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The Post Carbon Institute recently published on their home page "The
Real New Deal: Energy Scarcity and the Path to Energy, Economic, and
Environmental Recovery. Post Carbon's proposal for the Obama
Administration's response to economic, environmental, and energy
challenges." Michael Mielke asked me to review this
publication to see how it relates to the Renewable Deal on the Earth
Restoration Portal
<
www.ManyOne.net/EarthRestorationPortal>.
The Real New Deal is allegedly written primarily by Richard
Heinberg. It contains a re-tread of his traditional material on
peak oil, related to the financial and other threats of global warming
due to emission of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, with a few
slight new additions regarding evidence for peak coal, and announcement
of collaborations between the Post Carbon Institute and (1) the
International Forum on Globalization to conduct a comparative review of
alternative energy sources in terms of energy profit ratio, environmental
impacts, scalability, and materials requirements; (2) with the Soil
Association of the United Kingdom, which is the IFOAM-accredited organic
certification body for the U.K., to describe agricultural practices that
sequester rather than emit greenhouse gases. Otherwise the entire
"Real New Deal" Part 1 - Overview: Need & Scope, Part 2 -
The Problem; Part 3 - What Governments Are Saying, Part 4 - The Solution,
Part 5 - Requirements for Energy Transition and Part 6 - Conclusion,
makes the case for the "prescription" which the Renewable Deal
"fills." The two documents are highly
complimentary.
I think the material already in Planks One and Two of the Renewable Deal
contain most of the information the Post Carbon Institute is looking for
through their collaborations with the International Forum on
Globalization and the Soil Association. Energy Plank One already
contains extensive material on energy profit ratios, environmental
impacts, scalability, and carbon offsets realized by alternative energy
sources, including equivalent information on renewable, nuclear, and
fossil fuel power plant energy sources. Agricultural Plank Two
already describes the agricultural and silvicultural practices which
would produce massive net sequestration of atmospheric carbon.
These agricultural and silvicultural practices represent proven
contemporary Best Available Technology; there is no dependence on
speculative techniques which might be realized through research.
Because the Post Carbon Institute's
The Real New Deal makes a fine
case for implementing the Renewable Deal blueprint for creation of what
Thomas Berry calls "The Ecozoic Society," I strongly recommend
signing on Canyonlands Sustainable Solutions as endorsing the proposal
which is addressed to the Obama administration. -Lance Christie,
Relocalization Network Coordinator for Canyonlands Sustainable Solutions,
the SE Utah Relocalization Network member group.
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