[Peakoil] The needs of global warming trump peak oil

[G King]

I agree with the rest of the thread. 

Now is the time for 'ordinary' people to take the lead. And people around the world have begun doing just this. 

There are a couple of quick things we can do right now to help build this momentum for change:

1 Join in the People's Climate March. This is happening all over the world. From here on in, we're all in! Join me at noon 29 Nov for #PeoplesClimate March #Canberra  bit.ly/1NGasYy The aim is to say to national decision makers: 'The people of the world want action on climate change. We are taking action on climate change. Follow our lead.'  And turning out in huge numbers and huge diversity will give them permission to go further (eg at Paris climate talks) than they have publicly stated before. 

2 Join the Transition Towns movement. Initially developed to deal with peak oil, it is a proven way for communities to work out their own way of transitioning to a better future.  The Canberra community has now joined the movement, as Transition Canberra. Further details at http://www.see-change.org.au/canberra-transition-town/. Perhaps ACT Peak Oil could work on an oil descent plan for Canberra. 

To quote:
If not us, who? If not now, when?


Gill
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Join me in the People's Climate March
Canberra: 29 November, 12 noon, Parliament House lawns

> On 12 Nov 2015, at 12:07 pm, Antony Broughton Barry <antonybbarry at me.com> wrote:
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>> On 12 Nov 2015, at 11:05 am, Jenny Goldie <jenny.goldie at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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>> But we have to look at it even more holistically. How many people can the world support at a standard of living where their basic needs are supplied, given existing technologies, and without degrading the Earth and compromising the other species we share it with? Answer: Not as many as we have today and not nearly as many as the UN projections for 2050 ans 2100. Probably less than two billion even with the best of technology. We have to reduce population (as Japan is successfully doing), keep most of fossil fuels in the ground and work flat out to make the transition to a renewable economy.
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> I completely agree. Two billion tops. We either do it deliberately or the it will be thrust upon us the hard way in a horrific collapse from which a high level civilization may not reemerge seeing as most of the easily extracted rich mineral resources have been dissipated and mixed  into artifacts, scattered waste dumps, general pollution or dissolved into the oceans.
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> Tony
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