September 21 - The Looming Threat of Climate Change; An Organizer of the People's Climate March; "Can Obama Save Himself?"

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the global demonstrations in the people's climate march ahead of Tuesday’s U.N. summit on climate change titled “Catalyzing Action”, and speak with Daphne Wysham, a Climate Policy Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Economy about the dire nature of the threat of global warming to the planet and the tragically inadequate and pathetically small steps taken so far by the major polluters, the U.S. and China, to address a crisis that the U.N. is taking up. We discuss what measures can be taken to mitigate the impact of climate change, assuming that some collective action is taken before it is too late to stop the rise of sea levels as the world is now on track to more than double the current greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere by the end of the century.  

Part 2

Then we go to the demonstrations in New York to speak with one of the organizers of this weekend’s global demonstrations, Jamie Henn, the co-founder with Bill McKibben of 350.org, and get an assessment of today’s activities in the people's climate march around the world and what is planned for Monday as world leaders converge at the United Nations headquarters in New York for Tuesday’s summit.

Part 3

Then finally we look into the state of national insecurity as national attention has shifted from political gridlock and obstruction in the face of domestic challenges, to foreign policy and a possible third war in Iraq in response to the beheading of two Americans. David Rothkopf, the CEO and Editor of Foreign Policy magazine and author of the forthcoming book “National Insecurity” joins us to discuss the growing criticism of President Obama’s handling of foreign policy and the cover article in the current issue of Foreign Policy by David Rothkopf, “Can Obama Save Himself?”