(Airdate: May 10, 2021) In this edition of Critical Conversations, hosts Robert Ambrose and Dahr Jamail interview International Panel on Climate Change Expert Reviewer Dr. Peter Carter about his warning that billions of people likely facing death from widespread crop failures as the climate crisis deepens. They also discuss local climate crisis effects like lack of fresh water as glaciers disappear, sea level rise that will erase downtown, and the continuing influx of climate refugees.

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(Airdate: April 26, 2021) What links the murder trial of police officer Derek Chauvin with the dominant politics of the current Republican Party and that party’s accelerating efforts to suppress voting by people of color? Cohosts Robert Ambrose and Dahr Jamail speak with Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught from 1991-2016, and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild, about the historic trial, Republican politics, and the crucial importance of the For The People Act.

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(Airdate: April 12, 2021) Are we facing a permanent COVID-19 pandemic and, if so, how do we proceed into the future? Cohosts Robert Ambrose and Dahr Jamail talk with Jefferson County Health Officer Dr. Tom Locke about the success of the vaccination drive, and the threats posed to that success by the emergence of more dangerous virus variants. Brazil is facing a “biological Fukushima” with uncontrolled virus spread, largely because its president denies COVID-19 is anything to worry about. Sound familiar? Is there a more rational pathway to the future?

Critical Conversations airs on 91.9FM KPTZ the second and fourth Mondays each month, from 5:30-6pm.

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