Prevent Global Environmental Collapse

If we haven’t already reached the peak of oil production, we have already past it to be sure, and climate scientists are demonstrating that I may be impossible for us to avoid reaching a tipping point of global warming and climate change.

Some environmentalists are considered to be a bit weird and strange, some environmentalists seem to be overly passionate about saving small corners of the natural world and through not taking into account the bigger picture, are regarded as being too obsessive. So a result, those who have some environmental concern are often tarred with the same brush. Environmentalism, that social movement that could save us from ourselves, has become demonised.

It is not just the fact that oil is running out that should concern us, the population of the planet is fit to reach a peak, possibly as soon as 2050 an then with possible population decline over that period. Taking into account that the forces that allow the population to grow include the national infrastructure, medical care, and a thriving economy, and that these things rely upon energy sources such as oil and natural gas, investment, even in a small way, in green energy such as solar, wind and carbon neutral biomass is essential.
If we haven’t as a species started to build a body of knowledge that is based on the use of green energies by the end of the first third of the 21st century, the whole human species could have some difficulties when the middle of the century comes. The peak of population could end up being tragic with a great deal of suffering world wide. So what are we, as the common man or woman in the western world, to do?

It would be incorrect to say that the common man and woman in the street has no say in the way that the world will become over the coming 40 years. These days and with the internet we have the potential through social networking to influence opinions, share knowledge and bring groups of people together. Bodies of knowledge are already being built very slowly. Channels on video websites are dedicated to making solar air and water heating panels in an affordable way. People are demonstrating the power of the solar oven in on-line video and, my special favourite, some people are learning how to extract gasses from wood and other biomass for the purposes of cooking outdoors, and with the same, or possibly lower cost than natural gas, going down to near zero cost for cooking energy.

Some people have even created gasifier devices that can be used to power internal combustion engines that can generate electricity for domestic heating, lighting and powering consumer durables or to replace petrol in their cars in a way that is carbon negative rather than carbon neutral. Still others have found ways to  extract gasses from water to assist in reducing their cars need for gasoline.

My point is that this knowledge has to be in the hands of the common man or woman like you. It has to be something that is passed on by word of mouth as a way of saving you from high energy bills and potentially needing to rely upon the energy grid at all. You can be a part of this. Right now, today! Participate in social networks, do some experimentation at home and publish your results on-line and add to the global knowledge that can be used to save us from ourselves.