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= Stuart Scott = Stuart Herbert Scott (stʊrt hɝbɚt skɑt; born 7th December 1948) is an eco-social strategist, educator and innovator of climate and sustainability initiatives. He is the Executive director of The Union of Concerned Citizens, the signatories of the second scientists warning to humanity. He founded United Planet Faith & Science Initiative (UPFSI.org) in January 2012. This initiative aims to bring together two of the most powerful forces in society today, Science and Faith (religion).

Early life
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Career
After obtaining a Masters in Computer and Information Science (CIS), he worked at IBM Corporation as a Senior Associate Programmer/Analyst on a project to rewrite the American air traffic control system. He correctly predicted the failure of the project due to an untenable architecture for the proposed software. IBM's Federal Services Division, responsible for the project, was subsequently sold to a French company.

He then worked for Verifone for until 2000, when he moved into education, first at the middle-school and high-school levels, then at the college and university level. In 2007, Stuart 'quit his day job' to move away from the financially-remunerated, employment-based paradigm of a 'conventional career' to a non-remunerated career based upon service to humanity and life on Earth. His main goal in this transition was to help restore ecological balance by strategically leveraging social, economic, academic, diplomatic, media as well as nation and transnational government institutions.

In this unconventional career of service, he started to focus on educational and action-oriented interventions, and got involved with the UN-sponsored climate negotiations conducted under the UNFCCC, in order to create the shifts required for sustainable human habitation of the Earth, and the survival of humanity in the 21st century.

The developmental steps in his 'career of service' in chronological order are as follows:

- Writing the Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change (InterfaithDeclaration.org), which attracted the attention of the UNFCCC.

- Producing press conferences and the 'zero budget' TV programs at the climate negotiations under the branding label of ClimateMatters.TV, subsequently renamed ScientistsWarning.TV.

- Founding of the United Planet Faith & Science Initiative (UPFSI.org) in 2012, an initiative aiming to bring together two of the most powerful forces in society today, Science and Faith (religion) in their consensus on the urgency of adequately addressing the existential threats of abrupt climate change, biodiversity loss, and other threats to the biosphere.

- Founding and directing the outreach arm of the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity (ScientistsWarning.org) (from June 2018)

Stuart has also made hundreds of presentations worldwide since 2007 on the climate and ecological crises that humanity has created.

Activism
Stuart Scott believes that drastic action coupled with strong political will is needed to combat global warming.

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Published works
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Monbiot's first book was Poisoned Arrows (1989), which is about what he called the "devastating effects" of the partially World Bank-funded transmigration program on the peoples and tribes of West Papua, a nation annexed by Indonesia. It was followed by...

Personal life
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Honours / awards
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