Get the facts
The ultimate peak oil news and current affairs site.
http://www.energybulletin.net/
the latest scientific reports
http://www.peakoil.net/
the petition
http://www.copad.org/
the movie, site has previews
http://www.endofsuburbia.com/
the latest free online videos, sound files, and reading.
A GREAT resource! Check here weekly!
http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/
free peak oil posters for most BIG peaknik sites
www.eclipsenow.org
Depressing sites — that may just be realistic
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
http://www.oildepletion.org/
http://www.dieoff.com/
http://www.oilcrash.com/
http://www.wolfatthedoor.org.uk/
Solutions
Meet people and join an eco-village in your area
http://www.postcarbon.org/
Transform your city into an eco-city.
http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/
Free "web book" reference,
"The Simpler Way" — a classic (even if it needs a redesign).
http://socialwork.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/
Otherpower... the guys that help you live off the grid.
http://www.otherpower.com/
Last comment: Peak oil and overshoot or overpopulation concepts are closely related. We will probably survive peak oil with a enormous recession or even Greater Depression. Yet if we keep growing our populations and consumption exponentially, it is mathematically and ecologically inevitable that we WILL break Liebig's Law at some stage. So no "solution" is complete without some kind of economic pressure or reward to have smaller families. The industrialized nations of the world already have this in some measure just by the nature of their economic system, and this is called the Demographic transition. First world populations would be in decline if it were not for high immigration. And there's the kicker.
This is not about race, ethnic cleansing, or any Nazi rubbish like that. This is simply about sustainability. If first world countries continue to allow high levels of immigration, they will facilitate and enable a few things:-
1. Every child that moves from a developing country into a rich industrialized dirty polluting country like Australia will consumed 12 times the resources of his or her brothers and sisters back home, contribute to global warming more, and generally have far more environmental impact.
2. It takes the pressure off the home country to contain population growth.
The answers are many, and Sustainable Population Australia has developed
a list of policies that might work in any industrialized country in the world.
We can get through this, but the sad reality is that peak oil is only the first of many challenges. The next one to hit our children and grand-children is peak "rarer metals", then peak phosphorus... it's peak "everything" in a way simply because:-
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There are too many people consuming too many resources too quickly.
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I hope for a bright Viridian Green future with ample renewable energy to power most of our modern comforts, but in smarter city plans, New Urbanism, public transport, and a stable population. The challenge is how do we get from "here" — a fossil fuel dependent world, to "there" — a world running as a clean green renewable machine. I hope you will join me in putting up a few posters to raise awareness of the coming oil crisis for starters.
Good on you for belonging to this forum in the first place!
Good luck.
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