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Surviving Climate Change: Producing Less and Enjoying it More |
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The effects of climate change, peak oil and toxic production are here. We know it every time we see news of weather disasters and disappearing species. We feel it every time we buy gas. We hear it every time a child uses an asthma inhaler.
Solutions are here, also. But meaningful changes are being stubbornly ignored by government, big business and big enviro:
A genuine effort at reducing greenhouse gases would require food to be grown within 100 miles of where it is eaten.
A serious climate change program would stop funding the 800 military bases which ensure a continuous flow of oil to the US.
The most energy efficient homes are homes that have no heating system at all.
The most energy efficient cars are those that are replaced by trains, buses, bicycles or feet.
But how do we create a society without individual cars and the expanding mountains of garbage that are the real causes of environmental catastrophe? How do we reduce production without worsening the lives of low income Americans and the poor throughout the world? Is the production of luxury, waste, plastic food and unnecessary transport and construction so monstrously large that eliminating it could actually allow for an increase in necessities and a 30 hour work week?
On June 27-29, 2008, we will meet in at Webster University [470 E. Lockwood Ave.] St. Louis to discuss remaking American society. The focus will be on developing solutions, rather than repeating the problems we all know exist. We will seek solutions that alter the structure of US society rather than personal lifestyle changes.
The meeting will be organized as a roundtable [rather than a conference]. We assume that many participants will have as much to contribute as speakers. Panels will have as much time for discussion as presentations.
Sponsored by Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought and the Webster University Department of History, Politics and International Relations.
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June 27-28, 2008 |
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Surving Climate Change website |
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