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Conversation with Lindsey O'Rourke, Covert Regime Change

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke as they discuss O’Rourke’s remarkable book, Covert Regime Change. US foreign policy is based heavily on trying to overthrow foreign governments, and O’Rourke’s account is a powerful and deeply scholarly account of America’s frequent resort to secretive regime-change operations. Her book focuses on the Cold War years (1947-1989), but Sachs and O’Rourke bring the issues up to the…

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Covid-19 Impacts on and Implications for the Global Food System

This is a guest lecture by Prof. Glenn Denning, Columbia University, in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University. The course offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the global Covid-19 epidemic. We will consider the epidemic from multiple perspectives, including: the historical role of epidemics in human history; the basic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2; the basic virology of SARS-Cov-2; the…

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Root Causes and Lived Realities: Violence Against Women and Girls

Violence against women can be seen on three levels: the international, national, and intimate levels. We can look at psychological as well as patriarchal factors, and find the root causes behind reasons like alcohol abuse. One root cause discussed is a societal crisis in masculinity. Feminists prefer to think about violence as being learned and socialized. There are three aspects to thinking about why men are violent. These are: the notion of impaired masculinity; challenges to the patriarchal…

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Introduction: The Oceans and Sustainable Development

The global ocean connects us all and provides our livelihoods, the oxygen we breathe, and transportation, among other things. The ocean is included in SDG 14. This course will try to provide a deeper understanding of the complex understanding of the ocean, environment, and climate system. Humans receive resources from the ocean, as well as risks. There will be weekly lectures on different topics, including the basic physics of ocean circulation, the ocean ecosystem, how the deep ocean works,…

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Introducing Sustainable Development

In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs introduces the course "Sustainable Development: the Post-Capitalist Order" and defines sustainable development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. Please give attribution to the SDG Academy.

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Health and Wellbeing

In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the second key transformation, health and wellbeing. The many dimensions of achieving this transformation are considered, including access to universal health care and an integrated health system. Professor Sachs also discusses social determinants of health, such as rising opioid and obesity epidemics due to poorly regulated industry. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.

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From Waste to Wealth

Webinar 6 Siena International School of Sustainable Development 2022

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Inquiry and Moral Reasoning

The main reason why we destroy nature is so that we can externalize the costs of what we're doing. We pollute nature, and we expect that other people will later pay the bill for it. We use scarce resources and do not think that later generations will have to pay an exorbitant price for the remaining scarce resources. What would happen if the demand of future generations were already present on the world market? Well, of course the price of scarce resources would go up because the price is…

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Replacing the Cash Economy

This video discusses the prospects of moving from a cash economy to a digital economy, highlighting the resistant cash economy and the emergence of civil society initiatives towards the adoption of digital payments. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.