(fwd) Why Bother with Fracking - and other meetings

[Kath Pinto]

Of interest to anyone?
Kath

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:59:37 +0100, "booths" <boo...@clara.net> wrote:


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>Reading Friends of the Earth’s next meeting will be a presentation Why Bother With Fracking? – as part of the Reading International Festival season. This will be in Room 3 at RISC, 35-39 London Street, at 20:00 on Wednesday October 29th.
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>Professor Chris Rhodes, chairman of Transition Town Reading, will discuss the options for global and UK energy in the context of declining supplies of conventional crude oil.
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>He will review the controversial ‘Fracking’ process and constraints on renewable energy and electrification, concluding that we must adapt to lower-energy lifestyles.
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>His talk will include issues around population, energy use/efficiency, and where we are going (or should go) as a human society.
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>Please help to publicise this meeting: A4 poster is downloadable from
>http://www.readingfoe.org.uk/Documents/Fracking_poster.pdf
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>Thanks,
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>John Booth.
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>P.S. programme for Reading International Festival is at http://risc.org.uk/images/RIF 2014 Events.pdf – lots of interesting meetings including ‘Not a Very Green Revolution’ (22nd October), ‘Economic Justice’ (23rd October), ‘Defending Antarctica and the Arctic’ (27th October), and ‘Population Predicament ..’ (31st October).