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The Revolution
This is a revolution. If you want to shut an airport then stop flying.
Want an end to factory farming? Grow your own. An end to pollution?
Change to renewables. An end to war & poverty? Microgenerate. Life
for your childen? Stop needing oil. YOU have THIS Power. You do not
need Government. Seize the initiative. Bring democracy to your
community. Be an example to your children. Take responsibility.
Change for good today. |
Adventures in a Post-Carbon
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Welcome to the World-Famous Home of Post-Carbon Man. 97% of us understand that
we are contributing to Climate Change but less than 1% of UK Electricity Consumers have switched
to a Renewable Electricity Tariff. We all know there is a problem yet few
of us ever do anything. At least everyone is aware of Climate
Change. What about Peak Oil? Running out of cheap fuel will hurt
us far, far, quicker than the effects of violent
weather.
Carbon Cutters are not environmentalists, ecologists,
tree-huggers, end-of-the-worlders, new-age hippies or any other
stereotype. Carbon Cutters is EVERYONE ELSE. Anyone
brave enough to face up to this future and plan for it. There is
so much that can be done yet so little leadership. We find
that it is up to us to make the changes necessary for our
future survival. If you love life read
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Why Go Post-Carbon?
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Economic Chaos
- Oil has peaked in
production. There will never be as much cheap oil again. What is
left will become very difficult and expensive to
extract. Oil & Gas will become so expensive that our
economies will cease to function. This will
happen within thirty years.
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Climate Damage - Even
if we found a bottomless well of Fossil Fuels we
couldn't possibly burn it all. It could damage
agricultural capacity through climate chaos.
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Food Security - The combined
effects of Peak Oil and Climate Change are to reduce our usable
agricultural land, ie, our ability to feed ourselves.
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Energy Security - Our
'security' is another man's suffering. Suffering will
find its way home to us.
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The Government won't help you -
Conventional Leadership has failed. Only you and
your Community have the power to make the difference.
Angry? You SHOULD be! The solution will come from people power. People can
implement a variety of
oil-dependency-reduction measures
in their lives. "Carbon Cutters" has been setup to encourage ACTION, not
words, amongst Communities and Business. We offer our Ten
Step Plan and support the formation of Action Teams to
effect these changes. Let's all transition to a post-Carbon
future. OK? Ready? Let's roll. |
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The Post-Carbon Man Blog
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Welcome to the adventures of Post-Carbon Man. He has had enough and he isn't taking it any
more. Learn what he has to say by clicking
for this
popup.
Or go to his famous Blog here.
Post-Carbon Man keeps a running dialogue through many pages on
this web site and a daily muse on his blog for you.
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Daddy - what did you
do in the War?
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Say hello to Milla. She is our Mascot. Cute
isn't she? Everything we do we do it for her. And all the
other children just like her. Children everywhere. We
believe the problems mankind faces are so simple a child
could understand. We also know the solutions are equally
simple. Hence Milla is going to have her "Millablog" right here! She
will share with us what her family are doing in the great
war. |
Carbon Cutter News
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But what can I do?
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What can I do? We have looked at all the various solutions &
ideas out there and categorised them into TEN basic steps. These
steps are:
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 Organise
- Powerdown
- Recycle
- Substitute
- Stay
- Generate
- Grow
- Invest
- Make
- Move
Now take action... |
But Why?
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Imagine the Britain of 2020. Petrol is £5/litre. It will cost you
£1200 to heat your house for a year. Another £1000 pays for a
year's household electricity. Energy prices are doubling every
year. There is a shortage of food in the shops. You haven't seen
a Banana in three years let alone snow. The Summers are long, hot and dry. Sometimes
there is no water. Sometimes no electricity. Unemployment is 20%
and rising at 5% a year. There are riots and mass homelessness.
Crime is rampant. TV shows the body bags every night from the
foreign wars.
Now imagine if you made different decisions in your life in
2007. You moved to a smaller home with some land. The new home
is extremely well insulated. You grow your own food, make your
own hot water and electricity through the power of the sun. Your
community erected a Wind Turbine. You have wood-fired central
heating. You aren't just surviving - you are thriving. These
were the best decisions you and your community ever made. The
decisions of millions like you increased security for all of us.
Would you do the right thing if someone told you how? |
The "how"....
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For a glimpse of the future:
Books you should read:
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Collins gem "Carbon
Counter - Calculated your Carbon footprint" by Mark
Lynas ISBN 978 0 00 724812 4.
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"Blood and Oil"
by Michael Klare. ISBN 0 141 02003 2. Penguin Books.
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"The End of Oil -
The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the rise of the New
Energy Order" by Paul Roberts. ISBN 0 7475 7081 7.
Bloomsbury.
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"The Long Emergency
- Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty First
Century" by James Howard Kunstler. ISBN 1 84354 453 9.
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"Contraction &
Convergence - The Global Solution to Climate Change" by
Aubrey Meyer. Published by Green Books.
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Next....
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- Read through the ten steps
- If you are in the 99% that do not
have a renewable Electricity supply switch
NOW
Do NOT let this day pass without doing
something. |
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1. Organise | 2. Powerdown | 3. Recycle | 4. Substitute | 5. Stay | 6. Generate | 7. Grow | 8. Invest | 9. Make | 10. Move | Peak Oil | Energy Security | Climate Change | FAQ & About Us | Contact |
| References & Notes |
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The 1% figure for Green Tariff
switches is reported in an article "How Green is your
Energy?" p8-12 Organic life Magazine April 2007. The actual
numbers for the UK are £54million out of a total market of
£18billion.
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Figures on UK
Population awareness of Climate Change causes comes from an
ICM Poll taken in March 2007.
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For an insight into why Western-style
Democracy and neo-liberal Globalisation Policies are
unable to solve these problems,
read Chris Goodall's "How to Live a Low Carbon Life"
opening chapter.
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