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Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design not Disaster, by Prof. Peter Victor

Jan 21

Wed 7:00 PM

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Estimated attendance: 50 people attended.
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peaknik

Peter Victor is one of the pioneers of ecological economics. He is an environmental studies professor at York University, as well as a former Dean of the faculty. He has also served as Assistant Deputy Minister of the Environmental Sciences and Standards Division in the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.

Dr. Victor was the founding President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and chairs the Great Lakes Innovation Committee and CFI Ecology Committee. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, the Advisory Panel of TruCost, the City of Toronto's Environment Roundtable, the Advisory Committee on the National Accounts for Statistics Canada, and the Ontario Government's Advisory Committee on Transboundary Science. Dr. Victor has served on the Boards of several prominent environmental organizations and he has appeared as an expert witness on environmental economics before various Commissions and Committees.

See http://www.thestar.co... for an article about Prof. Victor and his book.

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50 attendees
- Julian
  
  “ An excellent speaker who had plenty of data and research to back up his claims. ”
- R
  
  “ Has peaked my interest in reading Professor Peter Victor's book. I thought Peter handled the discussions questions especially well. ”
- Laurie
  
  “ The presentation was decent but it was not new information to me for the most part. ”
- Richard Gilbert
  
  “ Good, except he spoke too long. ”
- David Stokoe
  
  “ For such a heritical topic, the talk was well received. ”
- Sandra Iseman
  
  “ Terrific! Very stimulating. ”
- peaknik
  
  “ Good, but spoke too long. Main value lies in engaging the mainstream, especially economists, in questioning the premise of growth. For this audience, slides on peak oil were unnecessary and it's not clear if economic arguments were relevant either. As in the recent Toronto Star article by Peter Gorrie (http://tinyurl.co...), the first argument quoted by the journalist is the depletion argument. After that, it's mostly sugar for making the medicine go down. Still, there's a big market for sugar so I applaud Dr. Victor for tackling this subject as long as he has. The policy recommendations sound reasonable, but needed more discussion e.g. reducing work hours is good, but what of the energy slaves we will lose? Etc. The lure of the title was the implication of more info on adaptation. ”
- Eugene Mohareb
  
  “ An excellent speaker who handled all questions fairly and diplomatically. ”
- Douglas Wade
  
  “ Finally someone with appropriate training addresses the inevitable change that must come to society. There is still the black hole of the need for world depopulation so that we can reach an enviromental balance. ”
- Stu
- Robert McDonald
- mark cassidy
- Ania
- Melissa
- Walter Derzko
- Brent Gulanowski
- Randy Park
- Jonathan
- Paul Trueman
- Bryan Husted
- Brian
- Chris Lowry
- Patricia
- Chris M
- Charles
- Imran
- Peter Shepherd
- Matt
- Patricia Warwick
- Doug
- Rupinder Assi
- George Morrison
- sharon howarth
- Sheyda Saneinejad (+1 guest)
- Adam
- Mike Ellman
- Eric Moen
- Glenn
- bob findlay (+1 guest)
- Andre (+1 guest)
- Jelena
- Glenn Seale
- Judy
- Ernie Hajto
- Mano Philips
- John Dillon
- andre