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David King: Address climate change or risk armed conflict

Nuclear power and genetically modified food have never been popular with traditional environmentalists. But these are necessities of the future, if we as a whole wish to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, according to a leading scientist at the Beyond Kyoto conference
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Professor Sir David King, Director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment [...]

Sir David King: a short biography

Professor Sir David King
Born in Durban, South Africa in 1934
Age:  69
Director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, at the University of Oxford
Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Government
Co-author of the environmental book “The Hot Topic ”

1939 – David King born in Durban, South Africa
1960 – At Johannesburg’s Witwatersrand University he became [...]