REMINDER Healthy Planet Action Coalition meeting TODAY 4:30 PM EDT 21:30 BST Oliver Morton is our guest Zoom link just below

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I am pleased to announce that Oliver Morton, the veteran British science journalist at The Economist and author of several books, will be our guest at the Healthy Planet Action Coalition meeting today Thursday at 4:30 PM EDT 21:30 BST. 

Oliver’s 2008 classic book The Planet Remade - How Geoengineering Could Change the World is as fresh and provocative as ever. 

As Holly Jean Buck - the author of a fine book on geoengineering herself - wrote in her review of the book:

“The basic question: how can the challenge of remaking the planet "be used to bring about a world that could be trusted with the power to meet that challenge"? 

In addition to discussion of the politics, ethics, philosophy, science and technology of geoengineering - what we call  Direct Climate Cooling - we expect that Oliver, because of his long experience as an editor and journalist, will be able to provide some useful ideas for our advocacy work. 

“ Oliver is The Economist’s briefings editor. Before coming to The Economist as energy and environment editor in 2009, he was the chief news and features editor of Nature, the international scientific journal. 

He specializes in the energy business, climate science and policy, and other green issues. 

He is the author of “Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet”, a study of photosynthesis, its meanings and its implications, and “Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World” in addition to his book on Geoengineering.”

Those who have read or watched Oliver speak know that he is highly literate and knowledgeable and quite witty. 

Please invite your friends and colleagues to this extra special HPAC meeting. 

Herb

Herb Simmens

@herbsimmens

Author A Climate Vocabulary of the Future 

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