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Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:00

Climate change is almost always presented as an urgent near-term science and policy problem. But this fails to recognise how climate change forces us to revise how we think about our ethics, politics and culture. It prompts entirely novel questions about how human beings relate to the world. To call it 'the greatest challenge facing humanity' is to underestimate its significance...

Event date
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 09:30

The climate of the Earth has never been constant and there is a vast record of the patterns and process of change in the rocks around us: a record that shows that computer models used for predicting the future are likely to underestimate what is both possible and likely. Humans are altering the Earth System in a way that has never been seen before but, also for the first time in the history of the Earth, we have the capacity for intelligent planetary management.

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