Dann Joubert of South Africa writes: If we all get to work together, love each other, stop using cars or even mass transit etc etc, how will that prevent the dieoff of 75% of the global population? I fail to see how becoming a CommUnity (even overnight, tonight) will solve the energy problems, the consequent food problems and the global warming problems that between them will IMHO inevitably progress over the next 50 years or so until only 1 person in 4 remains alive and with a 90% probability working on the land in near subsistence mode. … You are right. The problems are not small. We humans have really made a mess. But, as a synergic scientist my field of study in on working together. There are no separate solutions. We share the same air, the same water, and the same planet. Many on the energy lists have envisioned the Mad Max scenarios. Of course we could choose that path before extinction. But, there is a better way. Life has had this type of crisis before. We humans are a form of life. We can be much more powerful working together than we can be working separately. Life has faced this problem before.
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