Video: Permaculture and Peak Oil: Beyond ‘Sustainability’
Friday, May 1, 2009
A great 25 minute interview (edging towards diatribe) by David Holmgren co-originator of the permaculture concept. He is very eloquent and succinct in his summary of peak oil & where permaculture fits in though you’ll probably get most benefit from watching this if you’ve already a grasp of the basic concepts.
Of particular interest is his comparison between now and the 1930′s depression (around 4:45). He goes against the accepted wisdom that artificially increased economic activity (lets call that spending) in a Keynsyan-like orgy will pull the world out of depression much like it did in the 30′s where – arguably – the 2nd world war dragged the US back from the economic brink. He argues that back then it was in a context of massively increasing energy availability and that now the direct opposite is true so we can’t rely on things panning out the same way.
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