with Dr. Palafox. Dr. Caldicott recommends listeners watch the documentary film Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This weeks guest is Holly Barker, author and teacher at the Anthropology Department at the University of Washington in Seattle. Barker worked for the Republic of the Marshall Islands [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6588 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6588#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:00:35 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6588 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6588 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Brian D. Victoria This weeks special guest is Brian Daizen Victoria, Professor of Japanese Studies and director of a program at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio titled: Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions. Apart from numerous journal articles, Victorias major writings include Zen at War; Zen War Stories; an autobiographical work in Japanese and a translation of The Zen Life by Sato Koji. In this discussion, Dr. Caldicott and Victoria look at the evolution of Buddhism in Japan including its role in Japans militarism in World War II, how individuals in societies can be gripped by tribalistic thinking or embrace a universalist point of view, death and dying, why men kill, and the moral choices we all face in a time when nuclear war still threatens everyone, and other profound questions. Victoria refers to the film Joyeux Noël [note: the website has a clickable English-language version]. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This weeks special guest is Brian Daizen Victoria, Professor of Japanese Studies and director of a program at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio titled: Japan and Its Buddhist [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6567 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6567#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:00:52 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6567 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6567 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Jay Harman This weeks guest is Jay Harman, entrepreneur and inventor. Harman has taken a hands-on approach to his lifelong fascination with natural fluid systems. In the process, he has grown companies that design innovative products, ranging from prize-winning watercraft called the WildThing and the Goggleboat, to a medical research company that developed a non-invasive technology for measuring blood glucose, to his latest company, PAX Scientific. Born and raised in Australia, Harmans love of nature began as a boy swimming in the ocean near his home. He began his career as a naturalist with the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, but he quickly demonstrated talents as an inventor. While still with the Australian government, he designed, built, and licensed a set of crustacean measuring gauges as well as a range of hovercraft. Harman is at the leading edge of biomimicry, following natures models to design more efficient products and devices. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Sharks Paintbrush in which he explains his many developments in biomimickry. Harman appears in Prince Charless documentary Harmony: A New Way of Looking at the World Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This weeks guest is Jay Harman, entrepreneur and inventor. Harman has taken a hands-on approach to his lifelong fascination with natural fluid systems. In the process, he has grown [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6537 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6537#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:00:20 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6537 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6537 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Wayne Getz This week, Dr. Caldicott speaks with Professor Wayne Getz, and ecologist and population biologist with the Getz Lab at University of California at Berkeley. Students and postdoctoral students in the lab work on a broad range of theoretical and applied questions in population biology and behavior with application to problems in epidemiology and conservation and wildlife biology, particularly in Africa. This conversation was recorded in June, but has many important points relevant to Hurricane Sandy, which caused unprecedented destruction in the U.S. this week. Dr. Caldicott asks Getz to discuss the recent article the Getz Lab produced, Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott speaks with Professor Wayne Getz, and ecologist and population biologist with the Getz Lab at University of California at Berkeley. Students and postdoctoral [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6520 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6520#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 07:00:16 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6520 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6520 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Donna Mulhearn This week, Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks with Sydney-based peace activist Donna Mulhearn, an author, former journalist and political adviser. She was a human shield in the war in Iraq in 2003 and later returned to Iraq as a humanitarian aid worker. Mulhearn was part of an international team of volunteers that established a small NGO Our Home - Iraq which set up a shelter for street kids in Baghdad, a center for traumatized children and provided emergency aid to displaced families. During this time she witnessed the massacre of Fallujah in April 2004, survived constant bombing, being kidnapped by fighters, and being shot at by American soldiers. In 2004- 2005, Mulhearn spent four months in the West Bank of Palestine as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement. During these years she continually wrote reports and reflections called pilgrim notes, which were distributed widely around Australia and the world. Listen to Dr. Caldicott’s June 2010 interview with Mulhearn. