Sir John Sulston - The Royal Society's Study of People and the Planet

"At the moment, the agendas of the growing population of people and the environment are too separate -- people are thinking about one or the other," said Sir John Sulston, Nobel laureate and chair of the Royal Society's People and the Planet working group, in an interview with ECSP. "People argue about, 'Should we consume less or should we have fewer people?' The point is it's both. We need to draw it together. It's people and their activities."

Sulston won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on mapping the human genome. He said that experience helped him appreciate the importance of utilizing science to the benefit of the wider public as he advocated for keeping the human genome in the public domain rather than allowing the knowledge to be privatized.

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