17 November, 14:00-15:30
This session situates Net Zero within the broader intellectual shift from linear planning to complexity science. It explores how energy, knowledge, and governance have co-evolved – from the induction motor’s opening of the oil vault to today’s fragile Thin Green Frontier of renewables – and what this means for Britain’s narrow but real window of agency.
Drawing on mathematics, policy, and complexity science, Dr Fred Amonya invites participants to reimagine Net Zero not as a technical substitution but as a civilisational reconfiguration. The lecture moves from the global energy curve to Britain’s institutions and markets, showing how complexity science disciplines thought where politics often wavers.
Workshop Highlights:
- Trace the historical arc of energy and knowledge, from induction and oil to the Thin Green Frontier.
- Apply complexity science to interpret Net Zero as a non-linear, adaptive transition.
- Map Britain’s evolving Net Zero landscape — its excitations, actors, and narratives.
- Explore the mathematical sensibility that can bring clarity to politically charged debates.
- Reflect on Britain’s time-sensitive window of agency in a turbulent global order.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand Net Zero as a complex adaptive transition, not a linear substitution.
- Read energy curves as structural signatures of change, not merely data.
- Apply concepts from complexity science — feedback, emergence, adaptation – to real policy challenges.
- Recognise Britain’s institutional and financial leverage within global feedback systems.
- Appreciate how mathematics disciplines thought amid political and ecological turbulence.
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