Peter Singer

Peter Singer spoke today at the Sustainable Living Festival in a lecture called Climate Change as an Ethical Issue. LOUD SPACE should have taken notes, but can inform readers of the blog that the lecture was informative and well attended by a cross section of the community. Main topics covered in the one hour lecture were; the dire need to take climate change seriously, the inequalities in emissions between those in the western world and those in the non western world. How the poorest countries in the world will be worst affected by climate change, even though they have contributed to it the least. Proposed methods to cut emissions, and which countries support these, and also the role of the individual amongst all of this.

Mr Singer, a vegetarian himself, ended the lecture by stating how harmful the livestock industry was in causing greenhouse emissions. A few members of the audience clapped upon hearing this, while the rest of the audience, presumably meat eaters, waited for Mr Singer to continue with his speech.

Lessons to take on board from Mr Singer's lecture? LOUD SPACE will take pen and paper to such events next time and that individuals should take responsibility for the way they affect the environment, especially those in the western world, living affluent, unsustainable lives, which LOUD SPACE stands guilty of, perhaps more than the reader. Recognising you have a problem is the first step. Learning more and taking action are the next.

http://www.vnv.org.au/site/htmfiles/eatinguptheworld.htm

http://www.princeton.edu/~psinger/

http://festival.slf.org.au/