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SUMMARY:The Climate Crunch: Ethics\, Ecology and the End of Civilisation -
  Dr Michael Northcott\, Divinity\, University of Edinburgh
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CONTACT:Benjamin Morris
DESCRIPTION:Greenhouse gas emissions from the last one hundred years of fo
 ssil-fueled industrial capitalism will result in significant warming of th
 e planet by the middle of the present century. Despite attempts by the UK 
 government and other nations to reduce their domestic gas emissions\, pres
 ent international legal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions is not work
 ing because it relies on dubious market mechanisms such as carbon emission
 s trading and pollution permit auctions. The moral case for a new internat
 ional law regulating fossil fuel supply is very strong. Millions in South 
 Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are already at risk from the effects of global
  warming - whether increased flooding or sustained drought and crop failur
 e. \n\nMany in the climate justice movement are turning to nonviolent dire
 ct action to seek to persuade governments of the immorality of their conti
 nued use of fossil fuels. Many others are seeking to commit their househol
 ds and communities locally to a transition to a low carbon future seeking 
 to exemplify in their own lives the ecological virtues of justice\, pruden
 ce and thrift. Low carbon gives people back moral responsibility for the e
 nergy that fuels their lives and this in turn returns moral agency and pol
 itical power to citizens and householders. But for it to become a societal
  movement will involve a dramatic shift from the present debt-fueled growt
 h-oriented economics that has directed government\, corporate and consumer
  activities for the past sixty years. To achieve this will likely require 
 a recovery of a moral and spiritual vision of the nature of life on earth\
 , and of human destiny in a cosmos that people of faith for thousands of y
 ears have understood as divinely originated.
LOCATION:CRASSH Seminar Room\, 17 Mill Lane
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