Here’s what you voted for when you voted for Obama. I know, Romney was no better.
But this is the sentence that really stood out to me the most.
Everywhere the social gains of the twentieth century are either being eroded, or destroyed.
Yes. I’ve long suspected that in the long sweep of human history, the belle epoque might be now, or might have been some time in the recent past. It’s unlikely to be in the future unless we tame fusion (I’d say 20% chance of that) or something similar.
After Rome fell, it took Western society nearly a thousand years to recover. This time, we won’t have the convenient crutch of fossil fuels to depend on.
