Founded in 2003, the mission of the Post Carbon Institute is to lead the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world by providing individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated ecological, economic, energy, and equity crises of the 21st century. They envision a world of resilient communities and re-localized economies that thrive within ecological bounds. They believe that the world is experiencing the confluence of crisis in four interrelated systems ... energy, ecology, economy, and equity, which they call E4. These crises can be summarized as ...
1. The age of extreme energy. Declines in the amount of affordable energy available to society mean far higher environmental, economic, and social costs.
2. Overshoot abounds. Across the board, food, population, water, biodiversity, climate change, etc.... they suggest that we are approaching the biophysical limits.
3. The end of growth. As a result of the limits within and outside the economic system, they suggest that we are experiencing the end of economic growth as we have known it.
4. Increasing inequality. Rising domestic and global inequality could lead to tremendous socio-political unrest (and ultimately economic and environmental disaster), as a growing population struggles to share diminishing economic and natural resources.
Post Carbon Institute provides individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated ecological, economic, energy, and equity crises of the 21st Century. They offer to help build resilience to withstand these crises, and support social and cultural change to make society more ready to take decisive and appropriate action. Specifically, they will ... Grow collective understanding of our energy reality, and the need for both conservation and appropriate, community-centric renewable energy. Read on for more utopian visions ...but they sound like 1984.
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