Comments on: Super Furry Animals Capture a Moment from a Post Carbon Future http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/ An Evolving Exploration into the Head, Heart and Hands of Energy Descent Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:35:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Graham Burnett http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63371 Graham Burnett Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:51:10 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2736#comment-63371 Carl - that is one cheesy slice of cheese you have managed to unearth there! Carl – that is one cheesy slice of cheese you have managed to unearth there!

]]> By: Graham Burnett http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63370 Graham Burnett Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:48:30 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2736#comment-63370 Back in the days of the Wapping Anarchist Centre circa 1981/82 a regular act that played were Hornchurch band What Is Oil? - a question surely many will be asking in the post-carbon, post-eergy descent era, non?? Back in the days of the Wapping Anarchist Centre circa 1981/82 a regular act that played were Hornchurch band What Is Oil? – a question surely many will be asking in the post-carbon, post-eergy descent era, non??

]]> By: Carl http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63369 Carl Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:42:59 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2736#comment-63369 PS: There's only so much oil on the ground Sooner or later there won't be much around Tell that to your kids while you driving downtown That there's only so much oil on the ground Can't cut loose without that juice Can't cut loose without that juice If we keep on like we doing things for sure Will not be cool - It's a fact We just ain't got suffiecient fuel There's only so much oil in the ground Sooner or later there won't be none around Alternate sources of power must be found Cause there's only so much oil in the ground There's only so much oil in the earth It's a fact of life - for what it's worth Something every little boy and girl should know since birth That there's only so much oil in the ground There's no excuse for our abuse No excuse for our abuse We just assume that we will not Exceed the oil supply But soon enough the world will watch the wells run dry. (http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/t/towerofpower10994/theresonlysomuchoilontheground349779.html) PS:

There’s only so much oil on the ground
Sooner or later there won’t be much around
Tell that to your kids while you driving downtown
That there’s only so much oil on the ground

Can’t cut loose without that juice
Can’t cut loose without that juice
If we keep on like we doing things for sure
Will not be cool – It’s a fact
We just ain’t got suffiecient fuel

There’s only so much oil in the ground
Sooner or later there won’t be none around
Alternate sources of power must be found
Cause there’s only so much oil in the ground

There’s only so much oil in the earth
It’s a fact of life – for what it’s worth
Something every little boy and girl should know since birth
That there’s only so much oil in the ground

There’s no excuse for our abuse
No excuse for our abuse
We just assume that we will not
Exceed the oil supply
But soon enough the world will watch the wells run dry.

(http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/t/towerofpower10994/theresonlysomuchoilontheground349779.html)

]]> By: Carl http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63368 Carl Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:39:27 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2736#comment-63368 If we're looking at a 'Now That's What I Call Transition' compilation, I commend this to the house: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LjrCV4Gnxw - Tower of Power's 'Only So Much Oil in the Ground'. If we’re looking at a ‘Now That’s What I Call Transition’ compilation, I commend this to the house: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LjrCV4Gnxw – Tower of Power’s ‘Only So Much Oil in the Ground’.

]]> By: Leo Brodie http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63353 Leo Brodie Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:13:18 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2736#comment-63353 Here's a celebration of the future that's actually happening now: Produce travels from Sequim to Seattle by sailboat http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009397952_apwagroceriesbysailboat.html [Reid] decided to explore new territory- proving what's possible when it comes to delivering food. It's high time, he believes, to move away from fossil-fueled modes of shipping. Here’s a celebration of the future that’s actually happening now:

Produce travels from Sequim to Seattle by sailboat

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009397952_apwagroceriesbysailboat.html

[Reid] decided to explore new territory- proving what’s possible when it comes to delivering food. It’s high time, he believes, to move away from fossil-fueled modes of shipping.

]]> By: ceridwen http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63351 ceridwen Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:14:13 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2736#comment-63351 On a totally different note - theres someone else across the Pond who is obviously wanting to have a dialogue with us...ie Sharon Astyk of "Casaubons Book" blog note. You might like to read her post on us: http://sharonastyk.com/2009/06/29/permaculture-future-questions-perhaps-worth-asking-part-i/ On a totally different note – theres someone else across the Pond who is obviously wanting to have a dialogue with us…ie Sharon Astyk of “Casaubons Book” blog note. You might like to read her post on us:

http://sharonastyk.com/2009/06/29/permaculture-future-questions-perhaps-worth-asking-part-i/

]]> By: Dave Prescott http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63348 Dave Prescott Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:02:16 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2736#comment-63348 My nomination for a 'Transition song' is Oxygen by Willy Mason: See http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1721899471564471503 ...I wanna hold up my head with dignity Proud of a life where to give means more than to take I want to live beyond the modern mentality Where paper is all that you're really taught to create... My nomination for a ‘Transition song’ is Oxygen by Willy Mason:

See http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1721899471564471503

…I wanna hold up my head with dignity
Proud of a life where to give means more than to take
I want to live beyond the modern mentality
Where paper is all that you’re really taught to create…

]]> By: Graham http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63347 Graham Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:33:08 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2736#comment-63347 That's very inspiring Tom! Maybe the Transition Timeline should include a chapter on "The End of Religion" visualizing a future in which we have achieved transition by a rejection of stories, fantasies and pseudoscience in favor of critical thinking and evidence-based policies. Rock on! That’s very inspiring Tom! Maybe the Transition Timeline should include a chapter on “The End of Religion” visualizing a future in which we have achieved transition by a rejection of stories, fantasies and pseudoscience in favor of critical thinking and evidence-based policies. Rock on!

]]> By: Tom A http://transitionculture.org/2009/06/29/super-furry-animals-capture-a-moment-from-a-post-carbon-future/comment-page-1/#comment-63346 Tom A Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:28:34 +0000 http://transitionculture.org/?p=2736#comment-63346 The pop nerd in you will also be pleased to know that the German rap is performed by Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand! And yes you're right the song is about what you think: Gruff says: "A celebratory anthem regarding the opening of a new tram line in a fictitious utopian mainland Europe town. The reason this song was written about the opening of a new tram system, was because that was the most uplifting occasion I could think of. My great-grandmother was run over by a tram in the Mumbles. But I'm still very much in favour of trams as a low-emission inner-city transport solution. The song is about commemorating the opening with a secular holiday. It's a celebration of living with science rather than religion." (Times March 20,2009. The pop nerd in you will also be pleased to know that the German rap is performed by Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand! And yes you’re right the song is about what you think:

Gruff says: “A celebratory anthem regarding the opening of a new tram line in a fictitious utopian mainland Europe town. The reason this song was written about the opening of a new tram system, was because that was the most uplifting occasion I could think of. My great-grandmother was run over by a tram in the Mumbles. But I’m still very much in favour of trams as a low-emission inner-city transport solution. The song is about commemorating the opening with a secular holiday. It’s a celebration of living with science rather than religion.” (Times March 20,2009.

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