{"id":52472,"date":"2020-04-14T08:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52472"},"modified":"2020-04-14T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:18:49","slug":"transition-towns-re-localisation-covid-19-and-the-fracking-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52472","title":{"rendered":"Transition Towns, Re-localisation, COVID-19 and the Fracking Industry."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ergobalance.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/transition-towns-re-localisation-covid.html\">Transition Towns, Re-localisation, COVID-19 and the Fracking Industry.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerabilities of the global village and its economy have been laid bare by the assault of the coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2), which has led to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic\">a pandemic of the infectious disease, COVID-19<\/a>.\u00a0The mobility chains that enable the flow of civilization are now substantially truncated, with collapsing demand for transportation fuels \u2013 and crude oil, from which they are refined \u2013 leading Russia, Saudi and other OPEC countries to agree on combined production cuts of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-09\/opec-agrees-on-deep-oil-output-cuts-to-fight-market-slump\">10 million barrels a day<\/a>, even though demand might have fallen by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/analysis-and-features\/coronavirus-oil-gas-industry-climate-change-renewable-energy-a9453756.html\">30 million barrels a day<\/a>. It remains an open question how soon, or if at all, everything will get back to normal, when arguably, it is \u201cnormal\u201d that has brought this current situation upon us, as yet another element of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2015-11-02\/permaculture-regenerative-not-merely-sustainable\/\">changing climate<\/a>. The broad reach of the expanding global mechanism both invades\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/alanna_shaikh_coronavirus_is_our_future\/transcript?language=en\">previously uncharted terrains and ecosystems<\/a>, and provides\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/70300682-5d33-11ea-ac5e-df00963c20e6\">vectors for the transmission of contagion<\/a>.\u00a0Thus, the relentless rise of a resource-intensive civilization and its highly mobile population carries many potential dangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The need for re-localisation, in the anticipation of Peak Oil, leading to waning supplies of cheap transportation fuel, was a founding tenet of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/transitionnetwork.org\/\">Transition Towns (TT) movement<\/a>.\u00a0However, this motivation appeared to lose some of its urgency, once a flood of oil entered the market, largely as exhumed from shale by the procedure of hydraulic fracturing (\u201cfracking\u201d). Indeed, a few years ago, TT-HQ asked itself the question,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/transitionnetwork.org\/news-and-blog\/the-transition-agony-aunt-on-how-to-talk-about-peak-oil\/\">\u201cDoes so much cheap oil mean peak oil as an argument is now over?\u201d<\/a>\u00a0In fact, the production of conventional crude oil has remained on a plateau since 2005, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tupa.gtk.fi\/raportti\/arkisto\/70_2019.pdf\">71% of subsequent growth in the production of \u201coil\u201d has been provided by shale hydrocarbons<\/a>; hence, we may anticipate that any stalling of the fracking industry will begin to restrict the overall global oil supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transition Towns, Re-localisation, COVID-19 and the Fracking Industry. The vulnerabilities of the global village and its economy have been laid bare by the assault of the coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2), which has led to\u00a0a pandemic of the infectious disease, COVID-19.\u00a0The mobility chains that enable the flow of civilization are now substantially truncated, with collapsing demand for transportation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[18689,29011,8604,331,1466,20243,10736,855],"class_list":["post-52472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-chris-rhodes","tag-covid-19","tag-energy-balance","tag-fracking","tag-fracking-industry","tag-relocalisation","tag-transition-town","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52473,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52472\/revisions\/52473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}