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks with Sydney-based peace activist Donna Mulhearn, an author, former journalist and political adviser. She was a human shield in the war in Iraq in 2003 [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6513 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6513#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:00:28 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6513 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6513 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Kathy Kelly This weeks guest is Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, an organization which has steadily researched consequences of drone attacks, night raids and aerial bombings in Afghanistan. Risking imprisonment, they frequently protest U.S. government plans to continue U.S. military presence in Afghanistan until 2024 and beyond. Drawing from recent experiences living for a month at a time in Afghanistan, Kelly frequently speaks and writes about perspectives of Afghan Peace Volunteers. They have told her and her companions their thoughts about prospects for their future in relation to NATO and the U.S. 21st Century military. Kelly previously lived alongside ordinary Iraqis whenever she and other Voices activists traveled there to break the U.S./UN economic sanctions against Iraq. They remained in Iraq throughout the Shock and Awe bombing in 2003 and during the initial months of U.S. occupation. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This weeks guest is Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, an organization which has steadily researched consequences of drone attacks, night raids and aerial bombings in [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6481 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6481#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:00:49 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6481 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6481 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. David Freeman Dr. Caldicotts guest this week is David Freeman, a senior advisor with Friends of the Earths nuclear campaign. Freeman has more than four decades of experience directing federal, regional and local energy policies. He was appointed chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, where he stopped the construction of eight large nuclear power plants and pioneered a massive energy conservation program. Subsequently, Freeman served for two decades as general manager of several large public power agencies including the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the New York Power Authority and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. He is a renowned expert on clean energy, efficiency and the risks of nuclear power. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicotts guest this week is David Freeman, a senior advisor with Friends of the Earths nuclear campaign. Freeman has more than four decades of experience directing [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6475 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6475#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:00:07 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6475 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6475 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Norberg-Hodge This weeks special guest on If You Love This Planet is Helena Norberg-Hodge, the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote systemic solutions to todays social and environmental crises. Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the new economy movement, and has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than 30 years. Trained in linguistics, she has given public lectures in seven languages, and has appeared on broadcast, print, and online media worldwide, including MSNBC, The London Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian. Her groundbreaking work in Ladakh, or Little Tibet, earned her the Right Livelihood Award, or Alternative Nobel Prize and her book, Ancient Futures, along with a film of the same title, has been translated into more than 40 languages. For more resources relevant to this interview, visit theeconomicsofhappiness.org. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This weeks special guest on If You Love This Planet is Helena Norberg-Hodge, the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, a non-profit organization [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6455 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6455#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:00:23 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6455 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6455 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Col. Ann Wright This week, we play a repeat of Dr. Caldicotts 2011 interview with Ann Wright, a diplomat and retired U.S. Army colonel. Col. Wright is also a peace activist and co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience, published by Koa books in 2007. She holds a Masters degree in Law, and a Masters degree in National Security Affairs from the U.S. Naval War College. In 1987, Col. Wright joined the Foreign Service and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State Departments Award for Heroism for her actions during the evacuation of 2,500 people from the civil war in Sierra Leone. Dr. Caldicott and Col. Wright discuss the 2003 Iraq war, U.S. military policy and the psychology of killing, among other topics. Some recent articles by Col. Wright include America’s Drones Are Homeward Bound, Promises to Families of Afghans Killed by US Soldier Ring Hollow, and Obama, the Denier of Israel’s Crimes. Read her earlier articles The Trial of Bradley Manning-Rule of Law or Rule of Intimidation, Retaliation and Retribution; Instead of Attacking WikiLeaks, Fix What It Exposed; Peace Prizes for War Presidents, Missile Tests on Day of Peace Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we play a repeat of Dr. Caldicotts 2011 interview with Ann Wright, a diplomat and retired U.S. Army colonel. Col. Wright is also a peace activist and co-author of Dissent: [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6440 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6440#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:00:37 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6440 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6440 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Chris Maser This week, Dr. Caldicott talks to Chris Maser, author and international consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, Maser has spent over 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology, including positions as a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management for thirteen years from 1974 the last eight studying old-growth forests in western Oregon and a landscape ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency for one year in 1990. Maser is the author of Resolving Environmental Conflicts and Decision-Making for a Sustainable Environment: A Systemic Approach (Social Environmental Sustainability). Some of the topics covered in this interview include Maser’s theories on adapting to change, relationships between men and women, women’s inequality in a patriarchal order, the prevalence of fear and greed, our connection or lack thereof to the environment, and America’s spiritual bankruptcy. Maser describes his childhood spent in a near-wilderness, and how that shaped his views. