Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Are you suggesting we do nothing and head even faster for Armageddon?

We can slow it down. Mass population reductions say one child per couple for the next 200 years. Including families in the less educated parts of the world. Less food aid to poor countries, if their piece of dirt can't support them. Tough.

Petrol and other fuels double in price. This would have to include most consumables so we slow down on the production of everything and live a simpler life.

Back in the real world none of that will be done until it's too late and people will be screaming why wasn't it done.

The first commodity shortage that will hit the West. Will be water. The Third World is already finding it scarcer.


99.999% of Humans are fucked if we don't go back the kind of existence the Earth can sustain during hard times. Climate change killed the Neanderthals and a lot of other species, a million Humans got through it.