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new: non-binary
climate concerns
Hierarchy of needs
Earth - energy - money
Connected dots: Earth - energy - money
Peak and Climate: two parts of the same problem
2007: Peaked Energy
100% renewable without fossil fuels?
Green New Deal: great slogan, excludes limits to growth
Peak Money: a permanent change
2007: Peak Electricity
Protest on the Titanic
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Ecology and Economy
a round, finite planet
using resources faster than regeneration
exponential growth of consumption
carbon credits and other greenwash
Deep Ecology: no jobs on a dead planet
Ecology and Energy
Peak without Climate: fracking, tar sands, deep water drilling, mountaintop removal, biomass, nuclear
Climate without Peak: political backlash from greenwashing
"reduce fossil fuels by 2050" - code for "depletion by 2050"
paradox: damned if we keep burning, damned if we stop
Peak Scenarios: Power Down and the Brown Tech Future
2007: Peak Traffic
2007: Peak Airplanes
Energy and Economy
rise of global economy powered by fossil fuels and minerals
solar power for a relocalized, steady state economy
debt financing and unconventional oil and gas
"too cheap to meter" - future generations of nuclear babysitters
transition to renewables more difficult on the energy downslope
Peak Wars: control of energy and minerals
Peak Fascism: Pentagon planning for collapse of ecology, energy and money
Fractal Permaculture
local - bioregional - global
Peaked Everything on a
round abundant finite planet
5 stages of Peak Acceptance
Peak Denial & Plausible Deniability
Peak Blame: Pique & Scapegoating
Peak Bargaining: techno-fixes & promised land after oil
Peak Bargaining: techno-fixes & promised land after oil
Green New Deal: great slogan
but excludes limits to growth
100% renewable after fossil fuels?
living on our solar budget won't power our "current" consumption
Peak Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Peak Acceptance: Nature is abundant, finite
Hope and Courage - www.oilempire.us/hope.html
PDF summaries: permaculture, peak energy, deep politics
Peak Choice podcasts
Reduce fossil fuel by 2050
code for "depletion by 2050"