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In reply to the discussion: Sitting in a restaurant today I realized how much trouble we are in for [View all]quakerboy
(13,920 posts)There are more people than there were for historical equivalents. And we are more dependent than people were for historical equivalents. How many people do you know who could go off grid at a months notice? How many who could grow their own food, move back to the farm, live in the woods, etc? I know too many people that don't even know how to make food not from a box to feel sanguine about it.
Everything going up in flames would be highly disruptive. While it would eventually come round again, the immediate toll would be huge in terms of lives lost. And in terms of the environment, I suspect. If you tear down the system, who is going to hang around to make sure the electricity stays on? And when it goes, so do all the trees at the first sign of winter. And thats without getting into things like water in LA, infrastructure along the gulf(who pays for the next hurricane to hit Florida or NOLA.
I suppose its possible to have a rapid "up in flames" that ends relatively bloodlessly, where the rich lose their power, and all the rest of society keeps trucking along with only minor inconvenience. But it superbly unlikely to me. And I don't think things are overall bad enough that people are willing to pay that price just to get their revenge.