PUBLIC LECTURE: The End of Growth
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Richard Heinberg, a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, will deliver a public lecture exploring the close link between the resource/environment and the social/economic components of the present global turmoil.
Richard argues that continuous growth of either population or GDP is impossible in a finite world, with both these drivers of unsustainability having now run up against nature’s biophysical limits. While the conventional wisdom is that we must get ‘the economy’ growing again, Heinberg shows that not only is this the wrong strategy, it is actually making the situation worse.
Nature—according to Richard—is now forcing humanity to a transition, one that is as profound as the transition from gatherer/hunter to settled agriculturalist 10,000 years ago.
Richard is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. His latest book, The End of Growth, follows nine others that deal with declining resources, particularly oil. His books have been translated into eight languages. Richard is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education (2006). He has appeared in a number of documentaries, the most recent being Earth 2100 (2009)
Speaker(s) |
Richard Heinberg
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Location |
Wesfarmers Lecture Theatre, UWA Business School
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Contact |
Peter Strachan
<[email protected]>
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Start |
Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:00
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End |
Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:00
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Submitted by |
Harpreet Kaur <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:59
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