technology can exist only so long as there is enough cheap surplus energy to support it.
remove cheap surplus energy, oil coal and gas, and you return to the technology of the farmcart and the sailing ship.
@no_thyself I know of 3 separate incidents in 3 different stores where it wasn't due to personal hardship
a shopkeeper told me he's had to make access to some items difficult to prevalent wholesale shelf stripping
and thats just my experience
we burn fuel to convert work into wages
trouble is
fuel is now too expensive to burn
but we still want wages, and wonder why we can't afford to live anymore
Capitalism works---is not the proof all around us?. Such is the mantra of every politician. Most believe them.
We are headed that way, it seems the only route open to us.
And if capitalism means setting fire to the planet--so be it.
We must burn fuel to maintain what we have, but the act of burning destroys what we have.
This is contrary to human instinct, because our โsurvival brainโ hasnโt developed beyond the level of the hunter/gatherer;
the only recourse will be conflict to take what others have