CLIMATE CRISIS LECTURE

An online lecture will be given by the Very Revd Gregory Dunstan on Monday 1 November 2021 at 7.30pm. Titled, ‘To Care for the Earth - Reflections from the Enlightenment at Armagh Robinson Library’, it is being held to mark the forthcoming COP26 Conference in Glasgow.

In climate change, environmental degradation and species extinction, the contemporary world faces an existential crisis. The roots of the crisis lie in the misapplication, all too often, of the science and technology whose origins are in that movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries broadly known as the enlightenment. The lecture will reflect on those early achievements of science and technology, in the light of the challenges of the present, with examples from the collections of Armagh Robinson Library.

Until October 2020, Gregory Dunstan was Dean of Armagh and Keeper of Armagh Robinson Library. Born in England, his first degree was in geography.
Before his ordination in 1990, he was a landscape architect, working in Dublin. 

 Looking ahead to the lecture, Gregory said, “COP26 is potentially a pivotal moment in the history of humanity. It is now very widely realised that the world as we have made it faces an existential threat, and that the gathering of world leaders in Glasgow needs to be the moment at which the nations unite to address it. Time is short, but not exhausted. The meeting is the focus of public interest around the world, and science and technology offer possibilities of hope. Humanity’s current impact on the earth is however, unsustainable, and we need to act urgently. Reflecting on where we began cannot offer solutions, but may suggest perspectives and encouragement as we remember from where we have come.”

To register for the lecture, please go the Library’s Arts Ticket site at
https://armagh-robinson-library.arttickets.org.uk/
or e-mail the Library at admin@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk

Tickets are free with donations to the Library welcome.
Please contact Carol Conlin at Armagh Robinson Library, Tel. 028 37523142