Aphrodisiac Saltation vs. Extremum Oil: Sebaceous Cassandra
We might file this one under ‘missed opportunity’…
It may be lamentable but it’s dead on target - sex trades. We’ve realised this ourselves in the popularity of our guide on How to Green Your Sex Living, or Solar Powered Bikini, so ‘Oily Cassandra’ might very good be on to something in her attempts to train the multitude on the menace of peak oil (conceive of if Al Gore held got into intimate apparel!). Whether or not common people concord with the culture medium, the content that we need to give attending to dwindle away oil supplies, and dissolute, is tremendously of import. Withal, we’re dissapointed at how riotous Cassandra swings from cognisance elevating to defeatism, at least where sure alternatives are interested. Certain, peak oil is likely to take us some very rugged multiplication before - as Jeremy Leggett of late reasoned, we need to be calling up as if for war - but to just state we was adrift our chance to commit in renewables is not helpful. We are barely short of options, both technical and social, when it comes up to trim down on oil use dissolute, and it would have been decent to realise Cassandra animating activity instead than despair in her video. Here’s only a short list of what we might have admitted (perhaps we’ll get a video of our own to play up them…):
community-led transition aheads
kite powered transportation
backyard permaculture
urban aquaponics
local producing schemes
bikescargo bikeselectric bikeselectric scooterselectric automobiles, and electric trucks
teleworking
novel urbanism
trains
vegetarianism and decreased kernel diets
alga and waste grease for biofuels
community gardens
DIY aquiculture
Freecycle
machine partaking
dirigibles
micro-macro- and bloody-massive-scale wind turbines
solar power to power a business firm or to power the cosmos
You get the icon - certain, some of these alternatives will never come up to go across, and we may good have some major struggles before, but aphrodisiacal saltation or not, we’re lots more likely to deliver the goods if we enliven change, not transfuse fear. To be just, Cassandra’s own site makes let in some very reasonable options for accommodating, but like a lot of in the peak oil community, she looks to refuse the thought of well any answer that smacks of a techno fix. Yielded that the destiny of 1000000000000s of citizenry rest on us determination a fashion extinct of the messiness we’ve made, we’d like to hold our options open.
Sebaceous Cassandra ::via YouTube