climate reform2
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Climate refer; the need to reform out society in response to climate change. Promoting technocracy for a sustainable society.TRANSCRIPT
Dr. Andrew Wallace PhD
Climate change / global warmingThe evidence forThe reasons why
What can we do about it?Fixing the facadeBuilding a sustainable society
Scientist and engineerElectrical and Electronic engineeringRobotics and Applied AI
SocietyWhere are we going?Can we do this a better way?
Network of European Technocrats
The North WestPassage
Linked to rising CO2Human activity
“most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations”
IPCC
It’s a natural process, the Earth is warming up anyway.The Earth cooled in the early 20th cent
leading to “global cooling” in the 1970s.Accuracy of the data
Urban areas NASA’s corrections
Suns activityOther planets are warming up as well
Dust cloudsPluto undergoing the most changesUlysses star dust storm
Global warming / climate change is a reality
Most likely human causedThe way we do things causes the warming
Might have another causeHuman activity contributing to a natural
event
We have to live with the change!
Extreme weatherDroughts, heaver rain, more erosion, worse
storms Sea level rising Local cooling
thermohaline circulation Political / social problems
Wars, people movement
Most efforts assume we have caused global warming
They centre around reducing C02Keeping things running as they are!
Kyoto Protocol Energy conservation Alternative energy sources Taxation New technologies
Kyoto Protocol 1990 - 2004EU down 5%US up 16%China up 47% India up 55%Only Sweden and UK on target
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Energy conservationEnergy saving devices
A compact fluorescent lamp can save 2000 times their own weight in greenhouse gases
Fuel economy targets Since the 1970s SUVs
Change in work practice Teleworking
Economic growth
Alternative energy sourcesWindSolarNuclear
There is a gloomy forecast too on renewable energy - that the [UK] government will fail to meet its targets in both 2010 and 2015. [BBC New 23 August 2007]
Bio-fuels
Road transport in the UK consumes 37.6m tonnes of petroleum products a year. The most productive oil crop that can be grown in this country is rape. The average yield is 3-3.5 tonnes per hectare. One tonne of rapeseed produces 415kg of biodiesel. So every hectare of arable land could provide 1.45 tonnes of transport fuel.
To run our cars and buses and lorries on biodiesel, in other words, would require 25.9m hectares. There are 5.7m in the UK. Even the EU's more modest target of 20% by 2020 would consume almost all our cropland. [George Monbiot, Guardian, 22 Nov 2004]
Economic Growth
TaxationReduce those activities that produce
the most CO2 Increase those activities that produce
least CO2 Economic growth
New technologiesGratzel solar cellsThin film solar cellsHydrogen fuelMore on the way ...
Better to work with what we know?
What might happenBest case
New technologies and energy conservation will save the dayWe maintain economic growthGo to Skåne for the sun and the sandAll live happily ever after
What might happenWorse case
With hardship and mass migrations will come epidemics, which are likely to kill millions. By 2100, [Dr. James] Lovelock believes, the Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million [“The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock”. Jeff Goodell 17 Oct 2007]
Rapid environmental change is all around us. The most obvious example is climate change ... But that is not the only threat. Many other clouds are on the horizon, including water shortages, degraded land and the loss of biodiversity. This assault on the global environment risks undermining the many advances human society has made in recent decades. It is undercutting our fight against poverty. It could even come to jeopardize international peace and security. [Geo-4. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General UN]
Climate change is a reality It is unlikely that in our current mode
of operation we will be able to avoid the consequences of climate change
We need to reform what we do and the way we do it Minimise our impact on the environment Live with the changes that will most likely
occur Reduce, reuse, recycle
What about an alternative? This is not to suggest, however, that
Lovelock believes we should just party while the world burns. Quite the opposite. "We need bold action," Lovelock insists. "We have a tremendous amount to do." In his view, we have two choices: We can return to a more primitive lifestyle and live in equilibrium with the planet as hunter-gatherers, or we can sequester ourselves in a very sophisticated, high-tech civilization. [“The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock”. Jeff Goodell 17 Oct 2007]
What do we want to do? Highest standard of living for the
longest time possible? Economic growth
Remove money from the equation
Lets step back a bit:Appliance of science to society
Rational, experimentalRaw materialsProductionGoodsPeoplePerfection!
Better!!!!
Resource allocation Problem
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
ProductionRaw Materials
GoodsPeople
Other problemsPollutionPopulationResource depletion
Controlling productionMoney
Debt Made up Does not reflex what is actually going on
Physics Closer to reality Energy Materials
Controlling productionEnergy Credits
Production takes energy Divide production capacity in terms of
energy among the people People then decide what gets produced
through allocating energy to production Can't save. Can't transfer
Controlling productionFor what point?
Removal of money Remove the profit motive Remove the need for economic growth
HowSociety
Complex integration between people and technology
Technology side People side
Technology sideNo money – Energy creditsCommon usage – managed by teams
of expertsReduce production
25% of today'sLocalise productionReduce working hours
16 hours weekReduce amount of work
25 - 45LESS IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT!
Keyword:BALANACEBalance production with demandBalance technology with ecologyBalance environment with society
People sideNo countries
Climate does not stop at national boundaries
Network of communities Common culture Common languages 10 000 people blocks made of communities
of up to 200 people
People sidecommunities
200 peopleSelf sufficient
Energy production Waste management Food production Reduce impact
Additional industry
Will it work?Far too Utopian!Need to test it
Simulations Experimental communities
In the end, we get the type of society we deserve!
http://en.technocracynet.eu
http://www.technocracy.tk/
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” [Prof. Albert Einstein]