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If so it would go a long way to validating Migeru's point above about a lost generation not being willing to use a failed political system to produce change. And the world will live as one
My view is that the majority of the Lost generation is... erm... lost. The ones that talk are reasonable, smart. But my feeling is that they are a minority. When the pain really starts we will see what kind of generation is this. For now there are positive signs, but we have to wait and see.
I say "Greater Depression" because even on ET we haven't factored-in GW and the various Peaks staring us in the face which are going to be negatively affecting global economic (and political and social and yadda-yadda) activity over the next 10 years. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
And they seem to be a fairly big and smart group.
An insurmountable challenge to a society that expects steady exponential growth, yes. But that is not a requirement for maintaining a comfortable and pleasant society.
Climate chaos may or may not be. Unfortunately, we will probably learn whether it is, even though betting your civilisation on the toss of a coin strikes me as a rather stupid thing to do.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
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