However, first time evr we have a global view of
our history and of our future, and we can and
must effect the outcome via a cooperative,
all-inclusive and conscious fashion.
Eva
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> Because of this complexity induced "stuckness", I would foresee a long
> decline, much like that of Rome, even if we did not run out of fossil fuels
> or even if we could find suitable substitutes for them. There is simply no
> slack in the global system now, and very little prospect of any for a long
> time to come. Practically, this will mean an increase in skirmishes over
> available resources, an impoverishment of large populations, probably large
> scale migrations, and undoubtedly a decline in global population from a yet
> to be reached peak.
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> Ed Weick
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