{"id":6116,"date":"2014-09-26T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2014-09-26T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T06:48:10","slug":"fairness-and-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/09\/26\/fairness-and-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairness and Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Harper, variously of the\u00a0Centre for Alternative Technology, Schumacher College, and the University of Bath is presenting a lecture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brlsi.org\/node\/60545\">tonight<\/a> at BRLSI on <em>Energy: Fairness, Physics and Sustainability<\/em>. \u00a0This is the blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The atmosphere is a shared resource. \u00a0Therefore the Climate Change problem cannot be solved by any nation on its own. \u00a0 National programmes have to fit together into a global process, and have to be fair or no global agreement is possible. \u00a0Most of the problem is about energy supply, and understandably UK energy policies tend to focus on what is politically realistic, hoping that this will meet the requirements of fairness and physics. \u00a0 So far, it doesn't even come close. \u00a0The lecture proposes an alternative approach, to ask first what kinds of UK policies are both fair and physically adequate, and then what political and economic policies might be needed to deliver them. \u00a0This follows a venerable principle explored by Canute the Great a thousand years ago:\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess, given the reference to Canute, this must be all about tidal power.<\/p>\n<p>Harper notes that, \"<em>In the end, Physics trumps Politics<\/em>\". \u00a0This will be so, if we wait long enough; in the meanwhile, however, politics is having a good run for its money. \u00a0And what happened to justice in all this? \u00a0Consumed by fairness, I guess \u2013 not the same thing at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Harper, variously of the\u00a0Centre for Alternative Technology, Schumacher College, and the University of Bath is presenting a lecture tonight at BRLSI on Energy: Fairness, Physics and Sustainability. \u00a0This is the blurb: The atmosphere is a shared resource. \u00a0Therefore the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}