Convergent Crisis & National Resilience

national | miscellaneous | event notice Tuesday July 05, 2011 10:53 by David Korowicz - Feasta, Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability

Peak oil, food, credit, and the end of the age of growth

This is a public lecture on the convergence of global financial and economic stresses with peak oil and food constraints. We look at the implications for Ireland and argue for urgent risk management.

While we may focus on Ireland's current economic woes, the risks we face are global and systemic.

A battered and unstable world economy is probably at the peak of global oil and food production, and declines may be imminent. This convergence marks a turning point. As a result, Ireland is unlikely ever to come out of recession, and the world is not in the middle of a financial crisis but at the edge of a civilisational one.

There are growing risks of deep shocks to our basic material and social welfare, and as yet little evidence that such risks are understood or planned for. We urgently need national resilience planning to help us absorb the severest risks, and give us the confidence to move forward optimistically and with realism.

Where: The Greenhouse, 17 St Andrew Street, Dublin 2.
When: 7pm, Wednesday 13th July 2011.
Cost: €5 (Feasta, Cultivate member, un-waged), otherwise €20 or €10 (depending on ability to pay)