Positive energy

The terrifying prospect of a post-oil future: no more ready meals, traffic jams or lonely nights in front of television.

…Anyway, I was asked to give a presentation on the likely impacts of climate change for the work and operating methods of the community. I began by describing the various ways in which we as a society have developed structures


Then, keeping a straight face with some effort, I provided a stern introduction to the images I proposed to show to illustrate the world that I suggested we are about to move into. “Scramble for the remaining oil… resource wars… starvation… armed gangs purloining food at the barrel of a gun…”

Some of the images I would show, I suggested, were so disturbing that those of a nervous disposition might choose to avert their eyes. But I defiantly declared myself unapologetic about being the bearer of truths that might be hard to hear.

What followed was a slide-show of happy people working and playing together in community. “We will have no choice but to learn to live without chemically produced food shipped in from the other side of the world”