“it is always going
to be difficult to come up with sustainable
ways to support our
unsustainable
lifestyles”
The concept of man-made climate change has become increasingly prominent in the media, but until recently relatively few people have heard of or fully understood the term 'peak oil'.
Peak oil represents the reality that discoveries of new & easily accessible oil reserves, and the ability of oil producing nations to satisfy global demand, have now reached their peak. Rising oil prices have already had a growing impact on everything from petrol prices to food and medicines - virtually everything in the modern industrialised world currently relies on some form of oil for its production and transport!
Therefore we are going to have to learn very rapidly to live in a world of declining supplies of cheap oil, and look to other more sustainable forms of energy and lifestyles.
This does NOT mean going back to living in caves by candle light! - but it will require a radical look at how we currently lead our lives. The transition process seeks to find new ways of maintaining our economies, our homes, transport, food supplies etc., all with a much lower dependence on the ready availability of cheap energy.
