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色んな人と一緒に喋って、「仕方がない」を言わずに前向きに「社会善」を目指す番組です！
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Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Links:
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops.html
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/12/too-much-combustion-too-little-fire.html
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobiles.html
http://www.tensaimon.com/2021/02/17/podcast-8-low-tech-magazine/
記事のまとめ・Summary:
Low-tech magazine - doubts on progress and technology
From the "About" page:
Low-tech Magazine questions the blind belief in technological progress,
and talks about the potential of traditional knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society.
Low-tech magazine is written by a Dutchman called Kris De Decker.
Basically, this website tries to think of ways of combining traditional and modern knowledge to create a sustainable society.
For example...
the most recent article is called:
"How and why I stopped buying new laptops"
The writer says he uses laptops for an average of 5.7 years.
But making a laptop takes a lot of energy (for the factories, materials, etc),
so instead he uses an old laptop from 2006 .
It has parts that are easy to replace so it is easy to repair,
and he uses Linux which is small so it runs fine on older computers (windows and iOS would be too slow)
Another recent article is called:
"too much combustion, too little fire"
It talks about how we burn fossil fuels in power stations,
then transport the energy to our houses so we can cook, heat space and water, dry clothes etc,
but in traditional cultures the people did all of this with a household fire.
The article suggests that maybe we could use modern scientific knowledge to make household fires safe and efficient.
There are also very interesting articles on velomobiles (like bicycles but with an outer shell like a car to reduce wind resistance) and on storing energy using compressed air instead of chemical batteries.
overall this is a very interesting website that looks at ways of making our society low-energy and therefore sustainable.
Hey Saimon what do you think? 私に勝手な一コメントいわせていただければ・・・
I love the ideas in this website - I think to solve the climate crisis we need to make our societies low-carbon, which means low-energy - this site has lots of great ideas for low-energy societies.
The articles are quite techical, which I find a bit much, so I skim read the details and focus on understanding the problem and the solution.
I really hope we can put the ideas in this website into action in our societies, to make an actually sustainable world!
Because remember - our current society is "unsustainable" which means "IT WILL END" - if we don't want our societies to end, we need to change how they work!
Listeners, what do you think? 皆さん、いかがでしょうか？
Do you think we can learn from low-tech magazine?
How do you think we can make our society low-energy and therefore sustainable?
Thanks for listening everybody!
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Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
元の記事：https://time.com/5930093/amsterdam-doughnut-economics/
Blog post: http://www.tensaimon.com/2021/02/11/podcast-7-donut-economy/
参考Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut_%28economic_model%29
https://ideasforgood.jp/glossary/doughnut-economics/
https://www.vogue.co.jp/change/article/amsterdams-take-on-doughnut-economics
https://ideasforgood.jp/glossary/circular-economy/
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英語のセリフ：
Amsterdam is embracing a radical new economic theory to help save the environment. Could it also replace capitalism?
Jan 22, 2021
I’ll post a link to the article, and to my script, in the shownotes
記事のまとめ・Summary:
Our current economic model is based on GDP - Gross Domestic Product - the goal of the economy is to increase this number no matter what.
The reasoning behind this is that people's quality of life increases as the economy grows - as a society gets richer.
(we might wonder if ordinary people getting richer is really the point - I wonder if the real point is for rich people to get richer - if we ordinary people also get richer that's just a happy by-product).
However the problem with this economic model is that it doesn't include any reference to the environmental damage that is caused by this economic growth.
For example more and more people owning and driving cars is counted as economic growth - a good thing - even though the cars burn gasoline which releases CO2 which causes global heating which if it continues may actually lead to the collapse of human society.
It also doesn't include any reference to the social damage caused by this economic growth - for example people are so busy working all day every day that they have no time for community and family life, or for hobbies that reduce stress and make life worth living.
Work to live, or live to work?
What this means is that there is a maximum to economic development: the limit of the environment. If economic development passes this limit the environment will be damaged (this is what is happening now). Scientists drew this as a circle: if economic activity stays within the circle, the environment will not be damaged.
Kate Raworth is an economist, and when she was working for the anti-poverty charity Oxfam she looked at this circle diagram. She thought that as well as a maximum beyond which human activity would damage the environment, there is also a minimum below which people do not have enough to live a good life. So she drew a a smaller circle inside the big circle, which made it look like a donut: a circle of bread with a hole in the middle.
Inside the smallest circle (in the hole of the donut), people do not have enough to live a good life: they need to get richer.
In the actual doughnut, people have enough to live a good life.
However if they continue to get even richer - if they move to the outside of the doughnut diagram - they start to damage the environment.
So our economies should be designed so that everyone is living in the bread of doughnut: not too poor, but not too rich.
Amsterdam has started trying to re-design their city economy to be inside the bread of the doughnut:
For example:
they started a "true price initiative" where the price on food explains the social and environmental cost of the vegetables: an extra 6c per kilo for the carbon footprint, 5c for damage to the land by farming, 4c to pay workers fairly.
they started working on a "circular economy" where everything is recycled - they made composting compulsory, and new houses have to be built in a way that the materials can be re-used.
they started a computer recycling scheme so that people don't have to buy new computers.
residents started using car parking spaces to hold dinner parties in summer, and eventually persuaded the city to convert many parking spaces into community gardens.