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott talks to Chris Maser, author and international consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, Maser [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6431 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6431#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:00:28 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6431 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6431 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Wertelecki [This weeks guest is Wladimir Wertelecki, the founder and chairman of the Department of Medical Genetics and Birth Defects Center of the University of South Alabama, in the U.S. Prior to his training in Medical Genetics at Harvard University Medical School, Dr. Wertelecki trained in Pediatrics at St. Louis Childrens Hospital, Washington University. Later, he served as Senior Surgeon, U.S. Public Health Commission Corps at the Epidemiology Branch of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Wertelecki is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and member of the Academy of Pediatrics, and since 1994, he has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the World Alliance for the Prevention of Birth Defects. He has extensively studied the effects of the radiation released by the Chernobyl meltdown on public health, particularly in children, and discusses his findings with Dr. Caldicott. As background, read the July 2012 article Geneticist charts effects of nuclear disasters, and Dr. Werteleckis study Malformations in a Chornobyl-Impacted Region. Also listen to Dr. Caldicotts interview with Janette Sherman, M.D. on the studies indicating nearly one million people have died as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. [This weeks guest is Wladimir Wertelecki, the founder and chairman of the Department of Medical Genetics and Birth Defects Center of the University of South Alabama, in the U.S. Prior [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6408 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6408#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:00:21 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6408 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6408 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Phil Caldicott Dr. Caldicott talks to Australian sommelier, Phil Caldicott, about the science of wine production. Among the topics they discuss are the history of wine production; how wine quality is judged and best tasted; preservatives, pesticides and toxic chemicals used in wine and the benefits of organic wine growing; and the harmful and costly effects on public health of excess alcohol consumption, including how native peoples can be particularly vulnerable to these issues. For some relevant background, read the article Top 3 Reasons Why You Should Drink Organic Wine. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott talks to Australian sommelier, Phil Caldicott, about the science of wine production. Among the topics they discuss are the history of wine production; how wine quality is [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6397 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6397#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:00:44 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6397 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6397 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Gundersen This week, Dr. Caldicott brings on nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen to update readers on the unfolding effects of the Fukushima meltdowns and what is happening with nuclear power in other parts of the world. As background, listen to earlier conversations with Gundersen (starting with April 1, 2011), which can be found on the Archives page. Read the August 2012 news articles Study: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Caused Mutant Butterflies and Grassroots Power Pushing Japan Towards Nuclear-Free Future . And visit Fairewinds.org, the website of Gundersens organization, for more information. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott brings on nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen to update readers on the unfolding effects of the Fukushima meltdowns and what is happening with nuclear power in other [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6384 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6384#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:00:01 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6384 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6384 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Ralph Nader This weeks guest is author and lawyer Ralph Nader. (Note: this interview was recorded in April 2012.) A pioneer in the field of consumer advocacy, Nader is a a four-time U.S. Presidential candidate. He ran in 1996 and 2000 on the Green Party ticket. During a very close election in 2000, he was accused of taking votes away from democrat Al Gore. He ran again in 2004 and 2008 as an independent. Nader has helped pass several bills and written many books on the subject of consumer safety. The conversation covers the need for higher wages (Nader mentions timeforaraise.org), the weaknesses of the Occupy movement, the tenets of Naders book Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us and his forthcoming book 17 Solutions (fall 2012), nuclear weapons, the lack of free health care in the U.S. and what it costs the nation, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Read Dr. Brian Moenchs article America: A Fire Sale to Foreign Corporations. Nader and Dr. Caldicott also address the role of greed and the monetized mind, global warmings effect on the poor, and how communities can create small economies that reduce the role of giant corporate entities. Nader mentions that listeners can receive his weekly column if they sign up at nader.org and they can read his presidential platform to compare it to those of the current candidates at votenader.org. For more information, be sure to listen to Dr. Caldicotts August 2010 conversation with Nader. The last 10 minutes of the program include an excerpt from a 2009 speech Dr. Caldicott gave in Middlebury, Vermont. She addresses the dangers of nuclear power, focused on the aging Vermont Yankee plant on the Massachusetts/Vermont border. