Julian Darley

Julian Darley is a filmmaker,[1] writer and speaker on policy responses to global environmental degradation. He is the author of the book High Noon for Natural Gas, and the founder of Global Public Media, Post Carbon Institute and Mysterious Movies Ltd. He lives in London, England.

Julian Darley
BornAugust 5, 1958
Spouse(s)Celine Rich-Darley
ChildrenRaphael Rex Darley

Educational background

Darley has an eclectic educational background, with an MSc in Environment and Sociology from the University of Surrey, UK, where he published a thesis examining the coverage of complex environmental issues in the foremost radio current affairs programmes at the BBC. He also has an MA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, where he wrote his thesis on the elimination of television.

Political works

In pursuit of better understanding of hydrocarbon, Julian wrote a book called High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis about a natural gas crisis in North America and other industrialized nations. He also co-authored Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil (2005, unreleased) in collaboration with Celine Rich, Dave Room and Richard Heinberg, a book tackling the subjects of “global relocalization” of economy, society and culture.

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gollark: Interstellar travel is, as far as anyone can tell, ridiculously expensive. So it would not be worth going several light-years (probably more) just to attain Earth's, I don't know, rare earth metal stocks, when you can just mine asteroid belts or do starlifting.
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