Revisiting the Big Picture
Posted on April 10, 2007 by Richard Beddard
Filed Under Ramblings |
If you feel it’s time to update your view of the big picture, the Reith lectures, starting tomorrow on Radio 4 are a good opportunity. This year Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is giving the lectures from London (twice), Edinburgh, Beijing and New York. He’ll be talking about:
- Population
- climate change
- hunger
- energy
- water
- India
- China
- the end of North Atlantic dominance
- poverty
- democracy.
Plenty to think about then. And just in case you fear a greenwash, on the trailer the BBC is touting Prof. Sachs says he needs to “hear more” about climate change. The lectures will be broadcast on consecutive Wednesdays (repeated on Saturdays), which may be incovenient, but if you miss them you can always use the listen again feature. Worth the license fee alone, I’d say.
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