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Transition Texas: Fort Worth

Last updated:  2008-02-12 by Frank  via:  fleeding AT hotmail DOT com

See also:  -[The Transition Fort Worth Forum/Network]- (on ning.com)

A learning path:  -[Linda Grey InterView]- (very nice intro the TM)

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               {Multiplicities} (ways of approaching transition)
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Intro
 
(being a forward looking, backward glance)

The idea is simply that of "backward time-travel".
Some time in the future (come what may), we will
have to find other alternatives to our oil habit.
And since, we'd like to leave the world as best 
we can and not such a dismal "dark future" (eg,
the film "BladeRunner"), we have to use the 
resources we have NOW so that we can "buy our way"
into a better future. 

For example, say someone invents a really efficient
kind of solar power satellite, but by that time we
don't have enough fuel to put it in orbit. Thus, we
have to garner and manage our current resources for
the future which we need to build. The physicist
Enrico Fermi once asked the question, that if the
universe was just teeming with life, then where are
they? The astronomer/writer Arthur C. Clarke replied
in one of his essays that they might have destroyed
themselves before ever getting to the galactic travel
stage. We should try to not do that; me thinks.

Onward...

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Multiplicities
(ways of approaching transition)

A lot of these ideas are nothing new, and 
categories include:

  -[Self Reliance]- (simple things that pay off now)
  -[Appropriate Technology]-
  -[Decentralisation]-
  -[Localisation]-
  -[Post Carbon]-
  -[Post Petroleum]-
  -[Beyond Oil]-
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