Topic: Extinction, Love or Fear Nature, & Fossil Fuels. Discuss!
Hart House East Common Room, 7:30pm
Lorraine Johnson, author Tending the Earth, and contributor to Canadian
Gardening , Gardening Life, and This Magazine, and member of the board of
directors of the North American Native Plant Society, moderates a discussion
that is sure to spark debate!
Mark Jaccard, author of Sustainable Fossil
Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy,
shortlisted for the 2005 Donner Prize, believes that we have the
technological capability to use fossil fuels without emitting pollutants.
Terry Glavin, author of Waiting for the Macaws, believes that all
extinctions are related and that the language of environmentalism is
inadequate to describing this great unravelling.
Wayne Grady, author of Bringing Back the Dodo and co-author of the bestselling Tree: A Life Story, was written in collaboration with David Suzuki, searches our history and prehistory to explain why humans love nature and fear it at the same time.
