- Pod: Chris Martenson and Dennis Meadows on TLTG - the current prospects - Archived Message
- Pod: Chris Martenson and Dennis Meadows on TLTG - the current prospects - - RhG December 21, 2019, 2:18 pm
- PS: With this perspective, the results of the GE scarcely seem to matter. Just so much transient - RhG December 21, 2019, 2:29 pm
Posted by RhG
on December 21, 2019, 2:18 pm
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Grimly realistic, realistically optimistic - overall (but we are talking centuries-wide perspectives here). Note how Dennis no longer sees any realistic prospect for any of the Sustainable Development scenarios offered in the original 'Limits'. Too many tipping-points now past. The realistic push now has to be towards resilience - which fortunately is scalable right down to the most local level. They agree that - quite inevitably and unpreventably - we will be at a much lower population level by the end of the century, and at a much lower level of resource-use; horns well pulled in by then, not by our own will, but by Gaia's peremptory insistence. In other words: the Long Descent, already begun and now unstoppable and irreversible. All we damn-fool twits have to do is to stay alive ourselves, and keep our children alive beyond us, by one means or another - those of us who've got what it takes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3329&v=hBmjIIWPj3w&feature=emb_title |
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