"Who Am I?" in a Post-Petroleum World

Peak Moment 45: Joanna Gabriel feels the challenge of peak oil is an opportunity "forcing us to create the kind of world we wanted all the time anyway." The coordinator for Post Carbon Ashland explores the challenge of creating a new paradigm of sustainability and sharing while we're living in the old industrial-era paradigm of limitless growth and domination.

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People & Blogs

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• peak
• oil
• psychology
• sustainability
• spirituality
• joanna
• gabriel

[dustyloup]

i think that this "more people than the earth can sustain" idea is a bunch of depopulation, new world order bs. On the other hand; I agree that we are not living on the earth in a sustainable way.

[peakmoment]

What would it take for humans to live sustainably on the planet? Before the fossil fuel bonanza, we had about a billion people on Earth, living within the yearly solar energy provided. Fossil fuels have increased population (by making food cheaper/easier to produce). How do we return to living within the earth's limits? Humanely, we can hope -- or do we let wars, pandemics, starvation reduce our numbers?

[bananahammock]

Some people are born with a predisposition to put on weight. These types of people are completely healthy at a weight that would in someone else would be considered overweight. In such a person diets are not helpful; they are effectively starving themselves. I don't know this woman's circumstance, but you can keep your rude comments to yourself.

[slilov]

Inspiring. Thanks for a wonderful episode!

Shaul

[yuklintang]

Please please, you are such an intelligent woman with amazing words, but you need to look out for your weight, I doubt that's a sustainable way of life.

[ToddBoyle]

Looks promising but goes on too long in generalities.

We want facts, analysis, conclusions for action.