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Collapse and the Technosphere with Dmitry Orlov, ONE of TWO

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In recent research for TUC programs on climate change, the school strike movement and extinction rebellion ideas around collapse have been coming up. They may be expressed by scientists or novelists and include familiar names such as James Howard Kunstler and John Michael Greer.
One person stands out – Dmitry Orlov and this is a conversation with him that was conducted by James on his Hermitix podcast on August 31, 2019.
Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and writer on subjects related to “potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States,” something he has called “permanent crisis”.
When Orlov’s book: – Everything is Going According to Plan – was published in 2017 he wrote: A little over 21 [ . . . ]

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BURNED, Are Trees the New Coal

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Excerpts from the soundtrack of the film by Alan Dater and Lisa Merton
This is a documentary film on a problem most of us did not know we had and a practice that may yet prevent us from making the urgent transition to clean energy.
The first visuals in the film show clear cuts in wetland forests in the US South and Southeast, follow the logging trucks into the staging areas of electric power plants where the trees are shredded and burned as fuel – the so-called biomass.
Many of these power plants formerly burned coal and need little adjustment to now burn trees. The bitter irony is that burning trees emits more carbon than coal – as is explained in [ . . . ]

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Professor Rupert Read: The end of globalization and the return of localization

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How climate change breakdown terminates the concept of development
When Rupert Read first appeared on TUC Radio with his talk: This Civilization is Finished – So what is to be done – he drew a huge response. Here is a professor and well established intellectual who risks arrest in his association with the Extinction Rebellion climate change movement in England. XR use civil disobedience to make governments, and really everyone, declare climate change emergencies and act on them.
Even in September 2019 Professor Rupert Read – in front of an academic audience at the prestigious University College London feels compelled to say: “I come here with a message many of will find hard not to resist.”
But, as the urgency grows to deal [ . . . ]

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Deep Adaptation Conversation with Joanna Macy hosted by Jem Bendell

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Jem Bendell is a professor of sustainability leadership at the University of Cumbria, UK. He is founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum, an online monthly conversation about how to prepare for what Bendell considers as a very likely collapse of industrial civilization.
Joanna Macy is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology and a respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology.
In the summer of 2018 Prof. Bendell completed the paper entitled Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy. It was rejected for publication by reviewers of an academic journal.
Bendell refused to make changes to satisfy academia and published on the internet. There the paper has gone around the world. He has become an important voice among [ . . . ]

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Katie Singer: The Internet’s Footprint Part TWO of TWO

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Current efforts by the industry to roll out 5G cellular networks across the US heightened the interest in TUC radio programs. Especially what medical Doctor Devra Davis reported regarding tests commissioned by the Chicago Tribune in August 2019. Results showed that radio-frequency radiation exposure from the most popular smartphones measured higher than the legal safety limit. The way most users carry smartphones on their bodies and hold them close to their skull when they talk sends more radio-frequency radiation into their bodies than they know. What this may mean for our children is addressed by Katie Singer at the beginning of this talk. She also lists the most energy demanding parts of the internet and how much embodied energy exists [ . . . ]

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Katie Singer: The Internet’s Footprint Part ONE of TWO

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Katie Singer is the author of “An Electronic Silent Spring, Facing the Dangers and Creating Safe Limits”;  and the forthcoming “Our Web of Inconvenient Truths: The Internet, Energy Use, Toxic Waste and Climate Change – How on Earth Do We Shrink the Internet’s Footprint?”
She is a consultant with the EMR Policy Institute, and presented her concerns about the Internet’s footprint at the 2018 UN Forum on Science, Technology & Innovation and on a January, 2019, panel with climatologist Dr. Jim Hansen. She was interviewed at the Jan 25 to Feb. 3, 2019, conference of the the Hippocrates Health Institute by Ben Zeitlin. In her first book, The Electronic Silent Spring, Katie Singer wrote on EMR’s health effects. She told me that now [ . . . ]

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ARCHIVE: Fire and the Underground Life in the Forest Peter Wohlleben and Suzanne Simard

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UPLOADED A DAY EARLY due to Fire in our area: First broadcast November 2018
As California tries to come to terms with the largest and deadliest fires of 2019, attention falls on forests. Logging companies want more clear-cuts. Donald Trump says the forest floor should be cleaned with rakes.
Indigenous elders and visionary foresters say that nobody is asking the trees what they want and need. Especially now as the heat is rising, water becomes scarce and winds are fiercer.
Peter Wohlleben is the author of: “The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World”. He is a German forester who became disenchanted by the technologies he was expected to employ. He now manages [ . . . ]

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5G Cellular Network Technology – Boris Johnson and Devra Davis

