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Richard Heinberg, national authority on Peak Oil, will speak at the JP Forum<br><br>Sunday, May 15 @ 3pm<br><br><div class="location vcard"><span class="fn org">First Church in Jamaica Plain, UU</span><div class="adr"><div class="street-address">6 Eliot Street</div><div class="locality">Jamaica Plain, MA<br><a href="http://jptransition.org/events/23/richard-heinberg-the-end-of-growth-peak-oil-and-the-economy-of-the-future/" target="_blank">http://jptransition.org/events/23/richard-heinberg-the-end-of-growth-peak-oil-and-the-economy-of-the-future/</a><br></div></div></div><br>We
all take economic growth for granted – until it falters, as in 2008.
But what if the recent economic meltdown was not just an interruption in
the story of continuous economic expansion, but the first sign of the
end of growth as we know it?<br><br>Will the convergence of financial
instability, the end of cheap oil, and climate change usher in an era of
contraction? In other words, do we have to adapt to a “new normal”?<br><br>Traditional eco<span class="text_exposed_hide"></span><span class="text_exposed_show">nomic
growth is not the best measure of human health and welfare. How might
we pursue improvements in education, the arts, health, well-being,
freedom, and happiness without depending upon ever-expanding
consumption? What does a transition to a new economy look like that
doesn’t depend on a model of growth based on cheap energy, reckless
consumption and financial speculation?<br><br>About Richard Heinberg:<br><br>Richard
Heinberg is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely
regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He is the
author of ten books including: The Post Carbon Reader (2010) (editor),
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, and Powerdown: Options
& Actions for a Post-Carbon World (2004)</span><br><br><br>Loie Hayes<br>Boston Climate Action Network<br>http://BostonCAN.org<br>cell 857-544-6846<br></body></html>