I didn't say it would be fun. I said it is inevitable.
Now. A hundred, a thousand or ten thousand years from now - sooner or later it WILL come crashing down, one way or another.
I agree. What I find really interesting at the moment is that there are so many different sources talking about how the path we are on cannot be sustained:
The tree/whale-huggers keep saying that the planet cannot sustain a) the current level of development, b) the current level of resource exhaustion, and c) the current level of population growth.
The economists say that we cannot sustain the current level of a) government spending, b) entitlement programs, and c) consumption if you factor US living standards into a China growth equation.
The government says all of the above, but completely lacks the willingness, or, I believe, the ability to really do anything about it without massive civil unrest.
So I think that your conclusion makes sense. The funny thing is how anybody who acknowledges this directly and tries to prepare for it is demonized, as if we're all supposed to ignore the facts that are right before our eyes.
Just by way of one example, I was reading something a CPU of weeks ago that was talking about how many experts beefed that the planet cannot sustain another thirty years of humans doing what we are doing, and particularly so given that China is bringing something like one new coal plant online every week. And they say that there doesn't seem to be a likelihood that any nations would be wiling to sacrifice their own wealth and consumption for the common good of others. But they don't draw conclusions with respect to what will happen in thirty years, how we should prepare for what they say is inevitable, etc.
