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"The population we have right now--which is 7 billion people--cannot be sustained in the future w/ the energy sources that are going to be available... oil is such a special and unique substance that there is nothing that can replace it."

He said the Green Revolution that has been a tool for helping to feed the world's ever growing population (or at least that's what conventional wisdom holds), relies heavily on copious amounts of relatively cheap petroleum.

More or less summarizing and paraphrasing ideas from William Catton Jr's book Overshoot, James said human beings are similar to other species in terms of our numbers drastically increasing as we access more and more resources and then crashing as those resources diminish.

About his own prospects in a peak oil world, James said, "I'm a pessimist. I don't see myself surviving beyond a certain point. Once people realize life-as-we-know-it is basically going to end, and we have to go back to another type of living, I think it's going to be chaos...a lot of us are just not going to make it."

Some Columbus residents are part of Transition Central Ohio which is part of the international Transition Network based in the UK.

Mac Crawford and his wife Debbie Crawford spoke w/ about 15 people who were gathered, w/o AC, in the Spore Print Info Shop on W. 5th, to discuss ways to cope w/ peak oil.

Crawford, Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at OSU, is working on making our local and regional public health systems more ‘resilient.’

People who are part of the international Transition Network seem to use the term ‘resiliency’ frequently in their attempts to bend their minds around how communities may prepare for and adapt to peak oil.

Crawford said the transition movement doesn’t have all the answers.
“It may not even work. We don’t know. Right now, it’s a big experiment. But we do see it as a hopeful way to proceed."

"The only other way to proceed is to either ignore the issues or hope they get better, hope there’s a technical solution, hope that science comes up w/ a new energy source that is non-polluting, so that we can continue this culture the way it’s been going.”

Crawford is not counting on technical solutions to peak oil.

"We need to find a lower energy way to get by and I’m hopeful that we’ll do that. But there’s no guarantee,” Crawford said.