What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Pat Roy Mooney Pat Mooney, Executive Director of etc Group, is an accredited consultancy delegate at the Paris climate talks and is giving "lots of workshops" for people outside the hall on geoengineering and climate smart agriculture. Scientists' urgency about climate crisis has been stifled; government commitments will be too low; carbon capture and storage is a dream. But civil society actions - in Africa and Asia developing strategies for food system resilience - give Mooney hope. etc Group is revered for hard-hitting focus where power, technology and vulnerable human and natural systems intersect - e.g. on the new bio economy: "what is sold as a 'green' switch from fossil fuels to plant-based production is, in fact, a red-hot resource grab...".