Reasons to act now!

Every now and again I read something that reminds me of why it is really important that local action needs to be undertaken to reduce our carbon use and reverse globalization.

Andrew Simms in an article called Nine meals from anarchy reminded me of a few inconvenient truths:

The International Energy Agency, an official adviser to most of the world's major economic powers, wrote in 2008 that there would be a narrowing of oil production spare capacity to minimum levels by 2013.

The UK lost it's energy independence in 2004 as North Sea oil production peaked in 1999.

Britain is less than 60% self-sufficient in food but imports, 90% of it's fruit and 70% of it's animal feed.

Using a typical calander, in 2008 the Earth overshot its global biocapacity on the 23rd of September. It was the world's earliest ever ecological debt day.