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Required reading:

 

Chris Goodall "How to Live a Low Carbon Life"

Chris Goodall "How to Live a Low-Carbon Life"

 

Richard Heinberg "The Party's Over"

Richard Heinberg "The Party's Over"

 

George Monbiot "Heat"

George Monbiot "Heat"

 

Required watching:

 

DVD - "The Power of Community"

The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - DVD

 

DVD - "The End of Suburbia"

The End of Suburbia - Oil Depletion & the Collapse of the American Dream - DVD

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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.

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Adventures in a Post-Carbon Land

No Hippies! Post Carbon Living for the Rest Of Us

     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 on.....

Why Go Post-Carbon?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Food Security - The combined effects of Peak Oil and Climate Change are to reduce our usable agricultural land, ie, our ability to feed ourselves.

  • Energy Security - Our 'security' is another man's suffering. Suffering will find its way home to us.

  • 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.

The Post-Carbon Man Blog

Low Carbon Man     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.

Daddy - what did you do in the War?

Milla Wants Her Future Secured     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.

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But what can I do?

     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:

 

  • Our Top TenOrganise
  • Powerdown
  • Recycle
  • Substitute
  • Stay
  • Generate
  • Grow
  • Invest
  • Make
  • Move

 

     Now take action...

But Why?

     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"....

  • www.uswitch.com where you can compare suppliers of renewable electricity online

 

For a glimpse of the future:

 

 

Books you should read:

 

  • Collins gem "Carbon Counter - Calculated your Carbon footprint" by Mark Lynas ISBN 978 0 00 724812 4.

  • "Blood and Oil" by Michael Klare. ISBN 0 141 02003 2. Penguin Books.

  • "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.

  • "The Long Emergency - Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty First Century" by James Howard Kunstler. ISBN 1 84354 453 9.

  • "Contraction & Convergence - The Global Solution to Climate Change" by Aubrey Meyer. Published by Green Books.

Next....

  • 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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References & Notes
  • 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.

  • Figures on UK Population awareness of Climate Change causes comes from an ICM Poll taken in March 2007.

  • 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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