Richard DaviesDirector

MA Sustainable Development Advocacy Programme

Beyond the rhetoric (3D):

Demand Reduction

Decarbonisation

Decentralisation

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

It’s service

delivery

stupid

Good Morning!

Climate Change + Energy Security + Finite Fossil Fuel

= The Same Actions (3Ds)

Q6Getting the measure of you?

Question 1

True or False:

Planet earth’s climate is changing?

Question 2:

True or false

Most of the increase in global temperatures since the mid-20th century is due to humankind burning fossil fuels?

Question 3: True or false [Don’t know = FALSE]

Most [or all] of the lights in my home are energy efficient?

Question 4:

True or false [Don’t know = FALSE]

The electricity supplied to my home is from a green tariff

Question 5:

True or false

I know what my personal [or family’s] carbon footprint is?

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!!

If all land ice melted

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

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??

Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell

28th January 2008

"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."

How?

Us?

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Case Studies

Low Carbon Community Overview

“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

‘Never doubt

that a small

group of

thoughtful,

committed

citizens can

change the

world.

Indeed, it is

the only

thing that

ever has.’

‘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

Don’t just stand there, do something!

thank you