Modern — overdeveloped — societies in the West are already in a severe crisis. Something, which will eventually turn into a long global emergency in the years and decades ahead. A five centuries long era of economic growth — ushered in by colonization and leading to the plundering of natural, mineral and most of all fossil fuel resources —
What about the little elephant in the room global warming?
If we continue to wait until oil is too expensive we are going to be very far down the “earth is pretty fucking hot” timeline
Oh for sure. Global warming isn’t even being addressed, but I was referring to the article which explicitly isn’t talking about global warming, it’s talking about energy/minerals/etc
That timeline is now effectively unavoidable due to the phase change in the planetary system Earth we’ve triggered through our initial greenhouse gas injection pulse. The pulse itself is self-limiting, it began mostly by 1950 and will be rather advanced into its tail phase by 2050. Only about a century’s worth of a massive anthropogenic release. Whatever happens then is out of our hands. It arguably never was in our hands: human ensemble behavior is effectively deterministic.