The Transition Timeline: For a Local, Resilient Future - Softcover

Chamberlin, Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900322560 ISBN 13: 9781900322560

Publisher: Transition Books, 2009

Synopsis

The Transition Timeline lightens the fear of our uncertain future, providing a map of what we are facing and the different pathways available to us. It describes four possible scenarios for the UK and world over the next twenty years, ranging from Denial, in which we reap the consequences of failing to acknowledge and respond to our environmental challenges, to the Transition Vision, in which we shift our cultural assumptions to fit our circumstances and move into a more fulfilling, lowerenergy world. The practical, realistic details of this Transition Vision are examined in depth, covering key areas such as food, energy, demographics, transport and healthcare, and they provide a sense of context for communities working towards a thriving future. The book also provides a detailed and accessible update on climate change and peak oil and the interactions between them, including their impacts in the UK, present and future. Use it. Choose your path, and then make that future real with your actions, individually and with your community. As Rob Hopkins outlines in his foreword, there is a rapidlyspreading movement addressing these challenges, and it needs you.

About this title

About the Author

Shaun Chamberlin has been involved with the Transition Network since its inception and is a core member of Transition Town Kingston. Founding darkOptimism in 2007, he has been a regular speaker at Transition communities as well as delivering presentations for the likes of the UK and Scottish Parliaments, the European Commission and the London School of Economics. Specialising in the neglected interactions between climate change and peak oil, his articles have found homes ranging from online think tank The Oil Drum to Resurgence magazine, while he has also co-authored an All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil report, edited booklets on carbon rationing and nuclear power, and acted as both an advisor to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and an academic peer reviewer for the Climate Policy journal.

From the Back Cover

An exploration of the history of the next twenty years, The Transition Timeline lightens the fear of our uncertain future, providing a map of what we are facing and the different pathways available to us. It describes four possible scenarios for the UK and world over the next twenty years, ranging from Denial, in which we reap the consequences of failing to acknowledge and respond to our environmental challenges, to the Transition Vision, in which we shift our cultural assumptions to fit our circumstances and move into a more fulfilling, lower-energy world.

The practical, realistic details of this Transition Vision are examined in depth, covering key areas such as food, energy, demographics, transport and healthcare, and they provide a sense of context for communities working towards a thriving future. The book also provides a detailed and accessible update on climate change and peak oil and the interactions between them, including their impacts in the UK, present and future.

Use it. Choose your path, and then make that future real with your actions, individually and with your community. As Rob Hopkins outlines in the chapter he has contributed, there is a rapidly spreading movement addressing these challenges, and it needs you.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transition Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900322560
• ISBN 13: 9781900322560
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192