Low-carbon lifestyle
Peak Oil is upon us. “What oil?!” you might say…first things first, read up about Peak Oil if you’re not aware of what it’s all about here.
It’s a phenomenon that will have an enormous effect on everyone living in an industrialised country. Very briefly, Peak Oil relates to the peak, or maximum production, of world oil production. As the image below illustrates, beyond this point oil won’t run out, but it gets much more scarce. Combined with rising demand from countries becoming industrialised and it doesn’t take a genius to see that we are facing a future with restricted availability of oil.
This has huge implications for us - there is literally no part of our lives that currently are not dependent to some degree on a constant supply of cheap oil. There is no doubt that we must decouple our lives from a dependency on oil, moving to low-carbon lifestyles and living in resilient communities.
The Transition initiatives approach takes Peak Oil and Climate Change as an opportunity for people at community level to change their lifestyles for the better whilst making an enormous difference to their ecological and carbon footprints. Read up about Transition and get involved with something happening near you - if there isn’t one then think about starting one!