1. MA Sustainable Development Advocacy Programme
Beyond the rhetoric (3D):
Demand Reduction
Decarbonisation
Decentralisation
Richard Davies
Director
2. Telling people to live differently doesn't work. If we are
really to live differently, it will not be as a result of
moralising; it will happen because we want to, and
because we come to reconnect with our environment
and the other living things that make life worthwhile.
As psychologists are increasingly telling us, two
emotions dominate modern life: feelings of emptiness
strongly linked with materialism, and feelings of hope
linked to a belief that we can find better ways to live.
Our dependence on nature extends far beyond our
material wellbeing, and informs our sense of meaning
at the deepest level. This sense of meaning will
provide a motivation for us to change the way we live
– not because we are told that we ought to, but
because we feel that we want to.
Jane Kendall 27th February 2008
21. Question 2:
True or false
Most of the increase in global
temperatures since the mid-20th
century is due to humankind burning
fossil fuels?
22. Question 3: True or false [Don’t know = FALSE]
Most [or all] of the lights in my home are energy efficient?
23. Question 4:
True or false [Don’t know = FALSE]
The electricity supplied to my home is from a green tariff
24. Question 5:
True or false
I know what my personal [or family’s] carbon footprint is?
25. Question 6:
True or false
I answered TRUE to questions 3, 4 & 5 and I’m feeling
smug about having done the 3 very most basic things to
be a part of the solution and carbon literate!!
34. Peak Oil – fields, regions, world
We’ll never “run out” of oil
We’re running out of
cheap, plentiful oil
Oil underpins
industrial development
agriculture
economics
population
About ½ way through it…
It’s going to decline
35. Peak Oil – discovery
before you extract it, you have
to find it
US discovery peaked in 1930s
– production peaked in 1971
UK discovery peaked in 1975
– production peaked in 1999
world discovery peaked in
1960s
– production will peak in 20??
36.
37. quot;Regardless
of which route we
choose, the world's
current predicament
limits our maneuvering
room. We are
experiencing a
step-change in the growth
rate of energy demand
due to population growth
and economic
development, and Shell
estimates that after
2015 supplies of
easy-to-access oil
and gas will no
longer keep
up with
demand.quot;
Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell
28th January 2008
80. “Make no little plans. They
have no magic to stir
men's blood... Make big
plans; aim high in hope
and work.”
Daniel Hudson Burnham
1846-1912
“Search all the parks in all
your cities; you'll find no
statues of committees.”
David Ogilvy
1911-1999
81. ‘Never doubt
that a small
group of
thoughtful,
committed
citizens can
change the
world.
Indeed, it is
the only
thing that
ever has.’
82. ‘If future generations
are to remember us
more with gratitude
than contempt, we
must leave them
more than the
miracles of
technology. We must
leave them a glimpse
of the world as it was
in the beginning, not
just after we got
through with it.’
Lyndon B. Johnson
