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color="#28168f" face="Helvetica" size="6"><b>The Ronald F. Probstein
Lecture in Engineering Science</b></font></div>
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color="#28168f" face="Helvetica" size="5"><b>Friday, March 13, 2009<br>
3:30 PM, Room 34-101</b></font></p>
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face="Helvetica" size="5"><b>“Technology, Policy, and Values for
Living in a Greenhouse”</b></font></p>
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face="Helvetica" size="3"><i>The growing prosperity of our species and
the smallness of our planet are in collision. Fresh thinking is
required to understand our predicament and our options, to manage
geoengineering, to rethink “fairness” across countries, and to
understand how our time on Earth relates to future time. </i></font></div>
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face="Helvetica" size="3"><i>Climate change provides good points of
entry into this new domain. Every “solution” carries its own risks.
Uncertainties are large and are themselves uncertain. Yet we must act.</i></font></div>
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face="Helvetica" size="3"><i>The first step is to reason on a
planetary scale and to understand the numbers. </i></font></div>
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face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>Robert Socolow</b> is a Professor of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and
co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton
University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ecmi/">www.princeton.edu/~cmi/</a>.
Pacala and Socolow are the authors of “Stabilization wedges: Solving
the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies” (<i>Science</i>,
August 13, 2004).<br>
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Socolow is on two current committees of the National Academies:
“America's Energy Future” and “America's Climate Choices” and was a
member of the Grand Challenges for Engineering Committee of the
National Academy of Engineering. He was the editor of <i>Annual Review
of Energy and the Environment</i>, 1992-2002.</font></p>
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face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>For more information, please contact Sean
Buhrmester (</b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sean@mit.edu"><font
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x3-7952)</b></font></div>
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