To understand where we’re going, we must understand how and why we got into our current predicament.
Please join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy on Tuesday, April 9, at 7PM via Zoom, for “Energy & Climate: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going,” with Rick Allmendinger, Professor Emeritus of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. Energy and climate change are inexorably linked. Because most people have been flooded with dire, though probable, climate change scenarios, this talk will focus mostly on energy: how we got to where we are today, some salient facts about energy choices, and what society and individuals need to do to avert the worst case scenarios. This is a story of exponential growth, energy transitions, hard choices, and a future that will look very different, and hopefully better, than the one today.
Bring your questions and come prepared for a discussion!
This free program is part of the CML/CLC series “Climate & Community.” Please register in advance below.
A replay of this program will be available for two weeks. If you’d like to receive a link to the replay, please register for the program.
Rick Allmendinger. Photo courtesy of Rick Allmendinger.
Rick Allmendinger is Professor Emeritus of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. He is by training a structural geologist and has spent most of his career working in the Andes and the western United States. Nonetheless, he is a New Hampshire native by birth and his family have owned property in the basin for nearly 100 years. His first professional geology job was mapping glacial deposits and bedrock units in northeastern Massachusetts for the USGS under the direction of Gene Boudette, who later became State Geologist of New Hampshire. At Cornell, he taught courses in structural geology, regional geology, and energy and climate change.
Banner image: Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash