Abstract

The survival crisis, which now confronts humans everywhere, includes climate disruption, biodiversity collapse, freshwater depletion, chemical pollution, soil degradation, ocean acidification, pandemics, food insecurity, and nuclear and technological risk as well as widespread misinformation and lack of understanding about the magnitude of the threat facing all of us. 

This seminar arises from the work Emeritus Professor Bob Douglas has been doing with the Council for the Human Future in collaboration with John Hewson and Julian Cribb.

Speaker

Emeritus Professor Bob Douglas AO was from 1989 to 2001, The Foundation Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the ANU. His 40-year medical career involved clinical work as both a general practitioner and a specialist physician, research into the development and licensure of a pneumococcal vaccine, consultancies with WHO and other agencies in developing countries and a period as Dean of Medicine at The University of Adelaide. Since his 2001 retirement he has he helped to form Australia21, SEE-Change and has been a contributor to Transform Australia.  He is also a member of The Canberra-based Council for The Human Future, and a committee member of The Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy.

The seminar will be a hybrid event.