re: #131 LudwigVanQuixote

Very hard can be borne. The horrors of where this bottoms out - and will stay for centuries - on our present course are a new dark ages.

And isn’t it true that, if humanity is plunged into that new dark ages, we can never climb out of it? After all, the only reason we had the iron age, bronze age, etc was because the stuff was around and easy to mine. Now, all the easy-to-get raw materials have been used up. Without high-tech and heavy machinery, there’s no way to get more…