10 February 2008
Relations on a finite planet - Lord Robert May
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Lord Robert May is an Australian well known on the world stage. He was the chief adviser to the UK government and head of the UK Office of Science and Technology. He is the immediate past president of the Royal Society.
Late last year he came home to deliver a speech of great consequence. The growing human footprint, as he sees it, is now too big for its natural shoe size. It might be just a matter of time before we become one big Easter Island. There is a solution. But it could require cutting across some ideas we now take for granted: democracy and tolerance.
A transcript of Lord May's 2007 Lowy Lecture on Australia in The World can be found on The Lowy Institute's website
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