Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change explores how society might respond as fossil fuels decline and the climate shifts. Drawing on the practice of scenario planning, it presents clear storylines that help readers think ahead, assess risks, and design more resilient ways of living.
The book outlines four distinct scenarios that combine different degrees of climate disruption with either gradual or rapid energy decline. These range from relatively stable transitions based on green technologies to more disruptive futures in which communities must radically simplify and localize their lives.
Through these contrasting possibilities, the author examines how energy, politics, agriculture, culture, and even spiritual life could change over coming decades. Rather than offering simplistic doom or blind optimism, the book encourages readers to understand long-term "energy descent" and prepare thoughtfully.
Future Scenarios is ideal for readers interested in sustainability, community resilience, and practical responses to peak oil and climate change.
- Four vividly described future pathways
- Focus on community-scale adaptation
- Insight into energy, food systems, and social change
- Useful framework for planners, activists, and local leaders
