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Rob Hopkins on Transition Towns at TED

Submitted by James Samuel on 26 November 2009 - 5:33am | updated 26 Nov 2009 | Blog entry

Over the last few days I have been posting a number of videos on the subject of money. The financial implosion is almost certainly directly related to the state of our global energy reserves. Since Transition Towns look the energy issue and its related Climate issue squarely in the eye, I thought it was time to hear from Rob Hopkins about how people in communities all over the world are responding, to these very real challenges of the day.

Oil - as we love it and leave it.

We've been astonishingly lucky [to have lived through the oil age]. Let's honour what is has brought us and move forward from this point, because if we cling to it, and assume that it can underpin our choices the future it presents to us is one that is really unmanageable. By loving and leaving all that the oil age has done for us we are able to begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.

Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition movement, a radically hopeful and community-driven approach to creating societies independent of fossil fuel.

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words-version? Rob Hopkins on Transition Towns at TED

Submitted by davd on 29 November 2009 - 6:29am.

· I admire all you've done over the years, James, but this time I'm puzzled: where did that text you quote from Rob Hopkins come from? Is it your own transcript from the video?

· I wanted to find Rob's words (on a webpage) because I choose not to instal Adobe Flash since advertising uses it so much.

· Here are what I've found so far; the first is from his master set of notes "Giving One of the 2009 TED Talks. Gulp" and the second is your "quotes".

* Rob *:

http://transitionculture.org/2009/07/22/giving-one-of-the-2009-ted-talks...
- (on 22 July 2009) has:
"I feel deeply grateful to have lived through the Age of Cheap Oil and all the opportunities it has brought me.
I have been astonishingly lucky. Let us honour what it has brought us and move on. The only future it can offer us now is profoundly unmanageable and not a place we want to go. By loving, and then leaving, all that it has done for us, we are able to begin the creation of a new, more resilient, more nourishing world in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other."

* James' quote *:

http://transitiontowns.org.nz/node/2206
- (on 26 November 2009 - 6:33am) has:
"We've been astonishingly lucky [to have lived through the oil age]. Let's honour what is has brought us and move forward from this point, because if we cling to it, and assume that it can underpin our choices the future it presents to us is one that is really unmanageable. By loving and leaving all that the oil age has done for us we are able to begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other."

[David: ]
· You can see the similarities but why the differences?

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