07-14-2006, 06:37 AM
Quote:You are talking about a Luddite revolution I assume? Just what makes you think that something like that is possible? Don't you get it, China, India and ASEAN are industrializing at a rate which the west hasn't seen for decades! Climate change is here to stay and all the complaining and whining in the West is totally irrelevant! Adapt or die.
The West, for now and the near future, makes up the majority of world industrial production. Even assuming phenomenal rates of growth for China and India, Europe plus North America still constitutes a quarter of the world's population at full productivity. It is hardly irrelevant what we do, nor will it be so anytime soon.
My point was, if China, India, et al dropped into bitter, self-destructive insurrectionary wars, they would no longer be industrializing, at least nowhere near as fast. I am neither advocating such revolutions nor speaking to their likelihood, only stating what would happen environmentally speaking.
I think we'll probably die. If not now, then soon enough. Species usually fail to adapt to themselves.
-Jester