How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject: Learning from history
So, we've seen civ's go the way of the Dodo before. Rome fell, Egypt stopped building triangles, and the Greeks stopped making statues. I don't recall reading about any survivalist camps on the outskirts of the Ottoman empire though. So, who were the people who fared best after the fall of all of the great empires of the past? (Excluding the barbarian hoards of course.)
My bet is that the rich in these societies might have had to give up some of their luxuries, but still came out on top in the long run.
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