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Downloading from Norway. Norway’s oil production is declining, but noone tells us to change our ways of life. Yet.

Thank you for your continuing efforts to help us prepare for the future.

thank you for your work.

Continue your good work!

Inspiring work. I’ve just started to be involved in Parish Plans here in Gloucestershire and this is a great model with great ideas that really takes sustainability seriously. Many thanks for leading the way. I lookforward to hearing more about your successes.

Good work, but you mention nothing about defence. How will you protect your investment and hard work from the 7 million people around you that are starving and no longer have access to cheap energy. They will be poor, hungry and desperate. Will you share your food and energy with all of them? And how will you stop the few who want it all for themselves?

A group of 1000 people with guns will easily be able to come in and take everything that you worked so hard to build – what will you do then?

Depressing, I know – I’m sorry, but you do need to think about it.

Please let me know if you come up with a good answer.

Hi Faran, the answer surely lies in the fact that we are all in this together. If you dont have food security, then neither do I, for the reasons you outlined. So the faster we get to work, and ensure we are helping each other, the better.

This is an inspiring plan- so different from the gloom and doom prevalent in the peak oil community. I borrowed liberally (while trying to give you credit) from the plan to develop a similar plan for the Capital District of upstate New York.

From Albany, NY
USA

I am printing out yet another copy as I am passing them out and around here in Charlottesville, Virginia. It’s very inspiring.

great to read the plan – we will be inplementing it in our town

It doesn’t take anything like a 1000 people with guns: In many situations 50 would be quite adequate and the rewards for pulling it off are so vast that plenty are going to try – hard.

After all, two of the dirty little secrets of history are:
1. “Coercion works; those who apply substantial force to their fellows get compliance and from that compliance draw the multiple advantages of money, goods, deference [and] access to pleasures denied to less powerful people” (Charles Tilly).
2. The powerful have far more descendants then others, though most are unacknowledged (recent genetic studies that allow us to see who is really descended from who).

The two taken together nicely explain why seemingly good people (men) behave so very badly at the first hint of a chance of gaining power and exploit it so ruthlessly to gain sexual access to women when they do – it is hard wired into their genes.

In other words, if peak oil/water/food/population really does turn out as badly as some predict and society does collapse, anyone who wants their children to be other than slaves had better be very serious about defense. A few guns just will not cut it: Organization and training more along the lines of, say, Hezbollah is what would be required.

Conclusion: Pray that it all somehow turns out all right and the whole peak oil / global warming thing was just a beat up.

Peak Oil Primer

Source: http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php What is Peak Oil? Peak Oil is the simplest label for the problem of energy resource depletion, or more specifically, the peak in global oil production. Oil is a finite, non-renewable resource, one that h…

An inspiring piece of work with a lot of great ideas. Well worth the read.

An orderly descent from the extragavance of the oil years is worth striving for at all levels. Rob Hopkins and his students have made a valuable contribution to that vision.

Thank you to all involved.

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New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington.
Awesome work.
Thankyou for sharing it.

This is probably the most important idea of our time, and one that needs to be taken up by all communities in the so called ‘developed’ world. Whether oil peaks or not! Which it will, but we should do it anyway, for so many reasons. It is very inspiring work and seeds are being planted here in Bristol, so thanks for being the catalyst Rob, and for sharing your work so readily.

To those who raise the issue about defence plans and aggression – we have that issue now don’t we? What’s the difference, really, in the future? I don’t think Transition Towns initiatives or any kind of civilisation can exist successfully in a world of lawless Mad Max-style vagabonds raping and pillaging everywhere, can it? But it’s about stimulating a nation/worldwide plan, from the local level, to avoid precisely that scenario isn’t it?

To mitigate any perceived inequality in some imagined future between towns that have regrown their resilience and those that have not, the answer is surely to act now to ensure that all communities get going on this path, don’t you think?

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Please email me any contact numbers or sites that I may be able to facilitate my 11 storey 120 unit condo which is oil heated to something more green.
Are there any grant monies available for buildings built in the 1950’s for conversion as many in the condo association are on fixed incomes.
sincerly,
melissa fackler

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I’ve been studying the problem for a while and I’m glad to see a sensible plan for the inevitable change thats coming. There are others – like the Gussing model but this one engages the whole community in a way that re-establishes the connection between real people in real places.

Please add the link on this page.

https://www.transitionculture.org/wp-content/uploads/KinsaleEnergyDescentActionPlan.pdf