Speakers:
Prof James Lovelock, independent scientist, environmentalist and author
The SMC invited leading environmentalist, Professor James Lovelock, brief journalists ahead of him delivering 5th John Collier Lecture for the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Lovelock, who is well-known for his ‘Gaia Theory’ addressed the consequences of climate change and argued that the widely used expression ‘global warming’ fails to convey the scale of the potential tragedy facing humankind.