[Env seminars] April 6: MIT Environmental Fellows Invitational Lecture

[Beth Conlin]

Upcoming Event:

The Inaugural MIT Environmental Fellows Invitational Lecture



Some Say By Fire:  Climate Change and the American Response


James Gustave Speth

Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Author, Red Sky at Morning:  America and the Crisis of the Global Environment



Wednesday, April 6, at 3:00 PM

Wong Auditorium, Building E51 Room 115

Map: 
<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go>http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go



Dean Speth is the founder of the World Resources Institute, 
co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and an adviser 
to Presidents Carter and Clinton.


Lecture Summary: MIT's Jule Charney chaired the first National 
Academy of Sciences panel on the climate change threat in 1979.  Now, 
a quarter century has passed by and the United States has yet to face 
up to this most serious of all environmental challenges, despite the 
fact that most of the research that has led the rest of the advanced 
nations to act has been done here.  How could this happen?  And now 
that it has, and now that we have elected leaders in the Presidency 
and the Congress who prefer to ignore the threat, what are we to do?



More Info:

Amanda Graham
MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
617-253-8995
agraham at mit.edu
<http://lfee.mit.edu/calendar/item?scope=public&calendar%5fid=466>http://lfee.mit.edu/calendar/item?scope=public&calendar%5fid=466



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