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This weeks guest is author and lawyer Ralph Nader. (Note: this interview was recorded in April 2012.) A pioneer in the field of consumer advocacy, Nader is a a four-time U.S. [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6345 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6345#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:00:52 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6345 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6345 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Alan Robock This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicotts September 2011 interview with Dr. Alan Robock, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor of Climatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. Dr. Robock has published more than 300 articles on his research in the area of climate change, including more than 170 peer-reviewed papers. His areas of expertise include geoengineering, climatic effects of nuclear war, effects of volcanic eruptions on climate, regional atmosphere-hydrology modeling, and soil moisture variations. This weeks conversation looks at the latest models of nuclear winter after a nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and how even a limited nuclear exchange would increase global warming, destroy the ozone layer, induce major food shortages and cause millions of deaths. The risk of a global nuclear holocaust and severe nuclear winter caused by a U.S./Russian nuclear exchange is also discussed. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts 2008 conversation with Robock. Visit Dr. Robocks Rutgers University page to find more information on climate change and nuclear winter. Dr. Caldicott refers to a 2004 article she co-wrote, Robert McNamara Says NYC Still Number 1 Russian Nuclear Target, and her 2004 book, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bushs Military-Industrial Complex, which is still completely relevant. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicotts September 2011 interview with Dr. Alan Robock, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor of Climatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6323 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6323#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:00:36 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6323 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6323 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Brian Moench This weeks guest is Dr. Brian Moench, President and Founder of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Dr. Moench is an anesthesiologist at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has taught at both Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Moench has written over 60 op eds published in newspapers throughout the USA and on progressive online news sites such as Common Dreams, and received several local awards for activism in environmental and public health protection. Dr. Caldicott and Dr. Moench cover such topics as global warming including the devastating fires in the West, as well as radiation exposure from nuclear tests and nuclear power plants, corporate power in politics, and the health dangers of cell phones. Read Dr. Moenchs latest article Adapting to the Climate Crisis: That Was Easy. Also check out As the West Burns: Speaking Truth to Fire (which Dr. Caldicott refers to in the interview), Climate Crisis: The Silence is Deafening, and Criminal Neglect of Future Generations. Read other articles written by Dr. Moench here. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This weeks guest is Dr. Brian Moench, President and Founder of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Dr. Moench is an [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6304 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6304#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:00:24 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6304 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6304 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. David Dufty In this episode, Dr. Caldicott talks to David Dufty, author of How To Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dicks Robotic Resurrection, published in the U.S. by Holt in 2012. Dufty completed a psychology degree with honors at the University of Newcastle and earned a Ph.D., also in psychology, at the University of Sydney in 2002. He moved to the United States in 2003 where he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee. He now lives in Canberra, where he works for the Australian government. Among other issues, Dr. Caldicott and Dufty discuss reality vs. science-fiction, the disturbing aspects of robots and machines, police states, and artificial intelligence which could used by governments and the military. As background, read the 2012 New York Times article, Talking Head, about How to Build an Android. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. In this episode, Dr. Caldicott talks to David Dufty, author of How To Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dicks Robotic Resurrection, published in the U.S. by Holt in 2012. [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6282 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6282#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:00:08 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6282 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6282 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Arnie Gundersen This week, Dr. Caldicott has a new conversation with nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen about the ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant and its effects on Japan and the rest of the world. Among the topics discussed are the little understood dangers of internal exposure to radiation. Read Dr. Caldicotts 2011 article How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiationin which she discusses internal emitters. Dr. Caldicott and Gundersen later discuss the new Japanese government report, The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission Report. As background, watch or read the transcript of As Japan Says Fukushima Daiichi Disaster Man-Made Preventable, Fears Grow for Nuclear Plants Worldwide, Gundersens appearance on Democracy Now earlier this month. Read the articles Fukushima Still Dangerous, Unstable 500 Days Later, Japan Workers Told to Lie About Radiation, Fukushima Report Blasts TEPCOs On-Going Failures: I now understand what people are worried the most about is the vulnerability of the No 4 spent fuel pool and US Infrastructure in Disarray Due to Extreme Weather, Climate Change which mentions how nuclear power plants are overheating more often. