Peter Barnes

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 …

2007 Feasta Annual Lecture: Who Owns The Sky? – Peter Barnes

The 2007 speaker was successful US social entrepreneur and author Peter Barnes. Peter's work explores how a "cap and rebate" system is our best bet for an ethical and economic framework to stabilise the climate. His previous career has ranged from setting up one of the first solar energy companies in California to pioneering the use of charity credit cards and ethical phone services at www.workingassets.com.

‘Bringing about Change’ – seminar with Peter Barnes and Mark Garavan

How can the political-economic regime be reformed to ensure that the environment and future generations are effectively represented? And what can we do to bring about the needed changes?

Feasta Seminar 13 November 2007, 11am-2pm

Venue : ENFO, 17 St. Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2.

Peter Barnes, author of Capitalism 3.0 and the 2007 Feasta lecturer

Mark Garavan, lecturer at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and author of A democracy for an ecological age in the Feasta Review issue ‘Growth the Celtic Cancer’

Introduced and moderated by Senator Deirdre de Burca

Format :

Peter and Mark summarised their main ideas. …