Following last week’s launch of AIT’s new Centre of Excellence
on Sustainable Development in the Context of Climate Change, AIT
President Said Irandoust has just published an opinion article in
Thailand’s
The Nation newspaper.
President Irandoust’s article titled “Tough talk needed as
doomsday climate clock nears its high noon” illustrates the threat
to the world by drawing a parallel between the doomsday
clock model used at the height of cold war and the looming climate
change crisis of today.
“Clearly the industrialization of the world based on the current
model is ecologically impossible,” he says as he makes the case
for a planetary paradigm shift in thinking away from today’s
carbon-based world to a new green, eco-friendly era. The
well-being of the planet and those who inhabit it should be our
paramount concern at this time of environmental crisis, and
especially so as the world comes together at Copenhagen, Denmark
in December for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) to work for a new global agreement on climate change, he
says.
President Irandoust’s article published today (September 28)
also coincided with the opening of the eight-day climate change
talks taking place in Bangkok.