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott has a new conversation with nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen about the ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant and its effects on Japan and the rest of the [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6266 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6266#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:00:40 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6266 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6266 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Christine Milne (Katherine Griffiths) Dr. Caldicott talks to Christine Milne, leader of the Australian Greens Party and Senator for Tasmania. They discuss refugees, carbon taxes, green energy and other aspects of the climate crisis. Milne gives a history of Green parties around the world, saying that the first party started in Tasmania, and outlines the principles of the Green parties. She mentions the Global Greens Conference held this year in Dakar. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts interview with former Australian senator Bob Brown. The conversation then covers the need to aid war refugees and global warming refugees, following by a look at the need for carbon taxes on polluting companies. Dr. Caldicott mentions the report Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free. Listen to one of Dr. Caldicotts interviews with report author Arjun Makhijani . The program also addresses how to reach people who deny global warming because of religious beliefs. As background, listen to Dr. Caldicotts December 2011 dialogue with Sen. Milne. Read Milne’s June 17 article Arctic ice vanishing. Also read the articles Milne warns Greens won’t support carbon tax abolition, The next wave: climate refugees, U.S. science official says more extreme events convincing many Americans climate change is real, Sizzling Heat, Storms, Wildfires: ‘This Is Just the Beginning’ of Global Warming’s Effects, and A Long Hot Summer by Bill McKibben. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Dr. Caldicott talks to Christine Milne, leader of the Australian Greens Party and Senator for Tasmania. They discuss refugees, carbon taxes, green energy and other aspects of the climate [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6218 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6218#comments Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:00:00 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6218 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6218 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Prof. Falk This week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Richard Falk, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus at Princeton University, where whe was a member of the faculty for forty years until 2001. Prof. Falk is currently Research Professor at the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California, where he directs a research project on Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy. He served as Chair of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation from 2004 to 2012, and in 2008-2009 he was appointed expert advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly. Prof. Falk has published more than 50 books, including his most recent (co-authored with David Krieger, an earlier guest on this program) published in 2012 titled Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers. Relevant to this interview is the July 2012 article Iran Sanctions: War by Other Means. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott talks with Richard Falk, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus at Princeton University, where whe was a member of the faculty for forty years [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6215 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6215#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:00:13 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6215 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6215 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Bob Herbert This week Dr Helen Caldicott talks with author and former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert about the state of America in 2012. Herbert is now one of the experts for the think tank Demos. Listen to Dr. Caldicotts 2009 interview with Herbert here. Read Herberts 2011 columns Losing Our Way: The U.S. can find the resources for endless warfare, but not for nation-building here at home and Is Nuclear Power Worth the Risk? The public deserves a much fuller accounting of nuclear power’s pros and cons. Read more of his New York Times columns here. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week Dr Helen Caldicott talks with author and former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert about the state of America in 2012. Herbert is now one of the experts for the think tank Demos. [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6194 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6194#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:51 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6194 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6194 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Robert Alvarez This week, Dr. Caldicott interviews Robert Alvarez, a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. Alvarez is an award-winning author and has published articles in prominent publications such as Science Magazine, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology Review and The Washington Post. As background, listen to Dr. Caldicotts November 2011 interview with Alvarez here. Read the May 2011 IPS press release Expert Cautions that 30 Million Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods Are Unsafely Stored in United States, Could Cause Fukushima-like Disaster and read the 2011 IPS report Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the U.S.: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Storage. