Dr. Wilson was part of the core team of scientists at the "planetary emergencies" conference in Sicily last month. The interview was by Andrew Revkin from the dotearth blog at the nyt.
To date the World Federation of Scientists has established the following Permanent Monitoring Panels and Working Groups:
- Biotechnology
- Brain and Behaviour
- Climatology
- Defence Against Cosmic Objects
- Desertification
- Energy: www.energypmp.org
- Floods and Extreme Weather Events
- Information Security: www.itis-ev.de/infosecur/
- Limits of Development
- Missile Proliferation
- Mother & Child
- Pollution
- Motivations for Terrorism
- Mitigation of Terrorist Acts
- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
- Water
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