Tim Flannery: Now or Never

Climate One

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🗓️ 5 November 2009

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Tim Flannery Chairman, Copenhagen Climate Council; Author, Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future Greg Dalton, Founder, Climate One - Moderator One of the world's leading scientists and notable climate experts offers a pragmatic roadmap of the environmental challenges we face in dealing with climate change and the potential solutions toward sustainable living. Rather than looking backward and assigning blame, Flannery offers a powerful argument for immediate action and highlights some of the advancements made by wind-energy companies and automobile manufacturers to create electric cars that could end the reign of oil. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on October 21, 2009. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	Good evening and welcome to tonight's meeting of Climate One, hosted by the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley.
0:39.8	My name is Greg Dalton, the founder of Climate One.
0:45.0	Climate One is a leadership dialogue on energy, economy, and the environment. And this program is graciously underwritten by the Climate Works Foundation. It's my pleasure to introduce Tim Flannery,
0:50.2	chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, an author of Now or Never, Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future.
0:59.7	Dr. Flanry is an internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer, and conservationist.
1:05.1	Along with Al Gore, James Hansen, James Lovelock, Crispin Tickle, He is a judge for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Earth Challenge.
1:14.3	In 2007, he was named Australian of the Year,
1:17.5	and his previous book, The Weathermakers,
1:19.8	was a national and international bestseller translated into 24 languages.
1:25.5	Please join me in welcoming Tim Flannery.
1:35.4	Thank you. 24 languages. Please join me in welcoming Tim Flannery. That's great.
1:36.6	Thank you very much for that, and thank you all for being here this evening.
1:41.1	I must say hearing that list of forthcoming speakers, I'm a feel a bit humbled.
1:45.0	Andre Agassi, I don't know either I'm competing against that, but anyway. But look, it is, I think
1:51.0	tonight is, it is an important occasion in the sense in that we are at a particular moment in history
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