5x15 And Keystone Present: Tim Smedley And Alok Jha On Six Ideas To Change The World: Water
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The Six Ideas to Change the World series, in partnership with Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust, continues in June with Tim Smedley and Alok Jha on Water.

Water scarcity is an urgent problem. While some of the world's water crisis can be attributed to changes wrought by climate change, like droughts and floods, there is also a long history of human mismanagement. What can we learn from past mistakes, and how will those lessons inform the future?

In his new book The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis, the award-winning environmental journalist Tim Smedley offers a timely and ultimately optimistic account of the global situation. In this "smart, sobering and scholarly" book, Smedley argues that there are many solutions, from regenerative agriculture and desalination, to water-footprint labelling for consumers.

Join us to hear an inspiring and in-depth discussion of the actions we must take to better use and manage the world's water supply. Tim Smedley will be in conversation with Alok Jha, science and technology editor at The Economist and author of The Water Book.

Speakers

Tim Smedley is an award-winning environmental journalist who has written extensively for The Guardian, the BBC, The Sunday Times and the Financial Times. His first book, Clearing the Air, about the global effects of air pollution, published in March 2019, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. Photo Credit: George Torode.

Alok Jha is the science and technology editor at The Economist, writing on everything from cosmology to particle physics and stem cells to climate change. He has also written and presented multiple TV and radio documentary series for the BBC. In 2018, he spent a year as a Wellcome fellow, developing new storytelling formats for complex topics. He has reported from all over the world, including live from Antarctica, and is also the author of three popular science books, including The Water Book (Headline, 2015).

Six Ideas to Change the World

We are at a critical point in the global response to climate change, and the conversation around the central issues remains complex. Amidst numerous debates and conflicting narratives, public discourse runs the risk of information overload, at a time when urgent action is necessary, at both an individual and collective level. This curated series of live online events, in partnership with Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust, offers a clearer path, spotlighting the most compelling, important and hard-hitting work being published about the environment today — the six ideas that will shape the future of our planet.

Tune in each month to hear stories and ideas we can all learn from. Whether it’s advice on changing diets, or solutions to the world’s water crisis, these conversations will suggest a blueprint for what we must do in the years ahead. Each event will feature the author of a recent work, in conversation with an expert host about the most important issues and takeaways. Audiences will also have the chance to submit questions. The recording of May's event on Food, with Henry Dimbleby and Tim Spector, is available to view here.

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