Can We Be Optimistic About Climate Change?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/25/Tim_Flannery_Here_on_Earth

Global warming activist Tim Flannery responds to fears that human nature is not suited for the massive action that is required to combat climate change. Despite recent setbacks in reaching a global climate accord, he explains, individual countries have taken it upon themselves to reduce emissions and move toward a more sustainable future.

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Tim Flannery is one of the country's leading thinkers and writers...an internationally-acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, not to mention former Australian of the Year. Here on Earth is Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers.

In it, he takes a big-picture look at where we are as a species, and what we need to do in order to survive into the future. Flannery draws on Darwin, Wallace and Lovelock to discuss evolution, co-evolution and the issue of sustainability, in the broadest sense.

And, as he tells the National Press Club, it's ultimately a message of hope.

In this address, Flannery expounds on why he won't vote Labor, how London fixed its sewerage pollution problem in the 1880s, how the Chinese are ahead of the curve on major sustainable technology infrastructure, and how they helped derail the Copenhagen climate agreement.

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[wellwellwellall]

WHAT ABOUT LIES?

[wellwellwellall]

what about GE?

[wellwellwellall]

what about cmia.net/

[wellwellwellall]

thee world is thinking he is an idiot

[Rob187ok]

What we need is more co2 and less radioactive fallout. How come all the real deadly poisons are getting out but everyone talks about Co2??? It's as crazy as it gets.

[Valoric0]

@MrBeautifulba1

No not really, I don't mean to say it like "IT'S SCIENCE" but it IS civilization that has made us like a blight upon this Earth. We by default are not bad. By default we are nothing more than animals that'll form tribes & find an equilibrium with our environment. Don't blame humanity, blame the greedy corrupt individuals that can't handle the power elected to them. Giving unlimited power to corporations is what's going to kill our dying planet...

[badslabber]

i thought it was global warming ,ya dickheads ,and guess what when i here Australians ,i just laugh ,bunch of wankers AMEN

[thesparitan]

@LeGioNoFZioN "People who believe something because a researcher or scientist thinks they have made a case for it, are as bad as people who won't believe something no matter how much evidence you provide."

The first part shows a misunderstanding of how science works, but everything else I agree with. I think your problem is just that you lack a very strong foundation of scientific understanding, but other then that your thinking is similar to mine. Reasonable skepticism is a good thing.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

@thesparitan I simply disagree. I am skeptical of almost everything I hear and see whether it is online, in a paper or magazine, it doesn't matter. I welcome challenges always, because today might just be the day I am wrong and can learn something. People who believe something because a researcher or scientist thinks they have made a case for it, are as bad as people who won't believe something no matter how much evidence you provide.

[thesparitan]

@LeGioNoFZioN Your personal experience of dealing with ID doesn't change the fact that the discovery institute has tried to get "of pandas and people" into classrooms bypassing the peer reviewed process that all other theories must go through. And during the dover trial the IDiots even said that the definition of science should be expanded to include things like homeopathy and astrology. For all the good they might be doing, they are a net negative to science and critical thinking.