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The Long Crisis explores three converging crisis that will drastically influence the way that citizens of the world will live as the 21st century progresses. The three crisis are the meltdown of the world’s financial system, global warming and the consequences of climate change, and a crisis in energy resources precipitated by peak oil.
Any one of these crisis could deliver a knock out punch to the world economy and to the way that people live. All three converging within a narrow time frame will give us poor humans all that we can handle and then some.
While drastic, the consequences of a financial meltdown, climate change, and peak oil need not be fatal to the human race. I do expect that in order to maintain any quality of life we will have to work together in a smart way as never before. Unfortunately, the world’s population will likely be considerably reduced no matter what we do.
How long will the Long Crisis last and exactly what will it take to pull us out of crisis mode? That is the challenge isn’t it? No one really knows. We can be assured that the cosmic clock is ticking. We can also be assured that we can not go back to the happy days of careless consumption , financial over leveraging, and oversizing our cities, homes, automobiles, and lifestyles along with our Big Macs and up-sized order of fries.
In order to survive we will all have to learn to be much more conscious of the limits to growth as well as learning all over again that we are all in this together. The Long Crisis will bring drastic changes in the way we live. The frightening thing is that the changes may not at all be for the better.
Will living in crisis mode bring out the best or worse in humans? We will soon know.
