David Orr: Confronting Climate Collapse

Climate One

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4.7 • 583 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2009

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse David Orr, Professor, Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College Due to our refusal to live within the Earth’s natural limits, we now face a multitude of problems that will have a severe negative impact on human civilization. Orr, an expert on environmental literacy and ecological design, further argues that political negligence, an economy driven by insatiable consumption and a disregard for future generations are only adding to our plethora of environmental challenges. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California, on November 11th, 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Good evening and welcome to Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton, the founder of Climate One.
0:34.6	Our guest today is David Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental
0:39.6	Studies and Politics at Oberlin College. He's the author of many books and is perhaps best known
0:45.1	for spearheading the design, fundraising, and construction of the Environmental Studies Center
0:51.0	at Oberlin College. The Department of Energy called that building one of 30-mile-stone buildings of the 20th century.
0:59.6	His latest book is Down to the Wire, confronting climate collapse.
1:03.6	Please welcome David Orr.
1:12.4	Great, thank you.
1:19.1	And thanks to the Commonwealth Club for sponsoring the public dialogue about climate change.
1:27.4	There is in many ways a gap, a huge gap, between the science dialogue on one side and the public policy discourse on the other. And so thanks to the Commonwealth Club and Greg to you and all your colleagues.
1:31.3	I'm going to describe the book very quickly in some background.
1:34.3	And for the last several years, I've been involved with climate at three different levels.
1:40.3	The book, Down to the Wire, is the 35,000-foot-view overview. What does it mean for us to live
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