Only global warming and lack of energy transformation is a sistemic problem. The rest can be solved with the proper technocratic people in charge....where by technocratic I mean an Eisenhower Republican (that is , a  radical leftie today).

If the transition to a new energy order is taken as a World War type of effort, the rest, is peanuts and technocratic.

So the future does not looks good, becasue noone seems to consider global warming the catastrophe it is... and the solution to our aggregate demand problem that it is.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

Anyone wanna try this future thing ?

kcurie is right as to priorities. But to enable us to address our problems with the alacrity which they deserve we need to get the millstone of debt, so much of which is the consequence of counterfeit, from around our necks. This boils down to confronting the political power of those who hold the debt. That is why I wanted to let them die back in late 2008 and early 2009 when they were on life support. We need another such opportunity but we need to take advantage of that opportunity if/when it occurs.

However bad the consequences of the collapse of the existing system might be, the consequences of it continuing are worse.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."