THE SEA LEVEL keeps rising, the human race keeps getting older, and those two facts alone will add up to a lot of work in the very near future required to keep civilization humming along. We'll have a world of older, less productive people, who have only their money, (those few who have any), to offer society, a much smaller working age class, less help with which to move several billion people inland while feeding, clothing, and housing everyone. Gee, that'll be alotta fun.
Where in the world, or in the hell, are we gonna find time to play our little fearful greedy war games, and escape to our fantasy world of mindless entertainment, what with all this vital work to be done?
then too, there's the pervasive problem of crumbling infrastructure, or in many places no infrastructure, the building and rebuilding of which will take decades and cost trillions of dollars. Start minting those trillion dollar coins, folks.
Roads and bridges, sewer and water systems, agriculture, manufacturing and mining, all of which has to occur somehow, somewhere. the alternative is to devolve back into a less materialistic, less highly technological civilization, possibly something like the native americans had going, until we messed it up.
A necessary lowering of expectations. And we keep talking about economic growth, as in, increased standard of living for those who already have a perfectly adequate standard of living, and then some. It might be time to start talking economic sanity, and our plan for survival.
If the population does not increase, the world will be made up of billions of elderly, relativelly needy people. If we do increase population, here wo go again, with overcrowding, disease, and problems of material production and distribution.
We old folks must be, it almost seems, ready, able and willing to die at a ressonable age, and to give up our current desperate quest for greatly extended life spans. Down with Durk Pearson (see Durk Pearson).
Its time to get serious, friends.
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