Talk Thursday: 100% Renewable Energy Worldwide in 17 Years or Sooner

Middlesex Community College is hosting a talk Thurday, "100% Renewable Energy Worldwide by 2030?" by Peter McKnight, subtitled, "Power Without Pollution: Can we achieve 100 percent renewable energy in 17 years?"

According to McKnight, scientists say it can be done. Fossil fuel use is rapidly altering earth's climate, producing ever more extreme weather.  

Even the simple extraction of fossil fuels is polluting, and the ongoing disaster at Fukushima is a warning about the dangers of relying on nuclear power, according to McKnight. New studies show that there is no technical barrier to transitioning the entire planet to 100 percent renewable energy within a very short time frame. 

On Nov. 14, Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson will present via Skype on his studies showing that a complete transition to 100 percent renewable energy is feasible by 2030. Jeremy Brecher, of Labor Network for Sustainability and author of Jobs Beyond Coal, will join the presentation. 

A question and answer segment will follow. Mark Jacobson is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment as a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has co-authored landmark studies which demonstrate the feasibility of transitioning to 100% renewable energy by 2030 in New York State, in the U.S., and Worldwide. 

Jeremy Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, including Jobs Beyond Coal.  He has written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries.  He has participated in numerous labor and social struggles.  

The event will be held at 6:30pm at Chapman Hall, Middlesex Community College, 100 Training Hill Road in Middletown. 

For informatio,n contact contact Dan Piper of Power Without Pollution at Daniel.adam.piper@gmail.com or 860-985-4576.