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Peak Oil.

Less is known about peak oil than climate change. Peak oil means the end of cheap, plentiful oil. The world is not close to running out of oil but supplies are declining, with severe implications for the industrial world.

Andrew McNamara, Queensland Minister for Sustainability, Climate Change and Innovation and Chair of the Queensland Oil Vulnerability Task force:

"There's no question whatsoever that community driven local solutions will be essential. That's where government will certainly have a role to play in assisting and encouraging local networks, who can assist with local supplies of food and fuel and water and jobs and the things we need from shops. It was one of my contentions in the first speech I made on this issue in February of 2005 ... that we will see a relocalisation of the way in which we live that will remind us of not last century, but the one before that. Undoubtedly one of the cheaper responses that will be very effective is promoting local consumption, local production, local distribution. And there are positive spin offs to that in terms of getting to know our communities better".