Imagining Our Way to the Future of the Planet - stories, faiths, science and action for a living planet
In Association with the Chaplaincy
Wednesday 16 February
Lecture Theatre 8W 1.1
If the environmental crisis was just a crisis of information, it would be over. We know what is happening to the planet, we have the data and the analysis, but the necessary changes in human behaviour and attitudes has not taken place. The truth is no-one is actually converted by pie-charts or data-flows. They are converted by stories and this is where the faiths have wisdom about how to help people change which is now becoming a major factor in the envolving civil society movements to protect nature. The fastest growing environmental movements are all religiously based and the largest civil society movement to protect nature is the faith-based actions world wide. How can the narrative tradition and the celebratory nature of faith, partner with the scientific information and insights in such a way as to help us imagine and then create a better future?
For more lectures, see the full GULP programme.
Martin Palmer, ARC
Martin Palmer is the head of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) as well as a theologian, author, broadcaster and environmentalist. He appears regularly on BBC Radio and television as both a presenter and contributor to programmes. He is one of the foremost translators of ancient Chinese texts with many published translations. He advises UNESCO on World Heritage sites and has recently been appointed as a special advisor to the United Nations on Climate Change, the Environment and the Faiths, where he heads a three year programme.