Transcript James Freund

Only within the moment of time
represented by the present century
has one species— man— acquired
significant power to alter the nature
of his world.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
1962
• Adopt specific energy efficiency measures
(49% of emissions savings).
• Limit the construction and use of the leastefficient coal-fired power plants (21%).
• Minimise methane (CH4) emissions from
upstream oil and gas production (18%).
• Accelerate the (partial) phase-out of subsidies
to fossil-fuel consumption (12%).
‘Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map’
International Energy Agency
World Energy Outlook Special Report, June 2013
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Share more.
Create community.
Shrink the financial industry.
Reduce economic inequality.
Stabilize and reduce population levels through
family planning.
Decentralize food and energy systems.
Build resilience throughout society.
Replace GDP with an economic indicator that
measures quality of life and environmental
integrity.
Worker ownership of organizations.
Richard Heinberg
MuseLetter #253, June 2013 and 2013 BCEA Keynote
How come people are
working on something
else (fiddling while
the ice melts)?
academics […] have a special
obligation because they have more
freedom than those in government
service or company employees
subject to commercial pressure.
Martin Rees
Ethics
Cosmology
Religious
Studies
Psychology
Organization
Studies
Ecology
History
Economics
It’s not too late
to decarbonise.
One clear goal –
a Citizen’s Carbon Income
(Or is there a better plan?)