13 January 2009

Tonight, Hunter will team with Oliver Tickell, and Adam Werbach to debate Bjorn Lomborg, Peter Huber, and Phillip Stott. Her opponents will argue that it is not worth paying significant sums to protect the climate. Hunter’s team will present the basic climate science, and the business case for investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy. Hunter will argue that these measures are the basis for lifting the economy out of its collapse, regardless of whether you care about the climate.

If you are in New York City tonight, come join Hunter and the team at Symphony Space, 95th and Broadway. The debate, a spotlight event by Intellegence2: The U.S. Forum for Live Debate, will begin at 6:45 p.m. and end at 8:30 p.m. Doors open at 6p and tickets are $40. For those of you living elsewhere, the debate will be broadcast on British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) World News on 7-8 March 2009, and on National Public Radio stations at various times following the TV debut.


Hunter’s team is a strong one. Oliver Tickell’s recent book, Kyoto2, offers an international framework for the control of greenhouse gases that is effective, efficient, and equitable. As a 20-year journalist covering environmental issues, Tickell has written for numerous newspapers and magazines. Adding punch to Hunter’s and Tickwell’s arguments is Adam Werbach, global chief executive officer at Saatchi & Saatchi S, the world’s largest sustainability agency. Werbach, the youngest president ever of the Sierra Club, founded Act Now, to engage the corporate and media world in social, environmental, cultural, and economic change. Werbach also serves on the Advisory Board for the National Academy of Sciences’ Climate Change Communications.

Claiming that carbon emissions are not worth the money is Peter Huber, a lawyer and fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Bjorn Lomborg, author of Cool It and The Skeptical Environmentalist, and an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and Philip Stott, a biogeographer from the University of London who seeks to “deconstruct” environmental issues.

John Donvan, a correspondent for ABC News Nightline, will moderate the debate, and invite the participants to “mix it up.” Hunter is looking forward to that part.

If you are available tonight in NY, come join us, or tune in in March to catch the latest in Hunter’s adventures.

Best wishes,
Jeff Hohensee, CEO
Natural Capitalism Solutions