Our political system is falling apart over 4 million Syrian refugees. What happens when the world has to resettle a quarter billion climate refugees? Plus: what is it like to actually be a refugee who finds asylum in the United States? We’ll get the story of Farah Al-Mousawi, nine-year journey from Iraq, to Syria, to … Continued
Is Oil & Gas the New Tobacco? Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Reaches New Milestone; As U.S. Congress Lags, California Leads Push to Divest From Fossil Fuels Linked to Climate Change; India’s “The Hindu” Newspaper Stops Printing for the First Time in 137 Years Due to Massive Floods; As NY State Probes Exxon, Oil Giant Targets … Continued
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On this week’s program we include a report from an advocate directly from the Adelante Immigrant Detention Center on the current hunger strikes. We feature interviews and music from this year’s Encuentro del Canto Popular; Soltron y La Mecanica Popular and the music of John Santos. We also share with you holiday mariachi music and … Continued
Will fusion power save us? With guest Dr. Charles Seife, NYU professor. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
Katie Singer, author of An Electronic Silent Spring, talks about the science covering the ecological effects of EMR followed by Layna Berman and Dr. Jeffry Fawcett discussing the political economy of the wireless revolution. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
We talk to one of the climate justice activists headed to Paris about what you work toward when you don’t have much hope for climate negotiations. Plus: Berkeley’s City Council is taking up dueling reports on how its police department turned a Black Lives Matter protest into a bloody street battle. But first: was the … Continued
Pope Francis to World Leaders at U.N. Climate Summit: “We Are at the Limits of Suicide”; “The Fossil Fuel Era Must Draw to a Close”: A Message from the Marshall Islands to the World; “The Paris Agreement Will See the Planet Burn”: Former Bolivian Climate Negotiator Pablo Solón; Philippines’ Former Climate Negotiator Yeb Saño’s 900 … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Rwanda preparing for another slaughter in Burundy. And tracking police violence against black-lives matters protesters in Berkeley, the home of the free speech movement in America
International Climate Talks have begun in Paris today. We’ll look at the science behind what type of agreements need to be met in order to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius. Dr. Eric Rehm is an Arctic Scientist at Laval University in Quebec. Then, we’ll talk about flight evolved in different … Continued
When a center-left government took over Brazil in 2003, their policies helped spark a surge in growth and development, the rise of a high-consumption middle class, a spike in housing prices that put Rio de Janeiro almost on par with what we’re going through in the Bay Area. They also won a bid to host … Continued
