Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow In Residence at the Post-Carbon Institute and one of the world's foremost peak oil educators, will discuss how the rapid depletion of fossil fuels and accelerating global climate disruption are creating unprecedented challenges for global society in the twenty-first century.
An engaging and inspiring speaker, Heinberg is also the author of nine books including Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis (2009), Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007), The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism & Economic Collapse (2006), Powerdown: Options & Actions for a Post-Carbon World (2004), and The Party's Over: Oil, War & the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003)
Since 2002, he has given over three hundred lectures on oil depletion to a wide variety of audiences ranging from insurance executives to peace activists, from local and national elected officials to Jesuit volunteers.
7:30PM
Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Avenue
All are welcome. $5 donation requested.
For further information, visit http://www.lexgwac.org/ or contact info@lexgwac.org, or call 781-674-2339.
American Friends Service Committee - 1501 Cherry St. - Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-241-7000
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