Description:The Resilience Handbook is the guide to managing the interacting complexities of the modern world to create a future with less energy use and a better quality of life.Our lifestyle in Britain is dependent on non-renewable energy, such as fossil fuels and nuclear power. Without substantial food imports, we cannot support 70 million people on this island.Seventy years ago, just after the self-sufficiency campaigns of the Second World War, we could have fed our entire population. Craftspeople ran small businesses in every high street. We could have built on this resilience to become a self-sufficient nation, but chose instead to pursue consumerism. Now, the high street is occupied by chain stores who remove money from your local area as soon as it passes over their counters.The population has nearly doubled and resources are depleting across the globe according to demand.However impossible a solution appears to be, we must remember that this happened slowly, one shopping trip at a time. We must reclaim our power and make new choices. While there’s still access to fossil fuel energy, we can use it to rebuild a resilient culture; there’s no time to lose.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Resilience Handbook: How to Survive in the 21st Century. To get started finding The Resilience Handbook: How to Survive in the 21st Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
142
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Magic Oxygen
Release
2015
ISBN
The Resilience Handbook: How to Survive in the 21st Century
Description: The Resilience Handbook is the guide to managing the interacting complexities of the modern world to create a future with less energy use and a better quality of life.Our lifestyle in Britain is dependent on non-renewable energy, such as fossil fuels and nuclear power. Without substantial food imports, we cannot support 70 million people on this island.Seventy years ago, just after the self-sufficiency campaigns of the Second World War, we could have fed our entire population. Craftspeople ran small businesses in every high street. We could have built on this resilience to become a self-sufficient nation, but chose instead to pursue consumerism. Now, the high street is occupied by chain stores who remove money from your local area as soon as it passes over their counters.The population has nearly doubled and resources are depleting across the globe according to demand.However impossible a solution appears to be, we must remember that this happened slowly, one shopping trip at a time. We must reclaim our power and make new choices. While there’s still access to fossil fuel energy, we can use it to rebuild a resilient culture; there’s no time to lose.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Resilience Handbook: How to Survive in the 21st Century. To get started finding The Resilience Handbook: How to Survive in the 21st Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.