Global climate change may be the most important challenge of our time. Twenty years from now our children and grandchildren will find it hard to understand how we fiddled away a half trillion dollars (and counting) in Iraq as the planet burned.
We believe that managing our climate predicament will require several things: clarity in understanding the scope, dimensions, and pace of the problem; creativity in engaging the range of viable resources for addressing the problem; and vision to imagine a tomorrow can be better than today. In presenting the 2007 Edmund Stanley Jr. Lecture Series we hope to make our small contribution to generating and disseminating the collective clarity, creativity, and vision that will be required.
We have brought together an important group of people - scientists, policy analysts, activists, and policy makers - to share with you their insights and their experience.