Reply #10: That's the thing. Too many problems coincidentally happenung all at once [View All]

[tom_paine]

OK...not coincidentally but the natural outgrowth of skyrocketing population and the technical magnification of each of our footprints many thousands of times.

The point is that this is all happening at a time when the one institution that has done some real good for human prgress...liberal democracy/constitutional republic, is suffering severe decay and breakdown, at least here in Amerika.

We could survive another Dark Ages, but environemntal collapse and massive human reduction at the same time?

Lovelock is right. Get those time capsules of knowledge ready to bury beneath the polar jungles...I guess that would be Antarctic jungles as the oceans' rise doesn't seem to be conducive to one in the Arctic.