Announcing ISIS 2006 Energy Report - Which Energy?

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Announcing ISIS 2006 Energy Report - Which Energy?

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ISIS Press Release 10/03/06

 

Announcing ISIS 2006 Energy Report

 

Which Energy?

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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

 

Individual copies are available for pre-order at the ISIS

online store

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/onlinestore/books.php#238

 

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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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