The Pros And Cons Of Transition Town

“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form—or a species—will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
How can we, as individual citizens, create real change in our town toward living in a Low Carbon Society?

I get so frustrated when people say that it’s difficult to effect change on a large scale.

That’s when I say,

“Have you heard of Transition Town?”

I first heard of the Transition Town movement while trekking across England—250 miles on foot. I had stopped in a book store in Hay-On-Wye, a spectacular village on the Welsh Borders—no

10. Honor the elders.

“For those of us born in the 1960s when the cheap oil party was in full swing, it is very hard to picture a life with less oil. Every year of our lives since WWII (apart from the oil crises of the 70s) has been underpinned by more energy than the previous years.

While you clearly want to avoid any sense that what you are advocating is ‘going back’ or ‘returning’ to some dim distant past, there is much to be learned from how things were done, what the invisible connections between the different elements of society were and how daily life was supported.

And to reassure those who might be concerned that Transition is trying to recreate those times—that’s simply not going to happen. Human society is a complex system and complex systems never return to a prior state. If we take the best of what’s gone before, mix it up with the best of what we have now and in the future, we’ll have the best chance of ending up with a future that will work for all of us.” ~ From my article on The Transition Town in Natural Life