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Executive Director Asher Miller and Fellow David Fridley were quoted in a set of in-depth articles about peak oil and the growing Transition movement. Each of the articles appeared in a different local newspaper in the San Francisco area, but are written by the same author and share the same basic premise.
- Article in North Bay Bohemian, June 17, 2009
- Article in Santa Cruz Weekly, June 18, 2009
- Article in MetroActive (Silicon Valley), June 24, 2009
Fridley, a firm believer in Transition, adds that too many Americans believe in solutions to all problems. Peak oil, however, is a terrible anomaly among crises, he explains, because there is no solution other than to face reality and prepare for a dramatic change of lifestyle...
"There is nothing that can replace oil and allow us to maintain life at the pace we've been living," he says. "Crude oil is hundreds of millions of years of stored sunlight, and we're using it all up in a few generations. It's like living off of a savings account, whereas solar energy is like working and living off your daily wages."...
Asher Miller has been trying to convey the urgency of peak oil to the public for several years. As executive director of the Post Carbon Institute in Sebastopol, Miller believes global peak oil occurred last summer. From here on out, he says, we will see severe price instability of many foods and products as the age of cheap, easy energy comes to an end. Miller likens the last 150 years to a feeding frenzy.
"This kind of thing happens to any species that suddenly finds an abundant food source. Its population explodes and things go way out of balance. Oil was our food source, and we went crazy for a while."
- Asher Miller's response to the Metroactive article was published on their Letters to the Editor page. Miller states:
This false dichotomy—between "doomers" and "dreamers"—is dangerous because it's not fair to your readers or others just discovering peak oil to think that they must somehow pick a side. There are no sides because everyone I know in the broad community who is aware of peak oil, including myself, sits in a place of simultaneous fear and hope.
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