From the moment the first bucket of gold was extracted from the earth, or the first barrel of oil was pumped from a well, the end was in sight. It's naive to believe that a finite resource can last forever, especially when consumption doubles every set period.
On the upward slope of the bell curve, there is more than is needed (it's easy to get) and the cost to extract it is relatively inexpensive, but on the downward slope, every barrel, every bucket costs more to get.
Have you noticed prices going up?
Eventually a point is reached when a barrel out costs a barrel to get and the utility of the resource has come to an end.
On a local level we get it... on a global level we seem to think that the resource is inexhaustible, which it isn't, the same law of a finite resource applies.
A little blue ball hanging in the blackness of space, finite in dimensions and resources.
When multiple exponential curves collide; energy, debt (economy), environment, population, technology and complexity it's going to be time to rethink the very principles and values upon which our global culture is build.
It's going to be time to [re]ask, what it means to be human?
It's possible but not probable that technology will solve the problem (immediately). It's possible but not probable that the next generation will suddenly develop the mastered complexity of thinking to solve the challenges, but are we willing to bet on possible over probable?
Although the solution depends on new and different ways to behave, how we behave depends on how we [on the leading edge] understand and think, and our thinking only changes when we engage and grapple deeply with the challenges.
And believing that a solution will miraculously present itself denies the opportunity of grappling, but also relieves us from the responsibility of making uncomfortable choices.
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