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Caldicott interviews Robert Alvarez, a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. Alvarez is an award-winning author and has published [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6154 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6154#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:00:19 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6154 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6154 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Amory Lovins This week, Dr. Helen Caldicott talks about renewable energy with physicist Amory B. Lovins, cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent non-profit think-and-do tank that drives the efficient and restorative use of resources. An advisor to major firms and governments in over 50 countries for the past four decades, Lovins is author of 31 books including his latest, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (2011), as well as over 450 papers. In 2009, Time Magazine named Lovins one of the worlds 100 most influential people. In this conversation, Lovins and Dr. Caldicott discuss the downsides of oil and coal, how America is reducing its coal use, cogeneration, Chinas inspiring partial transition to greener energy in recent years, the enormous potention for non-nuclear renewable energy in Japan, the toxicity of fracking, and a 2010 report by the National Research Council that renewable energy options in the U.S. could meet a large percentage of Americas needs. Lovins mentions the book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Later, Dr. Caldicott asks how Americans can reduce their energy waste and how architects can create buildings that limit power consumption. Lovins also addresses how Americans could solarize their homes using the example of Israel and Chile. In discussing baseload power, Lovins explains how an array of renewables could provide power at different times of day and night, while storing energy. He recommends listeners watch his presentation, A 50-year plan for energy, based on Reinventing Fire. In closing, Dr. Caldicott strongly urges listeners to read Lovinss book. Also, be sure to visit ReinventingFire.com. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, Dr. Helen Caldicott talks about renewable energy with physicist Amory B. Lovins, cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent non-profit [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6147 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6147#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:00:36 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6147 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6147 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. David Bradbury This week, we play a repeat of Dr. Caldicotts July 2011 interview with David Bradbury, described as one of Australia’s best known and most successful documentary filmmakers on his website. Bradburys 2007 film Hard Rain addresses the horrifying realities of nuclear power, and gets beneath the hype propounded by the nuclear industry. Watch a 25-minute clip here. Bradburys films have been shown widely in Australia and overseas, and he has won numerous prizes including five AFI awards and two Academy Award nominations (for Frontline, which profiled war cameraman Neil Davis, and for Chile: Hasta Cuando?, on the brutal military dictatorship of General Pinochet). Among other topics, Dr. Caldicott and Bradbury pay tribute to Wilfred Burchett, an iconic Australian journalist who reported from Hiroshima in the weeks after the atomic bomb was dropped. Burchett is the subject of Bradburys film Public Enemy Number One. Read Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War Departments Timesman Won a Pulitzer. For more on the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, be sure to watch the Emmy Award-winning film White Light, Black Rain. Later in the program, Dr. Caldicott and Bradbury look at the health and environmental ramifications of depleted uranium weapons and uranium mining in Australia, both of which have been the subject of his films. When the Dust Settles is Bradburys film on the latter topic, and can be watched on YouTube. To read more about Bradburys films (several of which can be ordered from his companys website), click here. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we play a repeat of Dr. Caldicotts July 2011 interview with David Bradbury, described as one of Australia’s best known and most successful documentary [...] https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6122 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6122#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:00:21 +0000 admin https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6122 https://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=6122 Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. Kristen Iversen This weeks guest is Kristen Iversen, author of the new book, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, published this month by Crown Books in the U.S. and Random House in the U.K. Read the press release about the book. Watch the book trailer here. Iversen is Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The University of Memphis, and also Editor-in-Chief of The Pinch, an award-winning literary journal. She grew up in Arvada, Colorado near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, and currently lives in Memphis. As background, read Iversens March 10 New York Times opinion piece, Fallout. Also read Naomi Wolfs 2012 article From Rocky Flats to Fukushima: This Nuclear Folly and The day Denver was nearly lost. During the interview, the research of Carl John is mentioned. Read the Wikipedia entry Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant which states that An early, focused study by Dr. Carl Johnson, health director for Jefferson County, showed a 45 percent increase in congenital birth defects in Denver suburbs downwind of Rocky Flats compared to the rest of Colorado. Iversen mentions the book The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome. She also refers to this map showing the Rocky Flats contamination zone (note: large file size). A compressed version of the same map can be seen here. For more information, be sure to see the recently re-released 1983 documentary, Dark Circle. The Emmy Award-winning film includes much footage of the Rocky Flats plant and its radioactive pollution of neighborhoods around Denver. Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This weeks guest is Kristen Iversen, author of the new book, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, published this month by Crown Books in the U.S. and [...]