Tim Flannery on climate change, and other Ottawa Earth Day writers

Saw Tim Flannery at the Ottawa International Writer's Festival Event at Library and Archives Canada.

http://www.writersfest.com/schedule_e.htm#Climate%20Change

For Earth Day they're doing a bunch of relevant books.

Tim was interviewed about his book The Weather Makers, the interviewer was Fred Pearce, who will be talking later today about his own book, When the Rivers Run Dry.

Some of Tim's major points were the need for a revenue-neutral carbon tax in Canada, and the folly of the current approach to Alberta tar sands development.

Later this evening is coming

SATURDAY, April 22 [2006] @ 8:00 pm
BIG IDEA #2:
Our Unnatural Relationship with Nature
and the Future of Life on Earth
featuring Wayne Grady, Terry Glavin and Elizabeth May
$15 / $12 Student or Senior / $8 Festival Member

Three of Canada's finest minds examine our relationship with nature. Wayne Grady's Bringing Back the Dodo delves into the forces of evolution and extinction that shape the living world. Terry Glavin's Waiting for the Macaws chronicles the history of extinctions and the human struggle to conserve living things and Elizabeth May's How to Save the World in Your Spare Time gives us the tools we need to protect our communities and the planet.

Previously:
March 19, 2006  Waiting for the Macaws: review from Globe, 1st chapter, blog