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Future Scenarios: Earth Steward

Source: Laws of Necessity

Oct 08, 2009

Summary

Rapid energy decline, mild climate change symptoms.

The shock of limited energy resources are a shock to the world's fragile financial systems, resulting in severe economic depression and sharp resource wars. This economic collapse and these political stresses prevent the development of more expensive and large-scale nonrenewable resources that characterize the green-tech future. International and national communications networks break down.

Electricity grids become nonfunctional as cost and availability of fuels and spare parts reduce production. Military forces are constrained by unreliable energy and parts suppliers and the strong evidence that war uses more resources than it captures.

Global warming is slowed dramatically by the collapse of the global consumer economy and absence of large-scale investment in new energy infrastructure.

Increases in crime, malnutrition, and disease lead to rising death rate accelerated in some countries by epidemics and pandemics that have a major impact on social and economic capacity. The collapse in the tax base available to ...Read the full article

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