Reply #12: Well stated.... [View All]

[wadestock]

Yes I tended to sound as if the adaptation to all of this....perhaps in the nearterm of 100 years or so...will be "tolerable"...at least to the extent that mankind will still survive.

But when people really do realize that they are living on a planet and not their own self interest driven universe....how do you think they will react?

Just look at how immature and illogical the reaction has been to 911. When people generally get stressed out in such situations, they tend not to think and go by gut instints that don't lend themselves to modern world solutions.

The system itself has everyone living essentially on the edge. It doesn't take much to throw things into a "tilt" situation. There's really no technological fix for this that will occur, so we're talking about a planet that's going to consist of a lot of disillusioned and distrustful people for a long long time just wondering how bad its going to get.

For millions of people that are already living with intense hardship, what we're talking about here will largely be "SOS".

At the "national level" almost any crazy scenario is possible. Won't this generally drive people away from our rather immature and random action profit driven model of government? US will be also seen as the major contributor to all of this.

In short....mankind is not mature enough or ready to face what's going to happen.