On FB Live. Hosted by WNYPC Executive Director, Vicki Ross. So graciously taped by Think Twice Radio: Home of the Future!
First hour: featuring Clare Grady on
- Epiphany
- Catholic Workers/Plowshares
- Witness Against Torture
- Kings Bay Plowshares 7, nuclear weapons (including Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons)
Second hour: Agnes Williams, Seneca, Indigenous Women’s Initiatives; with Clare Grady
- Nuclear Waste/West Valley clean-up
- UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP)
- Prior Free & Informed Consent (to land use, etc)
- Environmental Justice/Care for Mother Earth
- People and the Planet
Webinar – register here. Philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky and economist Robert Pollin will discuss their new book about the climate crisis.
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal, confronts humanity’s greatest challenge. The disastrous consequences of unchecked climate change are well known – from huge stretches of land becoming uninhabitable to failing crops and devastating wildfires. Humanity must stop burning fossil fuels within the next thirty years. But to succeed it must also take on the misguided fear that economic calamity and unemployment are consequences of a greener economy. The authors argue that there is a solution, which will raise living standards and protect livelihoods, and it is the Green New Deal.
Join them in conversation with Maya Goodfellow as they discuss how these compelling ideas can be achieved politically, and what we as individuals can do to help transform our societies and economies. They will also be answering your questions.
Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, has been a voice for the progressive left throughout his career. Critical of the Vietnam War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he is widely recognized for his contributions to the human sciences and his anti-imperialist writing and activism.
Robert Pollin is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and founding co-director of its Political Economy Research Institute. This event is part of a series to mark the Guardian’s 2020 climate pledge.
Register here. By Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC, with the following speakers:
• Allison Macfarlane, US nuclear policy expert, Professor and Director, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia
• Arne Jungjohann, Energy policy expert, Lead editor of the report
Moderation: Linda Pentz Gunter, Founder of Beyond Nuclear and International Specialist in nuclear issues
..and check out the WORLD NUCLEAR WASTE REPORT for free: https://worldnuclearwastereport.org/
The amount of nuclear waste is growing worldwide. But even 70 years after the beginning of the nuclear age, no country in the world has found a real solution for the radiating legacy of nuclear power.The final disposal of nuclear waste poses major challenges to governments worldwide. No country has a final disposal site for nuclear waste in operation yet; Finland is the only country that is currently constructing a permanent repository. Most countries have yet develop and implement a functioning waste management strategy for all kinds of nuclear waste. Governments differ widely on their nuclear waste approaches: in trying to find a final repository, how to classify nuclear waste, which safety standards to require from operators, and how to secure funding for the ever-growing costs to pay for all of this.With reactors across the world approaching the end of their lives, decommissioning and dismantling of nuclear power plants will become increasingly important. This process will produce even more radioactive waste. In absence of final disposal sites, most of the high-level waste and spent nuclear fuel must be stored for many decades, challenging the safety requirements for storage facilities and causing much higher costs than previously estimated.Overall, there is a lack of understanding about how countries around the world are trying to address the complex challenges that nuclear waste poses. The World Nuclear Waste Report aims to change that. This first edition focuses on Europe and presents the latest facts and figures on nuclear waste and its challenges.
