Who cares about the Colorado river? But in a fully integrated world, you should! With it's coming shortages of food and microchips, migration of populations and blackouts, all due to the lack of water, it is a microcosm of our wider world. We saw the problems coming and did nothing about it.
We should have used our prosperity to prepare for the future. We didn't and preferred to gamble away these crucial decades in Las Vegas.
Our "green" energies are a scam, our food system unsustainable, our foreign policies little more than neo-colonialism where fiat currencies (worth nothing) are exchanged for actual goods replacing the pre-2WW colonial system.
Civilizations can crash due to the lack of resources, but they also crash by putting their faith in the "wrong" gods. This is clearly our fate with our unbroken belief that science and technology will solve all our problems. Haven't they for the last 200 years? But conversely, weren't these the low hanging fruits? Diminishing returns on investment meet our growing needs.
One of the best science fiction movie ever was the little known "Forbidden Planet" in 1956. It is dated of course, but the idea of the movie that we are our worst enemy is timeless.
As we see our complex society unraveling and the unshaken belief of the people that we are going back to normal any day now, while the problems keep piling up, making any solution to our predicament more and more elusive, I wonder how many societies preceded us on this path? Praying to deaf gods, asking for mercy, while another plague ravaged the land? But don't worry, green energies will save the planet. We just need to do a little more, and we're there. Almost done...
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