We can't keep doing this.

[starroute]

5. I expect to see short-term blowout patches that preserve the existing power structure

But the real systemic changes are going to take a lot longer.

I mean -- it's been 45 years since Stonewall, and that fight is still only half-won. On the other hand, same-sex marriage has never been a matter of planetary survival, and this is.

But I still expect genuine change to take another fifty years, at minimum, and in the nearer future I expect to see capitalism making one last desperate attempt to prove it can go green before it finally activates the built-in self-destruct program.