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John Meyer | Pivoting on Climate and Depletion by Substituting Progress for Growth| CACOR Zoom presentation | 2022-10-19
October 19, 2022 @ 13:30 - 15:00 EDT
Speaker: John Meyer
Topic: Pivoting on Climate and Depletion by Substituting Progress for Growth
Time: Oct 19, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
Business-as-usual will not see us through the threats which even now are beginning to seep under our front door. We need new goals and metrics.
Above all, we need a healthy national conversation and the new leaders which will spring from it.
What are the options and the obstacles for reaching the high ground of sustainability before the rising waters of environmental decline and social disorder overtake us?
The broad issues and nuts and bolts options open to governments and individuals are discussed.
Biography:
John Meyer is a semi-retired small business owner with a degree in economics. He has had a number of articles published in Canada’s major newspapers dealing with a range of topics from population, immigration and the environment to the failings of GDP based metrics for social policy formation. He has also presented a paper on Energy Currency at a conference of that name in Split, Croatia. He has authored two books, “The Renewable Energy Transition, Realities for Canada and the World” and “The Post-Pandemic World, Sustainable Living on a Wounded Planet” which are published by Springer Nature.
Mr. Meyer is currently President of the NGO “Canadians for a Sustainable Society” and has just built a house which he expects to be (eventually) energy positive. His primary interests are the changes necessary to achieve a sustainable society, population cycles and the reasons for failed human social structures throughout history.