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Originally Posted by sendler
"How do we keep the lights on, avoid revolution and turmoil, keep children in school and people in work, yet still manage to fundamentally transform the human presence on planet Earth before ‘business as usual’ leads to run-away climate change, a drastically impoverished biosphere, and the early demise of our species?
Metaphorically speaking we are challenged to redesign the plane we are on in mid-flight. How do we keep the basic needs met while we are preparing and experimenting with the kind of transformational change that will make ‘business as usual’ obsolete and offer a qualitatively different alternative?"
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https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/...n-b59a2dc5bac1
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Something Heinberg mentioned :
'O'vertornea,Sweden achieved 100% fossil-fuel free status in 2010.
Heinberg says that there is no structural barrier to substituting fossil-fuels,as of 2011.It was just a matter of 'price.' And the price of renewables has been falling each year since ,while technology improves,efficiency climbs,capacity factor improves,and grid-scale energy storage in already in the marketplace,and undergoing continuous R & D.
18-TW of business-as-usual primary energy can be replaced by 8.3-TW of renewables to meet demand,by getting rid of the fossil-fuels.
And if we're going to stabilize the would population at 9-billion,that's all we ever have to build for.All housing,commercial buildings,industry,infrastructure,etc.,will be 'finished.'No more mining or extractive industry after equilibrium and stasis.No more expansion of the money supply,inflation,loss of savings,austerity....................