Rob Hopkins, founder of Transition Towns and the Transition Network and a fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, joins ZOOM’D to explore the Transition Movement, a social experiment on a massive scale devoted to the twin challenges and opportunities of peak oil and climate change. Peaking of world oil production presents an unprecedented risk-management problem—and without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be exorbitant. Rob describes the ins and outs of the global grassroots organizing effort taking place, recognizing that if we wait for government to act, it wil
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