EVENT: Friends of the Library talk

The 21st Century poses the greatest challenges and opportunities ever faced by humankind. The last 50 years have seen unprecedented growth in science and technology and consequent problems of resource depletion, pollution, climate change and weapons of mass destruction. We humans have finally achieved dominion over the world but have we achieved it over ourselves? The next 50 years will provide the answer. How we harness science and technology, how we work within a globalised world and how we reform values and worldviews compatible with the power that we now have will be crucial not just to human wellbeing but to planetary futures perhaps for millennia. Our personal lives and even more the lives of our children and grandchildren are in the balance. What weight shall we put on these lives?