Anthony Giddens on The Politics of Climate Change

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Tom says: 24 Feb 2010 0:46 promoted comment

Giddens is a genius. It is hard to debate against sceptics of something that has not been 100% scientifically proven (Climate Change). This a very educating talk told from the heart with passion. We need to act NOW for humanity and the economy.

Liam McHugh says: 23 Feb 2010 22:36 promoted comment

Excellent speech. I feel very strongly that policies trying to scare people aren't going to work because people find it hard to relate to abstract threats lying somewhere in the future that they may have seen or read in a fictional narrative. I believe that educating people coherently and truthfully without the dark special FX work best to an educated audience. Giddens, fantastic

John F says: 23 Feb 2010 21:59 promoted comment

One of the best talks I've ever seen on Climate Change.

Stuart Robson says: 04 Nov 2010 12:00

A massive global mechanism has been developed to reduce the planets warming,the priorities are to accelerate the reduction of carbon emissions and cease further destruction of the planets rainforests.The mechanism involves the biggest rescue operation in history.All of the financial human,and technical resourses have been found. An outline of the plan was sent to Buckingham Palace on the 27th May 2009.Of over 50 letters and emails sent to people of influence including a number of leading newspapers in the United States and Australia Her Majestry was the only reply recieved.50% of the planets rainforests have been destroyed,how does man propose to survive when they destroy the remaining rainforests.Previous leaders should have recognised the rainforests are a vital component of the planets life support systems, therefore they should not have been allowed to belong to any country,they should have been protected by a special resolution of the UN,many years ago.The rainforests are so critical to the survival of mankind and all life, UN troops should be mobilised to move into all countries with rainforests and stop the destruction and the logging.The politics of climate change is destroying the planet.

concerned says: 21 Apr 2010 20:16

why would developing countries agree to the kyoto protocol whereas this whole climate change problem was caused by developed countries.i mean take south africa for example its trying to boost its economy of which it took years for it to be where it is now so what will become of it if it reduced such a huge percentage in its GHG emissions???????

olenja julius munupi makerere university says: 12 Apr 2010 14:50

i think this is a global challange and therefore i call upon evrey nation to come up with provisional policies that can promote climate rebuilding to state of partial stability

adam smit says: 11 Apr 2010 3:30

climate change is mainly caused by human activity.So why people only blame the government for these changes?

About this Event

23 Feb 2010 @ 12:45

The Politics of Climate Change

This event is part of the ESB series on the 'Future of Energy'.

Download the audio podcast of this event here.

About the speech:

Lord Anthony Giddens presented his recently published book, “The Politics of Climate Change”, which outlines the political complexities of combating climate change.

In “The Politics of Climate Change” Lord Giddens argues that we do not have a systematic politics of climate change. Politics as usual won't allow us to deal with the climate change problems we face, while the recipes of the main challenger to orthodox politics, the green movement, are flawed at source. In this book, Lord Giddens introduces a range of new concepts and proposals to fill in the gap, and examines in depth the connections between climate change and energy security.

About the speaker:

Anthony Giddens is a member of the House of Lords, a Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. He was Director of the LSE from 1997 to 2003, and was made a peer in 2004. He has honorary degrees or comparable awards from 21 universities. He is an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was the BBC Reith Lecturer in 1999. According to Google Scholar, he is the most widely cited sociologist in the world. His many books include The Constitution of Society (1984), Beyond Left and Right (1994), The Third Way (1998) and Europe in the Global Age (2006). His most recent major work is The Politics of Climate Change (2009). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.

This event is part of the Climate Change Group’s ongoing research on the prospects for a post-Kyoto international climate change agreement.

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