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**Dennis Meadows. Peak Oil and Limits to Growth. Wednesday 19th July 2006.**
***Dennis Meadows** is one of the key figures in the environmental movement over the last 50 years, and one of the authors of perhaps the single best known environmental book “Limits to Growth
**Jeremy Leggett. Peak Oil, climate change, and the daunting arithmetic of carbon fuels.**
*By the time Jeremy Leggett stepped up to the podium, I was starting to wonder whether I was the only person in the conference who had ever heard of climate change. We had heard Hirsch telling us with a straight face that we should dig up all the tar sands and turn all the coal into petrol, and Bauquis arguing that we needed 3,000 new nuclear power plants. I am used to people arguing for climate change solutions with no peak oil awareness but rarely the other way round.*
No I didn’t get to interview him myself, Henning Drager from the Centre for Human Ecology in Edinburgh went to see Gore speaking on June 21st at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London and got to ask him a couple of questions. Gore’s talk was called “Earth in the Balance Sheet” and was attended by over 500 people. While not profoundly illuminating, his answers are still insightful, and show at least that he is conversant with peak oil and sees it as being as important as climate change
Spot on as ever, Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell has offered his warped take on the Government’s re-affirmation of a role of the nuclear industry. One of the greatest cartoonists of modern times, his cartoons of Norman Tebbitt in the 1980s mean that still, seeing the real Norman Tebbitt sends shivers up my spine.
Well it has arrived. No surprises. I wanted to welcome its arrival, and its effective waving goodbye to any kind of concerted national Powerdown by sharing with you this card I found in a card shop in St. Ives, which somehow for me encapsulates the role Government has chosen to play in all this. I love the guy furthest to the right, looks like he died and the rest of them couldn’t do without him around so they had him stuffed and propped up in his favourite chair.
