In this event we discussed the impact of climate change in the past and lessons for our time.

The Paris Agreement aims to keep the global temperature rise since pre-industrial times to well below two degrees. But what do seemingly small temperature changes really mean for the world?

We heard from authors Professor Geoffrey Parker (Global crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century) and Professor Kyle Harper (The fate of Rome: climate, disease and the end of an empire). They provided insights into past impacts on human society, and what they tell us about our current response to the climate crisis.