Revolution Justified
Event details
| Date | 13.03.2014 |
| Hour | 18:00 › 19:00 |
| Speaker | Mr Roger H. J. Cox, Paulussen Advocaten NV |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Roger H.J. Cox is a partner at the law firm of Paulussen Advocaten in the Netherlands and founder of the Planet Prosperity Foundation. As a strategic advisor on sustainable development issues and transition processes at both national and international level, Mr. Cox also holds seats on the business advisory council of the US Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Institute and the advisory council of the Dutch sustainable business association De Groene Zaak. In 2012, the Dutch Green Building Council selected Mr. Cox as one of the most influential people in sustainable real estate development.
Mr Cox is also author of the book Revolution Justified, concerning peak oil, climate change, the failure of democracy and why the law is our only hope of achieving the much needed energy transition. This book is promoted by international leaders in sustainability as an essential read and has provided the impetus for the Dutch climate proceedings against the Dutch governement before the court in the Hague in which proceedings Mr Cox is the lead council for the 900 claimants. Mr Cox is also setting up similar legal climate proceedings in Belgium and other European countries.
About the book Revolution Justified: Military reports warn that impending energy problems will endanger Western society and threaten to weaken ties between states and their citizens, undermining the very foundations of democracy and the rule of law. Energy issues will also set the stage for more aggressive geopolitics and will substantially destroy the ecosystem services on which society is wholly dependent. These are but a few of the impacts that the double energy problem of climate change and oil decline have in store for us.
Attorney and pragmatic visionary Roger Cox sets out and analyzes these energy stress tests, going on to explain why neither the market mechanism nor today’s political model are capable of initiating an energy revolution to solve these issues. This deadlock situation has the potential to bring about the very downfall of Western society, and will at the very least put Western countries at risk of committing domestic human rights violations on a scale nobody had thought to ever see again after World War II. Precisely this threat of human rights violations puts the judiciary in a position to step in and lead Western governments out of the dangerous deadlock.
Mr Cox is also author of the book Revolution Justified, concerning peak oil, climate change, the failure of democracy and why the law is our only hope of achieving the much needed energy transition. This book is promoted by international leaders in sustainability as an essential read and has provided the impetus for the Dutch climate proceedings against the Dutch governement before the court in the Hague in which proceedings Mr Cox is the lead council for the 900 claimants. Mr Cox is also setting up similar legal climate proceedings in Belgium and other European countries.
About the book Revolution Justified: Military reports warn that impending energy problems will endanger Western society and threaten to weaken ties between states and their citizens, undermining the very foundations of democracy and the rule of law. Energy issues will also set the stage for more aggressive geopolitics and will substantially destroy the ecosystem services on which society is wholly dependent. These are but a few of the impacts that the double energy problem of climate change and oil decline have in store for us.
Attorney and pragmatic visionary Roger Cox sets out and analyzes these energy stress tests, going on to explain why neither the market mechanism nor today’s political model are capable of initiating an energy revolution to solve these issues. This deadlock situation has the potential to bring about the very downfall of Western society, and will at the very least put Western countries at risk of committing domestic human rights violations on a scale nobody had thought to ever see again after World War II. Precisely this threat of human rights violations puts the judiciary in a position to step in and lead Western governments out of the dangerous deadlock.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Chaire Landolt & Cie SA
Contact
- Jean-Denis Bourquin