From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 13:31:07 PST
Message-Id: <a06230946bfe9d7f4dd97@[69.111.161.24]> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:31:07 -0800 From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org> Subject: Fwd: [SALT] "Are Nukes Now Green?" experts debate FRIDAY, Jan.13 (for forwarding)
Another great program coming up this Friday. m
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>Environmentalists are at their best when they disagree publicly.
>Then discussion can dive through emotional stances to the level of
>intriguing details and complex tradeoffs, where intelligent opinion
>forms and smart policy takes shape.
>
>Both of the conversants this Friday night have energy expertise and
>an environmental agenda. Ralph Cavanagh, co-director of the Energy
>Program at the Natural Resources Defense Counsel, advisor to the US
>Secretary of Energy ('93-'03), opposes expansion of nuclear power.
>Peter Schwartz, a former board member of Rocky Mountain Institute,
>former head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch/Shell, now chair of
>Global Business Network, was persuaded by recent research on abrupt
>climate change to support the expansion of nuclear power.
>
>"Nuclear Power, Climate Change, and the Next 10,000 Years," Peter
>Schwartz, Ralph Cavanagh, Herbst Theater (on Van Ness by Opera House
>and Civic Center), San Francisco, 7pm, Friday, January 13. The
>lecture starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is free ($10 donation
>always welcome, not required).
>
>It's not exactly a debate Friday night, but possibly something
>better. The format requires each speaker to draw out the other's
>views and then restate them in a way that satisfies the opponent,
>"That's right. You got it." Which speaker goes first will be
>decided by the audience and how they (you!) think the discussion
>should be framed. If the question is, "Is nuclear power too risky
>to be an option for dealing with climate change?" then Cavanagh
>should perhaps go first, stating the affirmative position. If, on
>the other hand, the question is, "Should nuclear power be an option
>for dealing with climate change?" then it might be Schwartz's
>affirmative view that leads off. You decide, live, Friday night.
>
>This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking
>organized by The Long Now Foundation, usually on second Fridays,
>usually at Fort Mason (though not this one). Future speakers in the
>series include Stephen Lansing (on a thousand years of finesse in
>Bali's irrigation system). If you would like to be notified by
>email of forthcoming talks, please contact Simone Davalos---
>simone@longnow.org, 415-561-6582.
>
>You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be
>interested. The Herbst is a nice big theater.
>
> --Stewart Brand
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>Stewart Brand -- sb@gbn.org -- 415-331-9241
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-- Michele McGinnis, MSIS Research Librarian to Kevin Kelly149 Amapola Pacifica, CA 94044 650-355-7676 650-359-9701 fax
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