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LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICANA

VATICAN CITY 2020

PONTIFICIAE ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARVM ACTA P

O N T I F I C I A A C A D EM I A SC I E N T I A R V M

Plenary Session

25-29 November 2016

Casina Pio IV

Vatican CitySCIENCE

and SUSTAINABILITY

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Impacts of Scientific Knowledge and Technology

on Human Society and Its Environment

Science and Sustainability.

Impacts of Scientific

Knowledge and Technology

on Human Society and its Environment

The Proceedings of the Plenary Session on

25-29 November 2016

Ponticiae Academiae Scientiarvm Acta 24

Science and Sustainability.

Impacts of Scientific

Knowledge and Technology

on Human Society and its Environment

EX AEDIBVS ACADEMICIS

IN CIVITATE VATICANA MMXX

Edited by

Werner Arber

Joachim von Braun

Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

The Pontical Academy of Sciences

Casina Pio IV, 00120 Vatican City

Tel: +39 0669883195 Fax: +39 0669885218

Email: pas@pas.va Website: www.pas.va

The opinions expressed with absolute freedom during the presentation of the papers of this meeting, although published by the Academy, represent only the points of view of the participants and not those of the Academy.

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PONTIFICIA ACADEMIA SCIENTIARVM

LIBRERIA

EDITRICE VATICANA

VATICAN CITY

The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all. At the global level, it is a complex system linked to many of the essential conditions for human life. A very solid scientic consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system. In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in the sea level and, it would appear, by an increase of extreme weather events, even if a scientically determinable cause cannot be assigned to each par ticular phenomenon. Humanity is called to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming or at least the human causes which pro duce or aggravate it. It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanic activity, variations in the earth"s orbit and axis, the solar cycle), yet a number of scientic studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity. As these gases build up in the atmosphere, they hamper the escape of heat pro duced by sunlight at the earth"s surface. The problem is aggravated by a model of development based on the intensive use of fossil fuels, which is at the heart of the worldwide energy system. An other determining factor has been an increase in changed uses of the soil, principally deforestation for agricultural purposes.

Pope Francis, Encyclical

Laudato Si"

, §23.

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Contents

Address of His Holiness Pope Francis

..................................................... 15

Introduction

.................... 17

Word of Welcome

Werner Arber

.................... 18

Presentation of the Plenary Session

H.E. Msgr. Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

....................................................... 19 P rogramme ......................20

List of Participants

.......... 27 T he Pius XI Medal Award........................................................................ 30

Memory Introspection

Mariano Sigman

............... 32

Self-Presentations

Fran cis L. Delmonico ....... 36

Cédric Villani

................... 36

Salvador E. Moncada

......... 39

Hans Joachim Sc

hellnhuber ...................................................................... 43

Commemorations

Walter Thirring: Physics (Carlo Rubbia) ................................................... 46

Alexander Rich: Biophysics (Werner Arber)

............................................. 48 Charles Townes: Physics (William D. Phillips)............................................ 48 Georges M.M. Cottier: Philosophy (Jean-Michel Maldamé) ...................... 52 .............. 55

Raymond Hide: Geophysics (Martin J. Rees)

............................................ 57

Mambillikalathil

G.K. Menon: Physics (Chintamani N.R. Rao) ................. 59

Long Term Responsibility

Jürgen Mittelstraß

............ 62 The Project for Mankind for a Sustainable Development of the World

Antonino Zichichi

http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/ publications/acta/acta24/zichichi.html

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CONTENTS

NEUROSCIENCES AND SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION SESSION

Stanislas Dehaene

Presentation available at:

http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/ publications/acta/acta24/dehaene.html

Pierre Léna

...................... 69

SPECIAL SESSION

Cosmology on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary

of Msgr. Georges Lemaître"s Death

Martin J. Rees

................... 83

Br. Guy Consolmagno SJ

. 89

Stephen W. Hawking

....... 101

James Peebles

.................. 103

Robbert Dijkgraaf

Presentation available at:

http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/ publications/acta/acta24/dijkgraaf.html

Saul Perlmutter

Presentation available at:

http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/ publications/acta/acta24/perlmutter.html

Lisa Kaltenegger

Presentation available at:

http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/

Thomas Hertog

............... 111

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CONTENTS

Role of Space Technology for Enabling Inter-Generational Equity of Natural Capital and Disaster Resilience: Corollaries of Indian Space Programme

Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan and John Mathew

..................................... 122 Power Scaling Laws in Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Rudolf Muradyan

........... 136

CHEMISTRY SESSION

Atmospheric Chemistry and Sustainability

Mario J. Molina

............. 163

Splitting of Water by Artificial Photosynthesis

Chintamani N.R. Rao and Mohd Monis Ayyub ..................................... 170

BIOLOGY SESSION

Sustainable Cohabitation of Living Organisms

Werner Arber

.................. 189

New Development in Genetic Engineering:

Scientific and Ethical Aspects

Nicole M. Le Douarin

... 192

New Knowledge on the Causes of Human

Birth Defects: Impact on Society

Edward M. De Robertis

.. 197

The Challenges and Chances of Complexity:

Implications for Governance and Ethics

Wolf J. Singer

.................. 203

My Sixty-Six Years of Medical Research

Michael Sela

................... 211 Impacts of Microbial Studies on Human Society and its Environment

Takashi Gojobori

Presentation available at:

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