We are at the cusp of rapid and severely disruptive changes. From now on the risk of entering a collapse must be considered significant and rising. The challenge is not about how we introduce energy infrastructure to maintain the viability of the systems we depend upon, rather it is how we deal with the consequences of not having the energy and other resources to maintain those same systems. Appeals towards localism, transition initiatives, organic food and renewable energy production, however laudable and necessary, are totally out of scale to what is approaching.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Tipping Point
from The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability. I have only read the summary (the first four pages), but it looks to me like a very important document that attempts to shed more light on what we may expect to happen with declining fossil energy supplies and climate change. The emphasis appears to be on peak energy. The complete report is a 45 page pdf type document.