http://transitionculture.org/wp-content/uploads/KinsaleEnergyDescentActionPlan.pdf

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?

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.

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…

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.