IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET

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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.

Episodes

  • Best of 2011: Dr. Alan Robock on climate change and the continuing risk of nuclear war and nuclear winter

    17/08/2012

    Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s 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 [...]

  • Dr. Brian Moench on the need for doctors to speak out against global warming and radiation from nuclear weapons and cell phones

    10/08/2012

    Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s 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 [...]

  • Arnold Gundersen with the latest on Fukushima, including the perilous worldwide consequences if reactor no. 4 collapses

    27/07/2012

    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 world. Among the topics discussed are the little understood dangers of internal exposure to [...]

  • Christine Milne on the the climate crisis, carbon taxes and the need to aid refugees driven by war and global warming

    20/07/2012

    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 crisis. Milne gives a history of Green parties around the world, saying that the first party started [...]

  • Professor Richard Falk on the status of democracy efforts in Middle Eastern nations and U.S. militarism

    13/07/2012

    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 until 2001. Prof. Falk is currently Research Professor at the Santa Barbara campus of the [...]

  • Bob Herbert on the state of America in 2012

    05/07/2012

    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. Listen to Dr. Caldicott’s 2009 interview with Herbert here. [...]

  • Robert Alvarez with more on Fukushima and the enormous risks of nuclear power, weapons and waste

    29/06/2012

    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 articles in prominent publications such as Science Magazine, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology Review and The Washington [...]

  • Amory Lovins on the future of renewable power and the many ways we can save energy

    22/06/2012

    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 think-and-do tank that drives the efficient and restorative use of resources. An advisor to major firms and governments [...]

  • Best of 2011: David Bradbury on the power of film to reveal the truth about nuclear weapons, uranium mining and other unpleasant realities

    15/06/2012

    Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week, we play a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s July 2011 interview with David Bradbury, described as “one of Australia’s best known and most successful documentary filmmakers” on his website. Bradbury’s 2007 film Hard Rain addresses the horrifying realities of nuclear power, and gets beneath the [...]

  • Kristen Iversen on the devastating public health impact of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver

    08/06/2012

    Listen Now Download the show by right-clicking the link. This week’s 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. [...]

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