The End of Ice: Mitchell Rabin Interviews Journalist, author Dahr Jamail

03/06/19 • 65 min

A Better World continues its ongoing series on the Environment & the subjects of Global Warming & what has amounted to Climate Catastrophe. Mitchell's guest today, internationally-renowned journalist and author of many books, most recently, The End of Ice, Dahr Jamail, terms it "Climate Disruption". Today we'll take another look at the global, eco-systemic situation from the point of view of melting glaciers and ice. Dahr's far-reaching, well-researched work reveals a picture of the planet that we are all better off knowing about than not. In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself, where he has spent more than one year in Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. He has also reported extensively on veterans’ resistance against US foreign policy, and is now focussing on anthropogenic climate and the environment. Dahr’s stories have been published with Truthout, Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, and Al Jazeera, among others. Dahr is currently and has been a feature writer for Truthout.org for five years, and his climate feature page there is titled ‘Climate Disruption Dispatches‘. Join Mitchell and Dahr today in this exploration of 'what's happening on the ground and in the mountains' of our beautiful planet that is heating up more rapidly than anyone might have predicted. May it help to clear up what choices we can make to be part of the solution.

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The boldest piece of legislation proposed to date to directly deal with the profound threat of Global Warming, heading toward massive Climate Disruption has been put on the table by NY Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. It is being widely debated across the country. Joining Mitchell Rabin in today's Roundtable is one of AOC’s chief advisers on the GND is today’s guest, Robert Hockett. Robert the Cornell Law Faculty in 2004. His principal teaching, research, and writing interests lie in the fields of organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics in both their positive and normative, as well as their national and transnational, dimensions. His guiding concern in these fields is with the legal and institutional prerequisites to a just, prosperous, and sustainable economic order. A Fellow of the Century Foundation and regular commissioned author for the New America Foundation, Hockett also does regular consulting work for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Monetary Fund, Americans for Financial Reform, the ‘Occupy’ Cooperative, and a number of federal and state legislators and local governments. Also joining us is long-time futurist, green economist, Hazel Henderson, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, is founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC (USA and Brazil). She is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, and author of award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She created the Ethical Markets TV series in global distribution at www.films.com, the EthicMark® Awards, the Green Transition Scoreboard®and co-created Ethical Biomimicry Finance®. Mitchell Rabin is the Founder, President and CEO of A Better World Foundation & Media, is an environmentalist and social entrepreneur using media & business as agents for change.

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Mitchell Rabin Interviews healer, teacher Peter Roth on The Human Design System

This week’s guest is founder of the Heart River School, healer, counselor and intuitive, Peter Roth. Peter has been working in the healing space for people for decades and is one of the pioneers of working holistically working with the mind-body as a fluid system. He started the Heart River School through which he has trained other healers and practitioners while having also helped so many through his direct work with clients and his classes. Among his many talents, Peter uses the Human Design System, an extraordinary program, to help people understand themselves, others and destiny. It is a strong empowerment tool which we’ll be discussing in our interview. Peter has been a guest before on A Better World and is a colleague and good friend of Mitchell’s for decades. Visit: https://heartriver.org Mitchell Rabin is the Founder, President and CEO of A Better World Foundation & Media, with a background in psychology, stress management, acupuncture and social enterprise. He has been a consultant to business leaders and CEOs of green and health-oriented start-ups over the past 25 years. He is an impassioned humanitarian, environmentalist and social entrepreneur using media & business as agents for change who has been working with clients and business for decades. See: www.abetterworld.tv www.mitchellrabin.com