Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
So our alternatives are:

1) A voluntary return to the Stone Age.
2) An involuntary return to the Stone Age.
3) Submission to a new, incorruptible regulatory elite with the power to dictate how we eat, breed, travel and trade. This would need to occur quite soon on a global scale to have any hope of success.
4) Muddle through, in the hope we can find technology fixes sooner than we can completely overhaul human nature.
5) Extinction.
How about a combination of a little 1 and a little 4. Combined with a little bit of option #6, which might be stated as, "overhaul human nature". I think we need to scale down, we need to try to step back from our attitude of competition and "aggressive defense", and we need to keep looking for new technological advances that will allow us to exist in tandem with nature rather than swallowing it whole.