A lecture by Chris Jackson for the Geological Society and aimed at students is now available to view on YouTube.
It was a Public lecture, and the preamble is:
The Earth is warming, with changes in our climate being of global concern. These challenges are tensioned by the fact that the Earth’s energy hungry population is growing and, in some cases, migrating into areas exposed to a range of life- and infrastructure-threatening geohazards. The role of geosciences in our present and future cannot be understated, given it helps us: (i) understand how the Earth’s climate has changed over approximately 4.6 billion years ago, and how this has controlled the habitability of our planet and its associated biodiversity; (ii) locate and produce natural resources; and (iii) identify and mitigate a range of geohazards. In this talk I will therefore argue that geoscience can save the world…
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