We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Preparing for a Post Peak Life (videos and other material)

from Post Peak Living. An excellent website devoted to educating people on the post peak energy crisis and preparing for it. The first video lasts 20:30m, the second and third videos last 9:35m and 20:13m respectively. Then there is a lot of other information on the website. The subject is an enormously complicated one, but the site has a lot of information with which to begin and further our education. However it should be noted that the videos, and I suspect the other material on this site, do not deal with the other components of, what I and others see as, the multi-dimensional crisis--climate change and the collapse of capitalist economies. On the other hand, their (and our) solutions to the peak oil crisis can greatly contribute to the solution of the other crises.