The Third Festival of Science, held in Rome January 14 to 20, will this year of environmental issues to meet the ecological challenges that climate change occurred in 2007, made it vital for the sustainability the Planet. The initiative, supported by Enel, is part of the program Energiaper, a container that includes support activities for research and innovation in Italy and abroad. No coincidence that "global consciousness" is the subtitle of the exhibition that fully converges with the opening of the 'International Year of Planet Earth "proclaimed by the United Nations.
"This edition of the festival - thus explained Vittorio Bo, artistic director of the event - comes with a program led by a strong commitment to civil and political. There will in practice the great themes of the environment, resources, poverty, energy. We discuss the role of science, its limits and its responses to solving problems. "
And, to untie the knots that strangle the planet, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica will meet some of the most influential "brain" in science, philosophy, economics and political science with the intention of creating a "round table" and include representatives of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America in the world. It would indeed be the Indian Rajendra Pachauri, Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as chairman of the IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the expected guest today Monday, January 14, at the first conference of the Festival on the climate and the state of the planet ", introduced by Vittorio Bo, with the participation of the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni.
Pachauri The scenario proposed by the Nobel award ceremony of the photographer an alarming situation in the next 12 years could turn into disaster. The greenhouse effect, according to the Indian scientist, irreparable consequences on drinking water, nutrition, on health, ecological resources on undermining the security of life of mankind. 250 million Africans will, in fact, the position of having to migrate in search of water. As you can imagine, this shift mass will cause an earthquake in the already delicate international balance. It is the responsibility of political leaders to find a global solution, since, as pointed out Pachauri, the problem is not about ethics, which often lacks the political, but fits into a more dangerous social and political dimension. Thursday, January 17
touch instead Sidney Altman, Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1989, to address the vexed question of the role of scientists in society. Or rather, as the disclosure of their discoveries in danger of being manipulated by man the same way as the abuse Darwinism. The men of science will thus be classified as "witches" in the service of a tribe that is in the interests of a small part of mankind know that unlawfully appropriating an idea.
On 18 January, however, the Nobel prize for physics in 1997, Steven Chu, director of the 2004 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will discuss "The energy problem: what can we do," starting from the end of the forecast of oil resources by the end of century. Sure, coal is still available for hundreds of years but just a proliferation of conventional coal-fired plants will cause a further rise of the emission of harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, causing the increase of the chain ' effect intensification of global warming gases. The need to invest in sustainable energy sources seems therefore the only way to save Earth from his fall.
Finally, Richard Ernst, Nobel and Wolf Prize for chemistry in 1991, will speak Saturday, January 19, the responsibility of scientists in the formulation of comprehensive strategies against irresponsible tendencies that seem to inform the choices of recent decades.
A "culture factory" as argued by Gianni Borgna, president of "Music for Rome with the participation of over 60" brains ", inexhaustible energy for sustainable energy.
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