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Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins was asked by the New Scientist to explain why he is optimistic that we can survive peak oil and minimise climate change.
From the interview:
You're about to launch an Energy Descent Action Plan for Totnes. What is it?
It's based on the idea that the way out of our current economic situation isn't to carry on as normal. We have to look at the local economy and ask what a town could look like in the next 20 years if oil production has peaked - "peak oil" - and climate change is a reality. So the vision for food might be that people have a local food economy with more urban agriculture employing local people. We then work out how we might achieve this. For instance, we look at the land available, how it is used and to what degree the area could be self-reliant.
A comment from Rob on the interview: "The only slight glitch with it is that the otherwise very attentive interviewer misheard my response when she asked when I thought we would see price volatility arising from peak oil. I said “2013″, which she heard as “2030″, thereby placing me alongside Ed Miliband and Malcolm Wicks in terms of making absurd and profoundly optimistic predictions about peak oil. Jeff Rubin would not agree with that… Oh well."
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