Saw it coming. Did something about it already. I moved to Tasmania seven years ago because my wife wanted to have children. I requested that we live somewhere that children could have a good life: a place with independent power, water, agriculture, aquaculture, education... It's not an ideal solution, but it's the best I could come up with.
Your phase state-change analogy is a good one, but it doesn't go far enough. You should consider the financial system as only one of about half a dozen systems being pressured into such a change by massive global population growth and energy consumption. Other systems also on the verge of failing: the ocean biosystems; all complex land-based ecosystems; the world energy economy; the world agricultural system, and the world's heat and CO2 handling systems.
Don't take my word for it. Read the journals. Every one of those systems is in trouble. In other words, your phase state-change is not limited to the economic and financial structures of the world, but in fact every aspect of life and technological human civilisation on this planet.
Now you know why I live in Tasmania: I really did do something about this already, to the best of my capacity.
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Date: 2008-10-07 04:07 am (UTC)Your phase state-change analogy is a good one, but it doesn't go far enough. You should consider the financial system as only one of about half a dozen systems being pressured into such a change by massive global population growth and energy consumption. Other systems also on the verge of failing: the ocean biosystems; all complex land-based ecosystems; the world energy economy; the world agricultural system, and the world's heat and CO2 handling systems.
Don't take my word for it. Read the journals. Every one of those systems is in trouble. In other words, your phase state-change is not limited to the economic and financial structures of the world, but in fact every aspect of life and technological human civilisation on this planet.
Now you know why I live in Tasmania: I really did do something about this already, to the best of my capacity.