Science Oxford presentation - Seven Years to Save the Planet: The world's climate is on the rampage - is it too late to stop it?The future of the Earth's climate looks bleak - new research points to higher temperatures, bigger storms, more floods and the drowning of coastal towns and cities across the planet. Prof Bill McGuire, head of Europe's leading academic hazard research centre, explains that if we are to stop it from happening we may have less than 10 years to do something about it. |
Bill McGuire works with Playhouse Disney, Tana Ramsay and Peter Duncan (ex-Blue Peter) to bring the climate change message to pre-schoolers.
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Bill’s new book SEVEN YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET: THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS was published on July 10th 2008.
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To accompany Playhouse Disney’s Playing for the Planet Awards for budding eco-warriors, Bill McGuire has drawn up a list of tips to help pre-schoolers and their parents reduce their own and the UK’s carbon footprint.
We live at a pivotal time in human history. While most of us go about our daily business oblivious to the unprecedented environmental changes taking place around us, our world is poised at a critical tipping point beyond which we will bequeath to our children and our children’s children a world of environmental degradation, economic breakdown and social chaos.