The Supreme Court Takes on Global Warming -- The Health of the World's Oceans
Host Daphne Wysham discusses the Supreme Court case over whether or not the Environmental Protection Agency should regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act.
Guests include David Bookbinder, senior attorney for the Sierra Club, and Tarek Maasarani, staff attorney and the coordinator of the Climate Science Censorship Investigation for the Government Accountability Project.
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Scientists predict that the world's commerical fisheries in the oceans will completly collapse as early as within the next 50 years. Discussing the health of the world's oceans are Jane Sack, the Oceans Policy Advisor for Greenpeace, and Mike Hirshfield, the chief scientist and vice president for North America for the ocean protection organization, Oceana.
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Leading the way in activism to help the world's oceans is David Helvarg, the founder of the Blue Frontier Foundation. He joins host Daphne Wysham in discussing the 'Seaweed Rebellion' he's leading. And we'll have a live ship-to-shore conversation with Adam Walters and the crew of the Esperanza guided by our in-studio guest Steve Smith who just disembarked from the Greenpeace ship.
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