Tim Flannery's Contribution To Society

The earth is facing climate change and the word has no longer positive meaning but negative definition. In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol ratified the agreement about reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to avoid climate change and it seems to formulate the consensus that human activities cause global warming. As Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, adopted the Paris Agreement in the UN Climate Change Conference in 2015, Australia had pledged to contribute substantially to reduce emissions (Jones 2015). In terms of climate change in Australia, Tim Flannery is one of the most eminent scientists. The aim of this essay is to present Tim Flannery’s life, his contribution to society, an aspect of work, controversial issues, and opponents to discover him

One of the remarkable Tim Flannery’s contributions to society is the fact that he raises an awareness of climate change so that people think climate change regards as clime catastrophe. In the book, The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change, Tim Flannery warned carefully and rationally to skeptical people on climate change. These people believe that increase of temperature on the earth is simply natural phenomenon since temperature has not been constant in whole history of the earth. Tim describes that this belief has tended to put the earth severe stage. In accordance with Gaia theory, this planet is an organism to purify by itself, but human being is likely to force it to lead to disaster. Tim explains that humans have been living in glacial epoch that the average temperature is approximately 14 Celsius and even rise of 1 Celsius will bring us anomalous situation (Flannery 2006, p.11). He warns that the temperature change will make difficult environment to survive in the earth. As Tim Flannery has well-informed academic knowledge about zoology and sufficient field experience, especially in Papua New Guinea, he explains wide various

First, the stance on nuclear power and uranium mining has been at the centre of fierce controversy. Tim Flannery stated (Boyd 2006):
The need to act on global warming, the failure of federal leadership on this issue and the distorted economics of the energy market mean Australia should go nuclear: more uranium mining, uranium enrichment, domestic nuclear power and international radioactive waste storage.
In terms of the supporting by Tim, Denise Boyd (2006), who is a campaign director at Australian Conservation Foundation, refutes that his argument will not deliver the cut we need in greenhouse pollution to avoid urgent climate change; in addition, it will cause only big risk compared with leading tiny reward. However, in 2007, Tim rejected a former opinion of nuclear power, reversing his position that nuclear energy could play a vital role in the environment because Australia has a fabulous renewable energy like solar and wind (Frew 2007). Tim still poses a question why Australia sells not uranium, but coal to other countries (Sara 2009). He supports that since Australia has the largest amount of uranium reserves of the world, we have to supply its to countries that do not have access to renewable energy source like Australia does. Professor Robert Manne says that Tim has also aggravated many environmentalists by advocating the use of nuclear energy for some countries (La Torbe University 2015). Currently,