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Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life
July 6, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT
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Join Dr. Saleem Ali for this dynamic PeaceConnect conversation based off his newly released book of the same title. Here is the discount purchase link below to buy the book. All royalties will be donated for environmental literacy program: Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life (Oxford Univ. Press). This 90-minute conversation event will be on July 6th, 2022, at 1o:00 am EDT (UTC -4). Please use the Time Zone Converter to determine when this engaging conversation will be in your time zone.
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Speaker Bio
Dr. Saleem H. Ali was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts but grew up in Lahore, Pakistan until his college years, receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Tufts University, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in environmental policy and planning at Yale and MIT, respectively. He currently holds the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professorship in Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware (USA) and is Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (Australia). Dr. Ali’s laurels include being a National Geographic Explorer (having travelled for research to over 150 countries); being chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and serving on the seven-member science panel of the Global Environment Facility (the world’s largest multilateral trust fund for the environment held in trusteeship by the World Bank). His earlier books include Treasures of the Earth: Need Greed and a Sustainable Future which was hailed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as providing “a welcome linkage between environmental behavior and poverty alleviation.” Professor Ali was profiled in Forbes as “The Alchemist” and Bookseller called his earlier work “a pioneering exploration of human wants and needs and the natural resources we consume.” He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Geographical Society in the United Kingdom and also serves on the boards of Adventure Scientists and Mediators Beyond Borders International. Along with his wife Maria and sons Shahmir and Shahroze, the family are citizens of Australia, Pakistan and the United States.