The report delves into the potential effects of Energy Exploitation as a stress and its corresponding shocks on the resilience of Cape Town, a coastal city in South Africa. In this study, the City is divided into 4 subsystems which would serve as indicators for resilience i.e. the health of the City. For each subsystem, shocks are defined as a result of energy exploitation. The resilience of the city was studied via a concept map which shows how the shock correlates which each subsystem and whether it has a positive or negative correlation. Potential solution strategies were also investigated based on the availability and ethical implications on the societal subsystem. The outline of the report is a general investigation of the existing resilience and how the resilience would deteriorate with the current Paradigm in place.