[Link: The (Not So) Invincible Society - Scitizen] "He reasons that if a significant portion of the complex, interdependent systems that make up our society fail, society will collapse. And, if that happens, it would be all but impossible to restart industrial society. He argues that industrial society relies on the continuous operation of these systems to obtain essential minerals from very lean ores using copious amounts of energy, energy procured using these same complex systems."
This little article makes a big point and one that has entered my mind on many occasions. We have reached a point in our energy use that the extraction of the resources requires a high level of usage of those same resources. If/when we encounter an interruption of the extraction process it may then be impossible to restart.
As the author reasons, the only obvious acceptable path is to try and reach for a sustainable model of living while we still have the resources to make the change. A sustainable model that results directly from a breakdown of the industrial system is probably not one we would want to have to endure.
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