This talk was given at Feasta’s emergency debt conference on Friday 23 September 2011.
David Korowicz is a physicist and human systems ecologist. He is on the executive committee of Feasta and is director of Risk-Resilience, a risk management consultancy specialising in large-scale systemic risk. He is also on the board of Comhar, Ireland’s Sustainable Development Commission. He is the author of Tipping Point: Near-Term Systemic Implications of a Peak in Global Oil Production and a contributor to Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the risks of economic and environmental collapse (Douthwaite & Fallon Eds.).