Scientists and Intellectuals Say Reduce Global Warming or Face Ruin

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

CLIMATE - 2009-05-28 - St. James Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium"Climate risk avoidance, energy security, sustainable land use, population growth and equitable economic development constitute a key set of interacting challenges for humankind in the 21st century," stated 20 Nobel prize-winning scientists, economists and writers -- including U.S. physicist and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu -- along with 40 other prominent intellectuals in an "Action for a Low Carbon and Equitable Future" memorandum from the St. James's Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium convened under the patronage of the Prince of Wales by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, citing powerful scientific evidence of the need to "confine the temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) to avoid unmanageable climate risks." A London Times article that contains a short video is available here - http://bit.ly/xg2uB . A copy of the memorandum can be found at this link - http://bit.ly/oLcVM .

H. Pike Oliver

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike worked for public agencies, including the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research, where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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