Earth911 Podcast: F4CR’s Rick Wayman on Responding to the Climate and Nuclear War Twin Threat

Mitch welcomes again Rick Wayman, CEO of the Basis for Local weather Restoration (F4CR), for a dialog concerning the twin threats of local weather change and nuclear conflict. Vladimir Putin’s reckless conflict on Ukraine, which has include repeated threats to make use of nuclear weapons, got here at a crucial juncture within the response to local weather change. The 2020s is a make-or-break decade for halting emissions development and beginning on the trail towards zero emissions — and this yr is taken into account crucial to a collective international response to the local weather disaster. However the Ukraine conflict has many countries scrambling for entry to fossil fuels to exchange Russian provides. It couldn’t have come at a worse time. We’ll additionally verify in on progress within the carbon dioxide removing know-how, which is the F4CR’s major focus. Latest UN IPCC studies have emphasised the necessity to mix carbon reductions with eradicating the trillion-plus tons of anthropogenic CO2 within the ambiance.

Earlier than he joined the Basis for Local weather Restoration, Rick led the Nuclear Age Peace Basis, a nonprofit that has “waged peace” towards nuclear threats since 1982. The anti-nuclear motion has been much less distinguished in public debate because the finish of the Chilly Battle when the Soviet Union and its Japanese Block dissolved in 1989. However now Putin is making harmful threats to make use of nukes in Ukraine as a response to U.S. and E.U. assist for the embattled nation. So, what can we do? The teachings of the previous mixed with insights developed by local weather activists might maintain the important thing to unlocking a extra peaceable and sustainable world. You possibly can be taught extra concerning the Basis for Local weather Restoration at foundationforclimaterestoration.org