Monday, December 8, 2008
MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park
7:30pm
Tickets $25 (Students $10)
For tickets call: (416) 640-5836, buy online or visit the Refunds desk at 214 College St.
Limited seating.
A lecture.

From one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world’s powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.

Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political extremism. These are some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change in the decades ahead, and any of them could tip the world towards conflict. Prescient, unflinching, and based on exhaustive research and interviews, Climate Wars promises to be one of the most important books of the coming years.

Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than thirty years.

Born in Newfoundland, he originally trained as a historian and served in the Canadian, American and British navies before taking up academic positions at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and at Oxford University. He holds a Ph.D. in war studies from the University of London and has taught at the Canadian Forces College.

In 1973, he turned to writing and documentary film making. He is the author of numerous books including: Future: Tense – The Coming World Order (2004), With Every Mistake (2005), The Mess They Made – The Middle East After Iraq (2007). His bestselling book War won the Columbia University School of Journalism Award in 1986. In addition to teaching and lecturing, Dyer writes a syndicated column that appears in more than 175 newspapers around the world. Photo courtesy of Ron Diamond.

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