Alun SaltTweets from the public lecture: Professor Peter H. Raven The world of plants
And finally the public lecture for Tuesday evening. Before that starts, there’s an invite from AoB Blog to everyone tweeting at the conference.
| “ | Hi IBC Twitterers: fancy anon-virtual meeting? Would Thursday 8pm after Peter Bernhardt’s talk be ok? AoBBlog.com has a small budget. #ibc18 | |||
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Photo by Missouri Botanical Garden on flickr
| “ | #ibc18. Public Lecture. Peter Raven: the world of plants – how much can we save? | |||
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| “ | Peter Raven didn’t take up my suggestion to rename talk as ‘A [not The] World of Plants’ in due respect to other planets with plants. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Raven starts with pictures of plant diversity. Notes Only 400 generations since start of agriculture http://t.co/6SjNycx | |||
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| “ | Scary thought… RT @Pathh1: PPNotes Only 400 generations since start of agriculture http://t.co/6SjNycx #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Raven: World population is unlike any problem we’ve had in the past. You are an "idiot" if you think otherwise, says Peter. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Public Lecture. Peter Raven hurling a torrent of factoids on global human population growth and pressure. Short story? #toomanypeople | |||
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| “ | Raven: UK footprint far bigger than ‘biocapacity’ (opposite for Australia but trending towards UK). Not sure where I should be? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Raven: shoutout for biocapacity ecological footprint: http://www.footprintnetwork.org PR’s on council http://bit.ly/pyCq3n #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Peter Raven: humans already consuming at a rate 1.5 times what the planet can produce. #youarenotcheeringmeuppeter 🙁 | |||
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| “ | Raven: unjust and unwise for world to not allow every child reach their potential. And now to plants #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | had stick, now the carrot? MT @TimEntwisle: Raven: unjust, unwise for world to not allow every child reach potential. now to plants #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Pretty gruesome carrot so far. RT @Jim_Croft: had stick, now the carrot? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Raven How many plant species? 375,000 valid species names with more than 75,000 still to be named, most already in herbaria. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Raven: Plant extinction rates: 10/yr for last 65 million yrs, last 500 yrs 100/yr, now 1000/yr ; may climb to 10,000 extinctions/yr. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Peter Raven now onto climate change factoid torrent. 🙁 #makethatabottleofsinglemalt | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Peter Raven outining the impact of climate change on agriculture and plants. #makethatacrateofsinglemalt 🙁 | |||
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| “ | Raven: And now the animals. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Peter Raven now on to alien invasive species… #justgetsbetterandbetter 🙁 | |||
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| “ | Raven showing cane toads & rabbit damage as dangers of alien invasives. But they’re so cute #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Raven: 19 of 20 species in a chopped down Brazilian forest not known to science. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Referring to insects & bacteria here: RT @TimEntwisle: Raven: 19 of 20 species in chopped down Brazilian forest not known to science. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Raven: But it will all be OK. You can relax @Jim_Croft. No #singlemalt for you, we have plant list plus. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Agree with Peter Raven that we must, and can, teach our children well. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Raven: we can know and learn stuff about plant biodiversity. and teach it. #atlastsomegoodnews 🙂 | |||
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| “ | Raven says learn, teach, act… #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Peter Raven now talking on individual behaviour modification towards sustainability. Quoting Gandhi on need and greed. | |||
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| “ | Off to consume 🙁 #ibc18 | |||
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And that brings an end to the Tuesday tweets for #IBC18. As always you can follow the #IBC18 hashtag or follow @IBC11 on twitter.
