We can't keep doing this.

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37. That's why I said short-term blowout patches

Give or take the usual idiots, I think the establishment is coming around to the idea that they have a set of real problems on their hands and need to do something about them. But they intend to do that in a way that preserves centralized control and corporate dominance.

What I see ahead is a mixture of official "green" initiatives -- renewables, carbon caps, whatever it takes -- emergency measures to ward off food riots, and perhaps even those legendary FEMA camps to handle any mass refugee problems. But it will all be done with an eye to preventing real power from devolving into the hands of the people. That's the second wave, and it's where there *real* battles of 20-40 years from now are going to come from.