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This week on Uprising:

* A one hour special on Global Warming and Specific Solutions to Stop the Planet from Burning – a Conversation with George Monbiot.

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Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning

GUEST: George Monbiot, weekly columnist for the Guardian Newspaper, author of “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning”

Most KPFK listeners know well the reality and danger of the warming of the planet, and that this global warming is happening as a direct result of human behavior through the burning of fossil fuels and the release of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. Today we spend the hour, not as much discussing the scientific consensus over global warming or the political struggle over what to do about global warming. Instead, we’ll talk about exactly what goals need to be met to stop the planet from literally burning to death, and what all of us, individuals, organizations, and governments, can do to meet those goals. British journalist George Monbiot has just written a new book, “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning.” The book is a best seller in Europe and Canada but Monbiot could barely convince a publisher in the US to print it. Now, South End Press presents this new book, which I spent an hour discussing with George Monbiot on Friday afternoon.

George Monbiot has written books like Manifesto for a New World Order, which we covered in detail on Uprising. In 1995, Nelson Mandela presented Monbiot with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. He has held visiting fellowships or professorships at the universities of Oxford, Bristol, Keele, and East London. He is currently a visiting professor of planning at Oxford Brookes University, and writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. George Monbiot’s website, www.monbiot.com, is listed by Yahoo as the most popular columnist’s site on earth, outside the US.

Special thanks to Mitch Jeserich and Michael G for help with recording this interview from WBAI, New York.

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day

From his introduction to the US edition of the book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, George Monbiot says, “The rest of the world cannot solve this problem without the United States, and the United States cannot solve it without the rest of the world. We could tear each other to pieces over what has happened in the recent past, but climate change is too important for that.”