Comments on: Five meals from chaos? http://www.citizenrenaissance.com/2008/10/12/five-meals-from-chaos/ This is a draft of a book to be published soon. Please contribute your thoughts and help finish the book. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:48:53 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jules Peck http://www.citizenrenaissance.com/2008/10/12/five-meals-from-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Jules Peck Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:47:51 +0000 http://www.citizenrenaissance.com/?p=1507#comment-38 Peter I fully agree its scary times and an opportunity for neocons to leap in and do what Klein shows they have done so often before. A friend Jeremy Leggett talks of seeing the BNP come to talks he gives on peak oil. But yes there is also hope for a progressive alliance of business, communities, unions, charities etc to come together around a radical shift away from the so clearly broken model and put in place a Wellbeing Econony that delivers to the needs of people and planet not bankers... Transition is so popular because it gives people agency to be part of change in a time when politics has no such vision. Thats why I am getting involved in my local group. Its also a movement that Westminster cannot ignore. Peter I fully agree its scary times and an opportunity for neocons to leap in and do what Klein shows they have done so often before. A friend Jeremy Leggett talks of seeing the BNP come to talks he gives on peak oil.

But yes there is also hope for a progressive alliance of business, communities, unions, charities etc to come together around a radical shift away from the so clearly broken model and put in place a Wellbeing Econony that delivers to the needs of people and planet not bankers…

Transition is so popular because it gives people agency to be part of change in a time when politics has no such vision. Thats why I am getting involved in my local group. Its also a movement that Westminster cannot ignore.

]]> By: Peter Lipman http://www.citizenrenaissance.com/2008/10/12/five-meals-from-chaos/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Peter Lipman Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:23:21 +0000 http://www.citizenrenaissance.com/?p=1507#comment-37 Osborne's article sounds as if it fits squarely in the paradigm so well depicted by John Michael Greer in the Long Descent (see review at http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46454) - that of trying to fit a complex, rapidly changing world into a simplistic narrative of either cornucopian progress or apocalypse. As Greer points out, one of the things crucial to making positive changes is a positive narrative which also faces up to the realities of what we've created - and for me, this is why the transition movement is spreading and growing so rapidly and excitingly. One caveat - the current volatility is also an opportunity for the exact opposite of increased resilience, as so well document by Naomi Klein in the Shock Doctrine. Osborne’s article sounds as if it fits squarely in the paradigm so well depicted by John Michael Greer in the Long Descent (see review at http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46454) – that of trying to fit a complex, rapidly changing world into a simplistic narrative of either cornucopian progress or apocalypse.

As Greer points out, one of the things crucial to making positive changes is a positive narrative which also faces up to the realities of what we’ve created – and for me, this is why the transition movement is spreading and growing so rapidly and excitingly. One caveat – the current volatility is also an opportunity for the exact opposite of increased resilience, as so well document by Naomi Klein in the Shock Doctrine.

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