{"id":20824,"date":"2016-05-29T18:18:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T23:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20824"},"modified":"2016-05-29T18:18:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T23:18:22","slug":"peak-oil-the-next-steps-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20824","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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I ended last week\u2019s post by explaining the significance of getting all of the facts about our energy supply future as a first step.<\/p>\n

Before deciding whether or not to accept the realities of a depleting finite resource and the impact this will have on our society\u2014or ignoring it for whatever comforting alternative explanations suit one\u2019s needs\u2014understanding the implications and those realities is a more beneficial approach.<\/p>\n

THE FIRST CHALLENGE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE<\/p>\n

The corollary to an appreciation for what a less adequate, less affordable, and less available supply of our primary energy resource is the transition itself. That effort will not happen via magic. Not only will the research, development, and planning require more effort, time, and contributions than we\u2019re likely considering now, putting everything into place is no easy assignment, either.<\/p>\n

Just to keep things interesting<\/a>, the transition from an oil-based industrial economy to Whatever-Plan-B-Will-Be will have to be achieved using that same declining measure of supply to design and construct and transport and put into place the infrastructure we\u2019ll need to support and maintain this as yet unidentified and not-planned-for-yet Plan B, thus making less available to us for all of our \u2018normal\u2019 demands and needs, creating its own set of problems. We\u2019re talking about using a lot of declining energy supplies that\u2019s a lot more expensive, over the course of a lot of years to put into operation a lot of new industrial and economic and civic foundations to (we hope) enable us to maintain some semblance of growth and prosperity\u2014all while using new energy resources that simply will not be as efficient or inexpensive or dependable as oil has been<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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