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A Canadian Wake-up Call
We
are all occupants of a fragile planetary ecosystem that is showing severe signs
of strain from expanding global population and the ideal of continuously
increasing fossil fuels consumption that is adding to the problem of global
warming. To make matters worse,
energy costs have risen and we must pay more to heat our homes and fuel our
vehicles.
Over
90% of the world’s climate scientists agree that the accumulation of
greenhouse gases (the root cause of global warming) is the principle reason for
the gradual destruction of ecosystems, erratic, and extreme weather conditions
we are now experiencing. Energy
costs have risen because we
have passed the era of cheap fossil fuels as reserves and supplies dwindle and
maintaining current production rates has become increasingly difficult and
expensive. Once production rates
fall significantly below global demand for oil, we can expect prices to rise at
phenomenal rates or experience disruptions of supply.
Unless there is a coordinated agreement for cooperation, geopolitical
competition for dwindling oil supplies could trigger international military
strife over this and other natural resources.
Because of global warming and dwindling oil supplies,
we will soon experience environmental and oil resource instabilities causing
multiple synergistic problems, perhaps occurring simultaneously.
We can expect a range of local interruptions, to epochal scale failures
in the central technological services that we have come to rely on for our daily
sustenance and commerce. The
consequences will be felt by each of us in varying degrees and circumstances.
The good news is, the impacts and effects of these natural and technological crises will have on Canadians can be reduced. Canadians must first end their lethargy, consciously choose between exploitation or stewardship; devastation or sustainability. Future survival depends on how well Canadians accept and adapt to current trends and conditions, take the initial steps to proactively prepare for plausible technological interruptions, and adopt the ideals of voluntary reduction of consumption and self-sufficiency – personal autonomy with little, or no, technological conveniences from outside of what is produced by the self-sufficient individual independent of state subsidies. Only after Canadians accept a sustainable future as the only viable option, face the challenges ahead and significant changes in lifestyle with conviction, and make the commitment to prepare, then Canadians will have taken the first steps and moral responsibility to provide for individual and family’s future needs. This is “Provident Living in a Technological World”.
The end of fossil fuels is difficult to perceive for most modern day Canadians. Provident Living in a Technological World - A Canadian Wake-up Call illustrates how Canadians are propelling themselves into a future of not so uncharted territory where they should reasonably foresee fierce competition for alternative energy resources, food and shelter to become the vicissitudes that they ought to be prepared to face. There are solutions - some natural, some technological - with positive outcomes for our planet earth and Canadians have the innovative capacity to find new positive solutions to their problems. Thus far, Canadians have inadequately used their collective capacities. As a society for a sustainable future, Canadians need to develop the vision and commitment to find and implement these solutions. Provident Living in a Technological World - A Canadian Wake-up Call explains why Canadians may need to use their societal determination and solidarity to confront and defeat governmental obstructionist policies, laws and regulations that could impede their progress and deny them of their birthright for a free and sustainable future.
Provident Living in a Technological World - A Canadian Wake-up Call is presently in its pre-published phase and is available for review from this web site. To download this book, please complete and Submit the following form.
This page was last updated on July 06, 2006