Amsterdam hopes these projects will help it become a "doughnut city" - not too rich and not too poor. And they hope other cities will learn from their example.
Hey Saimon what do you think? 私に勝手な一コメントいわせていただければ・・・
I think this is very important. It's completely clear that many societies have gotten too rich - they are using up too many of the earth's resources. It's also very clear that there are many many people who are too poor to be able to live a good life. So we need to design our societies and economies to be "not too poor, and not too rich" - in the bread of the doughnut!
So I think we should all be trying to live "in the doughnut" in our own lives, and also trying to change where we live: our neighbourhoods, towns, and countries.
This is a big change from "GDP must go up" capitalism, but since eternal economic growth equals eternal environmental damage, I think we need to change our economic model.
Listeners, what do you think? 皆さん、いかがでしょうか？
Do you think we need to live in the bread of the doughnut - not too rich and not too poor?
How do you think we can change things in our neighbourhoods, towns, and countries?
Thanks for listening everybody - see ya!
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
証拠によってコロナを抑える「with corona」戦略より、コロナをゼロ（without corona??)に目指す排除戦略の方が望ましいと言う意見を表す記事のまとめ。
Blog:
参考Links:
沖縄でインフル流行も大分減少：
https://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/699605
Long Covid:
https://rplroseus.hatenablog.com/entry/2020/10/12/230416
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English Script:
All countries should pursue a Covid-19 elimination strategy: here are 16 reasons why
Thu 28 Jan 2021
I’ll post a link to the article, and to my script, in the shownotes
Summary:
Many countries, for example NZ, China, Taiwan and Vietnam, have successfully pursued New Zealand and China have successfully pursued a coronavirus elimination strategy.
The past year of Covid-19 has taught us that it is the behaviour of governments, more than the behaviour of the virus or individuals, that shapes countries’ experience of the crisis.
The apparent waves of infection were driven by government action and inaction.
As governments draw up their battle plans for year two, we think they should base their strategies on evidence about what works best.
And the evidence suggests that countries pursuing elimination of Covid-19 are doing much better than countries trying to “live with the virus”.
Here are 16 reasons why we think all countries consider an elimination approach:
1. It saves lives. Not surprisingly, eliminating transmission of the virus minimises Covid-19 deaths. Countries pursuing elimination have Covid-19 mortality rates mostly below 10 per million, which is 100 times less than many countries “living with" the virus.
2. The elimination of community transmission prevents “long-Covid”, which causes persistent health problems, such as fatigue and headaches in survivors.
3. Elimination is fair to everybody. Pandemics always affect poorer people more (because they can't work from home, or have worse health to begin with) - eliminating Covid-19 can minimise these inequalities, particularly if a suitable social “safety-net” is also provided.
4. Elimination is good for the economy - China and Taiwan are possibly the only countries with economic growth in 2020.
5. Elimination works in many different countries with very different cultures, governments and economies: mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. They are all very different in geography, population size, resources, and styles of government, but have all successfully pursued a strategy of elimination.
6. The virus can be eliminated even after intense local transmission has occurred.
For example Wuhan in China, and the state of Victoria in Australia eliminated Covid-19 even after a period of intense local transmission (Victoria had higher rates than the UK in April, but now Victoria has zero whilst the UK has been up to 1,800 deaths per day).
7. It’s easier if more countries adopt this approach, because then travel becomes safe - this helps the economy.( This opening-up is already happening among Australian states and between Pacific islands and New Zealand.)
8. Vaccines make elimination easier. Effective vaccines working in combination with other public health measures have led to successful elimination of diseases such as polio 急性灰白髄炎 and measles 麻疹 in many countries.
9. Zero covid is a clear goal, whereas suppression never ends, which makes it impossible to plan (which is very stressful for schools work and cultural and social life).
10. It is sustainable. Countries pursuing elimination have had setbacks but have mostly been able to contain them.
11. If the virus mutates, elimination still works.
(border management, physical distancing, mask wearing, testing and contact tracing are not seriously affected by virus mutations)
12. It also still works if vaccines provide only limited long-term protection.
13. There will be fewer variants because less virus means fewer mutations.
14.Fewer lockdowns - New Zealand have had far less time under lockdown than most countries pursuing suppression - for example here in Japan we are into our 3rd state of emergency whereas NZ has had only one.
15. Elimination also reduces transmission and death rates from other diseases such as influenza.
16. It provides a good short-term strategy while we identify the best approach.
It buys us time while we think aboutu whether to aim for global elimination, or management with vaccines like we manage influenza.
Of course, the benefits of pursuing a Covid-19 elimination strategy need to be balanced against the costs. However, these same costs are also experienced by countries trying to suppress the virus, except repeatedly, after each resurgence. Elimination is only once.
On balance, elimination looks like the “least bad choice” for many countries. We hope that all governments will consider the elimination strategy as they plan year two of our global response to the pandemic.
