Two Degrees 15: Carbon Rationing
First Broadcast: 30 January 2007
Featuring:
- Mayer Hillman
CARBON RATIONING
Continuing our look at solutions, we have the great pleasure of presenting
an interview with Mayer Hillman who came up with the concept of carbon
rationing back in 1990. Mayer is a much admired policy strategist whose
proposal has been snowballing in popularity to the point where Environment
Minister David Milliband is now seriously championing the idea. His book
“How We Can Save the Planet” (published by Penguin) is a layman’s guide to
the idea of carbon rationing. It will finally be published in North America
in April as “The Suicidal Planet: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe.”
Mayer is acutely aware that our business-as-usual attitude is propelling us
towards disaster and that we need to act radically and with great speed. He
reminds us of some harsh, uncomfortable truths and presents a compelling
solution to our predicament.
ACTION: PETITION THE PM
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Carbon-Rationing/#detail
DEFRA REPORT ON CARBON RATIONING
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/uk/individual/pca/pdf/pca-scopingstudy.pdf
Available Audio
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