How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Peak Oil
I’ve recently witnessed a few scenes of life after peak oil, and it isn’t necessarily the Apocalypse.
In Juneau, Alaska, for example, people are proving it’s possible to change our energy-hogging ways literally overnight and still keep a community up and running. The inspiration in their case: an avalanche that severed the hydroelectric power lines serving the remote Alaska capital, cutting off about 80 percent of the city’s available electricity.
