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Future Scenarios

How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change

by David Holmgren

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Energy and History
   • Energetic Foundations of Human History
   • The Next Energy Transition
2. Energy Futures
   • Four Energy Futures
   • Views of the Future
3. Climate Change and Peak Oil
   • Climate Change
   • Energy Reserves and Production Peaks
   • Collapsing Oil Exports
   • Net Energy Return
   • Associated Issues
4. Descent Scenarios
   • Scenario Planning
   • Interaction of Peak Oil and Climate Change
   • The Four Energy-Descent and Climate-Change Scenarios
   • Scenarios Summary
5. Interpreting the Scenarios
   • Global and Local Perspectives
   • Cuba: Brown Tech, Green Tech or Earth Steward?
   • Depressing and Positive Scenarios
   • Different Scenarios in Different Places
   • Stepped Energy-Descent Pathways Linking the Scenarios
   • Nested Scenarios
   • Relevance of Mainstream Ideas of Sustainability to Energy Descent
   • Relevance of Environmental Principles
   • Meta-Scenarios of Permaculture
6. Conclusion

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