Wise Up - The Crash Course
Part 3 - The Options - How To Be Transition Wise
Chapter 9: Revolutions, Depressions and Finding Your Way
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Chapter 9: Revolutions, Depressions and Finding Your Way
Part 3 of the Wise Up course looks at possible responses to our global predicament. There are no simple, "silver bullet" solutions for the scale of change which is coming. There is no guarantee that any individual will not suffer as a result of the mess we have gotten ourselves into. However, there are a range of options which could make a major difference in all but the very worst case scenarios.
As much as possible, Part 3 focuses on options which will benefit the individual AND the community. There are considerable "survivalists" who are focused on self-sufficiency. This is a major mistake. Careful analysis shows that isolated individuals or even families will be more vulnerable in the future. Self-sufficiency, despite its romantic appeal, is not practical. Community sufficiency is far more achieveable, healthy and resilient. How we support our community and make ourselves valuable to it are key questions.
The content of Part 3 of the course, as currently presented, is from an early stage of research and development. It is only a starting point. I have much more to say in this area in particular. Some matters are also best discussed directly and not presented on a website.
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For Further Information:
For Further Information:
Climate Change - Final Warning.pdf (This ‘call to arms’ from some of the country’s leading scientists, plus several commentators and politicians was written following the “Imagining the Real Life on a Greenhouse Earth” Conference June 2008, Australian National University, Canberra. It was approved by over 200 conference delegates.)
www.bom.gov.au/climate/change (Wide variety of detailed information from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology information on climate change.)
Has-carbon-lobby-captured-kevin-rudd (The author, Guy Pearse, is a former member of the Liberal Party and was a speechwriter for former environment minister Robert Hill. In 2007, after his research and concerns were dismissed by his political colleagues, he exposed the politics behind Australia's response to climate change on ABC TV's Four Corners and in his book High & Dry.)
www.GetUp.org.au (GetUp is an independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation giving everyday Australians opportunities to get involved and hold politicians accountable on important issues. )
Fast Answers!
- Introduction
- What is the Great Transition?
What is TransitionWise.org?
Who is it for?
- What's the Problem?!!
- Problem vs Predicament
Oil, climate, exponential growth, other limits, economy, and the unexpected - a taste of our six converging threats
- Important News
- Richard Branson Warns the World of Peak Oil within 5 Years
The Real Value of James Cameron's "Avatar"
Central Sunshine Coast Resilient Community Forming
American Capitalism on the Rocks
Update on Peak Oil - ASPO Denver
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