NYT journalist Revkin visits NCKU to talk about the invisible ax - Noodls
Tainan, Taiwan, Dec. 3, 2012
"We're live in the world now that is so linked, where we don't often know the relationship between the reactions that we have, particular in industrialized countries or industrializing countries and the impacts that our choices have somewhere else,"
according to Andrew C. Revkin who tried to paraphrase "the invisible ax" to the students at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, Nov. 30.
Andrew C. Revkin, the journalist with New York Times and Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University, was invited by NCKU to deliver a speech on An Invisible Ax - Transnational Cooperation's Slashing at Amazonia to reveal the numerous invisible linkages of consequences of human acts and help young people to decode the messages behind the environmental problems at out times.
Revkin referring himself as a man who has been on a journey trying to understand the planet and humanity relationship with that for more than 30 years as a journalists, provided the audience with his suggestions to employ the power of the community to force the transparency to make the world a better place.
By 2050 or so, the human population is expected to reach 9 billion and those billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where humans are already shaping climate and the web of life, according to Revkin.
Concerning the overpopulation in the coming future, Revkin revealed that there are 1 billion humans on earth in 1800 but in 2012, more than 1 billion teenagers sharing the resources of the planet, and "the fate of the 1 billion teenagers are determined by education and technology."
One of the students asked that how teenagers deal with the concern over the environmental issues, Revkin responded, "make sure you understand the root of the question and get to the core if you see the issues with a more extended spectrum."
Revkin advised the young people, "think globally few hourly a week, reflecting on what you're doing and oversaw things in a greater scale."
"It's been an amazing journey travel around the world, and you all should get to the weird places when you're young like 20ish," added Revkin.
Andrew C. Revkin has written on a wide range of subjects including destruction of the Amazon rain forest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, science and politics, climate change, and the North Pole.
A reporter for the New York Times from 1995-2009, Revkin currently writes the "Dot Earth" environmental blog for The Times' Op-Ed section.
He is also senior fellow at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies at Pace University, as well as a songwriter and musician.
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"We're live in the world now that is so linked, where we don't often know the relationship between the reactions that we have, particular in industrialized countries or industrializing countries and the impacts that our choices have somewhere else,"
according to Andrew C. Revkin who tried to paraphrase "the invisible ax" to the students at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, Nov. 30.
Andrew C. Revkin, the journalist with New York Times and Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University, was invited by NCKU to deliver a speech on An Invisible Ax - Transnational Cooperation's Slashing at Amazonia to reveal the numerous invisible linkages of consequences of human acts and help young people to decode the messages behind the environmental problems at out times.
Revkin referring himself as a man who has been on a journey trying to understand the planet and humanity relationship with that for more than 30 years as a journalists, provided the audience with his suggestions to employ the power of the community to force the transparency to make the world a better place.
By 2050 or so, the human population is expected to reach 9 billion and those billions will be seeking food, water and other resources on a planet where humans are already shaping climate and the web of life, according to Revkin.
Concerning the overpopulation in the coming future, Revkin revealed that there are 1 billion humans on earth in 1800 but in 2012, more than 1 billion teenagers sharing the resources of the planet, and "the fate of the 1 billion teenagers are determined by education and technology."
One of the students asked that how teenagers deal with the concern over the environmental issues, Revkin responded, "make sure you understand the root of the question and get to the core if you see the issues with a more extended spectrum."
Revkin advised the young people, "think globally few hourly a week, reflecting on what you're doing and oversaw things in a greater scale."
"It's been an amazing journey travel around the world, and you all should get to the weird places when you're young like 20ish," added Revkin.
Andrew C. Revkin has written on a wide range of subjects including destruction of the Amazon rain forest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, science and politics, climate change, and the North Pole.
A reporter for the New York Times from 1995-2009, Revkin currently writes the "Dot Earth" environmental blog for The Times' Op-Ed section.
He is also senior fellow at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies at Pace University, as well as a songwriter and musician.
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