The God Species: How the planet can survive the age of humans

Author Mark Lynas explores the future of the planet

7:00p Wednesday 29 Feb 2012, OSU's LaSells Stewart Center

Mark Lynas

National Geographic Explorer Mark Lynas won the 2007 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. His is also author of High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis and The God Species. In his Food for Thought lecture, he discussed the nine planetary boundaries, including climate change, that humans are threatening to violate, the potential catastrophic impacts of transgression, and what can be done to mitigate or avoid them.

• About Mark Lynas
• lecture intro by OrB director Steve Strauss
• lecture slides
• study guide (pdf version)
• podcast
• the Bottom Line - A synopsis of the main lecture

 

• streaming video of the full length lecture and Q&A

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