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LSE Literary Weeeknd/ Polity Press '25 Years of Independent Thinking' lecture
Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many policy-makers too, it tends to be a 'back of the mind' issue. We recognise its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immediate concerns. Politicians have woken up to the dangers, but at the moment their responses are mainly on the level of gesture rather than being, as they have to be, both concrete and radical.
Political action and intervention, on local, national and international levels, is going to have a decisive effect on whether or not we can limit global warming, as well as how we adapt to that already occurring. At the moment, however, Anthony Giddens argues controversially, we do not have a systematic politics of climate change. Politics-as-usual won't allow us to deal with the problems we face, while the recipes of the main challenger to orthodox politics, the green movement, are flawed at source. 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.
Anthony Giddens is professor emeritus of sociology at LSE and former School director. His next book The Politics of Climate Change will be published by Polity Press in March 2009.
This is part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Weekend, the LSE's first ever Literary Festival, celebrating the completion of the New Academic Building.
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Professor Anthony Giddens | talks |
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Date and Time: |
28 February 2009 at 4:00 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Venue: |
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics |
Organised by: |
London School of Economics & Political Science |
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Tickets: |
Free |
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This event is free and open to all, but a ticket is required. One ticket per person may be requested from 10am on Tuesday 17 February. Members of the public can request one ticket via the online ticket request form which will be live on www.lse.ac.uk/events from 10.00am on Tuesday 17 February. |
Additional Information: |
For more information, visit www.lse.ac.uk/collections/spaceForThought/literaryWeekend. |
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