Just Earth

Event details

Tony Juniper Christmas lecture

From wildfires and floods, to food poverty, degraded rivers, mass migration and conflict, the environmental crisis is already here. So how can people lead good lives without ultimately hastening global collapse, and how might we reject the consumerist culture that has seized richer nations?

Tony Juniper shows the answer lies in fairness. We can’t fight the climate and nature crises without addressing the ever-widening gaps between rich and poor, the powerful and the weak. Green technologies won’t work on their own – in order to save and restore the natural systems which sustain society, the economy and civilisation, it is vital that we break the traps set by inequalities so we can achieve real, lasting change.

• 17:30 - 18:00: Audience arrival
• 18:00 - 19:00: Lecture
• 19:00 - 19:45: Mulled wine and mince pies

Fox Lane Books will also be at the event with copies of Just Earth available to buy.

Tony Juniper

Tony Juniper CBE is a prominent environmental figure, Chair of the British Government’s official conservation agency Natural England and a Fellow with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. His books include the multi-award winning What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? and Harmony, which was co-authored with His Majesty King Charles III.

Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

LCAB has a novel and optimistic approach to biodiversity change in the Anthropocene, acknowledging gains as well as losses and helping to reframe conservation narratives that enable positive responses to the opportunities available to us in the Anthropocene. Our research contributes to shaping conservation narratives, informing conservation practice and influencing public and policy approaches to the ‘biodiversity crisis’. Our perspective provides a much-needed refocusing and empowering framework for positive change in the Anthropocene.