called Progress (that infinitely-malleable idea) with a C-note here and there for Maintenance: has an ROI measured only in [-]s. Who Knew? (Who ... ever-much Cared?) except fringe-folk with some knowledge, thus all illegible to the progress-definers. Over-population?--unpossible.

This video pretty-much spells-out with as near-certainty as it ever gets on this scale: denouement for jillions of sq. miles of coasts worldwide. And all Countries 'bank'-rupted by the hordes/and hoards of Banksters everywhere, face:
How many times can you bankroll abandoning expensive city-structures, rebuilding-inland ... n-times? n+10 times?) If.. you can get serfs to Work in the heat, without nightly hi-tech riots? Ahh: work only nights; daytime: cower in caves? The Sisyphus Effect!

So then: IS 2014 the Inflection point? 'twixt our fantasies of yore || the prospects of endless toil next, (all magnified by the tardiness of the species' mediocre smarts.) It will all be about trying to catch-up, somehow; to ameliorate all the tripping-points already afoot. And likely a perpetual crap-shoot: as to how much of That labor proved effective, as new projects are added and poor ones ceased--as the momentum begun last century worsens matters, well-before any net [+]s begin.

Mahler time!--I think Gus might have liked that his 'program music to console endless-toilers?' found a larger niche than us ee-lites.