| Event Name: | The Politics of Climate Change |
| Description: | If climate change goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people and for many policymakers 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.
Political action and intervention on local, national and international levels are 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.
However at the moment, argues Anthony Giddens, 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.
Anthony Giddens visits the RSA to introduce a range of new concepts and proposals to fill in the gap, and examines in depth the connections between climate change and energy security.
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| Type of Event: | Nature Events |
| Event Agenda: | Speaker: Anthony Giddens, former director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the author of 'The Politics of Climate Change' (second edition, Polity, 2011).
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| Event Location: | RSA |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Cultural Center |
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| Event Start Date | 27-Oct-11 |