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What do sub-prime mortgage have to do with Atlantic salmon, SUVs and globalization?
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They all depend on cheap oil, but oil is peaking.
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So you can count on the price at the pump is going up.
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And as transportation cost rises, so will the costs of our food.
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That means that we have to wean ourselves from fossil fuels and re-engineer our lives
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to adapt to a world with growing energy scarcity.
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The good news is your neighbors and your neighborhood are about to get a lot more important
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in the not too distant future.
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Margaret Mead, a famous anthropologist once said,
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"Never underestimate how a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.
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Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has!"
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That's where community power comes in.
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Thinking and acting locally is the only way that we are going to able to
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address the issue facing us today and generations to come.
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We have significant challenges in front of us.
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CO2 emissions are pouring into the atmosphere.
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If the global climate warms beyond an average increase of 2 degrees,
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the impacts will be far more devastating than we can imagine.
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Community power and the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) is a way for people
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to share adversity and decide what to do about it
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while creating economic benefits.
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The Green Energy and Green Economy Act is unlike anything else in North America.
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It created the framework for a cross-section of communities to come together and create
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the infrastructure to turn vision into action.