Reply #10: I'm afraid that as the level of chaos [View All]

increases, we're going to lose significant parts of our technology. You can't crank out photo-voltaic panels in a blacksmith shop. If social networks and commercial supply chains break down our ability to produce high tech goods will be seriously degraded.

AS to what we can do, at a broader level, Al Gore and Richard Branson have apparently offered a cash prize to anyone who figures out a way to remove large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. That would be the high tech miracle that might avert the worst aspects of the crisis. Failing that, the carbon we're pumping into the atmosphere now is going to be keeping us toasty warm for the next 200,000 years.

On a local level, we should probably be restructuring our society to prepare for what's coming. The current drought in the southeastern US ought to serve as a warning shot. So should Katrina and it's aftermath. Anyone who thinks they can arm themselves, fort up and ride it out is delusional. Our hope lies in a communal effort