The Ecomodernism Debate with Mark Lynas
Last year a number of thinkers launched “The Ecomodernist Manifesto” (www.ecomodernism.org). Ecomodernism argues that traditional environmentalism has advocated that human societies need to be reintegrated into natural systems. Instead, ecomodernism proposes that “decoupling” from natural systems, by encouraging urbanisation and using technologies such as nuclear power and plant genetic engineering, is a better way to feed and support billions of people in cities while still leaving more room for nature elsewhere. These ideas have been controversial!

Author Mark Lynas (an original signatory of the ecomodernist manifesto) will talk on this topic, with commentaries by Paul Jepson, Connie McDermott and Richard Grenyer, and a dissussion chaired by Yadvinder Malhi.
Date: 15 January 2016, 16:00 (Friday, 0th week, Hilary 2016)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor
Speaker: Mark Lynas
Organising department: Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Organiser: Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Organiser contact email address: jane.applegarth@eci.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
Part of: Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://v1.bookwhen.com/octf
Audience: Public
Editor: Jane Applegarth