# What’s really driving the global economic crisis is net energy decline

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**Created:** [3 August 2017 02:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/what-s-really-driving-the-global-economic-crisis-is-net-energy-decline/105 "2017-08-03T02:00:00Z")\
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As argued [in more detail by Ted Trainer](https://insurge.net/the-solution-to-the-global-crisis-of-capitalism-is-simplicity-itself) 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.

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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/](https://ageoftransformation.org/whats-really-driving-the-global-economic-crisis-is-net-energy-decline/)