Climate Change and the Future of Life on
Earth
(w/ commentary on “Why Our Origins Matter”)
Richard Leakey
Paleoanthropologist, political advisor and environmentalist Richard
Leakey has been making international headlines for more than 40
years. Son of the famous Louis B. and Mary Leakey, he has been
credited with some of the most significant fossil discoveries in
history and was named one of TIME’s 100 Greatest Minds of the 20th
Century. He is the author of over 100 articles and books including
Origins and Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa’s Natural
Treasures.
In his 1995 book, The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life
and The Future of Humankind, Leakey examined the five
great catastrophic extinctions in the history of the planet.
Written well before our increased environmental awareness, Leakey
stressed how human beings are dangerously reducing biodiversity,
damaging eco-systems and possibly precipitating the next major mass
extinction, which could number humans amongst its
victims.
Now a Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University and an
elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London (FRS) in 2007, Leakey
convenes the Stony Brook World Environmental Forum and the Human
Evolution Symposiums and Workshops. Leakey has served as Director
of the National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Wildlife Service and
as Head of Public Service and Secretary to the Cabinet in Kenya. He
is Chair of The Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook and
Transparency International-Kenya and recently founded
WildlifeDirect, an online service that supports conservationists
and allows anyone to play a role in the survival of the world’s
most endangered species.
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Date
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time
3:00 PM
Location
Little Theatre, Queens Campus
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