The Nexus of Climate Disruption and War

Join a discussion with Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith, Regina Valdez along with Charles Gregoire and Heidi Brault on the tragic war in Ukraine and its repercussions for the climate and world food supply.

This video was recorded on March 16th, 2022, and published on March 26th, 2022.

Some of the topics discussed:

• How fossil fuels are a major driver of war.
• How nation states are formed and then must defend themselves by requiring fossil fuels.
• The relationship between demilitarization and decarbonization.
• Putin’s 25 page essay justifying the invasion of Ukraine harkening back to The Russian empire under the Czars.
• How Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, made a statement covering Climate, Human Rights and much more. If the war is not stopped the repercussions are terrible.
• Garry Kasperov, who is a Chess player, and his book that warned about the dangers of Putin.
• How the Russian war chest was built using the money from fossil fuels.
• How no crops are anticipated this year from Ukraine, one of the main suppliers of wheat to the world.
• Climate Change is making it problematic, in many places, to grow food causing the price of food to go up. How the War in Ukraine augments this.
• How the war in Ukraine has taken over the media putting the IPCC WG2 report, an atlas of human suffering, on the back burner.
• How the U.S. Military acknowledges Climate Change as a major threat facing humanity and yet can not stop what they’re doing.
• This wisdom of Gandhi is shared.
• A quote from the book of Isaiah is shared.
• How Ukraine has had one of the best records in reducing their GHG emissions.
• How Putin has inadvertently strengthened NATO.
• How Putin is a major nasty obstacle in the conversion to renewable energy.
• and more. . .

Links:

• Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

• Mutual Assured Destruction (Wikipedia)

• Mutually Assured Survival:An Analysis of Globalization’s Influence on Nuclear Disarmament

• 350.org

Regular Panelists:

• Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP26 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: crowander.com

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