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What science bills passed the Kentucky Legislature this year? Rob Weber of the Kentucky Academy of Science explains. What's going to happen now that Kentucky is one of only four states that did NOT apply for a special grant from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to fight climate change? https://kentuckylantern.com/2023/04/20/kentucky-one-of-four-states-refusing-federal-money-to-plan-for-climate-change/

Then hear about declines in Alaskan crabs, an explosion in the population of Jonah's icefish, greenhouse emissions trends, record ice melting in Greenland and the Alps, and numerous climate disasters in 2022. Leslie Moise ends the show with a haunting poem about recent science events.

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am.

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Ariel Gold is the Executive Director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA. She is a veteran peace and justice advocate and FOR-USA’s first Jewish Executive Director. She took office in August 2022.

Before becoming Executive Director of FOR-USA, Ariel Gold served for seven years as national co-director and Middle East policy analyst for CODEPINK: Women for Peace, an international grassroots peace and justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, challenge militarism globally and redirect our resources to life-affirming activities.

Ariel cites the Catholic Worker movement and Jewish Voice for Peace as two important influences on her organizing experience.

AI & CLIMATE CHANGE, PART TWO

Let's take a further look at "What AI is saying about Climate Change."

This is a counterpoint to a video scripted by AI. The makers of the video (good people, I'm sure) asked AI to scour the internet and come back with answers as to the bad things that will continue to happen if climate change continues.

the prevailing analysis of climate change lies on the spectrum between false and misleading. We misunderstand the true causes of the problem, and therefore, we misunderstand the true solutions.

We are told that "climate change" causes extreme weather events. No, extreme weather event ARE climate change. And not all such events are caused primarily by carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a cause, but, in my view, not the primary cause.

Flooding has multiple causes other than CO2. Flooding is caused not just by excess rainfall, but by excess runoff. Excess runoff is caused primarily by deforestation and by poor soil.

Similarly, heat waves and wildfires occur primarily because of what we do to the land. Desertification results in hot plates that heat up the air. Bad forestry practices, such as “fuel reduction” and the use of pesticides result in dry, degraded forests which are more prone to extreme wildfires.

The sooner we understand the true nature of the problems we are dealing with, the sooner we will be able to solve them. Unfortunately CO2 has become a scapegoat and an excuse for inaction. The most effective actions we can take are much closer to home than we are led to believe.

When we restore ecosystems locally, on our farms, in our forests and in our landscapes, then we will be getting at the root causes of extreme weather events and their worst effects.

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Kay Tillow, chairperson of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare and Dr. Garrett Adams, pointperson for the KY Chapter of Physicians for a National Healthcare Program discuss the need for a national nonprofit healthcare system with doctors Mike Flynn and Gene Shively

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, catches up with Sumedha Rao, who has recently been appointed Director of Louisville Metro Government's Office of Sustainability. When Mayor Greenberg set up his new administration, he elevated the Office of Sustainability back into the Mayor’s office, reporting through Deputy Mayor Barbara Sexton-Smith. Listen in to hear about the progress being made in sustainability across Metro Government and the city as a whole!

Sumedha has a background in urban sustainability, environmental policy, and green building in the United States and India. In 2022, Sumedha was named a Future Leader by the Aspen Institute, among 100 climate leaders in North America under the age of 30. Sumedha holds a master’s degree in Sustainability Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from St. Joseph’s College in India, and a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED AP, accreditation.

Learn more at http://louisvilleky.gov/sustainability

Find out about Solar Over Louisville at http://100percentlou.com/2040

Listen to the April 21, 2023 Mayor's Earth Day Town Hall at https://soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward-radio/truth-to-power-mayors-earth-day-town-hall-april-21-2023?in=wfmp-forward-radio/sets/truth-to-power

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

Veteran Peter Beres interviews Veteran Author James Wells

On this week's show, we bring you highlights from the first ever Louisville Mayor's Earth Day Town Hall, organized by the new Craig Greenberg administration. The event was held on the evening of Friday, April 21, 2023 in the basement of the main Louisville Free Public Library, where the room was packed with concerned citizens eager to ask questions and share ideas with our city's new mayor and the new Director of Sustainability for Louisville Metro Government, Sumedha Rao. You can learn more at http://louisvilleky.gov/sustainability

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

K.A. Owens interviews KY Alliance Board Member Ira Grupper about the 2023 KY Alliance Against Racist And Political Repression Unity Dinner held on Friday April 14, 2023 at Hotel Louisville in Louisville, KY.

Recorded Friday April 21, 2023, 3PM.

Dr. Ricky Jones, Prof. and Chair of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville, spoke on April 14, 2023 at the Kentucky Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression Annual Unity Dinner. The subject was unifying people, especially the black community, to resist and fight institutional racism in all of its myriad forms.

David Cortright is professor emeritus and special adviser for policy studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, Cortright was the director of policy studies at the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and director of the institute’s Peace Accords Matrix project, the largest existing collection of implementation data on intrastate peace agreements. In addition to teaching the course “How to Change the World” in the undergraduate program in peace studies or master of global affairs programs at Notre Dame, Cortright is the author and co-editor of more than 22 books. He is Co-initiator and member of numerous national and international peace and disarmament campaigns, David is also the editor of Peace Policy, an online journal published by the Kroc Institute and he blogs at davidcortright.net.

Dr. Cortright’s Areas of Expertise: Nonviolent social change; nuclear disarmament; use of multilateral sanctions and incentives as tools of international peacemaking