<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 27 Feb 2006, at 10:13 PM, Keith Thomas wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Andale Mono" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Andale Mono">Traditional social structures (committees, constitution, minutes) are in danger of bogging you down and hampering you. You'll have a meeting and believe you have done something (that's a sure sign the rot has set in :-).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>I agree. It's something that has to be watched.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Andale Mono; min-height: 16.0px"></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Andale Mono; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Andale Mono" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Andale Mono">There are good reasons for incorporating ACT Peak Oil. But all these are predicated upon 'business as usual'. One thing we know is that there won't be business as usual for more than about four years. If you slot in with the reality-denying mainstream then you'll get results that match.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Andale Mono" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Andale Mono">However, if there was a peak oil / climate change action committee (the emphasis on action) with a community mandate to provide solutions (think up, build and run - without the debilitating requirement for consultation) for communities to weather PO and climate change, that would be better. <BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Initially I would favour political and awareness work while there is "business as usual" so that more people will realize that it won't be. We need to change the mainstream. Not that I think that how to survive at an individual and community level should be neglected. My ninth grandchild is due next month.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Andale Mono" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Andale Mono">Remember the magnificent, rule-breaking mobilization to deal with Cyclone Tracey?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>It was POLITICAL action which did this but then the government was one which was prepared to take risks which was one of the elements in their downfall. Oddly enough I've got to have a grudging respect for the present Government's (which I detest) willingness to take high risk actions. Gun control, Timor, Iraq, GST and industrial relation could, or can still, lose them office. The people to get at are Nelson, Turnbull, Costello and all of the Nationals. The latter have the most to lose and conversely the most to gain as global warming belts agriculture, demands for biofuels increase and people stream out of major cities into the county.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tony</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Andale Mono; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>phone : 02 6241 7659 | <A href="mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au">mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au</A></DIV><DIV>mobile: 04 1242 0397 | <A href="http://tony-barry.emu.id.au">http://tony-barry.emu.id.au</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>