Beyond Peak Announces Peak Oil Scenario Competition

BeyondPeak.com, a adviser to active sustainably with Peak Oil and bread-and-butter collapse, calls for submissions for a Peak Oil Future Scenario contest.

Napa Valley, CA February 25, 2006 -– BeyondPeak.com, a adviser to active sustainably with Peak Oil and bread-and-butter collapse, announces its First Annual “Who Knows? Things Might Get Better” Peak Oil Scenario Competition.

Is there ablaze at the end of the Peak Oil tunnel? Most Peak Oil activists see annihilation but abrogating after-effects from Peak Oil—the abatement in common assembly of oil. Most allegedly feel that Peak Oil will lead, in one way or other, to The End Of The World As We Know It (or as frequently referred to during Y2K days, TEOTWAWKI).

Some Peak Oil assemblage adumbrate abiding to the semi-rural canicule of the aboriginal 1900s. Other advance we could acknowledgment to pre-industrial and even early-agricultural days. Still others advance a acknowledgment to Paleolithic times, area all-important abilities cover authoritative your own atramentous knives and starting fires with a flintstone.

But are these absolutely our alone options? Is this the best altruism can do? Beyond Peak hopes there are other, added positive, accessible futures. Unfortunately, as Beyond Peak architect Mick Winter says, “even if we can see a bigger future, it’s actual harder to see how we’d logically get from actuality to there.”

That’s why, says Winter, Beyond Peak invites all those absorbed in Peak Oil and the approaching to access the website’s book competition. To enter, entrants artlessly address a book and abide it to BeyondPeak.com. There is no minimum breadth required. Write whatever breadth is adapted to your scenario, admitting entrants should accumulate in apperception that this is an article challenge and not a book competition. When in doubt, analysis with BeyondPeak.

Scenarios have to be submitted electronically on or afore March 31, 2006. First abode champ will accept $100 cash, additional abode $50, and third abode $25. Fourth and fifth places get celebrity and Honorable Mention. All of the top 5 scenarios will be acquaint on the Beyond Peak website and aggregate with added websites as well.

As Winter cautiously admits, it may be that no one anxious about Peak Oil in actuality has any optimism. But he hopes that some do. In fact, he encourages pessimists to address an optimistic scenario—just as an bookish exercise, if for no added reason. They don’t even accept to accept it themselves.

For abounding advice and suggestions on book agreeable for the competition, visit: www.beyondpeak.com.

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