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[Antony Barry]

On 23/06/2007, at 11:06 AM, Stewart Fist wrote:

> We need a change in our economic thinking to encourage  
> decentralisation.
> This would allow future Australians to greatly reduce our  
> dependence on all
> forms of transport and on communications technology.  At the same time
> decentralisation will make the country less dependent on fossil- 
> fuel energy,
> and distribute the pressure on distributed resources like water.

We will be forced to decentralise when crude oil production peaks as  
early as now, as late as 2035 and probably around 2010-5 with gas  
following ten years later. This will hit far harder and faster than  
climate change.

Tony

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