{"id":27803,"date":"2023-08-06T22:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T05:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=27803"},"modified":"2023-08-06T22:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T05:15:28","slug":"if-you-love-this-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/06\/if-you-love-this-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If You Love This Planet\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FjgBBQFmGs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Filmmaker: Terre Nash (released 1982, running time 26 min) ISBN: 1559742208<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This powerful documentary records a lecture given to American students in 1981 by Dr. Helen Caldicott, founding president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the film, Dr. Caldicott outlines the effects of detonating a single twenty-megaton bomb, and traces the development of atomic weapons from the devastating bombs of the 1940s to the even more dangerous, apocalyptic weapons of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If You Love This Planet<\/em>&nbsp;provides an urgent warning that time is running out \u2013 that unless we shake off our indifference and work to prevent nuclear war, we stand a slim chance of surviving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With current nuclear weapons proliferation among Third World nations and potential terrorist groups, Dr. Caldicott\u2019s following words have added poignancy: \u201c<em>You\u2019re going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet<\/em>\u201c. (description from Direct Cinema Limited).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner of 1982&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/index.html\">Academy Award<\/a>&nbsp;for Documentary Short Subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker: Terre Nash (released 1982, running time 26 min) ISBN: 1559742208 This powerful documentary records a lecture given to American students in 1981 by Dr. Helen Caldicott, founding president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. In the film, Dr. Caldicott outlines the effects of detonating a single twenty-megaton bomb, and traces&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/06\/if-you-love-this-planet\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27805,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27803\/revisions\/27805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}