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from Natural Life Magazine,
January/February 2010
The process of transitioning to the sort of low-carbon society that UK journalist/environmentalist Mark Lynas describes (left) is the focus of the Transition Movement, founded by British permaculture teacher Rob Hopkins. And Lynas’ thought- provoking quote is from Hopkins’ book entitled The Transition Handbook – From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. The Transition Town initiative is one way to address the controversial issue of peak oil and climate change, from a pro-active, not reactive stance. It teaches that small scale is big change in an industrialized world and that individual effort can create a collective harmony between the needs of a community and the will of local government. It is not about survivalism in the usual sense, but about creating change before we are faced with the absolute end of cheap oil. . . For further information about Transition Towns and to read the rest of this article, subscribe to Natural Life Magazine. Monika Carless is a freelance writer, author and publisher of Earth Spirit Press. She follows Wise Woman Traditions and lives on an organic smallholding in ebridge, Ontario. She can be reached through her website, which is at www.wholeearthspirit.com. |
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‘It seems to me that a low-carbon society would be one which
remembers that our planet is a unique gift – perhaps the only of its kind in the
entire universe – which we are indescribably privileged to be born into. It
would be a society that could look back on the six degrees nightmare scenario as
just that – a nightmare, one which humanity woke up from and avoided before it
was too late. More than anything, it would be a society which survived and
prospered, and which passed on this glorious inheritance – of caps, rainforests
and thriving civilizations – to countless generations, far into the future.”
Mark Lynas 
