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Dr. Peter MacKinnon | Planetary Limits: Coming Future Threats | 15 Feb 2023 | CACOR Zoom
February 15, 2023 @ 13:30 - 15:30 EST
Speaker: Dr. Peter MacKinnon
Topic: Planetary Limits: Coming Future Threats.
Time: Feb 15, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
The world is faced with a growing range of planetary-scale threats to the environment, the biosphere and humankind. Climate change is the most widely discussed of these, yet it is only one of nine interrelated planetary-scale disturbances triggered by human activities. This webinar will explore these nine planetary systems in regard to carrying capacity and their limits or boundaries. The framework is based on scientific evidence that human actions have become the main driver of global environmental change.
Biography:
Peter has a background as an earth scientist, business manager, entrepreneur, domestic and international bureaucrat, executive, diplomat, management advisor, and more recently an academic; including current affiliation with the Faculty of Engineering and the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. Peter has a background on the forefront of scientific and technological breakthroughs around disruptive technologies and their impacts on society.