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Rep. Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks: Apollo’s Fire, Monday 8/18/08 8-9 PM PST

Rep. Jay Inslee and energy policy wonk extraordinaire Bracken Hendricks gave this talk last November at the Seattle Town Hall about the subject of their book: Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy.  Although the more you look into the nature of the climate crisis the more depressing you realize the situation is, this does not mean that there aren’t good reasons for hope.  It’s important that we are aware of this.  We can’t let the enormity of the crisis paralyze us at the very time when we need to make the most of the narrowing window of opportunity we have to save the planet.  I’m more optimistic than I’ve been in years.

I think it should be clear by now that the goal that Inslee and Bracken, as well as many politicians, environmentalists, and energy analysts have been touting of 80% carbon reduction in the US by 2050 is a sure-fire plan to wipe out all higher forms of life on the planet.  The rapid melting of the arctic ice cap alone is solid (liquid?) [sorry] proof that the climate models are off by magnitudes.  Apparently climate modeling is not what it’s cracked up [help me please] to be.  We are in a race against time to get to net zero carbon emissions ASAP and then some.  At this point we need to find ways to suck massive carbon out of the atmosphere if we are going to have any chance to avoid runaway global warming.  However, many of the technologies we will need to get to net zero are already here or will be coming on line in the very near future.  Does this mean that we are not going to have to drastically alter the way we live?   No, but new technology is a major part of the equation.  These technologies could provide the high paying jobs we need for a new clean industrial revolution and break the back of the predatory capitalist Chicago School economic model.  Many of the businesses developing these cutting edge technologies exist right here in the Pacific Northwest.

One of the technologies mentioned in this show, not by the authors but by a member of the audience is the compressed air car.  When I first heard of this, I blew it off.  How can you drive a hundred miles on a tank full of air?  But a simple web search reveals that these cars are already in production in India.  See: Tata Motors OneCAT.  Advanced models that can go possibly a thousand miles will be in the US by 2010.  If this happens, it will make GM’s Volt plug-in hybrid obsolete before it even gets to the show room.  That’s how fast things are moving.  Too bad for GM (and Exxon): Some dinosaurs may still go extinct.

Watch Compressed Air Car Video

Thanks to Seattle Town Hall and Elliott Bay Books

George Lakoff: The Political Mind, pt. 2 rebroadcast, Monday 8/18/08 Noon-1pm PST

Global Warning: An Interview with Mordechi Vanunu

I received a complaint that last week’s noon show was interrupted several times by tests of the Emergency Broadcast System so I am taking this opportunity to give myself a break and rebroadcast the program again.

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I  was  asked to  videotape  these  debates  between  Reuven  Carlyle and  John  Burbank,  two Democrats running to represent the 36th Legislative District in the Washington State Legislature.   I have posted the debates here as a service to the voters of the 36th district.

The War at Home   Steven T. Wax         Paul Wright and      Cathy Wilkerson:   Kafka Comes to       Silja Talvi: Who       My Life and Times  America                     Makes $ frm Mass    as a Weatherman                                     Incarceration? 1:18                                     Jules Boykoff &      Above the Law pt 1   Above the Law pt 2  Edwidge Danticat: Kristian Williams      Juanita Young, Nicholas Heyward Sr.,        Brother, I'm Dying New St. Repression    Ophelia Randall Ealy, and Ivan Morgan Chris Finan:            Amrit Singh:          Sasha Abramsky:     Matt Rothschild: Palmer Raids to        Administration of    Age of Mass             You Have No   the Patriot Act          Torture                     Imprisonment             Rights ____________________________________________________________

Steven Kazlowski:  Alternative Views:   Dahr Jamail:           Ahmed Rashid:
The Last Polar          FEMA-A Signature  Iraq and Iran            Descent into
Bear                           and Fascism               -In Context                Chaos

 

Eric Alterman          Jim Douglass:          Jeremy Scahill:        Mordechi Vanunu:

Why We’re               JFK and the               Blackwater                  Global Warning

Liberals                      Unthinkable                                                 

NW Winter Soldier Hearings

GI Testimony            GI Testimony 2         Solidarity Panel       Future of GI
                                                                                                           Resistance

Loretta Napoleoni:   David Sirota:            Cindy Sheehan:       Norm Finkelstein:
Rogue Economics     The Uprising             Moving Toward      The Fake
1:20                                                                  a Peace Economy    Controversy

Daoud Hari:              Raj Patel: Hidden     Maude Barlow:       Fr. Roy Bourgeois:

 

Jeffrey Toobin:        West Coast                E.J. Dionne, Jr:       Col. Ann Wright
The Nine                   Shut Down!                 Souled Out               Dissent: Voices  
1:19                                                                  1:18                            of Conscience 1:18

Aidan Delgado:        Norman Solomon    Alice Rothchild:       Michael Weinstein

The Sutras of            Made Love, Got      Broken Promises,      With God on Our

Abu Ghraib               War                           Broken Dreams 1:12  Side 1:26
 
Helen Caldicott:      Charles Hardy:        Thom Hartmann:     Wall of Shame
Nuclear  Power is     Cowboy in                 Cracking the Code
Not the Answer        Caracas                     

Carl Bernstein:       Michael Parenti:       Frances Moore      Benjamin Barber: 

A Woman in             Lies, Wars,                  Lappé: Getting a    Consumed

Charge                       & Empire  1:36             Grip 
 

Jonathan Kozol:       Dahr Jamail:           Trita Parsi:              Dr. Robert Morris:

Letters to a Young   Beyond the Green    Treacherous             The Blue Death

Teacher  1:08             Zone                          Alliance 1:17                     

FCC Media              John Ross:                 Robert Henson:       Step it Up Seattle
Consolidation          Zapatistas!                  Rough  Guide to
Hearing 11/9/07                                             Climate Change

Cynthia McKinney: John Dean:                Julian Darley:        Clean Energy Expo
Free the Jena 6!         Conservatives           Responses to 

        1:23                      Without                     Energy Descent

                                      Conscience                         1:29
 
Christine Harold:   John Perkins:         Impeachment            Cullen Myrphy:
OurSpace                   Secret Hist.              Forum                        Are We Rome?

Rev. Rich Lang:      VA protest rally:      David Donnelly:      Catherine

The Emergency       Fund the Wounded, Clean Elections        Thomasson:
Call                            Not  the War!             Update                      Eye Witness Iran

Peter Irons:               Laura Flanders:     Voices from the       Hans Blix:  Cold
God on Trial               Blue Grit                    Frontlines                War to Cold Peace