So, how do I see the future?...the same. All this will eventually end and people will forget all about it, or be too young to even remember. When my kid's children are grown and complaining about fuel, wars and food issues, my kids will tell them about how they survived the war, high gas prices, and tainted food back in '08.
I would point out, though, that we didn't have the pressure on the gas supply in the 70's coming from China and India that we have today, the total world population was
"only" in the four billions, and there was more gas in existence then than there is now. As population surges and resource use goes up around the world, there's less stuff for more people, and it will eventually all come to a head; it has to. What's to say this isn't the time?
There's only so much oil, it will
eventually run out even if we suck the Earth dry of every last drop, so if there's not an alternative, there'll be a population crash.
The surging population, food and resource shortages, the extreme wealth gap all combine to make me think of David Gerrold's
Chtorr and
Dingilliad series.
Plus, was religious and ideological fundamentalism exploding worldwide in the 70's? I really have no idea, but fundamentalist lunacy seems to be part of the
current zeitgeist, and adding that to any equation just makes it that much more unstable.
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