A Radical Environmental Paradigm
2012 was a year of extreme weather, from the melting of the Arctic to Superstorm Sandy. It was also the hottest year on record in the U.S., with massive droughts and many wildfires. And it was probably a taste of things to come. Climate change is real. Carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is now higher than at any time in the last 15 million years. It’s largely caused by humans burning fossil fuels. The response to unambiguous evidence that the earth is warming? Kick the problem down the road and hold another farcical international conference like the one in Qatar where the climate destroyers gather and sip Chardonnay and issue press releases about how green they are. What is required to arrest and reverse the clear threats to the Earth is a radical shift in not just thinking but in action.
This event was presented by the Lannan Foundation.
Speaker
David Suzuki
David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is a leading environmentalist and science educator. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science. He is the host of the long-running CBC-TV program The Nature of Things. He is the author of more than fifty books, including The Sacred Balance, Everything Under the Sun and Letters to My Grandchildren.
Crispina ffrench –
I was so moved by David Suzuki’s presentation I want to listen to it again and again. Everyone who breaths air and drinks water should listen and take note. Clear, Simple, Timely, Uplifting.
Susan Kayne –
The snooze-alarm has sounded for inhabitants of planet earth. Wake-Up, Wake-Up….listen deeply.
Artis (Honestly my <only> name) –
The information in this lecture is captivating, stirring, evocative, and ironically if only barely, encouraging. David Suzuki’s observations are well researched and obviously of first person witness.
This hour will never be considered a waste or a labor of time. Please, please take that hour. Trade it for the hour gabfest you’ll have with your neighbor about other neighbors.
Yours,
Artis (the Spoonman)