always. No?
What we have here is.. an idea that 'technology' can solve a basic Existential question - for a species which has demonstrated its willingness to "eat all the seed corn" [pick whichever simile makes for saving a few thousand words.]
Whether the "tipping points" limned in Gore's - or any other of the now many extrapolations from present data - are at all accurate in time estimates: the few mechanisms already mapped / detected, inspected / are demonstrably at Work.
More study will produce refinement. But IMO No 'Study' shall, in. time. - reprogram the people we have allowed (by default of popular disinterest, sloth and inertia) to control the Wealth? "Total Energy/Effort Distribution"? - of the planet. Yet the skills of (some.. of those Czars/Tsars of the mega-scale) could be very useful, were they employed for survival-of-the Many VS Wealth-of Me.
If we don't address, 'solve' *that* psych problem in incredibly short time, all the rest is / will remain just air noises. IMhO. Econ theory has no spreadsheet entry for - Planetary nest maintenance Tax. And those who worship that Gawd, shall resist conversion as much as ... a Hottentot will use a GameBoy for a poi dish.
Place your bets: decimation via whimper -or- amidst wholesale Tribal slaughter?
(with the Grated Compounds being razed early-on.)
With the Net, cooperative News could travel fast, maybe even faster than Jihad.. unless..
Unless..
that stubbornest X% will Still opt for the notion, God Wants US Dead next..
..we became a Cosmic Embarrassment? Hmmm, one could understand such a recap. No?