This is a reminder that Graham Harvey, one of this country’s most prominent critics of current agricultural methods, will be speaking at the Williams Hall, Stoke St Gregory next Tuesday, 20th November.Harvey claims that a return to traditional rotation methods would loosen our dependence on fossil fuel and its products and make for healthier land and people. But his most dramatic claim from a Transition perspective is that it would mean our farming land starts to sequester carbon on a massive scale.
Consultancy giant PwC declared a few days ago that we’re currently on course for six degrees of warming by the end of the century. We all have a rough idea of what that means and the size of the challenge we face. Rob Hopkins said in the Spring 2012 edition of Positive News: “It will require an extraordinary response, of which Transition is just one part.” In other words, a lot of different things are going to have to change fast if we’re going to steer clear of the rocks.
We need big ideas alongside our community efforts. Is a revolution in farming the best one going? Do Harvey’s claims stand up to close scrutiny? What would it take to put them into action? This is a conversation we need to be having. Please be a part of it.
Doors open at the Williams Hall at 8pm (immediatly after the Transition Athelney AGM). Join us for locally sourced drinks and snacks before the talk and discussion.
Please contact me at adrian_tait@btinternet.com to help us plan for numbers and if you want directions. Please also forward this notice to your networks. Donations at the door. The Williams Hall, Dark Lane, Stoke St Gregory, TA3 6EU.
Organised by Transition Athelney.
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