On air and online PASSION for the PLANET has a series of interviews with Professor Sir David King. The former Government Chief Scientist shares his views on a variety of issues, including biofuels, GM crops, nuclear power, and world population. Professor Sir David King also talks about his work with the President of Rwanda, helping him empower the people for a more sustainable future. “Passion for the Planet has an important role to play in the most critical period that our civilization has had to face. We have to raise awareness of what we are unwittingly doing to future generations by the wanton use of the planet’s scarce resources.” Professor Sir David King is the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Sir David was the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office of Science from October 2000 to December 2007. In that time, he raised the profile of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the new £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute. In 2008 he co-authored The Hot Topic (Bloomsbury) on this subject and has advised government on issues including the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic of 2001, post-9/11 risks to the UK, GM foods, energy provision, and innovation and wealth creation.