So the Reith lectures are run each year by the BBC. They get in an international speaker to talk on a subject of interest and importance. This year it was given by Jeff Sachs and is on climate change. There’s a link to a blog which has all the audio available for download as mp3.
Apparently it’s a fairly optimistic take on the whole thing which could be good for a change. Just finished reading a book called we are the weather makers which was a pretty chilling introduction to the possible future of the planet. Perhaps the wet summer (and floods) that the UK & Ireland have been experiencing is just a taste of what’s to come.
I must say, I do think that my generation is going to have a very very interesting time of things. I could of course just be a doomsayer, but it seems to me that climate change is real and has the likely potential to be a real disaster unless we can change our ways. Course we in the West will be able to buy our way out of the worst of it.. but the impact of millions of refugees from the likes of Bangladesh etc. could be … interesting.
Anyways, while I’ve not listened to them yet I suspect the Reith Lectures will be well worth listening to.
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Morph goes green..
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