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Professor Sir David King's seminar looks at the new challenges that the twenty first century brings, which require a rethink at a fundamental level if they are to be addressed. The global ecosystem services on which human life depends are being consumed and altered at a rate considerably faster than they are being replenished and managed. Energy production by burning naturally sequestered carbon, so-called fossil fuels, and farmland generation by deforestation, in particular, cannot be sustained without catastrophic impacts later in this century, as the global population reaches nine billion. Fully integrating economic controls – interest rates, inflation, debt, growth – with carbon reduction has become a matter of urgency. The challenges posed by the required transition to global sustainability can only be met through new approaches towards global governance, and a twenty first century Renaissance in our cultural approach towards consumerism.

Please see slides below from Professor Sir David King's seminar.