Bees, Trees and Seas
Defend or Die - Part 1

Special guest Dr. Reese Halter, relentless defender of bees, trees, and seas, and a lifelong advocate for the interdependent web of life, joins Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez in Part 1 of a two-part series on ‘Bees, Trees and Seas - Defend or Die.’

This video was recorded on April 13th, 2022, and published on May 7th, 2022.

Some of the topics discussed:

• How the giant trees are our link to survival. They make up less than 1% of all the trees on the planet, yet they hold over 50 percent of the above ground carbon.
• How being vegan is a vote for Mother Earth.
• How fruit is the highest power source of energy that each of us can have.
• How our oceans drive the climate.
• How birds of prey, such as owls which are considered raptors, are in a great perilous situation.
• How 150,000 Orangutans have been left homeless and dead for the sake of producing more palm oil.
• How we are bottom trawling the oceans and destroying the greatest carbon storage reserves that we have.
• How the COPs have failed to halt the massive environmental destruction happening on our planet.
• How the large Mountain Sequoia trees can longer withstand the new climate change driven fires.
• How our education system has to change to instill a knowledge and love of nature in children.
• and much more. . .

Links:

• Dr. Reese Halter

• Bob Brown Foundation - Action for Earth

• Terry McCue - Canada House Gallery

• Carbon Neutrality - Net Zero

• The Gen Z Emergency

• Belt and Road Initiative

• E. O. Wilson

• Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area

Special Guest:

• Dr. Reese Halter - A relentless defender of bees, trees and seas, is a lifelong advocate for the interdependent web of life, on land and under the sea, which the human race utterly depends upon for its survival. He is a prolific writer, poet and passionate lover of The Great Mystery, Mother Earth. Curious, joyful and kind — a vegan in love with nature!

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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• Image and Video Attributions