William Tyler
Synopses for JW3 zoom lecture this week, 16th July
Morning: PINK ICE, BEAVERS, & DOMINIC CUMMINGS
Recap: What is Global Warming?
Recap: Overview of the consequences of Global Warning
Global Warning in The Arctic
Additional problem: Methane
Flooding Revisited: Coastal and Inland
Temperature increases
Plastics and Population Growth
Political Aspects
The Future: Hope or Hopelessness? 'You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she will still hurry back', Horace
Afternoon: Berlin Reunified
The process of legal reunification
Mrs Thatcher objects
The economic results of reunification
The social results of reunification
The political results of reunification
Berlin the old/new capital
Berlin and the binding together of two very dissimilar communities
Is the new Berlin more reminiscent of Weimar Berlin than either East Berlin or West Berlin ?
We end inevitably with questions, for history never ends and the present is but the starting point for the future. Where now for the reunified Germany and Berlin in the light of Brexit and increased American isolationism? Does the European fear of the re-emergence of an overmighty Germany misjudge the new Germany? Does a belief in the democratic new Germany, as one of us, blind us to political forces stirring within?