Master Naturalist Ann Owen wrote: Renowned paleoanthropologist and environmentalist Richard Leakey, who is credited with some of the most significant fossil discoveries in history, impressed Central Arkansas Master Naturalists during his lectures at UALR on October 8, 2008.
Speaking on The Origins of Man in the morning and Climate Change and the Future of Life on Earth in the afternoon, Leakey said that we are dangerously reducing biodiversity and damaging eco-systems through agriculture and human activity.
He believes that we are facing the need for wholesale lifestyle changes and tremendous humanitarian efforts because of the catastrophic impact that climate change will have on many areas of the world.
For those of you who didn’t have an opportunity to see the two lectures presented by Richard Leakey, you have another opportunity next week.
UALR University Television (Comcast Cable channel 62) will broadcast “Climate Change and the Future of Life on Earth” on Monday, October 20th at 7:30 p.m. The lecture Richard Leakey presented to students discussing the origins of man will air on Tuesday, October 21st at 8 p.m.
Because of copyright restrictions, University Television will broadcast these lectures only once.
AETN will host a talk show that was taped during his LR visit. It premieres on AETN on Friday, Dec 19th at 6:30 pm and will air again Thursday, Dec 25, at 6:30 pm.
