Not to be too doom and gloom, but this is a genuine question that I've been thinking about a lot lately. Whether it be through general global decline, full outright "apocalypse times" ahead or just the end of Western civilisation (because history has shown us, civilisations do frequently come to an end) ...
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Are we living through those times? I try to work my head around it but I can't realistically come to any conclusion other than ... yes ... we probably are.
I don't THINK that will happen over night, but I think it might be quicker than I used to believe, due to a general acceleration of "events of decline" over the last few years. I don't think the energy crisis (global) is solveable as resources start to become more scarce. I don't think the knock-on effects on food, tech, and general supply chains that comes hand in hand with that is solveable. Not for 8 billion people. I don't think we'll clean up the oceans, I don't think we'll solve climate change, I don't think we'll halt the destruction of biodiversity... I think it's LOGICALLY the end of modern human civilisation.
I'm saying that quite pragmatically really. I hope it doesn't get too bad within the lifespan of my kids but I certainly think we're talking a century thereabouts at the upper end. I also suspect things are going to get very unpleasant for a lot of people over the next decade.
