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  • From: Gryphon Danu <gryphon@tripleaspect.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Peak-oil scenario fuels "go local", campaign
  • Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:41:49 -0700

I'm not so confident about that Toby. Humankind has gotten along quite well over the ages from living off the land. Afterall , it was energy from coal and oil that made life in the big cities possible. Once that's gone, I don't see much hope there -- too many people will be competing for too few resources; city dwellers are equally dependent on transported goods, especially food.

Yeah, living completely rural outside of a community as you once did is probably a bad choice -- but leaving cities for small, progressive towns that are in close proximity to agriculture and other natural resources like timber, good soil, and clean water is really the way to go. I personally like the ideas they're formulating over at http://communitysolution.org

Good luck.

Gryphon




Setting aside the Y2k-style nonsense of end-of-the-world scenarios due to
Peak Oil, what sort of fool would flee the suburbs for the country? One who
doesn't know that rural dwellers are even more oil dependent than city
folks. In the country, nothing is within walking distance, there's no mass
transit, jobs are far away, and all supplies must be trucked long distances.
The only asset is land. Yet there is enough land in and near all but the
largest cities to grow all the food necessary for the residents. The suburbs
will wither, but most rural people will be even worse off. Having lived in
the country, I'll stay in the city as the oil runs out. It's hard to go
local if there is no local economy, as is often the case in the country.

Toby
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