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The Ecotechnic Future (book excerpt)
Posted in October 19th, 2009
by kristinsponsler in Community, Economics, Energy demand, Environment & sustainablity, Global, Human ecology & behaviour, Media & persuasion, Oil, Solutions
…A technic society, by contrast, relies primarily on nonfood energy. Modern industrial civilization is simply a form of technic society that gets its nonfood energy from fossil fuels and maximizes production of goods and services in the usual R-selected way at the cost of vast inefficiency. At the other end of the spectrum is the climax community, the ecotechnic society, which gets its nonfood energy from renewable sources and maximizes the efficiency of its energy and resource use in the usual K-selected way at the cost of more restricted access to goods and services.
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Whither Resilience and Transition? Why ‘Peak Oil’ Has Yet to Outlive its Usefulness
Posted in October 12th, 2009
by kristinsponsler in Community, Economics, Energy literacy, Global, Human ecology & behaviour, Latin America, Media & persuasion, Oil
It’s been a fascinating few days. Early in the week, Nate Hagens and Sharon Astyk were suggesting that perhaps the term ‘peak oil’ has outlived its usefulness, given that we have almost certainly peaked, and that the peak oil movement needs to shift its focus. It echoed something I wrote a while ago, likening ASPO and the wider peak oil movement to a Loch Ness Monster Society, dedicated to establishing the existence of this fabled creature. They organise conferences, scientific searches of the loch, write papers and journals, and then one day, an entire, intact Loch Ness Monster washes up on the shore. Then what? They have no reason to exist any longer, their whole raison d’etre vanishes overnight.
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