TIPPING POINT FOR PLANET EARTH: HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO THE EDGE?

Zika virus. The migrant crisis. Climate change. ISIS. Food scarcity. Drinking water contamination. What we read in the news almost every day now seems like a string of unrelated crises, but they're not. In fact they are intimately intertwined and feed back on one other. We are poised on the brink of a societally dangerous tipping point we'll hit in just a decade or two-if we don't start doing things differently. How do we know that planetary tipping points happen? Why are we close to one? What can each of us do to help the world tip in the right direction? In this presentation, Dr. Hadly will discuss these questions and more.

Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford