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Program 09-12-06-A |
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Remember Kyoto? Now it's Copenhagen. The UN's current climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, was never ratified by the US. And now, we're in the hot seat. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll talk with Gaia theorist James Lovelock and Whole Earth Catalogue founder Stewart Brand. Also, "The Yes Men Fix the World"… coming to a theater near you.
SEGMENT 1:
Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, says it's time to get pragmatic about managing climate change. He tells Anne Strainchamps why he no longer opposes nuclear power and they discuss other aspects of his new philosophy. His new book is "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto." Also, many in the environmental movement disagree with Brand. Paxus Calta is one. He's been an anti-nuclear activist for over 30 years. He gives his reasons for his position. Calta is Chair of the board of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, an umbrella organization of some 300 grass-roots organizations.
SEGMENT 2:
James Lovelock created the Gaia Theory. His latest book is "The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning." Lovelock tells Steve Paulson that our planet is a self-regulating system that will carry on without people and that it is too late to reverse global warming. Humanity will just have to live with the consequences, if it can. Also, novelist Margaret Atwood talks about her latest book, "The Year of the Flood," with Steve Paulson. The book posits a new religion formed after most life on Earth has been obliterated.
SEGMENT 3:
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are The Yes Men. They pose as the World Trade Organization or major corporate entities to pull off pranks as political action. A collection of these actions comprise the documentary film "The Yes Men Fix the World." Jim Fleming talks with Andy Bichlbaum and we hear excerpts from the film.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 09-12-06-A.
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| Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (Viking) | |
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James Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning (Basic Books) |
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| Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood (Doubleday) | |
- For more on the Nuclear Information
and Resource Service:
http://www.nirs.org/home.htm
- For the official site of the COP15, the United Nations
Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen:
http://en.cop15.dk/
- For more on The Yes Men:
http://theyesmen.org/
- For more on Margaret Atwood’s The Year
of the Flood (including getting free sheet music for her hymns):
http://www.yearoftheflood.com/
- “Shambala” by the
Beastie Boys on their CD Ill Communications on SONY Music.
- “Ghost Radio” by Moby on his CD Wait for
Me on Little Idiot Records.
“No Nukes” by Big Youth on their CD Manifestations on Heart Beat Records.
- “Let Down” by Christopher O’Riley on
his CD “True Love Waits” on SONY Music.
- “The Earth Forgives” by Orville Stoeber
on his CD Hymns of God’s Gardeners: lyrics from The Year of the
Flood by Margaret Atwood” on Earthly Art Music.
- “My Body is an Earthly Ark” by Orville Stoeber
on his CD Hymns of God’s Gardeners: lyrics from The Year of the
Flood by Margaret Atwood” on Earthly Art Music.
- Ravel’s “La Vallee des Cloches”
by Jean-Yves Thibaudet on his CD “L’Oeuvre Pour Piano Seul”
on London Digital Records.
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