Jon Nelson hosts this New Year’s episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments:
Just, Orderly and Equitable: The United Nations agency, the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change( has been charged with developing a plan to stop runaway global heating and also getting all the 208 so nations on earth to get committed to the plan. No other organization can possibly do this. So the UNFCCC has been besieged by proposals and lobbyists from corporate elites. Bill Resnick and Tom Athanasiou the founder of the organization Ecoequity discuss how the Left’s emerging plan, Energy Democracy, can prevail over the corporate elites plan that relies on a set of unproven very expensive technologies -- carbon capture, alternative fuels, safe nukes, geo engineering, and more.
Attitudes Exposed: Jan Haaken talks with Prerna Gupta, contributing author to Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure—a newly released collection of essays. The editors of the volume, Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda Richards, are faculty at Oregon State University and part of the Oregon State University Downwinders Project. Gupta talks about the guiding aims of the book and her own chapter which is based on her research on public attitudes about the risks posed by uranium mining and nuclear technologies. She is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.
Jewish Resistance to War on Gaza: Laurie Mercier speaks with Julia Ford of Portland Jewish Voice for Peace about actions to protest Israel's war on Gaza/Palestine and how to build a lasting peace. The national Jewish Voice for Peace can be found here: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
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