The ideas interview: Mark Jaccard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1698494,00.html
Fossil fuels can keep the world going, and they need not be dirty, the
energy expert tells John Sutherland
Tuesday January 31, 2006
The Guardian
Mark Jaccard's advice on climate change, the imminent exhaustion of
fossil fuels, and the end of civilisation as we know it is: "Don't
panic." But he is not an out-of-touch climate-change denier. He is an
expert on long-term energy issues, who for 10 years advised the Chinese
government on energy policy, and even the greenest environmentalists
listen to what he has to say.
Jaccard's starting point is: "The scientists are right. The risks are
real." His job is to assess those risks and model solutions. He looks
forward to new technologies, but also sees a future for "King Coal and
his royal cousins, crude oil and natural gas". There is, he maintains,
"life in the old king yet". Most provocatively, he sees no
contradiction in continued global growth and - if the right measures
are brought in - the reduction of planet-threatening greenhouse gases.
If he's right, Jaccard offers a way through Lovelockian doom and the
Texas oil baron "let it rip" ethos that George Bush brought to the
White House.
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