That all the resources which make modern day modern will be either gone or so expensive that only millionaires will be able to benefit from them? That every family will have to be self-sufficient? That you will go to the doctor’s one day and they will accept a payment of a dozen eggs and a litre of milk?
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The question you really want to ask is, ‘Do I want to live like that?’
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I have to agree with most of the answers given here. We still have a great deal of resources available. But the wars all over the planet are evidence that things may be getting tighter. Stuff will get more expensive, especially energy costs. Fortunately for people in the so called western civilization we have many choices open to us simply because we have more money than those in the third world. Unfortunately our western way of living hangs on the fact that we get poor people to make all our stuff for us. And they do it cheaply which means they do it irresponsibly – by plundering the earths resources without giving anything back. This method is completely unsustainable and totally unnatural given that all life exists due to a balance that has evolved since the earth began rotating. There is no doubt, in my mind anyway, that the human race is tipping that balance too much in one direction. To what effect no one can be sure. But it is completely disrespectful. It’s like robbing your parents of everything they have ever worked for.
So the choice is this. Do you want to be a part of an unsustainable culture that just like every other recorded culture throughout history, will rise and fall. Or do you want to try and live a life tuned to natural systems, smug in the knowledge that you, being part of the earth’s ecosystem has understood the nature of life and thus constructed a lifestyle in accordance with natural laws.
Forget everybody else and start to read books that will help you develop skills that will lead to you being personally responsible for your life on this planet. For it is the ignorant, waiting for their respective messiahs, that will die off first if everything does go belly up.
Well that’s one view point anyway
Next 20 to 30 years will become quite difficult for the G8 countries – with stock market uneasiness, continued war, depression, dying oceans, climate change, heavy pollution from China and India, corporations taking their money to the newly industrialized nations and so-on.
However, we will not regress (or progress) into a pioneer civilization.