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what do sub-prime mortgage have to do with the Atlantic salmon,
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SUVs and globalization?
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They all depend on cheap oil.
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but oil is peaking, so you can count the price of the pump going up
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and as transportation costs rise, so are the cost of our food.
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That means that we have to win ourselves fossil fuels and and re-enginer our lives
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to adapt to the 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 throughtful people can change the world.
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Indeed, that'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, it's the only way
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that we are going to be able to address the issues 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 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 to share
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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 cross-section communities to come together
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and create the infrastructure to turn vision into action.
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We are faced with two paths, the hard path;
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centralized productions of energy, continuous consumption and limitless growth.
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