Bill D,

Those who asspire or have power aren't worried as they can afford the technology, limited resources and all that to outlast the masses.

And (IMO) you hit it. Short of developing a matter transmuter or cheap space travel, sustaining the current rate of resource consumption by the industrialized nations isn't possible. I think 40 years is generous. Without rethinking our basic value system, we're looking at shortages that can only be resolved by expansionism/imperilaism.

There could probably be a whole thread on the tyranny of the credentialed experts. It truly takes rethinking our whole way of life, not carefully developed long range plans replete with graphs and charts that assume the future replicates the past. It just needs a little fine tuning.

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Regards,

John