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FREE PUBLIC LECTURE Rethinking the Economics of
Energy, Climate and Food Dr. John Ikerd,
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics,
University of Missouri-Columbia Presented at
the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS)
Public Affairs Center (PAC)
Conference Room C/D September 29, 2008 at 700
PM

• The challenges of "peak oil," climate change,
  and food scarcity are all symptoms of the same
  basic root cause, an unsustainable economy. We
  are not necessarily running out of energy, but we
  are running out of "cheap energy," and all of the
  remaining sources of fossil energy represent
  serious risks to the environment -- global
  climate change in particular.
• We humans are biological beings we rely on
  biological energy for our survival. To meet the
  triple challenges of peak oil, climate change,
  and food scarcity, we must replace the old
  industrial economic paradigm of extraction and
  exploitation with the new sustainable economic
  paradigm of renewal and regeneration.
• We must rethink the purpose and meaning
• of nature, society, and economy.
• Sponsored by the UIS Speaker's Series, Students
  Allied for a
  
  Greener Earth
  (SAGE), UIS Department of Environmental Studies,
  
  
  University of Illinois Extension and Slow Food
  Springfield.
  
  For more
  information contact Dr. Denise Keele at (217)
  206-7895.
  
  

The webcast of Dr. John Ikerd's lecture entitled
"Rethinking the Economics of Energy, Climate, and
Food" held on the UIS campus this past Monday
evening is now available.  Go to http//www.
uis. edu/its/otherservices/webcasting.html   
Under Video on demand you will find the lecture
title to click on and it will play in Real
Player.