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The Values Platform for Sustainability
Inaugural Lecture
Wednesday, 14 November 2001, at The Royal Institution
With Sir Geoffrey Chandler, CBE, Trustee, The Environment Foundation, in the Chair

Professor Richard Dawkins, FRS
Charles Simonyi Professor Of The Public Understanding Of Science, University Of Oxford

Sustainability Doesn’t Come Naturally: A Darwinian Perspective on Values:

"We are enormously grateful to Professor Dawkins for his admirable lecture and generously thoughtful responses to the questions. I am particularly grateful for his confession that he is passionately anti-Darwinian in the context of what we are trying to do. It gives the Foundation courage in our values programme. This is the beginning of a dialogue and not the end of it. Over the next five years, you will be invited to participate in a series of values assessments. We aim to show how our values change through the use of our thankfully large brains during this period."
Sir Geoffrey Chandler

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