The Schad Gallery at the ROM is a tribute to the richness of ecological life on earth. But the Gallery is more than that. It’s a reminder of how human behaviour threatens the very survival of the earth’s diverse and delicate eco-system. How do we protect and nurture the thousands of species under constant threat?

The ROM has brought together three innovative thinkers on the environment - a scholar, journalist and head of an economic think tank - to discuss and debate, not whether climate change is affecting the environment, but the best ways and policies to protect the earth.

Mark Kingwell PhD DFA
Moderator
Professor of Philisophy, Trinity College, University of Toronto

Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thomas Homer-Dixon holds the Centre for International Governance Innovation Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. Tad’s recent bestselling books include The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization and The Ingenuity Gap. Currently, his research focuses on threats to global security in the 21st century and on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological, and technological change.

Terry Anderson
Terry Anderson is the executive director of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), a think-tank focusing on market solutions to environmental problems located in Bozeman, Montana. A Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and professor emeritus at Montana State University, his work has helped launch the idea of free market environmentalism and has prompted public debate over the balance between markets and government in managing natural resources.

Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Easterbrook is an American journalist and author who writes about politics, society, and the environment and. He is a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a columnist for ESPN.com. Easterbrook has written a number of books including the New York Times best-seller, A Moment in Time: The coming age of environmental optimism. His most recent book is The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse published by Random House in 2004.