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Science: Tim Flannery: Solving Our Climate Crisis

Australian scientist Tim Flannery appeared at Town Hall in 2006 to speak on his last book The Weather Makers (within days of an appearance by Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe). Together, their works contributed enormously to popular understanding of the reality of climate change. Flannerys latest book, Now or Never, describes pragmatic steps being explored and taken towards remediation of the crisis, from storing the carbon released by dead plants to carbon-trading strategies in South America to collaboration between a Danish wind-energy company and an automobile manufacturer on a viable electric car. Leavening the doomsday scenarios of much current reporting on climate change, Flannery's work looks forward in the belief that "a sense of hopelessness is just as great a danger to our future as the bankrupt philosophies of the recent past." Presented as part of Town Halls Seattle Science Lectures series, with Pacific Science Center and University Book Store.