Professor William McKibben
Department of Environmental Studies
Middlebury College
Vermont
will be addressing the Vancouver Institute on September 27, 2003 at 8:15 p.m., Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, University of British Columbia.
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Professor McKibben achieved international prominence in 1989 with his pathbreaking book, The End of Nature, a powerful treatise on the state of the environment and the concomitant need for a fundamental change in human activity. In his latest book, the subject of his talk to The Vancouver Institute, Professor McKibben turns his attention to the threats posed to humankind by a broad array of new scientific advances, ranging from biotechnology to robotics and nanotech. Mr. McKibben is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and The Atlantic Monthly.
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