How to Prepare for Peak Oil and Climate Change

Declining energy availability and changes to global climate patterns are now starting to be felt around the world. Preventing the effects of these two trends and a host of related challenges is no longer entirely possible: your approach to sustainability must now include preparations for life in a fundamentally different world. The good news is that great crisis can lead to great change. In this article you will learn seven important factors that you can use personally in transforming global challenges into the emergence of an ecologically stable and economically sound planetary society.

Peak oil and climate change represent major symptoms of the limits to growth of our current economic system. Other limits to growth include water, topsoil, concentrated ore bodies, fisheries and the ability of the biosphere to process many of our other industrial wastes. For over thirty years scientists have been warning that the biosphere is being damaged and that its ability to provide vital environmental services is being diminished. This information has not changed the behavior of enough people to avoid the negative consequences we are now starting to experience. Why is this so? If we have clearly identified the problem and people know about it, why haven