[Editor’s note: Professor Peter Newman is a Member of The LEAD Group’s Technical Advisory Board; Coordinating Lead Author for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Transport; Professor Of Sustainability, Faculty of Media, Society & Culture, Curtin University & retired from Institute for Science and Technology Policy (ISTP)]
Re: LANv21n3 “Celebrating the End of the Leaded Petrol Era” – is online
Wow! Well done Elizabeth. This is momentous and so hard over so many years. It will last forever like a diamond. See my attached slides showing how cities are made out of diamonds! This is your beautiful gift to the world along with a lot of people who helped find it, clean it and shape it into a legacy jewel for everyone. Sorry to be so carried away. I started with this in the late 70’s and wrote a paper in 1980 in the UK where it was being discussed in great detail, which radicalised me from there on. You were the great leader that we needed though. Now we can say that it has gone just before petrol disappears altogether. What a crazy world that enables such bitter sweetness.
Peter Newman
August 31, 2021
“City of Diamonds” slide from: Theology of Sustainability Practice: How Cities Create Hope [SLIDES], by Professor Peter Newman AO, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, St Pauls Anglican Church.