As argued in more detail by Ted Trainer in this symposium the best hope for transition to a ‘post carbon’ — or, better, a sustainable society (a much broader goal) — lies in a process of radical societal reconstruction, focused on the building, in the here and now, of self-governing and self-reliant settlements, starting at the micro-local level.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://ageoftransformation.org/whats-really-driving-the-global-economic-crisis-is-net-energy-decline/