When We Forget The End of Petro-Modern Times?

How often do we ponder on the resources that are were available to humanity in the past ,that are available now and how much of these would be available in the future. Many feel that these resources are there for us to use for the creation of the best habitats. This is very much true. But , we also realize that all the resources are not renewable. There have been struggles for distributive justice and these struggles may continue in the future as well especially for the renewable resource based livelihoods.  Estimates on peak oil indicate that the decline rate in the production of oil is increasing while demand is increasing. Nations having oil reserves would benefit in the short-term but in the long-term , as full scale replacement of the non-renewable resources are not possible, there would be crisis in the habitats that has been created without recognizing such a contingency. It is high time that oil producing nations specially act on these and rest of the nations realize the need to prepare for the end of petro-modern times. We can see that right from the computer and the internet to machine dependent agriculture from the urban to the rural area, everything is dependent on the hydrocarbons. Loss of all these would make a difference to the posterity. We need to prepare a world for the posterity. How this is being done ? Where humanity is united ? What needs to be done for uniting humanity for smooth transition to post fossil fuel age which I started referring to as a Petro Modern age? 

Ecologically Benevolent Decision Of Municipal Corporation of Gwalior

Municipal Corporation of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh has banned halogen lights. Earlier Government of Madhya Pradesh had banned use of air-conditioners in the government offices. These measures are ecologically benevolent as reduction in the use of energy ensure reduction in the emission of green house gases. This is indeed a positive step. We need to welcome this for the sake of future generations and for the protection of ecologically sustainable habitats. It would be wonderful if all the municipalities follow the suit ban advertisement for exhibitionist consumption and support carbon-neutral consumption for ensuring ecological sustainability of the habitats. Movement for Transformation of Ecologically Hostile Habitats has been launched for responding to the peak oil estimates and mitigating the impact of climate change both in urban and rural areas http://transitionurbanindia.ning.com has been formed for discussing these.

Announcing Movement for Transforming Ecologically Hostile Habitats in India

Serious work is needed for preparing for the end of what I call petro-modern times considering the estimates of peak oil and harrowing projections for the climate change. Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam had been calling for preparations in this regards in the e-forums of World Bank, UNDP ,Global Justice Movement, International Simultaneous Policy organisation and several others. Now the movement is thriving and this has been initiated with the launch of two networks of ning platform at http://transitionindia.ning.com/ geared for discussing all the issues related to transition and Movement for Transforming Ecologically Hostile Habitats http://transitionurbanindia.ning.com/ . Please join the movement as we need to ensure minimum suffering in the urban areas that are like to suffer more as more and more people based on fossil fuel based livelihoods would be first to feel the outcome of loss of fossil fuel based energy. You may also like to join the network of ecostrategic communicators at http://ecostrategiccommunicators.ning.com/ for discussing the critical issues with people from across the world who have been working for mitigating climate change and sharing best practices in adaptation.