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Late in the evening of September 24, 2019, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson surprised the UN General Assembly in New York City when he stepped to the podium. He gave an extraordinary – even poetic – description of the digital surveillance age. He said that digital authoritarianism is not the stuff of dystopian fantasy but of an emerging reality.
Devra Davis earned a PhD in science studies at the University of Chicago. She founded the non-profit Environmental Health Trust in 2007 to provide basic research and education about environmental health hazards and promote constructive policies locally and internationally. She is currently visiting Professor of Medicine in Israel and Turkey.
She was interviewed by podcaster David Wolfe about 5G and Mobile Phone [ . . . ]

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Extinction Rebellion – How to Repair Democracy

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Citizens’ Assemblies with Linda Doyle The Extinction Rebellion movement that started in the UK in late 2018 and spread across the world has brought attention to the problem of climate change in a way that has only been achieved by the school strike movement. XR’s huge outdoor assemblies and performances, road and bridge closures, their acts of non-violent civil resistance and disobedience and willingness to be arrested are meant to compel governments to finally act to end the use of fossil fuel by 2025 to prevent the collapse of the world’s ecosystems.
Among their top three demand is for governments to tell the truth and to set up Citizens’ Assemblies that are chosen at random to represent the population in class, [ . . . ]

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Helen Caldicott and Michael Madsen: Into Eternity TWO of TWO

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From the TUC Radio Archives: This is the conclusion of a conversation between Helen Caldicott and Michael Madsen whose film, Into Eternity, premiered in the US in February 2011. Helen called Madsen “One of the more extraordinary people I’ve ever interviewed”. This is a thought provoking exchange between the veteran campaigner, Helen Caldicott, who dedicated her life to alerting us to the nuclear danger, and the young Danish artist. He introduces thoughts about civilization, language, danger and eternity.
Into Eternity is a documentary about the building of the world’s first permanent repository for nuclear waste in Finland. It shows not only the construction under way that will take 140 years, but introduces the people involved, the scientists, regulators and corporate executives [ . . . ]

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Helen Caldicott and Michael Madsen: Into Eternity ONE of TWO

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From the TUC Radio Archives: This is a conversation between Helen Caldicott and Michael Madsen whose film, Into Eternity, premiered in the US in February 2011. Into Eternity is a documentary about the building of the world’s first permanent repository for nuclear waste in Finland. It shows not only the construction under way that will take 140 years, but introduces the people involved, the scientists, regulators and corporate executives who oversee this project. None of them will be alive when Onkalo, as the repository is called, will be finished in 2120; and they must expect this repository to remain intact and untouched by future humans for at least 100,000 years. Such is the danger and longevity of waste from nuclear [ . . . ]

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Onkalo – Into Eternity – from the Archives

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Onkalo is the first permanent storage for waste from nuclear power plants in the world. Blasted into bedrock of the island of Olkiluoto in Finland on the shores of the Baltic Sea, it has to remain secure for 100,000 years.
Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen’s documentary of the building in progress of Onkalo is a meditation on eternity, insanity and the impossibility of projecting anything 100,000 years into the future. The film also proves eloquently and with expert statements the terrible danger that arises from so-called “spent” nuclear fuel from power plants and makes us see Fukushima with very different eyes.
This radio program presents excerpts from the film and its amazing sound design.

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Joanna Macy – Resilience

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On June 6, 2019 Joanna Macy, the environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism and Deep Ecology was one of two keynote speakers at The New School at Commonweal’s Resilience Project in Bolinas, California. A longtime San Francisco/Bay Area resident – she had just celebrated her 90th birthday.
The question, that the participants at the Commonweal event had come to explore, was: Is resilience a possible response in the face of climate change and civilizational collapse. And what might resilience look like.
Joanna Macy gave a personal and movingly psychological/philosophical talk, led a brief exercise in Open Questioning and closed with generous credits to writers and their ideas that are helpful in navigating and intervening in the collapsing civilization around us.

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Joanna Macy – Interviewed by Extinction Rebellion

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TUC Radio is reporting on the work of the environmental direct action group Extinction Rebellion – aka XR. It was with great  joy that I discovered that Joanna Macy, teacher and writer on environmental justice, Deep Ecology, and Buddhist practice is admired by XR and is engaging with them in dialog. Here is an interview of Joanna Macy by XR podcast presenter Jessica Townsend from August 27, 2019. This program also includes a reading of the iconic story of the Shambala Warrior – one of the most moving metaphors for our time.
XR refers to a book by and about Joanna Macy that will be released in April 2020. The title is “A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and [ . . . ]

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Rupert Read – This Civilization is Finished: So what is to be done? (TWO of TWO)

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In October 2019 the global movement of Extinction Rebellion, that started in the UK, will be one year young. They credit the experiences of Gandhi, the US Civil Rights Movement the School Strikes of High school students and carefully designed their goals and strategy. On their web site <rebellion.earth> they say that “We are facing an unprecedented global climate emergency. The government has failed to protect us. and we are using civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.”
One of their strategies is for speakers, such as Rupert Read, to travel across the country and lay out the science of climate change and what role people can assume [ . . . ]

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