Over on Oliver Moore’s blog you can read a recent interview which Feasta’s Richard Douthwaite did for the Irish Examiner, in which he discusses farming’s future sustainability. …
peak oil
Public Meeting: How thinking about the climate crisis needs to change
Chaired by Emer O Siochru of Cap-and-Share Ireland
Speakers:
The problems
David Wasdell of the Meridian Programme
The pace at which climate change is already taking place has not been taken into account by politicians, policymakers and even the UN. Many feedback mechanisms have been ignored.
Richard Douthwaite of Feasta
Peak oil and climate change both mean that the use of fossil fuels has to be rationed in some way. Unless this is done, the income gap between those who can afford to use energy and those who can’t will widen considerably. Millions will starve.
The solutions
Peter Barnes of …
‘The Downside of Up’ – A Short FEASTA Course
Tuesdays 25th Sept & 2nd Oct 2007| Cultivate Centre | 7.30-9.30pm | €40 |
A short FEASTA course with David Korowicz on how economic growth eats itself, the environment, and makes society poorer. Explores the idea and operation of the global economy in the context of the wider eco-system in which it is situated. The continuing desire for economic growth, by its nature, will require ever more inputs of materials and energy. At the same time, it generates more and more waste such as greenhouse gasses. Is such an economy sustainable? Does it make us more content? Indeed, what is …
Feasta Energy and Climate Group – Public meeting
Date: Friday, 27th July, 7.30 pm, sharp.
Venue: Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2.
An evening of presentations and discussions on the theme:
climate change, peak oil and global equity
by members of the group.
Members of the group, including those visiting from Britain for the annual meeting at Glencree, presented the latest information on the timing of the peaks in oil, gas and coal production and how this relates to the climate crisis. Other topics included a discussion on whether the EU’s target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees C above the pre-industrial level is …
Climate Change, Oil and Gas Depletion- Paul Mobbs, Brian Davey and Seamus Garvey (chair)
Date: Wednesday 6th June – 7.30pm
Venue: The Mechanics Institute, 3 North Sherwood Street (nr junction with Shakespeare Street), Nottingham, UK.
More Information…
Emissions Rationing and the Oil Price Crisis
This briefing paper examines a way in which the poor in many countries could be protected if, as oil and gas get scarcer, their cost goes higher and higher over the years ahead.
The content of this briefing paper is included below, or download the original document.
This document is an updated version of a November 2005 document. …
