The End of Cheap Money, Abundant Energy, and Human Exceptionalism
Things no politician is willing to talk about
Looking at the world through the 12" screen of my laptop reading reports by scientists and economists alike, I find it amazing that all projections of global warming and energy consumption run only to the year 2100. I can’t help but ask myself “What happens then?” It seems inconceivable that global industrial civilization will run as it has for another 100 years. It will buckle under the pressure of resource scarcity and lack of surplus energy and tied to that, the destruction of fiat currencies worldwide — Things that politicians avoid talking about lest they get blamed for the collapse we can no longer avoid.
It is now clear that we are not at the precipice of an energy revolution but rather an energy crash, an economic collapse, and are edging ever closer towards a global conflict between nuclear powers. In the meantime, the press is full of stories of endless growth, endless resource extraction, and how the one billion or so people in the West can bully and browbeat the remaining seven billion people on the planet with 20th Century economic tools; aircraft carriers, the cost of even one would end hunger twice over; and the threat of wanton destruction.
