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Originally Posted by fanaudical
Here's a challenge for the group (and I'm going to play, too):
Let's assume Tabs is correct. What do we collectively do about it?
I think we all realize that we as a civilization can only produce a finite amount of "stuff" before we've consumed all resources and nobody has anything left viable to trade for the "stuff". How do we shift world economy from a "perpetual growth mode" to whatever the next phase needs to be to ensure continuity of our civilization?
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I call it the post industrial world. Look to the history of Western Europe after the fall of the western Roman empire. Or the end of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Human history does not indicate easy transitions. Through out history it has been virtually cold turkey, change out of necessity not choice. Civilization will morph as the old Roman ways did into what became the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
It will be the end of the age of materialism and a return of asceticism. Less will be more. You can already see that happening with the younger generation.