$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('garyp', '-') the western cultural psyche is ill prepared for significant change. Not only is life good, life has been good for a long time and the society is built on growth and money. It won't bend, it will break.
Overall, its not the absolute numbers that matter, its the response to those numbers. In absolute terms we are likely to have the resources of at least the 1960s for the rest of your life. However the changed system will probably mean we don't access those, the civilisation structure having changed that much.
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Re: Rough Math
by AirlinePilot » Mon 25 Jun 2007, 16:01:40
Excellent! Good to see more folks understanding this.
These concepts are probably the most difficult to grasp for most. I dare say they are probably impossible to model. Its this great unknown quantity of what I like to call "cultural inertia" that is going to fry us.
Without long term programs of mitigation and education which I believe should have begun many years ago, the end result becomes catastrophic. The longer we wait to do anything about the impending political, social, and economic impacts (which we are beginning to feel now) the worse the suffering is likely to be.
Its why I am a doomer.
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