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SUMMARY:Climate Change Policy: A Focus on Demand Reduction? - Presented by
  Professor Julian Allwood\, Engineering
DTSTART:20151123T140000Z
DTEND:20151123T170000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Charlotte Sausman
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will explore the proposition that efforts to plan
  a response to climate change are largely stuck\, having been driven by co
 nventional economic thinking and over-stated engineering optimism about in
 novation. We have no evidence that we will be able to deliver today’s gl
 obal energy demand by low-carbon means\, and as yet all attempts to improv
 e energy efficiency have been eclipsed by rebounds in demand\, so that tot
 al energy requirements have increased.  Reducing our demand for energy is 
 essential to any serious efforts at mitigation\, but is currently below th
 e political and public horizon. It challenges widely held assumptions abou
 t economic growth and can be considered only if we activate the humanities
  and wider social sciences as a complement to engineering and economic thi
 nking. Speakers from politics (David Runciman)\, economics (Hamish Low)\, 
 health (Theresa Marteau)\, diet (Pablo Monsivais)\, history (Paul Warde)\,
  philosophy (Richard Holton) and theology (Andrew Davison) will contribute
 . Lord Richard Wilson chairs the discussion. 
LOCATION:Lubbock Room\, Peterhouse\, Cambridge
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