Conceived before Covid-19, 'Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet' is an attempt to review various environmental topics from climate change to biodiversity and pollution crises in a series of testimonies by "insiders,” specialists in their respective disciplines. It begins with a solid introduction by Philippe Tortell explaining his journey into the preparation of these essays. As he explains in the introduction the idea for this book came to him as a way "to focus public attention (if only for a short while) on topics of significant importance.”[5] Tortell explains the book as a way of assessing the human footprint on the "Earth system” since the first celebration of Earth Day in 1970.
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"A Measure of Change". The Ormsby Review, 2021.
On Monday, May 4, at 12 p.m. EDT the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at Dartmouth hosted an online panel discussions with four contributors of Earth 2020: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet.This panel was co-moderated by Philippe Tortell, editor of the title and professor at the University of British Columbia and Elizabeth Wilson, director of the Irving Institute and professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College.
In this panel the following authors participated:
Sally N. Aitken, University of British Columbia
Douglas G. MacMartin, Cornell University
Roland Geyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
U. Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia
The second panel includes the following panelists:
Robert Socolow, Princeton University
Candis Callison, University of British Columbia
Janet G. Hering, ETH and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Alice Gorman Flinders University
Philippe D. Tortell
Philippe D. Tortell
John Harte and Robert Socolow
Tapio Schneider
Elizabeth May
David Archer
Jeffrey R. Smith and Gretchen C. Daily
Elizabeth J. Wilson and Elias Grove Nielsen
Sally N. Aitken
Don Fullerton
Jon Abbatt
Douglas G. MacMartin and Katharine L. Ricke
Julian Dowdeswell
Edward Burtynsky
Deborah McGregor
Robert E. Kopp
Rosemary Lyster
Neville Nicholls
Sheila Jasanoff
U. Rashid Sumaila and Daniel Pauly
Elsie Sunderland and Charlotte Wagner
Navin Ramankutty and Hannah Wittman
David M. Karl
Roland Geyer
Janet G. Hering
Candis Callison
Alice Gorman
Zoe Craig-Sparrow and Grace Nosek-Sparrow
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