Reply #23: Do I sound like I think the world needs saving? [View All]

I don't, actually. Salvation is for suckers. There is nothing to be saved for, nothing to be saved from. There's just life. Live it as you will. (When I said, "It's the only thing that will save us" above I was being ironic.)

If they did make that prediction about missing the chance, I think they were pretty much bang on. I think we did miss it, right in that 1992-1995 time frame. As a result things will be different in the future than they would have been otherwise. So what else is new? That's just the way linear, single-stream time works in this reality. You make a choice (or not), and the future unfolds from there.

Oh, and the basis for the statement about missing the chance was that they re-ran the simulation and realized we had entered overshoot. That would have been a good time to think about becoming sustainable, don't you think?