I attended a lecture by Anthony Giddens last year. He was on the government team at Copenhagen so knows a bit about his subject.
Here he is delivering a new lecture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV0I7DLKelc
The Politics od Climate Change - Anthony Giddens
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So true! Many humans would be shocked to be called animals, at the mercy of whatever nature becomes. But we are and we forget at our peril."Nature no longer exists in many areas of our lives because it's so penetrated by human activity"
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