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Carmen LawrenceProfessorial Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Western Australia View on Lectopia To update the details for this recording using the Lectopia Staff Tool, go to:
Changing Human Behaviour to Reduce Global WarmingThere is no doubt that any lasting reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases will require substantial changes in society, including in people's willingness to accept the seriousness of the situation, to support the necessary government intervention and to change their own behaviour. While scientists and policy makers have advanced various proposals to deal with climate change, few have apparently stopped to consider the most effective ways of producing the necessary and substantial changes in our individual and collective behaviour. Whether it is modifying our transport use, rates of reproduction, energy use, patterns of settlement, food consumption and the design of our homes or accepting higher prices for some products and services, there is no doubt that just as human behaviour lies as the root of the problem, so it must be a major part of the solution. Fundamentally, it is human behaviour which must be modified to ameliorate global warming. And on a scale that has never before been contemplated. While much money, time and energy have been devoted to understanding the consequences of human action on the climate, there has not been a corresponding effort to understand how we can stimulate the changes in human behaviour needed to forestall (or even adapt to) the predicted outcomes of global warming. 4.00 pm Thursday, 23rd October 2008
Convenor: Keith Smettem (6488 1692)
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