Stockholm seminar--Going carbon-free, a mere joke?

Going carbon-free, a mere joke?“ By Jean-Marc Jancovici Mines ParisTech, Thursday 26 April, 14.00-15.00 Linné Hall, Beijer Hall, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4, Stockholm.  Abstract: In this seminar, Jean-Marc Jancovici will take a closer look at how access to energy has been fundamental to the tremendous scientific and technical progress made since the Industrial Revolution. Human ingenuity has relied heavily upon seemingly limitless access to natural resources like oil, gas and coal. What we today call "prosperity" is actually the possibility to extract, transform and associate, at a pace never reached before, non-renewable natural resources. The question is: if our planet has physical limits, how long can this extraction continue last, and what would the early warning of a coming collapse look like?  THE STOCKHOLM SEMINARS - focusing on the dynamics and stewardship of social-ecological systems.