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An employee’s guide to catabolic collapse : Comments
By Cameron Leckie, published 1/4/2011Those industries that depend upon cheap energy, high levels of disposable income and/or an expansionary credit cycle are likely to be the first to downsize.
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As Cameron wrote, it was the population shift away from agriculture to urban communities and "jobs" that marked the industrial age. So it goes that Western humans may be forced to revert to agriculture.
Perhaps when all is said and done, the industrial age will be seen as a blip on the history of our species - one that we couldn't sustain through our irresponsibility and our lack of vision and concern for future generations.
After all, pre-industrial societies endured. They possessed systems and communities and rites and comforts (material and psychological).
It's difficult for us to imagine a life without switches and buttons and instant gratification, yet most of the world's population live like that still.
We in the West live an exalted existence - all taken for granted.
The great shame is that we never learned to tread the "middle-way" - to bridle our excess - to make a good thing last.