Reply #32: call me morbid but I'm praying

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1) the economy holds together a little further into the real downslope of Hubbert's peak and
2) something drastic happens to the climate before the real economic crash comes because then

we might do something about it before it's so too late the planet won't even be able to support human-level intelligence ever again.

OK I know a lot of the ills we're experiencing now have more to do with the madness of neoliberalism and King Ronald. Just tax the rich a bit more and we'd get a vibrant creative middle class again freed of the indentured servitude of the insurance industry, and people would invent all kinds of amazing solutions to our problems.

Heck, LED solar alone could pretty much fix the energy crisis and end a lot of what's driving the climate disaster.

But those drivers have been behind the wheel long enough now the car is starting to fishtail and the wall up ahead is not getting any springier. It'll take all the human genius we have left to survive this one. A huge, coordinated, collective effort.

Those methane hydrates that exploded in the gulf and clogged the dome? They're melting in the Arctic now. Holes are opening in the ice, even in winter, around some of the northern sea islands.

That's the beginning of positive feedback folks, and last time it happened full bore, 95% of all life went extinct, 250 million years ago.

So yeah, I'm watching the icecap and morbidly praying it melts this year, because maybe in a couple of years we'll have already devolved so far into 20th century style barbarism (as the US military is on record as fearing) we won't have a prayer at all. Now though, we can still stop this thing.