új Monbiot cikk a Guardianban: a Növekedés korának vége, eljött az Entrópia kora.
egy kísérlet: 12 ember, 16 hektáron, kis tehenek, egy nagy ló, fatüzelésű kazán. Köldkökzsinórként megtartottak 2 autót, ezen osztoznak mindnyájan. Működik.
egy kis bibi: 1 ember 1,33 hektárt igényel. Ha ezt kivetítjük Magyarországra, akkor a 10 millió embernek 133.000 km2 kellene => sokan vagyunk.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1289536,00.html
An answer in Somerset
The Age of Entropy is here. We should all now be learning how to live without oil
The only question worth asking is what we intend to do about it. There might be a miracle cure. Photosynthetic energy, supercritical geothermal fluid drilling, cold fusion, hydrocatalytic hydrogen energy and various other hopeful monsters could each provide us with almost unlimited cheap energy.
But we shouldn't count on it. The technical, or even theoretical, barriers might prove insuperable. There are plenty of existing alternatives to oil, but none of them is cheap, and none offers a comparable Eroei.
If it is true that the Age of Growth is over, and the Age of Entropy has begun, and if we are to retain any hope of a reasonable quality of life without destroying other people's, then our infrastructure, our settlements, our industries and our lives require total reconstruction.
Given that our governments balk even at raising fuel taxes, it is rational to seek to pursue our own solutions: to redevelop economic systems which do not depend on fossil fuels.
For several years, I've been involved in one of these. Now that it has passed its 10th birthday, I think it is fair to say that it works.
Tinkers' Bubble is 40 acres of woodland, orchards and pasture in south Somerset. It was bought by a group of environmentalists in 1994, and a dozen people moved in, applied for shares and built themselves temporary houses.
They imposed a strict set of rules on themselves, which included a ban on the use of internal combustion engines on the land. They made a partial exception for transport: the 12 residents share two cars.
Otherwise, the only fossil fuel they consume is the paraffin they put in their lamps. They set up a small windmill and some solar panels, built compost toilets, and bought a wood-powered steam engine for milling timber, some very small cows and a very large horse.
