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Roger Scruton

Pasture to Plate®: How to Think Seriously about the Planet SOLD OUT

Roger Scruton

Saturday, 30 March 2019

5:00pm

1 hour

Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room

£7 - £12.50

Philosopher Sir Roger Scruton rejects the traditional view that top-down intervention is the way to deal with environmental problems and argues for an approach based on local actions.

In his recent books How to Think seriously about the Planet and Green Philosophy, Scruton argues that conservatism is a better philosophy to tackle environmental issues than liberalism or socialism. He says the environment is the greatest political problem facing the modern age but the answer lies in people taking personal responsibility for their environment at a local level rather than in looking at the bigger picture. One of those ways is by taking greater responsibility about the way we produce and consume food.

Scruton is a well-known conservative thinker and polemicist and author of more than 40 books. His works include England: An Elegy, The Soul of the World, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left, and Where We Are: The State of Britain Now.

This event is part of a series under the banner Pasture to Plate® that look at the environmental and health benefits of raising food on pasture and getting it to the consumer quickly through a short supply chain.

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Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 Goldmoney Properties Felicity Bryan Associates Voltaire Foundation Confucius Institute Critchleys Accountants to the festival Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Oxford Business College Where learning meets opportunity: education partners of the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Sotheby’s Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Embassy of the Dominican Republic Embassy of the Dominican Republic Iberia British Airways elBullifoundation Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Oxford Mathematics Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK University of Oxford The Telegraph Festival media partner Other donors Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture David Isaac Ian and Carol Sellars Martin and Elise Becket Smith Tim and Marion Stevenson Miles Young Jim Mellon Pusey House Founded 1884 Harris Manchester College Harris Manchester College founded 1893 Reuben College Reuben College founded in 2019 Brasenose College Brasenose College founded in 1512 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Lincoln College Lincoln College founded 1427 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 New College New College founded 1379 Yale University Press London The Oxford Times Windrush Group Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership CAV Oxford Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies The Sheldonian Theatre University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Paul Bloomfield Ltd Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design MACROVegan Human Ecology Project New Dutch Writing Conference Oxford BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner OX magazine Ox in a Box