Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
On March 2, environmentalist Bill McKibben will join demonstrators who plan to march on a coal-fired power plant in Washington D.C. In this article for Yale Environment 360, he explains why he’s ready to go to jail to protest the continued burning of coal.
Transition is a huge social experiment, and the States embraces new ways of thinking much more so than the UK….On a related note, the pioneer spirit is very much alive in the States and embodied by many survivalists….Transition US hopes to be able to engage the survivalist community. We recognize that they have many of the skills that will be needed in a post peak world, and we honor that wisdom.
It has been fascinating to read a series of three articles at PeakOilBlues.com looking at the arrival of Transition in the US…Apart from having a fantastic title that I really wish I had thought of, the piece also raises some key questions needing contemplation as Transition continues to spread vigorously across the US. I wanted to take the opportunity to address some of Kathy’s points in this post.
British and American cultures are often thought of as mirror images of one another…The UK is a small country, and, as Hopkins points out, there is no room to “run and hide.” In contrast, vast sections of the US are virtually empty….We have different gun cultures…We will need to explore this important cultural difference in detail, in order to understand the phenomenal rise in popularity of the American “survivalist” movement, and TI’s-UK’s (culturally based?) aversion to it.
How the Crash Will Reshape America
Job Losses Pose a Threat to Stability Worldwide
Economic Lessons From Lenin’s Seer
It couldn’t happen here – could it?
‘Honey, they shrunk the groceries’; Prices go up, sizes go down
Amazon rainforest razed so cattle can graze
Landless Worker’s Movement (MST) turns 25
Wealthy countries gaze hungrily at Canada’s prairies
Riot? If I were 20 years younger I would take to the streets
Thousands protest across Russia
Greek Farmers Clash With Riot Police
Most current efforts at social change, in and out of the peak oil community, take their direction from ideologies that claim to point the way to a better world. Is an approach drawing on the insights of human ecology potentially a better gamble?
The Reality Report talks to Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and co-founder of the climate change group 350.org.
The Transition Movement comes to America
Watch This Video: City-Based Ecovillages
Powerdown toolkit #1- climate and peak oil
Bill McKibben interviewed by Jason Bradford
Global Warming Is Irreversible, Study Says
The other global warming
Global Warming Could Unleash Ocean ‘Dead Zones’: Study
In recent years, peak oil realists have done a tremendous job sounding the alarm about the need for a concerted national effort to leave oil before it leaves us. Now, our mission must turn urgently from the educational to the political. With the changing of the guard in Washington, D.C. and the sting of $4/gallon gas still a recent memory, we have a unique opportunity to present the federal government with a do-or-die call to action.
