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ISIS Press Release 10/03/06
Announcing
ISIS 2006 Energy Report
Which Energy?
Mae-Wan Ho, Peter Bunyard, Peter Saunders, Elizabeth Bravo & Rhea
Gala
This energy
review began in the summer of 2005, when accelerating global warming and soaring
energy prices finally struck home to most of the world’s political leaders
that business as usual is no longer an option. The challenge to find the right
survival strategies has never been greater; and we have to find them now.
Time and energy resources are both running out. Squander them on the wrong
technologies and the consequences will be catastrophic. Choose the right options
and we can mitigate global warming and thrive in a greener, cleaner post fossil
fuel planet.
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Global warming is accelerating and energy prices are soaring. We have to find the right survival strategies, and we have to find them now. Time and energy resources are both running out; squander them on the wrong technologies and the consequences will be catastrophic, invest in the right options and we can mitigate climate change and thrive in a post fossil fuel world.
This report will help you make the right choices
among nuclear, biofuels, wind, solar, energy from wastes, and more…
Send it to your policy-makers to input to the global energy debate. Sponsor this report by making a donation that will entitle you to multiple copies at print price plus p&p. For details please e-mail: energy@i-sis.org.uk
Individual copies are available for pre-order at the ISIS online store
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Choosing the right options requires a critical understanding
of the science and technologies involved. We need to know how our energy options
affect the health of the planet and the human species, and impact on other
life necessities, above all, food security. We need to know how the way we
produce and distribute food affects energy use and energy security. We also
need to take account of the social, ethical, economic and political consequences
of our choices. And finally, we need to question some of the most deeply held
assumptions of the dominant model of unlimited unsustainable growth based
on competition and market forces. Our Energy Report does all of that.
We concentrate on the energy options that are most immediately
available, the most promising and the most contentious. We address many of
the key issues tackled by the world’s governments in response to climate change
and the impending energy crisis, and others they have yet to do. No country
can act in isolation. The most important lesson of global warming is that
the ecological impacts of our energy consumption in all forms cannot be outsourced
with impunity, and the best way to protect our own ecosystem may be to protect
the integrity of far-flung forests on the other side of the globe and enable
people living there and elsewhere to claim an equitable share of the resources.
Please make this Report widely available to policy-makers
and the public across the world to help people everywhere make the transition
to a greener, cleaner, healthier, wealthier and more fulfilling life without
fossil fuels.
Read the Executive Summary here:http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ISIS_energy_review_exec_sum.pdf
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