Michael Baker is a professor of public health 公衆衛生 at the University of Otago
Martin McKee is a professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ロンドン大学衛生熱帯医学大学院
Hey Saimon what do you think? 私に勝手な一コメントいわせていただければ・・・
"with corona" is an interesting idea, and I can see why Japan initially went for this, but it only works statistically - it's of no comfort to the families of people who die.
And Living with corona is very stressful - I am very envious of countries like Taiwan and New Zealand - they have zero corona so are living normally, going to work and school, holding sports and cultural events. I've had a very stressful year, and I am sure many people have too - we could end this stress.
It's difficult for anyone to change strategy because to change you have to first admit that you were wrong...but I think Japan should admit that suppression is no longer working well, and should change their plan to go for elimination.
Listeners, what do you think?
Do you think Japan should continue to live "with corona"?
Or do you think we should follow New Zealand and Taiwan and aim to live "without corona"?
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
オリンピックと資本主義の繋がり、反対の動きについて
元の記事：https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/olympics-tokyo-protest-fukushima/
このepisodeのセリフ: http://www.tensaimon.com/2021/01/28/podcast-5-no-olympics-anywhere-protest/
参考Links:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
https://www.routledge.com/Celebration-Capitalism-and-the-Olympic-Games/Boykoff/p/book/9780415821971
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セリフ：
まとめ・Summary:
At a press conference in July 2019 Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, announced the one-year countdown to the 2020 Olympics. Surrounded by Japan’s political elite, Bach said, “In these fractured times, the Olympic Games are the only thing that brings the world together in healthy competition.”
“You will see a great economic impact...the Games “will contribute 300 billion US dollars [to the Japanese economy] by 2030.”
Prime Minister Abe called the 2020 Olympics the “Recovery Games,” - recovering from the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima - but conspicuously, none of the many speakers said the words “nuclear” or “meltdown” when discussing why “recovery” was needed.
Outside the building, a demonstration told another story...Activists from Tokyo, Los Angeles, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and PyeongChang (in South Korea) (all these cities are former and future Olympic hosts)....protested with drums, a trumpet, and an eardrum-bursting sound system. They chanted, “No Olympics Anywhere!”
They are raising their voices against the debt, displacement, and militarization of the Olympic Games.
Later that day, hundreds of activists came together in Shinjuku—an area of Tokyo synonymous with glitzy consumerism—for a raucous demonstration that filled the streets with drums and chants...then...around a thousand protesters stomped through the neon-lit scrum of shoppers, many of whom waved and chanted in support. Others averted their glance.
This coming together of people from different countries marks a new chapter in the movement against the harm too often caused by the Olympic Games.
Hey Saimon what do you think?
- I think the Olympics is just designed to make money for rich people - the construction companies, advertisers and sponsors get rich. Most athletes make very little money, the people who live in the Olympic city have no say in how their city is used, and we spectators see the advertising and buy the products
- Sport is supposed to be healthy, but Coca-cola is a very big Olympic sponsor even tho it is very bad for our health.
- In my internet searches for this episode I found a book "Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games" - Disaster Capitalism is 惨事便乗型資本主義, so Celebration Capitalism is お祝い資本主義..."public-private partnerships in which the public pays and the private profits"
- And of course now we have to think about Covid-19....My opinion is that we should concentrate on keeping people safe and healthy, whereas I think the Olympics is about making profit...
Listeners, what do you think?
- Do you think the Olympics is a good thing for our world? For Japan? For Tokyo?
- And do you think the Olympics should go ahead this year as the world tries to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic?
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
日本の自殺率はコロナの第二波で１６％上昇、イギリスのGuardian紙の記事。
元の記事：https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/16/japans-suicide-rate-rises-16-in-second-wave-of-covid-study-finds
英語のセリフ: http://www.tensaimon.com/2021/01/21/podcast-4-japan-suicide-rate-rises-16-in-covid-crisis/
参考LINK：
イギリスの研究によって第一回のロックダウンで学生の精神健康状況はよくなった、ストレス減少？
自殺的な気持ちになっている方向けの相談サービス：
https://www.inochinodenwa.org/
LINE @kokorochat
https://twitter.com/kokorohotchat
https://www.facebook.com/kokorohotchat/
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Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
研究者は注意の声を上げる：人間の文明はこのまま進めば、将来は恐ろしい。
このepisodeの脚本：http://www.tensaimon.com/2021/01/17/podcast-scientists-warn-of-ghastly-future/
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Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
環境に優しいtechnologyには、隠れている環境や社会に有害があります。
このエピソードの脚本：http://www.tensaimon.com/2021/01/17/podcast-child-labour-toxic-leaks/
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Sunday Jan 17, 2021
Sunday Jan 17, 2021
最初のエピソードとして、私の自己紹介とこのポッドキャストの目標を紹介させていただきます！This is the first episode so I introduce myself and what I'm aiming to do in this podcast.
このepisodeの脚本：http://www.tensaimon.com/2021/01/17/podcast-tensaimon-translates-the-internet-1-tensaimonsself-introduction/
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