The Vulnerability of Man

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

In this exclusive interview series, we talk to Jaan Tallinn (Co-Founder of Skype and Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk), Professor Sir John Beddington (Senior Advisor, Oxford Martin School & the UK Government’s former Chief Scientific Adviser) and Sir Crispin Tickell (former diplomat and advisor to successive UK…

19-10-2023 12:16:44

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

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Hunger

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

In this exclusive series of interviews, we speak to Ertharin Cousin (Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme), Prof. Jeffrey Sachs (Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University) and Carlos Pérez del Castillo (Chair of the Board of the CGIAR Consortium). We look at the true scale…

19-10-2023 12:17:10

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Thought Economics

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Protecting the Rights of Planet Earth

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

In this interview we talk to Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace. We discuss, in detail, the profound issues affecting our earth, including energy and climate change, food security, oceans, forests, international trade, economics, the structure of society, technology and more.

19-10-2023 12:17:22

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

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Economic Dependencies and Disasters

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

On March 11, 2011 at 05:46 UTC, Japan was hit with a Magnitude 9.0 Mega-Quake (the fourth largest earthquake ever recorded) . To put the size of this quake in perspective, it was 8,000 times more powerful than the one which devastated Christchurch (New Zealand) in February 2011, and around…

19-10-2023 12:17:25

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL

Thought Economics

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