<div dir="auto">Hello Y’all, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please join us on 8/25 at 2 pm for another amazing speaker/author Zoom sponsored by FaCT. The focus of Brett Christopher’s work relates to the economics of saving the Planet. Join us for a lively talk and discussion.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">C u there,</div><div dir="auto">Ginnie McNeil, FaCT</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Ron Prosek</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:rprosek.factohio@gmail.com">rprosek.factohio@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 10:32 PM<br>Subject: Please Publicize-Flyer attached<br>To: Lucas Pompey <<a href="mailto:pompey.c.lucas.13@gmail.com">pompey.c.lucas.13@gmail.com</a>>, Linda New <<a href="mailto:newlinn09@gmail.com">newlinn09@gmail.com</a>>, Judy Comeau-Hart <<a href="mailto:judyhart1970@gmail.com">judyhart1970@gmail.com</a>>, Dorothy Faller <<a href="mailto:dorothyfaller@att.net">dorothyfaller@att.net</a>>, Ron Prosek <<a href="mailto:rprosek.factohio@gmail.com">rprosek.factohio@gmail.com</a>>, Rev. Dr. Bob Miller <<a href="mailto:revdrbob@earthlink.net">revdrbob@earthlink.net</a>>, Ginnie McNeil <<a href="mailto:cleanngreen138@gmail.com">cleanngreen138@gmail.com</a>>, Maher, Robert <<a href="mailto:rm823990@ohio.edu">rm823990@ohio.edu</a>>, Justin Thompson <<a href="mailto:myinnershadow@yahoo.com">myinnershadow@yahoo.com</a>>, Joanne Wagner <<a href="mailto:jwagners422@gmail.com">jwagners422@gmail.com</a>>, Kathleen Webb <<a href="mailto:spiderwebb500@aol.com">spiderwebb500@aol.com</a>>, Marlene Blatnik-Freeze <<a href="mailto:mblatnik3@hotmail.com">mblatnik3@hotmail.com</a>>, Ted Auch <<a href="mailto:lsarpp@gmail.com">lsarpp@gmail.com</a>>, Margaret Mills <<a href="mailto:millsm92445@gmail.com">millsm92445@gmail.com</a>>, annette mccoy <<a href="mailto:amccoyconsultant@yahoo.com">amccoyconsultant@yahoo.com</a>>, Michael Mulberry <<a href="mailto:mmulberry@gmail.com">mmulberry@gmail.com</a>>, Kathryn Almquist <<a href="mailto:kathryna60@hotmail.com">kathryna60@hotmail.com</a>>, Dan Philipps <<a href="mailto:dgphilipps@yahoo.com">dgphilipps@yahoo.com</a>>, Brian Rice <<a href="mailto:brian.rice9811@gmail.com">brian.rice9811@gmail.com</a>>, Form Submission <<a href="mailto:kziewitz@gmail.com">kziewitz@gmail.com</a>>, Bob Kloos <<a href="mailto:bkloos@sbcglobal.net">bkloos@sbcglobal.net</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_lzoy2qaf0" alt="New Dist Spr Series.png" style="width:667px;max-width:100%"></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:18pt">Sunday, August 25, 2 PM ET via Zoom - <br>Brett
Christophers</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:16pt">The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the
Planet</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">“Standard theories of the
causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">--Andreas Malm, author of <i>How to Blow Up a Pipeline</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Why the market will never
solve the climate crisis.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">What if our understanding of capitalism
and climate is back to front? What if
the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that
saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">This is Brett Christopher’s
claim. The global economy is moving too
slowly toward sustainability because the return on green investment is too low.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Today’s consensus is that the
key to curbing climate change is to produce green electricity and electrify
everything possible. The main economic
barrier in that project has seemingly been removed. But while prices of solar power have tumbled,
the golden era of renewables has yet to materialize.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Brett Christophers </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt"> is a political
economist and economic geographer, and the author of <i>Our Lives in Their
Portfolios, Rentier Capitalism </i>and <i> The New Enclosure, </i>which won the Isaac and
Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. Brett Christophers
is based at Uppsala University in Sweden.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">REGISTER: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuceuprzgjHddxiXHwJHTQAx9V22EefoVX" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)" target="_blank">Brett
Christophers</a></span></b></p>
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