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On Monday, December 11, the Josefina Soria Library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center will host, at 8:00 p.m., a new conference on the "Ecosocial Transition or Collapse" cycle, entitled "The decline of oil" and given by the researcher of the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations of the CSIC, Antonio Turiel.
The scientist will be accompanied by Cayetano Gutiérrez on behalf of the group promoting the activity, Cartagena Piensa, programmed by the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena.
Antonio Turiel is a senior scientist at the Department of Physical Oceanography of the Mediterranean Center for Marine and Environmental Research of the CSIC.
Bachelor in Physical Sciences, in Mathematical Sciences and Doctor in Theoretical Physics from the Autonomous University of Madrid, his interests and reflections have moved, however, towards research on the peak of oil and its social consequences, becoming a critic of the current model productive of unlimited growth that leads to an endless crisis.
In Turiel's opinion, the peak of oil (peak oil, the moment at which production would reach its historical maximum beginning to decrease from there) would have already happened, accusing significant declines in production;
but not only would it occur with oil, but also with coal, fossil fuels that together supply almost two thirds of the primary energy consumed annually.
"We have a productive, economic and financial system," says Turiel, "which is based on growth without limits and which goes into deep crisis when it can not grow, and in agony if this situation of non-growth is prolonged.
This has led to pressure on everything: the ecosystems, the environment, natural resources, the population, the working and living conditions of the majority of the planet's inhabitants ... everything has been seen as a sacrificial resource for that superior good, abstract and suicidal that is the growth without limits ".
In his opinion, the decrease in current levels, the simplification of systems or the need to reduce the pace of our society are imperatives not only logical, but inexorable.
The only thing that depends on our will is to pilot the process or leave it to their free will and that a societal collapse may ensue.
Degrowth is not an option, what is an option is to crash or not. "
The blog of Antonio Turiel, The Oil Crash (http://crashoil.blogspot.com.es/) has become a fundamental reference to follow the scientific debate on the decline of oil and its enormous implications of any order.
With this talk the cycle "Ecosocial Transition or Collapse" that the Cartagena program has been developing is closed. Thinks in collaboration with the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, through which have passed, in addition to Antonio Turiel, the philosopher and poet Jorge Riechmann , and the ecofeminist anthropologist Yayo Herrero.
The Councilor for Culture, David Martinez, stressed that this issue of climate change and its consequences for humanity makes it necessary to generate a broad public awareness of the importance of urgently changing our development model by limiting the irrational consumption of non-renewable resources and drastically limiting our impacts on nature.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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