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Winter\u2019s discontent<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\u201cNow is the winter of our discontent
\nMade glorious summer by this son of York;
\nAnd all the clouds that low\u2019r\u2019d upon our house
\nIn the deep bosom of the ocean buried.\u201d
\nShakespeare, Richard III<\/p>\n

This may become the winter of our discontent as people around the world face a widening energy crisis, rationing because supplies are limited due to delivery shortages, production limits, cost, or by government mandate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We likely face a severe reduction in the amount of energy and goods available.\u00a0 We need to understand a simple truth\u2026the path to renewable energy was never going to be easy.\u00a0 The only way to reduce green house gas emissions is to reduce the combustion of higher carbon fuels, but this will not be easy because fossil fuels are needed to create a renewable energy system.\u00a0 The transition is likely to cause imbalances in the energy supplies, and this has many ramifications for the goods upon which we depend. Yes, we use energy to heat and cool our homes and businesses, but we also use energy to manufacture goods, transport goods, and produce food.\u00a0 We need to understand how much fossil energy our lifestyle requires.\u00a0 We must make drastic cuts in energy consumption if we are to create an economy that runs off renewable energy,\u00a0 particularly while we are building an entirely new system.\u00a0 If we cut fossil energy supplies too quickly, where will the energy and goods we need today come from?<\/p>\n

Renewable energy sources such as wood, solar, wind, and water power are all driven by the sun\u2019s energy which is free.\u00a0 To capture free renewable energy we rely on trees that produce wood, on the movement of the atmosphere that creates wind, and the water that falls from the sky to fill rivers and reservoirs…<\/p>\n

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Winter\u2019s discontent \u201cNow is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York; And all the clouds that low\u2019r\u2019d upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.\u201d Shakespeare, Richard III This may become the winter of our discontent as people around the world face a widening energy crisis, […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[16692,265,328,16693,674,31091,3237,885],"class_list":["post-59690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-animasoul","tag-energy-crisis","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-jody-tishmack","tag-renewable-energy","tag-supply-chain-disruptions","tag-supply-chains","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59690","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=59690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59691,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59690\/revisions\/59691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}